Thankful Vibes #ootd

It's been an absolutely insane year. Insane in a not good way. My uncle, who took many of my pictures that I've posted here through the years passed away during the summer, after two years bravely battling cancer. I know I've mentioned him quite a bit here and in the months since, I've missed him so much, especially during special occasions when he'd be the one taking pictures.

Thanksgiving is one of those occasions. I think the holidays in general can be incredibly hard after such a loss. Suddenly, that empty seat becomes all the more glaringly obvious.

In a nod to him I went out and got my first "fancy" camera, a Sony a5100. With a tripod and the mobile app, I can use my iPhone as a remote to take pictures of myself. Of course, I'm holding my phone in the pics and I miss having his company but I've been thrilled with the quality. It's not for nothin' that so many makeup artists and gurus love this camera.

So I present to you my first post in a long long while, and I dedicate it to my sweet uncle who was always happy and willing to take pictures for me to post.

Hat, choker, necklace & rings// Forever 21

Shoes// Hot Topic

Top// unknown

Skirt// Gifted

Nails// Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - Black Creme
            Wet N' Wild - Naughty and Iced

So can we talk for a second about my pink hair? I've always went to a salon to do my dip dyed pink streaks, and I happened to go the same day my uncle had to move to a home to be cared for. I went to visit him after I got done and he loved the pink and started talking to me about the show Kawaii International and about Japanese fashion. He was just THAT cool. My pink washed out but I wanted to do it myself for his birthday so I ordered Jerome Russell Punky Colour in the shade Flamingo Pink to try it out.

Unfortunately I ended up having to use the pink for his celebration of life instead of his birthday but I'm so in love with this dye that I've had it in ever since.

It's bright and happy and reminds me to him. And for that I'm thankful.

Thirteen Questions Tag

Hey guys! I'm still rockin my Three Stooges nails. They're too cute to take off, and the new top coat I used seems to really be keeping them from chipping. I didn't want to go days without a new post, so I did the Thirteen Questions Tag that G. posted over at Nouveau Cheap. Since I've got a couple new followers, and I really never know what to write in About Me and profile sections, maybe this will let people know a lil more.

Thirteen Questions Tag 

Liebster Award

Hey guys! I'm excited cause I was nominated by the lovely Erin over at Hand-y Feats and Other Treats for the Liebster Award! The Liebster Award is given to bloggers who have under 200 followers, which is so awesome. I'm sure all aspiring bloggers can tell you, it's not always easy to get the word out.

Thanks so much Erin! Guys go check her blog out, not only is her nail art amazing but she's doing 3, yes THREE nail art challenges at once, including the 31 Day Challenge. That deserves some MAD props!

So here’s how it works:

1.  The recipient must post 11 fun fact about themselves
2.  The recipient must also answer 11 questions created by the award giver
3.   The recipient must give the award to 11 new bloggers with less than 200 followers and post 11 questions for them to answer
4.  These 11 bloggers must be told they have been given the award
5.  They will in turn pass the award to 11 new bloggers of their choice (no tagging back the award giver.)

Click the jump to read my facts and answers!

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Part Of Me

When we last left off here at Miss DeVious DiVa, I mentioned going to the movies. Did you guess the movie we went to? If you guessed Katy Perry: Part Of Me 3D, then you're right! (Yea... these pictures are a few weeks old).

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you might've seen me mention my music favorites in a couple posts: the hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse. #LadiesLoveLyrics
So when it comes to music documentaries that have come out recently, Ice-T's hip hop documentary "Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap" is right up my alley. I'd be fascinated hearing emcees discuss rap and their bars and how they structure their songs. FASCINATED. Everyone else I know? Not so much.
Alrighty then, so off we went to see Katy Perry. All that said, trust that this is a completely unbiased review: it was good!

Really, it was fun. The concert parts showed her doing all her hits, and the documentary parts were interesting. I gotta give her credit for including scenes that showed such personal moments of her life. It was actually inspiring.

Oh and I popped my 3D movie cherry with Katy. And I liked it. ;] (if you've seen the movie, you'll know that there was no other way for me to word that.)

After the movie we messed around taking pictures. I climbed on a fountain.

And at first I was kind of embarrassed till my cousin reminded me we have to be fun and wild like Katy Perry. So I was like "WHOOOOO KATY PERRY!!!!"

Then she took a pic that looked pretty rad on my camera:

Till I uploaded it to my computer and realized what is UP with my eye? Since everything else looked good, I covered it with a heart. Any problem in life can be covered up with a heart. FACT.

I'm SUCH a f'n hipster.

Tomorrow I'll post the nails I did for this day. I think I've figured out Blogger's post scheduling feature so they *should* post tomorrow. They get their own post because there's some stamp testing involved!

Knott's Berry Farm Adventures & Zebra Nails

A coupla weeks ago, I went to Knott's Berry Farm with my family. For those who don't know, Knott's Berry Farm is a theme park in Southern California, home to Charlie Brown & The Peanuts, Camp Snoopy, lots of fun rides, Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant, and boysenberry everything. It's awesome!

I did my nails with regular zebra print to match my shorts using Konad m57 and Wet N' Wild Wild Shine French White Creme and Black Creme. I had originally thought of trying out a frame manicure but it was 2am and I had to get up early the next day to get in as much valuable time as possible going on rides. :]

If you go to Knott's, this is what you'll see at the gate. This is the Silver Bullet. I sat that one out but my cousin and uncle were brave enough to go on it!

Here's my cousin and I, can you tell we're excited? I'm on the left with the Cookie Monster hat. Our swag was at 100% that day. Heck, any occasion when I can unabashedly wear my Cookie Monster hat is an occasion when my swag will be at 100%! Also, I kind of hate the word swag because of how overused it is! Yay!

That's us in jail. The picture that no theme park visit is complete without. Don't ask me what's up with my pose. It's very Vogue Zoolander-ish, don'tcha think? I think some of the people at the park wanted to toss us in real jail because of how loud we were.

We ate lunch that day at Pink's. Pink's is a world famous hot dog place in Hollywood and they decided to open one up at the park. Of course, I ate before we got there, so I wasn't hungry. I did however snag some food from my relatives and I must say it was quite good. :]

That's us in Pink's. See that big wooden coaster in the background? That's Ghostrider. I rode it once and still can't believe that I did. It was closed that day though, which kinda sucked.

This is outside of Pink's. Wanna know what's behind it?

For some reason, my cousin and I kept giggling at this. We were sitting right by it inside. Imagine if someone did stick their head through the hole and got stuck?

That's all! The family vacation picture reel is over. Knott's is one of my favorite places to go to. <3 Hope you all enjoyed it!

Feature At My Hunger Games

Hey guys! I'm excited to tell you that I was picked as Fan of the Week for my rap freestyle over at My Hunger Games !

Here's the link: Hunger Games Fan of the Week - Brigitte

It's very cool to be recognized by fellow Hunger Games fans, and I am so appreciative of it. <3

Target $1 Section Gift Wrap Swag

The Target $1 section is kind of a wonderful place. I've found many cute things in there and I love the scented lip balms they have for every holiday. I spotted these pink felt placemats sitting there and had an idea. I could use them, get my HELLO SANDWICH on, and make a cute wrapping that was both cheap and re-usable. For once, I could give someone a present that actually looked like EFFORT was put into it, instead of my usual "bags & tissue paper are amazing" stance.

This was a belated birthday gift for my aunt. As you can see, I've got a pretty bag, a card, a loofa sponge thing that looks like a flower, The Band Perry CD, and two pink felt cutout placemats. Behind the placemats are some wrapped up decorations from my Grandma's house that I gave back to my aunt. ALL of this, except for my Grandma's decorations, the CD, and the card, came from the $1 section. The card probably cost more than the bag, flower, and placemats put together!

Not pictured are silver holographic ribbon and tissue paper.

So how'd I do it? Easy! I took the two placemats, placed them end to end and used the ribbon to weave in and out of the cutouts. I then tied the ribbon together and since it still seperated a lot, I tied more ribbon horizontally across the woven parts.
I SHOULD'VE taken pictures while I was doing it, but as usual, I was running late and did this at the last minute before getting ready. I did a quick diagram in Photoshop. Obviously when I did this, I pulled on the ribbon to make it as tight as possible.

Then I placed the CD on the bottom, put the wrapped decorations on top, pulled the placemats up and used the loop of the loofa flower to hold it together.
The loofa flower reminded me a lot to the fancy package decorations you can get in the gift wrap aisle. Except those are usually several dollars. This was $1 and if my aunt wants, she can reuse it.

I put the entire thing in the bag and called it a day. My aunt loved it! She's already hung her decorations up and she says The Band Perry CD is really good. I might have to check it out. They're no Slaughterhouse, but then again, who is? <3
I had fun putting this together and I might do creative things like this more often.

Stylish Blogger Award!

I've just received my first ever award from the awesome Danielle at Polish Obsessed. Thanks so much! As a new blogger, any kind of mention helps a lot!

1. Thank and link the person who gave you the award

2. Share 7 things about yourself

3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers

4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award.

7 Things About Me:

1. I rap. Which usually surprises people. I absolutely love hip hop and I go for that real lyrical stuff, I love a good punchline and metaphor. Which again, usually surprises people.

2. Nobody can ever guess what my background is, but I'm Dutch-Indonesian & French. I LOVE Indonesian food, it's just the best! :]

3. I love fashion and I think putting together pieces to make a unique outfit is fun.

4. Same with makeup, it's a way to express yourself and be artsy.

5. I love animals. In fact I pretty much love anything cute.

6. I make lyrics out of what I go through and my business gets put out there a lot, but I'm a pretty private person. Which is why my Twitter often gets neglected!
7. I'm learning to play the guitar. Most of my uncles know how and they're in a band, so I *should* be able to figure this out right?

Whew! I guess since I never did a proper intro post and I don't know what to write in profiles, I can let people know a lil more about me.

I don't have 15 recently discovered nail blogs, so here's what I got. If you have a nail blog or know someone who does, let me know!

The Nail Polish Enthusiast
Linda's Nail Art
Silence Is Loud
Beau Licious
Nouveau Cheap

Tumblr!

Hey guys, I made a Tumblr. I love looking at the nail art on there and all the other cute stuff.

The address is:
missdeviousdiva.tumblr.com
Although you probably could've guessed that!

Follow me! And if you have one too, link me and I'll follow you. Right now I don't know anybody on there.

Halloween Craziness

Eep, I haven't posted anything in awhile. I've got a lot of pics to post and some cool stuff but I need to put Photoshop on my computer so I can resize and add text and stuff.

Basically for the last two weeks I've been helping plan a Halloween party and it ATE my entire week last week. I got home from shopping and picking up last minute stuff at like 11pm Friday night and then stayed up till flippin 6am making mini cheesecakes, carving pumpkins and getting everything ready. The party itself was yesterday. It was ok, I had fun. I rapped there but did a dance too. Lol the neighbors in the apartment next door were watching from above and started cheering.

Like whenever I go out, I'm ALWAYS doing something at the last minute and then forget to take pics for a FOTD. I loved my makeup so much yesterday, a blackest black smoky eye with cool Halloween falsies. I wore all black and a military type vest like The Black Parade with ripped leggings and fishnets and a black petticoat. I'm gonna try to get pics from someone who went.

I'm still really tired from it all. This weekend is Halloween, I'm excited. :]