Adventures in Interning 1.5

I'm pleased to announce that after months of careful planning, every detail regarding my trip is in place. At the end of this week I will be headed to NYC with papers in hand, ready to work. In addition to this, despite the fact that they were entirely booked up, my application for the Webster Apartments went through.  Now I have a place to stay, merely 5 blocks from where I will be interning.

Having extremely detailed plans makes me feel more control of my life, so I've been attempting to plan everything from the walk to work to what I'm going to do on my first weekend. I already have a cell phone plan picked out, as well as the nearest coffee shop that isn't a Starbucks mapped out, and directions on how to get to the library from my place. I already have a dry cleaners picked out, and the non-emergency police number programmed into my phone (I do that for every place I live). I won't tell you how many times I've "walked" down the street to work on google street view, but I will say that it was much more than once. There's a point at which planning becomes redundant; I reached that point 6 weeks ago. I'm ready to go!
It's nice to see things come together just as I planned, but I've still got a long ways to go before I'm where I need to be!

Happy Trails!

Girls Day at CurliQue

Last weekend I got a much needed makeover and manicure with a friend, compliments of the Blanche MacDonald students and CurliQue Beauty.

 The makeover was a fun, unexpected portion of the day. I planned only for manicures, but once they were done with my nails, the girl asked if we wanted to do a makeover. I take more of a foundation-and-mascara type of approach to my daily makeup routine, so it was nice to get some feedback on what I can do to update my look (without taking too much time).Of course, it's always nice to have someone compliment your skin for half an hour. Such incredible talent coming out of this Vancouver school: thanks girls for the makeover and makeup tips.

My friend Vicky (left) and me (right) after our makeovers.

The makeup and haircare selection at CurliQue is fantastic. They have rows upon rows of Bumble and Bumble, Makeup Forever, Kerastase, and other well known, high quality products you would expect from a boutique-style beautician. They also have some interesting, hard to find brands that I was introduced to by the extremely knowledgeable Blanche students and CurliQue staff. My personal favourite has to be Honoré Des Prés; I absolutely fell in love with their organic scents. I am very picky about perfumes, and I instantly fell in love with the heady, musky scents and crisp without being too flowery florals. $100 on a teeny tiny bottle might be a little hard to justify when I have a full bottle of Lovestruck by Vera Wang and Halston Woman (not to mention a trip to NYC coming up), so I opted out this time around.

They have student work on the walls! 

 As for the manicure, it was incredibly relaxing. The colour I chose is from Butter London's S/S 2012 collection. The creator of Butter London gets her inspiration straight from the runways of Paris, New York, and London. She takes note of designers collections for the season, and bases her formaldehyde-free, vegan nail polish around these colour schemes. The result is a great, on-trend nail polish that goes on smoothly and with little mess (although that may have been the manicurists doing). I chose the mint green colour, and was really impressed with how long the manicure lasted. I generally don't keep nail polish on due to the fact that when I'm not clacking away on a keyboard, I'm sewing and pinning, and generally my hands don't get treated as well as they should be, but the colour stayed put for well over a week.

Curlique Beauty puts on events like this often; be sure to follow them on facebook to find out when the next one will be!