Vancouver was awesome!! I’m a dumb shit and forgot to bring my camera’s battery recharger, so we barely took any pictures. :-(
We stayed at the Sutton Place hotel on Burrard Street, which was sweeet! Thanks to everyone who posted suggestions on where to go. The first thing we did when we got there was walk around checking out the stores around Robson and Granville. According to everyone else, it was a beautiful, warm, sunny day. But we were so cold, we couldn’t last 5 minutes before running back to the hotel to get our heavy coats! Other than the cold weather, I looooooooove Canada. The people are nice, and the food is GOOD AND CHEAP! Kevin and I were talking about possibly moving there to start a family because it seems like a really nice place to raise kids. Plus, they have an Electronic Arts office there, so Kevin would be able to transfer.
Looks like it’s time for my once-a-year update!
Saturday nite we had dinner at Bin 941, my new favorite restaurant in the entire world. JESUS CHRIST the food is amazing, and sooooo cheap compared to what it costs to eat out in San Francisco! Afterwards we walked to DV8 for drinks, but it was kind of too quiet and loungy, and we wanted something more clubby. Someone told us to go to Marble Arch for 80s nite. When we got there, they were playing hip hop and the place was crawling with thug wannabes!! We weren’t going to pay $10 to get into a hip hop thug club, so we left and decided to walk around and see if there was anything else going on. We couldn’t find anything, so we walked back to Marble Arch. All the thugs were gone, and the place was full of punks, and they were playing good music! WEEEEIRD!!
We spent most of Sunday walking around. Here’s me (with gross faded hair) checking out the steam clock in Gastown and asking myself what the big deal is with this thing?
Kevin standing in front of EA’s Vancouver office. He was embarrassed posing in front of it, but I made him!
View from EA (I think. I can’t remember)
We had dinner at Hapa Izakaya that nite. There was a 1-hour wait, and the owner got semi-offended when I half-jokingly said, “We’d better not miss Desperate Housewives!!”
Every time Kevin wears this shirt, I am photographed sitting on the side the gun is pointing, haha
Funny Canadian peanut butter with teddy bears. Yes, I like how our camera is running out of batteries and I waste it on peanut butter. There is some weird shit in Canada though!! I saw KETCHUP FLAVORED POTATO CHIPS at the 7-11!! I should have bought a bag, but I didn’t think about it.
On Monday I went on a shopping spree at the Betsey Johnson store near the hotel. I spent $400 in less than half an hour, eek! And that only bought me like, 5 things. Then we met up with some of Kevin’s friends from the Vancouver EA office and had dinner at Shiru-Bay. Weeeeeeeee!!!
Video game nerd family
After dinner, we walked to an Irish pub for drinks. The name of the bar escapes me!
Nerds, nerds, and more nerds!!
On Tuesday we had brunch at the Elbow Room. I had heard from several people that they had a “funny, unique waitstaff” but after 5 minutes the theatrics got old and I started to get a headache from all their yelling and screaming. Not recommended!!
The last thing we did before we left Vancouver was go to that big Asian mall in Richmond. They had tons of fruitsy clothes for dirt cheap, but we had all our luggage with us so I didn’t have room to buy very much. :-( I did buy a hooded monster fur jacket for $29 though. Score!!
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The weekend after we got back, we celebrated Patrick soybaby’s birthday at HOOTERS!!!
Jade and Ryan
Birthday boy Patrick hating us for telling them it was his birthday
Looking for a way out
Accepting defeat
Alex and me
Yes… I realize I am wearing this shirt in like, every single picture of me that was taken last month. I was just really excited when I got it and wore it every day. Haha.
BTW people, Jade is not my sister, she’s just my homey!! Everyone thinks we’re sisters.
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So Xenia came out to California for a last-minute surprise visit!! To get her mind off the family emergency she was dealing with, we took her to Trannyshack! :-D
Little Big Girl booty
Kevin wanted to take pictures of all of us before we left. Here I am brushing 20 pounds of cat hair off my clothes.
My faaaaavorite picture of Jade. Kevin said, “Wow, she looks really good here. Something must be wrong with my camera!”
I hate how grumpy I look when I don’t smile! :-(
At the club
Some guy I met outside. He was really funny and drunk. Hi Raddy!
Miss Marcy Meow
They were giving away free Brady Bunch DVDs to anyone who’d get naked on stage. I can’t believe anyone would get naked for a Brady Bunch DVD!!
Normally I have more taste than to post hairy naked pics, but when I noticed there’s an audience member in the front row REACHING for this guy’s manhood, I had to share. I’ll bet when you saw my “very light nudity” warning, you were hoping it’d be some cute chick. Better luck tomorrow, suckaz!!
Jade and Rob
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A few nites after Xenia left, we went to the Blank Club to see the Lovemakers. Sorry, no actual band pictures, mostly just candid shots of my friends.
This is Stacey.
Stacey and my ex-roommate Natasha. Natasha and I took a sewing class together last year and both failed. Hahahahaha
Me and my favorite neighbor Lily
Afterwards there was an afterparty at some guy named Danny’s house. We thought it’d be ragin’ cuz everyone at the club was talking about how they were gonna go, but when we got there, it was pretty empty and the only booze they had was a half-empty case of Coors Light in the fridge. That went pretty fast.
Gimme some of that Coors
I hung out with this cat most of the nite. We became pretty good friends. Hi, cat!
Gimme some of THAT Coors!
Natasha got all excited cuz she found this bar in the garage. Much to our dismay, all the bottles were EMPTY or smelled just plain wrong! Doesn’t hurt to check though…
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The next week, we went to this video game art show at Blue Cube in SF.
Lovely Lily
My boyfriend is way cuter than all of yours put together!!!
Me and my friend Donerick 7_romans_ate. He works with Kevin and is the one we were having lunch with during the Macy’s bomb threat last Christmas! Maybe it was you, Donerick! Hmmmmmmm
I need to give these shoes a good scrubbing. Xenia gave me these a few years ago and I have worn nothing else ever since!!
This was my favorite. Not saying that I like Paris Hilton, but the painting is really cute!
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Ummm… here we are at the Blank Club a few nites later. Do you think we come here just a little too much? Hmmm? Someone needs to open a really cool club in San Jose. Maybe I will!!!
Jade, John, Joel, and Amy. I need a J in front of my name too!
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Guess who stopped by to visit on their way to Disneyland last week! Alicia (purestylee) and her posse–Matt, Lydia, and Sterling. Good times were had! Lydia wanted to go to a dyke bar real bad, so we took them to Aunt Charlie’s. It was dead empty and super depressing! We were the only people in there, and there wasn’t any music playing. The bartender was this grumpy old man, and there weren’t even tables to sit at so all 7 of us had to stretch out along the bar and couldn’t hear each other. So after our first drink, we took off and went to the Lexington, which I swear is the BEST dyke bar in San Francisco, I don’t care what you say Anna!!!!!!!!!! :-D
Sterling, Lydia and Matt at Aunt Charlie’s
Alicia, Jade, me looking like I actually have boobs… wow, remind me to wear that tank top more often!
The ladiezzz
The menzzzzz
I’m telling Alicia!!! Wait a second, didn’t I kiss Matt too?!
You tell ‘em, Kevin!!
I just showed Matt this picture and his exact words were: “wtf is that like an amy-furball?”
Yes… we fit 7 people into this car.
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So the CRAZIEST thing happened to us last Friday nite!!! It actually happened to Jade and not me, so it’s way funnier when she tells it. Here’s what happened, in Jade’s own words:
I had been itching to go out since I’d pretty much spent all week in the house. The plan was to have a drink or two at the local karaoke joint. Little did we know what excitement awaited us there. I guess we were all a little buzzed from wine at dinner and since it was only about 8:30 the bar was pretty empty. I sang a laryngitis version of “top of the world” and found myself a 70 year old admirer who I later found out goes by the moniker of “Mighty Joe”. Turns out Mighty Joe has been a local patron of the bar for the last 30 years and approximately 15 years ago he was on his way to the bar when an 18 wheeler hit him and dragged him for about 4 blocks. Joe apparantly got up, brushed off the dirt and simply walked to the bar with his bloody face and ordered a drink. So that’s where he got his name and rightfully so.
fast forward to the evening of March 25th 2005 and Joe is not looking too Mighty. Joe, although moving very spritely for his age is speaking in tongues and looking glassy eyed. I go up to sing a second song “These boots are made for walking” and really getting into it. Come to the line “Start Walking!” and point to Joe… only to see him keel over lying motionless on the floor. I was horrified to say the least and ran off to check if he was okay. Well, they called an ambulance for him and after checking his vital signs and realizing he probably just had one too many drinks, hauled him off and assured us he was going to be okay. The fact that the firemen felt okay enough to stop and compliment Amy and I on our hair made me feel a little bit better about the fact that I nearly killed a man with my singing. A little bit shook up after the incident, I finally ended up singing the song after a seeing a few more performances and then completed by doing the robot for Ryan and Scott during their “thriller” song. Decided we had enough excitement for the evening and headed home. What a night…
Here is a picture of Mighty Joe probably 20 minutes before he fell over:
And here is an action shot of Jade, Ryan and Scott partying like it’s 1999
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Here are some pictures from Adam’s house last week. Don’t be fooled by the scary mustache, he’s actually REALLY sweet!
Dee and Brian are in luv!
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So I feel bad cuz dreeew was in town for his birthday and not only did I totally miss his birthday party and not get him a present, but he bought ME a present!! What kind of a friend am I?! On the Monday morning after his party, Jade and I went to go pick him up from his man toy Erick’s house. Erick only lives a couple of miles down the street from me, but it took us 45 minutes to get there cuz they gave me the wrong address and I was driving around in angry circles forever. We were supposed to take him out to sushi but by the time we found the house, all the sushi restaurants were closed. So we had to take him to Gordon Biersch downtown. The three of us were walking down the street towards the restaurant when we passed these 2 black guys. They looked at us funny, then one guy said to Drew, “How you have your hair looking like that and STILL get girls like that?!” Drew’s answer: “Cuz it’s my birrrrrrthday!” Hahahahaaha. Grosss… did they think you were our boyfriend?!
He wears more lipgloss than me!!
I’m totally mad at Jade for dying her gorgeous hot pink hair this “I’m-looking-for-a-job” burgundy. Next stop: brown!?
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Last but not least, if you are in the NYC area, be sure to check out Xenia’s party “Maskara” starring some of my favorite DIY girlies. Take lots of pictures and tell me all about it! I was originally supposed to fly out to NY to be in the fashion show too, but I had to drop out at the last minute because of another project that fell in my lap. But I know you guys probably think I’m lying cuz whenever you look at my LJ, it looks like all I do is fool around and get drunk every nite! Well, just so you know, I work like a DOG all day, so I deserve to have a beer or two (or three) every weekend. But I have been working. I just don’t take pictures of it. THAT would make for a very boring LJ entry! :-)
P.S. So does anyone out there actually read my long-ass LJ entries from beginning to end?! I don’t really expect anyone to… I write a lot of it for myself so I don’t go senile and forget these things.
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From front to end. I look forward to every single entry! AND COMPLETE with a picture of a kitty! You are fabulous!!! ;D
grumpy? absolutely not! beautiful is more like it…
anyway…you added me when i was wrath66x….think you could add me as loveless_motel?
xox
jill
totally beginning to end!
-i LOVE your hair and makeup in the.. sitting on the stairs with Xenia shots. awesome awesome!
all those makeup shots is makign it hard to decide what kryolan i’ll buy from you. deffinitly apple.. school’s almost out, then i’ll let you know.
you seem to always be on the go and doing such fun things!
you really think we have such weird things in canada? ;)
Cute pics <3
I think I may have fallen in love with yours and Xenia’s skirts :O :O Hotness.
x
Reading from beginning to end, and after your last remarks I’m getting all paranoid about all your secret projects you have going on O_o You should post more often, I’m DYING of curiosity XD
Ohhhh and we have ketchup-flavoured potato chips over here, too!! I think the Pizza-flavour and vinegar is a much grosser idea though. Even though vinegar = awesome.
Paranoid? Haha! No, it’s all good stuff, you’ll see! :-D
Yeah I know, I feel bad for abandoning my LJ and being a bad LJ friend, but you know how it goes. :-(
Hehe yeah it’s either a Life or a Livejournal I guess XD
I’m still in awe though how you actually reply to all of those comments you get so, no need at all for you to feel bad!!
We have ketchup-flavored potato chips here in NY. XD
in the 6th xenia/you/jade where Xenia’s leaning against the wall, Xenia doesn’t look real!
Yes I read it beginning to end, I enjoy your long ass updates.
xx
Oh, I know! She looks like a doll in that one! :-D
ha ha ha! Great entry! I was very disturbed by the flacid weiner though. ^_~
Hahahaha whatever, you know you sneek a peak at it every nite after your honey’s gone to bed!
love the long posts but the problem is more about whether the pictures load or not. i only got to see half :( after multiple tries. love the ones of you and xenia and your sister — you should do those more!
Oh, really? I always save my files at a lower quality so they load faster, but maybe I’m doing something wrong haha. BTW, Jade isn’t my sister, she’s one of my best buddies from high school!! :-)
now i got to see all of them and man i want drew’s hair.
I am officially in crazy~stalker~love with you. *_*
<3!!
Heehee thanks!!
you just hang out with everyone from the internet, dont you? hahaha! damnit amy, thats SO HOT!
What the fuck? how many LJs do you have? haha
DAMN girl, when you update, you UPDATE. haha Yes, I’m a complete tool and read it from beginning to end…but I think you already know that I’m a tool. (Ooo! And I found out that my man is going to be in a new movie soon!!! You should come and celebrate with me!!!
Arrghhh, I’m sure you already had one hundred and one comments about it but your hair looks amazing! I am so envious of how versatile you are…
I read most of what you post but I can be guilty of skimming when I’m sneaking LJ at work. :\
And I’m positive I’ve asked you once (or twice before) but humor a senile girl: what brand of contacts do you wear? Barring solid theatrical contacts, I can never find any that are opaque enough cover my natural eyecolor and still appear vivid.
Haha no worries! I think you DID ask but I might have not answered. I wear turquoise contacts by Fresh Looks! They are made especially for people with dark eyes. :-)
By the way, we’ve got ketchup flavoured crisp in england too! or atleast we did, it was the walkers brand.. Yeah..
very cute/interesting pix! i <3 your black n pink kitty purse, and your boyfriend is a fox! :)
f yes!
that black guy was soo jealous. i get all the fine azn ladies!!!
i was retarded @ lunch. damn hangover!!!
i played with the silver aqua color last night… and took some pix, but i donno if it’ll show. blah blah blah why am i posting this here?
we look damn fine in them pictures. BOOYAW!
p.s. i’m coming back in may.
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You are?! What for?
Re: f yes!
for fun?
OH MY GOD is that random drunk guy trying to grab your snatch???? HAHAHA
I was thinking the exact same thing!
Get your minds out of the gutter, ladies! :-D
Hahahha! BTW, how are the homeless kitties you’ve been taking care of?
I never even noticed that! Pervvvvvv!!!!! :-D
Dude, he is seriously cupping your junk in that photo.
Random drunk dudes are all that way. On my 21st birthday this drunk guy kept smacking my ass… and right before I left he took my antlers (dont ask) and I grabbed his hand and stuck it in his face and said “gimme my shit right now or I will punch you in the face with your own fucking fist!” It worked, I think I scared him. See, I like that story, because it makes me seem like a brawler. But usually when people start grabbing my butt I run away and hide behind the biggest friend I have available!!!
He was a total homo though! But I guess I should know by now that thta doesn’t make a difference, haha!
You always look so beautiful in your photos =)
Thanks, Kat!!
ketchup potato chips are good.
We have ketchup flavored potato chips in michigan too.
oh, and by the way, you’re cute.
your entries are so cute
and always full of pictures
everyone reads things with pictures!
i am so sorry to bother you but you are so beautiful and you are so talented!!!
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rock_n_makeup/
Thanks! You’re not bothering me at all! :-)
eeeep. you and drew….
totally nice.
gorgeous pictures and you have such awesome hair. that pic with the hand reaching for the dick cracked me up..that was hilarious.
The funny thing is, I didn’t even notice that while I was taking the picture! It took me a few days to notice, haha!
The worst was when i had to take out my facial piercing and undye my hair plum to student teach. I don’t think that I have recovered.
I got your necklaces in the mail! I will try to take pictures next week! :-)
XOXO
Amy
YAY! I am glad that they got there!
I love the picture posts! You always seem to have fun =) Gorgeous pics as always. I cannot believe that someone would think that Drew was straight..haha. Ketchup chips?!?! I want!
lots of people think i’m straight. i look crazy, but act more butch than your dad.
except when i fagg the fukk out. haha
why am i replying to amy’s comments?
I seem to respond to a lot of the comments in your journal too. Wanna just swap LJ passwords and do each others journals? HAhahaahaha (I’m not even joking)
i donno if i could handle your fame!!!!!1
i’m so unpopular now. it’s rad!
I should make you my Myspace secretary so you can answer all my hate mail, hahahaha!
sounds good. how’s the payrate?
You don’t look crazy, you look cuuute!
You mean he’s not?!?!??!
hey
awesome pix amy. I was wondering what you were up to these days :)
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Hi Big Van!! Will I be seeing you next weekend? :-D
Re: hey
You mean at your sis’s bday?
Hell yeah you will :)
I know your bday is coming this month too. You doing anything?
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Yeah I’m talking about Van’s birthday. Apparently she won’t even be at the dinner so I’m not going to that. Just the club part.
I don’t know what I’m doing for my birthday yet! Trying to find a good bar to go to. :-)
did you like have plastic surgery or something?
or like lost a ton of weight?
(not saying that you were fat before or something)
you look so different from the old pictures that i used to remember of you
BUT STILL LOOKING GOOD !!! ♥
HAHAHAH no!!! My friend (who I haven’t seen in 2 years) said the same thing. It is probably the colored contacts!
I have actually gained 15 pounds since I first started this journal. Funny that you think I LOST weight, haha!
=D ketchup chips are really delicious. hahaha. anyway, i’m wondering if you still provide free shipping for your eyeshadows?
Yup, I sure do! If you’re interested in anything, email me at amy@shrinkle.net. Im HORRIBLE at keeping up with LJ comments! :-}
I read it all, I’m a loser ;_;
Haha no I’M the loser for even writing this much!! :-}
You’ve NEVER heard of ketchup chips? Those are like a regular kind around here! That’s intense
I LOVE your outfit here!! it is ADORABLE!
http://www.shrinkle.com/lj/march05/xenia2.jpg
Your hair looks so hot here!
http://www.shrinkle.com/lj/march05/xenia6.jpg
and YES. I always read all of your entries, beginning to end!
haha; yea i read all your entries from beginning to end
you’re like.. MY IDOL!! HAH
p.s. im the girl that sent you ron pearlman’s digits hahah
<3
Hey you!!!!! Haha I never touched those digits.. I’m sure he’s changed his number by now! :-D
This was quite entertaining. Quite entertaining indeed.
I never got the steam clock obsession. I thought it was quite annoying after a while when we were sitting accross it at the Second Cup sipping our lattes.
What, you guys don’t have ketchup flavoured chips in the US? Now THAT’S weird. They’re damn good.
I never really noticed that it’s little teddybears on the top of our Peanut Butter. Thinking about it now, it’s oddly disturbing.
Love the pictures, they’re great :D
Ketchup chips aren’t weird..
We have Salt and Pepper flavour too… Ketchup is a more normal flavour.. ^^
woah wait, you mean there are no ketchup chips in the states? or KRAFT peanut butter!? we must be WORLDS apart o_O;
canada is fun, our legal drinking age is lower (or non-existant in some parts) and we have raunchy, exoctic chips :P
loved the pics~!
Haha, we have Kraft peanut butter, but not the mini sized ones, and most certainly not with adorable teddy bears on them!!!
Your pictures are rad, I love them. Just was added to your “friends list” over at my space, can I had you here at Live Journal? Have a fun weekend ;}
Thanks darlin!! Of course you can add me on here. :-)
OH CANADA!!!
Ketchup chips are way tast-EEEEEE!!!!!!! I can’t believe you dont have those there….OR teddy bear peanut butter! HA! If you DON’T move here, you will be SORE-EEEEEE!!!! It is totally a great place 4 kids……and grown kids, too…..COME BE A CANUK AND EAT KETCHUP CHIPS WITH ME!!!!!
Sorry if you don’t like this kind of thing but I saw that you were in before it got deleted and I wanted to invite you to .
Woah what is with those Hooters girls socks and shoes??? Ew. And whats with their extremely tan tights?
Is Jade wearing an Anti-Label dress? I think I remember her selling a dress like that. I have the thigh highs that match your white with red hearts thinggy. I never wear them because I’m scared I’ll put runs in them.
Why is every one posting pictures of man parts?!? And giving Brady Bunch DVDs to people who take off their clothes is one of the most random things I’ve ever heard.
I got something to put in you at the gay bar
I am listening to Peaches’s cover of Electric Six’s “Gay Bar” as I am reading this entry of yours.
Ketchup flavored potato chips are totally normal! They were my favorite as a kid =) I live in Vancouver and I’m kinda sad I didn’t seeee any super cute blue-haired asian ladies a la you when you were in town! Oh well.
(Was the irish pub called the Blarney Stone? Sorry if someone already answered this!)
gurl (with bloo hair)iLOVE ur eyeshadow!!so vibrat n strylishz!wat make isit??
Hey girl! My eyeshadows are all by Kryolan. I sell ‘em here! :-)
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ50QQsassZshrinkle
Hi, I think you’re gorgeous and I’ll most like end up buying some of your Kryolan stuff…sure hope you don’t mind if I add you ♥♥
weeeeeeee that’s my hometown, haha it’s funny hearing about it from some one elses point of view.
p.s. I found you on fruits, I’m not a random crazy person! heheh
Damnit! I’m reading this at the ole public library where little old ladies are constantly hobbling behind me so I can’t enjoy it as thoroughly as I’d like.
But under more private cirumstances: beginning to end. Slowly too, because I know the next one will take ages!
Damn girl
All that hotness converged into one place. I am Rachel’s (aschuaschu) homo half. I want the birthday man and the azn man in the plaid compared to the uni-bomber. Oh, and I want to know how you converted your picture into a cartoon illustration. tell me now!
Re: Damn girl
Haha! Actually, my friend drew the little cartoon of me, so I have noooo idea how it was done! :-}
if that purple-black-lace-side-cinch-slip-thing you’re wearing is from victoria’s secret, i sure hope you didn’t pay full price for it. because i work there. and am more than willing to whore out my discount to you.
Eeeek! Yes, it is VS! I stole it from my sister’s closet though, heehee!
okay so i have numerous comments (this is heather the paul mitchell girl by the way)…
my sister has a friend in canada and we have ketchup chips at our house right now…she sent them to her as a present! they’re pretty salty and shocking.
also, we were thinking of going to vancouver for my 18th birthday, do you reccomend it?
kids of yours would be hot :D
i finally got to paint my band friend that my boyfriend emailed you about that one time with red kryolan and he loved it…i gave him your email; are you still doing that free-shipping-if-not-bought-from-ebay thing?
Vancouver is gorgeous, you will totally love it! I didn’t stay long enough to know if it’d be a good place to have a birthday party, but I’m sure you will have fun. Everyone there is so friendly! :-)
And yes, I still offer free shipping for sales outside of eBay, damn eBay!
I have a question that I really really really hope you can answer. I have naturally dirty blonde hair and I used to (bleach it first of course) and go pink/blue/violet/purple but it always faded so fast. Well, I’m assuming your hair is naturally very black, so how do you keep yours so bright? Bleached extra white before hand? Better dye than I’m using? I believe the stuff I used to use was punky colors.
Sorry for the thousand questions. I’m going back to pink soon and I want to get the best color possible. :p
P.S.- It’s pretty fucking awesome that he works for EA. That would be my dream job.
Hey girl! I actually have to bleach my hair 2-3 times before it’s white enough to hold the color in. My hair is SUPER wrecked and I lose handfuls of it in the shower, haha! Not recommended!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH yeah, and I use Punky Color too!
I’m so excited to go back to pink. Auburn just doesn’t do it for me at all.
And if it does so much damage, why not put it colored extentions instead or something? ha.