On Friday, I woke up early to catch an Amtrak train ride into the City with my boyfriend. We had been dreaming about roaming around Manhattan for months, and finally the opportunity arose to make it a reality!
Picture Key – Top left: O-Glow (Picture from Sephora.com), Top right: Before trying it, Bottom left: Excited!, Bottom right: Glowing
I wonder how it does it!
-K.B.
Cheap no more.
Photo by Kipernicus, via FlickrWhile in Burlington, I picked up a few American Apparel necessities...
Images from American Apparel
Happy Columbus Day weekend!
-K.B.
While browsing Fashionista last night, I watched their newest Girls Gone Styled video, featuring Mooka Kinney! I had never heard of the duo that is Rachel Antonoff and Alison Lewis before, but I instantly fell in love with them and their clothes. They are the cutest girls ever, creating the cutest vintage-y clothes you'll ever see. According to their website, they're inspired by all things magical such as "Peter Pan" and "winged ponies". If you're like me, and live under a rock (apparently...I hate being the last to know about designers!), I invite you to watch the interview of Rachel and Alison on Fashionista, and then hop over to their own website. I gurantee you'll fall in designer-love with them too!
Honestly, when I bought these Cheap Monday jeans last month, I didn't realize that they were high-waisted. I think I might've gotten lost in how amazing they fit my body while in the dressing room at Urban Outfitters. They're a little long, and a little loose around the waist, but I'm really bad when it comes to returning clothes or exchanging them, so I'll have to deal. Anyways, it was really chilly today! I saw plenty of people wearing flip flops and short-sleeved shirts at the mall, but I was freezing my bum off. The outfit:-Laila Rowe aviators
-Gap blue & white striped shirt
-Kohls' necklace & belt
-Cheap Monday skinnies
-Chocolate Uggs ; (It might've been too early in the season to break these out, but I was just dying for a chance to warm my feet with them!)
At the mall today I picked up some goodies including Chanel mascara, a rust-colored (or "curry"-colored, according to my mother) knit tunic, and a knit floppy hat from H&M. I was a bit disappointed with my mascara results, especially after my mom told me my eyelashes didn't look much different than when I use my cheapy Maybelline mascara. Oh well.
Photo credit: F21
-K.B.
Those were the two words to describe my early morning. Ugh, I hate having to wake up at 6! I was never a person who slept in until lunchtime, but I like waking up a little later than that. This blog and reading others has really inspired me to dress a little differently each day. Last year, my daily outfit consisted of a t-shirt, jeans, and Birkenstocks (no lie!), yet I still read style magazines religiously and would dress up on the weekends. Now I try to only wear jeans a few times a week, and layer! My mom's friend told me that layering is just an excuse designers/stores make up so that we buy more clothes, but I completely disagree. I've never gone into a store to buy a whole outfit; buying different clothes from different stores and throwing them together makes fashion so much more fun! My outfit for today:
No pun intended, haha. Anyways, before school started, I went to Goodwill looking for a vest. Right as I was about to give up my search, I spotted a mint-condition Brooks Brothers woman's vest. The fit wasn't right though, so I figured I'd just take it in a little eventually.
Two weeks later, I decided it was time to make it fit me. I pinched the sides, and sewed a dart on either side. It looks a little strange, since there's darts on my sides and it wasn't just sewed all the way down, but I don't think it looks too bad. Not too shabby for a $4 vest!
Worn today with:
This week hasn't been the best for clothes and keeping up with NYC Fashion Week, and I apologize for the lack of posts. My boyfriend of almost 2 years and I broke up on Sunday and it hasn't exactly been easy. Every day I'm getting better, though, little by little, and thankfully I have great friends that have been there for me. It was sort of funny to watch my progression of what I wore this week though: Monday, I wore a gross outfit of sweats, Tuesday was a little better with jeans and a t-shirt, and today...well, today was a pretty good day in my opinion (see right).Another positive? No school tomorrow! Thank you, Rosh Hashana. It will be spent sleeping in, relaxing, and working on my portfolio.
Have a good night everyone, and to everyone who may be Jewish, have a good holiday!
-K.B.
P.S. Check out the previous post; I've finally been able to post that picture!
Blue, green, and purple plaid H&M jumper
Navy 3/4 sleeve Gap zippy
(barely visible) gray-stripped tee
Purple American Apparel leggings
Gray, bow-tipped flats
Does anyone else do something similar to this? Use a common place they go as their advantage to dress up in new ways? It's fun! If you haven't tried it, thing about your outfit a little more before going to: the grocery store, out shopping, the library, a park, a bookstore...anywhere, really!
-K.B.
I just got back from my local Old Navy, and am majorly bummed. There were a lot of cute styles there that looked sooo good folded, or on a mannequin: grey skinnies, a charcoal fleece jumper (pictured), a large pocket tunic, etc. But when I tried all of these things on, they were either too big there, or too small here. Talk about frustrating!
My boyfriend and I went to New Haven last night for our last date before he went away to college. We both saw this shirt and thought it was so funny. Being the lucky gal I am, he bought it for me!
I visited the Fashion Institute of Technology with my dad for one of its information sessions. After experiencing a casual, "how about YOU ask me questions and I'll answer them"-type session at Parsons, I wasn't expecting much. Instead, what we got was the most informative, well-rounded 2 hours of information I have heard from any college I've visited. More importantly: now I know this is where I want to go. Everything about FIT is perfect, it's almost surreal. And it's right in the middle of the Fashion District!
Today was spent spending more money than I should have, on items that really weren't necessary. I bought a cute little Moleskin notebook to tote around in my purse to replace all of my scrap pieces with numbers and times jotted down, as well as the latest issue of Preen (even though I still have to flip through the ginormous September Vogue; is it bad that I've been saving it for the right time, almost as if it's a special treat?)
I hope everyone has had a very stylish weekend so far!
-K.B.
Manhattan was even better than I remembered it being. There is so much to see everywhere you look; the city is like a never ending supply of eye candy. First, I had a quick lunch with my parents at an Au Bon Pain, and then it was time to do some shopping!
Yesterday I had a sudden urge to bake delicious, icing & sprinkle topped cupcakes. I didn't want them to be the same ol' vanilla batch, though, so I went recipe hunting for a simple vegan cupcake recipe. I found a super-easy one here, on wikiHow; the only difference between this recipe and regular cupcakes was the use of soy milk in place of regular milk, and the use of oil instead of butter and eggs. (*I am neither vegan nor vegetarian, but always love trying out such recipes to see what I can do differently) I then decorated the tops with raspberry and orange frosting and pretty star sprinkles. Unfortunately the frosting itself was not vegan.. I didn't have time to make my own and instead purchased it pre-made.
Has anyone ever met someone...whether it be an acquaintance or new found friend...who is a breath of fresh air? To me a breath of fresh air is this: someone who stands out from the rest in all the right ways. Usually I find breaths of fresh air in the little things people do, i.e., holding the door open, smiling, saying hello, and I try to do the same.
