Nu Hair

Dress/ Goodwill Glendale, Shoes/UNIF, Coat/ Portabello Market

$up,
I've been on the verge of a cold for the past couple of days and it finally took over yesterday. mehhh. I took these photos yesterday after the christmas shopping madness before I felt really ill. I have a nu hair do as of a couple days ago, and I have to say, I love love love the way it came out. My old blonde/green wasn't cutting it any more. It may be hard to see from the picture but there are two different blues in my hair. It is dark blue at the roots and then it fades into a lighter blue. I can't wait to see how it looks when it all fades. I think thats my favorite thing about dying my hair, the way it looks when it is faded.

I got this dress the other day at goodwill in glendale. I was going to a party that night that called for ugly christmas sweaters, so I headed to sun thrift in sunland, which is my usual go to store, but they were randomly closed for an hour. Miffed, I drove out to glendale to buy hair dye and then I spotted the goodwill. I didn't find an ugly christmas sweater, or really any sweaters that were christmasy or ugly, but this dress caught my eye. I had to have it. I also bought this really tacky (In the best way possible) jacket with black fringe. I'll have to wear it in the upcoming posts so you can see it. my my I love tacky things.

Music- I love this song so much. It's so happy/sad and a little eerie.

Change of Season

$up,
The days are getting colder up here and the Californian in me is confused and doesn't know how to dress warm enough. This weekend it dropped to 50 degrees. It feels weird because this is how cold LA gets in the winter time, so I feel like Christmas is going to be any day now. It's weird but it cheers me up whenever I get down. I really do love this time of year, there are so many holidays and a lot of events are happening. It's really exciting!

Over the weekend I met Izzy Barter, a London fashion blogger down at Portabello. She had contacted me on facebook, and it was really great because I was in some desperate need of some kind of friendship. She was so friendly and we got along really well, I am really happy to have met her. For those of you who have never herd of her, her blog is really cool, check it out here.

College the second time around (As I have written so many times before) is a lot different, but I think it is largely me, and my attitude that changed. I spend a lot of time on my own, which bothered me at first, but I think I have so much more respect for it because it forces you to be your own best friend. I think with the invention of the internet teenagers kind of lost their famous "angst" because they could be connected to one another but they gained a whole new level of insecurities because there is so much information that is available to us. We see and meet people online all the time, and you can present yourself however you want because you have time to think about it. People hardly meet organically anymore, and when they do sometimes they are a bit awkward because they don't have the internet wall to hide behind. There is also this need for approval or need for companionship which is unhealthy. I think that we need to learn to be alone and love ourselves for who we really are, and then the companionship that we so desperately seek will come. Thats something I have been thinking about for a while.

I don't want to post this look onto lookbook because I really am not into my hairdo. I got it cut over the weekend because the last time I got it colored they completely fried my hair. The hairstylist cut my bangs way to short, but I am not that upset about it because it's going to look cute when my hair grows out a little bit. I was supposed to be apart of a hair show this past week but after they colored my hair, they said it was to damaged but they offered up a free haircut, so I took it. Hair salons are tricky. I had a really great one back home, and I really need to find that here, because this haircut is not going to happen every again. He didn't even style or blow dry my hair after cutting it, he just scrunched it and let me go, and that is how it turned out. Not into it.

Music- I saw rent for the first time over the weekend and I have had this song stuck in my head ever since. I think its pretty good though. For those of you who don't know, my guilty pleasure is musicals, so theres that.

Nu Shues

Music- Marvin Gaye- Got to Give it up. I know this seems a little weird, (or at least I feel weird doing it) but my friend told me that I should put the music before everything else because then you can get the whole experience. et me know what you think.

$up,
Not much has happened the past couple days. I've still been house/dog sitting. Im still kind of bummed that I had to do it over the weekend, but whatever today it my last day. I am glad that I had some pictures stored up on computer of outfits so I would have something to do though. This picture was taken a little bit before I left for camp. I wasn't really sure if I wanted to post it because my hair is a little out of control, but I guess I'm just going to post it. I got these really awesome shoes off of etsy for like 70 bucks, and Im super stoked on them, they are really wonderful. A tad uncomfortable but they just need to be broken in. This dress I got at H+M a couple years ago. I don't really wear it that often anymore, but I decided to do something different, to match the shoes. The shirt is from American Apparel, they are very good for some nice place shirts, skirts and pants. One of the necklaces I am wearing was found deep in my closet, its kind of strange because it wont just lay flat.


Oh and the last thing, I also created a facebook page, (I know, kind of douchey) but its for my blog, I would love it if any of you guys that actually read my blog would like it. Check it out!

90s goth

The past couple days have been strangely difficult for me. I have had a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach like something bad is happening or about to happen. I can't seem to feel okay about myself and the things I am doing (or not doing.). Its bizarre.

On the 4th I went to a party for this record label called Mother Turf. My friend Lauren is really into all the bands and the people that go to their parties. She's been telling me about them for a couple weeks, so I went with her to this party. When we got there, there was a mix of people that were super open and friendly and then there were people that looked at you like why the fuck are you here. Really though, there are those type of people everywhere. The people I did meet were very nice and I had some great conversations with them. I spent most of the party talking to my friend Gino though, if he wasn't there I don't think I would have had as much fun as I did. I always enjoy sitting down and having a deeper conversation with someone at a party instead of drunkly running around shallowly talking to 30 asking them if they are having fun. I like to really get to know someone, and I think a lot of people are actually taken back by that. Anyway Gino and Zoe (my other friend) were dressed 90s goth, and I loved it, so It inspired me to dress 90s goth yesterday.

I am wearing a black dress that I am pretty sure was sewn wrong, that I got at forever 21. Not a huge fan of that store, but I have found some gems there before for pretty cheap. The material of this dress is really comfortable, but I have to wear a bra with is, because its the kind of material that just shows everything, if you know what I mean. I am wearing my black club kid heels that I got from Sun Thrift. I can't get enough of them lately, they go with everything! This flannel that I have tied around my waist I actually don't remember buying. I actually don't really remember how I got it. Its very warm though.


Music- This is CHVRCHES - GUN (GROUNDISLAVA REMIX). I found it on my favorite music blog. I love wedidit collective and all the friends of friends boys. Their music always makes me feel something which I think is kind of lacking from most electronic music. I think a lot of electronic music sounds really cool and its fun to dance to, but it doesn't make me feel anything. Beat music produced by these guys kind of changes that. Give it a listen see here.

Nobody

$up,
So a friend of a friend approached me about modeling some of his clothing for his company "Nobody LA". He is this super awesome photographer that takes pictures at events around LA (Check out his photos here) and then he started to make his own clothing. He gave me a shirt and a beanie. If you haven't noticed, I fucking love beanies so I was really excited to get a Nobody LA beanie. I was eyeing that beanie for sometime so I'm very happy I got one. I am not typically a fan of graphic t-shirts, but this shirt is sooo comfortable and its a tight fitting shirt. I also really love the 00 on the back of the shirt. As you may have seen on any other fashion blogs Jerseys are really in right now. Most of the time I have trouble wearing t-shirts and making them look good, I think its because I have pretty narrow shoulders, but I decided to put it over a button up shirt. I saw someone on lookbook do it and it looked so cute, so i figured I would give it a shot. I wore a plain navy skirt to match my hair (Its my moms). I wanted to wear some patterned stuff with this outfit because I love patterns, so I wore these cute Lion socks that I got at Urban Outfitters a while ago. I wore my Ego and Greed platform sandals because they showed off my cute socks.

I really like this company and I love the photography that he takes. He is one talented person. I love promoting small businesses because those are the best kinds of businesses. I like things that are low key, this company is low key right now. The prices are very good, t-shirts are $15-20 and the hats are $20-25. Please check them out!


Shop Nobody LA: http://shop.nobodyphotography.com/ Check out Nobodys facebook page:


Music: I am obsessed with little dragon, you have no idea.

4th

This is my attempt at being patriotic. Now that my hair is blue, I have to stray away from certain articles of clothing because I will look to goth or my worst nightmare of being scene or emo. I decided today I am going to wear red lipstick even though it doesn't really go with my hair. Sometime wearing things that don't go together really makes me feel a scene of originality and power but other times it makes me feel icky. I don't really know why, I guess it kind of just depends on what it is. Red and blue together makes me feel icky, but today its okay because its the 4th of july! AND BOY IS IT HOT. I'm realising more and more how much I really don't like the heat, thank god next month I will be in England were the high is 70 degrees. I made this skirt for Coachella and I love wearing it, I am a sucker for sheer things. The leotard is not a bathing suit, its a leotard, and its from american apparel. Its very comfortable and I really love to wear it, but I have a lot of trouble making it look good with other articles of clothing. I think it looks really well with the skirt though. Its really to hot to be on my computer right now, so I am going to take a dip in the pool! HAPPY 4th!


Music- My Sharona, The Knack