festive threads

pants via Anthropologie, vintage shell top, Mossimo turtleneck, Sigerson Morrison heels, vintage Bally bag, vintage Monet enameled chain link bracelet, J. Crew headband

With holiday party season in full swing, it's wise to have a few sparkly and/or gilded items hanging around in case you're ever in need of a last-minute cocktail party outfit. This leaves more time for actually celebrating and less time spent in stockings harrumphing over the fact that you have nothing to wear. Also, this headband thingy has become my favorite updo tool and go-to hairstyle for holiday parties. Instructions on how to create this style can be found here. The best part? There are no pins needed. I swears.

21 jumpsuit

 wearing vintage dress, shoes, necklace, ASOS leather jacket, "faux-lenciaga" bag, DIY tassel earrings

Well imagine my utter delight when I was at What Poppy Wants a couple of weeks ago, and found what looked like the perfect 60's Studio 54 approved maxi dress-looking thing was actually a jumpsuit. A JUMPSUIT! What else left to do but don it with fake eyelashes and tassel earrings for a Passover Seder?

Also: I've just mastered the sock bun, which is literally changing my life. My buns were so pathetic and small before, but now I can beef them up with tube socks, trouser socks, or any kind of sock I want! The possibilities are endless...

new hairdo

wearing vintage everything
I chopped off some of my wretched, tangled mop of hair this weekend and gave it a little extra "oomph" in the color department as well. Still getting used to the feeling of the nice blunt ends and a shorter ponytail, but I like it so far. Having a little too much fun doing shampoo commercial head tosses though.

milkmaid

Stella & Dot earrings

Sometimes you just want to throw your greasy ass hair in a couple of braids and pin them to the top of your head. I may or may not have needed to watch three hours of Youtube tutorials just to make this happen. I'll never tell.

straight + narrow

 wearing vintage top, Zara pants, vintage necklace, J crew bracelet, Timex watch

Got my haircut last weekend thanks to the talented Veronica Valdivia and her traveling pop-up salon. I decided I wanted to do something pseudo "edgy" without going full-on Alice Dellal (which I am not sure I'll ever be ready for) so I went for the Taylor Tomasi Hill--blunt and straight across the bottom. Oh, minus the red hair dye of course. I don't think my virgin strands are ready for that kind of commitment.

Bonus shoe porn for all you freaks:

Donna Karan shoes

 

omg everybody freak out

Kiera Knightley cut her hair!!!!!!



Do you:
A. declare her the official owner of The Best Bob in the Universe (beating out Anna Wintour, Posh, and of course, the ever formidable Peter Pan Dude
B. Yawn like you're browsing a Land's End catalog
C. foresee numerous copycats, culminating in adoption by Miley Cyrus once the style has completely jumped the shark


If the answer is A, please explain.

rock and roll baby

My hair can sometimes look weirdly awesome in photographs--in real life it's incredibly fine, thin, and in desperate need of a haircut that doesn't cost $100.

wearing J-brand jeans, UO t-shirt and boots, Martin + Osa cardigan, roommate's vintage belt, vintage jewelry

I wore this outfit to (attempt) to go see Karen Elson last month. It was sold out so I drowned my sorrows in a delicious nicoise olive martini instead. Still would have loved to see Karen Elson though.

chop chopped

FACT: Chloe Sevigny could step out in a pair of over-the-knee boots made entirely from dead babies and I would still swoon.

I'm loving her new hair. Not ready to let mine go yet but this is getting tucked away in my hairspiration folder STAT.

but i'm not pessimistic

wearing Calvin Klein jacket, Martin and Osa top, J-Brand jeans, vintage Andrew Gellar pumps, vintage necklace

Wow, could I look any more miserable in these pictures? I blame the fact that the Sunday after New Years is perhaps the worst Sunday of the year--you've just had a good two weeks of holidays and family and fun and suddenly it's time to get your ass in gear and start thinking about exercising and finishing that painting project in the bathroom and wowing the boss at work. New Years' resolutions are about as much fun as tooth extraction, only with a lot less drugs to get you through it.

After my haircut today my boyfriend and I ate at a yummy restaurant in Cow Hollow called Jovino where I ingested a positively dreamlike tuna salad on french bread and some quinoa with feta and cucumbers. Oh and did I mention the macaroni and cheese with bacon and cauliflower? Yummm.

hair porn

top to bottom: tatielle, tatielle, knighttcat

One of my earliest childhood games consisted of taking a pair of my mom's nylons and putting them on my head so I could pretend they were long, luxurious braids. In preschool, my favorite teacher (I still remember her) had a swath of jet-black, waist-length hair which as far as I can remember was the only reason she was my favorite. In fact, all I've ever wanted (cue violin) is a nice, heavy curtain of thick, rapunzel-esque hair. And all I've got is a head full of flyaway, baby fine hair that won't grow. You win this round, genetics.

So, in honor of my sick obsession which often finds me jealously eyeing the ponytails of my fellow commuters on the bus, I just wanted to post some pictures of good hair. I think if I feed enough orphans or cure cancer I'll be reincarnated as someone with really really really good hair, right?

Meanwhile, in this life I've always fantasized about getting extensions, but have pretty much been scarred for life (and my had my eyeballs unceremoniously assaulted) by the unfortunate weaves of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton among others. There are just so many goddamn horrible weaves out there. An exception, of course, is the lovely Unbeweavable, who gives me hope that perhaps someday it really will be possible to add length without looking like I have a dead possum on my head. Amen.

ghd (good hair day)

Seeing as how I'm wearing the most boring outfit imaginable today (jeans and a grey t-shirt...snore) I thought I'd do a hair post. Now, anyone who knows me knows that my hair is the bane of my existence. It's unnaturally fine, and pretty thin on top of that. In addition, I've had incidents with unexplainable hair loss (i.e. chunks falling out that actually left a bald spot) so I'm always watching it like a hawk waiting for something catastrophic to happen. But its actually been pretty happy lately, and today I treated it to a home made hair mask that I swear works wonders, especially for fine hair that tends to be a little oily and prone to buildup. I got the recipe out of an old issue of Bazaar and I've used it a couple of times. If you're ever bored at home and want to try it out, here's the 'recipe':

1 egg yolk

2 tablespoons vodka

2 tablespoons honey

1/2 avocado

Mix ingredients together as well as you can (otherwise you'll have avocado chunks in your hair that can be pretty hard to get out) and apply to clean towel-dried hair. Leave on for at least 15 minutes (the original article suggests 30, but by that time the avocado/vodka mixture is usually dripping down my neck) and shampoo and condition as usual. Voila! The vodka is the really essential ingredient for me. It removes oil and product buildup and leaves my hair so shiny and full of body! It's as close to "hair commercial-hair" as I'm going to get...

feathers!

As I mentioned earlier, my ingenuity and resourcefulness finally triumphed over the inflated price points of the venerable Urban Outfitters. Using store-bought feathers, I was able to create a feather hair clip much like the ones selling in their stores for $18. Sure, eighteen bucks may not seem like a whole bunch of money, but unemployment insurance isn't a lot of money either. I am forced to improvise.

Anyhoo, here's a picture of what the ones on U.O. website look like:

And, if you'll kindly excuse the crappy MacBook pictures, here's my creation:

It was really easy, even for a plebian like me. All I did was cut out a small piece of felt and glue the feathers to it in neat rows using a glue gun. Then I took one of those alligator hair clips and used a small piece of ribbon to attach the felt to the clip. Voila!