Being and feeling Girlieeeeee

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Confession: </span>although I say that I adore fashion and design from clothes, shoes, bags and home decor, I am truly a late bloomer when it comes all things BEAUTY - like salon stuff! <br /><br />I only had my hair colored professionally once before ( I was in college already and it didn't make me look that good, and that is probably why I didn't do it again for a long time - let's just say that brown hair didn't suit me at all that time :-) ) and that is why, getting highlights for the very first time, made me giddy all over!<br /><br />And so last Thursday, on my 1/2 day off, I went to see my NFF/hairstylist Gina, and we went ahead with the plan: color my crown of glory and add some oomph into my lackluster-always- been- black hair. I emphasized, please nothing too drastic or shocking like this...<br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVIy8Zz5u95fN2MbJR9k2TGifNPchrEjzO9KCDKEcAH1d9qh8gibgAflrVZ_wcQDzlTwLRLZ3zDGtPPOHGgTrlrwNkDQ__RGVxQp8l3HRP-c7CJ05S3zsR6309uV5eQkys2L7_G_dg1L3m/s1600/hair_color_longer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVIy8Zz5u95fN2MbJR9k2TGifNPchrEjzO9KCDKEcAH1d9qh8gibgAflrVZ_wcQDzlTwLRLZ3zDGtPPOHGgTrlrwNkDQ__RGVxQp8l3HRP-c7CJ05S3zsR6309uV5eQkys2L7_G_dg1L3m/s400/hair_color_longer.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So not me - yet! :0</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /><div>I was thinking something like this...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBqaWkUfqrf-cyyBiTYJUC9Y3ekImigWROljw93reHZCw9dFsqCCiR_DqSU6KNMrnuE_wfV-aA58p5UhPws-eviGbtFkc-qZ4KTmd2H994LuQpxmL6_kXtgzjLiAKAzaoTXr6OXesSXWjy/s1600/051309_anistonHP_400x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBqaWkUfqrf-cyyBiTYJUC9Y3ekImigWROljw93reHZCw9dFsqCCiR_DqSU6KNMrnuE_wfV-aA58p5UhPws-eviGbtFkc-qZ4KTmd2H994LuQpxmL6_kXtgzjLiAKAzaoTXr6OXesSXWjy/s320/051309_anistonHP_400x400.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Instyle magazine</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Haaah! Fat- chance! I can dream can I?! Being the Asian "beauty" that I am, I knew this was reaching for the sky, so I did not mention JA-look to her. And so I let her do her thing and left my hands into her experienced colors and toners, and ended up with this...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVZCun2D0ao-XQxkGB8qdeibj1HAPss1iPtXsdWicO6hZbi-_7bHYjLfth7mQKDNkB1smm0vaM2mKbpXQj7lz9Y__aD6tr-uS8G3a_RT3v5uAEOVm1wMJNSvUu_dGZIzC3fnBD2KcrTpb/s1600/DSC_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVZCun2D0ao-XQxkGB8qdeibj1HAPss1iPtXsdWicO6hZbi-_7bHYjLfth7mQKDNkB1smm0vaM2mKbpXQj7lz9Y__aD6tr-uS8G3a_RT3v5uAEOVm1wMJNSvUu_dGZIzC3fnBD2KcrTpb/s400/DSC_0007.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From my camera</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Ok, I don't wanna show the whole me yet, but so far, the "reviews" have been positive. Even my patients noticed ( and when kids notice your hair in a positive way, it means it's really good - I think :-))!</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div>Anyhow,  and since I was feeling really girly (as the title says) I also had my nails done! It' called Shellac - don't ask me what it is exactly, all I know is that it's gauranteed to make me addicted to this thing and will make my nail polish last fah-ever, so I said, " go ahead Mandy, make my day!" And this is how it looks...<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeG4ssPYAuFfiRFsmk0FxEF6TrNkmLgkWS3WyUMlg-u_m9mRHAL9oH_TuneDYZysQWyKffjSkRVPpkl-5Ogszs5dMMMTod5d7s4xESK5aazXSrxLwFu2W9rncV4LVdrUSKDgbfhvG7sRhH/s1600/DSC_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeG4ssPYAuFfiRFsmk0FxEF6TrNkmLgkWS3WyUMlg-u_m9mRHAL9oH_TuneDYZysQWyKffjSkRVPpkl-5Ogszs5dMMMTod5d7s4xESK5aazXSrxLwFu2W9rncV4LVdrUSKDgbfhvG7sRhH/s400/DSC_0002.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not bad...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkZNyKSaZWhwi54eM_E9FSTfo3OQvuDeaKAs24cealSsQ54AJn3cMC9lRwUscx1FX2K0z4peNHamcQ8te_pAp2g1yQlJ5O-C6UbbfOLBeCsNLIcdqH3Bc8keP1sSMlymaUzfy1eD7a1pu/s1600/DSC_0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkZNyKSaZWhwi54eM_E9FSTfo3OQvuDeaKAs24cealSsQ54AJn3cMC9lRwUscx1FX2K0z4peNHamcQ8te_pAp2g1yQlJ5O-C6UbbfOLBeCsNLIcdqH3Bc8keP1sSMlymaUzfy1eD7a1pu/s400/DSC_0006.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not bad at all...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />After 4 hours of aluminum foils, UV lights and whatever chemicals shellacked on to me, I feel like a " new " me!<br /><br />I guess, a girl needs to be pampered once in a while, or rather, Shellacked once in a while!!!!<br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Have a fabulous day Dah-lings!</span></div></div></div></div>

Being and feeling Girlieeeeee

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