Crazy Picture Night
My Paint Shop Pro Trial is about to expire, WHAT DO I DO!?:
I'm in this big "Hey, Remember the 80's?" phase. It led me to try to find a bunch of sweater vests on eBay, which was a little mini-obsession for a couple of weeks (that and camouflage haha). There are not a lot of good sweater vests to be had. After wading through like 37 pages of old lady Christmas Vests on there, I found the vest of my dreams (well, that would actually be an exact replica of Ferris Bueller's, and I haven't found that for years!).
Grey. Gap. Cashmere blend. It was a decent price, and it looked great in the photo:
Well when it arrived it was way too big. Excited turned to heartbroken in the time it took to unwrap the 5 layers of Priority Mail envelopes the seller had put it in. I wore it to work the next day anyway and it looked okay (I took pictures) but felt so behemoth. Well yesterday I washed it on hot and machine-dryered it against my better judgement and it's much better. Except for the gnarly wrinkles on the collar which I'm sure will cool-iron out. If I've ruined it I just might commit ritual suicide, I am THAT into sweater vests.
So after it shrunk in the wash I really had to wear it, that night. Even though I was just lounging around in pj's. I thought it looked cool with my awesome grey pj's so I declared Picture Night, even though I had just declared Sunday Snack Pigout Nite (way too many Milano's and Cotswald, the most delicious of all cheeses).
So I got out the makeup and had myself a full-on dorky makeover session and photo shoot. (Which of course I was compelled to document on moblog for your puzzled enjoyment.)
In keeping with my delayed reaction emergence of a personal style, expression focusing primarily on preppy 80's nerd stuff (I was younger than you cool eighties people - old enough to think that sorta thing was cool but too young to incorporate it into my wardrobe). I felt that my outfit really needed a little sunglasses pin like I had back in the day, hot pink. Well of course I don't have any of those (YET!), but what I do have is this weird pink polka dot rose pin made of t-shirt material (huh?) that I accidentally took home from Target in a zoning-mishap.
Yep, I had a grand time playing in the makeup and taking pictures, even though most of them have toothbrush fog in them. See I have to use this weird mirror method to take pre-approved pictures because my new phone doesn't have a back display. So sad. So yeah I didn't realize I needed to clean the mirror until the fashion frenzy was fizzling.
I learned two things over my long sicky weekend:
1) I need to experiment with my massive makeup collection more. I didn't even know what a grand opportunity I had in the Clinic Sunburst Duo/Rumspice sample. I haven't touched that before, thinking it was too gaudy, but it looks way cool on.
2) I should get some warm house-lounging pants, instead of stealing Chris' new ones that he hasn't even worn yet. I could probably use an electric blanket too.
Now I really want to get some suspenders, and wear them off-shoulder - I always thought that was so damn cool and I still do!! Don't worry I stop short and rebuke bike shorts and the Side Ponytail.
THAT IS THE SEXIEST DAMN NERD I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE!!!
Correction, Second Sexiest.
here's the list as it stands:
1 - Christopher <3
2 - Some anonymous North American Cosplay nerd. A Batman fan, in the purest sense, who learned tailoring just to make the ultimate Batman costume of his dreams. Well, I think the utility belt is pretty sucky looking, but other than that I love it! I think it's mostly that badass shiny black material that gets me.
3 - That guy with the Caeser and the dark eyeliner in the Making of the Burning Crusade DVD that came with the Expansion Special Edition - (which is awesome. it came with a MOUSEPAD TOO, i think there's a pic of it on my moblog a page or two back... I am not as into the game as some, wink, but it is one cool mousepad.)
I'm in this big "Hey, Remember the 80's?" phase. It led me to try to find a bunch of sweater vests on eBay, which was a little mini-obsession for a couple of weeks (that and camouflage haha). There are not a lot of good sweater vests to be had. After wading through like 37 pages of old lady Christmas Vests on there, I found the vest of my dreams (well, that would actually be an exact replica of Ferris Bueller's, and I haven't found that for years!).
Grey. Gap. Cashmere blend. It was a decent price, and it looked great in the photo:
Well when it arrived it was way too big. Excited turned to heartbroken in the time it took to unwrap the 5 layers of Priority Mail envelopes the seller had put it in. I wore it to work the next day anyway and it looked okay (I took pictures) but felt so behemoth. Well yesterday I washed it on hot and machine-dryered it against my better judgement and it's much better. Except for the gnarly wrinkles on the collar which I'm sure will cool-iron out. If I've ruined it I just might commit ritual suicide, I am THAT into sweater vests.
So after it shrunk in the wash I really had to wear it, that night. Even though I was just lounging around in pj's. I thought it looked cool with my awesome grey pj's so I declared Picture Night, even though I had just declared Sunday Snack Pigout Nite (way too many Milano's and Cotswald, the most delicious of all cheeses).
So I got out the makeup and had myself a full-on dorky makeover session and photo shoot. (Which of course I was compelled to document on moblog for your puzzled enjoyment.)
In keeping with my delayed reaction emergence of a personal style, expression focusing primarily on preppy 80's nerd stuff (I was younger than you cool eighties people - old enough to think that sorta thing was cool but too young to incorporate it into my wardrobe). I felt that my outfit really needed a little sunglasses pin like I had back in the day, hot pink. Well of course I don't have any of those (YET!), but what I do have is this weird pink polka dot rose pin made of t-shirt material (huh?) that I accidentally took home from Target in a zoning-mishap.
Yep, I had a grand time playing in the makeup and taking pictures, even though most of them have toothbrush fog in them. See I have to use this weird mirror method to take pre-approved pictures because my new phone doesn't have a back display. So sad. So yeah I didn't realize I needed to clean the mirror until the fashion frenzy was fizzling.
I learned two things over my long sicky weekend:
1) I need to experiment with my massive makeup collection more. I didn't even know what a grand opportunity I had in the Clinic Sunburst Duo/Rumspice sample. I haven't touched that before, thinking it was too gaudy, but it looks way cool on.
2) I should get some warm house-lounging pants, instead of stealing Chris' new ones that he hasn't even worn yet. I could probably use an electric blanket too.
Now I really want to get some suspenders, and wear them off-shoulder - I always thought that was so damn cool and I still do!! Don't worry I stop short and rebuke bike shorts and the Side Ponytail.
THAT IS THE SEXIEST DAMN NERD I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE!!!
Correction, Second Sexiest.
here's the list as it stands:
1 - Christopher <3
2 - Some anonymous North American Cosplay nerd. A Batman fan, in the purest sense, who learned tailoring just to make the ultimate Batman costume of his dreams. Well, I think the utility belt is pretty sucky looking, but other than that I love it! I think it's mostly that badass shiny black material that gets me.
3 - That guy with the Caeser and the dark eyeliner in the Making of the Burning Crusade DVD that came with the Expansion Special Edition - (which is awesome. it came with a MOUSEPAD TOO, i think there's a pic of it on my moblog a page or two back... I am not as into the game as some, wink, but it is one cool mousepad.)