The lovely Natalia made this art...not me. Too lazy.

Boys and girls, here’s the thing about me and the outdoors.
We don’t really get along.
I’m pretty high maintenance, my max amount of outdoor time consists of a run in the woods behind my apartment (rarely), drinking on the beach at night (more frequently) or reading in parks with large hats on (most frequently).

So when it came time to plan my summer, my first thought was not;
“Lets climb a mountain, go camping for four days, run back and forth in the mud, mosh, sleep outside in the blistering sun, sleep in a car full of ants, eat only powdered doughnuts and peanut butter, and finally mostly-hitchike home from South Carolina.”

And yet, dear readers, all these things DID happen;
All these things AND MORE! At the brilliant and fabulous BONNAROO!!!

This week: Bonnaroo posts!!!!

Film Stock

So I know that I've been promising Bonnaroo posts for about a month now.....
Promises, promises.
I'm like that boy that never calls....
Instead, here is the most awe-inspiring thing I've seen all week.....a Gaultier couture gown
made of film strips.

Have you ever tried to sew film strips??
It's freaking impossible.
So it's decided then, when I am impossibly wealthy and up for an Emmy or Oscar (or even a Razzie) I will wear this dress to the ceremony. I will be criticized for being "too literal," but I will flick them off, then go do shots with my celebrity friends.

The exhaustive Bonnaroo post is coming soon, I promise!

Fun Things: Effy's makeup from Skins series three

So I've been watching Skins lately.
A LOT of Skins. Skins is a filthy filthy filthy British series (airing on Channel 4) that chronicles the lives of a group of drug-abusing, skull-bashing, smoking-drinking-backstabbing teens. It is MADE of awesome.
Anyway;
Like every night from 2am-6am.
Anyway.....I've been realizing slowly that Effy (actress Kaya Scodelario) and I have very similar eyebrows.

Kinda bushy, but tapered, and much darker than the rest of our hair. Anyway, from great opportunity springs creativity, so I decided to do more makeup experimenting. Yay!

Effy wears a really dark, arched smokey eye:


Which I then attempted, altering it slightly with the addition of some liquid liner. It's a crutch, I know it.



Sources:
Arched ECOTOOLS bamboo brush
Estee Lauder eyeshadows in 45 (Mink) and 33 (Silver Ball)
Urban Decay liquid liner in Perversion.

I think it's pretty cute. Def for man-eating club nights, I thinks.

Fun Things: Cheating Cheekbones with Black and White Photography

I can't remember who I was discussing this with, but this is how I cheat with makeup, and give myself higher cheekbones in b&w and color photography.



I normally look like this:

It's about as cheek-boney as I can appear without fancy-schmancy SFX makeup.

Classy? Classy? Classy?

Trampy trampy trampy!

As you can see, the B&W makeup looks heavy and trampy in color (actually I was trying to look more like Theda Bara, but failed) and the color makeup barely shows up in the B&W photos.

Plus, me with a (fake!) gun. Ohh...badass!

Freaky Bohemians

I haven't really dressed *cough* bohemian since high school, but it's hot and I'm lazy and I can't wear cardigans as shirts anymore.
Damn you, North Cah-lina weather!

Moving-back-in costume.


Sources:
Wilmington: Cotton skirt ($15, F21)
Jacksonville: Vintage Native American costume belt ($0, Dad's boy scout stash), Blousy teal top ($20, Marshalls), Leather-and-cork wedges ($15? So old that the labels have fallen off and I can't remember purchasing them)

Ten Day Vay-cay

I'm so sorry, my darlings.
I've been a terrible terrible lazy blogger, but honestly, do you really want pictures of me lounging about my apartment reading crappy 70s mystery novels, filling out job applications, or eating popsicles?

Anyway, here's a few pictures from a challenge Dahling posted on TheFedoraLounge.org;

Female James Dean:



Sources:
Wilmington:
Thrifted Gap Jeans ($15, Plato's Closet), Thrifted 30-hole Doc Martins ($30, Flashbax), Nine West sunglasses ($10, Ross), Dropkick Murphys tee worn backwards (free, inherited from Tinks)
London:
Faux-leather motorcycle jacket (about $20, high-street knockoff store)

Hopefully, as I begin leaving the apartment more to go on such exciting errands as:
-Meeting with my Bonnaroo carpool
-Registering with millions of temp agencies
-Daily pilgrimages to the library to write my Fetish or Feminist paper on Russ Meyer.
......I will begin dressing in more exciting outfits. Perhaps with sequins.

Cheers,
A.