OOTD: Leather n Leopard

Day 1, week 1.

Denim, leather, and leopard. I got it ALLL in this look today. Ready to get this show on the road this semester. I'm really excited about a few of my classes, and hopefully you'll see a difference from one of them.

Top: thrifted
Pants: H&M
Shoes: Target
Watch: Micheal Kors
Necklace: thrifted

Enjoy

Not all Mondays are bad.

AF

Fab Finds!

Ciao,

I went thrifting this past Friday and scored some sweet denim pieces. I had stopped by Target right before and bought two denim tops, both on sale (one $16.08 and the other $6.88).

**Ignore the blurriness, had my camera on manual focus and didn't realize it.

One of the tops I returned.

 I have been looking tirelessly for a new denim top but didn't want to pay too much (bargain hunter). I usually never had any luck in thrift stores because I'm so petite and what I DO find is entirely to large for me to wear and make work. So I gave in and bought the tops, which were really cute and worth it. Or so I thought.

I ended up stopping at Vinnies (St Vincent Du Paul) and as luck would have it I hit the proverbial mother load. Literally found 6 denim tops. I ended up buying 3 of them (one was a heavier denim, between a shirt and a jacket and another one even had rhinestones)!

I also bought a pair of acid wash high waist jeans and an acid wash jacket for $1 each! SCORE!

I'll be rocking a lot of denim (on denim) looks now! Also look for a DIY, thinking about bleaching and adding studs to some of the pieces.

I styled some for the items here.

I found this camera for $3. I have a thing for vintage cameras and the straps they come with.

Check out your local thrift stores. Have you found any cool things there lately? Let me know in the comments.

Caio
:) AF

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

OOTD: Real OG

Best Hump day of the year!!!
Today was the LAST day of classes (for the semseter) WOOOT. I'm so relieved, it's been a great semester and year but I'm glad to be done. Two finals and then I'm FREE. Free to study for the DAT anyway.

Anyway, I decided to keep things really relaxed. I had an exam this morning and plan on being in the library for the rest of the day so I wanted to be comfortable.

I wore a thrifted old grampa (OG) sweater and leggings. My hair is a flat twistout I did last night (post soon).

Enjoy

Excited!

~AF

Daily Dose: reduce, reuse, recycle

This was a must share and one of the coolest ways to recycle clothes especially thrifted sweaters. Check it out.

When I get access to my sewing machine again I'm all over this.

Summer Favorites

"Fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic." -George Bernard Shaw

This past summer has been filled with many "induced epidemics" but my top 5 have been;

5- color blocking
4- maxi dresses/skirts
3- neon
2- recycled fashion
1-prints

Most of these are repeats from past seasons (and posts) but fashion is also cyclical. But mostly it's whatever you make it, so if you like prints or color blocking (or whatever) then that will ALWAYS be "in" for YOU. And that's all that really matter because YOU are the one that is wearing the clothes and feelings good, sexy, confident and any number of things in them. 

All five of my fav summer trends allow you to stand out and be bold and even better you can do them all at the same time!! Nothing like killing ten birds with one stone you didnt even throw, lol does that even make sense?

Focus! 

Color blocking is a great way to to play with colors and put together things you might not have thought of before. It adds versatility to your wardrobe, getting more wear out of  clothes is definetly a bonus. See ... For more on color blocking.

Despite my meager stature (5' 1.75" ...I'm totally claiming all 3/4ths of an inch) maxis help elongate my frame. This is all dependent on proportions and fit of course. Nothing kills (slaughters, massacres) a look more than ill fitting clothes. But assuming all is well in that department maxis are great, whether loose and billowy, grecian in style or figure hugging, the possibility are endless. You can rock them ultra relaxed in flip flops or sandals or go the extra mile and wear wedges or heels (strappy).

Neon, fun!!! Yes neons, like the highlighter colors not the element (random: The element neon, number 10 on the periodic table is actually rare on earth and ironically under standard conditions is colorLESS.). Think 80s (another thing I love). Neons are hot this summer. From Christian Louboutin's pigalles to nail polish, they were everywhere adding a touch of pizaz. I mentioned earlier that you're able to do more than one of the favs at a time and this can be seen with neons when color blocking.

Check out my previous post on maxis and bright colors.

Reduce, reuse and recycle (I think that's trademarked or copy written. Whatever.) But were gonna apply that to clothing. Lately thrifting has become the hot new thing (see Top 5 [7]). Hollister's reign over the youth of today is slipping and GoodWill and other Secondhand, consignment and thrift stores are on the rise. (NOOOOO correlation to the increasing number of "hipsters" lol) For some nothing can really compete with brand new. But for the brave, frugal and visionary this alternative is life changing really. Seriously, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Though this is a very fine line because some trash should stay in the garbage. 

I digress, shopping at thrift stores is a great way to save money and expand your creativity! Not all clothing found are from the 80s and beyond there are some new pieces that may be found in stores currently you just have to take the time to look. Aside from thrifting you can use items in your own closet and re-purpose them. I've cut up many jeans and made them into shorts this summer and shredded a couple shirts and made into crop tops and muscle tees. YouTube has a plethora of D.I.Y. videos (links below).  

Prints are hot and can be more fun than solid colors (neon or otherwise). I've gone into details on prints in Top 5 [10] and Flower Power. Guess what's in this fall and was all the rage this past summer. Tribal prints, African prints and animal prints. 

DIY shorts and top

-DIY Rainbow Cut-Off Shorts

-How to: Fringe your top

Check these out too

-D.I.Y Custom Doc Martens

-DIY NETTED BIKINI COVER-UP!

-DIY: Dip-Dye ACCESSORIES!

catch you later...Law and Order SVU is on!

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