Neo Nomadic Dreams
& Caffeine-Induced Reality

Sleeping Like A Baby

Here’s what lack of air conditioning does to me – night time showers become a must.

I enjoy showers a lot simply because it’s the only time I could actually focus on myself without having to overthink things. Bath time routine has been so ingrained in me that I go on autopilot once I step into the showers.  That’s twenty minutes of ‘me’ time.

Since I’ll be doing a lot of nightly showers from now on, I’ve decided to make it rewarding and more enjoyable by changing my body wash to something more apt.  Everyone, meet Johnson’s Baby Bedtime Bath.

It wasn’t hard choosing which brand to get as I had probably already made up my mind even before I realized I wanted a night time body wash.  I’ve been using Johnson’s products ever since I could remember (who could forget their No More Tears campaign) and I’ve also been a big fan of Aveeno, which is by Johnson’s too.  For more than a year now, I’ve been enjoying the Johnson’s 24 Hour Moisture Body Wash.

Anyway, I should be getting ready for bed. Off to the showers I go!

Birthday Cut

I’ve finally had a chance to give my tresses some love. I know I haven’t been combing them for ages but my addiction for hair products – to tame the frizz, to moisturize, to add bounce, et cetera – has been a sign that I was bound to pay attention to my ‘crowning glory’ more than I care to admit.

Well, the result of my well-deserved haircut isn’t as shocking as most people would have done it.  I sported a bob since I was young and only had a chance to grow them out about three times in my lifetime: when I was 9, 16, and 21. So you can say that I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to my long, almost mermaid-like hair yet.

For this momentous event, I enlisted the help of the people at Toni & Guy and wasn’t disappointed.  I definitely enjoyed the attention to my head shape, hair texture, and facial features, to come up with a style that would suit and flatter me.  The entire process took two hours but I definitely enjoyed every single bit of it, especially the little techniques and hairstylist jargon I picked up along the way.

Basically my hair’s been bombarded with layers to remove the flatness and heavy feeling.  The back-top part of my head’s a bit flat too so they had to shape it to make it more round and such.  The fringe was made to draw the attention to my ‘expressive eyes’ (their words, not mine) so they cut it just below my cheek bones.  They didn’t really want to give me bangs because those would only cover my face, which is a good call since I didn’t really want them short.

Anyway, here’s my new ‘do.  What do you think?

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Oh, and it isn’t my birthday yet. I just wanted to get a haircut now so my new hair would have enough time to settle when I turn a year older.  Heh.

Question Mark

I was chatting with my mom the other day and she told me that she’s going to have her facial mole removed. If there is anything that links me to her it’s probably our mole.  She has the huge pea-like one so she’s having it sliced off and asking the doctor to leave a small flat mark instead. Mine’s definitely smaller than hers and not as protruding but – I don’t know – I have been thinking of having mine removed as well. Sometimes I’d delete it in Photoshop just to see what I’d look like without it. Others have commented that they like my so-called beauty mark but then it’s not as monumental as Marilyn Monroe’s.  Will I look like a plain jane without it or do I already look like a plain jane so it doesn’t really matter?  Discuss.