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October 26, 2008

Welcome on HauteKeikk.com!

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More than just sweet talk, with a playboy mouth full of opinions and ideas to share, of a life full of things to smile for and strive for. Hotter than the Hautest Couture, Sweeter than the icing off of a Cupcake. It’s your big sis blogging on the [ONEE] side of Life x Style hoping to share a smile or two on this site. With a passion for all things pretty, serving bits and pieces of the life of a 21-year-old lady’s daily doings with a concentration on the style related things in fashion, home & living. In search for perfection, knowledge and understanding, iced with ambition and dreams of Gucci’s and groom-to-be’s. Follow me as I continue on my quest of discovering how beautiful life can be. Thank you for dropping by on HauteKeikk.com.

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February 6, 2010

Friday With ★ egg ★ 3/2010

Filed under: (1) NOTEBOOK, (2) CLOSET — by keikk @ 4:12 PM
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OH YES. It’s time to reveal the cover of the newest issue of GAL mag ★ egg ★ that had found it’s way through my apartment door and onto it’s front hall while I’d been away for school; featuring Romihi!

And oh, did I mention I’d gone to school in “ugly, dirty white ugg replicas and with my hair pulled back on a boring ponytail” as was pointed out in a comment on that previous post. *Siiighhh* I thought I’d been trying to make a point in my late posts pointing out that I def do not walk around in full GAL gear every day and don’t feel the need to do so on such days that I just need to get to school on time, for example. And I’d also thought that most people would be creative enough to see that any person hardly looks exactly like in his/her promo pictures, if you could call them that, 24/7 or in ‘real life’. But yeah, in other words some readers had “spotted” me somewhere in ugly-ass wear and looking unrepresentative (or, let’s say some visitors had since as far as I understood from the informative comment that I got, the commenter(s) hadn’t read much of what I’d been trying to say I think). Anyway they were kind enough to let me know about the fact that I didn’t look so good at all and that they’d been disappointed by what they’d seen.

And man was I surprised – and touched to some extent – by the comment!

Nope, not by that somebody was suggesting I wasn’t good-looking (I mean aren’t I the one looking at myself in the mirror every day?) BUT. By the fact that it seemed as if I had managed to build up an image of this ‘keikk’ girl and make some hopeful young people think that I was actually good-looking and that I walked around looking like THIS 24/7. And to my own and those viewers’ disappointment I hadn’t lived up to that impression – as I had made the mistake of going to school no-make and in dirty uggies and a crappy old winter coat. *Siiiiiighhh* That comment left me wondering- were you trying to embarass me or yourself with it? If you want my honest and not-so politically correct opinion.

It’s such a shame though isn’t it? After all; I keep this blog up out of the joy and passion for style related things (and I’m not kidding with this) and such and am hoping to share that hobby of mine with you guys via this web site.

And well. I know there are girls that would keep up a blog just to prove themselves and the world around them that they just might manage to look good too every once in a while and to get praised for that. And I know that the same girls would probably get up early every frikkin morning just to put on fake lashes and curl their blonde extensions just so that they could live up to that internet image they’d managed to create. And to make sure that when they’d look in the mirror they wouldn’t have to see their real face but rather that dolled-up plastic face. So that they wouldn’t have to think of themselves secondary to Kanako, Romihi & co or those around them (with better genes but less make-up). You guys get my drift? I just don’t see that as big enough a reason to waste so many hours on doing a web site or on writing a blog!

And well, I guess I had still forgotten that when you write a blog and manage to catch some readers with it you will eventually have those interested in the same things following what you do, at least to some extent. And I feel like I’d underestimated that (since I’m no Britney Spears after all, poor girl gets followed everywhere she goes and all that you know) so I guess I forgot that to be a trustworthy blogger I would also have to try to maintain that ‘image’ that I’d created with the blog, be it created intentionally or unintentionally. Hmm. It’s kind of silly isn’t it? That you should feel obligated to ‘look good’ because of the expectations that some people have for you. But then again… where goes the line between feeling like you’re obligated to do something, and feeling like you want to do something because of something that you try to do well? Like, being a good style/lifestyle blog owner. Don’t know, man!

But before I get carried away by that any more – and since my message probably didn’t reach most of you or interest most of you guys (sorry about that, I’m always like this when I start thinking about something and try to put it into words…) let’s move back to topics more interesting to most of us!

Here’s a little something from Yesterday ft. key items EdHardy cap & Guess vest;
oh, please excuse me for my facial expression hohoho ( >     A    < ;)

To be honest I was a little bit *cough cough* inspired by this one outfit from the newest issue of egg magazine, worn by Romihi. She’s sporting a cap that I’ll just have to get, no doubt about that. I took such a liking to that outfit that I started sketching another header image for this site out of those pics the other night, yeah I should have been working on some school report again but I was taking a little break from it and came up with this one (how do you like it?! remember that this one’s just a raw version!);

Don’t know if I’d mentioned this before but I don’t have any lectures on Fridays in my current Uni schedual soooo Fridays are for running on errands so to say and for bumping into people after first finishing up homeworks, reports, Student exchange applications and so on. Yesterday was a weird Friday since I’m not used to these ‘free’ but super busy Fridays yet but it was cool~ But mostly I spend my so-called off time (in other words time that I should be spending on doing school stuff and reviewing for school things) at home right here by my living room table:

… so this is where I set up my computer, an extra heater and all that good stuff as seen in the picture above. This one doesn’t yet have all of these school binders, books and notes that are momentarily scattered all over the place though! But you can see all the essential things, right – I mean Coke Zero, coffee in a Starbucks cup and so on (  >    w     ~  )/

But yes I really really need to turn in that math thingie now so I’ll get baclk to work with that, or get started with it for real to be exact haha~ So you guys have a good weekend, I’m taking this one off for school stuff and for trying to relax a bit so we’ll see how that goes! I’ll be back asap and I’ll let you know when those egg scans are uploadable ok? Cheers♥

February 2, 2010

Uni Life ft. Tracksuits & Sports Wear

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During the Holidays I pretty much made up my mind on that I would go most of the new semester’s study hours in tracksuits, a habit that I’ve grown to have because of the tendency of being late for school when having to get up early. I mean I STILL don’t walk around in full GYARU gear every day! It’s not as if I bothered getting up light years earlier just to curl my hair or something, I mean for school? Ah, you crack me up! Noooot my piece of cake ( @    3    @ ;) Getting up in itself is hard enough without the dolling-up part. Early wake-up calls have been my worst enemy lately anyway, so for that I’ve been trying to come up with fast but alright looking and comfy outfit ideas. Like now – I’m sitting in a computer lab at my Uni with this project group of ours wearing black sweats, top, that gold detailed black knit, Puma sneaks and my hair pulled back on what looks like a super tight greasy ponytail. Nice.

Let’s see; here’s my current fav. sports wear outfit for school days:

 

 Tracksuit jacket Onitsuka Tiger, Pants CatManDoo, Tank Zara, Sneaks RocaWear, Fur purse Zara, Headband Gina.

So yes, to make school hours and making it to school in the 1st place a little easier I often go in sweat pants and sneaks. I don’t like jeans if I’m not feeling like I’m in great physical shape you see.  Oh, and, wearing sweats & sneaks is not as common here in Helsinki as what it is in the States or in the hill billy towns of Missouri at least (= where I went to school in the USA hehe) so that’s why it’s such a ‘biggie’ for me pulling the college gear sweat pants & hoodie -look here in FIN (  >    ω    <  ) But I learnt to like going to school in sports stuff during my high school days in the States alothough before that I would prolly have been like “sports stuff for somewhere else than skating opractice? OH NOES!!” as most of us Helsinki residents I think. And, another reason for why I like sports wear on lazy days is that with other kinds of clothes I always feel the urge to do my make-up and hair properly too and that’s something that like said before I just don’t have the time for always. Or the energy hehe. Because when pulling asomething, say, GAL style-ish, I feel like the outfit isn’t quite complete without the proper accessories, hair & make etc. But with sports wear it’s more like it’s better to go in less make-up and with a *bad hair day* don’t you think?!

Anyway I’m thinking it has to be possible turning sports gear stylish and I’m determined on fixing my spring closet so that when I get up in the morning round 6AM – unless I manage to sleep in like I often do, too often that is - I can just get up, pull my hair back on a bun and throw on some sports wear or a nice tracksuit still looking well put together. I mean wouldn’t that be nifty especially once it starts getting warmer and a tracksuit will be warm enough just like that or with a short bomber jacket? If you get my drift~

Oh, so let me present to you some of my shopping wish list (larger HERE):

 

And plus, I think I need to get velour suits (oh so 2000’s hehe) in aaaalll different bright colors! Cheers~

Pictures from: Ed Hardy Shop, DefShop, Christian Audigier Shop

January 31, 2010

SALE Finds – In the Harem Now

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Oh, the sweet little joys in life! Ah, not talking about the Excelling your way through Sunday morning working on math assignments… But more like, say, a cup of Japan flavoured Green tea and a glass of Pepsi Max. Or, those huuuuuuuuge piles of super white snow outside after the nights’ snow storm. Everyone else seems to be getting tired of this winters’ endless snow and I guess to some extent I could be too. After all with snow there’s much less room for variety when it comes to clothing. But then again I’ve learnt that in the span of my tiny 21-year-long life I’ve just come to love the snow too much to even for one day truly wish for it to be gone. At least not for as long as it’s as ultra beautiful & bright and looking as if we had 1m of snow on the ground! Besides, this just might be the first and last long, cold and snowy = REAL winter in the next, uh, lifetime.

So, the Spring semester’s only just started but I hope you guys as well are determinedly marching towards longer days and sunnier mornings♥ I think that things always start looking brighter after new years’. It’s so much easier to dig up the optimist in you when you know that the worst darkness and imaginary or real fall depression is behind. In other words things could only get better, right?!

Oh and, let’s not forget about the crazy butt SALEs of January that make great shopping finds with less money possible. And oh, now that the future’s looking “so freakishly bright and promising” hohoho~ It’s almost too easy to forget about the fact that really, the last thing you should be spending on are closet buys. ( ≥       ε      ≤ )/

Oh, well, too late nuh-oooow. Rent may wait. Just kidding. *cough*. So to the left is Thursday’s find;
← what we here call the harem pants!

Perfectly oh-so-last-season and therefore only 16€s! So, what’s a lady supposed to do I mean you don’t have to be Einstein to know that the only smart move was to get the pants. I’d just stepped out the Mötivi shop and as I passed the store window I saw a “16,90€” sign from the corner of my eye; turned my head and spotted a pair of black loose pants on the mannequin – made a quick U-turn and went back in. It’s a good thing nobody’d been walking behind me because I’d have walked right into that someone. But yeah! I mean 70% off, even a first grader can tell that’s a bargain. Wait. Who am I trying to convince here again?
( >    w     ~ )

But yes, I got myself a pair and snapped a picture or two of me with the pants on for the blog because when not worn by someone, these babies don’t look much different from a black hole. Or something. I wish I had gotten pants like this earlier because these pants are a master at camoflauging your butt. And since mine ar sort of like plaid in the front and out of that black suit type of material, they remind me of business gear and can be dressed up to a pretty sophisticated look if you could say so. I think! But there’s a pretty big chance of these pants looking like pyjamas, too. Here’s one:

But I know that if I were to ask the guys around what they thought of such pyjama pants looking rags on a woman, I’m pretty sure it would be like one out of a 100 that would know well enough to appreciate a piece of clothing like this. Maybe it’s not until you yourself wear pants like this that you realize how pure genious they are! But luckily as we all know, a girl doesn’t dress for the guy. Or, well, I hardly ever do at least. I mean how boring would that be? ( Φ     Δ     Φ )


And then just one last picture, a close-up of the shoes I’m wearing in these pictures, from VentiAnni Japan. In fact I wore these pants on Saturday night but I rolled them up to below the knees and wore pumps = those high heeled blue sequin ones instead of these shoes. I thought the pants looked better that way but these would be better for in the day I think, hm?

But yes I’m sure that’s enough on the subject poofy pants! I’m off now, else I will never finish these school assignments. Plus I was supposed to do things today still (nerding on the computer doesn’t count) and even go to gym so I need to hurry up now! See you guys later, cheers for now~

January 30, 2010

Outfit ft. Shibuya buys & Make-Up

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Good day, my friends, from the storage / brake room of my 1st job; I’m on lunch brake now and this is basically the best time I’ve had this week for posting on here! I blame my absence and the lack of posts for school, since I’ve been trying to avoid the computer hoping that that might help me to get school stuff in order first. You know, with the new semester having started there’s been, well how should I put it, more urgent things to do than posting on here. Which sucks because lately I’ve been getting so many visions of what I wanted to be doing with this site and what I should be posting on here!

In addition to new ideas for posts etc I’ve been trying to take plenty of pictures of my daily outfits to show you guys, and thought I’d post a few on here right now for the sake of an awesome weekend! Or, well, it will be awesome once I’m done with this saturday shift (…which is in 3 hours almost! Oh yes~).

Featuring the ‘front hall’ of my little apartment, taken on thursday evening;
Felt so old school me because of the cap & the hair (  *    . 3.    *  ) Like I was 19 again or noooot~

[ The weather was horrible so I dug out this torn old knit cap which I would wear a lotttt back in the day like 2 years ago, its by FUGA, a men's Shibuya brand. I was wearing two pairs of tights and over knee socks to go with them and then over knee boots on top of that to keep myself from freezing ( >   A   < )/ For the top I pulled on this gray school uniform:ish knit bought from some random store from the Shibuya109, underneath I was wearing a long white collared shirt from a satin type material. It's too bad you can't properly see the jewelery or anything on here, but oh well! I chose to wear a trench coat over that black one hanging there next to me, but that wasn't such a smart move because, well, trench coats don't work so well in snow storms! ]

Oh but then I’ll post one more picture on here! I feel like I sometimes have a lot of people questionning if I wear contacts (colored circle lenses) and I always reply with a yes I do a lot of times. But a lot of times I don’t, and I thought I ought to make that clear and prove you guys that I do have irises of my own, too hohoho~ I mean I rarely go to school for example wearing contacts. To show you guys a hint of what I really might look like;

Here’s another one from Thursday; ft. the day’s make-up = blue liquil eye liner.
And with no contact lenses whatsoever on, ie. my natural eye color (looks a bit less yellow in the center irl)
For a larger version of the close-up click HERE.

Don’t you just love eyeliner or colored eye liners at least? Well if it’s not obvious from the picture above, I do at least hehe. But yeah, your fellow little ugly duckling keikk is out now – I’m afraid my fellow GameStop worker is staring to get bored of having to doodle around alone there on the other side of that back room door. Means, my brake’s done with so I should get back to work~ I’ll see you guys around, there pics were just something little & there’s mor eyet to come! Hope to get to posting again tomorrow.

Everyone enjoy the weekend! Cheers ♥

January 22, 2010

SALE Finds ft. Spring Dreams

Filed under: (2) CLOSET — by keikk @ 7:04 PM
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YESSS! I made it! I was sure I wouldn’t have time to edit these pics & post like I’d  said I would, but here I am, ready to show you guys what little style buys I’ve made in the past few weeks taking advantage of the winter sales. Most of my money’s gone out to food/groceries etc & stuff for the home that I’ve bought but… I guess I had to join in on the style shopping fun too since all of my favorite stores, such as Zara, had the sales up and going.

Here’s what I got on my latest haul:

Let’s see. That bleached ‘biker’ jacket from Zara was something I’d been dreaming of for a while, basically since spring 2009. And you can only imagine how thrilled I was to find one on the sale racks of Zara, one size S left so naturally, it was destined and I just had to get the jacket. Hohoho~ That matching t-shirt was something I just grabbed along from Zara since it was just 8€’s and one can never have too many once piece length, size L boyfriend shirts, right? Love those with jeans on lazy days.

And then there’s the fur purse that I bought on new year’s eve, actually, which I totally love now and use as a school bag too. It’s basically the size of a large make-up bag, not bigger, but oh well hehe. I’ve even named it ‘MUSTI’ (see that’s what we call dogs here in Finland, you know like a black dog’s a ‘Musti’ just like a poodle’s always a Fifi, you know?). I was tired of that torn up Friis&Co. book bag and decided to get this one because, well. How could I have resisted my little Musti, waiting on the sale table of Zara all alone and abandoned and 50% off? Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking.

And then rest of the accessories featured; I got that thick stud bracelet from H&M for 1€! And I’ve been making great jewellery finds from JC Jeans & Co., this cross & chains necklace being my #1 favorite necklace of the moment. Oh yes and then there’s the heels. Blue. Sequin. Platform. Heels. I mean what could possibly be cooler?! Hohoho. I bought myself a pair in black sometime before the holidays and have loved the platform model and since they still had so many blue ones left now they had put them on sale. So I got mine with 20€’s and thought, well, I’ve got a pair of these in black but I’m sure they’d love to be accompanied by a blue pair while they’re waiting to worn in the closet. Quite the logic, huh? I’m sure y’alls would have done just the same ( ^   w   ^ )y

And today since I had the day off like I said, as I was arraning things at my place and putting clothes in the closet I tried to think of what kind of outfits I could put together with these style buys and then decided to challenge myself to come up with an outfit that used all of those above. Also just so I could kind of ‘test’ if the style buys I’d just made would come of use or if they’d be the type to just lay there on the bottom of my closet with no purpose at all…

And here’s the simple outfit I quickly put together;
See larger version of picture HERE.

Using black tights pants again (woulda preffered white & black tye dye ones!) + had all the rest of those pieces on (t-shirt, jacket, bag, heels) and I also picked a matching coffee tumbler, gloves & the newest mag I’d just bought to go with it.

Once I’d put the heels on and walked around the apartment for like 2 minutes I went all ‘AAAWWW MAAAANNN I wish it was SPRING already so I could go out in just these!!’ ( ;_______; ) and just started to wish for spring to be here really bad! Since you know, it was -17C outside and I had to switch to winter boots and wear some annoyingly boring winter jacket over all of that. And layer one more jersey under that new biker denim jacket. Blahhh. I guess I shouldn’t have thought of such an outfit it just made me miss the warmer season hehee~

But hey, we’re already over half way through January so Spring can’t be that far away anymore… right?♥ You guys enjoy the upcoming weekend, Cheers!

New Semester & Header Sketches

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You know, my neighbor’s internet is being such a slow & tricky little buttface right now that instead of publishing that loooong post I was about to post I’ll save myself from the mind bursting frustration that I connect to slow computers / internet. Aaaaand will just post a little update from this week and ask you alls for some help with the new look for this site!

But yes! As you guys may have noticed – I’ve been what seems like busy in the past few days so I haven’t gotten the chance to post on here much. Or well, busy compared to during the Holidays when I had nothing I ‘had’ to do and wasted days eating chocolate and nolifing as we all did of course. Right?! ( >   A    < )/ And that is because the spring semester at my Uni just started on Monday. And there I was at school 8AM on Monday morning (I think… unless that was one of the days I already managed to sleep in on) - ready for another half-a-year of business studies! Or, well, I was just happy for school to start just so I couldn’t waste mornings to sleeping anymore and so I could get a hold of the waking up early > going to school > going to gym more often kind of more energetic lifestyle again.

Ah, school! Quite tiring those 4-hour days that I have Mon-Thu this quarter you know! Hohoho, noooot. But it will get challenging once we really get started & the 30-page reports -show gets on again. The first half of this spring semester at school should leave nuff time for a nifty spring blog wise thou~*

But just so this post wouldn’t be all babble-babble and no pictures let me post a picture of K on a typical school day on her 1st week of having to get up early after the Holidays; having slept in unintentionally, then missed out on two classes and having left school round 1PM for some serious grocery shopping  because going home to clean up & cook seemed less pointless.

Like here, ft. groceries, green tea & books.

Yep! That’s me on the past few days. + This was the most I “dressed up” during the week. I’ve been lazy, yeah. And I woke up late almost every day this week so I simply had no time for doing hair or such and just had to throw on whatever I could find first. I’d just wear a headband on or pull my hair up like in this picture. And finish off makeup somewhere half way during the school day since I’d never have the time to do that at home in the morning-
( >   3   < ;)

OH AND! One more thing, about those new header images I mentioned! I’m working on a new layout or more like a new header image since the current one is starting to bore me with it’s grayness. Here are sneak peeks of two ideas that I’ve been working on for layout headers;

This one features model  YamamotoYuki (Yuu from JELLY).
This is just a raw version so it’s looking quite plain & texts etc are
unfinished but you get what I’m going for with this riiiiiiight?!
I love the Spiral Girl brand photo shoot these pics are from.
I wanted to use red & pink but still keep the main colors natural.

And here’s a raw raw version of a ’site owner’ kind of header
= features the author of the blog / site owner. As you can tell.
Never mind the red border around the silhouette and so on tho!
I would work this *under construction* vers. into something like
the Yuu -header; with white stuff + pink/black background etc!
This was just one of my favorites from the photo shoot pictures
and I thought that this might work best in the header image, hm?

. . .

But that’s it for layout header examples, just some things I’ve been planning on so let me know what you think of them – or any suggesstions or ideas? Comment & let me know and hey – unless you already DID – go VOTE on the related poll in the sidebar so I get you guysä view on this too. Personally I’m not so fond of ‘blog owner’ header images but in a way it’s also pretty useful if you want to make people connect the life style blog to the owner. You know, branding wise if you know what I mean. But yes, I’ll go get some sleep now!

PS. Hope to see you all’s on here on Friday = tomorrow since I’ve got tomorrow off so I’ll be answering to comments and might be publishing something again tomorrow before I head off to STOCKHOLM on Saturday! Rock the weekend everyone ♥ Cheers, I’m out~

January 16, 2010

Friends x Food & Nails

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Why hello there boys & girls it’s time for a short little V-log post! Nothing much, just thought I’d show you what we were spending our time on on Friday a week ago after my B-Day. Making thai food & eating and then doing hair& nails, which is pretty much the best way to relax and forget about half the rest of the world if you ask me. Some of you guys have been asking for nail tutorials or such too and well, this isn’t a tutorial but it shows me/us working on nails otherwise. And as a professional would be able to tell I am a professionals by no means but instead still only learning~ Anyway here’s the video clip:

They kept playing pretty amazing music on the radio don’t you think?! Except for that one Finnish song that you can hear me comment on at one point, going ‘oi, kuuntele mikä biisi…’ [at 1:43] with my nasally sweet-sixteen voice. Hohoho. But yeah! Nothing much else on style, hair or nails or such for today~ Right now I’m at my parents’ trying to get over the flu & fever that just hit me yesterday and I thought I’d post something on here in the meantime. I should be back with actual posts soon enough; school will be starting again on Monday thou and I’ll be a little more busy then but. But if by chance I’m still sick for the rest of today and tomorrow all I’ll have to do is SCAN MAGAZINES so there’s some on that Japanese Fashion Magazine Scan side for you guys in the near future, so stay tuned!

Oh & I ordered egg magazine too again so we should be seeing new scans from February on!

And then on to just a few things what comes to HauteKeikk.com in general:

I feel like I’ve come to a personal ‘crossroads’ with this blog of mine hohoho. I’ve been coming up with dozens of ideas for this bloggy again, need to decide what I should go for with this site, and most importantly can’t wait for that internet to hit my house (damn I’ve been waiting for my own Internet since new years’ which is when I first ordered it I mean how long can it take for them to ship it to me?!). Also it’s giving me a lot more motivation that many of you guys have now started commenting on here since the “ASK!!” post so let’s keep it that way too huh?! And, oh. Lately I’ve found myself on our dear neighbor country Sweden’s biggest blogs discovering the similarities of the ‘most popular’ blogs wondering what it is that makes people want to read about *young ladies partying around with Swedens’ celebs*. So interesting, or, noooooot. Hohoho. Anyway! Not to say that HauteKeikk.com could ever or was even meant to become the biggest blog ever since already the topics and themes aka who this site is aimed for is quite different. After all, it’s not every other girl or boy who wants to read about A.) ME, or B.) something like the newest trends in Japanese street fashion straight from Shibuya. I mean hard to imagine who wouldn’t want to read all about those you know I mean but— hohohoho. Not. I hope you guys see what I mean! ( >______~ )/

But yeah what I’m trying to say is I’ve been trying to figure out how much a ‘lifestyle’ blog I want HauteKeikk.com to be, and how much I still want to write on trends & street fashion etc. Because I find it kind of boring that lately it’s just been all about, well, me = lifestyle I guess ( u_____u ;). So yep yep I guess I’m trying to balance between an ‘all about me’ = boring and an all about fashion = boring -blog. Oh and, I’m trying to sketch a new layout & header image, please help me decide what to go for:

For that I made a little POLL for you guys that can be found up on the SIDEBAR to the right:
Clicky-clicky ok?! (Poll widgets etc, 1 more reason to love WordPress.com)

PS. I’ve also been trying to scroll through other peoples’ blogs a lot trying to find those that I’ve thought would be nice to have on my ‘related sites‘ or ‘friend blogs’ links. I’ve found so many and then lost them as I’ve been lacking a computer of my own to save those links on etc and now I’m trying to rediscover some, please HOLLA if you feel like you know some nice ones or are hosting a blog with similar topics yourself or something!! That would be of great help~ Thank You’s & Cheers!

January 14, 2010

Celebrating B-Day ft. New Hair

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And so, without much hassle and arrangements January 7th passed and and that, my friends, means that I just had my 21st Birthday! From oneesan to obaachan (/from big sis to granny) I go hohoho~ NOT. Turning 2 ne 1 means I’m first now legal in the States as well and who knows what! I can hardly remember how my b-day went tho since it’s been a week but I do remember that the 6 1st hours of my B-Day were basically the best in, uh, a forever. I woke up late and went to my parents’ which was just comfy since, well, I’m used to being at home with my family at some point of my real b-day each year so far. I think I just ate m&m’s and opened my few gifts (we’ll get back to one of those later on let me tell you because my big sis JayQ is awesome ♥) and so on. And then my girl Bella J. came to save my life and visit me as the last thing of the day and threw some rose petals on me and all that good stuff ♥ Crazy wonderful people those who actually remembered my B-Day + crazy FaceBook for those B-day reminders huh?! ( n______n )/

But I shall say it once more to make it start sound a little more familiar; 21. Because this Sunday still as we were having some pad thai at my place & discussing a cruise to Sweden with Hegii & Leijo & co., I still thought of myself as 20 and went all “well I can’t come with you guys cause I’m not 21 yet!!” and then I looked back at them and was like “oh, oooooops, I mean yeah I’m twenty-one what am I talking about HO HO HO”. Takes a little getting used to you know!

But I’m just so glad I’m not 17 anymore. Nor 19 I mean being 19 was so much fun but it was also a stupidass time with a lot of lessons to learn so yeah, and being 20 was alright but didn’t feel much different since that was, like, yesterday. Anyway a girl’s usually best being exactly where she is with life right?! ( >   .w.   < )

But oh crap I’m getting carried away again,
need to get back to what I came here to post on;

GOING OUT CLOTHES from this Saturday
ft. current / new HAIRSTYLE >>>

Dress snatched from Zara’s winter sales, heels are my favorite platform heels with black sequin stuffs bough this fall and seen in the studio pics too for example, jacket serves as something simple to cover yourself with and is awesome cause it goes with anything, from Gina. I was supposed to take those leggings off at the Club but then I was like – - – naaaaawwwhhh, let me just be more comfy and not freeze my ass off, I’ll keep these on! With make-up I went silverish around the eyes and had matte baby pink kind-of-like 80’s Barbie lips with “Sweet Dreams” make-up pen from the Make Up Store. Pictures taken @ The Tiger.

As you can tell I’m back to straight hair & bangs like back in the good old days for a change♥ The color isn’t as orange irl though! Everyone was telling me to leave my hair straight more often so with the help of a little secrety secret thingie I got for my B-Day from my girl Ploy I tried that on Friday & was seen out with the new hairstyle on Saturday. I felt comfy with the new hair so I guess it’s a good thing I listened to my friends for once hehe! Whaddyathink? ( ´^    3    ^` )

But yeah what else about Saturday. We went to my “favorite little bar” aka pretty much the biggest nightclub of Helsinki that looks down on Kamppi aka like the center of downtown Helsinki. Yes my friends, once again we found ourselves on the top floor of the Kamppi shopping centre = Club The Tiger! It’s a fun place for going in a dress and heels and dancing to awesome music. But bad for those who just want to grab a beer or two with little money or for those under 24 that haven’t yet learnt that the official age limit of a club (in the case of Tiger it’s 24 yrs) is merely numbers, my friends. So that didn’t scare us away and in we went, danced the floor off with some GinTonic’s and Breezer (‘LIMUKKA’ in Finnish) but since that wasn’t what we were there for so we took it quite easy on the drinking side. Same didn’t go for the dancing our asses off -part.

If there was any way I could tell you guys how much I love my girls Bella J. and ElQ, I would. And if there was any way I could make you guys see how much I LOVE dancing especially in great company, bumping into friends or something better even at the club I like the best … then I’m sure I’d do it just to have you all’s understand. With that said – it was awesome saying ‘hi’ to The Tiger again, short name Tikru; the night was good and morning even better of course. Cheers to all that & little k’s out for now~

January 12, 2010

“ASK!!” Post #1 Answers

Filed under: (x) DRAFTS — by keikk @ 12:16 AM
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Time to get to posting!
Finally here to present to you;
Answers to you guys Q’s to your
friendly neighborhood keikk!

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I grouped Q’s into:
♥ PERSONAL
♥ STYLE
♥ HAIR/MAKE & BODY
♥ RANDOM
♥ FAVORITES
♥ JAPAN

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Means “ASK!!” post #1 is CapISHHh. THANK YOU ALL’s for aaaaallll the questions & for bothering to comment!♥

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You dear readers have been pretty shy with commenting so I thought I’d give you all’s a little kick on the thee buttoxes with a Q&A thingie! I was pleased to see so many people comment with several Q’s too ( ´*   3    *` ) Surprisingly enough however (as I always fail with putting anything short & sweet) I wrote pretty long answers etc so I decided to group questions and put the full list of Q’s & A’s under the VIEW ALL ANSWERS -link on the bottom on this post. Don’t want to flood this blog page with A’s to Q’s not half of you wanted to read about you know hohoho. But I better post these answers now before I get any more Q’s and well… end up with an answer post so long that I could be 100% sure none of you people would bother reading any of the answers~

Take a look at the Q’s below 1st ♥

and then click on the VIEW ALL ANSWERS link at the end to see the rest of the A’s.
I picked these ones as they’re somehow informative; sorry they got so long tho!

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BLOGGING [ o2 ]
‘When you began blogging did you ever think you would become so popular?’

Hehee I have to admit that this Q made me laugh to & at myself a bit~ ‘Popular’ is such a fun thing you know, I wouldn’t say I was that popular but that kinda things depend on how you look at them huh? Anyway when I first started with this public blog I had somewhat a clear vision of what I wanted to start doing with this blog. I never even meant to start writing on here for a 100 people or so like I’d been doing on my LiveJournal. I made up my mind to start writing this blog to as many readers as I could pretty much from the start.

PERSONAL [ 13 ]
‘Have you ever flown in your dreams?’

I guess you could say that there’s been times when I’ve felt like I’ve been separated from time and lifted up to seventh heaven. Now, what should I start with? One really clear ‘dream come true’ was during my 1st trip to Japan in 2007; the moment when I walked down to the Shibuya crossings for the first time. It was dark and we had been walking on some side alley and we were like ‘we should be right there in front of the station by the crossroads soon now shouldn’t we…’ and then like out of nowhere came a crossing, I looked up I realized I was there. There was something so incredible about that moment when I looked up and saw the neon lights and everything; I felt like my heart stopped beating for that moment. It hit me that I was standing in the middle of the world I’d thought I’d only ever reach in my dreams. I’ll never forget that feeling.
And then there’s more than one of those floating on cloud nine moments caused by specific people; on several moments usually by specific men to put it short and sweet. Such simple little things, moments & AUGENBLICKs that have stopped time altogether for me and in some weird way fulfilled some tiny silly wish I’ve had. Times when I’ve believed in destiny for having found a person again that I’d been dying to see again for so long; times when I’ve found myself sitting next to someone I’d been looking at ages ago, thinking that person was out of my reach and nothing but a desperate dream for me.
When that person I’d desired without really admitting it even to myself – thinking that that there was no chance that person would ever even look at me nor have a place in my life – looking only at me as if there were no other people left in the world surrounding us.
When I’ve found myself laying next to someone thinking there could never be anything more I could want, wishing time could stop not only inside of my head and wishing the next day wouldn’t have to come. But that’s the kind of things you’da been able to read more on my more personal LiveJournal!

STYLE [ 06 ]
‘Lots of people see you as an inspiration to western gals. Your thoughts on this?’

There, you just left me sitting here with an ‘oh, am I?’ ( >____< ) Well, ‘lots of people’ depends on how you look at it but looking at things now… To have someone think of what I say, do, am, or represent as inspirational or something like that… I guess to some extent that makes me feel as if all the time I’ve wasted on this blog or my looks or something hasn’t gone to waste after all. That maybe, just maybe there’s a chance someone else can take advantage of that silly freetime activity of mine. You know, style as a hobby is something that at least in my case *gives you the chance to drift up and away from the world for a second*. If there’s any chance I might be able to give someone else a share of that or my passion for these things or possibly even inspire someone – and if I can for even one second share a smile or a good feeling  from my own life (in which ive been blessed with more than too many good things) and make someone else enjoy theirs even the slightest bit more… then I feel like I’ve given this hobby of mine an actual meaning.

And that way STYLE actually becomes a much better hobby. It’s much more interesting and meaningful when it’s not just all about yourself but more like something you share with others. Because let me tell you, by the time youre 20 and know yourself as well as I believe I know myself now, you’re bored enough thinking only of yourself as funny as this coming from my mouth might sound to you guys not familiar with me.

I guess if what you’re saying means that I was somewhat an inspiration to even a few people out there. Well, what can I say!! “pretty damn cool, man!!” hehee. There’s a lot of things in this world that one would like to keep only to him/herself, but the love for something or the passion for something and what’s most important, a SMILE – is much better shared than kept to yourself huh?♥

RANDOM [ 26 ]
‘Message to yourself in 10 years’

Dear K. It’s rough being a mom, now isn’t it? Damn if you only had known better than to rush with your life when you were still younger and hadn’t started using anti wrinkle products yet. And if only you had been smart enough to start using them earlier now that I started talking about that. Huh. I guess you never knew where life would take you, but now that you’re steady – try to enjoy it alright and remember all those times when you would dread being together with the same person each day but at the same time dreamt of the day you’d have someone special to live for. And don’t feel bad that he’s Puerto Rican and not Korean ok, the kids are still cute right and hey, it can’t be that bad being pregnant even if you’re not so much in shape anymore because the first one likes waiting for his little sister to be born right? Take a look at yourself in the mirror and be proud of who you’ve become, and when you look at that tattoo you took during one of your trips to Asia, remember how important the meaning of the text you wanted to print on yourself was at the time and try to remember why. It’s been a long road to where you’re at now, don’t look back too much but try to keep the turns you made and the steps you took along the way as you were looking for the right road to travel on. And hey, they still love you, don’t forget to show them you do, too, they’re the grandparents of your kids after all right?

FAVORITES [ o6 ]
‘Do you drink coffee? What’s your favorite thing to get at Starbucks?’

Do I… Do I DRINK COFFEE?!! Oh my oh my, now I have definitely failed with telling you guys something extremely important about myself, which is the fact that coffee & chocolate are basically the pure essence of life pretty much IMO.
So yes I do drink coffee and occasionally get pretty hyper on it too but that’s another story. And how they don’t ’serve’ coffee to me at work for that very reason is another story too, but yeah.
So what would I pick at Starbucks? I mean that must be the hardest Q anyone’s ever asked me! Can you guys imagine me standing at the counter of some Starbucks, staring at the menu trying to decide what to pick for what seems like a forever…
with a pretty much cute barista looking at me and waiting, thinking, what’s wrong with those Americans I mean why can’t she just take the cappuchino like everyone else?!” And then deciding to get… a Grande decaf soy Caffe Latte. Or no, maybe Mocha Frappuchino, low fat if possible. No no no I take it back maybe a white chocolate mocha after all? Man I love ALL of them! ( ♥______♥ )

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NOTE: Case you’d like to read all A’s you might A.) come to need a nap or B.) have to come back to read the rest later on. Because let me tell you there’s LOADS of reading to do!
NOTE2: I highlighted some little things and fav. Q’s with pink just in case you start feeling like you might only want to read a couple of answers. You might want to read those at least hm~ You’ll find a list of asked by who’s by Q number below each group’s answers.

Oh, and. Let me know what you think ok?!

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> > > > > > > > > > VIEW ALL ANSWERS

January 6, 2010

Studio Shoot – 1st Try

Filed under: (1) NOTEBOOK, (2) CLOSET — by keikk @ 5:30 PM
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It’s about time I get some of those studio pics posted on here that I was talking about back when we first went to do the photo shoot session with NIU©. I think it’s been something like 2 months since we had the photo shoot back when I posted that VIDEO HERE on that little shoot, remember? ( >   .A.   < ) So like said it was a fun & interesting day at the studio. But a little bit tiring at least for him photographing and setting up stuff for like 8 hours in a row! I mean poor guy had to spend over 8 hours there and more than half of that taking pictures of a non-professional model & on top of that of me ( @_____@ ) So yes I do kind of feel bad for him you know, no wonder a guy gets tired for that hohoho~ Good thing he was smart enough to bring some of those ED energy drink cans along.

I’ve been wanting to do real studio shooting for a long time. I’m sure there’s loads of reasons for why I still haven’t come as far as professional promotional work ft. promotional modelling but that’s something I’ve been planning on for a couple of years already. With promotional work I mean stuff like babbling to company people at conventions and showing guests around at events or hosting events and, well, that kind of stuff. Not to forget car shows hohoho. Or, not. You start off with stuff like giving out cookie samples and such though.

Anyway promotional modelling means NO professional modelling = all that catwalk stuff etc. With my face and my 160cm’s that’s not really even something I’d ever dreamed of nor believed I could do, so I’ve never really wanted to do / seen myself doing that. But promotional work sounds cool to me.

So how come that it was just now that I first got to studio photo taking and how come I haven’t started doing professional promo work yet? Hmm… I guess I never got that ‘model portfolio’ together that’s good to have when you’re signing up for a promo agency and well, who knows if I’d made it into one in the first place *oh snap*. That’s something I’ll have to try one of these days though and if I ever move over to Asia for a longer period of time I’ll be sure to stay in shape because man, if I ever run out of money or things to do there I’d have a pretty good chance of always having work as a underwear model hohoho… OR NOT. But who’s going to stop a girl from trying? As long as I can get past my ego with that and learn to be ok with spreading pictures of myself promoting underwear all over Japan or something. Ho. Ho. Ho. Which might never happen (or I’m hoping it won’t) after all but that remains to be seen, huh? ( >_____~ )/

So let me show you some of the pictures from that photo shoot!

Credits NIU© / Apirat Nomnavi ♥

But yes, I’m really hoping to learn how to pose in front of the camera properly so that the photographer can concentrate on his work and doesn’t have to worry about wether or not the model knows how to do her job. And I’m thinking I need to learn that better before I even give it a try being professional with the promo stuff. I mean what would happen if I accidentally got a gig promoting, say, cookies on a magazine ad or something and then I’d be like, ‘man I don’t know how to pose at all and I’m so not a natural cookie eater in front of the camera … so yeah, I CAN’T DO IT!’ Not going to work. I better keep leaning!

And with this post I’ve got one unfinished draft post on my WordPress blog account so I’m getting closer and closer to publishing everything I’ve been wanting to post hehe~ I’m out now, and hey you guys hope this post wasn’t too, hmm, how should I put it… Me Myself & I concentrated you know? Just got a little carried away when explaining about my plans & such, hope you guys found it alright! I’ll be seeing y’alls in the soon to come B-DAY UPDATE and in the “ASK!!” post reply post! Cheers & cheerios ♥

January 3, 2010

Happy 2010 ft. N.Y. Hair & Make

Filed under: (1) NOTEBOOK — by keikk @ 11:25 PM
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Wowweeezzz!! It’s  2 0 1 0 isn’t it now! Just a moment ago it was still ‘09 and I was posting on here on how I’d come to post on here much more ‘next year’. And now it’s pretty much that new year and the 3rd already. In addition to it being about time for me to post on hair & make-up from new years’ eve it’s also only 4 days until my birthday! Wheeeeee I’ll be turning 2ne1 = into a granny hohoho and I bet you guys all thought I was sweet sixteen but sorry no. DAMN! Mami’s getting old huh? ( >  A   < ;) But nevermind that right now. What matters is that it’s 2010;

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !! xx

Hope your new year will be a good one – let’s make o’h 10 kick major butt huh?!
Let it be a lucky one, hope we see some wished & dreams get fulfilled~

I hope you guys’ new years parties should you have attended such / whatever you did on new years went close enough to ‘as planned’. It was freezing cold in Helsinki, round -20c, so I wasn’t so excited about that but. It was a pretty chill new years’ after all though not exactly as planned. But then again. I can’t help but think that how things all went in the end and where I found myself at by the time it was the 1st morning of 2010… was just as it was meant like.

This new years’ I considered staying home alone altogether (and I mean this, I did too) because on an important night like this when everyone’s got huge expectations I start dreading that the night might not be as good everyone wish it was. Buuuut naturally I couldn’t just stay home in the end I mean I’d have jumped off the balcony had I stayed home alone maaaan! And so I ended up going to 1 house party, 1 club part and 1 after party. Which I thought was still something I could manage time wise. And finally went to sleep for an hour or two on the 1st after all of us went home round 11AM. And by then people were throwing Poke Balls around at the subway station and still doing snow angels and all that good stuff so I guess it was about time to end the partying hohoho~ SO thanks to everyone who had a part in my New Year’s eve & night & morning, hope we get many more moments shared in this new year too!

But yeah. Since  the internet hasn’t started working yet I’ve spent some of new year’s day working with PhotoShop and I thought I’d post some pictures from NY’s eve. I noticed I haven’t really been posting many close-ups of make-up thingies for example so I thought I’d do that now. I haven’t gotten pics from other people yet and I wasn’t taking pics on New Years’ other than these, so all I have to show you guys now are these ones I thought I’d take since I was for once actually concentrating on how I was doing my make-up and hair since it was a party eve and all. Here’s the result:

Necklaces Tiny Orb by Vivienne Westwood and a tag pendant by Gucci.

And yes yes yes as obvious as it is I’m wearing contact lenses; unfortunately noooot I wasn’t born with purple eyes so yep yep they’re just circle lenses for fun ( n______n ) I mean I’ve had the chance to look at my greenish yellowish eyes for 20 years so I find it a fun little trick of making the whole look a little more interesting simply by changing the color of the eyes with contacts~ It’s not necessarily an ‘I want to hide my real eyes’ thing unlike most people seem to think hohoho~ They look more brownish in real life but the flashlight makes them seem more purple; for an unedited closeup see THIS PICTURE!

You know I don’t really know where the idea of taking ’self-portraiteyish’ photos all of a sudden came from buit I just realized that I haven’t been posting so many on here! ( o_____O` ) And once I had taken the 1st ones below so I could show you all’s the so-called clean & simple party makeup …

… I went man, my camera takes pretty swell pics doesn’t it hohoho~ ( >  A    < ) For a bigger version click HERE. And so since I had time before people were going to enroll the 1st house party I was going to go to as well; I decided to take a few more of the finished work meaning with the hair curled up as well. Let’s see:

View the bigger version HERE. I have to admit I like the ones without the cirly hair better actually~ Haha if you ask me I look pretty ridiculous in those lower pics at least with the whitey lips with no lipgloss on yet hehe. OOOOOPS. What do you think of the hair & make? I wish I was better at making tutorials *cough* and had the time & energy for doing actually good tutorials you know.

But yessss that’s nuff for today, I’m off to bed now. *Sighhh* I mean who am I kidding it’s not as if I could get any sleep at this hour hehe but oh well, I might continue making graphics for this site or something or keep answering those Q’s from the last post… Don’t forget to ask something still if you haven’t yet! Cheers~*

December 30, 2009

“ASK!! keikk” & HP NoteBook

Filed under: (1) NOTEBOOK — by keikk @ 12:11 AM
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Not being able to sleep before 3, 4 or 6AM, and sleeping in every morning finally getting up around 2 or something I feel like I live as if I were living in St. Louis still ( @____@ ) But the times of me laying in bed for hours trying to fall asleep without anything sensible to do at my place at night time, are done with. You see, there is one simple answer to those wasted insomniac nights due to not being able to sleep;

Ladies and gents. Let me introduce you to my newest crush, soulmate, support and partner in crime – my brand new HP Pavilion NoteBook. “The computer is personal again” says the package. Guess what that means for me?

It’s bye bye personal life / real life and hello personal computer,
and you can delete my phone number hmm? ( ´@  3   @` ) Hohohoho~

No no no. I don’t have enough time to become the stay home blogger and lazyass no-work no-school laptopper that I could be. So we should be good. But your days of doubt of me never posting everything I’ve promised to post should also be long gone with! And I’m about to prove that to all y’alls in no time ( >____~ ) Though I haven’t even removed the plastic cover off of this NoteBook, don’t have a poper internet connection yet, am still only arranging files and fixing programmes etc I believe I’m well on my way to a more active internet life. And a better HauteKeikk.com ♥ I wishhh~

But HEY, don’t go just yet! I’ll be making a new years post, and a b-day post since my b-day is as soon as January the 7th. Those will naturally include some long awaited and requested things PLUS an “ASK!” post. I posted one on the Tokyo theme before (and fear not, I WILL be answering I’ve got all the questions and some of the answers too on a draft here on my wordpress blog account) but here’s what:

I thought I’d give a Questionnaire Post a try!
This would be my request to you guys visiting this site!

This is a chance for me to explain myself a bit better and to
tell you what the owner of this site (yes, that’s me) is all about really.
Visitors on this site are not so active with the commenting thing so
with this I’m hoping to get you guys to start communicating a bit more~
Plus I’m hoping to be able to answer to things that more than
one of you visitors might have been wondering about;
so that everyone didn’t have to come out and ask that something.

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“ASK!” Post #1 Closed! ♥

Thank You guys for all the Q’s!

[ "ASK!!" post ... HOW TO? ]

You can leave Q’s by cklicking on the Comments -link on bottom right of this post; you will be asked to type in a name (I think you can leave it blank too) and you can type in a web site etc if you want to. You can leave a comment Anonymous too if you like, but since we’ve all got an identity so fear not to use a name ♥ You can write in English, SUOMI, or German or Swedish if you like, but all Q’s will most likely be translated and answered in English + maybe in Finnish too.

That’s my little new year’s wish for you guys to fill, it would be my pleasure to explain myself a bit better maybe, so that we could have a cleaner start to the upcoming new year and there would be a couple of questions less to ask in the future! So bring up those doubts and such and make a Q! Thank You’s~

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