Wouldn't it be nice if you could customize your own piece of footwear? Add a little piece of suede here, maybe a little embellishment there, throw it on a flat or a boot and suddenly you can dub yourself a designer. Right?
milk & honey was created by two sisters, Llissa and Dorian Howard, who simply have a taste for good shoes and couldn't always find what they were looking for.
Upon my first attempt at creating my own shoe, I immediately found the exact bootie I had been searching for. A perfect dainty cut below the ankle. From there you can choose the type of material, embellishments, trim, platform or not and your desired heel size/height.
(I would show you my final product but I wouldn't want you to steal my brilliant idea, so here is my perfect bootie to say the least)The only complaint I have is that it's difficut to actually know what the real deal is going to look like once you get it. There is a final picture, but when I'm spending good money on my own piece of work, I want it to be exactly how I pictured it. However, you can request to have certain swatches sent your way so you can get a feel for what's going on your feet.
If you get the shoe and you don't like it, send it back and change it! The beauty of being your own designer.
On the upside, if you live in downtown LA, you can stop by there showroom and check out swatches. They also have a bigger selection!
(Check out their Q&A page for more answers.)
Even though the owner of Rescue Beauty Lounge, Ji Baek, absolutely hated my long nails (and was very direct in telling me every time she saw me!), I was a big fan of the salon and her nail lacquers. As I mentioned, I pretty much only went to her salon for my pedicures as they lasted for over a month! No chips, ever. The only reason I would need to get another pedicure was due to nail growth.
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I'm a sucker for blue polishes but this is definitely one of my favorites. Such a unique and beautiful color, with smooth application. A great polish by Essie - bravo!
Doesn't my pug make a good perfume model? So dramatic! 
Oh seals! I love it when things are sealed! It just feels fancier and old school. 
When you take off the encasement the box has a beautiful symbol on the top. There's also a watermark but I didn't take a photo of that. (In case you couldn't tell by now, I am a sucker for good packaging.)
Open it up and there's the tightly packaged perfume (seriously, it took me like 5 minutes to get that sucker out), and an enveloped leaflet describing the Byredo perfumes. I love how the envelope sticks out!
Now my pug is going to help me model the perfume again.
Bal D'Afrique is a perfume of bergamot, lemon neroli, African marigold, bucchu, violet, jasmin petals, and cyclamen. It's supposedly inspired by Paris in the late 20's and its infatuation with African culture, art, music and dance. I'm horrible at describing top notes and base notes so the best I can say is this smells interesting and pretty and great all at once. I'm not a big floral or heavy musky perfume person. I like light but interesting scents, green or earthy. If you are interested in Byredo perfumes I definitely recommend doing a spritz and walk test. This dried down beautifully on me and I loved it even more afterwards! I also really liked their Gypsy Water, but not as much as this one. And this perfume is pricey so I chose Bal D'Afrique. Couldn't be happier! Sniff, sniff, sniff!
I normally don't really like pastels but I've been loving Essie's pastels this year. They're like neon pastels, if that's even a thing. Much brighter and pigmented. None of that old school dusty pale pastel here! This almost pushes it into a little too much for work because it's so purple and bright, but I love it. This is a pastel I can get behind!
Dang my cuticles are still ragged. I have been neglecting my hands recently while I was on my mini polish break.
Seriously, this is the best lavender polish I've ever tried! Now the consistency is pretty watery and can be tricky to deal with sometimes. I had to redo two nails, but the others I was careful enough to do two thin layers to achieve opaqueness. This is with two layers, a base coat, and a top coat. 
She is a super licky pug. I don't like her licking my feet, but I prefer it to her licking my face. So I allow it. How perfect is it that I captured this moment right when her lil tongue is at its biggest?
So regal.
A few weeks ago I was craving my peanut butter/oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies and I had no butter. So lesson learned - next week I stocked up on butter for any future cravings. And tada, I was craving the cookies again the following weekend and I had all the ingredients! I ate like 6 of these straight out of the oven.
I could've gotten a better picture of the inside but after I took this I promptly started stuffing my face with cookies and so it's hard to take pictures with chocolate covered fingers.
I tried yet another pair of running shoes, Saucony's Mirage. 
Yes these are horrifically white but because the color isn't so cute I got them for suuuuuuper cheap. These are the lightest shoes I've ever tried. Light as a feather! Buuuut, these have horribly large, bulky tongues that slide and bunch up. By mid-run the tongues had slid completely to the side, bunched towards my toes and was pressing on that nerve that causes my right foot to go numb. So disappointed. If I could fix the tongue I'd be happy. This has to be the worst tongue I've ever had in a running shoe though. I'm pretty surprised at the poor construction for this shoe considering it's normal selling price. It almost felt a little cheap on my foot. Part of it is the light minimal material, but that tongue felt poorly built and sewed in. Ugh. So the search continues. Until then, I bought another pair of backup Brooks Green Silence. 
One windy spring day I saw a bunch of kites around the mall near Washington Monument. I saw the most awesome kite EVER. It's a giant kite shaped like a squid and as the wind moves the tentacles it looks like it's floating in the sea! I wish everyone could've seen this because it was super awesome party.
