#5

#5 - Dye a purple streak in my hair

I had plans to hang out with Boyfriend this Friday and Saturday - he was going to come down from Sacramento to go sailing with my dad and I, then spend the night with me at my mom's place, and go to a friend's place to go swimming Saturday - and had a bit of money, so I decided to surprise him with the streak. I asked my colorist - she who does the red in my hair usually - about how to best go about doing a purple streak. She told me to get 40volume peroxide from Sally's and use that to bleach the streak, then use the Hot Topic hair dye in whatever color I wanted over the bleach. So I made a run up to the nearest Sally's, got the peroxide - and the bleach powder, which nobody had relayed to me that I would need that too! - stopped at Hot Topic for the purple, and came home. I begged my mom to help, since I was doing a streak low in the back it was hard to do myself. So she, with much grumbling, donned the black gloves o' doom and helped me get bleachy:

Go bleach go!

We washed the bleach out after a bit, dried it, and added the purple. I also wanted to touch up my red, cause I had horrible roots, so I had bought a box of basic over-the-counter hair dye. I wrapped the purple in saran wrap to keep it separate, and again got Mom to help add the red to the rest of my hair:

This is an AWESOME look for me. Totez hawt. Right? (I swear I'm not as stoned as I look...)

I left the purple in while the red worked, to make sure the purple would turn out really deep and vibrant. Then a shower to rinse it all out - you know when you're rinsing red hair color out in the shower and it splatters on the wall, it ends up looking like blood? - and let it dry. The next morning, I brushed and straightened my hair, and voila! A purple streak.


The verdict: I love it! It's subtle, particularly in artificial light. But it shows up really nicely in sunlight, and I really like that it's not glaringly bright, actually. A little bit of something different without being overwhelming. I really do love it. I'm totally going to keep it up. Yay!

#87, #85, #50

#50 - Seek an internship somewhere progressive
This is a bit debatable at the moment, with Obama's recent backtracking and craven spinelessness on truly progressive issues, but I'll count it anyway. I've applied for a fall internship with Organizing For America (the continuation of Obama's campaign organization), and have been invited to continue to the second step of the application/confirmation process. We see how this goes!

#85 - Stretch every day
I am so out of shape, argh. But this morning, I decided to stretch out a bit after my shower. It felt good! I'll continue to update this goal every day until I've hit 30 consecutive days of stretching in the morning, at which point I'll consider the habit formed and call it complete.

#87 - Donate to Shakesville
I did some budgeting yesterday, and realized I had a bit of flex room. I've been intending to donate to Shakesville for a really long time, but every time I had a bit of extra money I ended up spending it first. This time, I made Shakesville a priority. I can buy the Nyx jumbo eye pencils I wanted next month. Liss' work at Shakes is much more important than my makeup.

The verdict: It was only $15, but it's what I can afford right now. I'm glad I chose to give instead of buying more crap. I will probably do this again when I have more stable income!

Two completed already! #1 & #64

In the space of a weekend, I've completed my first two goals, #1 - Wear a colorful eyeshadow look out for a day, and #64 - Go wine-tasting.

#1 - Wear a colorful eyeshadow look out for a day

Here's the best pic I could get; see how the colors of the makeup and shirt work together?

I'm half-cheating, since I only wore it for an afternoon and evening. But the idea of it was to push me to wear something other than my usual neutrals out in public, and that I accomplished! My shirt this afternoon was a pattern based on yellow with flashes of red, with a faded-look purple paisley design in patches. I can't describe it well, but you can see some of it in the picture. So I decided to coordinate eyeshadow with the shirt, in warm gold and purples: I started with M.A.C. Crystal (pale grey-based lavender) on the inner third of the lid. I added Fyrinnae loose eyeshadow in Polar Bear (sheer pale gold, cool-toned not yellow), overlapping Crystal a bit, on the center half or so of the lid. Then came Fyrinnae's Kimchi (rosy terra-cotta with lots of gold sparkle) on the outer bit of the lid. I added a little more Polar Bear over the Kimchi to keep it from being such a stark contrast, then blended the three colors. After that, I used M.A.C. Satellite Dreams (vivid neutral purple, neither warm- nor cool-toned) in the crease and even did the "outer vee" in that. The last color was Fyrinnae's Oberon (charcoal base with vivid purple shimmer), wetlined along the upper lash line and outer third of the lower lash line. The purple in Oberon really pops when it's used wet, it turns out a dark metallic purple! M.A.C. eye kohl pencil in Teddy (dark bronzy brown) on my waterline and a coat of Neutrogena Weightless Volume mascara finished the look. No specific comments from anyone while I was out, but I thought it looked really good.

A closer detail of the eye; hard to do when all I have is my iPhone to take pictures on, but you get the idea.

The Verdict: I'm quite taken with this way of doing makeup, using it as an accessory instead of just "playing up my natural features". I can still do the "just enhancing my natural beauty" sort of makeup, but I find I love using color like this and treating makeup like another piece of jewelry. Skin jewelry! I've bought a new round of samples from Archetype Cosmetics, and they should be here within the next week, so I'm definitely going to keep this up. Maybe not every day, but often.



#64 - Go wine-tasting

I'm second from the right, the one in the red shirt with the long hair. This is the terrace of Silverado's tasting room. What a view!

Yesterday, a couple of family friends who are club members at two local wineries invited my mom and I to go tasting with them. We went to Silverado Winery first, and Luna Vinyards after that. I love reading the descriptions of wine flavors, with their florid prose - "scents of chocolate and bergamot"? Really? - and it was interesting, to try wines that are quite frankly well out of my budget for the most part. I got a bit tipsy; we bought four bottles from Luna, whose wines I liked quite a bit better than Silverado's, to be honest. My personal favorite was their Arnold Palmer Chardonnay, a rich, citrusy white. I'm not normally a fan of white wines, but I was quite pleased with it. Their Freakout, a special blend which we also bought a bottle of, was also excellent but a bit lighter.

The Verdict: An excellent time, a fun way to spend an afternoon with friends. Would definitely do this again!

My Day Zero Project List

Here it is, in all its glory! The Day Zero Project list, 101 things to be completed in the next 1001 days. Let it begin!

(Completed goals contain links to their individual posts)

Adventures in Personal Adornment/Health
1. Wear colorful eyeshadow out and about for a day
2. Finish C25k
3. Buy and wear a bikini
4. Get another tattoo
5. Dye a purple streak in my hair
6. Join a CSA
7. Buy and wear a real corset
8. Be able to do 2 pull-ups
9. Buy week’s groceries at a farmer’s market and live off primarily that at least once
10. Make my own personal signature scent
11. Buy a pair of “stripper heels”
12. Get a new piercing


Adventures in Travel
13. Go to Israel
14. See the Aurora Borealis
15. Drive the entire coast of California
16. See a sunrise from Haleakala
17. See the flowers bloom in Death Valley
18. Backpack Havasupai again
19. Backpack Graveyard Peak again
20. Swim in the HOLA lakes at Graveyard Peak


Adventures in Learning
21. Finish my B.A. at UCSC
22. Take a ballet class
23. Take a pole dance class
24. Take a drawing class
25. Take a photography class
26. Read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
27. Take a yoga class
28. Learn to hop a fence quickly and efficiently
29. Work through all my Italian textbooks and workbooks
30. Get an Italian online penpal to practice with
31. Learn to do a handstand
32. Take a gymnastics class
33. Read Dante’s Inferno – in Italian
34. Translate one of my favorite books into Italian
35. Research what it takes to get teaching credentials in CA
36. Read Harry Potter in Italian
37. Read the Quran
38. Study astrology
39. Learn to communicate with my spirit guides and trust my intuition


Adventures in Advancing my Life Path
40. Get a guest post on Shakesville
41. Get a guest post on Womanist Musings
42. Break 200 posts on WitchWords
43. Write and post the Nevutah Shower
44. Get 50 subscribers to WitchWords
45. Buy and live aboard a sailboat
46. Write a letter to my future self on completion of this journey
47. Organize, or help organize, a political action of some kind
48. Start a new blog dedicated to 101/1001 and personal development
49. Make a vision board
50. Seek an internship somewhere progressive


Adventures in Adventures
51. Go on an overnight sail offshore
52. Go snowboarding
53. Go horseback riding
54. Learn to sail Manu Kai single-handed
55. Have a BDSM session with a Domme
56. Go to a dance club and actually dance
57. Go to a nude beach and be nude
58. Go to a water park
59. Play on a playground at night
60. Participate in a flash mob
61. Get picked up for rail-meat at a regatta
62. Climb the climbing tree on Upper Campus
63. Walk a labyrinth
64. Go wine-tasting
65. Go barefoot for a week
66. Visit a hot springs
67. Touch an electrical tower


Adventures in Creativity
68. Finish NaNo successfully
69. Sell 10 pieces of jewelry on Etsy
70. Grow an herb garden
71. Post a vlog or tutorial on YouTube
72. Leave inspirational graffiti somewhere
73. Send a postcard to PostSecret
74. Customize an item of my clothing
75. Make myself a skirt
76. Take voice lessons
77. Give photo-poetries as gifts to five people
78. Model for an art class or a photography student


Adventures in Habits
79. Break the picking habit
80. Go vegetarian for 30 days
81. Maintain a poly- or bi-phasic sleep schedule for 30 days
82. Learn to meditate and do it daily
83. Get a fruit bowl, keep it filled, and eat from it every day
84. Drink my 25-oz water bottle 2x/day
85. Stretch every morning (In progress!)
86. Watch a TED talk every day for 30 days


Adventures in Service
87. Donate to Shakesville
88. Pay the toll for someone behind me
89. Leave folded cranes in 25 mailboxes, anonymously
90. Do a Free Hugs day
91. Volunteer at a suicide line
92. Volunteer at an animal shelter
93. Canvass for the repeal of Prop H8


Adventures in Miscellany
94. Finish playing Lost Odyssey
95. Buy a PostSecret book
96. Complete the 5000-question survey
97. Watch all of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
98. Write my will
99. Send 10 Post-Crossings
100. Watch all of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
101. Get all my GW characters to lvl 20