Burgandy, Black and Theoretical Physics

wearing all vintage except for shoes (c/o Chictopia), hat & sweater (wholesale) For today's interesting science related factoid, here is a photo of a very dapper young scientist. Now 70 years old, he is one of the most brilliant physicists of all time. Can anyone guess who this is (before cheating and looking at the answer at the bottom of the photo?) Yep, it's Stephen Hawking, at around the age of 21. He was some seriously babin' geekiness. In addition, he is of course one of the most incredible theoretical physicists of all time. You should also definitely read A Brief History of Time - I am about halfway through and it is mind-blowing. Hope you're all doing wonderfully,

Why is it Dark at Night? (Alternatively, Ponies!)

I'm so very colour coordinated today! My sweater matches my shorts and even my lips match the black bits of my outfit. Also, I really like this new black lipstick. What do you guys think of it? wearing sweater - c/o Sheinside blouse - Vintage shorts - I made them (kind of)! - DIY shoes - Vintage lipstick - Ebay So you know what? Being a scientist/science nerd and all, and in an attempt to make outfit posts a little bit more than "so I wore this sweater today because I like it and I think it looks cool... *awkward shuffle*", and also in an attempt to convince/brainwash you guys into thinking science is cool, I've decided to include an amazing science thing at the end of my outfit posts. If you're not into that, then feel free to skip right past it, but if you think it's worth your while then you may just learn something :) I'm also going to try and relate it to my outfits somehow... this following video has a lot of bright yellow and black so... yeah. That totally counts. I've got another clip from Minute Physics today, because they make the cutest little science videos. Have you ever thought about why the sky is dark at night? Because the sun isn't shining - well, yeah. But if we didn't have an atmosphere, the sky would always look dark, night and day. So why is space dark? Why don't all the stars light up space? The answer to the question is not as obvious as you might think. I hope you're all having a marvellous week. I really need to start studying for my uni exams so I can become an actual proper scientist, so I'm going to go do that now. Much love!

Pink is actually anti-green

Hello beautiful blog readers! I'm super excited to introduce you to an Australian label that I started working with just last week - Faith & Lola. They make some seriously gorgeous dresses, and I am a little bit (actually, a lot) smitten with this lacey, neon, puffy-skirted, backless pink number. They're a small label so they don't have their own online store, however you can pick their stuff up from here (and you can find this particular dress right here). Also (alert: science nerd-dom) it may interest you to know that the pink you are seeing in these photos doesn't actually exist (see the end of this post). wearing dress - c/o Faith & Lola tights - c/o Choies bag - c/o Choies shoes - Rubi Shoes necklace - c/o Oasap So in case you were interested in where my odd post title came from, check this video out. Minute physics explains why pink doesn't actually exist, and should in fact be called minus-green. Watch this, then go look at the pink dress again and totally freak out. Or at least think "hmm. That's cool I guess." This is why science is amazing. (If that fascinated you, I post stuff like that on my sciencey blog all the time. You should go check it out.) Much love,

Porcelain Doll

I decided to make a creepy broken porcelain doll version of my outfits. As I said in my last post, we don't do Halloween here (well, not really anyway), so this outfit is just for you guys :) And also possibly because I'm procrastinating on starting my study for exams.  I'm so, so bad at doing make up, but I managed to do this whole thing with a broken eyeshadow palette I've had since I was 10, and an eyeliner from Oasap (which was actually really good because it's got a thin, hard brush so I could draw on the cracked lines really easily). I also made my eyes look super gigantic by using white eyeshadow underneath my eyes and then drawing an eyeliner line just below it. Maybe this will inspire someone to do something similar for their own outfit, who knows. wearing blouse - Vintage skirt - Wholesale hat - Wholesale eyeliner - c/o Oasap And keeping with the idea that I'm a small, old porcelain doll, here's a teeny tiny sewing machine that this porcelain doll alter-ego of mine would sew her clothes on. *spooky*

Vintage Vampire

Happy Halloween my northern hemisphere friends! We really don't do Halloween here, although there were some Halloween parties going on this weekend.  Oktoberfest is something that is just as big as Halloween here, and the two always tend to clash. It's pretty funny though - you end up with a lot of zombies drinking steins in lederhosen. As for myself, I went to a warm, sunny, daytime summer festival instead of a halloween party. There were a lot of zombies though, boogie-ing along to oom-pah bands. Oh, Australia. You beautiful, multicultural place. So for this look, I put black lipstick and a black dress on intending to be all monochrome and gothy for a Halloween look. But, being me, I had to add some (a teeny, tiny, infintesimely small amount of) colour to my outfit, and that came in the form of these floral tights and vintage blazer. So I ended up being a kind of weird amalgmation of a vintage vampire. I think it ended up working well though. It probably makes more sense than lederhosen zombies. wearing dress - c/o Romwe tights - c/o Romwe necklace - c/o Oasap blazer - Vintage belt - Vintage hat - Rubi Shoes One more thing - my Glamorous giveaway ends in about 1 and half days. Go ahead and enter here (if you want to)! Much love and Happy Halloween!