Has this world gone mad.. what's with all these heartbreaking stories lately. 

It is not fair. NO ONE deserves this. 

Praying for the people of Paris, for all who are affected by this insanity. 

I haven't post a blog in quite a while, I am sorry! I've been very busy trying to land my first REAL job out of college and I tried to use my time wisely to prepare for interviews.. Out of all the interviews I had last month, I currently have two companies in mind that I would love to work with, so fingers-crossed for me!

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Now that I think about it, everything seems to fall in place and made sense with the ways I like to approach things. I've always been the type of person who love to maximize my resources and be as efficient as much as I can with whatever that I do, sounds confusing? (and you wonder why I haven't figured this out all those times..eh?)

Anyhow, what I am trying to say is how can we maximize our closet when everything seems to go out of style in no time with fast fashion nowadays? I am guilty of shopping at fast fashion stores and often spend the majority of my work-study paycheck on clothes, I mean-I love fashion. I felt guilty not because of how much I spent on clothes, which wasn't a lot considering how affordable "trendy" and in style pieces are these days. I felt guilty because I chose to look at the darker side of the fashion industry and found out the behind the scenes of where and how these super affordable and trendy clothes are made. And the reality of it is something that I could not have imagined, I didn't want to believe that I was supporting unethical business practices. But sadly, it is a reality that not many consumers are aware of when they go shopping. Ever since then, I've become a more conscious consumer trying my best to support responsible businesses. As consumers, it's up to us to make the right choices; it's up to us to support the right business practices; it's up to us to demand changes from big businesses so that we can be the changes that we want to see :)

On that note, I like to buy versatile pieces, or pieces that I can have fun mixing and matching with.

Here's how I styled this one sweater/jumper in 3 ways!

Check out where everything's here:

Since lipgloss/stick/oils are not my thing, I went all out with matt lipsticks from Wet'nWild.

 

Sugar Plum Fairy

Bare It All

All of them are pretty colors, depending on your skin tone and preference, Wet' n Wild has a wide range of colors for you to choose from. My personal favorites are Bare It All and Sugar Plum Fairy, they are just soo fall!! Quality wise, for only $1.50 each, their color payoffs are great. They do dry out my lips quite a bit if I wear them for an extended period of time, but otherwise work great on top of a moisturizing lip balm.

Medium to Full Coverage if you don't have bad blemishes to cover up. Many people rave about this foundation being one of the best drugstore foundations in the market, so I decided to give it a try. I am sad that I am disappointed at it. Generally speaking, I never liked full face makeup because I don't like to cover my whole face with a layer of stuff. It feels unnatural and heavy for me, especially since I have oily skin. This is not a long lasting foundation, and even though it does look quite natural once you put it on, the sunscreen in it tend to accentuate the flaky skin around my breakouts.....ew. It's still very good for its price though, just not for my skin type :/ If you fancy, here's the video version All the best, Alaina

Another video is up!

My style is not much of the Taylor Swift style. However, I decided to base this video off of her Wildest Dreams video, because the cause this video supports holds a a very important message that we should at least be aware of.  Wild animals and their habitats are slowly dying off and disappearing because we, as the caretakers of our earth, have been neglecting the health of our earth for too long. I love that 100% of the proceeds from the Wildest Dreams MV is going to be donated to support wild animal conservation.

I am really into fashion, it’s almost an obsession. Anything I do on my (very) free time is almost always fashion related, from watching Youtube videos on how to style fashion lookbooks, to stalking fashion bloggers, to double tapping on Instagram OOTD’s, I’ve done it all and will continue to do. There’s something about this form of art expression that intrigues me a lot, by a lot, I mean >a lot. Call it expression, call it personality, call it finding confidence, fashion plays a big part in my life. For as long as I can remember, I was never a confident type of person. There was always something that didn’t feel right for me, I was simply living the routine life that I was told to live because I was passion-less. I knew nothing outside of the subjects I was taught in school, and I had zero interest in any of those subjects. School was limiting and it felt like a bunch of chores that I needed to get done so that I could ultimately get that college degree. By the end of high school, I was still asking the same old questions, “what do I major in? What do I want to do?”. 

For the longest time, I hated shopping because I felt so insecured with my body that nothing seem to fit right on me. Personal style did not exist in my world.  Little did I knew though, college was the time when a lot of things started changing, and my style was a big part of it. I started watching clothesencouters on Youtube and Jen really inspired me to explore my options and style. Then slowly and surely, I gained more confidence in the clothes that I wear because my mindset was changed. I realized that I was never going to look the same way as somebody else who wears the same outfit. We are all different, our body types are different, our preferences of styles are different, the way we look at ourselves is different, the way we want to be perceived is different, or for some, non-existent. What look good on others should not make you feel less capable of you looking at your best, if that make sense. And so it is through this journey of figuring out my personal style that I learned so much about myself, about what I love, and it has totally changed the way I look at fashion.

Oh man, college was such an eye-opening experience for me. You meet people from all walks of life and when you are surrounded by people who actually have goals, and truly care to make changes in this world, there’s always positive energy surrounding you that you just can’t resist. Sure we all have different goals and passions for life, but what we all have in common is, to make this world a better, and lovelier place. And I care for all living species alike.

Check Out my New Video!

Happy FALL,

Alaina

Let's MOVE on, moving on...

Alaina

                        

                                       Best of luck to all of us in pursuing our life goals,

Alaina ;)

Check out the video for outfit details! (It was completely by accident that it came out to be a monochrome theme)

Always be the positive version of you,

| Alaina |

For the first time ever, I will not be going back to school, which is something that I still need time to get use to. I need to start living the "professional" adult life.. I guess. But DAYYYUUM, I am missing those school days so much. Although I've always hated the concept of schooling, but I must admit that I loved the school-dorm life experience. I did not regret a bit about living in dorms through my college years, it really was one of the best experiences in my life thus far. 

One thing that I loved about college was the fact that you could wear absolutely whatever the heck you wanted, to the point where you would careless about the way people look at you, because the truth is, no one actually cares. Comfort was and still is a huge deal for me when it comes to styling outfits. I swear by wearing something that you feel comfortable in, so that you could really bring out your own sense of style. 

Nothing screams comfort to me more than sneakers, especially the slip-on ones. I had a pair of slip-on sneakers that lasted me three freaking long college years ( I recommend slip-on sneakers from VANS). I can't love sneakers enough, my recent new purchase was a pair of walking shoes from Reebok, which I styled a couple of back to school outfits with, enjoy!

Today was full of all sorts of emotions for me, I've never felt this bad mentally ever before, I don't even feel this bad/down when I was all stressed out for finals. These emotions were so random that I did not  know how to deal with them, especially when I had to be out all day today. I just couldn't help it, totally felt like I had a mental breakdown or something, it was a terrible feeling(s) to sum up.

I had a driving lesson today, and my mind was wondering all over the places, all the turns, reverse and parallel parking.. were all a blur to me. Did not turn well, did not stop in time.. I was so critical of myself today. 

After that, I knew I should have gone home but instead went to hell and back. Does any girl/woman ever walk out of a salon feeling satisfied?? It was in part my fault, I've been to this salon a few times before and was never fully satisfied with how they cut my hair. However,  I somehow always convince myself to give it another chance, but every time I walk out feeling like this wasn't what I asked for OMG!!!! you know, something never changes. Alright, short story short was that I went to get a haircut and was not satisfied with neither the length or the style of the cut. There I go pouring out money like water when I can barely survive if I were to live in the real world by myself today. OH MY. 

LET IT GO, LET EVERYTHING GO, EXCEPT YOUR PRIORITIES

and

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.