In 2006, Catalina first started this blog as a personal blog, which grew into a school project for her Japanese class in college. During her senior year in college Catalina started youtubing under the unsername cl2425. She needed a corresponding blog that could substitute her youtube activity and this blog was naturally converted to fulfill that need. With an intention to be used as a 'haul and review' blog, the main objective of this blog was, and still is, to deliver great quality pictures, honest reviews and quality entertainment. A lot of time, thinking and experience with a product has to be spent in order to produce an accurate review, and Catalina does her best to deliver. Catalina tries to focus on the quality of reviews rather than quantity.
Born in Albuquerque, NM, Catalina has resided in Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA; Seoul, Korea; Hwasoon, Korea; San Diego, CA; Berkeley, CA; New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA. While growing up, she spent most of her time in the states with an exception of a couple of years in Korea. After a year of high school in Korea, Catalina came back to the states to attend the rest of her high school (San Diego, CA). College was also attended in the states (New York, NY).
After graduating with a BA in Political Science and jumping into the 'real world' (or aka corporate America), Catalina still managed to write blog entries during her free time after work. Working in a corporate enviornment was probably one of the most slowest periods of Catalina's life.
Other than makeup and online activities, Catalina tries to participate in saving endangered wildlife animals. Out of all, Catalina is especially interested in saving penguins, snow leopards and polar bears. As an avid animal lover (and based on personal beliefs), Catalina is a vegetarian.
Catalina's life long activities have been a melange of creative endeavors. Other than online blogging and youtubing, she has written and published three novels since she was a teenager and also wrote numerous columns for various magazines in Korea. When she was a kid, she was one of the 'singing kids' in various English-Korean educational programs in Korea.
Catalina is fluent in English, Korean and Japanese.
