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Friday 13 February 2015

How To Be As Dramatic As Your Pants


  1. First things first, you're going to need a lot of red lipstick and green filters. I suggest MAC's Ruby Woo - a lipstick so strong that it can withstand eating, drinking and the energy from wack bitches for up to twelve hours. In terms of filters, I find that VSCOCam's C1 is mad decent.
  2. Next, you're going to develop a nonchalant glare that you'll only use for photos and people who can buy you burgers because of how extremely enchanting you'll appear.
  3. To entice more members of society into buying you more burgers, you will also need to only indulge in tie-and-go hairstyles (like the bun, pictured above, that I put up and left in place for four days), super delicate jewelry and songs sung in falsetto (see: Lolawolf).
  4. Never be more than three meters away from plant life. You know how you should 'trust no bitch'? This doesn't apply to tress. They are our only ride-or-dies.
  5. Only wear light, floaty fabrics in the colours that remind you of flowers (or actual florals) and only ever be seen outside when there's a breeze. You must keep up the appearance of being an ethereal otherworldy being made of magic. People always buy burgers for people who look like they're floating.
  6. Pink socks.
  7. Take an obscene amount of super moody I-look-like-I'm-really-mad-that-I-have-to-take-selfies-but-being-this-magical-is-difficult-and-I-need-to-document-this-for-future-generations selfies.
And there you have it: you are now almost as dramatic as I am in these pants! Good luck, don't '@' me as to why being dramatic seems to have a lot to do with getting free burgers and always get pickles on those buns!
 My top is a dress from Better Half (who now ships to the UK!), I taught myself (haha, so many Internet tutorials) how to sew these flares and I'm wearing platforms from somewhere in Istanbul. All my jewellery, except for my cuff, is stuff I made for Glitter Betty (email if you're interested in some, check them out here on Glitter Betty's Instagram or, here, on Facebook).

Tomorrow is the day after Friday, the 13th! How is everyone celebrating?

Monday 9 February 2015

The Radio, They Don't Really Play Us

My life's turning into one long Jaden Smith ballad and it's a little trippy because I haven't slept in three days and I don't know how to count minutes but, wow, it's so good.

You don't think about how many things distract you or how much nothing you're accumulating until everyday you're doing everything and now there's always something and anything to do. My friend texted me the link to Jaden Smith's new album(?) (EP?) (great American novel?) on Friday and I've been a state ever since. I redecorated my room, taught myself some Photoshop, caught up on my journal work (both personal and Art) and made like 38380402 chokers and body chains for Glitter Betty. I also am finally up to date with Supernatural and I don't understand why there was a time I ever wanted to not be busy.

It's like on E!'s Fashion Bloggers when Margaret is like, "All I ever do is work and school." And then she mentions something about a boyfriend that obviously flew over my head.


Last year I printed out a couple of text messages from my friends and kept them above my bed but I preferred them around my mirror now, where I'll be forced to interact with them everyday.
Photo of my mom at a party back before I was born - so, like, hella nineties, man // Hamsa body chain over a Mr Price white lace bra I bought purely for Tumblr feels.
Flamingo and palm tree pendants from Mr Price and an Accessorize 'Make Your Own' necklaces strung over a wire hanger ("NO MORE WIRE HANGERS") // Elephant neckalce and gold bracelet from the Turkish Bazaar over a Van Gogh postcard from the time I went to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam // a Petra Collins photo on some red gumpaper from my old visual journal // Left to right: photo by Petra Collins, photo by Paul Ward and a photo from the Swedish House Mafia concert two years ago.
Top: Cotton On. Skirt: Glitter Betty. Shoes: charity shop (for R50 [$5] at a charity shop and they're genuine leather) (!!!). Chokers: Glitter Betty

I strongly doubt I'm going to be able to keep my wall this pretty for very long since I suck at keeping my room looking like anything other than a neglected charity shop. Anyway, what's everyone been up to? Any tips for not being such an organised mess?

Sunday 1 February 2015

Glitter Betty Shop and Other Feels


pretty alternative hipster girl in circle sunglasses mesh top and lace cardigan black choker
 When I was in grade two, I used to force all of my minions - I mean, friends - into a drawing circle after school and we'd all design wedding dresses for my big, fancy company. I was pretty pedantic about bringing glitter and colour pencils and crayons everyday so we could make dreams come true. Then I'd ring everyone into playing the wedding game and marry kids off to each other, pretending the girls were dressed in one of my darling creations.

Fast forward to ten years later and I am yet again pedantically forcing my friends into arranging themselves around flowers, feathers and fairy lights in order to achieve ethereal, late at night, moody feels for my new (and only, really) business venture, Glitter Betty.

Glitter Betty is going to be the online destination for vintage, thrift and baesic clothing (that is clothes made/designed by everyone's least favourite teen witch, yours truly). It all came to when I realised how completely over I was with South African retail (well, of the affordable variety) but also how much of a drag waiting to go overseas is and the heartache of waiting weeks for international shipping is.

I mean, if someone ever wants to write a horror novel it would be a place (the Internet) filled with beautiful and goal-fulfilling clothing at pretty prices (I see you Love Culture) but all as the disguise of a hideous underbelly of shipping, rates and taxes as well of months of waiting and waiting (recurring guest star: the South African Post Office strikes). I mentioned this to a friend and she jokingly suggested that if I hated it so much, why don't I do something about it. While we laughed that crazy idea over, my mind got to thinking about how not crazy any idea that was.

So here I am, eagerly preparing to launch Glitter Betty and taking pretty cool photos of my friends (you can find out exactly when it goes up for reals by signing up for the mailing list and receiving a 10% discount off of your first purchase HERE).

artsy blonde in vintage purple jacket and gold glitter body suit with flowers in her hair in a bath tub
pink tinted soft light girl with space buns in vintage shirt and h&m sandals in bedroom
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I've been really into sunset colour palettes lately; so a lot of pinks, oranges and then teals and cyans/that super soft, ethereal rosy tint to everything with some very defined and dark shadows/glitter and reflective shit/end of summer, end of days, end of daze/manic pixie dream girls you get to sometimes see, if you're really lucky, when you go downtown/that overexposed, super bright, low contrast Polaroids-like effect that Wildfox tends to do a lot in their lookbooks/more glitter and reflective shit and feathers and anything pink and pretty from Party Spot.
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What have you been inspired by lately? And has anyone lost their minds over Tavi for The Coveteur or am I just your favourite drunk uncle to this?
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