Temporary hair cut (Alien gonna dye her hair...)

Random spots of temporary haberdashery

 

I got bored of a Topshop dress, so I grabbed a gold-foil tutu-come-tulip skirt I made a few years ago, one of my mothers many thin black belts, and voila! Perfect procrastination.

I may also resew the zip on this dress of my grandmothers, and wear it to the ball.... fun.

My roots are so huge it looks like I have two different haircolours. Time for the salon, perhaps...

Plastic waves, sequins and period drama.

Hats. All I see is hats. First, I stay up Saturday night watching Cranford. Hats. Hats on Judi Dench. Veils. Hats.

Then I'm watching Inspector Alleyn with my grandmother on Easter Sunday. Hats. It is, after all, the 1930s.

I open my new copy of Another Magazine. Hats again. Stephen Jones this time. Brilliant photography.

I come across a turban made from the material for an hermes scarf. It has a matching handbag, run up by Chanel. I'm pretty sure there's a dress somewhere. Only ones ever made in the world.... (My uncle is very persuasive). My grandmother wore it to my father's wedding. Brilliant, isn't it? One more thing... the patten? Hundreds of shoes.

Hmmm....there's a thought...dress made of shoes.....ballet shoes could work.....

At any rate, then I spot this fedora from RVCA ...$42...

 

I remember I want a stray straw floppy hat, like this Kimchi and Blue one, $28 @UO(us).....

That I wouldn't mind an Asymmetrical Straw semi-Cloche with a teardrop crown...

Black Silk Satin Rose Headband with monochrome sequins. Tour de force 

Green Pinstripe silk taffeta bow headband Tour de force 

Lets be fun! Oversized, jewel toned, requiring nothing more than courage and attitude. Isabella blow Compared it to therapy, saying, "If I feel really low, I go to see Philip, cover my face [with his hats] and feel fantastic... Wearing a hat is like cosmetic surgery."

 

A brief pausular shaped object.

Dramatic news...

I, the alien (soon to be of Paris)...

seeing as it is spring,

Will be heading out...

To sea for a few days...

Pray for me?

Nah, don't bother, I'm a chiller...

A total chiller!

Don't fly away...

(you're wondering how I took these, aren't you)...

Coz I'll be back...

In three days.

All photos by me. Except the ones of me; I'm not that brilliant.

Est-ce que je puis me maquiller? Bien sur! Quoi... possédés par surprise??

Wow. The alien does do makeup. Although, it is rather limited, seeing as her makeup bag was stolen by some deviant thief or other a couple months ago, and the price of replacement is crippling.

WOUAOH! Elle peut se maquiller. Bien qu'elle n'ait pas des reserves illimité, puisque quelqu'un qui était rusé a volé sa trousse de maquillagé il y a deux mois, et alors elle doit les remplacer au prix coûtant.


Et les remplaçants?

Sukicolor tinted moisturiser -> It''s a lifesaver. SUbtle, doesn't cake, smells delicious, mineral so its good for sensitive skin, creamy because normally mineral foundation is powder, and dries out your skin.
Sukicolor eydefiner in smoky gray colour.(Brilliantly named...smoke) it's gelshadow/liner/brow. Mineral cream makeup. All of their stuff is mineral/organicky shizzle.
Paul and joe (Disney ltd. edition) blush. Amazing. It's just their face Colour B (002) but it smells amazing, is the perfect pink, and goes on with a proper puff and has the cute bashful skunk from bambi on the box.
Sukicolour eyeliner/multi purpose brush, for the eyedefiner stuff. it's shadow liner/brow again
Too faced leopard bronzer. amazing. It's brown but mixed with pinks and beige (it's pressed in a rather alarming leopard print) but it means it comes out well for my pale skin)
Bourgeois blacky purple eyeshadow in the ltd. edition old school tin.
Korres Mango butter lipstick in 'pink'. Really cool shade. So softening.
Loreal bare naturel mineral foundation in 410 (Ivory white) that I had to get my brother to import from across the pond since they don't make it that pale over here in brittania. Naturally, it shattered everywhere due to the stupid stateside packaging redesign, so It explodes in a cloud of POOF! Every time I wish to open it. *sigh* It is good though. Especially as I'm so pale at the moment that even the stunningly brilliant sukicolor tinted stuff makes me look a tad orange. I want a holiday.

And what I retained, due to me always leaving stuff in my handbag from laziness?

Benefit BadGal Lash
Lancome Black Eyeliner
Bobbi Brown Golden Shimmer brick (THANK GOD)
Mac eyeshadow in goldmine frost.

Pale pink dior lipstick (218)

Maybelline moisture surge in BonBon Caramel (mocha-y colour)

M-A-C m-a-c red lipstick
Clinique Honey blush


The pink is what's worn currently. Lips- pale pink, then mochhay on top, then daps of goldmne frost eyeshadow. Yeah, on the lips. (and eyes). I use a paintbrush. One made for acrylics. It's easier to do a smoky eye with, at any rate... Top lid, grey sukicolor gel eyeliner. Mascara. Dab of gold eyeshadow again

You forget how expensive that **** is. Seriously. I almost cried at the bill for that lot, and i didn't even replace half of it. And just some of what was lost.... *sob*. I got half of this on discount from being nice to the counter girls in bloomies and bringing them so many customers (english girlfriends staying over). And in america where its half the price. Here's a quarter of the losses...

This sheer Benefit Shangri-la hot pink lipstick. awesome. Discontinued.
Perfumeria Gal Madrid Lipbalm in Grosella/red currant. So. Amazing. I have to import it from the states in industrial quantities for the female half of my family. Amazing. (http://www.beautyhabit.com/gal_lip.html)
Stila eyeshadow in kitten
Lilac Dior lipgloss/ Pop lipgloss (pop my bubble)/bobbi brown lipgloss (petal-3)
Jemma Kidd makeup school Black eyeliner (so. good. Glides on. no more, sadly)
Diorshow mascara (freeeeeeeeee saaaamples!)/Benefit BadGal lash/ Lancome hypnose
Benefit Showoff in bambi
Tarte lip/cheek stain in blushing bride
 Discontinued clinique blush


Incedentally, there was this survey in britain where they worked out that the average girl spends £2,373.84 spent on toiletries (i'm assuming including facewash/shampoo etc.) in her CHILDHOOD (so...that must be....5 years of actual makeup wearing?). woooooh. Although, I guess that the average teenager has in her makeup collection minimum of 100 pounds spent, even just if they buy high street...more if they go for stuff like benefit/mac. ach


Today, I wear a men's cardigan backwards, C.R.A.F.T Jeans, and report black (muddy) suede booties. Men's cardigans backwards make the best slouchy jumpers ever. How quirky. Oh yes. I was multitasking by cooking lunch. How Very modern bloggeuse.

"Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others." -Noel Coward

Nots: Turn off music by going to bottom of page, then click.

Oh what a man. What a man what a man. I mentioned my love for Noel Coward yesterday, did I not? At any rate, and some point soon, no doubt, I shall become depressed by the state of the fellows I know today and invariably start stalking Fred Astaire dancing with firecrackers on youtube, and decide that I need to run off with a 40s Cabaret act. *Shrug*. Or a dandy. I can be their beard, as the high chance is they won't bend in my direction. At any rate, I feel like I should loll around with vogues in cigarette holders, being wittily entertained, as I drink too much coffee and admire the shape of men's hats. In fact, I think I should just become Diana vreeland, and surround myself with white peacocks at friends' clifftop morrocan palaces, commanding everyone at Vogues copy department to write in quill pens. Wintour's got nothing on laVreeland. laVreeland stuck backplasters on Jack Nicholson's naked bottom ("wonderful condition! I must say your chemistry is really good! Plump and pink.") in crowded restaurants. Which incedentally, allowed him to carry on filming the Shining. Perhaps it would be more contextually appropriate for me to wander around admiring men's bottoms? Oh the thought...

As I sit here, I muse that, if I am to continue being lazy and using photobooth, I should at least become superbly flexible like Dree Hemmingway.

And steal her coat, shirt, jeans and shoes. I would say hair but... yeah. (TFS via KnightCat)

At any rate, I'm feeling some oversize menswear, truly inspired tailoring wouldn't go amiss, always with the feminine, the feminine. Oh dear, this is reminding me I need to re-sew the sleeve of my Silk tuxedo shirt, my favourite, which a friend ripped at a gig in November. Ripped more, I should say, as it was quite artfully ripped before. Now it just looks slovenly. A vintage silk Turnbull and Asser... *sad eyes*

Yves Saint Laurent

But of course, these must be paired with killer shoes. I'm thinking spiky heels, cages, anything goes.

Pyramid-high sandal boot at topshop boutique

Georgina Goodman- Nicole Sandals

Candela NYC @ Asos Red

At any rate, today I'm taking my inspiration from Paul smith, and cooking.Why? Black, gray and red. 1) I love the look of red peppers as they fry. There's something about smooth Chilli red on rough black skillet 2) Paul smith paring red jumpers with grey suits. It always works.

Je te presente... (to prove that I do, in fact, wear trousers)

Try to ignore whatever the hell my hand is doing. It's white hard to get in frame in 10 seconds.

"J'ai beaucoup de chance, je suis souvent heureuse. Je ne me rappelle que du dernier bonheur" - Doillon

Nanker_Phledge @ TFS

I've realised that I'm in a very Doillon-esque mood around now. Lou doillon, incaase you didn't know, is the MAW (Model, actress, whatever) daughter of Jane Birkin and director Jaques Doillon. She had pegged rock chick style by the age of 9 (Indian leggings under short dresses, worn with Grateful Dead T-shirts and rollerblades, and long dreadlocks). By 11, she had had her first tattoo inked. That's proper hardcore. Anyway, a creative partner at denim giant Lee Cooper at the minute (not a bad acolade, considering it's one shared with JC/DC), and a darling of French theater, she is mother to a small child, and the bearer of many amazing hats.

Luca* at TFS

5 or so years ago she dropped Paris upon the death aged 20 of Anno Birkin, her cousin. Milla Jojovich, Birkin's friend, embraced her, saying ‘Leave Paris, come to New York.’ So that's what she did, with a one year old child in tow. Jojovich wanted Doillon to see the clothes at the infantile Jojovich Hawk, apparently. But they spend more time "talking about incredibly geeky things like physics and what we’ve just read in American Scientist."Who knew? The power of the MAWs is astounding. At any rate, the Lou Doillon netflix list is. On the multi-talented front, I'm really digging her collection for Lee cooper. Check it... It's largely inspired by 1921 Chaplin movie 'the Kid'.

At any rate, She seems to be full of wonderful anecdotes, stories, and helpful strikes of brilliance. And amazing hair; apparently, Birkin (Jane) taught her to wash it as little as possible, and rinse it with coke for that tousled amazingness. (I suppose it does smell better than beer). She's been there, done that- fallen on the Missoni Catwalk, because she was in a giggle fit as she was put on after gisele with her mile long legs. Perhaps she's more english in that regard- humour here tends to be the laugh at yourself kind; in France, it is more laugh at others. Just look at the popularity of Canteloup and "La revue de presque" (Of course, this is a MAHOUSSIVE generalisation.) At any rate, she seems to get on in New York better, being the self proclaimed oddball of the stunning and stylish Birkin broad. I quote "This is a place where anything goes, and no one cares or judges. I go out in my enormous hat, dressed as a boy, with a fake moustache and people say, 'What a lovely moustache!" She has also proclaimed that if she were to meet her young self, she's quite sure the be-dreadlocked one would be slapping her for becoming so bourgeoise. Ah well, come dice Il Purillo; "Non posso mica essere simpatico a tutti" (Can't possibly be nice to everybody)

At any rate, her style? She still gets dressed to Rock and roll in the mornings, although she has given in to the appeal of designers, whom she went out of her way to rebel against in her teenage heyday. Favourite designers are among Ann Demeulemeester, Maison Martin Margiela and Tsumori Chisato, and Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano for haute-couture. SHe's also the muse for Givenchy; not bad. Although, I wouldn't mind being Her grandmother on the muse note; Muse to Noel Coward. Brilliant. Did I mention how much I love Noel Coward? A comic genius. I Could send hours youtubing 'Nina from Argentina' and 'Mad Dogs and Englishman'. And his clothing? Impeccable.

BAck to the point. What made me realise this secret, latent inspiration? I found an ancient photo of me chanelling rock-chick-chic. Otherwise known as Groupie Goes Opera. If you could see properly, that coat is Burgundy Jumbo corduroy, and it has a tie waist belt. Like a giant dressing gown. It is appropriately and affectionally named "The pimp coat". One day I will post a greater view of its pimpaliciousness. Unfortunately, any photos I do have of it, I would not show my parents. And that is my rule of thumb for the internets tubes.

Actually... here's one that I can live with... a tad too candid, but still.

What am I holding? Oh. Right. Umbrella.

At any rate, Back to the present. Beyond the lust-worthy jackets of darlingLou, as she will now be known, Is my own fun time playing. On l'appellera.... la deuxième partie de OGG.

Vintage Mink capelet thingy. Extremely long blue tangle of beads- who knows? It was a 13th birthday present. 'Velvet' Navy wrap dress with cap sleeves, Cabled tights from pretty polly, Asos heels. There is a reason behind the two watches- I'm keeping my dad's Audemars piguet running, since it's on one of those mechanisms that wind using movement.

I'm decidedly sans-maquillage for a rock chick, but hey- I might look like a crazy person (more of...) if I wandered around my house in party mode.