you look like the sun.

Here's a couple of our favorite wedding photos!
Brad captured so many of the little moments
that made that day so incredibly special.
So without further adieu, the pictures from
the day I married the love of my life :)

All Photos by Brad Claypool

Our Venue was Calamigos Ranch Malibu,CA

Hair by Jamie Feliz & Bree Gentry

Make up by Melissa MacGalvary & Beka Leighton 

happy wednesday!

I love this song. 

Hope it makes your Wednesday amazing. 

Britt Nicole - all this time

how I have a good hair day.

I titled this one "how I have a good hair day" because the days I love my hair, might not be everyone's perfect hair day. I love messy. I love texture. A little wave, a little bed head.... I'm all over it.

But of course the grass is always greener on the other side. Being that I am Japanese, I have stick straight hair. If you are blessed with naturally curly or wavy hair, this process is probably a lot easier for you. Straight haired girls, do not fear, we can get you some beachy waves too! Follow my lead.

When I want my beachy waves, I wash my hair at night, you'll see why.

• After towel drying my hair (not completely dry, I'd say like 40-50% dry) I spray my strands with my all time favorite product "It's a 10" leave in conditioner, a couple sprays from root to ends of Charolette Ronson's sea salt spray (both Bumble & Bumble and Paul Mitchell Awaphui make great sea salt sprays as well), and put a couple pumps of Paul Mitchell's skinny serum on my ends. 
• I will also use some mousse every now and then for extra hold, I love Paul Mitchell's Awapuhi mousse. 
• Brush through the hair, scrunch and twist parts of my hair.
• The best part...sleep on it. 
• If you are going to do this process in the morning, that works too, I would just skip "sleep on it" and go straight to your diffuser. That will work really well with wavier/curly hair. 

When I wake up, my hair is usually almost dry or a little bit damp.

• If I need to, I will blow dry with a diffuser - a blow dryer attachment that is meant for wavy/curly hair that helps maintain curl while drying and diffusing frizz. 
• Then I take my curling rod or straightener (I use & ADORE my Paul Mitchell pro tools iron & curling rod) and go through and add a couple messy / non uniform curls. This is the key to getting that beachy look without looking like a bum. You want to look effortless not homely. This is the time that my frizzy friends might need to do a little bit more smoothing with the iron, where as the straighter girls might need to do a bit more, find what works for you. 
• Finish with a light hold hair spray (Kenra number 9, plus it smells like cotton candy) to avoid any extra weight on your hair for straight hair, it can actually pull the wave down and out of your hair straight haired girls. If you are curlier, feel free to use a higher hold hair spray.
•  A mist of shine spray (It's a 10 miracle shine spray) to leave your hair looking healthy and shiny!

There you go, easy peesy lemon squeezy. Hope you guys have a good hair day with these tips and leave me any feedback/praise/questions!!

with love,

lexi warren 

live simply

I am still alive I promise, just busy planning that thing called a wedding. Apparently, it is actually really stressful and all consuming. So, I am sorry friends, I promise to try not to disappear for that long again!

Any who.... As the date moves closer and closer that I will need to make room for Josh to share a room with me, panic sets in because there is no where for his clothes to go. I mean no where, literally. As in, I already store my dresses and coats in another closet, and also switch out my winter/summer wardrobes according to season. So... now what?

I want to start our married lives together with a room and home that feels like ours, not mine that he just moved into. So, I have started organizing, cleaning out, and learning to "live simply."I have never been a very organized person, just enough to not loose things and get things done. As I get older though, lists are my friends. Charts and spreadsheets have become normal. Weird. 

Now, not only am I getting ready for my first big yard sale, but we have a meal plan every week, spring cleaning lists, weekly cleaning lists, just lists galore! 

The yard sale is where I am going with this. That is where I have really seen myself "learning to live simply." If I have three grey sweaters that are similar, is that necessary? No. So, in turn, I will soon be having a big sale in the front yard with lots of great stuff, stuff I love, but stuff I don't need. Plus, let's be honest, getting rid of what I don't wear just makes room for stuff I will wear! 

I will update you as the big sale comes up with what I have, how we are organizing it, and what we end up making! 

Oh, and happy spring! 

Here is my favorite spring bucket list download. So cute. 

And the eat sheet we are using for our weekly meal planning.

i can't stop watching...

So, if you watch The Bachelor at all, then you all know Michelle Money. I loved her and Graham on The Bachelor Pad, but I also love her because of her AMAZING hair. You wouldn't believe how many girls ask for her color, myself being one of them. She's beautiful. Any way, I stumbled upon some of her YouTube videos with her friend Laura, and....I am dying. I am obsessed. They are hilarious and talented, you have to go check it out. 

How can you not love them? It just reminds me of me and my friends messing around. So cute. Love em. And good tips! Thanks girls.

this isn't a real video shoot.

Here is the long awaited PROPOSAL video! 

The story, if I haven't gotten to tell you, is quite good. I had NO clue. Josh works for Floodgate Productions doing short films and so when he asked me to be in one of their Christmas videos I didn't think much of it, even though I was realllyyy nervous to be on camera (note that I laugh too much when I am nervous.) So, when I showed up at the "shoot" at Woodward park and Josh's boss's had the cameras set up, this appeared entirely legit. And I was entirely clueless. He had, after all, told me days before that we probably wouldn't get engaged for another 6 months. While going through different shots for this so called video, things suddenly took a turn towards quotes from a certain Beyonce song.... 

Sorry for my awkwardness. In my defense, I was completely in shock since I fully believed we were shooting a video for work. And sorry for how many times we say legitimately. 

Thank you thank you thank you Gary and Jason for doing this and making our special day possible! Thank you again Jason for editing our video for us, you're the best. 

Hope you guys enjoyed watching our engagement and got a good laugh out of it :) We haven't stopped smiling since!

this is the year that I...

My New Years resolutions have always been rather vague, or rather, they have simply not existed. They tend to consist of the typical, "loose weight" or "work out more," but this year though, I felt inspired. Maybe it's because I have already been trying to start these habits and this is the best time to say, I am starting today. Period. End of story. And, to my delight, so far so good!

Along with my resolutions, here are some of my must have products to make sure I can keep up all of my resolutions! 

1. Have a better self image - no. matter. what. 

This is a confidence that I pray for every day. As a woman, we are always striving to be our best, and especially in my line of work, there is always "something" to make your "something" better. 

So my prayer has changed to...

 [God, just let me love myself the way you love me, so I may love others that way. Let me not focus on my "short-comings" as you do not see them that way, but let me see my uniqueness as beauty.] God loves me exactly the way I am, five pounds lighter or heavier. Prayer that when I feel disappointed in myself, remembering, HE is not. 

I love to journal my prayers and my favorite journal is this leather one from Target.

2. Take my vitamins! 

Biotin is great to add to your everyday multivitamin to help your hair grow and it does wonders for your skin and nails too! Also, I take my vitamins at night with a big glass of water after dinner. That way, at least in my mind, you aren't just peeing out all your supplements. It gives your body time to absorb them properly. Just food for thought. 

3. Moisturize!

The best time to really hydrate your skin is right after the shower. Your skin is going to absorb the most moisture after the warm shower has taken a lot of it's oil and nutrients, so you need to replenish it.  I am loving the cocoa butter gel right after the shower at night - but it is too heavy for the morning, for me at least.

4. Use a make up primer. Consistently. 

I just got a sample of this guy from Sephora and I am so pumped to use it without having a to buy a bottle of it and be stuck with it if I don't like it. Elle and Allure both rave about it though, so I am guessing it'll be a home run.

This, on the other hand, is what I have been using when I do take time to put on primer. It is really light and matte so it's great for oily/combination skin like mine. It makes your face so soft and smooth and makes your skin the perfect pallet for your foundation. 

If you have tried these and aren't a fan, I have a couple other tricks up my sleeve, so message me if you need other primers to try.

5. Do my makeup for work everyday & try something new!

Being a low maintenance girl in a hair and make up world is tough sometimes. This lil puppy leaves me excited to try out new makeup every morning! I have been eyeing it for a while, and people that have it, rave about it, so I finally caved. It is sold out like 95% of the time at Sephora and Ulta, so get it when you can. There is also a Naked 2 pallet now as well, I stuck with the original for now. Excited for my make up today and pumped to test it out on my clients that are going to prom this weekend! 

So, now not only are my resolutions written in my journal, but they are here for the world to know. No turning back now. Happy 2012 everyone!