A Break from Pastels

wearing dress - Wholesale blouse - Vintage ribbon - DIY tights - c/o Oasap bag - c/o Wholesale hat - c/o Wholesale shoes - Rubi Shoes This is the most lolita-ish outfit I have put together in a long time. It was a little bit accidental but I didn't mind how it turned out at all. Definitely a break from my usual pastel palette though. I have been restyling a whole lot of old (and collarless) dresses lately by throwing on a vintage blouse underneath, and adding collar accessories like this ribbon. You should try it out if you're getting sick of your wardrobe - it's a really awesome way to change the look of a dress! Also, enter my competition if you haven't seen it already - one day left! xxx Annika

Dead Weather & A Giveaway ;) (CLOSED)

wearing skirt - c/o Sugarlips blouse - Vintage tights - Romwe bag - Vintage shoes - Rubi Shoes ring - Vintage hat - c/o Wholesale Just a quick outfit post from me today. This skirt from Sugarlips apparel is so pretty, and I just love it's cascading shape and colour-blocked pattern, but I've been having such a hard time trying to figure out a blouse to pair it with! Sometimes stand-out statement pieces can be so difficult to find the perfect pair for. I've been wearing it with a plain t-shirt but that just seemed too odd to put on this blog (as I don't think I've EVER worn any kind of plain shirt without some kind of embellishment on this blog ever, and I'm sure as heck not starting now). So here's my kind-of giveaway (I've been full of kind-ofs this week, like my kind-of-DIY from Monday. I blame it on the strange ambivalent weather that we've been having - sunny? stormy? summer? winter? it can't make up its mind) - SO anyone who can find the best blouse/shirt/top to go with this skirt (from anywhere on the internet, pricey or cheap, just as long as it's inspiring!) wins a small ad space for 2 months (that's worth $10). You have 3 days to enter! xxx Annika

A (kind of) DIY - make some pretty short/jean pockets

(shorts c/o Oasap) I was inspired to make these shorts after I saw a similar thing from this etsy store owned by Meanz from Koi Story (although the cat themed ones she makes are most definitely better - and she sells them if you're interested ;) ). what you do 1. Make a stencil (I just used baking paper) by tracing around your pocket. Leave half an inch around all the edges. 2. Cut out your fabric using this stencil. Fold the edges in half an inch or so and sew them down onto the fabric... 3. Making sure you make it the same size of the pockets that already exist on the shorts. 4. Sew this onto your shorts (hand sew or sewing machine both work fine!), and make sure you're only sewing onto the back of the shorts, not all the way through! When you get the the top of the pocket, hand sew this on so that you still have a functional pocket :) There you have it! A super easy way to update a pair of shorts. xxx Annika

Little Ghost, Little Ghost

wearing dress - Forever 21 blouse - Vintage tights - c/o Oasap necklace - c/o Oasap ribbon - DIY bag - c/o Mochi Beaucoup hat - c/o Wholesale shoes - Dr Martens Aw man. You guys are real lucky today that the internet doesn't have smell-o-vision. Life tip: don't wear a wig to a party. Someone managed to pour cask wine all over it. Now it doesn't smell too nice. I really wanted to wear it for this outfit though, so I put it on anyway. Now I've pretty much ruined the outfit for anyone reading this with that disgusting story... Sorry about that haha. So, uh, can someone tell me how to wash synthetic wigs??? Shampooing it seems wrong, and I don't want to wreck the curls... xxx Annika

Sneaky Collars & New Hair

Look what I did to my hair! It's so normal! Dark brown. Dark, normal looking brown. What the what. I am glad I didn't go to the hairdresser for this, even after they were all "It'll go green if you try and dye it brown over your pink!" HA! No it won't. It'll just go a nice dark brown. I am already worried that it's too boring, however I am soon to be the owner of three coloured wigs so that should hopefully satiate my need for crazy hair for at least a little while. So this outfit features a very sneaky collar trick. I got this blouse and this dress and put them together with a little bow clip that I made and I think they go together really nicely. What do you think? wearing blouse - Paper Scissors dress - c/o Glamorous UK cardigan - Vintage ring - Vintage bow - DIY tights - Romwe shoes - Vintage bag - Vintage I hope you're all very well today! xxx Annika

Cupcakes and Cream

wearing blouse - Vintage tie - c/o Flapper Girl shorts - c/o Oasap bag - c/o Wholesale tights - Vintage hat - c/o Wholesale shoes - Raben Footwear It was such lovely weather today that I went for a super long walk all the way to the next town, in this outfit (sans wig). An old lady (probably about 70 or so) dressed in a beanie and a raincoat (it was hot and there weren't any clouds in the sky, but hey) stopped me on my walk and said "I just needed to tell you, you look really chic. Your whole ensemble is really chic." and then walked off. Which was just super cute and nice. I love it when random people who would wouldn't think would have any interest in fashion go out of there way to tell you that you look nice, it never fails to make my day. So I decided that I am going to go out of my way to compliment random people on their outfits in the future (and hopefully won't seem like a massive creeper whilst doing so). Okay, so now I have to do 314018752 assignments for uni. If I'm not around here much in the next week, that's where I'm at. Hope you're all having a nice Wednesday :) xxx Annika