20 June 2013

Weekly Playlist: Boy Band Revival


Although a major thing of the 90's, Boy Bands have recently been making a major come back in the music scene. According to Wikipedia, boy bands consist of a group of young male vocalists, who usually don't play instruments. While one singer may cause fans to swoon, boy bands cause riots among millions of girls around the globe. And as a 90's child, I am welcoming this revival because it can only bring good, like catchy tunes and good dance beats.

1. Bye, Bye, Bye - N'Sync

2. One Thing - One Direction 

3. Take On Me - A-ha

4. Serendipity - Honor Society

5. One Sweet Day - Boyz II Men

6. Glad You Came - The Wanted

7. I Want It That Way - The Backstreet Boys

8. Burnin' Up - Jonas Brothers

9. City Is Ours - Big Time Rush

10. Leading Me On - Hyrise

11. MMMBop - Hanson

12. Sorry, Sorry - Super Junior

13. Step by Step - New Kids on the Block

14. Give Me Just One Night - 98 Degrees

15. Chloe (You're the One I Want)- Emblem3


Have a great weekend everyone! Stay Happy!

Any suggestions for additional songs? Any opinions about songs on the list? 
Comment and please let me know what you're thinking! Thanks guys!


14 June 2013

A Look Inside: My 19th Birthday


Yesterday was my 19th birthday!! I finally am in the same age ranks as the rest of my friends. The little kid and baby jokes can cease for a few months. Either or, my friends turned a boring day at work into a great night with their small surprise get together.

My friends are amazing people! After working 7 hours, I walked outside to find my car plastered with paint proclaiming to everyone that it was my birthday. And then I was kidnapped by my best friend and driven to our favorite hang out restaurant, TGIF. I was attacked with balloons and random birthday knick knacks. To make everything even better, they all made a homemade red velvet strawberry cake. It was super delicious! Also, I'm going to see the Plain White T's!! Tickets courtesy of some very best friends.
 

13 June 2013

Weekly Playlist: Party Up

So guess what...?

Today is my birthday!! WOOOOOO!!


I'm the last of my friends to have a birthday, so I finally as old as everyone else and the baby jokes can stop for a bit.

The only thing that really sucks is I have work all day today. *sigh*

So in order to makeup for my sad excuse of a birthday, I'm making a party playlist! I hope the fun dance beats and "no care" attitude of the songs put you in the mood for a wonderful weekend!

1. Party Like You're Single - Stephen Jerzak

2. 22 - Taylor Swift

3. Come and Get It - Selena Gomez

4. Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

5. I Love It - Icona Pop

6. Blah Blah Blah - Ke$ha

7. Not Your Birthday - Allstar Weekend

8. The End of the World Party - I See Stars

9. Party in the U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus

10. Evacuate the Dancefloor - Cascada

11. Start the Party - It Boys!

12. On the Floor - Jennifer Lopez

13. Last Friday Night - Katy Perry

14. Loud - T. Mills

15. Tonight is the Night - Outasight

16. Yeah 3X - Chris Brown


Have a great weekend everyone! Stay Happy!

Any suggestions for additional songs? Any opinions about songs on the list? 
Comment and please let me know what you're thinking! Thanks guys!

Daisy Summer Nails


I decided that since summer is upon us, it was time for some cute floral nails. This design is cute and simple, and it only took mee a few minutes to complete.

The colors I used were:
- ULTA Basecoat
- Revlon Fuchsia Fever- ULTA Snow White- Revlon Sunshine Sparkle- ULTA Babydoll- ULTA X-Dry

Steps:
1. Apply a thin base coat to protect your nails.
2. Decide which nails you want which designs on, apply specific color to each nail.
3. To paint a daisy:
    - Thinly apply small lines of white polish
    - Create a star like figure
    - Dot yellow paint in the center of each star
4. On lighter colored nails, use a dotting tool or a striping tool to create simpler designs.
5. Apply a fast dry topcoat to seal in your design.
6. Voila! Simple, fast daisy nails!

For more direction, you may reference my youtube video. However, I apologize because this is my first every youtube nail tutorial!
Video: Daisy Summer Nails

12 June 2013

A Look Inside: New York Trip

This past week I visited some friends on the East Coast, where I visited Connecticut and New York.

We spent the first few days in New Canaan, Connecticut, which is Jillian's hometown. The town is really cute and there were tons of little stores all around. Her town hall is also the set of the Stepford Wives movie remake.
We spent the next few days going into the city. My favorite place in all of New York City is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We visited the museum, and we got to explore the roof and other neat exhibits. The one exhibit that I was really excited to see was the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibit, which displayed a variety of punk fashion outfits. The outfits varied by DIY to Prada or Alexander McQueen. The exhibit was really amazing, and I love the styles.
Later, we walked along Central Park and ate at Serendipity3. I had never heard of Serendipity3, but I will never forget the name of it now. They are famous for their frozen hot chocolate, and yes they totally deserve it! The frozen hot chocolate was super super delicious! And we also treated ourselves to a frozen chocolate cake sundae, which was equally as delicious. We left feeling completely full, and we later headed towards Times Square in order to get half price Broadway tickets at TKTS. Later that night, we got to see Once the Musical, which has an adorable story and wonderful songs. I really liked the style of the musical because it had a small cast, where each member was also pit and crew.
 
The other day we spent downtown, we explored all of SoHo and the Village. We ended up finding some really interesting things, like an Indian Culture festival and a vintage flea market.
         
 After doing some browsing and shopping, we ended up at Max Brenner's Chocolate Bar. And wow this place is a death trap for chocolate lovers. There are pipes that distribute chocolate in the main dining hall, there is a chocolate gift shop, and the whole menu is chocolate based. We ended up ordering chocolate syringes and chocolate pizza with peanut butter and marshmallows. However, there was also chocolate cakes, DIY smores, shakes, mochas, brownies, and tons more. I'm super happy I didn't get diabetes from all the chocolate we consumed at this place because when we finished we all gained about 20 pounds!
 Most of the other days we ended up hanging out together. The days were spent mini golfing, lounging around, and hitting the beach. Lots of inside college jokes and new memories were formed. I even got to experience a tropical storm on this vacation.

All in all it was a beautiful trip and I really enjoyed all the new sites I saw and the memories we formed.