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"I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, a great unique hairstyle/cut is one of the best things a cash-strapped young lady or gentlemen can invest in.

You get to wear it everyday, you can wear it in several different ways, and you can accessorize in a million different ways." -the sartorialist

i couldn't have said it better myself.  

changing your hair can do so much for your look.  for one - it can give you a look.  in an interview for glamour magazine (haha i've had some time at work to read), zooey deschanel said that she went through several different looks before she developed her signature heavy bangs and dark hair.  and i must say, it's very "her".  i've been loving these looks as of late: 

  

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prague (and on the way there)

hey guys!

here's the final stretch of my europe documentation: a two-for-one post (if you're still reading the blurb part). we ended up in prague where we split ways with our dear traveling companions so we could do the last leg just the two of us.  on the way there, we stayed the night in bamburg, germany at mike's friends place (his name happened to also be wes!). he and his wife were very hospitable and showed us around the little tiny town. on our way to prague we visited the original disney castle (it's called neuschwanstein castle).  some of the all time best views i've seen in my life. here are some pics.








bamburg


this is their doggie curbis (sp?) - he was a little firecracker.  sure knew how to pose.


and of course, prague.  i highly recommend it as a europe must.  did not expect it to be so romantic.  once you get away from some of the touristy places (which isn't hard) - you'll find sweet little pockets of alleys/streets with ivy covered pubs and restaurants and just civilian living. good wine and alcohol in general there is so cheap too compared to what we're used to paying. anyway, our routine in prague was exploring during the day, then going "home" to change and go somewhere fancy to eat.

this is the old town square which houses the midevil astronomical clock.  the most intricate clock that will tell you the time, weather, your personality based on your name, etc.  it's nuts.


our last coffee before temporarily saying good-bye.






lunch after a long walking tour.




this is the charles bridge which connects the two different parts of prague (castle and old town)


one of the vendors on the bridge. we hung out near him to wait for the crowd to die down enough to take pictures, and ended up subtly observing him while he works.  he was so focused it was very endearing.










european playgrounds are a pretty good time. definitely not your typical slide, swings and monkey bars.






gigantic cathedral inside the castle property


the way folks begged pictured below was a common sighting. they'd kneel like this for hours on end, some well into the night it was so sad.






we got a surprise hike getting to one of the city central parks which warmed us up. he didn't last long in his tshirt though.


charles bridge on a sunday


there were these groups of locals that would break out in music and song. it was much fun to watch them sing in szech and have beers i had this weird inexplicable feeling of being left out and nostalgia at the same time. wes had to pry me away from them, lol.


john lennon wall


well, that concludes it folks. that was europe. we then flew home.  we both got pretty sick at the tail end of the trip but made the most out of it.  i'm sure i left tons out but this is the gist.  flying home i wrote down every detail of every day that i could remember (including which outfit i wore on which days) just to hold on to as much of it as i can. probably because i had tons of hours to kill, but anywhos.

experience of a lifetime. can't wait to do it again ;)

here's more of the castle and bamberg, and here's prague.

thanks for reading! ta ta

happy new year!!

happy 2013 y'all.

we're living in the future - isn't that nuts! we were talking about it at work, 2013 sounds so futuristic.

my resolution is to post every single day. ;)

anyway, i'm going to get the ball rolling here again.  starting off with the completion of our europe trip. it was so much fun for me to go through those pictures in preparation for the blog, kind of like reliving it all. although quite a bit has happened between those posts and now which of course i'll update out of order once we get the pics on the computer, (which will be a little weird, but hey...#yolo (haha)

we left off on vienna - here are the pics.  what i remember about it...pretty vast city....clean...lots of parliament-like buildings, tons of history (the library building is where hitler said one of his disgusting famous speeches - there's no signs there commemorating that of course, but mike new about it from research or something), had more luck there with wifi than in most other places.  and that's my little summary.


the view from the tower of a massive cathedral


original cobblestone from the midevil times








this is that library












thanks for checking in!  here's the rest of vienners

yo - my streets are narrower than yours

if little european countries can talk to each other, i would imagine they'd be having a street narrowness battle, yaknowwhattamsayin?

quick side note.  it's really cold.  i'm drinking hot water with lemon and honey right now (out of tea!).  i should drink hot water more often.  it's as cold here now as it was in salzburg when we were there (segway not intended! lol)

and then there was cozy little salzburg.  cozy, and yet so vast (see pictures below with alps foothills in the background)...and little cobblestone streets and stairs leading through very old buildings/neighborhoods. or castles.  and in case you were living under a rock like i was - or just never happened to watch the sound of music, that's where most of the movie was filmed :)  i didn't do my homework and watched the movie AFTER we came home from the trip - it made it so much more special.

we didn't spend too much time there so all of what we saw was touristy.  the streets were filled during the day, but they emptied up pretty quick come evening.  places close up shop earlier there which was surprising to us.  wes and i wanted to go out for a drink or something, but the it was pretty sparse by then.









that's us keeping it real






these fellas were playing THE most romantic music i ever did hear.


at the sound of music park (sorry i know it has a name! so naive)


everyone was posing for pictures running through here.  at the time i thought it was so lame, but now i wish i did it tooo.  










the cathedrals are always so full of beautiful detail


i didn't see the sign where i was supposed to pay....for lighting a candle.


life supply of cheese at the market




up inside the castle at the very top of the hill.  it used to be a little town back in the mid-evil days.






one of the views from the top.


that's us in front of the view from the top, lol.  excessive much?


just another phone pic i never instagrammed.


and of course there's always more here.  next up is vienna.  actually vienna happened before salzburg - i kind of lost track.

have a good night!

ps. i started at my job as an official stylist this last saturday.  so cool! one of the original purposes of this blog was to track my progress from the very start (i.e. deciding to go to beauty school).  very happy i stuck to it ya know.  makes this so rewarding.