Yikes

[moremistakes]

Eric Matthews is my hero

[kluxury0]

Cyclical Trends

Every 20 or so years, trends come back around. Attached is a great video of trends that will be popular in the upcoming year or years and how we can adapt them to our own personal style. 

[perfeqt]

“At any given point you have the power to say, this is not how the story is going to end.”

— Unknown

[stream]

Or do I owe her an apology? Men in Black (1997) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[taylorswifh]

but i knew you / playing hide-and-seek and / giving me your weekends / i knew you / your heartbeat on the high line / once in twenty lifetimes

[eva-mei-10]

without your past,

you could never have arrived-

so wondrously and brutally,

By design or some violent, exquisite happenstance

...here.

[starsttuff-blog]

romanticize un-illuminated brown and black eyes. romanticize the way dark eyes look without being blinded by flash. romanticize brown eyes that don’t have streaks of gold and yellow. romanticize black eyes that are so raven it’s hard to distinguish where the iris is. the depth of your dark eyes is enchanting. brown and black eyes draw you in, wrap you up, and leave you wanting more. fall in love with them.

[rinkitay]

PASSIVELY DONATE THRU YOUTUBE VIDEOS

here’s a small list of videos you can watch and passively donate to different funds that are a part of the black lives matter movement. if you are interested in donating as well, i’ve linked most of the funds and organizations the youtubers are donating too. please do not skip the ads!!

I FOLLOWED A PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP ARTIST’S TUTORIAL: to the Black Visions Collective (x)

80p makeup... but what’s the catch? TESTING SHOP MISS A! First impressions and WEAR TEST!: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x)

In-N-Out Mukbang: to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (x)

how to help BLM with NO MONEY/leaving your house: to protestor bail funds of different states

I Got Drunk And Gave Relationship Advice! The ULTIMATE guide to BOYS & GIRLS!!: to the George Floyd fund and other racial equality charities (x)

Baby Products I Regret Buying: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x) and National Bail Out (x)

MY #1 PRODUCT FROM 10 DRUGSTORE BRANDS: the Black Visions Collective (x)

BIG LOUIS VUITTON HAUL | SS 2020 ESCALE + MORE | hollyannaeree: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x) and Campaign Zero (x)

WANT TO DONATE TO BLACK LIVES MATTER BUT HAVE NO MONEY? WATCH THIS VIDEO: to the Black Lives Matter organization (x)

Watch To Donate For FREE: Black Lives Matter: to Campaign Zero (x), NAACP (x), Black Lives Matter (x), Unicorn Riot (x), Comminuties United Against Police Brutality (x), ACLU (x), Color of Change (x), Equal Justice Initiative (x), Reclaim the Block (x), National Bail Out Fund (x)

Huge Prettylittlething & Missguided TRY ON Haul NEW IN... MAJOR Retail Therapy!!: to the George Floyd fund (x) and others

MAY FAVORITES & BOOKS I’VE READ THIS MONTH | I Covet Thee: to The Bail Project (x)

Quarantine Graduation Cap Cake for Class of 2020 | How to Cake It with Yolanda Gampp: to an unspecified organization dedicated towards the education for black students

AMSR Putting Fenty Makeup on Rihanna (Paper Makeover): to the Black Visions Collective (x) and Support the Cities (x)

DECLUTTER, DIY & DECORATE #WITHME Little Girl’s Boho Room Transformation UNDER $100!!!: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x)

TikTokers SPEAKING OUT About RACISM & BLACK LIVES MATTER (Ft. Charli D’amelio, Dixie D’amelio): to the Black Lives Matter foundation (x)

Let’s Talk About It: Racism & Social Injustice: to the Black Lives Matter foundation (x)

“but i’m not racist?”: to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (x)

regarding everything that’s happening: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x), Minnesota Freedom Fund (x), Los Angeles bail relief fund (x), Atlanta bail relief fund (x), Chicago Freedom School (x), People’s Breakfast Oakland (x), Black Queer/Trans operated fund in MN (x)

[werelivingarts-deactivated20230]

As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Here are some recommendations, include both non-fiction and fiction about racism and challenges that black people face throughout their lifetimes. 

[twin-fox]

Someone put red paint on the "Serve and Protect" sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building and it is such a powerful statement.

"Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -C.A.C.

[eternalgirlscout]

the whole world would have ended if katara hadn’t gotten incoherently, righteously enraged with her brother and THAT’S the power of the cain instinct

[eternalgirlscout]

[umlindsay]

Lorde’s latest email update:

[kluxury0]

Finding My Aesthetic: Day 5

Two words: Emily Ratajkowski. Maybe that is not a complete sentence, but this look is a full-on book in itself. It is beautiful. I love the vibes from it. You can just take one look at her and just know she knows what she is doing. This outfit is so simple, yet so daring. Let’s start with the best part of the outfit, the shoes. I love them. I like how she went with a knee-high boot. I think it pulled the outfit together and made it look a lot more classy because her blazer is longer than her skirt she is wearing underneath. The snakeskin pattern also does a great job of complimenting the color of the blazer. It makes the teal color stand out wonderfully. That teal is so unique because lately, the trend has been bright neon colors or pastel colors. I think it is refreshing to see a teal that color because it is the perfect mixture of winter and springtime. Where the weather is cold when you leave in the morning, but it is too hot by the afternoon to wear your winter coat is the color teal in a nutshell. Her showing off some skin and opting not to wear anything underneath makes this outfit more of an “I just left from doing a photoshoot” and less of a “leaving to get on the subway from my 9-5 job”. Emily Ratajkowski KNOWS what she is doing! I love how she also stuck to the gold theme in her accessories. I love mixing and matching golds and silvers. But sometimes, a way to look always put together and looking at little details of the metal (like the gold clasp on her purse) and matching all your jewelry to that. It is subtle but yet very noticeable.

[kluxury0]

Fast Fashion Prevention

In my last blog post (which you should check out), I dived into the topic of fast fashion. If you aren’t aware of what fast fashion is, it is basically when brands make cheaply made clothes and produce them at a quick speed. It is not sustainable. These facts found on the business insider website(https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10) give us statistics about how fast fashion and the industry affects the environment. 

Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions, dries up water sources, and pollutes rivers and streams

85% of all textiles go to the dump each year

While people bought 60% more garments in 2014 than in 2000, they only kept the clothes for half as long.

the fashion industry is also the second-largest consumer of water worldwide

So What Can We Do To Prevent Fast Fashion?

I understand that some people do not have the funds to buy some high-quality pieces all the time. But that is not always the best excuse when buying fast fashion. The best option when trying to cut down on purchasing from fast fashion brands is thrifting! It’s challenging to go thrifting, but sometimes you can find some great articles of clothing. It can be hit or miss, but buying second-hand is always a great option. 

The first time I went thrifting, I bought a sweater from the Loft and then took my sewing machine to it to make it into the style that I desired. Thrifting can bring out the creative streak in you! Let me know what some great thrifting finds you have gotten in the past! 

[bisharoncarter-archive]

my professor spent our entire seminar whining about how there’s too many girls in our group and not enough boys. he was like “i’m not saying women can’t be good surgeons but we need more men” no, we don’t. men suck. deal with it.

[bisharoncarter-archive]

CRY ALL YOU FUCKING WANT YOUR TEARS DON’T MEAN SHIT TO ME. YOUR TEARS MEAN DICK TO ME JUST SO YOU KNOW

[blueannawriting]

Okay so not to be that person who adds on to a post with their own story but my mom is a doctor and when I was eleven she took me to these all-female seminar led by a woman who was the head of a hospital because my mom is an empowered and independent woman who wanted her daughter to be the same way and so there’s like thirty females surgeons in the room, all sitting around his huge circlular confrenece table and talking about their experiences in becoming surgeons

most of them were like “everyone told me I should become a nurse or a pediatrician” and “people assume that I don’t know what I’m doing” you know, your average sexist bs

one of the women’s last name was starboard (yeah I know great name) and she was talking about how even though now she was one of the most accomplished surgeons at the hospital, the male scrub techs (read: guys who didn’t go to fucking medical school) and some of the male doctors call her starbitch in the OR because they (scrub techs mostly, strangely enough) try to suggest different ways to care for the patient and she always tells them no you didn’t go to med school and I did and so they would go out of their way to get the male doctors to treat the patient differently and then she would have to argue with him to prove what she was doing es right but sometimes the male doctor would come and take over the case anyway and this went on for a while

but then the hospital statistics changed bc this woman was literally being prevented from treating her patients bc the men were interfering and so the administrative head heard about this (she was female) and she was like y’all better stop or y’all better start looking for new jobs and then starboard was allowed to work on her patients and got the scrub techs replaced and all of the sudden, the patients were suddenly doing much better during and after surgery.

when she told this story she was like “people still call me a bitch, and maybe I am because I won’t let them walk all over me, but when you’ve got something to do, when you’ve got a life to save, you have to ignore their bullshit so that you can save someone’s fuckin life. Sexism should never stop you from accomplishing that”

and little eleven-year-old me still remembers that bc I was insecure and awkward and here was this woman who just did what she had to do and ignored all the people trying to stop here and she really was better than all the male doctors (like her patient stats were better) and I thought I should share with you this inspiring woman with the cool last name

[kluxury0]

What is Fast Fashion?

I joined the fashion community on twitter around July last year. I went in knowing next to nothing about fashion. I just knew I loved it. When I was in middle school and high school, I was obsessed with Georges Hobeika haute couture. I would see the photos from fashion week and print them out and put them on my closet doors. I never really thought much about where I brought all my clothes and the ethics behind them. The main objective of middle school is to fit in. By dressing cute and fitting in with the trends, then it did not matter if the quality was good or not. When I started going to a small private school and wearing a uniform, I was not picking an outfit every day. It started to change my mind on trends. You started seeing how quickly trends were coming and going when you did not participate in them. After my freshman year of high school, I started a twitter account and started becoming aware of ethics and fashion. So what is fast-fashion? Well, fast-fashion can be described as cheaply made trendy clothes. A popular fast-fashion brand is Forever 21. I had never thought of how fast-fashion was not only unsustainable but unethical. The video attached below explains fast-fashion and sustainability in 5 minutes. 

[kluxury0]

Finding My Aesthetic: Day 4

After such a bold monochromatic outfit from the last post, I realized that I like neutrals. I am a big enthusiast of patterns. I think they can bring personality into an outfit. The brown trousers fit perfectly. The tailored pants show off a maturity which is sometimes difficult to do with patterns. When I was growing up, jeggings or tight skinny jeans were popular. I vividly remember in fifth grade that I swore I would never wear boot cut jeans or any flare trousers. Well, I did not stick to that statement. The brown pants are perfect because it makes the patterns on the sweater stand out. I love the shoes because they are a different shade of brown, which gives them their little spotlight of their own. I think shoes should enhance the outfit and be something that everyone should recognize. Then the real showstopper is the sweater I can just feel it through the screen. I bet it is so soft. I love the pattern and how it can tie in the brown color scheme with just a little dab of color. This outfit is sophisticated, developed, and chic with a hint of casual. It is a perfect concoction that I adore.