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17 Sundays One Way Or Another Dress Review
So the babes over at 17 Sundays sent me their ‘One Way Or Another‘ dress to review. My favourite thing about it (besides the animal print, obviously) – the sleeves! It’s a pretty versatile dress so I decided to show you guys a day time and a night time kind of look with it.
Let’s start with night:
This is a pretty tried-and-true look of mine – cute dress, leather jacket, black tights and heels. I think the animal print really pops against the black leather jacket.
And for day time:
The majority of my dresses are a fair bit shorter than this and at first I thought this was a bit long for me but after wearing it around with bare legs for a while I actually really liked the length. It was kind of nice not to be pulling my dress down to avoid showing everyone my underwear haha.
Now you guys know that I am a member of the ‘no unnecessary belts club’ and I haven’t defected but I know a lot of people like belts and 17 Sundays sent me their Mercy Belt so I thought I would show you guys how it looks with the dress:
My final thoughts – I love the sleeves, the print, the length and I think it hangs really nicely. The material is a bit thick though so I don’t think this would work too well on a hot summer day but it’s great for warm-ish evenings or cooler days. And even Garfield approved:
So you want to shave (half) your head…
I’ve noticed that I get a lot of traffic from people searching for images/stories/whatever about girls with half shaved heads so I thought I would do everyone a favour and write a blog post all about it. In August 2009 I shaved almost half my hair and lived to tell the tale so here goes.
It all begins with a big girl crush on the British model Alice Dellal:
Whatta babe, right?! What an awesome haircut. How can you not love her?! After a couple of weeks of longingly looking at photos of her and wishing I looked half way that cool, I took the plunge:
To begin with I was a little apprehensive so the first time I had it shaved (by a guy I had just met that night after a couple of beers to be totally honest) I think I went with a number 3 or something. I decided to keep a bit of a sideburn hair thing because it reminded me Chelsea cuts which I think are really awesome. Just a quick warning – as I’m going to post a mixture of photos taken with Photobooth and regular photos it’s going to look like it switches between which side of my head was shaved because the Photobooth shots are mirror images so in case anyone gets confused, I shaved the right side of my head.
To be honest I didn’t really consider this to be a super dramatic or shocking haircut but be warned – I had shaved my head before. This was me when I was 16:
so it didn’t feel like such a huge deal to me, it’s only hair you know? But if you’ve never had an extreme hairstyle before and especially if you have long hair, shaving a big chunk of it off is probably going to be a bit scary. That said, I could easily just part my hair differently and pretty much hide the shaved bit completely:
If you want to be able to do this just make sure you keep the shaved part to 1/3 or less of your head. Then it’s easy to just part it on the side and pull your hair across.
Ok so here are a bunch of photo of what it looked like most of the time:
I had this haircut for somewhere between six and nine months and I had to re-shave my head about every month. After the first unsure shave at the number three I stopped being a wimp and shaved it closer to my head because it looked better and then I didn’t have to re-shave it as often. As you may have noticed I also bleached the regrowth at some point.
I’ve had a few people ask me what this haircut looks like if you want to put your hair in a ponytail so I found some photos of that too:
Eventually I got sick of re-shaving my head every month and just parted my hair so that it covered the shaved bit while I grew it out:
After a few months the once shaved side looked like this:
By now it’s all the same length as the rest of my hair. If the difference in length really bugs you, you can always get extensions until it properly grows out. So that’s about it, I hope this was helpful and informative but if there’s anything I left out that you’re wondering about feel free to ask. Also, now I really miss being a redhead!
We Love Colors Leggings Review
First of all can I just say man it sucks to try and take photos of yourself! I’ve been lucky enough to pretty much always have somebody around to take photos of me for this blog but today nobody was home so I thought I would try out taking photos of myself. First of all the remote for my camera wouldn’t work for some reason and then it took me about half an hour to figure out how to attach my camera to my housemate’s tripod. I seriously took about 40 photos and these are the only ones that turned out even half-way alright. I have a new found respect for bloggers who take photos of themselves, it’s hard work! If any of you guys have any good tripod/taking photos of yourself tips please let me know!
Anyway! The babes over at We Love Colors sent me these leggings to review. I’m wearing the style 6101 leggings in black here and yes, I am wearing them as pants because “fashion rules” are silly and I am a big fan of leggings as pants. These leggings are thick and very stretchy and have a bit of a shine to them. They remind me of American Apparel’s disco pants (but without the guilt of supporting that creep Dov Charney! Yay!) or the pants Sandy wears at the end of Grease (that outfit actually inspired my outfit a bit). These were actually thrown in as a bit of a surprise and I’m so glad they were because I’m really into them. I’m not much of a pants wearing person but I think I will wear these a lot.
leggings: c/o we love colors, tshirt: tbc, jacket: angry young and poor, shoes: buffalo (these are actually for sale on the Fat Aus Blog Shop but after wearing them today I don’t know if I want to sell them anymore…)
Angry Young and Poor Leather Jacket: Product Review
I think I get more emails and comments asking questions about this leather jacket than anything else I’ve ever worn on here so I thought I would make a review post about it just to give you guys all the details! First things first- this is a leather jacket from angryyoungandpoor.com (a site I know from my days as a punk) and it is this one: classic womens leather motorcycle jacket. As they say on there, if you want the jacket to be tight/fitted you need to size down. Mine is a size XL which according to the measurements is slightly smaller than my bust and about the same as my waist. It really does depend on how you want to wear the jacket though. I personally wanted to wear mine unzipped (mine does not zip up on me) and fitted. If you want to be able to zip it up, you’ll probably want to get your proper size.
At first I was a little disappointed with this jacket because when you first get it, it is very stiff. However, the more and more I wear mine (I wear it A LOT) the softer it gets and the more it sort of shapes to my body which I love. It’s also surprisingly warm, even unzipped!
I have chubby upper arms which sometimes means that a jacket will fit me perfectly everywhere else but be uncomfortably tight on my arms but this isn’t the case at all with the jacket. I could have even got a size smaller and I think it still would have fitted comfortably over my arms.
I really, really recommend this jacket. It comes in size XS to 5XL, costs $75 (with shipping I think it was just under $100 to Australia which is still crazy-cheap for a leather jacket!) and it’s super versatile (click here for more posts featuring this jacket). I hope this answered all of your questions but if not let me know.
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We Love Colors Review!
A little while ago I bought some tights from We Love Colors and I wore them on the blog (here) but mentioned that I wished I’d gotten a smaller size because they were a bit too big for me. The babes at We Love Colors saw one of my posts, contacted me and offered to send me some tights in a smaller size to review.
The orange and white tights I originally bought were these $9 Solid Color Plus Sized Tights and I got them in a size 2XL (I usually get tights in a size too big because I like to be able to pull them up to my waist). What I didn’t realise was this style of tights don’t have lycra in them and therefore they weren’t very stretchy so they went baggy around the knees and ankles.
These green ones that We Love Colors sent to me are these $15 Plus Sized Nylon/Lycra tights in a size A/B and I really love them. They’re thick so they keep my legs warm, very stretchy and much more opaque than the non-lycra kind. If you’re going to buy a pair I think it’s definitely worth spending the extra $6 and getting the tights with lycra. We Love Colors were kind enough to send me a couple of other pairs so look out for them on the blog soon.
Custom Made Jeans
Tom and I started with the same wash, same rise and same cut and this is how different ours turned out:
Hair
I’ve been getting so many compliments on my hair lately and it’s because I’ve recently discovered the BEST products I’ve ever used. I’m not wearing a very blog-worthy outfit today so instead join me on a journey through my hair from the past year so you’ll understand exactly how dry and damaged my hair was and then I’ll tell how it’s looking so good now.
About a year ago I had long dark brown hair that was in fairly good condition. It wasn’t awesome but it was pretty good.
Decided to act like a 15 year old again and dyed my hair really bright red. This lasted about two days.
Finally a couple of months ago I was into the ombre thing so I bleached my ends and dyed the top of hair brown. You can see in this photo how dry and gross my ends were. I was using shampoo and conditioner designed for dry/damaged hair (I tried a million different brands, both expensive and cheaper stuff), hair repairing treatments, detangling sprays and leave in conditioners. I didn’t straighten it or curl it and I barely ever blow dried it but it still felt and looked damaged.
When I got my extensions they were silky smooth but after a couple of washes with the stuff I was using even they were starting to feel dried out as well so I decided to change products.
Last week I was in Priceline and came across a line of products from a UK brand called Scandalous. They actually caught my eye because of the ‘Big & Beautiful’ written along the top haha. I bought the Volumising Shampoo, Volumising Conditioner and Intensively Glossy Rescue Treatment:
And seriously look at how good my hair looks:
No leave in conditioner, no de-tangling spray just washed and air dried/blow dried. It feels silky and soft and it looks shiny and awesome. I realise I sound like a commercial but seriously, I would do commercials for them because I am so happy to have nice hair again. I don’t know if it really does much in terms of volumising but who cares! If you’re hating on your hair use this brand guys, it’s amazing.
