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Hello, there! I'm Mochizuki, a twenty-something year old Graphic & Web Design student located somewhere in America and welcome to Waiting for June a Lifestyle blog that occasionally gets a tad too personal, talks about cosmetics, and constantly the home for prattles about Bandcamp, nerd culture, and tea/coffee. To find out more about blog and the blogger, click here.
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This isn't much of a big post considering that I've been relatively busy lately with school...still. Since my courses move rather quickly, the workload can get a bit hectic at times. It's terribly depressing and tiring and I'm really trying, but ugh, migraines and exhaustion are not terribly fun whatsoever. I do not fancy that type of fuckery.
Anyway, I'm still working on a post, so that should be up a bit later. However, this post will have to due for now. Plus I have to admit that I'm a bit overdue on the Instagram post. So let's just jump into it, yeah?
Here are the pictures from February 13th up until February 22nd.
My personal favourites from this batch are these three: one, two, and three. What about you guys? Which of my pictures did you find appealing, if there were any? Oh and don't forget to comment with your Instagram username and follow me on instagram by clicking that link or searching "@lullatoned" on your app. I'll more than likely follow you back.
Before I move onto my prattling, I need to touch on something. So, if you're following me on Twitter, then you've probably seen my tweets ( these tweets ) about how I woke up someone leaving a comment on my picture. For those too lazy to type out the link to the cap, here ya go.
Screencaps: The comment that I woke up to that rubbed me the wrong way.
Now, I will not apologize for my response to the comment because I meant every word of it. I will say that I was a bit more snippy than usual and I didn't bother reading over for mistakes because I had just woken up and I'm not the best person to say shit to nor the most perfect speller at that point. So yes, there were a couple spelling errors in that comment (also, autocorrect is a dick...we can all agree on that), but once again, I meant that shit.
Let me clarify that I wasn't pissy because she didn't like my picture. Like I said on Twitter, I post things on this blog and on Instagram and Tumblr and Twitter because I like them and I deem them worthy enough to be posted. Whether or not you like them does not faze me. I genuinely could not care any less either way. You, as a viewer/reader are by product. I am happy when you like my stuff, but it is not essential. I'm not looking for fame here on the internet and I do have a life outside of this shit, I do this shit for fun.
What was I so pissed about then? I was more pissed at the fact that this bitch legitimately thought she was entitled to share her opinion like she was the best shit since slice bread. What pissed me off was that rather than not saying anything about a picture that she could have easily skipped, she felt that she was entitled to try and be a twat. Let me also clarify something, as much as I don't get offended easily, I get defensive immediately. My default setting is neutral-defensive. The moment I feel like you're presenting an ignorant statement/ideal/opinion or the moment I feel like I've been attacked, my neutrality goes out the fucking window and I am just defensive. Let's also clarify this, no one is more of a twat than I am when I'm in that mood where defense is my only option. Again, I said this on on Twitter and I'll say it again: Don't approach you're the shit because you will in fact be made to look like shit. Plain and simple.
Do not insult my makeup. Do not insult something that I take pride in or something that I've worked hard on. Criticize me all you fucking want, but do not ever fucking insult me, my person, my creations, and anything that I call my own. And if you're going to step to me about being "pretty" and my view on "beauty" please make sure that I can't rip you shreds with the power of my intelligent words and sarcastically crude manner of speaking.
The reason above all reasons why I got so pissy and on the defensive is because of how I look in the picture? I'm obviously Black (I'm mixed, but mostly Black), however, in some lightings, I come out really light (like in this picture or this picture) and in other lightings, I come out darker (like in this picture or this picture). I can't help it at all and I've gotten a lot of shit for it in the past. For those who've never seen my mum and father, which is the lot of you, you need to know that my mum is extremely light in complexion (almost borderline white at times) and my father is extremely dark in complexion. I happened to get the mix of both and so taking pictures is odd for me.
So yes, I got teased a lot for that and it explains my huge thing with being in front of a camera. I still try to avoid it as much as I can because of it. So yes, when people comment with things like that especially in a picture where I look like I've "lightened" myself, I get defensive and I'm dragged back to that mentality I had in the past. That combined with the fact that it's taken me years upon years to get comfortable with myself enough to be as content as I am.
That being said. Don't ever do this shit. Ever, ever. I will go off without hesitation (unless we're joking around).
Okay, rant complete.
I got so caught up ranting that I don't remember what I was gonna prattle about. So I'll instead talk about some upcoming stuff as per usual. A new Gameventure post for Vindictus will be up somewhere around the first week of March. It'll be a post dedicated to how I feel after playing Vindictus for a month. Expect a couple videos, a good amount of pictures/GIFs, and of course, text. Also, I know a have a couple circle lenses reviews to do. My camera battery died and I cant find my charger at the moment (which explains all the Instagram and cell phone pictures) so I can't gt proper pictures of the lenses for right now. I should be getting a new charger soon, so I can finally catch up on that. I also promised to do a "How I Do It" video about putting in contact for Ms. Feelo. A couple album reviews and movie reviews will be added. I'll finally add a post to the comics/manga section of the blog. Finally, a new layout will be up by the first or second week of March.
[EDIT: Hopefully, I'll be able to get out the personal post I've been working on later today or tomorrow.]
So that's a lot to look forward to. I'll make sure to update the upcoming list so that you are constantly updated on what's happening in the future.
I didn't expect this to be as much of a text wall as it was, but...shit happens. Haha. Anyway, I'm done talking for now.
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Hello, there!
Welcome to Waiting for June. Waiting for June is a Lifestyle Blog that focuses predominantly on daily life shenanigans and nerd culture, but occasionally dabbles in health & beauty, food, and prattling about serious topics.
Waiting for June is the sixth iteration of the same blog with a different name and structure. The original iteration of this blog was started back in November of 2012 as a purely Beauty and Lifestyle blog under the name Monochromatics which later got abandoned and restarted under the name sumeoseo. With sumeoseo came more beauty and review based blog which quickly lost its appeal. From that point on, there were three name changes, multiple hiatuses, and two blog changes before coming to where we are now.
Throughout this journey, I've learned that this blog shouldn't be limited to what I feel fits in with what I read from other bloggers nor should I put myself in a position to compromise my integrity and the feeling of transparency that I feel should always be there. I've also learned that blogging is probably never going to be a huge source of income the way I always expected it to be. So when I finally returned back to blogging with a fresh blog and an equally fresh name, I decided to make this blog about anything that I wanted to and break the mold of trying to fit into the mold. I can only imagine where this experience is going to take me.
Prattle about the twenty-something university student behind the blog.
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” — Albert Einstein
Hello, there!
Welcome to the little about me section of the blog. If it isn't obvious by now, I'm Mochizuki and I'm kind of pretty important here. Admittedly, Mochizuki is a nom de plume, but I digress. I'm currently somewhere in my twenty-somethings and doing that thing where I'm learning how to be a proper adult while balancing being a student and a worker. Speaking of school, I'm a Graphic Design major who's concentration is Web Design and I take my classes online. If I'm being honest here, I do everything online because of my apprehension towards too much social interaction.
I'm typically reading something, playing a video game, watching anime, or something otherwise nerdy because that's how I roll. I don't engage with people unless I'm positive there is something in common there simply because I don't want to make it weird for anyone involved. That said, the reason I originally created this blog, or rather, any of my blogging adventures, was so that I could engage with people wo share the same interests as me while simultaneously sharing my own things with people.
I'm not terribly good at about me's, so expect this to be updated sporadically in a lot of ways.
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This blog touches on and is dedicated to a variety of topics including: daily life, cosmetics, my journey to being a healthier me, music, books, anime, et cetera; however, a large chunk of the content found here are some form of review be they miniature reviews or full blown, in-depth reviews. Because of this, this blog has decided to implement and share it's review policy.
Please note that this policy is liable to change at any point in time, so do constantly check back before sending inquiries to kurahge@outlook.com.
Depending on the workload and the type of product is received, at any given time, multiple products can be in queue to be reviewed.
Depending on the product, the amount of time for a review to be posted varies. Typically, the length of time is as follows: anything health or beauty releated will take between 5 days and 1 week, books take between 3 days and 5 days, music and movie reviews take between 1 to 2 days, and most other reviews are variant depending on the situation at hand.
Products are predominantly purchased with my own money. On the off chance that the product or prodcuts were provided to me, there is always a note at the top of post and as well as text within the post that acknowledges such. Despite being provided a product or not, the opinions are honest and valid.
As of April 14th, 2016, there has been a change in how reviews are formatted. If working with a product that has a list of ingredients (health, beauty, cosmetics, etcetera), there will be a graphic that lists the ingredients out of respect and transparency for the readers.
Photos for reviews, particularly health and beauty related, are unedited and provided in a clear manner to help show what results occurred (if any.)
If at any point, a review is rushed despite being informed of and knowing the review policy of this blog, I will drop the review and pay for the product accordingly. I am a college student and a full-time worker, blogging is a bit of side project no matter how much I wish it otherwise, so my time is a bit crammed. Basically, rushing will terminate any agreement we may have unless it's valid (meaning absolutely my fault.)
This isn't much of a big post considering that I've been relatively busy lately with school...still. Since my courses move rather quickly, the workload can get a bit hectic at times. It's terribly depressing and tiring and I'm really trying, but ugh, migraines and exhaustion are not terribly fun whatsoever. I do not fancy that type of fuckery.
Anyway, I'm still working on a post, so that should be up a bit later. However, this post will have to due for now. Plus I have to admit that I'm a bit overdue on the Instagram post. So let's just jump into it, yeah?
Here are the pictures from February 13th up until February 22nd.
My personal favourites from this batch are these three: one, two, and three. What about you guys? Which of my pictures did you find appealing, if there were any? Oh and don't forget to comment with your Instagram username and follow me on instagram by clicking that link or searching "@lullatoned" on your app. I'll more than likely follow you back.
Before I move onto my prattling, I need to touch on something. So, if you're following me on Twitter, then you've probably seen my tweets ( these tweets ) about how I woke up someone leaving a comment on my picture. For those too lazy to type out the link to the cap, here ya go.
Screencaps: The comment that I woke up to that rubbed me the wrong way.
Now, I will not apologize for my response to the comment because I meant every word of it. I will say that I was a bit more snippy than usual and I didn't bother reading over for mistakes because I had just woken up and I'm not the best person to say shit to nor the most perfect speller at that point. So yes, there were a couple spelling errors in that comment (also, autocorrect is a dick...we can all agree on that), but once again, I meant that shit.
Let me clarify that I wasn't pissy because she didn't like my picture. Like I said on Twitter, I post things on this blog and on Instagram and Tumblr and Twitter because I like them and I deem them worthy enough to be posted. Whether or not you like them does not faze me. I genuinely could not care any less either way. You, as a viewer/reader are by product. I am happy when you like my stuff, but it is not essential. I'm not looking for fame here on the internet and I do have a life outside of this shit, I do this shit for fun.
What was I so pissed about then? I was more pissed at the fact that this bitch legitimately thought she was entitled to share her opinion like she was the best shit since slice bread. What pissed me off was that rather than not saying anything about a picture that she could have easily skipped, she felt that she was entitled to try and be a twat. Let me also clarify something, as much as I don't get offended easily, I get defensive immediately. My default setting is neutral-defensive. The moment I feel like you're presenting an ignorant statement/ideal/opinion or the moment I feel like I've been attacked, my neutrality goes out the fucking window and I am just defensive. Let's also clarify this, no one is more of a twat than I am when I'm in that mood where defense is my only option. Again, I said this on on Twitter and I'll say it again: Don't approach you're the shit because you will in fact be made to look like shit. Plain and simple.
Do not insult my makeup. Do not insult something that I take pride in or something that I've worked hard on. Criticize me all you fucking want, but do not ever fucking insult me, my person, my creations, and anything that I call my own. And if you're going to step to me about being "pretty" and my view on "beauty" please make sure that I can't rip you shreds with the power of my intelligent words and sarcastically crude manner of speaking.
The reason above all reasons why I got so pissy and on the defensive is because of how I look in the picture? I'm obviously Black (I'm mixed, but mostly Black), however, in some lightings, I come out really light (like in this picture or this picture) and in other lightings, I come out darker (like in this picture or this picture). I can't help it at all and I've gotten a lot of shit for it in the past. For those who've never seen my mum and father, which is the lot of you, you need to know that my mum is extremely light in complexion (almost borderline white at times) and my father is extremely dark in complexion. I happened to get the mix of both and so taking pictures is odd for me.
So yes, I got teased a lot for that and it explains my huge thing with being in front of a camera. I still try to avoid it as much as I can because of it. So yes, when people comment with things like that especially in a picture where I look like I've "lightened" myself, I get defensive and I'm dragged back to that mentality I had in the past. That combined with the fact that it's taken me years upon years to get comfortable with myself enough to be as content as I am.
That being said. Don't ever do this shit. Ever, ever. I will go off without hesitation (unless we're joking around).
Okay, rant complete.
I got so caught up ranting that I don't remember what I was gonna prattle about. So I'll instead talk about some upcoming stuff as per usual. A new Gameventure post for Vindictus will be up somewhere around the first week of March. It'll be a post dedicated to how I feel after playing Vindictus for a month. Expect a couple videos, a good amount of pictures/GIFs, and of course, text. Also, I know a have a couple circle lenses reviews to do. My camera battery died and I cant find my charger at the moment (which explains all the Instagram and cell phone pictures) so I can't gt proper pictures of the lenses for right now. I should be getting a new charger soon, so I can finally catch up on that. I also promised to do a "How I Do It" video about putting in contact for Ms. Feelo. A couple album reviews and movie reviews will be added. I'll finally add a post to the comics/manga section of the blog. Finally, a new layout will be up by the first or second week of March.
[EDIT: Hopefully, I'll be able to get out the personal post I've been working on later today or tomorrow.]
So that's a lot to look forward to. I'll make sure to update the upcoming list so that you are constantly updated on what's happening in the future.
I didn't expect this to be as much of a text wall as it was, but...shit happens. Haha. Anyway, I'm done talking for now.
