I'm trying to take pictures whenever I can. I'm excited to show off my super high waisted jeans that my boyfriend and his mom got me for Christmas this year! Most "high waisted" things on the market don't come up as high as I want, so these are perfect.
Work is fun right now because we've got a lot of exciting events coming up. My favorite days are my social media days because I get to be creative! Any tiny way I can use my major is chalked up as a success for me.
Most of my pictures have been in my living room lately. Right now this spot is covered in dirt, though, because my cat knocked over a plant.
Top: Boden
Necklace: Lucky
Jeans: American Apparel
Shoes: Boden
Valentines is coming up, I hope you all have a good one!
My camera battery finally got here! I thought it would be too dark for pictures after work, but I guess spring is on it's way! Thank god, I hate the dark. I've been pretty absent from here lately.
Being out of school is very disorienting and confusing. That's what everyone says, and it's really true. You spend all your life with this end goal of graduating and then you don't know what to do. Use your degree to make money? You wish. That being said, I'm not unhappy. Just kind of floating along, because going with the flow is all I feel I can do. But I want to be in control.
Work is fine, I have friends there and I like clothes and doing social media. So far it has mostly been putting together outfits, taking pictures, and coming up with cheesy captions, and I like those things. I have been trying to expand my illustration shop to include brooches and stickers. What kind of things do you like to buy from artists?
Spring will be here soon to brighten up my world. I'll plant more flowers and we'll move to a cheaper (hopefully brighter) apartment before too long. It's been a mild winter, but I'm ready for change!
Contains some spoilers if ya care about that sort of thing!
I haven't posted in a million years because a) I haven't made time for it and b) I lost my camera battery. So here's the latest anime I've been binge watching: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure!
Now this one may seem like an uncharacteristically masculine show for me to be obsessed with since I'm all girls in cute clothes holding knives, but JoJo is undeniably cool. Just watch the second arc's opening:
Like, if you don't like fabulous buff dudes in pseudo 80's clothing striking poses before they fight, I don't know what I can do for you. My boyfriend started watching it a couple months ago and I got interested after seeing the theme song, lol. It's based on a manga appearing in Shonen Jump that started in 1980 something, and follows the Joestars, or rather, one from every other generation (all nicknamed JoJo), on their epic adventures. Basic storyline: Evil guy named Dio becomes a vampire and JoJo has to kill him. Then his grandson has to beat up some supreme beings. Then his grandson has to kill Dio, back from the dead. They're releasing the third season weekly right now, actually, and the manga has like 8 arcs, so I'll be 40 by the time any of that shit comes out on crunchyroll. I hope I like the rest as much as the first three!
This show has awesome animation, and is known for it's wacky color schemes, which I really dig. I've been using screencaps as inspiration for my own work. Personal favorite so far is def Joseph Joestar from Battle Tendency, he's a mega babe. It's not everyday that girls get fanserviced to!
Warning though: I considered not gushing about it on my blog since it's a somewhat problematic fave of mine; there are no decent female characters. Don't let that chick in the video fool you, she's great at first but (spoiler alert) loses about two punches into her only major battle. In Stardust Crusaders I was super psyched when the main character's mom started developing magic powers, and I'm trying to ignore the fact that she's too weak to handle them and is spending the entire season comatose. It hurts to have something I love so much cut my entire gender out of it's storyline. I'll be patiently awaiting arc 5 and it's female main character.
Once you recognize that sort of glaring flaw in the story to this point, you can sit back and enjoy the good points of the show, which are many. It's definitely a fun watch, all the characters are charming, and in a word JoJo has style.
My first outfit post of the new year is actually the last outfit of the old year. I spent my new year's eve watching anime with my best pal from college, eating pizza and drinking wine. And my boyfriend came back from Texas!
I've also been playing around with my new Vice 3 palette <3 I haven't worn colored eyeshadow since like, middle school. These colors are Lucky and Dragon.
Well, I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! Mine was good! I got an eyeshadow palette, new glasses, and a Merry Christmas text from someone I don't know named Ellison. I also saw the Hobbit (it was ok), and cooked dinner, and saw my family. My Mom puts on such a great Christmas, really.
What was the best present you guys got?
Finally I have cat eyes! Now I just want some big obnoxious ones :)
I borrowed my sister's lipstick for this, I definitely need to get some of my own. It's Mac. I love matte finish shades, but they don't go on easily for me. I always have to put on chapstick first, and they always accentuate how flakey my lips are. Do you guys ever have that problem? The "amplified" lipsticks are my fave.
I hope you all dressed like a dark princess all week too :)
Wow it's been a minute since I shared some art with you guys. With the holidays I didn't have a ton of time to do art for me, but the past couple of months were all about darkness and witchies. Now I've got an itch to experiment with some really bright color combinations. I had been writing out some explanations of the meanings behind my work, but I think I'm over that. Use your imagination.
