Celebratory birthday dinner at Kimukatsu

  Last night, I celebrated my good friend Yui’s birthday. At her request, we headed to Kimukatsu, a restaurant known for their mille-feauille- style tonkatsu. It was SO good – nice and crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside. Afterwards we had dessert at Takano Fruit Parlor, where we had a mixed fruit waffle … Continue Reading

My morning skincare routine

Hi all! Since I love checking beauty blogs to see what kind of skincare advice and recommendations are out there, I decided to do an updated skincare post myself. I’m going to start with my morning routine first. Cleansing: I try to keep things simple when it comes to cleansing. I was using oil cleansers … Continue Reading

DELFONICS INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY (ENDED)

Because I received so much feedback from my Delfonics post (here), I decided to do an international giveaway myself for my awesome readers 🙂 The winner will receive one M or L-size case in the color of their choice from Delfonics. M- size: 195 x 140 x 15mm L-size: 265 x 197 x 17mm Entering … Continue Reading

ModCloth Style Challenge

I was recently contacted by ModCloth to participate in their style challenge for the Uniquely You campaign. The challenge was to create a style board around this pretty dress, the Shoreline Memories dress. Out of the many fashion-forward bloggers participating in the challenge, one winner will be selected weekly and displayed on ModCloth’s Polyvore page. … Continue Reading

Replay

TGIF! I’m so glad it’s finally the weekend, even though it’s gotten chilly again in Tokyo. The temperature outside yesterday was in the single digits, but I still wanted to wear my favorite cropped top with my new tapered denim from my work, Le Ciel Bleu. I decided to get them because they are soft … Continue Reading

Updating

I did some major shopping this weekend… say hello to my new Macbook Pro! I wouldn’t consider myself a tech geek, but it is satisfying to have the complete set – Macbook, iPad, iPod, and iPhone. I seriously can’t wait to start working from my new Macbook 🙂 It was about time to update my … Continue Reading

Delfonics

  I recently made an amazing purchase at Delfonics in Shibuya – 2 pouches for less than 3000 yen (about $30 US dollars)! I noticed one of my friends had a small coin purse from this store, and she told me where she got it and such, and I was really surprised at how affordable it … Continue Reading

Nudes & browns

When I was Pinteresting recently, I cam across an eye makeup tutorial using brown eye shadow and eyeliner. I’ve been using brown eye shadows for a quite a while now, but that inspired me to change up my makeup routine a bit. I ditched the black liquid eyeliner for a brown pencil liner (slim master … Continue Reading

Saturday vibes

I usually make my photos the main attraction for my posts, but today I feel like using my words as the focus of this post. Around noon, I went to the recording studio to finish recording a track that was postponed for quite a while for various reasons, one being my producer was busy with … Continue Reading

Happy wedding

  Congratulations to my friend & fellow musician Claudio, who got married last summer. It was truly an honor to be invited to his wedding party on Sunday night. I think the photos tell the rest. Happy wedding – ご結婚おめでとうございます!お幸せに!