Beauty Lovers on a Budget-

if you haven't checked out pretty city lately, do it immediately.

in honor of breast cancer awareness month, a ton of salons and spas are offering $31 services in october.

i just booked a $31 haircut with emily at salonO65 and two back-to-back "mini highlights" appointments with ashton at blueberry moon aveda salon for $62. hurry and book your appointments because you have to use it before october's up. eeee! totally geeking out about this.

Sunday Night Confessional

i've fallen a little behind on my blogging & updates due to the new job & my general slacker-ness. here's a snapshot into my life over these past couple of weeks.

i am socially unstable.

due to my recent undertaking of non-ideal working hours (i.e. hostessing from 4:30-11pm every friday & saturday night -- only saturdays as of this past weekend, thank god), i have literally not gone out more than like 3 times in the past month & a half? this coming from the girl that went out with friends upwards of 4 times a week when i first moved back to chicago.

i think this will change along with the weather.... hopefully i can find a happy medium.

today was a day of exploration.

it started with my attempt at an updo this morning.

i've never done one before. it turned out pretty cool!

after our mother's day lunch at volare, margaux & i decided on a whim that we wanted to make friendship bracelets. so 3rd grade. love! so we took a trip to michael's & came home with a $3.99 variety pack of thread. this was the result.

friendship bracelets & a photo shoot, obvs.

if we're true friends, you may have already seen my facebook status. but i miss austin & river floating enough to mention it twice.

& possibly more than i miss austin itself, i miss road tripping there! with friends, of course.

czech stop . insane heat . floating the river . rope swings . beer . best friends . mexican food . 6th street . 4th street . free jello shots . dance parties at gay bars . dance parties in living rooms . swimsuits & sunglasses . pita pit (bahahaha) . good times

Mah Weave

i don't have a weave.

but i do have a very important question for you.

over the past week, i've been itching to get a haircut. i almost just walked into the salon without an appt twice this week. the thought of getting an impulse cut & then regretting it for weeks kept me from going through with it, but i think it is time for a cut - now i just have to decide what to do.

since all (or at least most?) of you little readers have known me for a long time, you know the various looks i've donned. lets take a trip down memory lane...

so what should i do??

leave it really long but trim the layers to healthify it?

chop it shorter & lose the california wave look that i've been loving so much over the past 6 months?

go more jennifer aniston-esque?

back to the bangs??

long ones! not making that mistake again... woof.

help please!

I'm a slave to the trends

if you are at all interested in fashion, there's a 99% chance that you've heard the buzz about the alexander wang side braid making its way into fall fashion.

well as a lover/wearer of the low side pony, i am in full support of this. & i decided to try it out today. love. okay so mine isn't quite as glamourous as the models' but it worked just fine for a trip to costco.

{le fashion}

{le photo booth}