magazines, zines, and the whole shebang

Oh hai there, little feminist/girl power symbols. Allow me to explain how you came to be in this blog post.

 Man, oh man, what a whole lot of AMAZINGNESS the past two days have been like. Yesterday I-sadly-discovered that Barnes & Noble sells BUST magazine! I had been reading about how it started out as a zine in the '90s, but I thought that now it was a magazine that was only sold in certain stores. I obsessed over it and basically was afraid to bend it. AND today, I received Meagan's zines (Teenage Grrrl Issues One and Two) and the zines-as well as the great package that it came in-are amazing; they're a couple pages long; short and sweet packed with feminist awesomeness.  

Meagan's awesome designs (my hand is blocking some of the feminism symbols, but I'd rather do that than have

               stalkers, ya know?)  

 Oh! And I made my first DIY! I created both the actual finished product and the DIY instructions. Remember that tulle that I bought yesterday, the one that I was obsessed with? Well, with it, I made.....get ready.......... 

A TULLE HEADBAND! 

(Now is the time to applaud, my dears.) 

So I'm really excited about this. The Virgin Suicides + Twin Peaks + The Sleeping Beauty (French) = This headband. It looks-and feels-so ethereal; the dress I'm wearing wasn't planned to go with this, I just happened to be wearing it when I shoved the headband on my head and began taking pictures. It feels like something you'd wear while treading the water of a quiet lake in the middle of the woods while mist danced on your skin.

More proof of my tulle obsession, no? 

Here's how to make it: 

Instructions

• tulle (I used white, but you can choose any color) 
• thin headband (the one I used was a plastic one from Forever 21)
• scissors
• tape    

It's simple, really. Basically: 

1. Cut a strip of tulle off of the entire sheet. It should be at least as long as your thumb, and can be crooked, but try not to make every single piece awkwardly shaped. 

 

2. Tie the tulle onto the headband so that it looks sort of like a bow. Do this repeatedly until the headband is basically completely covered. 

AND... 

Voila! 

Your very own tulle headband! Now you can prance around pretending to be a happy unicorn until your wee little hooves get tired.
Or you can just stare at the pictures of the headband. That's acceptable, too.

Yours truly,
Britney

                                    

                                        

i dream a dream of tulle

 Today I finally got my hands on some tulle (which may have been a mistake, seeing as I spent the entire afternoon using it as a veil)) since I was planning to use it for a DIY project. I finally started the project (to be posted later) but not before spending approximately an hour of my life prancing around with the tulle and a headband on my head to make a makeshift veil. 

This was a horrible attempt to get a picture of the rest of my outfit. My horrible lack of a tripod (I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll get one for my birthday) only allowed me to capture this part. 

 Sweater-Macy's. Shirt-Banana Republic. Collar-H&M. Skirt-Macy's. Tulle-fabric store. Headband-Forever 21                                        

                                                                                                                            Yours truly, Britney

keen-eyed one

Recently, I've gotten really into photography-studying it, looking at the work of other photographers, etc. In the past few days, I've found incredible photographers. Let's go through a few of them: 

1. Mark Kean 

 

2. Maddie Goldbleck
 blog: http://sillyinnocentgirl.blogspot.com/ website:http://maddiegoldbeck.com/   

 

3. Eleanor Hardwick 

website:http://www.eleanorhardwick.com/

All of these are so dreamy....I'm especially in love with the photographs of Maddie and Eleanor (no, not because of girl power). The pictures are just so dreamy that they make you want to slip into an alternate universe filled with dreamy shrines and long days. I just said dreamy twice in the same sentence. That's how mesmerizing these photographs are.

                                    -Yours truly, Britney

drive me to the moon in a sea of silver

Lately I've had spacey, 1960s vibes. It's a bit odd, seeing as the two are a wee bit different-sort of in different categories if you think about it-but that's what makes it so great when they're paired together.

This is from the Beacon's Closet website. The John Lennon-like specs x the Marianne Faithfull hair x the silvery spaceship-like top/dress is just fantastic. I'm obsessed with this picture. The trees in the background make it look like something out of a fantasy story, doesn't it? A spacey, '60-ish fantasy story.... 

Anjelica Houston in a sea of silver glitter. The wig-which might possibly be her real hair but dyed, but I'm guessing it's a wig-looks so futuristic yet classic, especially on her. 

This is a picture of a DIY mosaic collar that I found on Self Constructed Freak. 

Another picture from the Beacon's Closet website, with the same setting/outfit/model. Here, you can catch a glimpse of the beautiful silver shoes that the model is wearing. 

I'm not sure who this is, but that is by far the best jumpsuit ever-which is saying something, because I usually don't like jumpsuits. These should be the new spacesuits. Huh. Imagine that. Everyone would want to be an astronaut. 

 

Sparkly socks/stockings AND sparkly shoes. Wow. Meadham Kirchoff, oh how I love thee. The shoes are in such an odd shape; it brings to mind the world created by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. My little toesies feel so lonesome without these.  

Jane Fonda as Barbarella in the 1968 film Barbarella. Truth be told, I've never seen it, I've only obsessed over the costumes and hair. 

The 1969 moon landing. 

I'm in love with these! Maybe just as much as the Meadham Kirchoff ones....
......that's a lot of love.

                         -Yours truly, Britney

we ate the summer before it began

Yesterday was like a dream. I went to a Memorial Day street parade and basically blew all of my money. 

Exhibit A, mon amis et amies. 

I had to get another John Lennon shirt because the one I got last year got messed up because I left lip gloss in my pocket when my mom was washing it and...well, figure out the rest. This time, I got one in black instead of gray, though. 

This is one of the three pendants that I got. It's so odd, a little yellow ladybug (I feel idiotic now, because I'm sure there are probably yellow ladybugs somewhere...) 

I got this because it reminds me of a floral scene was into the woods somewhere (definitely not here in New York, though, because the closet I've come to seeing a forest in real life is Central Park, which makes me feel sheltered.) Oddly, if you actually look closely, then you can see that it's not actually anything floral; it's basically a rock with green and pink, but I still think of spring and stuff when I see it. It reminds me of The Virgin Suicides (i.e., the meadow scenes), which had to do with the reason why I bought it. 

So, I bought this because I have a choker with a pendant on it and felt like I needed a change. I feel a tad bit bad saying this, because even though I'm Catholic, I didn't really buy it for religious reasons. 

The ribbon that I bought to go along with the first two pendants. 

I fell in love with this headband the minute I saw it. I guess it's the pattern x the colors x the design. 

This has a totally retro 1950s design. When I finally master a beehive hairstyle, I might combine the two. There was a red one that I was going to get, but then I decided against it because there's not much that there is to wear with such a thing. 

A beaded headband, a neat invention that I was previously unaware of. 

I LOVE THIS. It's basically a Faberge egg, except I didn't have to spend a lifetime's amount of money on it. It's meant for jewelry, which I immediately filled it with when I got home. Did I mention that I love it? (Okay, now I think that I'm obsessed with it.)

I had to get this Union Jack bracelet because I got one last year, only to have it (unintentionally) ripped and thrown across the auditorium by a classmate of mine that I let see it for a few seconds. This one, however, will be kept under maximum security 24/7, kept in a glass case, and carried around with me by the Secret Service.

There is no way to express my love of these earrings. When I got to the tent where they were being sold, I literally went postal and started picking them up and scouring  the tables for more cool earrings. My mother was staring at me the entire time with a confused look on her face, but THEY WERE JUST TOO AMAZING TO RESIST. This picture doesn't show their full amazingness. Not even a quarter of their awesomeness.

Just a bunch of nail polish. I don't really use it that much, so I'm not sure why I got it. And the got the second one (the pink one with glitter in it) because it reminded me of cake. I don't like pink, but I do like cake.)

This is a mint green eyeliner pencil that I got for some reason. I usually don't see any cool colors in the store, and the table that was selling this had a rainbow of eyeliner pencils. I actually never wore such a bright shade of eyeliner before, but I think I'll just use it in an outfit post. 

I love these. I already have two pairs of chopsticks, but these are the most authentic looking. 

This is a sort of nude shade of lipstick, which isn't really shown in the picture. I never wear lipstick or any makeup except for lip gloss and Burt's Bees, but there were just so many colors that my head spun around. (But not in a way that I couldn't obsess over the colors. That would be sad.)

This is actually a dark red lipstick, which I'd most likely only really wear for outfit posts. 

I LOVE THIS. It's a dark, dark blue with glitter in it, which makes it look just like the night sky/outer space. The tube itself it so retro looking/has an '80s feel to it, so I'd most likely by it for the tube. I plan on wearing this as many times as possible. I keep scolding myself for not buying, like, ten of these.  

There's a lilac one, too, but I'll post that one later.

Yours truly, Britney