Carousel -- Week Ending 8th August 2008

[ 8 August 2008, 09:44 ]

24 Hours Of Flickr happens today, Friday the 8th of August! Take a photo of your life today (or tomorrow, dear Americans) & share it in the Flickr 888 group. Yay!

Patrick Demarchelier & Gemma Ward for Vogue India. Pretty. Shiny. Good.

Nogoodforme interviews Francesca Lia Block! Yay!

Dealing with email overload? Keep your responses to five sentences or less! This is pretty much something I have had to implement, even before I read it, because otherwise I would spend my entire life digging through my inbox. Anyway, it’s an interesting read, have a look.

I love the crazy broads at Coilhouse. They’re putting together a magazine, did you know? The Making Of A Magazine: Coilhouse Issue 01 is a cool behind-the-scenes peek. Craigslist Ad For Super Mario Bros Sex is pretty amazing, too.

The scariest cakes I have ever seen. & I don’t say that lightly!

Rich People Rooftops NYC is a Flickr set of, well, you probably already guessed, but the finest-lookin’ rooftops on offer in NYC. Some of them look pretty great. I still have a special fondness for my one, though!

Watermelon pink nail polish for everyone!

Twitter seems to have sorted itself out so I am back to encouraging everyone I know to sign up again! Twitter has been a great source of joy to me this last week, so make an account & follow me & HAVE FUN!

Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala

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Daily Outfit -- 6th August 2008

[ 7 August 2008, 12:24 ]

This outfit’s alternate working title is how to go from the height of summer to the bowels of winter in 20 hours! On the 27th of July, I wore the bulk of this outfit — the slip, stockings & boots — like this. Here’s how I warmed it up.

Black slip dress from Urban Outfitters
Grey wool jumper from Workshop (NZ)
Black waist-cinching belt
Ripped black stockings
Frye Veronica boots
Child’s leather jacket
Rings by Tarina Tarantino
Earrings from Sportsgirl (AU)

Dancing in my temporary digs!

I believe that this is the ideal outfit for drinking an enormous soy hot chocolate. Which is exactly what I did.

Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala

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Things I Love Thursday

[ 7 August 2008, 11:25 ]

Okay, so… exciting news! This is the FIFTY-SECOND TiLT! Do you know what that means? YES! If you’ve been with me since the first TiLT, we’ve now been doing this FOR A YEAR SOLID! I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome that is. It makes me SO happy! & even better is that every week, TiLT just gets stronger & stronger! More new people join in & start to experience the glee! One of the coolest things is that TiLT is spreading all across the internet; I read SO many blogs now where they do a regular love list! It’s fantastic! The more happiness you can generate, the better you feel. Sometimes my mental image of TiLT is a girl on an exercise bike, pedalling like mad, with little heart-shaped bubbles blowing out behind her. I love it! Love it love it love it! So, kudos to you for sticking around & participating, thank you!

Practising my social skills — I have been doing this a lot lately, especially with all the travelling I’ve done. If you can be charming to the people who check you in, it pays dividends. They’ll give you good seats, I guarantee, & even though my suitcases are always over the weight allowance, I never get charged for it. But the thing is, everyone likes a bit of enchantment. Sometimes I almost make it into a game. I like to see how much fabulousness I can extract from people I’ve only just met; I like to give them a chance to prove how completely awesome they are. They almost always delight me, it’s totally great. You should try it, it’s good sport!

Cute emails from amazing people — On Tuesday night I received a really adorable email from… deep breath… Slug from Atmosphere. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, there are not enough exclamation points in the world to adequately express my excitement. By the way, he read your comments & they made him blush! Awww!

Laughing until my cheeks hurt — There is nothing better than spending time with people who really know you & make you laugh. My parents, my best friend Jennie & my ex-boyfriend Alex all fall into this category, & since they’re the people I’ve spent the most time with recently, it’s all good. My cheeks are getting a good work-out. My grandmother’s nickname for me used to be “Face Ache” (charming, right?!) & this week it has never rung more true.

This photograph of Eva Carrière:

My new hair — It took me a couple of days to adjust to the change — after all, I’d been purple for about 10 months — but now I have & I’m LOVIN’ it! Wildilocks did such a good job, & I love that it’s not just a flat one colour all over like it used to be. In the olden days, I used to just slather a bottle of Atomic Pink all over my tresses & hope for the best. But this is a combination of Atomic Pink & Virgin Rose, so the colour is deeper & richer, & I adore it! It looks amazing in the sunlight, & it makes my eyes look intensely aqua. Mermaid eyes! Yay!

Makeshift winter outfits — I am wearing my grey Country Road cardigan as a skirt right now. It’s warm. I’m into it.

Life itself — I went from New York to Melbourne to Wellington in 5 days. I cleared out the life I used to live in four hours after spending five times that many hours on a plane. Now I’m here in New Zealand, quietest place on earth perhaps. To say it has been a drastic adjustment is an understatement, but I am doing pretty well, & I am actually really happy. Going from action central to the place I grew up in is pretty mind-bending, & has presented its own challenges, but I’m convinced that it is good for me! It’s important to be able to be happy wherever you are, because ultimately it’s all about how happy you are with yourself!

Honorary mentions: “I wish you were here so I could make you raspberry macarons at an obscenely early hour”; a conversation with my lovely friend Jo which incited her to throw double horns; smuggling cupcakes across the border (no kidding!); loooong talks with Jennie; sitting in the sun drinking tea & writing; the fact that even though it is cold, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be!; jumping back on the raw wagon; my super-uber-hyper-pink Barbie manicure with purple gems; making fun plans for NYC in September; sleeping in my new polka-dot hoodie from American Apparel (cozy & cute); awesome boy karma; stalk-o-vision @ the galaverse!; teeny little Fafinettes (see above!); good hands; barbeque rice crackers; soup with lots of pepper; Entourage (did you know I have a crush on Ari Gold?!); Darcy Clay; ugg boots (secret admission: I stole them from my father & they are so hideous but so warm, I cannot stop wearing them, but I promise I will never leave the house in them!), & that whole ‘when it rains it pours’ thing!

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes & choices… Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” — Kevyn Aucoin

Your turn… ! Make it a BIGGIE for TiLT’s first birthday! Woooooooooohoo!

Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala

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iCiNG Infatuations: Five Fabulous... Nail Polishes

[ 6 August 2008, 16:41 ]

eRomance Met On The Internet by OPI

Jane liked to line up potential suitors on Craigslist. It was her favourite thing to do. Every Monday afternoon as she sat at her desk, she would apply eRomance Met On The Internet in long, broad strokes, then blow on them to dry while she considered what her next advertisement might say.

Girl with day-glo eyes seeks boy with whom to hold hands, share pastries, & get frisky in public places. I like to eat strawberries & commandeer the blankets, often at the same time. If your idea of a good time includes a pack of tarot cards & a pair of handcuffs, get in touch. (Boys with telekinetic powers preferred.)

Huckle Buckle by essie

Rose felt like she was born in the wrong time. She was obsessed with the past, & would buy everything vintage. Sometimes she would wade into her closet & sit there for hours, trying to soak the smell of generations past into her skin. Her boyfriend had a huge moustache & it was her favourite thing in the entire world. Her bottle of Huckle Buckle was a gift from her mother, who didn’t understand her but tried to communicate with her by buying her cosmetics.

Jailbait by Hard Candy

Karyn bought Jailbait for the name, not that she’d ever admit it. She carried a well-worn copy of Lolita in her satchel, celebrated Nabokov’s birthday every year, & was always on the look-out for her very own Humbert Humbert. She worked in an ice-cream parlour & always gave the cutest people extra sprinkles & topping. Her prized possession was a pair of Vivienne Westwood rocking horse shoes, which she sometimes wore to bed.

Blue Lace by Nicole by OPI

Lauren worked in a Thai restaurant, but spent most of her time daydreaming about being a mermaid. When she wasn’t serving rice & drinks, she would stand by the aquarium in the corner, looking at the fish & trying to communicate with them. She waves at them with Blue Lace-coated fingertips & watches for recognition. She thinks one of them spoke once. It said “Marmalade”. Lauren finds this very confusing.

Louvre Me Louvre Me Not by OPI

Diana appraised diamonds for a living. Her business partner was her husband, but they were in the middle of a trial separation. Any time she wasn’t in the shop, she would lock herself in the bathroom to eat pumpkin soup & get a bit of peace. When he made a comment to her — any comment — she delighted in flipping him off. It gave her yet another reason to get a fabulous manicure.

Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala

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Andy Warhol's Beauty Tips

[ 6 August 2008, 08:10 ]

A good plain look is my favorite look. If I didn’t want to look so “bad,” I would want to look “plain.” That would be my next choice.

Weight isn’t important the way the magazines make you think it is. I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror & never looks below her shoulders, & she’s four or five hundred pounds but she doesn’t see all that, she just sees a beautiful face & therefore she thinks she’s a beauty. & therefore I think she’s a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do. Maybe she’s six hundred pounds, who knows. If she doesn’t care, I don’t.

There should be a lot of new girls in town, & there always are.

If you’re naturally pale, you should put on a lot of blush-on to compensate. But if you’ve got a big nose, just play it up, & if you have a pimple, put on the pimple cream in a way that will make it really stand out — “There! I use pimple cream!” There is a difference.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off. When you see “beauty.” it has to do with the place, with what they’re wearing, what they’re standing next to, what closet they’re coming down the stairs from.

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, & vice-versa.

When you’re in Sweden & you see beautiful person after beautiful person & you finally don’t even turn around to look because you know the next person you see will be just as beautiful as the one you didn’t bother to turn around to look at — in a place like that you can get so bored that when you see a person who’s not beautiful, they look very beautiful to you because they break the beautiful monotony.

Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala

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