Style Analysis: French Hipster

The French Hipster look is one that has been appearing more and more lately in place's like Express's new season, Elizabeth Olsen, and some of Lorde's looks. It's classic looking and not super abstract, but is anything but mainstream and basic. Its got stark colors like black, gray, white, with touches of burgundy, rose gold, navy, and forest green. It's a mixture of masculine, feminine, and it includes makeup trends with either rimmed smokey eyes or dark saturated lips. Layering is key and it's mainly centered around the confident 'say what you will I don't care' attitude that usually goes with it.

Hope you have a SO NOT MAINSTREAM WEEK READERS! Sorry, if I'm going to do a post on hipsters it had to be said. 

My kind of Dance playlist

There is a Stake Dance tonight at the church- it's theme is 'Ugly Sweater'. It's my friend Sarah's first one, Katherine and I have a tradition of getting together before dances, and my pal Satan Pig (nicknames, her real name is Emma) is coming over. We will chill and be weird and all sorts of fun things that I am glad I have people for. Usually I like the music that is played at dances, but sometimes it's too (forgive my hipsterness here, please, readers.) mainstream. Sorry, but I'm not a fan of most music on the radio. I'm actually not that sorry. It's just not my thing. Here is a playlist of songs I would play if I were DJing my own little obscure/old music dance.
FAST SONGS
1. Call off your Ghost- Dessa
2. Sweet Ophelia- Zella Day
3. Oblivion-Grimes
4. Colors-  Hallsey
5. (One of those) Crazy Girls- Paramore
6. Crocodile Rock- Elton John
7. Oh No!-Marina and the Diamonds
8. Didn't know you- Karmin
9. I want to break free- Queen
10. Sherry- Franky Valli and the Four Seasons
SLOW SONGS
1. Forever Young- Alphavillle
2. Meet you at the gate- Jayne Trimble
3. Fireflies- Random Forest
4. Somebody to Love- Queen
5. The Heroine- Unwoman
6. Dream a little dream of me- the Mama's and the Papa's
7. Will you still love me tomorrow?-The Ronettes
8. Closer-The Tiny
9. Just give me a reason- P!nk feat. Nate Ruess
10. Over the Love- Florence+the Machine

The perfect dance scene and my relationship goals

Pale Roses

January 8

What should I name it?

Converse shirt, Charlotte Russe bomber, Claire's earrings

Guys I got a french horn! In my band, 'Green Band', the director was saying that we didn't have any french horns, but too many flutes so if anyone was willing they could get private instruction and learn how to play. It's my personal bucket list to learn how to play all instruments I can get my hands on. So I thought yes! I like it quite a bit- it's very different from flute and it's not easy but it's fun and makes a nice sound when played right. I have a tradition of naming all my instruments (my flute is Moriarty, my piano is Oliver, and the spoons I play in Amazon and I's fake band are named Bonnie and Clyde)- so for this one I will ask my readers! What should my french horn's name be?
I apologize for my messy room in the background. It's still too cold to take pictures outside so I just do it inside- but it results in a crappy picture. Sorry
Hope yall have a loud weekend ( I know I will)

Style Crush: Grimes

Grimes. My queen. What's not to love about her? Her music, sense of style, hair, awesome real human being-ness- all things to admire and cry about from afar. The ultimate hair chameleon, Grimes's style ranges from cool athletic to edgy to harajuku in a beautiful quirky mismatched way. Most pictures of her style are either images of her rocking out onstage, crazy hair flying with a smile on her face, or in another magazine shoot looking like a boss usually straight into camera. In addition to all her style cred, she writes, performs, and produces all her music, and does the art for all of her album covers. I think it's amazing that one person can do all of that, and actually make it really really good. I applaud her fearless fashion sense. I applaud her I-can-and-will-do-this attitude. I applaud her inspiring music that always gets me in the mood for something good.

Style Analysis: Classically Girly

                                

This Style Analysis is based on my bestie Katherine, who once described her personal style to me as classically girly. It's feminine, but not too much. Just remember that girly style isn't all about pink, or glitter, or stereotypical 'girl' things. It's mainly based on the accentuated femininity of the 50s. Here are some of the things Katherine rocks on a steady basis.
Skirts- especially full 50's style ones. Skirts aren't required in feminine styles, but skirts can actually be seriously fun.

Good shoes- High heels are pretty cool I think, but I'm not super good at walking in them. A sensible pair of fun flats in different colors are a bit easier to work with, unless you are willing to go the extra mile (on stilts.)
 
A good jacket- something cute and structured like a blazer, or sweet like a cardigan. The cool thing about this style is the wide variety of bright colors it can go with. It's not specifically natural looking colors like minimalism, or muted brights like boho. It can be electric with yellows, greens blues, or sweet pastels, or classic blacks, whites, and reds.
 

December 6

I'm seriously sorry for not uploading a post yesterday, guys. Unacceptable.
My excuse for today's outfit photo is that I'm sick yet again and didn't want to put on clothes. Today has still been pretty good though, I got a nap, read some books/comics, ate ramen, and got to blog so life is pretty good despite being sick!
I hope you all have a good rest of your week readers. Thursdays are always good.