Richard sur­prised me with flow­ers, choco­late and a gift from Juicy Cou­ture.

I spent the day run­ning errands with Richard, but he sur­prised me at the end with a trip to Juicy.

Every week, I spend about 4–5 hours just down­load­ing and test­ing out apps. I focus a lot on cam­era and social media apps, since that’s pretty much my pas­sion. I love pho­tos, and I love to con­nect with oth­ers. 

I think I should fea­ture ones that really stand out to me, that I don’t end up delet­ing a month later!

Let’s start with one I found recently, and am cur­rently just head over heels with.

Snappeee

Snapeee is a purikura app avail­able here, iTunes and is also avail­able for Droid users! There’s only one lit­tle dif­fer­ence; you can use it like you use insta­gram. It posts your photo to a larger feed, and you can com­ment, “rec­om­mend” pho­tos, and follow/connect with other snapeees. So far, it seems like it’s a small com­mu­nity, but among Japan­ese kawaii enthu­si­asts, I can see it get­ting big­ger. So far, next to say, DecoPic, DecoPetit and oth­ers, this prob­a­bly one of the bet­ter deco appli­ca­tions that I’ve used so far.

The inter­face is smooth and in Eng­lish for inter­na­tional users. The stamp sets are free and I think they have monthly spe­cial stamps! The cur­rent ones will be avail­able until Feb­ru­ary 15th. After that, they will dis­ap­pear for­ever. I guess it’s like “Get it while it’s hot” type sets and then trade if you find some­one else with stamps you want?    There’s lots to choose from and I’m excited to col­lect more stamps and frames!

I think the only thing I didn’t like about this app was that there wasn’t any fil­ters that I could see to use. I hope they add them in the near future. That’d make this app just over the top!!! If you sign up, fol­low me @happiimilk. I’ll fol­low back because I love see­ing other people’s snaps!

Bonus~*

I com­pletely lost track of time in Jan­u­ary and now it’s Feb­ru­ary!

Here’s some shots from Jan. to help catch up!

Wear­ing one of the new dresses I bought last month. Can’t even remem­ber where I am.

About to go out to din­ner with Richard. Wear­ing Lotta deer because I don’t wear it enough. For a dream dress, I sure don’t wear it as much as I thought I would. 

Found these heels in a box while clean­ing out my closet. They’re a lit­tle more “orange-y” red than Rose toi­lette but they give the coord such a casual princess feel!

Make up that day. I was in a weird mood I guess.

This photo is from yes­ter­day, how­ever, I’m gonna use it to show you that I’ve dyed my hair. :D

Richard’s aun­tie really thinks that the light auburn col­ors make me “more approach­able and cud­dly” to quote.  I’ve got­ten noth­ing but pos­i­tive feed­back since she sug­gested I do this color. I was pretty dis­ap­pointed how it turned out when I first dyed it because I felt like maybe it was going too light. But then when I look at it more, I just see this really inter­est­ing depth of color when its styled.

Picked up some new studs. It was a mix-match set from Claire’s to replace the studs I lost last month.

I got tired of my iphone ear­buds. I bought some Solo Beats because the sound is like hear­ing the uni­verse explode if the explo­sion were caused by rain­bows and amaze­ment. Yeah, I’m not sure how to explain how awe­some they are. They’re just that awe­some.