Outfit #17

Here was my outfit yesterday. I was very excited about wearing my new jacket, and loved the hint of orange it gave my look.

H&M cami

UO shorts

Thrifted jacket

Outfit #16

This is my newest hairpiece.  It's called a peineta and the flamenco dancers usually wear them.  I found this small sized one in a local thrift store. 

Lauren the Explorette

On a nice spring day my friend Lauren, future explorette, was looking very stylish.  I snapped this bubbly shot just in time.

Outfit #15

Here I decided to try something new with my hair.  I used Manic Panic hair dye in Raven.  No, it's not very dark but I was still happy with the short change. 

H&M cami

Thrifted belt

Thrifted pants

Mom's jewelry

From the window...

One thing I love to do when I'm bored in the car is take pictures looking out the window (when I'm in the passenger seat, of course).  You have to look extra hard for nice buildings and wait for that perfect angle.  Here are two pictures I took while in New York. 

Dream Toy

As a little girl, I always wanted a doll that I could operate on.  So I drew the idea in a very gory and morbid manner.  

The girl is colored with india ink and water color on Arches paper.  The organs are made from modeling paste painted with acrylics.  

The rest is cut paper.  The last layer has red india ink for blood.

Regular thread connects the organs to the doll

Lips Solved

I've noticed that a lot of people stop me in public and ask what lip color I am wearing.  Everyone is always searching for that perfect lip color, and it is very hard to find.  For each person it's different, and that's the hard time I think many women (and some men) face.  I have a specific way of wearing red, and it took me some time to find the right shade.  My secret: I wear two colors. ALWAYS.  Here's my method of application:

1. Outline the outside of my lip with a wax pencil.  DuWop has a nice one that I carry around with me.

2. I apply a lighter shade of red lipstick that's bright and vibrant.  I always use MAC's limited edition color Kanga-Rouge.  It's not sold anymore and I will cry when I run out of this color.  But the key is to find a lighter red for the base.

3.  I then apply  Lipstick Queen's lipstick color Wine- Sinner.  It's a very deep blood red.  That gives it a more toned down look that goes well with the lighter red underneath.  If you don't want to use a darker red, a deep brown could work too.

4. Optional- a little bit of gold lipgloss.  Something with a gold tint.  

Think of your lips as a canvas.  You are painting them, so you need to use light and dark colors.  This sounds like a lot of work, but it's really nothing.  Just a pencil and two tubes of lipstick.