Won't go without my fix tonight

It might be kind of self-evident at this point, but I've been taking a break from computers for a while and it feels pretty good.... that's why I haven't been forcing myself to post and my twitter account has been pretty dead as well. Nevertheless, I've got a few pictures to share today, and more importantly a few from my Goth Tea Party this past Saturday. I'll post those soon. The party went well, but my costume wasn't quite complete at the time, and being the perfectionist that I am I might need to just take all new pictures of myself once it is done (as I'll be wearing it to a few Halloween things I have lined up).
If you're curious as to what I've been wearing the past few weeks, these pictures pretty well represent my current outfit moodboard: lazy, dark, and simple (although I've kind of been like this for a while, hey?).

I dried this tank maxi dress on a hanger, so when I put it on the straps stretched out the tiniest bit and to my (somewhat pathetic?) delight the dress now grazed the floor on me WITH wearing heels. I'm happy, you're happy, we're all happy.
(um, what up with my face/hair in these? Whatevs, horrible pictures is what I get for taking pictures with my phone, balancing against the t.v. remote)
This jacket I thrifted before I went to England but didn't pack it on my trip because of the questionable bat wing-esque shape of the sleeves. Seeing these pictures confirms that I really do need to take the sleeves in, but other than that it's a pretty rad jacket, no? The mesh leggings are from Aritzia, and the lace booties are from Topshop.
Unfortunately that's all I've got for you today... wish I could come up with a more creative post. How about I avoid waiting 2 weeks between posts, and we'll call it even ;)

Hot damn make me scream like summer jam

I wasn't really going for some "autum themed" pictures, but when I look at these I can't help but think of FALL. All the leaves, the cozy knitted sweater, etc. I thrifted this sweater the other day, and like most things I buy it looks cuter in my head than it does in real life. It's still kind of cute in a "my Gramma madez it" kind of way. What I was really on the hunt for was the perfect cable knit, oatmeal coloured sweater (I keep being tempted to say "jumper", but then remind myself "you're not in England anymore, gurl!") and bought this cream one cos I hate leaving a store empty handed... how's that for a shopping philosophy! Maybe that's why I'm broke all the time....
Today I quickly popped into Value Village, although another price hike means I feel like I'm being robbed every time I leave that store. Seriously, the prices are ridic. I'm going to really try and stick to Goodwill and Salvation Army from now on. Anyways, I bought this long-sleeved wrap dress and plan to wear it open like a long cardigan type deal. I think it looks pretty ferosh.

A perfect example of VV's ginormous price increase: these boots. I was browsing through the shoes section when I saw possibly the most interesting pair of shoes I've ever come across at Value Village: a pair of thigh-high, black patent leather stripper boots. Ooooooh yes my friends, I went there.

Immediately I went to the price tag and my heart sank. 40 DOLLARS FOR A PAIR OF SECONDHAND BOOTS!! I'm not lying, 39.99! I slipped one and almost started crying as the boot perfectly molded to my foot. I looked over the boots again, and realized the back of them were all torn up. I miracle in disguise! I figured I'd try to get a price discount as these were clearly very damaged and the price was ridiculous enough even if they were in good shape. At first the girl at the till said 10% off was the best she could do, so I said I wouldn't take them. Then as she was ringing me up for the wrap dress, she looked over them again and offered 20% off. I didn't want to push my luck, and couldn't stand to leave them there so I bought them. Still horribly overpriced, but you guys JUST LOOK HOW AMAZING

I didn't just buy them to prance around my house in, I actually plan to wear them to my Goth Tea Party that I'm having two Saturdays from now. Such a good idea, right? I've wanted to have one for ages, and even made a design on photoshop for the invitations months ago. I figured Halloween is as good a time as any to dress up in all black and eat massive amounts of cupcakes and sweets.

This is my heart and I won't allow the disrespect

Why hello there. Have you met my middle part?


Haven't done a center part in my hair since fourth grade. FOURTH GRADE, GUYS. And now it's every day. When you have long, straight hair like mine, and kind of change is pretty darn exciting. Oh, and also I fully realize these pictures are almost identical to the last post. What can I say, when I find a white wall I get a little too excited.


This is pretty much what I've been wearing every day: leggings, t-shirts, a flannel or jacket, and these shoes which I ALMOST PUT DOWN but thank goodness I came to my senses and bought them immediately. They're faux leather platforms from H&M, which unfortunately my mom has taken a shine to so it looks like we're going to have to go splitsies with them. They actually have them on the H&M online shop so my mom could have a pair of her own, but of course they don't ship to Canada so that suxxx. To any of my UK blogging friends reading this, you may be getting a desperate "help me can you ship these to me please??!" email real soon.

She had her hair done, nails right

Today a friend helped me colour the blonde bits in my hair to get the some of the yellowness out... I kind of want it to be as white/grey as possible. You can see some parts look really white while other parts are a bit bronze. This is because of the streaky bleach job I have, so if I want it snow white I'd have to bleach it again. Not sure what I want yet, but I think it looks fine for now.

Yesterday I bought these horribly ugly (yet amazing?) stick on nails with, that's right, cobras on them. I think fake nails are going to be my new thing. Don't have the patience to grow mine, plus if I want to do some crazy designs then painting them on fake nails would be way easier.

I haven't forgotten about the blog completely, I really will get back to regular posting asap. Love u.

Shake me till you wake me from this bad dream

I know I said I'd try to post before the weekend, but now it's well past the weekend and you've still been staring at the dusty post below, wondering where the heck I am. Sorry about that. Here's just a quick post saying that I got home fine (after 18 hours of solo travelling) and the blog will be back in full force very soon. I've got some kind of ear and throat infection combo, so prancing around in pretty dresses and taking photos of myself are not exactly at the top of my agenda. PLUS I really need to get on the job hunt again now that I'm back home. All those London shopping spree charges on my credit card aren't going to pay themselves!

I know you're not a bluffer I'll take you to go see Usher

I'm trying to squeeze in a quick post here as I'm going to be out of London until Tuesday (popping over to Plymouth!) and then Wednesday I'm jetting off back to Canada! No offence to London/Londoners, but I'm really ready to get out of this place and snuggle back into Winnipeg... even if that means facing questionable weather and draining my bank account for a last minute flight and excess baggage fees, AS LONG AS I'LL BE HOME ALIVE I DON'T CARE.
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So on Saturday, with a little last minute coach booking, I spent the day in Birmingham to hang out with Selina of Flying Saucer one more time before I left England. We met at the coach station and popped into this big yellow vintage store across the street called Cow Vintage. I was quite pleasantly surprised by the selection and prices, but was planning on not buying anything as I'm pretty shopped out at this point, not to mention that I often use the "I can buy secondhand at Goodwill when I get home" excuse.

We checked out a few shops in the main shopping area called the Bullring, including the required stop at Topshop. I loooooooove this jumper which is a clear knock-off of the interweb-famous Dries van Noten one I had in that collage I made a few weeks ago. Although I love the faded pink colour of this one, I'm not sure how well it settled against my "fair" skin. It also comes in a kind of wine, purple-ish, burgundy colour which I wasn't in love with either, so decided to pass on it. Sad, but I'm glad I'm learning how to exercise self-restraint.

Then again, if any of you want to encourage me to decide otherwise then I can always make a last minute Topshop run before I leave! Haha

Oh and I also did a changeroom photo of my outfit for that day: H&M leopard body-con, DIY vest, vintage eBay-ed boots.

I also kind of forgot that I took some outfit pictures a few days ago. I call this my "All-American Trash" look, with denim on (acid wash) denim and trashy tank. This was actually one of my favourite t-shirts from a Bloc Party concert I went to last year. It's a men's XL and the sleeves were getting so stretched out and sweat-stained I decided to cut them off. You can't really tell from the pictures but the arm holes are HUGE so this is defo a bra flashing/side-boob kind of tank.

Look at my white nails! My gel nails were getting really grown out and started lifting so I had to go to a salon to get them taken off. I was all excited, hoping that when they came off they'd reveal some lovely, long, strong nails that I could try all kinds of new nail art with. What I got was some stubs that are so weak and flimsy that this nail polish has cracks in it from bendy nails. Not cool. Now I have to basically wait untill my nails grow out completely until I can try anything too exciting.

Since I'm home Wednesday night, I'll for sure be able to post before or on this weekend. Talk to you soon from across the pond!

Me I'm a creator, thrill is to make it up

The other day I started putting an outfit together but didn't really know what kind of look I wanted, but knew I didn't want to throw on the same ol' leggings and tee combination, you know? I started grabbing things out of my closet (which doesn't happen to have a lot going on at the moment) to see what I could come up with. Since I don't really have a mirror in my room I thought I'd do the ol' Cher Horowitz tip and take a pictures of my outfit to help me decide... I know I know, it's not the authentic polaroid method but a digital camera will do too.

Started out with my tank maxi dress and threw on the asymmetrical Topshop top on overtop... wow I just managed to use the word "top" three times in one sentance. Go me!

Felt too shlubby with all those long, loose layers so tried to belt it up.

I felt the plastic belt was too thick, tried a thinner one on and I think it looks much better.

Realized this might be a good opportunity to try out my black Lennon sunglasses I bought in Camden a week ago. I'm trying REALLY hard to not style them too 90's, I feel like it's too predictable. I'm trying to make them mesh with other types of looks, and not just throw them on with my flannels and crop tops, yaknowwhatImean??

And to lessen the Grecian Godess effect of this outfit, I threw on my moto jacket. Note the fancy new elbow patches! haha

Well wasn't that fun?! Dissecting the outfit making process! Sometimes I think about how other people put together an outfit, I'm sure we don't all do it the same way. How do you put together an outfit? Tell me your secret methods!!