Healing Tea

Hi again ♥ I know my blog's been getting even more boring than before, but I'm just so busy... and really, when you wake up at 5:30 am, go to school, go to gym, go to work (where you have to wear a uniform and your hair on a ponytail + no nailpolish or accessories) and come home around 11 pm, you don't have much energy to spend on your hair or whatever. Mine looks pretty awful these days, I always hope I won't run into anyone I know...

I've also been a bit down for a while (due to approaching winter depression, I guess... it's pitch black when I get up and leave for school, and it's pitch black when I come home from work. I mean, yeah, I'm more of a evening/night person than a morning/day person, but still, it can be pretty depressing!), so I'm tired all the time, don't get excited about things as easily as before, and school is increasingly hard for me. At the moment, a lot of my notebook doodles look pretty sad and sulky, like this:


(Yes, I draw comic/game characters. Escapism makes me happy. Anyone else like Final Fantasy, btw? ♥)

You've probably seen these already, but I did manage to look presentable ~2 weeks ago, when I met up with Emzi for a cup of coffee and a photoshoot!


My extensions really flopped, though. My own hair stood against the wind and rain pretty well, but the extensions? Ugh.





I liked this school uniform inspired outfit quite a lot, but now I'll have to find some waterproof shoes to be able to wear it now that it's raining all the time :D


On Monday, then, Nea woke me up ridiculously early to go check her new apartment (that she'll be moving into in a few weeks - she hadn't seen it before herself) and then go for a walk with her and her puppy in the forest behind the new house. The house was hideously ugly, but the apartment appears pretty spacey and the rent is quite agreeable, so I guess it doesn't matter. :_D

Then into the forest we went!



We found our way to the ski track that goes near the place we used to live at, but making it back to the car was a whole another matter - and wouldn't you believe it, we actually GOT LOST. We spent some 40 minutes honestly trying to find our way out. Do you have any idea how embarrassing it was to send my teacher an email saying "Sorry I wasn't in the class, got lost in the woods"? XDD (This Monday, when I was at the class, he told me, "You know, I've heard my fair share of excuses but yours was really something else... and I actually believe you 'cause it's so unbelievable!")

So that's all for today~ The following month will include a lot of parties etc, so I hope to have more to blog about in near future! And of course, this includes my own birthday coming up so I'm feeling generally a bit more positive~~ :3

xxx
Henna

Next on Stage: Justin Galber!!

Hiya~ I've been so dolled up these past few days that I now feel pretty naked without contacts or extensions... :'D I don't wear them to school when I'm going to the gym/work/both afterwards.

First, a super random outfit pic:

Because maaaan, I love that hoodie *w* It's cute and warm. Hair looking like whatever again, though...

So, on Saturday I went to see the new Resident Evil movie w/ Emma, because Milla Jovovich rocks and kicks some major zombie ass. ♥ (First there was Shibuya, which went kaboom, and then there was Los Angeles, which had already gone kaboom. They ruined every place I love! XD Excluding Prague - and Finland, of course. Finland usually goes untouched in American movies.)

While I was sitting at the Railway Station waiting for Emma, I noticed four young Chinese people standing nearby, glancing my way with a map in their hands. I figured they were lost tourists and asked if I could help, and explained how to get to Kamppi so they could catch their bus to Turku. Then they suddenly asked if they could take a picture with me! I was like "... :o" and probably came off as a really smart person, but we took a couple of pictures, and just when I was writing down my email add so they could contact me, Emma joined us, and the two girls in the group practically dropped their eyes because she was so gorgeous. XD More picture-taking ensued. It was really weird, nothing like that ever happens to me, and I was so flattered >3< Plus they were really sweet and kind. ♥ The guy who took the photos actually contacted me through Facebook the next day. :D They'd been to Tallinn and had missed their train back to Turku.





Then, on Sunday: the 3rd Gal Meetup!

(This photo was taken with my camera, and within the ten hours it had been in web, someone was quick enough to edit it by circling four of us with red and posting it in gyaru_secrets with a "out of all these gyarus only a few did something to their hair. Did you all have a bad hairday or something?!" I felt like my photo had cheated on me, lol XD)

Since it was the first I attended, I was ridiculously nervous about everything and I think I talked a bit too much. But everyone was so cool and beautiful, I felt like a total noob! Luckily they were also very sweet and easy to get along with, and everyone took me into their discussions and all. I didn't feel left out at all ♥

Photo taken by Pin

My hair kind of went flat sometime between my home and Happi, but I still got a few compliments so I guess it wasn't awful :3

The Meetup divided in two: Pt. 1, the Brunettes ft. Pin who couldn't decide which photo to be in :'D

Pt. 2, the Blondetourage ft. Pin. :D Photo taken by Amanda, I think.

lounging~ photo taken by Satu ♥

I played football w/ Tiia. She won. ;__; photo taken by Satu~

Then we were divided into groups and told to decide on a theme and take a picture together. Ours was the court of a princess. This is an offshoot picture, so it doesn't look very princess-y. XD

Me and Marinka lounging with Pin and the Hat Girl (Anni? Most of the girls were all new to me, so I only remember a few by name, I'm sorry ;___;) in the background. Photo taken by Satu :3

I have a zillion more photos because as usual, I went paparazzi all over the meetup, but I think I'll leave it here. For more, check out our FB page! ♥ I had a great time, thanks to everyone who attended - I was worried I'd be so bored/intimidated that I'd have to leave in the middle, but I ended up being one of the last ones to leave - and I'll def be back for November's Halloween meetup!

Painting Flowers

Oh gosh, I have the worst headache I've had in ages... you know you haven't slept enough when you put lotion on your hands when you go to sleep and it hasn't completely absorbed by the time you wake up.

So. Still learning to use the falsies - the new contacts are working just perfect, and I'm already thinking of ordering different colors... Any ideas or recommendations? I've always wanted brown at least...


With purple eyeshadow. Does it look bad?




+ a goofy grin. My nose is huge and just seeing my teeth makes me miserable...

Anyways, I'm off to do some studying now (provided that the headache gets the hell outta my head and I can actually concentrate), see ya ♥

there's a place downtown

Hi there~~ Mostly pictures this time - I don't have much time before I'll have to head to work, I'm a little tired and I don't really have much to tell anyways :3



Sooo~~ went to see D'espairsRay on Wednesday, and since queuing wasn't on top of our To Do-list, Maria and I decided to check out the Thai buffet in Kaisaniemi and the purikura booths near it. Not as good as the ones we took in Japan, but not bad either~




(Never mind my hair. The weather was awful.)

Then we decided to warm our fingers around a nice hot cup of tea @ Johto, and ended up cooling our fingers around a class of cider, instead. Maria got a milkshake too, to make sure her fingers wouldn't get too warm.



What I wore to Despa - as you can see, my hair WAS okay at some point of the day...



Then, Elsi's b-day party! On Friday it was just the three of us - Emma, Elsi and me - and Huuma, where we met up with Rikkis, TilQ & Etku.


We got started at Emma's place. ♥

Yesterday! Elsi's b-day party pt. 2, and before it, a party at our neighbor house~



It's so hard to eat something that still has its eyes to stare back at you!! o__o

Leijo & I playing billiard @ Porkku :3 I had a different camera here and it shows in the quality...

run and hide

Yay, finally got that dress back from Virpi who was kind enough to resize it for me ♥ So, after avoiding writing an essay by cleaning, cooking and cleaning some more, I had to come up with something else... and I ended up trying out a new hairdo.


It looks kinda messy (but it's only my first time trying it) but I kinda like how it turned out~~



Then a slightly different variation, experimenting with the extensions that just arrived on Friday!


What do you think of the pink highlight?

That's all for today~ I guess now I'll have to actually try to tackle the essay. :DD

☆ Fallen ☆

What? Henna, skipping a party in order to save money, sleep longer, clean the kitchen and - take her camera out for a fall-y walk?

Well, yeah. And damn do I feel great about it. ♥

back to school

Sooo, school has officially started again - and so has the partying!


These two pictures are (c) Nea Malin, I snatched them out of her FB. :D My eyes looked weird in the first one so lol yeah XD But otherwise I rather liked how I looked :3

w/ Mirka & Jaakko



A crappy outfit pic of what I wore to go to Nea's place for coffee and cake (that I brought XD) with Emma, Elsi and Pihla :3


And an even crappier pic of what I wore to the University's Opening Party yesterday! I couldn't take a better pic because some chicks were giving me really strange looks o__o I hate it that I can't turn off the shutter sound of my cell camera...

Anyways, since the pic doesn't really show what I wore, it's was pretty much this outfit all over again:


Though with different shoes & hair & all. :D

On another note, I feel sort of plump at the moment, I've only slept for three hours and after just two days of school I already feel overloaded with work. X___x

Tea is my anti-depressant

Hi again~ After a quick dip into the more gothic side of my soul last night (including writing like my life depended on it), I'm ready to feel bubbly and pink again. ♥

Helping me on this journey to the bright side of life are the tea flowers Emma brought me from Prague and the cup Elsi got me for Christmas a few years back. The flower looks like something strange and tentacly in the picture, but it was very pretty in reality! The tea was good, too. The side of the cup says, "You're gorgeous!" which is just what I needed to hear. ♥ I picked this hugeass cup because I had no idea how big the flower would be - otherwise I usually use this not-quite-a-cup-not-quite-a-bowl for soup. :D


Finding this display of sewing and fashion skills helped, too. I must have been 13 when I made this in school... I quit handcrafts after this and took as much of arts as I could. You can probably guess why lol :__D (I was a hardcore Gryffindor fan, so I have no idea why my bag says Draco Malfoy and Slytherin. No, wait... it was probably because a snake was a tad bit easier to do than a lion...)


Oh, and then I played some Heroes of Might and Magic III, and beating virtual enemies cheered me up considerably. Video games should be a form of therapy. ♥

Welcome Hello Goodbye!

We hosted a family reunion today, and I met a lot of relatives I would have never recognized as such if I'd met them somewhere else... I don't even know all their names :'D BUT the food was great, the drinks were okay, the compliments were awesome!

I felt perhaps a little overdressed... but not too much.

My room as it was BEFORE I cleaned it for this speshul occasion. :D


... And afterwards. :D