Thanksgiving - How It Makes Me Full

This Thanksgiving turned out different then I had anticipated. I don't normally spend Thanksgiving with my family even though that is extremely abnormal for most families. The reason I don't spend Thanksgiving with my family is because I don't feel safe around them. Every holiday has been one full of tears and heart ache. 

My friends have been so generous and extending hospitality to me to spend time with their families during the holidays. I had one invite and I was really excited to spend the holiday with, but they ended up "disinviting" me. At the last minute (Wednesday afternoon) I was able to be squeezed in to spend the day with my beautiful, and extremely talented best friend Nomi Abadi (her music is amazing), her mom and brother, at her boyfriends families house in Menefee. I am not going to lie, it was a beautiful and extremely long drive. 

I am so grateful that i was able to enjoy the day with amazing and caring people. You know when you are best friends with someone when you are both wearing black and white bracelets.

We played board games. I am not a huge fan, but I love Apples To Apples. The cards I won were "animated and rich"

We had a completely vegan thanksgiving too! I can't remember the last time that I had stuffing and gravy!!! There was the most amazing corn casserole, brussels sprouts, tofurkey, mashed potatoes, string beans, dinner rolls, gravy, and cranberry sauce. Everything was so delicious.

The best part about spending Thanksgiving with other peoples families is seeing what their traditions are. Mine was sweet potatoes with marshmallows. I am glad that one is over haha. Comment below with what some of your favorite traditions are.

XOXOXO,

Casie

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Unicorn Hair

So its no shock I love color and I love my purple hair, but one day I was a unicorn!!! I had my hair done by my dear and lovely friend Tanya and we got to have fun and make my hair all sort of fun unicorn colors. 

This was pretty easy for us since my hair was already purple with Paul Mitchell Ink Works, so when we lightened my roots it made this really awesome unicorn style. 

Comment below  if you would like me to do a tutorial on how to achieve this look if you do not already have purple hair. 

Experiment with your hair!!!

xoxo,
Cas

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Im Back on YouTube!

It has been quite some time since i posted on YouTube, well a year to be exact haha. I have a ton of respect for YouTube gurus, it is an investment of time and talent. 

Im not saying that this is the best video ever, but I promise I will get better at editing!!!

Come watch and see the fun stuff I bought from It's a Wrap in LA. 

Its A Wrap Hollywood

This is where I bought my favorite red jacket from the set of Shake it Up. I thought it would be awesome to find a picture from the show of CeCe, one of the main characters wearing it, but I didn't find any!!!

One of my other favorite things i bought was a flash tattoo poster from Dan Smith's Captured tattoo. Dan Smith was on LA Ink and just opened a shop in Tustin!!!

Captured Tattoo

Watch the video to see what other fun surprises I have!!!

XOXO

Casie

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Catching Up

I have had an over the top crazy year since i last posted anything. My heart has been devastated and I wanted to keep it all to myself, but all this pain would be worth nothing if I wasn't able to share and help someone else.

At the beginning of October I celebrated my 27th birthday with my grandparents and a few days later my grandpa passed away. I am heart broken and crying as I type this. He was one of the only men I have ever been able to share my life with and felt that he truly heard what i was saying.  He was extremely sick and I am glad that he is no longer in pain. My heart hurts... I am glad that I am able to say that I saw him a few days before in a good mood and that he let me know he likes me with purple hair more than black haha. 

It doesn't change that I am heart broken and a bit mad. Today I took a 3 mile walk and I was so angry at God because I know my identity is in Christ, but I don't know what that looks like. I felt that, if my identity is in Christ why cant I just do drugs and have the skinny body I had. I want the feeling of being numb to everything. I MISSS doing drugs and i know that is sooooooooo beyond crazy because it ruined my life once and it would ruin my life again, but I just want my body back, I want that control.

Then i kept repeating how God has saved me. That He redeemed me, loves me, forgives me, and I am made new in an image of a saint, (me a saint, mind blowing) and even though I sin God loves me and will never turn from me. That the pain I feel from longing to do drugs will always be there and it hurts my heart because it is sin and it hurts God's heart too. I just kept repeating these things and then it clicked!!!! I have been listening to Satan's lies about me. Even though the lies he tells me are completely untrue, I still was listening. That I am not pretty enough, that I am not together enough, that I am crazy, that my past has tainted my future. Fuck Satan for making me feel that I am any less worthy to God. 

I feel like I am at a season in my life that I am restless and lonely and its because I don't have a firm foundation in what my identity is. I feel like the things happening with the people close in my life suck so much, but its because God is teaching me how to stand up for myself and not hold back the things I have to say. I have felt that everyone else has more value than I do or that their feelings and comfort are more important, but I have just as much value as they do.

I just want you to know that your identity isn't in what other people think of you or how others make you feel. Your identity is in Christ and where ever you are, let that light shine in dark places and don't let other people or circumstances make you feel less than a redeemed.

XOXO

Casie

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CAPER 2013

Hey friends, guess what!?! Want to support my education and get AMAZING products and tools at the same time?? It is Caper time!! My only shot to go is if I sell 40 bags of awesome Paul Mitchell promotional bags that are not offered elsewhere!!

What is Caper?? An AMAZING educational opportunity for a limited number of PM students who qualify to go to 3DAYS of education from the Paul Mitchell Advanced Academy AND Professional Artistic Team!!! You have to help me get there!!! If you are not local, call or message me and we will get the bags to you! Do you want big hair? Sleek hair? Flat iron? Tea Tree? Color protection? Mens grooming? We even have one for your fur babies!! NINE bags to chose from with full size products and a great travel bag!!  Sorry if you don't live in close i wont be able to sell you them BUT please check and see if there is a Paul Mitchell school near you and help one of those students to reach their goal!

Please Help Send Me to Caper 2013!
- Casie 

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somedays you just need to dress up

Any excuse to dress up, i will.  It was hippy day at school and i can't stand wearing all black anymore!!! here are some pictures of what i looked like before i had a facial done!!! Do something a little outside of your comfort zone today :)
Peace, Love, and Hippy Stuff,
Casie

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My First Makeup Tutorial on YouTube!!!!

I am so blessed to go to Paul Mitchell the School Costa Mesa and I had the opportunity to enter a contest with CAO Cosmetics to film a makeup tutorial using their amazing products!  I have always wanted to start filming tutorials, but was too scared to.  I have to say it was a ton harder than I imagined.  Props go out to all the YouTube gurus out there, because it is hard to talk the entire time!!!

The look that I chose to do was a modern twist on the always classy Pin-Up look.  My beautiful friend Mel was my model and my dear friend Ronnie filmed it for me.  I also had Kwinn pop in and gave moral support half way through it. 

The founder of CAO was a guest speaker at our school and I unfortunately was not able to meet him, but I am lucky enough to have their basic makeup kit!!! It is the perfect starter kit for anyone that wants to start doing makeup or wants for themselves.  My favorite part of the kit is the basic concealer pallet.  To the untrained eye it may appear that there are tons more colors than you would think about using, BUT I show you how to use all of them in my video!

Here are the links to the stuff I used:

Brushes: All of these can be found in the Basic Brush set

Brush 116

Brush 119

Brush 109

Brush 102

Brush 114

Brush 100

Face:

Concealer Palette

Powder Zero - Translucent Powder

Basic Foundation Palette

Cheek Color in American Beauty

Eyes:

Smokey Eyecolor Palette

Gel Liner in Black

Mascara

Eyelash Curler

Eyelashes

Lips:

Lip Pencil in Naked

Duo Cheek Lip Color in Rapture

I hope you enjoy the video! I can’t wait to make my next one!

Smile at someone today!!

Xoxo, Casie

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Shopping Finds!

I loooooove shopping, but the only bummer about shopping is you need money.  I didn’t end up buying these awesomely cute clothes, but at least I can enjoy them with my eyes J.  All goodies were found at http://www.express.com/

super cute, plain and simple

this could be both edgy and super clean cut.  tucked into a red pencil skirt this would be adorable

Super cute to wear with a white tank and black skinny jeans with a cool low slung belt

Mixmatched outfit of the day

Xoxo,

Cas 

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