Saturday, February 27, 2010

There's no other superstar that I'll be

Sooo, how's everyone hangin' in there? Dying from school/work/life?? YOU'RE NOT ALONE! Everyday I'm getting closer and closer to ditching this continent and packing up for jolly ol' London, which sounds pretty damn good right now! Although when I get there and get settled into a crumby waitressing job I'll think that home sounds much better BUT STILL, I'm keeping my eye on the prize: London shopping, concerts, and hot British boys. Hellz to the yeaaaaahh.
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Another goal that I've been kinda working on is taking more risks with my everyday attire. Maybe it's just those lousy old nostalgic feelings creepy in, but in high school I felt like I took more risks and pretty much wore whatever I liked. Maybe because high school is a much more contained and comfortable environment that university, but you'd think after the almost three years of uni that I'd be 100% settled in... but I guess not? I don't know, but I DO know that about half my closet needs to see the light of day more often, THIS skirt included:
skirt - DIY, t-shirt - H&M, denim shirt - Dad's, scarf - gift, boots - thrifted

I made this skirt about 2 months ago from a long, cotton t-shirt dress that I thrifted. To make it, basically all I did was cut off the top part of the dress, including the collar, cut off the sleeves and sewed the holes closed, then put in an elastic waistband on the top. Since the dress I used had an ugly graphic on it, I wear the skirt inside out so the graphic is on the inside. The seams don't really show so it looks fine even with the raw edges exposed.
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I haven't gotten a chance to wear the skirt yet, but I fully intended to while I was making it! Obviously this thing begs to be gothed up, but I tied to keep it kind of basic with just a graphic tee, a scarf, and to girl-ify the look I threw in some pink lipstick (Lady Gaga for MAC) and blush. Namely, my inspirations were grunge (with the granny boots and oversized shirt) and Andrew from Kell on Earth... wanted to channel his flannel (OMG rhymez) but this denim thing was the closest I could find to plaid. Obviously this outfit isn't going to be blowing anyone's mind with it's overwhelming originality or theatrics, but I'm working in baby steps here... babysteps.
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Any other outfit suggestions for a clued-out girl and her long-ass skirt??

Monday, February 22, 2010

Show me your teeth

My reading week is officially over as I was back to classes today. As I mentioned before, any actual reading has been avoided to the extreme, and I mostly filled up the 10 beautiful days with shopping, crafting, and watching movies. On Saturday I watched The Hunger, whilst making chocolate fondant in a toaster oven. I know, I party HARD.
So this movie, The Hunger, with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, is my my opinion an amazing film. Without saying too much about the plot, it's basically a movie from the 80's about imortality, vampires, and most importantly it is a movie about SUNGLASSES

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I've come to the conclusion that I want to become David Bowie. No clue how, but seriously... LOVE this man.
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Urrrg, I can't get over how beautiful this movie is. Ok, so the movie isn't actually about sunglasses but I counted at least seven pairs of gorgeous specs. Obvi I needed to make an outfit inspired by this movie, broken down like so:
1) A blazer, representing the power-dressing trends of the 80's. This was a big part of the wardrobe, although my screencaps don't show it.
2) Obviously a good pair of sunglasses! These are really similar to the ones Bowie wore in the beginning of the film.
3) My Egyptian skull mummy t-shirt. Symbolic of the Egyptian pentants with hidden dagger, WHICH I WANT, worn by each of the lovers.
4) My garisson cap thrown in there as the female lead rocked one in a few scenes. SO GOOD!
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

It's a cruel world to face on your own

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I can't beleive my reading week is almost over! Of course I haven't done as much as I would have liked to, but in my defense I've been sick for a few days, don't have glasses so I can't really do much reading, and my serger is wack so any major sewing projects have been put on hold. I'm not complaining though! These new drop crop pants have cheered my up quite a bit, and these boots, which you can't really see here, are also helping to heighten my mood.
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On another front, I'm starting to scrounge up some plans to go to England again this year. I'm hoping to go around the end on June because I want to take some summer courses but still make it to England in time to go to some music festivals. I've never been to one so UK peeps start giving me tips in the comments!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

When we're young, we get seasick

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Yet another Aritzia purchase: this white top, which is kind of like a long, diagonally cut crop top. It just begs to be layered, and after cleaning out my closet I think its about time to start experimenting and STOP BUYING! I've bought a lot lately, and....er... I bought even more stuff last night. I swear, I'm done now. No more buying for at least a month. I also (finally) ordered some glasses, which are pretty amazing if I say so myself. Can't wait to show them off when they come in next week! For now, I'm just ready to enjoy my reading week with some ACTUAL reading, some painting, sewing, crafting, baking, and maybe even some paper-writing. Cheers!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Winter's cold is too much to handle

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New boots!! Scooped them up Friday instead of going to my only class OOPS! I swear, I'm a good student! Well, I will be. My reading week (a.k.a. spring break) is next and I plan to actually read and hopefully start on a few papers. If I can just get through this week (paper and a test on Thursday) then I think I'll be fine. I just need to get used to reading and working everyday instead of letting it all pile up, especially since I get stressed out extremely easily... wait, wasn't I talking about shoes before? DON'T DISTRACT ME, UNIVERSITY!!! I'm blogging important shiz here!! So yeah, these boots are my new obsession. They're so grunge and the square toe adds just a touch of ugly, which I love.

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Dis sweatah is also new, bought it at Aritzia (of all places) last week. It's humongous and has a nice shape to it: bat wing sleeves and shorter in front/longer in the back. I think I've worn it about 3 times since buying it... and may have slept in it once...
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And because I can't get enough of this video, I'm going to share it with you now. You're welcome.


Saturday, February 6, 2010

That wierdo with five colours in her hair

I'm not going to start with a big 'ol shpeel about how "colourful hair is back!!" but, yeah... it is, and in a big way in the blog-world anyways. Not to sound pretentious, but I've had a thing for bright hair for years now. I remember seeing a beauty editorial in Teen Vogue (ah TV, how I used to love you! Now you're filled with Twilight stars and not-so-convincing arguments about how denim is SO big this year, which really just doesn't float my boat) a few years ago with some crazy coloured fake hair stuffed in big ponytails with a million hair accessories bouncing around everywhere. To make sure this colourful vision isn't something I just made up (I do tend to do such things when pondering magazine editorials), I scoured through my huge stack of Teen Vogues that I've collected over time. Am I the only one who keeps magazines FOREVER? I mean, I can't even allow myself to cut things out of my mags never mind throwing them out! These are sacred fashion artifacts!! I even still have stacks of Cosmo Girls from when I was in grade 11! Oops, maybe shouldn't have admitted that... ANYWAAAYS, after sifting though about 35 Teen Vogues, in the VERY LAST issue in my stack I found the editorial. Slightly less amazing than I remember, but still pretty good.
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My point is with all of this is that I LOVE RAINBOW HAIR, but I'm not one to commit to anything, and bleaching and dying the mane I've been growing out for 7 years is just not happening. Sooooooooo, y'all know I had to think of a DIY for this!
Things you'll need for this hair DIY (first one EVER on the blog... yey!) are bobby pins, mini hair elastic(s), hair straightener, and most importantly your fake, candy-coloured hair. People, you need to suck up your pride and start scouring your Claire's and other such fine establishments to find this. The DIY will depend on what kind of hairpiece you can get your hands on, but I'm going to show you what to do using a row of fake hair, like the ones used for extensions. I found mine in the toys section of a dollar store which was SUCH a score that I'm going to go back and get a blue one too.
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You could always find a cheap blonde weave at a drugstore and dye it the colour you want, but I lucked out and I was really impressed with the one I found. Just my length and super soft! I bought it as this hair-headband, so to prep it I removed the braid, plastic headband, and cut off all the shimmery strands in it. Then I had one long weave-type piece to work with.
Just a warning: I overloaded on pictures here so bear with my narcissism for one post, k? Well actually, they're grainy and pretty unflattering as they're taken from my laptop's built in web cam, so not all that self-ingulgent. Maybe more pictures = clearer instructions? I hope so...
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First thing to do is to prep your hair by straightening it really well. I have naturally straight hair, but with all hair types you want your hair to blend with the fake hair as well as possible, therefore it should be pin-straights like the weave.
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Next, decide how far up on you scalp the hairpiece will go depending on the length of your real hair. I didn't want to cut mine so I'm placing it about half-way up the back of my head.
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Section off the hair on top and clip it aside, making sure the horizonal part is as straight as possible. I know, I look really hot right? Yooz like my bolo tie?? So country!
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This process was inspired by the time I got extentions a few years ago. If you've never had the, errrm, pleasure of having extentions put in, the way they did mine was basically they made horizontal cornrows on a few sections of my hair and then sewed in the extensions. Since I don't know how to do cornrows (so shocking, I KNOW) I'm just doing regular braids.
Take a small section of hair above your ear (or however far up or down on your scalp your putting yours in) and braid it.
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Do the same on the other side so you have 2 little braids on either side of your face. Then grab each braid and pull them back so they meet at the back of your head against the scalp. Use the small elastic to tie them together TIGHTLY. And I mean tight. You should have a mini facelift by the end of this!!! Ideally you want the braids to lie right along the horizontal hair part, but as you can see mine's below it. Sorry, I was rushing...
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The last step was kind of hard to photograph, but basically all your doing is bobby-pinning the hair to the braid. Use about 10 bobby pins. No need to overload, but make sure it's secure so you can dance yourself crazy later. You will be really happy with rainbow hair, garanteed!!
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What it should look like when pinned properly:
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Then you just take the top clip out and give your head a shake! I would NOT recommend running your straightner through your hair again, don't want to risk melting the fake stuff. Just make sure you do a really good job straightning in the beginning.
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There you have it. Rainbow coloured hair for commintment-phobics everywhere. Rejoice!!Aaaand, of course, some manditory hair flippage. I told you you'd wanna dance!!

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Note the Rodarte for Target lace cardigan!! Tavi had a contest on her blog to give away a few of these bad boys. I didn't enter, but she sent some to a few bloggers, including myself, just because she's so dang nice! Thanks again gurlie! Check out how Isabel rocked it too. Sooooo good.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Not everything is what you say it is, that's just the way it is

Blaaah. So, a week without a camera has been pretty suckish. I feel so bad about not updating at all buuuuuut I've got a cool post for this weekend which is BURSTING with picture-y goodness. Well... they're webcam pictures but for what they lack in quality they make up for in quantity. Wait, that's not really a good thing is it?
Anyways, here's what I wore yesterday. Crappy camera phone pics made crappier by the editing skills of yours truly. On the other hand, I recomend that everyone start wearing their skirts upside down. It's a very liberating experience, I feel very ~avant garde~ and edgy when I do such things. Like, "YEAH MY SKIRT IS UPSIDE DOWN, WHAT OF IT??". That's what I would say if someone asked but nobody cared so I just amused myself, really.

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blazer - Zara, tank - thrifted, belt - le chateau, skirt - thrifted, tights - express, socks - ???
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Taken in front of a bedsheet (which now acts as the door to my sewing room) from the era of my mom's southwestern decorating phase in the early 90's. I swear, our whole house was filled with potted cactii, pastel tones, and pictures of sombreroes. I kid you not.
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