Swim Wear

♥ Swim Suit Season ♥

I know summer is coming up and I'm usually the last one to get my bathing suit, running around store to store picking through pieces, trying to find a match in my size, and having a difficult time.

This year, I actually got it done ahead of time. I've purchased my very first one piece bathing suit. I mean, I'm sure when I was a very small child I had one, but in most pictures I was a tiny little girl rocking a two piece. So anyways, I think one piece bathing suits are cute and fashionable if you do it right, so I got a black and white polka dot one piece and I'm really excited to wear it. I don't even have to do crunches to look good in a bikini! There's not much better, if you ask me.

All right, now to the good stuff. I'm gonna post cute swim suits you guys can check out and where I found them! I know a lot of people order online (I'm too scared) so I figured this would be a useful post. ♥

♥ Forever 21 ♥


These are from F21 and so cute. I look weird in a bandeau so if I had to pick one of these it would definitely be the pineapple pink one. I also love this chococat one piece! It would even look cute as a shirt!

♥ Modcloth ♥


Modcloth has the CUTEST one piece and high waisted swim wear. They're pretty pricey for a bathing suit, but I know I will FOR SURE be getting one of these next summer because they are so perfect and I have heard nothing but great things about them. Much worth the splurge!

♥ Urban Outfitters ♥



Okay, I couldn't pick just four. All of these are pretty spendy, but look at them! They're perfect. I'm so happy weird swim wear is back in style. One piece, two piece, high waist, weird cuts, anything goes! I love expressing my personality through clothes and the vast variety of bathing suits helps me do that. ♥

♥ Target ♥

I ALWAYS look at Target for bathing suits. Most are under $15 per piece which is a very good deal for such good quality. I have the black and white polka dot top, I snagged it at a Goodwill with the tags still on it and everything! I couldn't have asked for a  better deal, it was only a dollar. 


If anyone knows of any other places to get super cute and pretty cheap swim wear let me know! I couldn't spend a good chunk of cash on a bathing suit more than a couple times in my life, and cheap ones give me a cute look that I can switch up a lot! Thanks for reading! ^_^

Floral Headband

♥ DIY Floral Headband ♥

I've been seeing floral crowns all over pinterest and instagram and I will admit, I have fallen in love with them.

 I've been looking around online at some and I know that WAY too many people have been spending WAY too much money on them, when they look really simple to make by yourself! So I took on the task to figure out how to make my own for cheap with great success so I figured I'd make a little tutorial. ♥

♥ Supplies ♥

• Headband (pack of 3, $1 at Dollar Tree)
•Flower bunch (6 flowers, $1 at Dollar Tree)

•Hot glue gun with a fresh glue stick

•Scissors

♥ Step 1 ♥ 

Cut all of your flowers out of the bunch
(Mona wanted to help)

♥ Step 2 ♥

Pull the flowers off of the stems and use your scissors to chop the ends of (as shown below)

♥ Step 3 ♥

Next, take the leaves off (if your flowers came with leaves) and pull the plastic piece off of the bottom 

♥ Step 4 ♥
Place hot glue in a circle on the bottom of one of your flowers and glue it to your headband

♥ Step 5 ♥

Continue gluing flowers along your headband, and leaves if you want yours to have leaves. I alternated leaves and flowers until my entire headband was covered. In the end I had a little too much leaves showing, so I ended up cutting some off and folding and gluing some others to make them less bulky. Don't be afraid to chop some leaves off if they're too overpowering! Personalizing is key in DIY and you want it to fit your taste. 

♥ Finished Product ♥

This took me about 10 minutes to make and it was SO much cheaper than buying one online and paying pricey shipping. My flowers are a little big for my pixie cut, but I still like it. Next time, I'm going to get smaller flowers and try it without leaves to see how it looks! This was a super easy project for me to do and it turned out really well. I hope you guys find this little tutorial useful! 

Update

♥ Update ♥

I've been pretty bummed out lately and going through a little bit of a rough patch but I'm trying to keep myself busy and stay positive and optimistic to get myself through it. I haven't been on a computer in a few days and it honestly feels really nice not being connected to one. Yeah, I admit, I've been on the internet through my phone but Twitter when I'm bored and Instagram when I'm doing something worth photographing isn't too much compared to how much time I used to spend online daily. Keeping away from the internet makes me surprisingly happy. 

I'm so excited for the warm weather and summer activities. I love nature walks or hikes, swimming, having picnics, taking photos, riding bikes, and overall just having a fun time without being connected to the internet. Disconnecting yourself may make you think you're, well, "dead" to everyone else, but we have phones and voicemail for a reason! We also have snail mail, which I've been getting into. I know it's never going to go back to how it was in the "old days" but I'm really focusing on disconnecting from the social networking that runs most of our lives and really going out and making myself happy on my own.  

High school is almost over, it's bittersweet and genuinely crazy, but once summer starts I'll be free to do whatever I please with my whole entire life and I couldn't be happier. I finally found a job, so I won't be able to have as much summer fun as I wish I could, but I'll have a steady income and I'll be able to focus my free time on me and doing what I want to do and what will ultimately make me happy, without stressing over money as much. I've wandered too far from my own happiness these past four years, and I'm looking forward to finally getting on the right track, moving out of my parent's house, and living my life. I'm not quite sure what I want to do yet, but hey, I'm 17 and I've got the whole world in front of me. I'm sure I'll figure it out.

I'd love to move to Olympia, Washington in the next year or two. I want to meet new people and experience new things and be able to do things when I need to get out of the house. In this town, all there really is to do is go to someone else's house. I'd love to be in Olympia. I can imagine myself living there and being happy with things, it's such a beautiful place with such strange and interesting people. I can walk around and not get funny looks for the way I'm dressed or the way I cut my hair. There's so many unique people walking around and it's such a refreshing feeling to feel comfortable in a city full of strangers. It is so warm and welcoming. Everyone seems to  accept everyone because they're so used to diversity and see it as a good thing. In small towns and in high school, being different is so looked down upon but I know I'll be able to flourish and just be myself and not have that constant reminder that I'm disliked or frequently talked about for being "different". 

I'm sorry this post is a little all over the place. As I said, I've just been really bummed out and lonely lately, and I feel very scatter brained and mumble-y. I'm slowly starting to feel better, but I just for the life of me couldn't make a blog post about anything other than what's running through my mind and racking at the walls of my brain. Thank you for sticking around and reading this. I know it's not really a "personal" blog, but that's okay. 

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Confidence

♥ Pixie Cut Confidence ♥

I've had a pixie for about a year and a half now. It was the most liberating and wonderful freeing feeling, cutting off what society believes makes women beautiful.

Most girls asked if I cried. I didn't. I was so happy. I remember being worried while he cut it because my hair looks terrible wet, but when he dried it I felt a huge wave of relief and pure joy. My mom, on the other hand, did cry. Her little girl was taking the first step in being her own person and giving up on making other people happy. (She probably was also a little worried I was going to tell her I'm only interested in girls, saying my sister has short hair and is going to marry her longtime girlfriend) I didn't regret it. I still don't.

 It's such a staple to me as a person. My hair fits me and my personality so well. If I could have long hair in the snap of my fingers, I'd turn down the opportunity.

Sometimes I get bummed out and miss doing things with my hair. Going to beauty school really made me miss it, but at the same time I realized that my hair is so fine and thin it looks scraggly and frizzy when it's long. Watching other girls wand their hair and do top knot buns makes my little heart ache, but then I remember that my hair isn't like theirs and that even if I grew it back out I wouldn't look good if I did those things. It's sometimes hard, but I always talk myself back up.

I am going to buy a couple of kanekalon fiber wigs so when I feel like having cute and fun long hair I can do it. They're cheap and super cute. Extensions are so expensive and don't last, and they wouldn't blend with my short hair anyways. I'm definitely not against wigs. 

Here is a picture of my cute friend Mariah in a wig. Wigs aren't just for dress up! 

Sometimes it does bum me out a little when my friends ask me when I'm going to grow out my hair, try to casually mention that it looks better long, but I try to keep my chin up. It also sucks when my family bugs me about how weird I look, people tell me I would have a boyfriend if it wasn't for my haircut, or when little kids ask why I have "boy hair" or look like a "boy". It makes me so sad to think that they are just raised to believe women can only have long hair. I know they are still just little kids, but it does hurt my feelings. A lot. Whether it's a family member, a kid, a person from school, a friend, someone online, whomever. My feelings get hurt really easily when it comes to my hair because it is still so looked down upon. 

When I get down in the dumps and feel like I'm just not up to snuff I look up pictures of girls with pixie cuts on Tumblr. I don't have a Tumblr, but it has so many cute pictures of cute girls that make me feel so much better about myself. 

Sometimes I get bummed out thinking that they are prettier than me, but they probably have self confidence and self esteem issues sometimes too, because we all do! I shouldn't feel bad because of the bad things people say about my hair, because it's not something everyone can pull off well and it's not an issue of me just growing out my hair because well, I have the finest and thinnest hair on earth and it just doesn't look good long! I'm also super lazy and hate doing my own hair, so this haircut is the right one for me. There are so many different short styles to choose from, and I use a lot less hair color than most people, so I can save some money on that too! I also love accessorizing with cute headbands, clips, bows, head scarfs, and hats. When I'm having a bad hair day, I automatically reach for one and it makes everything 100 times better! 

This is Caroline, she's a bald babe. I figure I'll put her in here because she's cute.

This post isn't really for everyone, but I just wanted to post this for me and so I can look back on it the next time I start to feel my self esteem dropping.

Society is changing, and hopefully soon more people will start trying out pixie cuts.
They're so cute and fun, and honestly, if you can pull off a pixie cut you can pull off anything, in my opinion at least!

If you have any questions or comments about pixie cuts or anything let me know! 
I'd be glad to help!

Thank you for dealing with my sappy post!
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