#POST 26

FASHION | THE PLAID AND THE FALL

Can I just take a minute to say, 'Why HELLO plaid, you just seem to fit in with everyone!' 
Well I think that a great jacket, jeans and the versatile plaid shirt can be a great asset in any situation. And plaid in the fall? Ugh, there isn't enough words in this world to describe how much I love this combination.

This is Mike, in a plaid shirt, a gorgeous fall jacket and some ripped jeans.

If you don't think that fall is not one of the most beautiful seasons, you need to leave my blog right now. Fall is so beautiful and has such a warm welcoming feeling to the season. Also, fall fashion was always my favourite.

If you noticed, yes this is legit--Mike here is wearing bedroom slippers. 

It’s an interesting trend I've been noticing at the college. Pretty much everyone wears their slippers as if they were actual shoes. I was very ‘um…what the hell?’ at first, but after you get used to the idea its not actually all that weird. I mean if you live in residence, would you really need shoes? Some kids show up to class in their pyjamas, and we’ve come to accept that; to be honest I rather someone show up to my class in bedroom slippers verses their pj’s.

Anyways, back to this picture. This was taken right outside of the college doors. It was a wonderful day to take pictures so I thought I would take advantage of it.


 I don’t know if you can see it, but Mike here is also wearing a ‘I Love Boobies’ rubber band bracelet.

The bracelet is part of the ‘Keep a Brest’ campaign by LoserKids clothing.
The bracelet is part of the ‘Keep a Brest’ campaign by LoserKids clothing. The bracelets really go with everything and anything, I even have one. They come in a ton of different colours and are great for everyday wear. It’s very gender friendly and for a good cause, why not? If you want to buy one of these baby's go HERE! You can also get them at your local mall at most Boat House clothing stores if you live here in the wonderful province of Ontario.

Now I don't remember if I had talked about it here, but we did this little shoot on the Fanshawe campus. There is a lot of open space and trees at Fanshawe. It was a lovely surprise to discover these landscapes for future photo seshes. I mean, he looks like he's in the country out in the middle of nowhere! Fanshawe for the win! 

Follow Mike on twitter! @michaelkalpakis 

POST #23

FASHION|THE VERSATILE DRESS

My first outfit post! So I have no idea how to articulate this type of post, but here I go trying...

So this is Beth.

I had Beth stand around my condo area; in about next to nothing as I took pictures of her with my crappy blue camera. Said camera is now missing, by the way. Anyways, I had her in one outfit the entire ‘shoot’. She was wearing a dress that could be worn to literally anything be it fancy, or just to hang around in. So this post is basically about how you can take one piece of clothing and recycle it for a few occasions.

For a fancy outing with this dress, I paired it with a thin grey belt, a few random black and sliver bracelets and a cute little pendant necklace, oh and killer heels. The heels are silver, but are reflective with the light.

This was the only picture I could get with the full outfit...

I personally think that the thin belt makes it a wee bit classier. The belt was bought at a hardcore catholic thrift store for 50 cents. You could pair this classy version of the versatile grey dress with any colour of bando/thank top. I personally liked the blue on Beth so we went with that for the 'shoot' but I would go for a more neutral colour for fancy events.

                                   

So as I said, the shoes were quite reflective, so when I tried to take a decent picture of them they looked green due to the grass. They are actually silver. I these shoes would would work great with a pair of dark skinny jeans or with cute short bold coloured summer dresses.

Another great accessory is a great leather jacket. This jacket looks great as a fancy jacket as well as a stylish everyday wear. Which brings us to the mix up, the everyday look version of thus dress.

Everything looks sexier with a leather jacket!

From Fancy to Chillin, just like that!

So for the hanging out version of this dress, I traded the heels for some ankle boots and the thin belt for a thick one. You could also work this with some leggings and flats. The combinations are really endless with this dress really.

So the accessories for this more casual look are these fabulous ankle boots:

And a thick belt:

 I feel that the thicker belt just seems more relaxed, less constriction and a lot more fun than a thin one. You could even play up the colours and styles of the belt. Depending on how you're wearing the dress, a belt can make a huge difference. For example, a shine-tasic belt while going clubbing would look way better than a nuetral coloured one would look. Belts are often the key to transforming outfits from Plain Jane to Dannng! 

So the last thing I would like to say about this photoshoot with Beth, is her makeup.

All I really did, was made giant <>'s to the corners and creases of her eyes with a black eye shadow blending with a brown towards her nose, then filled in the insides with a fun reddish copper colour to make her eyes pop a bit. A bit of eyeliner on the lid of her eye and mascara later, she looked ready to rock and roll!

Anywho, I would like to take this second to thank Beth for putting up with this silliness. She does make a far better model than I do though!

Doesn't she?

#POST 21

So I haven't done a post in a while. So here is a random post of pictures of my self in a bright pink sparky shirt (that I've cut up and sewn) and some intense blue and black eye makeup.

See? On Stalker book, I have named it 'Blue on Black--The Bombshell's Back'

 I'm not gonna lie though, I love acting as if I can model and being gangster all at the same time. Actually that was a lie, I just have no clue how to pose for a camera. Thus why my next post will have a model. A white girl named Beth. I'm pretty excited for her to be joining my blog as just that because, well look at that. -->
I'm more than confident that it speaks for it's self.

See that ring? See that blurb? --

If you've noticed, I'm wearing a double ring. Let me give you a pointless background story on this here ring. My good friend Melissa bought it for me for my birthday. She took me out to the mall to pick them out for my self because she didn't know my ring size and because she wasn't sure what I would like. (Although I do have this knack for turning random stuff into fashionably wearing) Anyways, weeks passed and BAM it was my birthday, but she forgot the gift. No big deal, so she'd just get them to me another time. A good month or two passes and by now I've forgotten completely about the gift all together. So when she finally gives them to me I am in shock and awe on how much I love the rings before she pointed out that I had picked them. True story. Wanna hear another one? I just wasted a good two minutes of your life right there. You're welcome.

However, on a separate note, I've been fiddling around more and more with photoshop. I'm very slowly getting the hang of it. This means that my future posts of my own bad photography will be coved up by my lame photoshop skills.

AFTER

BEFORE

TILL NEXT POST BITCHES!

Actually no. I don't talk like this. But the picture deemed that quote appropriate...

#POST 20

FASHION | D.I.Y 
So a little background info on this dress. Once upon a time in a State called New York, a black tube top dress with a gilttery polka dotted loose skirt was bought by a man for his daughter. Not appericating this hidden treasure, the daughter threw the dress in a dark lonely closet, never to be seen for two whole years. On the Canadian thanksgiving holiday on the third year, a young woman from Canada saw this sad and un-worn piece of clothing and she thought, 'I see something in this, something that others may have missed!' and took the dress back to Ontario with her.The end.

Now on to the dress.
I turned this:

  into this

How you ask? All you need is a strong thin belt (mine was gold metal) and a few safety pins.

All I did was take the long-ish skirt and pulled it up over the tube top and safety pinned it. It should make your body look like a rectangle. Then, simply fasten the belt where ever you want great curves. I made my breasts look bigger by fastening the belt right under my bra.

Close up of the belt

Make sure that the skirt is long enough to pull over the top, otherwise it just looks trashy. This outfit would work for Fancy dinners, birthday's and family friendly events. This dress is really fun and can be made out of pretty much any tube dress with a flowing skirt. Because it's so quick and easy, it's ideal for those fast trips or last minute outfits you need, but do not have the time to shop for. Its quick, easy and cheap!

POST # 19

Well, for the past few weeks I’ve been updating/changing/severely neglecting this blog and now I think I’ll fix it up a bit and actually post something. Now if anyone cares to back-track you will notice that ‘POST’s 06-10’ are missing. Why you ask? Well. Those were the posts that I had attempted the ’30 day challenge’ thing. Funny joke right? Me? Committing to something? I’m laughing as I type!

Anyways, my last post seemed dark, damp and depressing, I every time I click on my blog page I see that post and want to crawl into a dark corner and cry. No more of that now! I have semi-big plans for this blog! I want to add a fashion component, along with some quick recipes and some DIY stuff. Kind of like a Tumblr but more elaborate. Of course all of these new categories will be linked to and from their respective pages. For example, Fashion from LookBook.nu, and Recipes/DYI from Tumblr, cause you know I’m an attention seeking cow with ADD and I’ll forget where I had that one random post. Anywho, sometime this month I shall post up at least two fashion posts and one recipe.

Along with sharing all of my quirky ideas to the world wide web, I am also doing this so I don’t forget when I go to school next year in London (not England, Ontario). I’m pretty stoked about it, but I’ve come up with a lot of fashion tips, quick food fixes and cheap innovations within this past year, and I’ve already forgotten half of them, so this blog will be great as a ‘student life index’ for me when I finally leave my Momma’s house.

Well this was a short but sweet and hopefully a update with promises I will (cross your fingers) pull through with. Lets hope I don’t procrastinate too much.