Dressember day 10: Lime Me!

Today was unseasonably warm so I took advantage by giving my cardigans a rest 🙂

I wore a lime green top from Forever 21 (I think).  I love lime green! Its in my top five favorite colors, I love how bright and cheery it is, with a bit of punk rock.  I also love how it looks with my hair 🙂

I paired the bright top with a gray pencil skirt, gray and lime green are one of my favorite combinations.  The pencil skirt adds a bit more classy-ness to the outfit, I don’t know if you can tell but my shirt is kind of mesh.

I added some hot pink heels that match my lipstick, a green bracelet, and a turban.

This is a close up.  Turbans (hats in general) are kind of hard to wear.  Hats aren’t a big part of modern style so it can be a bit intimidating to start wearing them, it definitely attracts attention.  I got this because I love how it looks in old pictures but then it took me a good month before I summed up enough courage to wear it out of the house!

I like to have REALLY big, curly hair with the turban.  I feel like I need the volume at the sides to offset the flattening a the top.  I usually like a lot of volume in my hair, so its really hard to have a flat head! I curled it using my smallest size of hot rollers, then teased the bottom layers it until it was standing up on its own.  Then put the turban on and teased it some more to build it up the way I wanted.  My hair is due for a washing so it didn’t hold the curl as well as usual, but it worked out ok, and its not as big as I would have liked.  It fell a bit by the time I took the pictures.

I want to try to wear hats more often, I have a bunch of them.  I but them with every intention of wearing them, but I make excuses not to like “I have nothing to wear with (insert whatever hat here)” but it is really about a lack of confidence that I can pull it off.  This is a horrible cycle because what makes you able to pull off the hat is being confident! Lacking confidence makes it hard to pull off, which makes you more self conscious, which makes you less likely to wear it, and on and on.  I think that will be one of my style resolutions for the new year: wear all of the hats I own at least once.

Do you have any pieces of clothing, accessories, etc. that you loved when you bought it but now it sits untouched in your closet?  What drew you to it in the first place, what scares you away now?  I love to hear your thoughts and comments!

Rainy days and wednesdays wont get me down!

Today was a very rainy, school day.  I don’t like to wear heels to school since I have to walk around campus all day.  Usually I go to the gym in between classes, I have an hour or so break everyday so I use that time to workout, so on gym days I wear gym clothes all day.  Lame.  So I am using Dressember as an excuse to motivate myself to dress nicer every day of the week.

This was my outfit for the day.

Green pleated skirt: I got it at a thrift store, it has a matching cardigan

White long sleeved t-shirt: from Target, I stocked up on a couple of these in different colors for those days when an outfit needs a neutral.  I have a bright color addiction and rarely buy anything in neutral colors.

Black flats from Payless

Black belt that came with another dress.

I think the whole outfit cost me less than $20, which is important for me since we are on a pretty tight budget.  I am a huge fan of thrift stores.  If you spend some time combing through the racks, you can often find some great pieces of vintage clothing.  My mom always comments on my “old lady” clothes, but I don’t think I look like an old lady!  If dressing classy and ladylike, makes me look like an old lady, I’ll proudly take it.  I attend my local university and I see girls running around all the time in barely there shorts with parts of their behind or their middrift hanging out, I would choose looking like an old lady any day over that!

I decided to do simple makeup, a basic cat eye and bright pink lip.  This is my favorite lipstick, it is Milani “Rose Hip”.  It is also one of my least expensive lipsticks, I think it is 3.99 at Walgreens/any drug store.  I collect Mac cosmetics so I was a little skeptical about cheap drug store products but I have been so happy with this one.  It is the perfect bright pink lipstick, it is so creamy and has great staying power.

I like to use makeup as a way to modernize my vintage look.  I like to play with colors, again my color addiction :), I have so many eyeshadows and lipsticks and I try to use them whenever I can.  My camera doesn’t capture it very well but I think we will be getting a new camera soon then I will do some tutorials and more makeup and hair style posts.  Maybe for Christmas or my birthday in february I can get a decent webcam for tutorials.

I just want to remind everybody about the orphans that are counting on us!  The link to donate is in the sidebar on the left.  Lets spread some Christmas cheer!