It's okay to be different, I promise.

I had written up a really inspirational couple of paragraphs for this post, but I don't think I'm quite ready to share them with the world yet.

To summarize, it is absolutely 110% okay to be fucking different. 

So fucking do what you want and say what you think at all times. 

This song is really good. 

Holographic nails what's up!

I just did these tonight. :) I think I'm going to start posting all of my nails online instead of waiting til the end of the month and posting a cluster fuck of all of them!
If anyone wants any tips on how to get the looks I create, let me know!

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17 going on adulthood

"We used to say we won’t get olderIt’ll be alrightWe wait to change and then it’s over,But it’ll be alrightAll those years we used to knowAll those dreams won’t go"
"We’ve gotten strange we’ve gotten olderIt’ll be alrightI miss the days when we were soberBut it’ll be alrightAll those yearsWe used to knowAll those dreams won’t go"

This song is completely applicable to my life in every way, as a girlfriend, as a daughter, as a friend, as a student, as an acquaintance, as a human being. This song makes me very emotional.

I've spent a lot of my high school career, especially now, looking back on my past, on who I used to be. Looking at, and analyzing my baggage and my yesterdays as if it were all some negative weight that was holding me down; as if it had changed me into a different person today.

Sometimes, as a child, as a teen, as a young adult, as an adult and beyond, you have to look in the mirror and really face yourself. Take off your makeup, let your hair down, cry a little and look at yourself. Not your reflection, not who you want to see staring back at you, not who you hope to see staring back at you. The real you.

Thank yourself for getting you where you are standing right now.
Appreciate all of the hard work you have done day after day after day, and will continue to do, its there for a good reason.
Recognize that every single day you change, you grow, you learn, you test the waters, you fuck up, you fuck up again, you cry, you laugh, you scream in rage for no reason, you get wasted and swear off alcohol and then do it all over again the next night.
Realize that you will be forever changing, forever growing, forever learning, and love that about yourself. Don't let anyone ever tell you to change, tell you to be different, tell you to be someone that they used to know. You are you and you know what you're doing even when it feels like you don't.



On a side note, this song fucking rocks.

My Summer 2012 Nails

Hey guys, sorry this took so long! I'm sure there were more after these over the summer, I just happened to get carried away and didn't take pictures of them! If you have any questions about how i did any of these, let me know!

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You're my first love

Hey guys, adventure club just released a new jam. Literally JUST released it. It's really really good,


Enjoy ;)

Shut The Trapdoor

So, for all of you die-hard EDM fans (such as myself) here is a new fad in our magical world. This new trend belongs to the hip hop AND to the dubstep family, essentially it is dubstep for those who prefer, ahem, twerking.
Turn your speaks up and twerk your heart out.

This post holds a lot of photographs and summer memories. Read at your own risk.

Hey guys, miss me? ;) I wasn't expecting to completely ditch my blog and do things this summer, but I went got myself a life (along with a few new pairs of shoes). Who woulda thunk! Now that schools just around the corner, and i've got to start training myself to actually go to sleep at night, I figured I could probably manage my blog adequately. 

To your guys' delight, I will attempt to sum up my summer in as few photographs as possible (be prepared.) 

Hit play for the time of your life

Prom 2012, I will always remember trying to get kicked out for grinding.

 My amazing boyfriend took me to New York for my birthday, the next day we spent lazily on a beach only to drive home hours later, stopping at this amazing seafood restaurant.

 

On said beach (Long Beach, Long Island) I received a tan, that of which disappeared in a matter of days.

Camp Bisco XI. If you haven't been, go. If you go every year, keep going. This festival was one of the best experiences of my life. I recommend it to everyone, even those who don't like EDM or drugs. 

This was on site at Camp Bisco, a working ferris wheel that lit up along with the beats of all of your favorite EDM artists. ;) 

I could not have asked (BEGGED) two better people to join Aidan and I along with us.

Some random dude asked to take my photograph. So he took it and put it in a video online. Cant complain. 

One of the most magical places on Earth, Ardshona, an island owned by my boyfriends family (soon to be sold. :'( )

The cutest face on earth.

Shoal hopping, terrifying (for me) but amazing.

Getting to lay out topless on top of some dudes boat in the middle of lake Huron. Again, can't complain. My tan from this day also, disappeared in a matter of days.

I caught the biggest fish :) 

Finally, the last photograph i've taken this summer (I'm sure there will be plenty more). I made this myself. Started it in june, just finished it a week ago. 

If you've stayed with me this far, thanks. You don't win any prizes or anything.

Life is full of disappointments.

Stay tuned for a collection of all of the pretty nails I did for myself all summer! 

Love you guys<3 

Happy mommas day!

Hey guys! Happy mothers day to all you mothers, mothers of mothers, daughters of mothers who are mothers, and future mothers out there :)

Recently I have developed a strong addiction for a little website called pinterest. Heard of it? Its as addicting as everyone says it is. ANYWAYS. I was checking out the DIY boards the other day when a I stumbled across a "home made self tanner." I don't k ow about you guys, but that's right up my alley. For the longest time I begged my mother to let me get a tanning membership somewhere, but thank god I snapped out of it. Even though my family doesn't have cancer in it really anywhere, tanning beds are still scary things. Not only because they make people look way worse than their pale selves (take a walk through my Highschool hallway-you'll see it all) but because of the terrible terrible damage long term effects tanning beds can have on your skin. Thats plenty enough for me to disagree with them.


To make this home made self tanning lotion at home you need:
Cocoa powder
Vanilla, coconut, or unscented lotion
2 table spoons
A bowl

Put 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder in the bowl, then put 3 table spoons of said lotion in it too. You want one of those three scents otherwise it could come out smelling bad. Mix them together, add more lotion for a lighter tan, add more cocoa for a darker one.
VIOLA! That's all you need to do!

Try it!

Kiss My Lips

My lovely boyfriend stumbled across this gem, and I fell in love with it. Its a fucking awesome song with a fucking awesome beat. Dev is the man!


ALSO!
I am starting my college portfolio/WISE project early. (For those of you who don't know what wise is, basically it's a whole class of independent study) I am going to be making a huge photo book of all different types of people, fat, skinny, short, tall, black, white, and everything in between, dressed in outfits I have styled and put together at all sorts of stores, accessories and all. I am looking for said people to volunteer to be in my photo book. Your name, and what you are wearing will be on your photograph's.

Only having just recently discovered that I want to go to college for this, fashion, and making a statement has always played a major major part in my life, and I am positive this is the right career path for me.

Seriously guys, let me know if you want to help me out, it would mean the WORLD to me. I don't care who you are, how much you weigh, or how "attractive" you are. I need a very diverse selection of body types/ages. It's definitely a cool opportunity. :)

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I don't know if I should kill myself or whaaaaa

I am currently attempting to stifle back tears. As you all should know by now, Skrillex is pretty much my favorite mammal on this planet besides my cat. His most recently released song "Make it Bun Dem" With Damian Marley is....dare I say it.....bad. Not only does he basically steal his beats from his own previous track, which is actually my favorite song produced by him, (see "Equinox" below) he doesn't even stick to the true reason he made it into the beautiful, sparkly, drug ridden world of EDM: HIS DUBSTEP. It's like after he won his awards (which he deserved one hundred and ten percent, might I add) he felt he could sit back, or in other words "sellout" and create boring shit like the person who signed him, ahem, deadmau5. Hey hey, I'm not saying deadmau5 is bad, but I'm also not saying I own many of his songs, let alone listen to the ones that I do...shit puts me right to sleep. It makes me so damn upset to go from listening to bangarang (which is NOT a very good dub track of his to begin with) on the radio, to this crapola.






ON ANOTHER NOTE::::;;;::;::::
Get your asses out to the Y in Ithaca April 21st-this saturday and dance your asses off, hosted by myself, and my amazing boyfriend Aidan Ames. What if you're going to prom you ask? Prom ends at 10, we go til 12, come dance for two more hours, you know you have it in you ;) And get this- we're trying something new, if you bring a flier to the door, you get 2 bucks off entry, therefore you will only be paying 8!
See all you maniacs there ;)

E.T. Feels Starry Eyed

This song came on shuffle the other day while I was driving, and I thought I'd share it with the world. Its a mashup/ remix by two of my faves: Kap Slap, remixed by 3LAU. Check this shit out.




Sofa king gewd. On another note, wish me luck this weekend guys! I've got a dance competition in Buffalo. :)

JOE BATTAGLIA, THIS IS FOR YOU

He scolded me for not blogging in forever. So. Hi guys. I'm a busy busy bee. As most of you dancers may know, it's competition season. That means Dance> life.
Not to mention i've been doing a lot of laying outside in the sun, as well as hosting dances through a little group called Legend Events, heard of em? ;) They put together sick ass dances with sick ass DJ's around the area. It's a good fuckin time.

CHECK THEM OUT/GET INVOLVED: Facebook, @LEGENDEVENTSINC

 Anywho, this morning, as I was putting in a pair of earrings, I noticed that they were too heavy for my bottom holes and they weighed my ears down and made the hole look stretched. SO, that sucks, and I realized, why don't I just put them in my second holes? I did it, and it covered my bottom piercings right up. For those of you who only have one piercing in your ears, bend them and then put them in. They'll stay up right!

On another note, this is the time of year-maybe a little early, but still seasonally the time of year where bitches be tryin to get their tan on. Being a pasty ghost like I am, laying out in the sun for a week will not give me a tan. Jergens Express tan lotion: my gift from god. So long as you cover yourself FROM HEAD TO TOE (DO NOT MISS A SPOT) it looks amazing. I am very satisfied with this product.

last but not least, I haven't even had the time to download music in forever, but this song came on shuffle today, it's a fuckin jam:

New skrillex, what what?

There's one thing that i've been meanin' to say, if you love something you've got to learn how to give it away.
This song makes me sad.

This is for everyone

Tonight might have been one of the hardest nights I've ever had to live through.

It's one thing if you are sitting with your bestfriend consoling them after having broken up with their boyfriend or girlfriend, but it's a whole other thing when someone very dear to all of the people you love (including yourself) is gone forever. Seeing all of my loved ones tonight, a whole entire community, many communities-crying, mourning the loss of someone so special. It's soul shattering, mind numbing, heart breaking.

It took me until this awful, terrible event, to realize how many people I love in my life, and how many people love me. I thought for the longest time I had no one. I honestly thought no one wanted me. This is really hard to admit publicly, but it's definitely time. Through this horrid situation, it brought me to all the people who truly matter in my life, and taught me to make amends with people who haven't mattered so much as of lately. This is a terrible situation, but our community learned something beautiful from it. To come together and be there for one another. I got hugs tonight from people I hardly know.

I'm writing this post to share how absolutely important every person I know, is to me. You have all touched my heart in some way or another and brought me to where I am today, as a 16 year old girl. I love you all.

RestInPeace

Holding someone, saying "hi" to them in the hallway, letting them copy your math homework before class. We take these things for granted. Someone very special in our community left us yesterday, and I can safely, unfortunately, say that I hadn't gotten the chance to speak with him for quite a long time. This goes to show how for granted everyone takes one another. I will be the first to admit it. Situations like this make me question, is thriving for everyone's attention, for everyone's love a good thing? Should we have so many friends in our life if we can't even keep track of them? I am crying while I write this. This boy was sweet, caring, talented, and above all, inspiring...and I never got the chance to share that with him. He was too young to leave this earth so soon, especially when he had so much going for him. Ive found myself feeling guilty all day. Guilty for smiling, guilty for laughing, guilty for watching my favorite tv shows, but that's not what he would want. He was always smiling and laughing and making jokes of everything, he would want us to be happy. So today, I challenge all of you, send a quick text, an email, write a letter or make a phone call to all of those you care about and just remind them that you love them. That might be the only thing they need to hear.

Jack has touched so many hearts in our whole community. Especially the little town of Dryden.

May you rest in peace Jack Gallagher, and wherever you are, keep doing what you do best.

Fix Your Cracked Lips!

Your lips can get dry, flaky, cracked, etc. during this time of year, being so close to valentines day, thats a major no no, especially when there is such an easy solution to it all that I bet you never considered. (please excuse my run on sentence, I'm in a pinch for time.) After reading my post before, you should all know I SWEAR by exfoliation. So, with that, I'm going to teach you how to exfoliate your lips. This removes all the gross dead extra skin from them, and leaves them luscious and kissable :)

First off, obtain some Vaseline (petroleum jelly)
Second, obtain some sugar. Any kind will do.
Third, mix them together. Just a little bit of Vaseline will do! A little goes a long way. And add a lot of sugar.
Fourth, rub it all over your lips for a little while.
Fifth, either let it sit and let the Vaseline seep into your lips, or rub it all off.
VIOLA, you have beautiful, soft, kissable lips. Just in time for valentines day :)

How to guide on lacing/netting your nails

Hey guys, so in my previous post I showed a picture of my nails with netting on some of them. Luckily, its super easy, and its super cute. So here goes:

1. Paint on your base coat (I used Sally Hansen's Miracle Growth)
2. Paint on your chosen color, if you chose to use any at all. 
3. Apply a top coat (I use Seche Vite, and I swear by it might I add) and immediately lay down cut pieces of lace or netting. (They don't need to be trimmed exactly to fit your nails yet!) 
4. Wait a minute or two, just so the top coat gets tacky and add another top coat over the lace or netting.
5. Now, there are several different ways you can go about removing the excess netting/lace. I usually take a pair of nail clippers and trim it all. I apply another top coat to smooth down the edges that are still poking out after being cut. 
6. There you have it, chic, affordable, designer nails in your own home :) 

This method can be used with paper, tissue paper, ribbon, really anything that can soak up the top coat. I've done it before with tissue paper, and I loved the results. 

Enjoy your nails, beauties. Party on! 

Get Clear, Radiating Skin :)

What I'm blogging about today is skin. I guess its tonight. So..what I am blogging about tonight is skin. Every sunday I follow a hair/skin routine I made for myself.
Just as a warning, you really should only do these sorts of things for your skin and hair once a week, if not once every other week. This is because it could really dry out your skin, and your hair just doesn't need treatments frequently.

To care for your skin:

• Say it with me: Ex-fol-i-ate. Exfoliating is KEY to keeping your skin clean and acne free. When you exfoliate, you are ridding your skin of dead cells and other grimy dirty things that clog up your pores and cause pimples. Be greedy, use an exfoliating sponge EVERYWHERE.
• Use your choice of acne wash. I use ProActiv everyday and it works wonders. For those of you with sensitive skin, use your face wash every other day.
• If you are plagued with a pimple, dab some Neosporin on it (or them) every night before you go to sleep. Mine usually clear up in three days using this method.

I highly suggest these products:

•  Queen Helene's Mint Julep Masque. This is literally my life in a bottle. I use it every week-It's designed to help clear up black heads and shrink pores
• Did you know that at age 16, your skin starts losing collagen (the material that keeps your skins elasticity)? I use Queen Helene's Mud Pack Masque. This product instantly tightens up your skin. 
• Also, to help out with the loss of collagen, I use St. Ive's Renewing Collagen Elastin Lotion all over my body. This is another must have product I own and can not live without. Use it everyday and you really will see results. 
• Last but not least, Queen Helene's Grape Seed Peel Off Masque is magnificent. It pulls off all the dead skin cells from your face. Not to mention it feels really really cool!

What have we learned? 

EXFOLIATE

QUEEN HELENE

COLLAGEN 

look beautiful ;) 

I kid you not guys, I utilize every technique and product in this whole blog, and I RARELY have to complain about acne or dry patches. Stay tuned for my how-to on having shiny, healthy radiating hair. :)  

I love you guys<3 thanks for reading!

Dancing fingers ;)

Hahaha, I found this while milling around on tumblr. So funny.

New Adventure Club

I can't get enough of these guys, their remixes are killer.

For those of you in the ithaca/cortland/syracuse area, they are playing at the Westcott Theater in Syracuse February 14th (valentines day)

I'm so excited to see them

W.E.E.D

So i've recently discovered my new found love of music. W.E.E.D (We Evolve Every Day)

Kick your feet up from studying for a minute and relax. W.E.E.D. Feat. Shwayze - Summertime by beats n' rhymes

This is a Pretty Lengthy Post

Hey guys, i'm so sorry I've been such a bad blogger. I've moved, had mono, and been to a million doctors while trying to catch up on a months worth of missed school while trying to make a mom and a boyfriend happy.

This also doesn't mean there hasn't been a million things that I've wanted to blog about since then.

Sewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I will address them all in this blog that way we are caught up ;)

First of all, Bangarang, skrillex's new album, FAAAAABULOUS. There is only one or two songs I am not a fan of on account of them being house/trance and not the filthy dubstep we have all grown to love so fucking much.

Second, my wonderful boyfriend bought the both of us tickets to see our favorite band- Adventure Club, on VALENTINES DAY.  I'm really really excited about that, and if you are a fucking loser and don't know who they are:

  Sunlight (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix) by Jseal

Knock yourselves out.

Third, have you ever watched Vampire Diaries? Literally the mere threads of my existence. The greatest show I have ever indulged myself in, and I fucking hate TV.  

Fourth, I've recently tried out two new hair techniques. First off being "Hair Chalking" 

Looks like dis:

After chalking your hair it stays in for about 2-3 days. I had bleached hair so for some reason it washed out the next day. 

Fifth, The next hair style I tried (and am currently sporting) is a technique called "ombre." This is where your hair is dyed dark on top and gradually gets lighter towards the ends. (NO IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE  MY ROOTS GREW OUT.) I am also currently sporting the timeless "middle part." I really got sick of fucking flipping my bangs out of the way like J beebs every two seconds. 

Looks like dis: 

You can't really see the ombre affect entirely, but it is there. Just subtle. I should be getting it a little bit

darker in a month or two. 

Last but not least, six, FUCK SOPA/PIPA. Disgusts me that our government and society thinks resorting to these kind of methods is okay, let alone humane. But I guess the Declaration never said our leading officials needed to be morally correct. Just so long as they're born in the US. If you are unaware of what SOPA and PIPA are. SOPA=Stop Online Piracy Act. PIPA=Protect IP Act.


In a nutshell....
If SOPA is passed, you will not have access to sites like Youtube, Wikipedia, Blogger, maybe even Twitter without having to pay for them!
If PIPA is passed, companies and corporations owning huge websites could be sued, or shut down if they are not doing a good enough job of keeping infringement and "stealing" from their page.

Basically they are putting our safety, and our information availability at risk just so we fucking buy our movies instead of pirate them.

To conclude this post, please guys, please, sign these petitions. Do it for yourself if for no one else.
http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sopa_testimony/?akid=1018.606560.JTkqV4&rd=1&t=2

I love you all, I hope everyone is doing well in this crazy bipolar snow/sun/rain weather.




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new year new me

LOL jk.

I'm going to be the same me I decided I was about 5 years ago. (Maybe with a little more drugs and a little more alcohol.) So is everyone else so don't believe when they say they're going to change because they are not. ANYWHO, how was everyones new years and christmas and break all together? I've gotta say mine was the best I've had yet. It's the best feeling in the world when you have someone to curl up in bed with every night and watch chick flicks til the sun comes up. (or play skyrim...same dif.)

I'm not sure if you guys saw the video I posted about the cool magnetic nail polish on my facebook the other day, but I went right out and bought some and it actually works perfectly! I'll post pictures of it eventually...or maybe not. Depends on how I feel I guess. I also just ordered my sixty four GB iPhone 4S considering my old iPhone was cracked an there wasn't enough space to hold all of my music on it. (Shout out to Aidan Quest for desperately trying to fix it all break...<3 you) SO STOKED.

I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable winterbreak.
Let's all make 2012 the best year yet!
Love you all, Rachel :)


PS, I've almost hit my 4,000 mark. Love you all even more for that.