Red Leicester

Hi guys! How are you all doing?
I'm back from Leicester! And i'm here to bring you a post about it. It's more like a photo spam really, as there's not too much to write about i'm afraid! My trip was mainly about meeting my boyfriend's family (and parents!) for the first time, but there was also a series of birthdays and anniversaries that also occured over the weekend.

So, on Friday, me and Adam laid around in bed and I made my serial-photo-spam blog for you all, and then realised we had only half an hour to get ready and leave before our train left..eek! That morning, I also did something funny, but something I had been planning on for a while! You wanna see?

Yeah, I shaved the sides of my head lol! But there's a reason behind it...my hair is really really not loving me right now and at the sides of my head, the hair was like, fried and crispy and no amount of hair repair serum or masques were going to save it, so I shaved it off! Well, Adam did, and I touched it up ;D It was something I was going to do for a while..and hey! There's a chick in egg magazine with her WHOLE head shaved and patterns in it! But i'm not about to rid myself of it all mind you!

Anyways, off this slightly off-track topic and back to what I was supposed to be talking about... We got to Leicester in the afternoon after watching Buffy on the train and after dropping our stuff off at Adam's parents house, Adam took me to meet his Mom..SCARY TIMES!!!! But it wasn't scary at all :D! Yaaay! Meeting the parents wasn't bad at all, after I was worrying they wouldn't like me and things like that, so i'm glad it went smoothly! On Friday we just stayed in and played Buzz!, which i've never played before but it was highly addictive....

Wendy & Mandy!

Saturday, me and Adam went swimming early in the morning, and then went to town during the day. In the evening we had a meal out at an all-you-can-eat World buffet (i've blogged about this kind of restaurant before) which was GREAT! and then afterwards, we went to Redeemer, which is an alternatve music club. It was "Cheesecake" night, and on the main floor they were playing 90s dance anthems and on the upstairs floor was metal, rock etc. They had Thundercats playing on TV's in the background!

And Sunday, there was a family BBQ, where I met more of Adam's family :) Overall, the whole weekend was really nice and relaxing! I'm back to work tomorrow, which is always weird after you've had a few days off! Here's the rest of our photos!

I had a food baby..lol!

My glow in the dark hair tinsel! I've been wearing this as well as silver glitter tinsel for the past few months and it's great! The UV lights in the club were much stronger than the ones we have at work so they showed up straight away! I had to take some photos... :D!

I hope you enjoyed the photos! With the above photos of my hair tinsel, i'm going to do a blog about them for you guys! They're really cool and ahh I love them :D

Oh! I got another photo from the Gal shoot I did! But i'm still waiting on the full CD :(

I hope you like it^^. It kinda looks like I have no brows, but I still love the photo! I should be going back to work with the photographer again soon, so i'm really excited! On Friday I have another Doctor's appointment as my other one was fail, so hopefully I can find out what's wrong :( In the evening i'm going for dinner with the company who created Hyper Japan and then on Saturday i'm going to a fashion event with model scouts! I want the weekend to be nooooow!

For those of you interested in going to Hyper Japan this year, they have a new competition! It's called UK Kawaii Star of the Year, and it looks to be promising! The details should be available soon, but here is where you can check out all the cool things going on!

See you soon guys!

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Hello! Hello! Hello!
I'm FINALLY back at my laptop and able to bring you all the stuff that I haven't been writing about! I'm going to try and revamp my blog at some point, maybe today, as I think it's time for a new layout! The blog header will stay the same for a little while until I get back the photos from the shoot that I did with Georgie on Friday!
So what have I been up to?

I've mainly been working, which is great for my purse, and i've also been out and about in the "great" outdoors! Adam is trying to get me to be more proactive, which is a good idea really. I don't really exercise at all, and I eat lots of sweets and junk food, which is really unhealthy! Now that the weather is starting to become sunny and slightly warmer, i'm trying to seize the opportunity to be healthy and active.

The next day, me and Adam, and Andy and his boyfriend David (Andy is Adam's flatmate) went to Hampstead Heath (we actually went there this time haha) with a couple of drinks and some sweets and just chilled out! We walked up and down a bit and then we sat down on the heath and the boys did some poi. I'm really shit at poi, but I can do this thing called the Butterfly! Haha, i'm so lame.

(almost) perfect egg! Breakfast before Hampstead Heath~

The toilets at HH..so quaint!

The next day, I met up with Dec to bleach his hair! We also went for a bit of a meander around our usual spot of Piccadilly Circus/Leicester Square.

I'm still wanting to dye my hair purple, so we went to Sallys to see what they had on offer, and to my excitement, I managed to find a colour, well, two colours that i'll mix to make (what appears to be) the perfect colour combination! Check it out:

Yeah..probably shouldn't have "tested" the dyes on my skin, but it washed away instantly which was good. This is Crazy Color dye, which even though I might have blasted before when my hair was first pink, it seems to have worked quite well on my friends and everyone keeps telling me to not use Manic Panic dyes anymore, so i'll give it another shot! Anyway, I bleached Dec's hair all out and now he's a blondie (well, white hair lol) again!

photo (c)Dec!

The weather this week was pretty good, and me and Adam really wanted to go out and do something (especially as the weather was great on his days off) but unfortunately I still had to go to work :( I had a few late starts last week (2pm and 3pm) so we weren't really able to do much before I had to go! I have to set aside a couple hours to get my hair and make-up done lol... Luckily we have a day off together next week, so we're praying that the weather will be great!

Tuesday AM!

The rest of the week was pretty much just work and not too much play lol! But I did have a photoshoot with Georgie on Friday (as mentioned right at the beginning!) which was sooo awesome! We wanted to do a Gal X Lolita style shoot, but in the end, we didn't actually get any shots together! Either way, both of our photos turned out so beautifully! I was annoyed though, as I wanted to be tanned and classy for the pictures but my fake tan reacted against my skin so I was pale :( My skin was really pretty against the background in the studio and the photographer kept saying it looked great (I look like milk haha) but I still wanted to have bronzed skin! :'( Nevermind...

Eating on the train to the shoot! Pret's Chicken and Pesto bloomer is AMAZING

Georgie being photographed!

The next day, we all went out to Chessington World of Adventures! It was different as this time we didn't have lots of people with us like we did last year when the Gal Circle went! I'll share my photos from this in another entry as this one is pretty much spammed up! Here are some photos to see the end of this entry, and i'll see you guys soon!

My new mirror, free with egg May!

My new arrivals! Yaaaaay, sexy Spike ;D

New phone memory card...

I'm very disappointed now! lol...

And as a small "surprise" for you, I took some photos of the current egg issue, featuring the models as Manba!

These are also on the Manba page on Facebook, and hopefully there will be scans soon, so please hold tight!

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Hi guys! How are you all doing?

Thanks for the response I had to my last post! I'm still really unsure what do to with my hair, but you guys gave some really good ideas so i'll definitely be thinking hard! I might wait a couple of weeks just so that my hair can kind of go "nice" again, lol. I have been taking some hair/skin/nail formula pills which actually worked pretty well I think, as my nails definitely feel stronger, but i'm not sure it had a lasting effect on my hair, so I might go back to the health store and see what else I can find!

I think i've skipped out on my personal life a little bit (and also that 30 day meme thing (or whatever) I posted a while ago..lol!) so i'll bring you up to date! Last week I had another photoshoot with Marc. I'd love to be able to share the photos with you guys but I can't as they're nudes! This time around we were working on one of his short films. He does photographs, films and moving images, and they're mainly quite eerie and out of norm and usually in black and white! It's all a bit different but working with him has given me so much confidence! Apart from shooting with Marc, i've also been shooting a lot for Cyberdog. People keep joking that i'll have my own fan club soon because of all the positive response after my photos are posted haha!

Last week I reshot all of the women's tshirts for the new website and also started working on some tops too. I have to help Laura, Miss Virtual Store, reshoot ALL the women's tops, tshirts and some shorts too! That's a LOT of clothing! Tshirts wise, there was about 125 that we did in the end? There are roughly 25 designs and around 4-5 colours for each one...lol! I had a good time with Laura though, she's really lovely. Here she is looking fabulous!

She's coming for dinner at Adam's place with her boyfriend Rei on Wednesday night...and I guess i'm going to be the one cooking? '8D Adam reads my blog so no doubt he'll make some sort of funny face and be like "oh, so you're cooking then?" and i'll be like "wtf" and he'll say "your blog"..lol! Oh well, I like cooking so it's no problem really. Rei is Italian and cooks quite a lot so I must impress him! He was in my group interview for Cyberdog actually, which was cool. He's really into hardstyle and does hardstlye shuffling.We're all going to an event called RAW this coming Sunday so i'm going to make him do it!

As well as being a chef and a model, i've also been doing hair! As I mentioned, I did Rosie's new hair, and here's a photo:

Cupcake Pink to Atomic Turquoise!

This week i'm doing Kirsten's hair, and the week after i'm doing Dec's hair too! I should really open my own salon lol...Although I really like doing hair and such, I think I want to do a nail course. On my day off on Saturday, I looked online for nail courses in different London colleges and schools and they're really really expensive! Supposedly you're supposed to be able to get some osrt of discount/for free if it's your first nail course but I couldn't find anywhere offering that! Everything I saw was from £600-£1600!!!! It really sucks :( We really need a specialist school like BLEA over here in the UK! So many girls are only interested in hair, make-up and nails that it would be perfect as opposed to them going on a Beauty Therapy course or something. I'll speak to Jess, as she's actually qualified to do people's make-up, and I don't know if she paid a lot or not... hmm...watch this space I guess!

Apart from this, i've got a busy few weeks coming up. I'm so glad that Summer is on the way! Everything looks much nicer because it's so much brighter and yeah.. :D Although the clocks went forward on Sunday morning and I ended up waking up at 5am by accident haha.. I have 2 photoshoots next week as well as a Chessington World of Adventures trip next Saturday! I'll get to see Dec, Floz, Caryn, Georgie and hopefully Kei, which will be faaab as I haven't seen them in forever :'( Here are some photos and a really nice summery song to see the end of the post!

UV lights in Fitting Room at work :D

Me and Laura's lunch last week..!

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Hi everyone~ As promised, i'm posting tonight, (just filler for now) although it's quite late now, nearly midnight here,and by the time this get's posted it will be afterwards lol, although I probably won't sleep for a good 2 or 3 hours yet - thank you screwed up sleeping pattern!

I'll start off with the shoot that I did; and it was an awesome one I have to say! It was my first alternative type shoot (which I mentioned) and it really made me want to try it again! I had a really fun time, although I wasn't super confident at the beginning. Marc is really well known for quite edgy and dark photos, animations and short films and it was great that he actually came to me and asked me if I was interested! We started out with just some practise stuff, which was a good way to ease me into everything - although I don't think the shots will be used, as just for practise! Then we moved onto an animation, which was kind of difficult to get right but was really cool to watch back when it was all finished! I had a doll on a long string in my mouth and had to lean forward and ever so slightly to get her to kind of sway about and then just slowly (reeeally slowly) tilt my head upwards and give a few long blinks which Marc was then going to slow down and repeat. Everything we did was in black and white, and my hair doesn't look like it would be pink (obviously if it's not in colour) but the effect made it look like my hair was actually dark blonde or brown!

Marc's home is really cool to shoot in, and as we moved to different rooms to shoot, I couldn't help thinking to myself who the home used to belong to such a long time ago, as it's got a basement and an old kitchen and a pantry and everything! It's really cool. We did some normal shots too (well, I say normal as in just photos lol! not so much the ideas!) and I *hope* they turn out great! My only problem is I don't know which photos i'll be able to share with you guys! Once I get them back, i'll see what they're like and hopefully will upload one or two :)

Last night I went to The Fighting Cocks as mentioned, but didn't stay for very long. It was nice to see everyone though, and I hope Steve had a good birthday! They guys played some pool and got really into it, it was kind of hilarious to watch! I don't think I have any photos or anything to share with you guys! I'm sorry >.< I'll make a post tomorrow, and i'll make sure to make it interesting!

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Hi everyone! How are you doing?

A quick post today, but i'll update possibly tomorrow evening!
I have a photoshoot today, i'm so excited! It's with Marc Blackie, he's quite well known and he was the one to contact me, so I was pretty happy!

It's going to be my first taste of alternative modelling as i've only done commercial stuff and not plain, but just casual looking stuff, so i'm really looking forward to seeing how things will pan out! Tonight i'm going out to The Fighting Cocks, which is the metal bar I blogged about here. It's my friend Steve's birthday - he's the boyfriend of my friend Jess that i've mentioned on here a few times. OH which reminds me!

I ordered these jeans a few weeks ago and she really loved them as well but unfortunately they don't fit her, which we were both really shocked at, because she's tiny! They are the smallest size that were advertised on the webstore, 61? This is like a UK Size 6-8.

She is selling the Khaki colour jeans (on the right) so if anyone is interested, please let me know!

Talk later!