BLCKGLD Clothing

Coming Soon

I can be a bit of a compulsive shopper and bargin hunter, so I tend to have things in excess. Clothes that I've never worn (tags still in tact), shoes I've forgotten about and jackets that's have never seen the light of day.

In an effort to purge my closet, amongst other things, BLCKGLD Clothing was birthed.

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If you're like us then you have a million clothes and not enough closet to fit them or even days of the year to wear them.

We plan on offering affordable, new and gently used pieces as well as some original designs.

We eventually want this to also be a platform for YOU to sell your items as well. And also as a outlet to sell orginal designs (streetwear, dresses, accessories etc).


See you at the Grand Opening.

-The BGC Team
OLD to GOLD


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~Addicted Fembot

Shop-a-HAUL-ic [5]: Black Friday & Nasty Gal

Hey hey hey

So I'm not really a Black Friday shopper because most of the items that are on sale are big ticket electronics, none of which I need. However I AM a shopper, so I couldn't miss out on an opportunity to see what other things were on sale.

Given that fact that I shop on a regular basis, and I live in a small town where the biggest store is Walmart I only made two stops. Walmart, for beauty and skin products and Target for miscellaneous things.

Thursday I placed an order from Nasty Gal and it was delivered FRIDAY! I was ecstatic, both by the quick delivery and by my clothes.

From Target

Shirt dress 

Color blocked button down

 From Nasty Gal

Tropicana print jacket

Tropicana print high waist jean

High waist jeans in Acid

Black and White Motorcycle jacket 

I was feeling myself while taking these pictures! Lol.

I LOVE this jean and jacket set!!!! I will be wearing the crap out of it esp TOGETHER!

Getting my model on

My name is Addicted Fembot and I am a SHOPAHOLIC!

-AF

Shop-a-HAUL-ic [6]: Jeffrey Campbell

I don't really think I need to preface this post with anything. I'll just let the shoes speak for themselves. I may do a review on the shoes and SoleStruck later but for now enjoy the shoe porn.


I included a video of my reaction while I was unboxing them as well as some clips of me walking in them. Pictures at the bottom of the post.

Hope you love them as much as I do. :)

Black Leather Lita Spike Size 7 with 5" heel and 2" platform.

White Leather Damsel Size 7 with 6 1/2" heel and 2" platform.

Black Suede Over Here Size 7 with 7" heel and 4" platform.

 

-Addicted Fembot

Yikes

Golly gee willikers... a whole month of not blogging!!!

Well in my defense I am in school so I've been busy. But the semester is almost over and I need to get back on the saddle before the break starts.

Any hope everyone's Thanksgiving went well, seeing family, eating and shopping!

I'll be posting a shoe haul soon. I'm super excited for them to come in!

Let me know if you bought anything exciting this past weekend/Monday.

Cyber Monday >>> Black Friday


AF

shop-a-HAUL-ic [4]

Dated Oct 27th, 2011

"JEFFREY CAMPBELL!!! I ordered the Lita's on Monday and I just got them in...I'm in LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE! I'm so excited to add these shoes to my collections find outfits to wear with them.

SOO I've had these shoes for 3 months or so and...

SN: if you remember my post about wedges (here) you know how much I love these(link). Well I ended up buying them AND they were on SALE...I only paid $54 (compared to the original $90) #winning.

I also ordered two palettes from Coastal Scents that arrived recently"

...nearly a year later.

Well there's nothing like an incomplete thought to highlight ones short attention span. SMH.

So I've had my Lita's for almost a year maybe even more because I'm not even sure when I received them. Regardless I love them to this day and have been wanting a 2nd and 3rd pair since! I originally ordered a 6 but had to exchange it for a 7. I bought them from SoleStruck and shipping and all that good stuff was fast and easy. I love(d) them. I'm happy I bought the black distressed leather because they go with everything, or I try to pair them with everything anyway. Seriously THEY ARE THE MOST COMFORTABLE HEELS THAT I OWN. Sorry for the caps lock, but I needed to convey my opinion in the best way possible over the internet. The longer I have them the more distressed they look and the more they become my go to shoes. From casual to dressy more often than not I'm wearing them or tried to wear them.

I ended up buying both pairs of wedges featured in my Top 5 [9] and I love those as well. And you can bet I got both of them on sale. I love Aldo! Anyway, wedges are super easy to walk in compared to heels. And they're great for the summer time. I don't think I have pictures of me in either of them :(. But just know they were super cute on.

I ordered the 88 warm palette and the 10 shade blush palette from Coastal Scents. Both were pretty affordable compared to other palettes of their kind. I REALLY love the blush palate and pretty much exclusively use those colors. The Warm palate has come in handy when doing make up for other people. Yes, I'm unofficially a freelance M.U.A. but are you surprised?

Top 5 AHOLICS [10]

~This entry was started the 17th of May~

1. iPads [1st and 2nd Gen]
2. business casual
-button down shirts
-chinos
-blazers
3. prints
4. sewing/designing
5. cake

I'm not much of a techie, but I do love shopping and having new things! I had the first generation iPad and really liked it, but in true Apple fashion the 2nd generation came out not too long after I bought mine. UGH! Which commandment was it to not covet thy neighbor's wife. Well lets just say I was more than a little envious of all the new features. As a PC girl I didn't initially see the point in yet another Apple product littering the technological market.

This hot little number was, in my opinion a large iPod at first. So what was all the buzz? Boy was I wrong. I Can 't speak for everyone but I love mine for the convenience that it brings. I used to have to lug my heavy laptop everywhere, now I can whip out my iPad if I need to check my emails or anything else. To be honest though the one downside, in terms of academic use was the lack of word processing software. [Yes there's an app for that but...eh]. Despite this my "whole life" is on there, my calendar with all my activities, easy Facebook and Twitter access, emails, everything.

If I was to rate it it would get a solid 4 out of 5 [because of price :/ ].

*****RIP S.J.*****

As a recent grad going on interviews and entering the "real world" will become common place. Along with my foray into the professional world my wardrobe must follow too. I've started buying more work appropriate attire from slacks to blazers to button down shirts. To keep with the color blocking trend I bought bright colored items (had to keep things fabulous) from chinos to different colored blazers.

I love PRINTS. They can function as the accessory to any look. Breaking up the boring solids with a print is always a great way to spice up an outfit. I'm not picky when it comes to print, be it animal (can you say CHEETAH) or floral they all are fun and fabulous. In previous posts I spoke about prints matching you stature and that definitely still holds true, especially for all over prints like in a dress. The 70's vibe from earlier in the year is holding strong this fall (but more boho: flared pants, fringe and what not). This trend utilizes print in great ways that will work for many shapes and tastes (blouses, skirts, maxi dresses and skirts, flow-y dresses...) Be sure to choose colors that are more in the jewel tones (the seasons IN colors).

These outfits from Fall 11 have that 70's vibe with some prints in jewel tones.

I'll try not bore you with this one, but I've really taken a liking to sewing and making things for myself (and now others...BABY STEPS). I especially like designing clothes, now that I have more free time I can do more and be more creative. All I need now is a dress form...SO if anyone has an extra one that they're not using I'd be happy to take it off your hands :).

Myself and a model in a swimsuit I made.

The picture above shows you print with that 70's vibe. The pants (customized) and bandeaux top are from F21 . 

I love cake! What more is there to say? I wish it was my birthday everyday just so I could have cake, not that I REALLY need a reason to have cake. But it's nice when someone else buys it lol.

Not a fan of frosting.

shop-a-HAUL-ic [3]

[Mostly May...] I went thrifting awhile ago and I had done some other shopping [at the usual places] while looking for a graduation dress a few days ago. Here's the swag...

Part 1: Thrift and Target

Part 2: Charlotte Russe, Forever 21 & H&M

-Aholic

Hate is a Strong Word [4]

1. changes on FB
2. "Jack in the boxes"
3. apartment shopping

I don't know if you've noticed but it seems that every other day there's a new feature or change on Facebook. They like to sneak them in thinking we won't notice, BUT WE DO!!! I am NOT amused. I want things back to they way there were. It was just last week that I realized my "status updates" weren't even real statuses anymore. They were just comments that happen to be directed at everyone and seen on peoples timeline. KIND OF LIKE TWITTER. I already have a Twitter account, I don't need another one.
Don't get me wrong there are some changes that I like [the ones with uploading pictures and the larger albums]. But the positives are few and far between. There isn't anything I can do about it, but I just thought I'd get it off my chest.

JACK IN THE BOXES... no I'm not referencing the toys or the fast food chain [that's the name right]. A "jack in the box" is a euphamism I came up with to describe someone who JACKS your swag, ideas, life, men etc etc and trys to portray them as their own. And while doing so they hide behind a fasade, either through "friendship", great distances, different cirlces of friends etc.
They're like copy cats, but scarier. Definitely add a touch of stalker to it, like the whole fan vs stan [stalker fan] thing.
Yes I know "imitation is the best form of flattery" but REALLY! Compliments, patronage, money, those are forms of flatter I can live with. Imitation is just creepy. Obviously originality, especially in our day an again is hard to come by. And I'm in no way implying that I or anyone else is the end-all-be-all of all things. But when for example I say or do something and not even an hour later the same thing [if I'm lucky slightly changed] comes up from these "Jacks" it just puts me on edge.

UGH! This is probably one of the few times I won't enjoy "shopping". I don't know maybe it's the area I'm looking in, the time frame, the price range. Whatever the reason I have NOT been enjoying this particular search. Stressed, so much going on in my life and add on to it that I need to find housing for the fall. SMH, it's not even something I can put off for too long or just not do. The only upside to this is that I'll have my own place [preferably a two bedroom so I can have a studio for my art and sewing stuff] that I can decorate however I like.

Whelp glad to have that out of the way....

-Fembot

shop-a-HAUL-ic [2]

New name for my haul posts...

So I know said I would do a haul a couple posts back, and clearly that didn't happen but I've finally gotten free time to get around to it.

I've decided that the whole process was kind of time consuming so I'm gonna change the format. I'll turn it into a vlog [video blog]. That way I don't have to worry about taking pictures and all that other stuff.

Here's a shot of the dress I mentioned, the "sparkly" one, it's from Express and actually sequenced.

Hope you enjoyed the post and haul

~A

a-HAUL-ic [1]

First ever HAUL post, hope you like my play on words lol.
So this past weekend while home for Spring Break I did a little shopping [VERY little] and picked up some things from one of my FAV stores and a thrift store.
I'm a bargain hunter, so I'm always looking for things on sale. I'm also a shopAHOLIC, so even if i don't need it I'll most likely buy it [sad but true].

Heres what I picked up from the thrift store

Over-sized gray sweater- $1.89

 

Over-sized gray and black sweater- $3.10

Quilted bag- $4.50

For my knitting supplies or traveling

I also stopped at Target and got mostly beauty supplies and other miscellaneous stuff:

I need some more brushes, the ones I have been uses are falling apart. But that's what I get for ordering them off of Ebay. I got two sets:

EcoTools brush set

Sonia Kashuk Limited Edition Gold Mine Brush set

Already started using them :)

Maybelline Dream Liquid mousse and SuperStay Makeup [both in Caramel]

I bought two of each, they were on sale!

SinfulColors in 920 [a HOT pink color]

Revlon Top Speed in Lily [currently on my nails]

The camera doesn't do the colors justice, they are much more vibrant than this :(

It's a pretty lilac-y color

Rimmel London Eyebrow pencil in Dark Brown

CoverGirl Line Exact in Very Black

Elf lashes

Never put on falsies before, so I got a cheap pair to try out, wish me luck!

On to apparel, I picked up a few other things from Target. One of the things I LOVE about the one in my home town is that I can always find great deals and sales. 

Black Jeggings

Tan faux suede boots

Tights

Black patterned tights- Heart

Black patterned tights- Polka dots

I think it's some sort of animal print. I like the color gradient.

That's all of it, lol. I try not to buy the whole store when I go. Eveything was under $10 excluding the brush sets, but those were needed so I "splurged".

-acholic