Total eclipse of the heart

This is the outift I wore today, nothing too special... actually really sloppy if I think about it: extremely worn-in jeans, a sweatshirt, and my EXTRA AMAZING PLATFORMS which have no arch to them so it's just like wearing flats. I took these with my new tripod, which, after only taking a few photos with, I've fallen in love with and now don't know how I lived without it. I have two other tripods but they're both broken in some way, so fingers crossed this one stays intact!
My Reading Week (aka Spring Break, aka ENGLAND & SWEDEN FEST!) plans are starting to take shape. I've booked my flight to Sweden, booked my hostel, but most importantly I've applied for my London Fashion Week pass! I left just before LFW last fall, so I'm really happy I'll be around to go this time. I've pretty much only been able to reserve one day for FW festivities, as I'm travelling with a friend and can't exactly leave him hanging around alone half the trip, haha! More on that later!

I don't speak German, but I can if you like

Looking through my blog lately I see there's a lot of ME ME ME going on... I'm guessing you all are getting a bit sick of my face at this point. I like blogs that are more on the personal side, but I like a good mix of personal style, street style, runway, and just other bits and bobs that don't necessarily have to do with fashion. That's what I want my blog to be: a mix of everything... with an emphasis on personal style and DIY. I like that my posts don't follow any particular format, even though it means starting from scratch when formulating and writing each one... it keeps things interesting! Maybe as readers you don't really notice, but a lot of blogs seem to follow the same structure post after post. DON'T GET ME WRONG I'm not saying this is a bad thing! I just like the fact that my blog always keeps me on my toes.
Ok I don't know if I'm making any sense, nor do I know why I'm rambing like this. CARRYING ON! No pictures of me in this post, as part of this new goal to mix it up a bit more. Here are a few pictures I've had saved in my "hair" folder. I never thought I would be one of those people who change their hair every week (you know the type!), always showing up with a different colour or style. But since I made the leap to (half) bleached hair, I feel like I still want to experiment with some other colours. I've had violet (as you may remember), but now I'm REALLY into the idea of a washed out green, as well as mermaid blue and maybe even bright yellow. I know, I know, some of you are thinking "eww green??!" but I don't care, I think it looks effing amazing and I'm more than tempted to get this manic panic shade and mix it with a white toner to wash it out a bit.

(sources clockwise: unknown, Facehunter, Drop Tokyo, I Love Fake magazine, Drop Tokyo)

As much as I want to get dying, I want to wait while my hair grows out a bit. See, I got my hair rebleached about 2 weeks ago and I'm so not happy with it... the front has only about 3 inches of brown, the blonde is so far up and it just doesn't look blended all over... it looks like the bleach was painted on, just really choppy. Idk... I've mostly been parting it on the side or clipping back the front parts (see my hair in the previous post) to make it look a bit better, but I guess there's not much else to do than for it to grow out and blend itself.
Oh wow, that was long and boring... did I mention I'm going to England next month? No? Oh, well I am! I'm going during my reading week, for about 12 days total. One of my best friends has been going to school in Plymouth for the past year so I'm going with a friend to visit her. While we're over there, my friend and I decided we want to visit somewhere in Europe for two days or so (we ain't sitting in Plymouth for 12 whole days, that's for sure!) and we've agreed on Sweden. Monki, Weekday, here I come!! ... no really, I've barely spent a penny on clothes in the last 2 months because it's all going to go to Sweden shopping. We're prob hitting up Gothenburg, so if you've been or you are Swedish, then feel free to leave some tips for places to go/see/show in the comments!

Put on my cape and hit the sky, heroine

Sometimes I get so overly excited when I'm thrifting, I end up buying things that, in hindsight, I would never wear. Enter this Grandma sweater, bought almost two months ago.

Now, it's not so much the design on the sweater that I came to have second thoughts about. Rather, when I brought it home I realized it had the BIGGEST HOLE EVER under the arm on one side. How could I have missed this?? Must have been in on of those aforementioned thrifting highs, where my brain can't function normally and logical thought just never enters into the equation.
As I'm usually too lazy to go back and return something thrifted, DIY was the only solution. Well, some may not classify this as a DIY... I basically just ripped the shit out of it.

I cut a huge section off the front to make it asymmetrical, then I just snipped out holes all over and pulled the yarn to shred it as much as I could. I might go at it a bit more, as I'm looking at these pictures now and thinking it doesn't look as messed up as it could...

I also thrifted the PERFECT SHOES last week that would go flawlessly with this outfit. Ok y'all, you ready?... Are you sitting down?...

I beleive in fate, and these shoes are proof that it exists. I saw them first at a Goodwill downtown while shopping with Raez, but they were like a size 6, or something ridiculously small that would never fit my size 10 canoe-feet. But their clunky, schoolgirl-type charm left an impression on me, and then weeks later, while thrifting with Andrew at Value Village, I saw the exact SAME SHOES... IN MY SIZE! What are the chances, how often do you find doubles when shopping secondhand?? If that's not fate, my friends, then I don't know what is.

I knew they were the same shoes because how could I forget a pair of chunky MJ's with purple fur lining. I MEAN!!



When I saw them I thought of that Get Him to the Greek scene... if I ever get a heart attack I can just stoke the bottom of my shoes.

Like a dungeon dragon

Coat - Zara, "vintage" Playboy t-shirt - Urban Outfitters, shorts, thrifted

After (literally) months of eBay and internet searching, dreaming about shaggy faux fur coats every night (ok, slight exagerration), I finally took the plunge and ordered one. I ended up getting this Zara coat off of eBay, and although I love the shaggy/yeti/gorilla-ness of the fur, and shape is pretty good, I'm having second thoughts. It looks great in these pictures, but I'm still deciding if I like the way it looks on me IRL. Thoughts?


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Also, I've reopened Modernity with five different items still available. I've cut down the prices on everything, so no holding back now...
BUY MY STUFF!

The moment I said it

I have an obsession.

It's sick.

It's incurable.

It's taking over my life.

It's black maxi dresses.

(click to enlarge, bigtime)

Left to right: wrap dress - thrifted, lace dress - thrifted, skirt - H&M, t-shirt dress - ASOS, mid-length dress - thrifted, skirt - DIY, long sleeve dress - H&M, tank dress - Winners, dress with shoulder appliques - thrifted





And the newest edition to the family, thrifted just the other day


I have an illness.