Happy New Year, lovers!
Let's start it right with cute animal gifs!












How are we feeling now?
If I could describe 2011 2 words it would be "mindful adventure."
My 3 resolutions last year were to:
*Complete a 365
*Finish my sleeve
*Grow my hair to my shoulders
Well, I failed my 365 miserably, but that was probably a good thing. I don't think I'd want to see this year in pictures. My sleeve though looks amazing. I'm just one 5 hour session away from completing it but a lot of people don't even notice that it's not done. I absolutely love how it turned out, and my customers adore it. I've had little old ladies oooh and aaah over it, I've had women thank me for sharing it with the world, I've had moms point out to their young children how pretty my tattoos are.

My artist is Rick Serna, he has done a lot of BelleBane's work too. We fucking love him I even named my unicorn pillow pet after him.

This one's named Jimmy.
The back of my hair is to my shoulders. What really helped me keep growing my hair was wearing wigs when I was getting anxious about that awkward stage. I also became an ace at tapering my own hair with clippers so I didn't have to spend money on a trim and it always looked exactly how I wanted it.




Next goal for the year is hair to my boobs. Here are my hairspirations:







Also I want to learn juggling. Why not?
And I'd love to complete another year at my job. I absolutely love it and I'd love to see how I improve in sales within the year. My accomplishments in my job that I've had since March is pretty fucking cool. I got a raise and a mini promotion that has more responsibilities, and then I got promoted again 5 months after to Senior Beauty Adviser and shortly after was Employee of the Month for Customer Service. For December my department did better by $3000+ than last year. This job also brought me up to full time so I work 40 hours a week. I find myself saying under my breath every day, "I love my job." and it could be for many different reasons.

Most importantly I want to continue practicing mindfulness.






I hope the best for everyone this year. BetteJean loves you.
xoxo