Style Tips -- 15th December 2008
[ 14 December 2008 ]
Write yourself a report card. School was rough for everyone, so forget all those old vindictive teachers who always commented that you’d be so wonderful if “you applied yourself” or went on & on about your “potential”. (Who wants to harness their potential in geography class?!) Think about the things that are important to you — like the amount of strangers you talk to, or being a good lover, or knowing the precise moment to hold someone else’s hand — & grade yourself. Then put it somewhere prominent so you can see it regularly & be reminded.
Stop making enemies with people who are prettier/more clever/more successful/cooler than you. Here’s the thing. Those people will always exist. Life is not a competition, just relax. Stop being jealous & start being friends with them! You never know what you might learn — maybe they’ll teach you how to be prettier/more clever/more successful/cooler! Competing with one another just keeps us apart & unhappy. Soak it up!
Next time you inadvertently stain your bathroom with hair dye — Special Effects included — don’t fret. Just grab a tube of whitening toothpaste, squirt it on, leave it for a couple of minutes, then scrub. I promise you this will work on practically anything, including white walls & porous wooden benches. It saved my life a couple of weeks ago & it might save yours too!
Do some research on the properties of crystals (I like this site), then go to a bead store & make yourself a bracelet or necklace featuring the stones that appeal to you. Love? Strength? Mental clarity? Take your pick, there is a stone for everything! Even if you don’t believe in the purported power of crystals, it’s always good to have a visual reminder of what it is you’re striving for!
Buy peppermint chapstick. It’s like having the Alps in your mouth. Yum.
Practise stripping every time you get undressed for the shower! Take some music in there & turn it UP! Start dancing, & watch yourself while you take your clothes off. I swear that if you do this regularly, you will become a) a much better dancer & b) much more confident & happy with your body! Plus, it’s all good practise for the actual event, isn’t it?!
(Style tips from this day last year!)
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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i love style tips :) always something to brighten my days! the hair dye tip is brilliant, i dye my best friend’s hair red every few weeks and we always wreck something! thankyou, gala.
I’m all for Style Tips that make me want to love my body more… will be stripping for my morning showers from now on :D
I love my prettier/more clever/more successful/cooler friends. They rock my world!
Nadine — ME TOO!
Oooh thanks for the tip about the toothpaste. I was wondering how to get the purple dye off my bathroom floor (now faded to a sickly pink) before I move out… I don’t think my landlord would be to impressed with it! Lol =D
And thanks for the tip about the prettier/cooler/more successful people… I always feel inferior when it comes to stuff like that and immediately dislike people who I feel inferior to. I need to learn to be confident in myself and bear no grudges!
“It’s like having the Alps in your mouth.”
Dude, you are so lulz!
I love the idea of making those report cards, especially for friends…! How awesome would it be if someone gave you an A+ for being beautiful and smart and funny? :D
You´re so right! When you stop comparing with other people and be friends with them it´s much easier and suddenly you recognize that they´re just people like everybody else and have problems like everybody else.
I love crystals and their meanings. I wore my love bracelet everyday in middle school. Also thanks for the tip with toothpaste.
These are possibly my favourite style tips ever!
I’m going to do myself a report card now :) Reports at school were horrible, but I can give myself an A* in witty comments on TV shows, a B in walking fast, and an A** in AWESOME :D
The power of crystals has always fascinated me, back when I was really into jewellery-making (and still am to an extent, but I realised early on that I haven’t the time or the inclination to market it heavily) I was thinking about making a line of pieces based on the healing powers of the crystals contained in the items.
I LIKE THEM I COULD JUST EAT THEM ALL UP NOM NOM NOM.
Last night one of my tables (I think they were sisters) came in and all they wanted was a big bowl of mussles (I work at a Seafood restraunt) i brought them the coveted bowl and they commented on the turtle tattoo on my wrist. We had a lovely conversation and on their way out they left me a little tiger eye turtle! it was so sweet! I dont know the properties of tigers eyes, but I’ve been smiling ever since!
excellent :]
i have friends who are prettier and smarter than me.. and it’s a good thing! like they help me study and stuff! haha xD
Thanks for the tip with the dye Gala! I have several “unremovable” stains in my bathroom that I would like to get out before I leave this apartment (which will be soon) so I’ll be definetly trying that trick! It might save my life as well ;) I’ll let you know!
Another helpful hint to remove hair colour especially like Manic Panic and Special Effects is acne fighting toners. Who knows what they really put in them but it definitely gets colour off the skin and the bathroom.
When you started talking about dye stains, I thought you were going to say, dye your whole bathroom with it! Your tip’s so much more useful, lol.
Even though my friends are so much more creative/sportier/whatever, they just remind me to push myself further, and don’t just settle for second best. That’s what I tell myself, anyway.
I’m really liking that last one. xD And that dye one is useful too. Reminds me of that time I self-streaked my bangs red… I shudder to think of it… ‘Twas a bloodbath.
You are full of such lovely words Gala! And minty chapstick is THE BEST.
I adore your style tips. They are so inspiring :D I think I am definitely going to get an emerald ring for myslef, because after reading about it on the website you proposed, I love it’s meaning it’s my fave color, and my birthstone. Thanks Gala!
Nothing beats your style tips Gala!
Thankyou for brightening my day!
A year ago thanks to that post I put a heart onto my jacket. I just noticed today that it’s still there! It helps in the -30 degree weather Calgary is having.
I have tropical chapstick, it’s like kissing a super cute Tahitian!
For my nuclear red special effects hair dye, the only thing that worked was methylated spirits but they worked instantly! Woo!
I’m secretly obsessed with crystals. I find that they give me strength. I carry two with me everyday!!
I carry around crystals… and to prove that high school students are immature… I was called a witch HAHA... oh god. I replied … Im not but you just inspired me thanks :) xoxo haha These are really good style tips !!!
I love kids and don’t ever want to be the teacher that tells them “you have potential BUT.” I had the painstaking task of writing my first ‘proper’ end of year reports this year and it is so hard. Some kids you ADORE and want to rave about, some sink into the background and others, well, you just try to find SOMETHING positive to say. They’re all equally difficult to write.
What would YOUR report card say, Miss Darling> Did you often get the ‘potential’ line>
xo from a hopeful teacher
gala you should go to beads of paradise when you get back to new york. It’s one of my favorite places ever. 17th (or maybe 18th) btw. 5th and 6th
The second tip might actually be the best advice I’ve ever gotten.
where?! where do i find peppermint chapstick!? i have been all over freaking town and i cant find it!!! :)
Hey. I’ve been on a peppermint chapstick kick, too. I use The Merry Hempster’s Vegan peppermint balm. It’s sooo awesome. It’s like way more awesome that chapstick brand because it’s hemp based instead of petroleum or beeswax based and it uses peppermint essential oil so your lips get that chilled effect.
Oh yeah, stripping is fun. My favorite strip song will probably always be “hypnotize” by Biggie; it’s absolute stripping perfection – especially if you have a lil ghetto booty like I do.
I agree with Hannah, second tip = best advice I’ve ever received. Thank you so much!
By nature I’m uber-competitive, but I love my friends that are more stylish/informed/prepared because they teach me so much! Your style tips and I are in a long-term romantic relationship Gala, I hope that’s ok.
I know I’m late to the party (darn holiday prep), but I have to say the toothpaste trick has saved me many times as well. I also use the liquid car wax on my walls. It’s gets the little hair dye fingerprints off so quickly…just like a magic eraser! My hubby is always laughing at the purple tinge that seems to follow me. ;)