My Style Evolution.

I think it's weird how my style had evolved because of a certain events throughout my life, like moving, getting older, etc. I think it would only be appropriate to share them on this bliary (blog/diary, get it? haha) and that way whenever I organize my closet I can finally answer the questions "what the smurf was I thinking when I bought THAT?"

Unfortunately, I do not have any pics of myself showing these styles anymore. Why? because during a temper tantrum (will explain later) a few years ago, I had deleted my myspace page, which contained most of these photos. It was around the time myspace was dying off, anyway. So I'll just use pics from elsewhere.

In the beginning, there was frumpy. 2004-mid 2006

When I had entered middle school, around 2003/04, I had just started picking out my own clothes and my mom stopped buying clothes for me. Back then everyone at school was doing that whole preppy southern thing. I had just moved to a small town and my school had a specific dress code: collared shirts, tucked in with a belt. The only store to shop at for these shirts were rave, aeropostale, abercrombie, American eagle..

My look consisted of a polo shirt, flared jeans, and birkenstocks a.k.a "potato shoes" which I still own today.

  This is the only pic I could find that does the look justice.

Hip-hop. Mid 2006-Early 2007

When I had entered high school, I had decided that I wanted to not fit in anymore, and dress like everyone else, but not just like everyone else, I wanted to be stereotypically black. Back then hip hop fashion was a little different than it is today..

The whole cropped hoodie, fitted hat and air forces was the thing for southern, black, teenage females back then.

Ghetto Fabulous: Mid 2007- January 2008

Around this time, I was still engrossed in the hip-hop look, but not only did I want to be hip hop, I wanted to appear attractive LOL. I was obsessed with name brand clothing I had no money for. I also got my first haircut around this time.

80's glam: January 2008 - May 2008

I had moved back to my hometown and this is how everyone was dressing, so by law of the teenager I had to do it too, but I had to one up everyone.

I was gonna wear this to the "Glow in the dark tour"

Electro/Nu Raver: May 2008 -  July 2008

This one is pretty interesting because it's the first style that comes from prolonged isolation. School had just ended and I had no one to spend the summer with and nothing to do, so all I could do was find new music on myspace (Jeffery Starr, Millionaires., Ultraviolet Sound) and at this point I had taken my Japanese obsession to a new high. I had also dyed my hair cherry red.

Yes, I DID attempt to dress like this.

 80's hip hop: July 2008 - November 2008

When it was time to start Junior year at high school, I had gotten my hair cut again and I had a fresh new wardrobe. I had also taken an interest in old school hip hop and hipster rap (see: The Cool Kids, Kidz N The Hall)

EMO: November 2008 - March 2009

Why yes I did.

It had occured to me that I was angry. Yes, I was very disappointed in my teenage life. At the time, I had friends, but my love life was nonexistant. This was around the time of my first heartbreak. So I turned weird, and emo. I had already had traces of Emo in me, after being fond of black and white, and I had bought my first pair of chucks earlier that year.

I had also gone through this weird cybergoth phase as well.

 

Boy I was really angsty, wasn't I?! (Sarcasm)

Now, I had really done a complete flip with this one. I had deleted most of the hip hop songs off of my ipod and replaced them with either indie rock or house and techno. I haven't had a playlist full of hip hop since.

 This was also the first time that I stopped caring about what other people thought I should look like, and what I wanted to look like, I started shopping at the store formerly known as Hot Topic, and I started watching videos on Tamara Menocidekunt 's channel.

Grunge: March 2009 - Early May 2009

I had gotten more angsty by this point. Why? It was spring break and I realized that I had no one to spend it with. So one night I was just listening to songs of Nirvana and became an instant fan.

 But then a thought made it worse: the 90's were super cool, I was a kid with no worries. I became extremely nostalgic and went overboard with the grunge look, my only imitation of the grunge look being wake up - brush teeth - change pants. Done.

Skater: Mid May 2009 - whenever

I had realize that the same stores that were selling my grunge look were selling skater clothing. I had started listening to rock earlier in the year, but then I realized I kinda missed hip hop, so I made the transition a little easier by listening to Kid Cudi, N.E.R.D, etc.

Im gonna go ahead and stop here. Why? because afterwards my style had become a hybrid of everything that I had found that I was into at the time. I really did go through phases when I was younger, and it was strange, but some of these phases last to this very day. I don't have just ONE style anymore, I have lots of styles, and most of them depend on the type of mood that I'm in; when I'm happy, I dress bright, when I'm upset, I dress slightly darker.

I thought it was kind of interesting to look back on how I used to dress. Needless to say, I looked fucking stupid: I walked around really thinking I was Emo or Grunge and hardcore when really I was just a kid trying something new - trying to stand out. So everyone, clean out your closets, re-visit your old Myspace and Xanga accounts, stare closely at your old self, because it will make you like your new self a WHOLE lot better.

The Mecca Of Crazy Dreams: Like, Totally Awesome.

I don't know what's going on in this little idiot brain of mine.

Last night I had a dream, I don't know how it began, but me and a few other people I know (or knew) in real life ended up getting zapped back into the 80's.

We were all wearing 80's clothes and hairstyles according to our personality. My hair was still short, of course, and I had some sort of weird outfit deal going on. My look was similar to this one:

So we were all on a bus going somewhere, and I, for some reason, told the people who time traveled with me, that since we knew all of the futuristic lingo, we'd be popular like that (snaps fingers). As I kept talking, I was saying lots of lively things and everyone on the bus was cracking up and I was the center of attention.

I'm really not too sure what this dream is supposed to represent.

Renaissance Fair 2012

So as a part of my bucket-and-fuck-it list, I went to the renaissance fair today and accomplished 3 things I've wanted to do before I die.

I am still sick, so I woke up this morning at like, 4am to take my temperature, and it was 99.1 degrees..thats normal, right? Well I contemplated not going because I felt terrible and I have to work tomorrow. My mom asked me if I was going to go because she saw how sick I was, and I believe I actually told her that I was going to stay here, but I ended up changing my mind because every time we say "oh we're gonna do this, oh we're gonna do that" we never end up doing it, and I had hyped myself up for this by saving my money and looking forward to wearing my Assassins Creed shirt.

So we went, and I slept the entire way, including throughout parking, which was very tedious because there were SO MANY CARS.

Once we parked we had to walk a ways away to the actual fair, which was nicely located inside a forest so there was loads of shade. It was really cute, once inside we were all greeted by a gargoyle and her gargoyle friend

So the fair was really cute, I thought there were gonna be more people talking in Shakespearean, but lots of people just broke character, when I was looking at some cool striped socks this one lady said they were thigh highs and she wears em' with her booty shorts. RIGHT.

There were a lot of cool shops too, selling medieval themed clothing. I had no use for any of this stuff, I mean, I'm already a loser I don't need anymore confirmation that I am a weirdo. Most of the shops were just selling the same merchandise, which included fake weapons, clothing, jewelry, herbs and spices, etc.

 

There were a lot of characters there, some of them fit in perfectly, some of them were waaaaaaayyyy out of left field. The closest I came to dressing up was wearing my Assassins Creed shirt, (which IS relevant to the renaissance fair, it just is, don't question me) and ended up getting a weird look from the guy dressed as a templar knight. But somehow I feel as if I should have worn a Skyrim or a Shrek shirt instead.

There were a lot of good looking guys there; some were working there, some were just visiting there, but the ones that were working there were unbelievably hot, like the guy helping me with my archery skills (ok so he was a bit of a butthole and he seemed like he didn't want to be there) but the rest were cool. 

Here's the thing, I don't really have any friends, so I'm pretty much stuck with my family every where I go, and they are so boring that it's ridiculous. The only thing they did consisted of stopping in herb stores, looking at the ugly jewelry, and pointing rudely.at everything,

While the fam gets their mug of beer, I managed to wander off (and get lost) to catch a jousting battle.

The red jouster's name was really hard to pronounce (and remember)..so lets just call him Garfunkle. Garfunkle had the crowd roaring. People cheered loudly for him like they knew him from last year or something.

The blue jouster, on the other hand, I don't remember his name either, it was something like Sidarthur or whatever, and he was fit as hell, where are they FINDING these guys??? Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of him because my feet were roasting in my shoes and I was kinda concerned, but I DID get this video of him:

So I had lost my family, and my mom was like "you should've just stayed with us" and by that point I was so annoyed I just explained to her that if I had stayed with them I wouldn't have had any fun.

Overall by the end of the fair I started to feel sick, so I was ready to go, but I DID enjoy myself. The guys were hot, the people were friendly, and at the end I finally heard some people stay in character: "showing me your fanny? twas not an insult!" but the only thing is they were only doing it when they were around other vendors and not regular people (???) But it was pretty cool, I'm just not going back to another festival until I have some fun people to go with. But..

• I took some cool pics
• I bought a souvenir
• I shot with a bow and arrow
• I wore my assassins creed shirt
• I saw a jousting
• I went to the renaissance fair..

Mission accomplished ^ ^

One Up On You Bitches: Assassins Creed Fangirl

So as everyone knows (but not to a well enough extent) I am a superfan of assassins creed. Well, Yesterday I pre-ordered Assassins Creed 3, so I got my copy on hold already!!! YAY and then I'm gonna ask them if they want their poster.

Then on sunday I also ordered an assassins creed t-shirt from hot topic. They didn't have any smalls left, so I ended up getting an extra small. Plus the timing couldn't be perfect because shipping is free this week. Today it arrived! and it fits perfectly.

This is what it looks like:

I am also stoked because I am going to the Renaissance Fair this saturday, and I was hoping it would come in time so I could wear it..and it came today. I figured I'd wear it with a pair of white shorts (Sammie Sweetheart said that you always gotta have the white shorts, every girl needs a pair of white shorts) and my black slip-on shoes with my ray-ban shades that I got from the dollar tree.

CHURCH

Today as a token of my gratitude for the good stuff lately, I decided to go to church for easter sunday. Mind you, less than a year ago I was calling myself an atheist, but I'm trying to change, because back then my life was pretty shitty, and I HAVE seen proof of several blessings..happening to other people.

So I was mostly stoked about breakfast and my outfit: my outfit was a black bodycon skirt that I got from rainbow for $6, then a white tank, while covered up under my grandma's old hot pink blazer, I looked totally rad.

Being catholic, our sermons only last for an hour, however, since the last time I went to an Easter sermon I was 7, I really didn't know what I was doing. Trying to find the pages to the psalms and the hyms was really awkward to the point where the solo lady sitting next to me had to help me, but once I got everything down packed my mom tried to help me by pointing out where we were (even though by then I was already in the middle of the paragraph)

I will admit, even though I didn't know what I was doing, I enjoyed my Easter.

Fashion Inspiration: Material Girl

This one is something that I find myself slowly coming into, and it's sort of an 80's revival. The reason why I am doing this one is because it is the cheapest out of all the clothes that I have in my closet, if I want to achieve this look, it would be very helpful on my pocket.

Now for a little off-topic rant: I remember when people were trying to do the 80's back in 2008, and I was one of them. I remember EVERYONE was trying to do it, rap was trying to do it, R&B was trying to do it, POP was trying to do it, it was cool then, but it got really ghetto because people threw on a bunch of bright clothes, did some poses and called it an '80's photo shoot'.



 

 Not 80's: New Rave

Not 80's: The left image is more like "HAYYYYYY" and the one on the right is "where's my stylist?

Not 80's: looks like an updated look of the munchkins from The Wiz

It was interesting when I was trying to find the pictures for this collage because a lot of pics were of people imitating 80's hiphop and that's mos def what I'm trying not to do, see MY style is a lot different; my 80's style only incorporates elements that people aren't willing to bring back, let alone acknowledge the fact that it is, in fact, a trend from the 80's. Since most people (meaning most my age) were born in the 90's and arent aware of 80's wear, what I wear appears stylish and different, which is what I aim for. Alas, here I post my collage of MY 80's style.

Songs

• The songs that I use for this style are the same ones I posted during new wave week, which inspired me to make this collage, also a few extra ones:
  
  
  • Must Be The Feeling by Nero
  • I Know I'll See You by A Place To Bury Strangers
  • Make Up by Vanity 6

SICK SICK SICK part 2

I am actually getting better now.

But earlier this week was utter torture. At my morning job I actually was trying to hide the fact that I was sick because I didn't want Linda saying anything to me about being sick around the kids, but she didn't mind, and the next thing I knew I was asleep in her tv room.

I had to call out sick on thursday and come in late on friday, which shortened my hours horrifically,  but I am getting better now, and I have a day off both jobs on Monday.