A brand new hour of music and moodboard to match. What else do you want on a Monday morning?
If you're looking for previous playlists, they're all archived in my second playlist on Spotify here.
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Showing posts with label moodboard. Show all posts
Barely Even There
I'm looking at some pretty dresses for upcoming weddings (my own included!) and I'm gravitating more and more towards dresses that are basically beautiful swaths of blush and white minimalist flowing fabric held together by the tiniest strap. Not a fat strap that remind me of the highlights Kelly Clarkson circa when she won American Idol, but more the the kind of thing strap that is too fancy to be called "spaghetti." It deserves a better name if we're calling it a pasta, like Angel Hair, which implies heavenly clouds and naked babies with wings. But they are sexy, too — so no babies! These straps give you a little bit of a rush of anxiety in the way you ponder if the tensile strength of such a beautiful and dainty fabric strap could even hold up to the stresses of being a strap.
About An Hour : Feb. 9. 2015
I've got another one ready, and this one took me a while to complete for two reasons; a) I was pretty obsessed with the previous playlist I made, and b) because I wanted to make a mood board that I thought was worthy enough for it.
I hope you enjoy both!
If you're looking for previous playlists, they're all archived in my second playlist on Spotify here.
I hope you enjoy both!
If you're looking for previous playlists, they're all archived in my second playlist on Spotify here.
Stream of Consciousness: B/W
Clean closets, minmial wardrobes, quirky tomboys, tattoos, and Mansur Gavriel. I like how all of this is muted in white, gray, or black but still feels bright and girly to me.
Images: Garance Doré, Style.com, Pinterest, Mija Mija
Word Tutorial: Heidi Braids
This post is from 2013, so deal with this repost because this is still highly accurate and just know braids are rad for the holidays. My hair probably looks best when it's like this, so allow me to re-share the one thing I have to give to the world regarding hair. K?
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Braids are the easiest to do when your hair is dirty. This is a fact of life.
Here's how you get a messy French braid (I have shoulder length hair, so this is describing that length, FYI):
1. Shower then get dirty. Get your hair dirty with sea salt spray or literally rubbing lotion together in your hands and drying your hair. People like to pretend that it takes a fortune in products to make your hair texturey, but these are lies. Go work out, if you want. That's free salt water spray from your own head. I like making my hair dirty with sea salt spray, some oils, and some other creams — disclaimer: my hair is incredibly dry and I swear to you this combination makes the frizz go away. You don't have to shower, I guess. But if your scalp is itchy and too dirty, you will hate your life when you realize every time you scratch your itchy scalp you are ruining the beautiful braid fruits of your labor.
2. Dry your hair. This gives you a chance to look at all the annoying frizz and baby hairs that would have ruined your beautiful braids. Your hair should be horrendously coarse and maybe even sticky and poofy. This is most excellent, so don't panic. You're committed now. Alternatively: spray most of those flyaway suckers down with a hair spray while the hair is wet (mostly near the roots, this is where the baby enemies live). Don't over do it though. The key to all of this is it has to be kind of messy. So wage war against the frizz and baby hairs, but don't obliterate the species into slickness.
3. Comb your hair loosely with a wide-tooth comb. Or use your fingers as a brush. Seriously, most hair tools are just a silly ploy for your money. Your fingers will work just as much as that beautiful Mason Pearson wide tooth comb. This entire combing process just helps your fingers grasp the strands later because now the hair is all going in the same direction. Plus you've helped tame some of the mess you've just made with product.
4. Part your hair down the center, or, deep part it. I love the look of deep parts, so this is my go to. Start the part right where your eyeball is when you look straight forward, and brush all the way to the back of your skull. Take the brush and comb the line to straight perfection. You'll want to comb the back of your head into roughly two sections (one going left, one going right). This is not a science, you can be all willy nilly if you'd like. You'll look extra charming this way.
5. Rest and let some blood pool in your hands because you're about to put them above your head for what feels like hours.
6. Start french braiding your hair slightly in the center of the two major sections you've got. This is because you need hair ammo from each side of the braid to keep it going. Expert people can make a french braid by only feeding one side. I've tried this: it's hard but beautiful.
[Olga, how do you french braid, help plz.]
Watch this before you do anything.
7. Tie your hair once you've braided as far as you can braid. Use those little rubber bands they have at CVS since they are the best. Look: Your hair will look sloppy and you will look silly right now, but just remember you are not done. By the end of french braiding the sides of your heads you will have two tiny, sad looking braid ends. Don't even curr about it.
8. Grab an army of bobby pins and start pinning the braid end around your head. The neater your braid, the more pins you'll use. Also, the cleaner your hair is, the more pins you'll use. This is an adventure in mediocrity, so you do you, bb, and you'll be fine.
Just keep pinning them braids around the back of your head until you see them stay into a Heidi shape.
That's it.
Nihilism, aka The Holidays Are Here
I'm in a mood. And this is only a phase, so yes, it's going to pass. But in the meantime my posts (or desire to post) about fashion and other silly girl things are going to be a little bit jaded and a little sporadic — thank you Clueless for teaching me this word ages ago. While my sulking gray mood will pass with the holidays (it always does), I suspect my shopping behavior is changing permanently: I no longer want all the things. That thrilling feeling of new shit just doesn't cut it anymore. Maybe because I'm getting older —I had a birthday last week —and I'm being reflective and taking stock of my life in the past year. I've done a lot but I realize that my most personal and longest running project (this blog) is a challenge for me these days because as I grow older my focus on fashion is becoming a little more subdued, more boring I guess you can say if you're comparing my blog to other more colorful and exciting post-every-day kind of blogs. I just want to be thoughtful with my posts so that's why you're seeing so much less of them.
Disclaimer: It's not that I'm important enough to explain the gap in-between posts, but it's that you (the reader) is important to me that I feel the need to keep you hooked in some capacity with my honesty.
Music/Moodboard: Habits (Remix)
Dotted socks are a great way to make an otherwise black on black boredom outfit feel pretty damn cheerful. Also note: This is such a better version of this song. #sorrynotsorry
Music/Moodboard: I Wanna Go
Melanie Laurent for S MODA magazine
Keira Knightley wearing a creatively layered outfit of KITSHY ELEMENTS
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