Happy Lunar New Year!

Banners decorating the outside of the Asian Garden Mall

It's that time of year again where you'll see red, yellow, and gold lining the Asian areas with hanging lanterns and cherry blossoms in windows. In the night you'll hear firecrackers go off and see dancing lions. February 3rd is filled with exchanging of gifts, in particular, red envelops filled with new money. Remember, anything that happens on the first of the year will happen for the rest of the year.

The Outdoor Marketplace

I haven't really celebrated the new year much in the past but it's always fun to see what goes on. Even though I lived in Orange County for about 5 years, this was the first year I went to anything remotely related to new year activity. I only went to the market they put up every year in front of the Asian Garden Mall in Santa Ana, CA.

Inside the mall they had a special group of artists that were touring from China. See below the cut for more pictures ^_^

Tokidoki at Sephora

I didn't post about this yet but yesterday at South Coast Plaza, Sephora had Simone Legno, the creator of the Tokidoki brand, signing to celebrate the release of his newest cosmetics. The highlight of my day was seeing a life-size Sandy! She's awesome :) I'm glad they made huge mascots.

Tokidoki for Sephora

I ended up buying the Kabuki Brush, Set of 3 Nail Files - Series Due, and Prisma Lip Gloss in Rocketeer. I haven't used the brush yet and I'm kind of reluctant to do so since it's sooooo adorable. I didn't really get what people were saying about the lip gloss having a wand that wasn't a brush. Well if you're interested, it's a flexible piece of plastic pretty much. It's pretty easy to put on the gloss and I rather like it.

I asked for Simone to sign my bag while he signed a wooden plaque for us as well. I asked for the bunny with a sword through it (I meant the one from his skate deck design) but he drew a different type of bunny with a sword through it seen here. It's still cute but different lol

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What he drew-->

<-- What I wanted

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Us with Simone

That's all for now - Jenn :)