Beautylish Spring Trends Preview Event & Swag Bag

*Extremely long and pic heavy post!!

I know you've prob read a lot of blogs about this already, and although I really wanted to post this sooner I didn't have time until now, so please forgive me as I've been busy and hardly home these days.

I had the pleasure of attending Beautylish's LA event last Tuesday at the W Hotel in Westwood (West LA).

I'd met the Beautylish team last summer at IMATS but unfortunately was not able to make it to their first LA event back in October, so there was no way I was going to miss it this time around!

Since it was on a weeknight I went straight after work and braved good ol' 405 traffic for about an hour and a half, joy. But you want to know the truth? I actually kind of missed going to LA...I used to commute and go for fun a lot also, and didn't realize that it'd definitely been a while.

pic from my iPhone and transformed on Instagram

Secret Valentine

I love a good surprise, don't you?

This was my second year doing Secret Valentine...wow it's a little trippy knowing that most of us have known each other for that long or longer and that we're doing things a second time around. Not everyone was able to participate but it's all good. I really don't think of SV being a big deal, but just a way to send some love on V Day. Of course we could easily buy ourselves $15+ gifts, but I think it's more fun to surprise someone else and be surprised, don't you agree?

The lovely ladies

♥ Amy
♥ Betty
♥ Diana C.
♥ Edna
♥ Iyah
♥ Jamilla
♥ Jillian
♥ Lulu
♥ May
♥ Melissa
♥ Mona
♥ Sarah
♥ Tammy

The Reveal

Amy's love to Edna

No Witty Title...Just My Handwriting Meme

I got tagged to do this meme by my dear Kay!! I don't have a nice intro like hers or Diana C.'s...but like them, I also enjoy seeing what people's handwriting looks like. I think it's just that much more personal and these days, it's pretty rare considering we pretty much communicate electronically via text, email, fb, gchat, etc. And yes, I am sentimental enough to keep all cards and notes, including notes all the way back from middle school.

About my handwriting...oh boy, where to start? I never had nice penmanship, I wrote chicken scratch as a kid and always thought it was the context and not the presentation of my writing, hahaha, what an idealist! Obviously that changed over the years and I basically adapted my handwriting to that of a friend whose penmanship I thought looked nice. So now I have sloppy Asian girl handwriting, kekekeke.