The Need for Embrace Couture

Heyyyy everybody!

I just got back from taking my little sister out for her birthday. I actually took her to meet one of her favorite actors Nicholas Brendan from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We have been going to those types of conventions for awhile now and she always gets super excited when she sees him. Totally worth the long lines and crazy crowds. We are Buffy lovers so we do love conventions like this. We don't get into all the costumes and things like that but we do get all hyped up when we see our favorite stars. Today I actually did already meet most of the people there besides Julie Benz, so I got her picture and autograph today. :) It was more for my sister than myself anyway.

I'm not writing this though to just talk about my day to you guys,. Unfortunately, and I hate to word it this way, but the Buffy fans are some of the most "normal" I guess you could say. No way really dresses up and gets into costumes and paints heir whole body silver like some of the other fan genres do. I hate to use the word normal but I am just trying to make everyone understand my point. As I walked through the lines and I heard a lot of negative comments about some of the girls bodies that dressed in the costumes. For example, there was a girl dressed like Wonder Woman, I would never call her heavy or overweight but she wasn't super skinny either. Her costume looked somewhat small on her and someone made a comment about how she was bubbling over her costume. Well she overheard and to see her face drop broke my heart. Next time I saw her she was changed into normal clothes and just looking defeated. The look on her face just made me realize even more how important it is to spread the word of healthy body image. That girl took a huge risk today and got her feelings destroyed. And I regret not telling her to wear her costume proud and tell everyone else she didn't care what they thought. Girls shouldn't have to feel like they have to live up to a supermodel standard. And that is why I am working on this clothing line. Every time my sewing machine jams or my fingers get needle poked I can keep on going and hopefully eventually help girls have more inner peace with their body.

Wear your costumes proud ladies and EMBRACE YOUR BODY!!! <3

xoxo, Christine

I'm Blonde...Kinda

Gorgeous hair, funny face :)

Hey everybody!

About a month ago I did something I had never done before which was go blonde. Well, my hair got lightened two shades and I got blonde highlights. However, I wouldn't really classify myself as a full blonde because I still feel like I have a lot of brown hair underneath all the blonde. So I'm thinking I want to go blonder. I was originally going to go blonde for the summer then darker in the winter but I am starting to think in August I am going to even blonder! I just can't decide how much blonde my face can handle? What do you guys think, looking at the picture of me with my natural hair can my face go even blonder than I am now? Surprisingly, I don't have any pictures of my new-ish hair but in my recent videos I have my blonde hair so check them out to see the difference I have already! I'm thinking maybe Reese Witherspoon blonde or Kristin Bell blonde? I'm just not so sure. Or do I go Buffy Blonde? Have any of you guys ever gone from brunette to extreme blonde, which is what I think I really want?

My favorite picture of her!

Anyways, I wanted to talk about my YouTube channel for a second because I got a request from one of my subscribers asking me to do an Urban Decay makeup collection video. She went on to explain that I would just show all of my Urban Decay products instead of my whole collection, which would be better for me because I tend to be a mess. I don't think I have actually ever seen any videos like that but I think I am going to go ahead and do it sometime next week probably. It might be cool to see it broken down by brand. Especially if you're a vegan or you are strictly against testing on animals, which is something I always try to check my boxes for and am usually disappointed in a lot of good brands. So subscribe to my channel so you can find out when that gets uploaded and subscribe for lots of other cool stuff. I am slowly introducing my animals into videos when I'm at my mom's house.

Buffy Blonde! Lover her blonde!

Tattoo blog or video will be coming. Haven't decided on if I should just post pictures on here or if I should do a video of them either way I would go into why I chose each one and stuff like that. I am also designing one for my boyfriend so I can upload my drawing here once I perfect it. It is going to come out like a heaven/hell underwater scene for his back. I think it'll look really cool. I'm excited to be working on it but I tend to be a perfectionist so I erase alot.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post and I know I have extra pictures on this one but I wanted to show you the blondes I might go! Have a great day and don't forget to check out my channel!

xoxo, Christine

PS: My spell check says blonde is spelled "blond" but I am keeping blonde because I have seen it that way a lot and it looks better!