Style Tips -- 19th October 2009
[ 19 October 2009 ]
Monday 19th October:
Think about which colours really suit you. Try not to wear things just because you like the colour — that’s a good way to start out if all you normally wear is black or brown, but finding out which colours actually flatter you will completely transform the way you look. Not sure where to start? Read my very first article for iCiNG (!!!), Fashion Help For Recovering Goths.
Tuesday 20th October:
Go to a diner with your best friend & have an immense feast! Preferably late at night. Be sure to order immense desserts, & take a camera (or video camera) for best results!
Wednesday 21st October:
Bake a tray of gingerbread men, decorate them to look like people you know, & then give them out! (Bonus points if you can create a resemblance with frosting! I am not that talented!)
Thursday 22nd October:
Support other women, always.
Friday 23rd October:
Change your hair entirely: go short, go long (extensions!), shave the sides, switch the colour, cut a fringe or bangs, whatever. Just do something drastic! A new haircut makes you feel unstoppable.
Saturday 24th October:
Learn a magic trick & get really good at it.
Sunday 25th October:
Make your life more beautiful in a way that makes sense to you. Buy a bunch of flowers, write yourself a love letter or paint your bedroom shocking pink.
Love & love & love,
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Great tips! The Magician is teaching me my first magic trick. I’m actually learning how to swallow razor blades & pull them out of my mouth on a string! Wish me luck!
Making Gingerbread Friends is one of my favorite seasonal activities! They make great little gifts around the office & put a smile on everyone’s face.
Ooh la la!
These are getting more regular; I like! Please keep them up, they fill my whole week with smiles!
I recently shaved my head !!!
A shaved head is a radical form of non-haircut, but I’m lucky because it suits me very well and makes my eyes pop. There is something truly powerful about it. I expected that people would joke a lot about it (I expected a few Britney jokes for instance!) but people are too damn impressed to even say a word. Power !
I’m aware the style is radical, so it’s made me re-explore and reconsider how I dress and use accessories on an entirely new level, which is so much fun !
With a shaved head, I’m less enclined to be “lazy” if you guys know what I mean. Particularly since I work in an office. So I find myself going for much more feminine, glamour and polished style options than I used to at the moment.
It’s all for the better then. And yes, all it takes is a (truly) new haircut !
Ah! Your Friday suggestion is a week too early!
I’m going to get my hair completely changed next Friday (the 30th). Darker, fringe chopped and a bit of length off! Can’t wait.
Well, I already – and unknowingly – followed your tip for today. I bought a hot pink angora sweater. i haven’t bought anything pink for ages…and it turns out it totally suits my olive skin!
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s pig-out ;-)
Oh, haha I thought that was Lady Gaga at first!
wear colours that actually flatter...you know who i’ve noticed does this exceptionally well? Joan on Mad Men. well, the costume designer, i supposed. All those jewel-tones- cobalt, emerald, magenta! with her flash of red hair…oh my goodness..stunningly tailored to her colouring.
different hair definetly makes me feel unstoppable. I just had mine cut and layered and I love the curls :)
My mum used to go ‘get her colours done’, which is where you go to a colour consultant and they assess your skin tone & things like that and then give you a wallet full of colour swatches to use as guidelines!
She took me a long when I was 12, and I was meant to go again when I was 16 but by that time I was goth & all: “mum if you try to force colours on me I’ll fail school!” and stuff. :p
Still, I hadn’t thought about that in ages until now!
sarah — That’s awesome, go you! I used to shave my hairline back & shave the sides on occasion, it made me feel like a warrior girl. Sometimes you need a bit of that!
lisa — I haven’t seen Mad Men! I know, I know, I’m like the last person on the planet…
Evie — Haha! My momma used to be a colour consultant when I was a baby! The whole thing seems reeeeally 80’s but it still rings true & still applies!
This week i am feeling Dykey.Enoying my docmartins and pirchasing some old man long jonhs! its freezing in the uk. as well as shaving parts of head.
there is a massive freedom in not dressing to look attractive and still feeling it.
Some of my favourite tips ever, especially Monday, Thursday and Sunday. Nicely done.
Thanks for “support other women, always.” We do need to pay attention to each other and lift each other up!
I love your style tips!! I was actually just looking at articles about what colors flatter me. I really like Sunday’s tip.
i love your tips :) makes for a good week!
I love the support other women one, I find a lot of girls I know are constantly bashing each other, and it creates a lot of hostility towards other women. I love that you promote supporting other women, and that you’re always saying that just because someone is jealous of another girl doesn’t mean you have to be nasty. Some of my best friends are girls I was jealous of, but that’s because they’re amazing people.
I also used the last of my grocery money to buy flowers yesterday and it made me feel amazing! Haha, thanks gala!
I want hair extensions so bad!
i’m going to try and learn a magic trick x] bahaha ^^
“Make your life more beautiful in a way that makes sense to you.”
! Favorite!
Fabulous as always! I just might buy myself some flowers :-)
Gingerbread men is a cute idea if only I had baking talents hehe
x
I just adore these posts more and more!
... But for heaven’s sake, do not use the magic trick to try to pick up guys in clubs. (Or, IDK, maybe it would work out! I’m just thinking of the handful of times a guy has tried to pick me up in a club with magic tricks. It’s sweet, and better than a sleazy pick-up line, but baffling, and I don’t think it’s the greatest ice-breaker, because it doesn’t segue well into normal conversation. I think it’s much better as a “cool thing you can do to amuse friends at a bar or coffee house.”)
Anyway, I’m glad to see Style Tips as a regular feature.
As far as injecting color into your wardrobe… your article on the topic is great (I remember thinking so when I read it a few years ago). If someone is interested in reading more on the topic, the whole “Color Seasons” concept has been presented yet again in a book called Life in Color by Jesse Garza and Joe Lupo. They do change the season names to, like, Earth/Sun/Star/Moon, but other than that, I think they have a relatively fresh take. Most of the other information addressing that concept came out in the 1980s and is very dated, in terms of illustration style and the kinds of clothing recommended. Recovering goths might want to check the book out, because it does address the style (as “Avant-garde”) and discuss ways to bring more color into it. Here’s an interview with the authors —
www.sfgate.com/cgi
(No, I’m not connected to the book in any way… I have it out of the library right now, and it seems like something that goes hand in hand with your article.)
Oct 24th is learn a magic trick!! That’s going to be my 22nd birthday… Maybe I’ll make it my party trick!! Hehe!! xoxo
I love selfhaircuts too!!! She takes some really incredible photos.
Haha. And I made gingerbread look alikes for people last year for Christmas. They all loved them though some people had an issue with bitting their own head off. :)
That’s funny about Tuesday… I spent my Sunday morning at a restaurant having breakfast at 12:30…. You know like a half hour after midnight….. With my best friend :)
KALINDY = TRES MAGNIFIQUE!
Loving the tips for this week!!
Yay! This is my birthday and I actually managed to do the majority of the week’s activities in the one day :) x
I went to get my haircut dramatically changed today for my birthday present and my hairdresser said it would be to much hard work if I didn’t like it and wanted to change it back so he wouldn’t do it.
I need a new hairdresser!
woah thats so freaky, i’m getting my hair cut friday and its going to be well drastic :) i love these style tips, gives me hope that you can do something extraordinary every day of the week
so thank you gala you little ball of sunshine!
i love these!
I just had almost all of my hair cut off, & I had a short asymmetric cut to begin with! It’s Jean Seberg style. Everyone has been wowed by it :) I love your style tips, Gala.
To make my life more beautiful… I might stick up pictures of my favourite heroes/heroines all over my bedroom. Or I might just collect seashells (I live next to a pebbly beach) & decorate my windows with them. Or better yet, I’ll tell someone how much I like them.
Love & happiness to you sweet one xxx
I chaged my look yesterday! I used to have long curly virgin black hair but I went crazy and without my parents´permission I got a wierd but awesome haircut, it´s now kind of short, the left side is longer than the right side, I also ironed my curls and got cotton candy pink highlights on the front. I also sprayed some candy cane body splash with sparkles. I felt like i had just come out from Willy Wonka´s Chocolate Factory. I love it! Seriously, pink hair makes you feel like a rockstar! ♥
i need help see i go to the same school as my brother and he in my classes too. He is so annoying but cool at the same time please help me…
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On Friday I got my hair done and my ends trimmed and my crush noticed and said it looked good! I love your style tips Gala