Once again I see a piece of the sky

Ok so some explaination is needed for the location of these photos. Remember a few posts back when I mentioned my basement flooded? Well one of the rooms that was affected was my older brother's childhood room, which, as you can see, is fully decked out in posters and magazine cut-outs of motocross, Puff Daddy (why?), and various wrestling parephenalia (remember when wrestling was cool? Again, why...?). Another brother moved down to this room a few months ago and hasn't taken anything down, so I'm using the opportunity to take pictures in this rank, flooded, and overall hideous room. You like?


My newish satchel here again, sans-fox tail. A kid I was babsitting (YES I STILL BABYSIT, OK?? It pays and I basically do nothing but watch iCarly and eat their food) was playing with the tail and it RIPPED! I didn't even know fur could just fall apart like that! I'm going to try to fix it but I'm not sure it will make a full recovery.


Although this picture is pretty hideous facially, (past caring about "looking pretty" on the blog. It's MY BLOG and I'll be ugly if I wanna!) I needed to show this jacket. Last night I went to a midnight showing of Eclipse (which was SO GOOD btw) and I wore it because it has always reminded me of Edward's coat in the first movie... just another bit of nerd-formation.
Perhaps a prettier picture after all that dark and dank basement stuff? These are my nails I did two days ago after watching Gem Fatale's tutorial on how to do leopard print nails. This girl is a nail wizard and her blog is one of my newest favourites, I just love her to death!

The black bits are done with liquid eyeliner. Such a good idea! I used this jank old sparkly crap that doesn't look very good on eyes, but looks good on the nails! Can you see the tiny sparkles? ...You know what else sparkles? Edward. Okay enough Twilight stuff, GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!
ps- A quick rant before I go! At the movie last night we were waiting in the theatre for like 2 hours before the show started cos we wanted to get good seats (at New Moon we had to sit in the 3rd row, major neck sore!). My group of friends and I were chatting, filling time before the movie, then about 20 mins before it started I said to my friends "Ok guys make sure your phones are off!", and this girl sitting right in front of me said completely out loud "Why don't you turn off your mouth!". My jaw just dropped. I never experience that kind of uncalled for bitchiness with strangers, it was just so unnessesary! She didn't even have the guts to turn around and say it, she was looking forwards but said it clearly loud enough for me to hear. I was like "whhhhhaa...?". Then she turned to her friend and repeated what she just said, again in a normal speaking voice for us to hear. I was just like wow, that was rude. The movie or trailers hadn't started yet, everyone in the huge theatre was talking, and obviously I was planning on shutting up when the movie started! I let it go cos I am NOT into drama, but I mean... so rude. Does this kind of stuff happen to any of you often? I'm curious.

Underneath it all I'm vulnerable

If Jay-Z had to describe this outfit it would be "all black everything". Wait... that wasn't funny. It sounded better in my head, okay?
This is me not bothering to colour-coordinate, wearing the same t-shirt more than should legally be allowed, and pretty much looking boderline homeless in these ratty jeans. I thrifted them at the $1 Goodwill sale with the intention of cutting them into shorts, but when I slipped them on this morning I had a change of heart. I kind of like the mom-jean shape of them, and now I don't think I could bear to cut them. I have a thing about vandalizing clothing, it just feels wrong no matter how much the piece cost.

This bag is the one I was talking about before, the one that is so perfect for the fox tail. It's just so beautiful. I've wanted a little satchel-type bag for a long time, and finding this bag was like fate as I also found it on sale at Goodwill for just $2.99. I'm a little jealous of my OWN thrift finds lately, they've just been too good!

Fine, fresh, fierce, we got it on lock

I guess this could be considered an outfit post...? But really, it's just a lazy filler post. Basically, my friends and I went to a fair tonight and now I'm going to post a million pictures of me with slightly different backgrounds, basically sucking up every bit of camera attention possible. ENJOY


These shorts and this crop top are both new, found them on Saturday at a Goodwill. Goodwill had a sale on where all clothes and shoes were $1!! Insane! So basically this outfit cost $2. And can we discuss how rad this crop top is?? Who has been to Valleyfair in Minnesota? That shiz is the bomb.




Took literally dozens of pictures while waiting in ride lines. What else is there to do?

Spot the diva!! As you can tell, my friend and I dress nothing alike. On my left it's pure Abercrombie, and to my right... well, she's basically a full on Guidette. HA! Hopefully it goes without saying, but I usually don't dress this much like a hipster. You all can back me up right? Tell me my outfits are usually a little more imaginative!


There were also a lot of animals there. Hung out with some sharks...

Then in the petting zoo I had a heart-to-heart with a goat...

One goat started eating my purse... literally

I also almost kissed a llama, but that's another story for another time. My friend is completely obsessed with pigs (no lie, her WHOLE room is Monokuru Boo themed) so seeing some piggies was pretty much the highlight of her year. I could barely drag her away from this one little black potbelly piglet.



And finally we ended the night with some wholesome poutines and cheese fries. I won't lie to you, the poutine here is the only reason I come back every year.

Tell me how you've never felt delicate or innocent

Andrew of Pull Teeth and I have been playing blogger ping-pong for a while now, posting eachother's pictures back and forth and forcing most of you (I hope!) to see the same pictures twice. Well sorry about that but it's about to happen once more right now. Andrew got a new lense for his camera so we got together to take some pictures... nothing more than some innocent cam-whoring.

This purple tank top and I have been best friends lately. I kind of wear it every day. One of those thrift finds that you can't get enought of... we all have one!
And can we discuss these plastic framed cat-eyed sunnies? They're also a newly aqcuired obsession... when did the mall become cool again (I got these from Icings/Claire's!)??

Legs.

Coon tail.
Actually I thrifted a bag today that will be SO LV s/s 2010 once I add the tail. DIY designer, that's how we do.
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Oh, and here's Andrew looking all hot and fresh in his coveralls. Jealous yet?

Trying to be heroic in an age of modernity

Ok guys, the moment you've all been waiting for (right??)...
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MODERNITY

(a.k.a. my shop)

The time has come. I have finally, after months and months of promises, finished my shop. Now you can go ahead and max out your credit cards.

But seriously, I have worked so hard on this project, from creating the themes I wanted to work with, painstakingly contructing the pieces one at a time ALONE, to taking the pictures and putting together the final shop page that is Modernity.

To avoid sounding too convoluted and/or pretentious, I'll just say a few words on why I chose this particular title (there's a reason for everything, people!). Not only is modernity one of my favourite words (hi, language geek!) but what I really wanted to express with the things I make is that styles and trends are constantly changing and it's up to us, the fashion community, to create the future of fashion in our own personal ways. Instead of mourning over the past, and dragging on about how things "were better back in the day", we really need to continue to push forward and focus on the "now" rather than the "then".

What is considered "modern" is always changing, and it's up to us, right here and now, do define it. Like the title of this post ever so beautifully states (thank you Bloc Party), I am trying to carve out my own niche in what I consider "modern", whatever that may word mean to you, in clothing, fashion, and personal style. I beleive that the things I have made for this shop are not only %100 original in design, things you will never and have never seen before, but that they represent a new kind of aesthetic in their simple colours, bold graphics, and grotesque inspired themes that are represented in a very playful way. Hopefully when you see my pieces that you will feel the same way, and in some way connect with my personal vision of the future.

Okay so that WAS really long...

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You probably didn't read any of it anyways, so just CLICKY AND LOOK AT PRETTY THINGS!

She's got to love nobody

You might remember my makeup post from a few weeks ago where I swooned over Lady Gaga's lavender lipstick. Thanks to some internet trekking I found that perfect colour I've been lusting over for months. I remembered Selina of Flying Saucer had a post about Lime Crime makeup, which carries the brightest and most insane colours you'll ever find. Of course they had the exact shade of lavender that I was looking for so I ordered a tube after all the great things I've heard about Lime Crime.

Before I show you the makeup allow me to introduce you to my new favourite t-shirt. It's my brother's but I forced him to give it to me. OK, I think all those scene girl hair tutorials on Youtube have gone to my head...
Moving on! The shade I got is called D'Lilac and I kind of love it. I know a lot of you will probably hate this and think it's way too bright, but ya know me + subtlety just don't mix. Okay, and the fact that there are unicorns on the tubes?? I mean...




Selina matched her lipstick to her nails, Gaga matched it with her outfit, and I'm matching my lips with mah hair!

Have you discovered any great beauty products lately? Spill in the comments, I want to know all your secrets!

Look at that, look at how they lookin at us

Bleh, boring outfit post. I wore this top and clogs together a few post back so there's not much new here. What is new is that my basement has flooded from the ridiculous amount of rain we had a week ago, so we had to rip the carpets out of two rooms down there. At least it gave me a nice big white wall to take pictures in front of, HA!

Little bit of layout tweaks, if you haven't noticed. I realized that I didn't have any contact info on my sidebar, so if you want to email me, follow me on twitter, bloglovin, or ask me a question on formspring (always heard of that but never knew what it was untill now!) then just clicky on the round icons on the side... I mean icons literally in the sense that these people are some of my style icons. I love how jumbled my sidebar is getting with my own personal junk! Whatever, it's my blog and I can gush if I want to!

p.s.- Hair is entering granny territory. Can't really tell in these pictures but there's a helluvalotta gray in it right now as the purple keeps fading. Lovely.

I want to see you take the jackpot out the fruit machine

As you may have seen on Andrew's blog, I now have purple hair. For now. It's semi-permanent so no need to get used to it. It changes colour pretty much every day in fact, as it washed out more and more with every shampoo, and although I bought the tub labelled "violet" (Jerome Russell "punky color", fyi) my hair looked more blue after the first few washes. The colour was way too vibrant at first, I shampooed it almost 15 times in the first 2 days. Right now it's at a colour I like, and is getting more grey coloured as it continues to wash out.


This outfit I wore Sunday AND Monday.... I'm sure I'm not the only one who wears the same clothes two days in a row! When I get a good outfit together I like to make it last, ok? This little crushed velvet, skater dress number was thrifted...

...And I found a matching velvet belt with a little pouch on the side. So cute, and stores various lipsticks/jewelry/candy.

Besides important updates such as candy storage, you should also know that niceandshiny.blogspot.com is now:

HTTP://WWW.NICE-AND-SHINY.COM

That's right, Nice and Shiny now has it's own domain after over 2 years in motion. I thought it was about time to start upping my game, no? No need to change your links as the blogger address still works, but if you're cool then you'll get with the times and update with the new dot com name. Just sayin.