Purple Haze

I recently had a good 4 or 5 inches chopped off my hair, leaving me with mixed emotions. The ends were pretty ratty and I was way overdue for a trim, but it was those ratty ends that formed the bulk of my signature bouffant, giving me massive hair. I can't imagine life without stupidly big Gibson girl hair! So far I've been too scared to even try and put my hair up...fingers crossed I haven't lost my super-hair-powers.

I'm not in the habit of wearing leggings as trousers, but today's outfit was for a rather long car journey, where comfort was essential and being seen by the general public was minimal. I've had this blouse for a while now and thought it was about time it made a blog appearance. It's rather humongous on me, so belting is necessary, but it is light as air and shall be a delight to wear on a hot summers day. It is kind of fanciful, childlike even, but I love the jewel tones used and the little butterflies appliquéd all over.

Wedges (Pied A Terre), cardigan (Zara), blouse (Anna Sui), black vest [worn underneath] (Topshop), leggings (M&S)

Super new nail varnish. Wish I could find a lipstick this shade of bright purple.

Caped Christmas

I bought this 1920's tiered cape a few weeks ago, and Christmas provided the perfect opportunity to wear it and share it on the blog. The cape comprises of three tiers, made from the softest silk velvet, enabling it to swish about and generally make you feel rather glamorous. It kept me warm on Christmas day, worn over my Anna Sui dress (ss2007), which sadly only comes out on special occasions!

(Oh and half of these photos were taken at the start of the day, with fresh hair/make-up, and the other half were taken at the end of the day, after much merriment and food....hence the less than immaculate hair in some shots, and removal of the belt.)

Vintage cape, shoes (Ravel), dress (Anna Sui)

My mum keeps telling me that red eye-shadow makes me look ill and/or tearful, but I rather like it! And below is my most treasured ring, which I got for my 21st birthday. Ruby is my birthstone (lucky me!)

A long time ago, I used to wear purple...

So after the mediocrity that was yesterday, I had a bit more fun dressing today. For the sake of convenience I wanted to use my Anna Sui tote to carry heavy things today. This is a bag which I gleefully obtained for cheaps, but which much to my dismay has become ubiquitous with the pre-teen goth/punk/emo community in my locality. Bah! Whatever, I’m still going to use it because it’s still a cute bag and you gotta love the little cartoon of Anna Sui on the bag, it’s like looking at a photo of her! The colours of the bag determined my outfit today. Purple was my favourite colour as a youngster, I used to wear purple everything (including a rather questionable foray into purple lipstick, but lets forget I said that). Nowadays I don’t think I own anything purple, with the exception of this bag (oh and the scarf but that is a relic from my purple days), and I think this is down to me not being able to bear wearing purple and having red lipstick, which is something I wear pretty much daily. There’s just something about wearing red on my lips, and then introducing a new berry tone in purple to the mix and it just gives me a headache. Obviously back in the day when I was all innocent and too young to wear haughty red lipstick, the world was my purple oyster. Anyway this is all getting rather long winded. Pretty much, I toned down the red lips in order to carry the purple bag and add a purple scarf. I always though purple and green looked nice together, so that was the complex thought process behind my decision to add green hints in the form of gloves, a scarf and jewellery.

Black vintage jacket, vintage gloves, purple scarf from years ago, green scarf from some market, shoes from a shop years ago (this is all really helpful information I know), Anna Sui plastic tote, vintage skirt, vintage grey jacket, fringe scarf (Accessorize), black roll-neck (H&M), leather belt (Topshop).

The stripy skirt is something I intially thought was pretty mad/ daring for me. I hate to wear patterns and/or light colours on my bottom half what with me being a rather classic pear shape, but the vertical lines meant I soon got over the fact that I was wearing both a pattern and a light colour. I find the skirt is less in your face and brash when worn with muted colours as I have done today

Beetle bracelet and jade and silver bracelet

I even have silver nails, yay for coordination.

And silver shoes! I hardly ever wear these, a bit uncomfortable to walk in, but they have little sparkly stars all over them and are generally splendid.