Style Tips -- 30th July 2008

[ 30 July 2008 ]

Style Tips
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<3 Sit on your kitchen table, set up your camera, & take photographs of yourself cutting up your stockings.

<3 Find a fabulous scarf & claim it as your sartorial trademark.

<3 Change your passwords to words which make you smile.

<3 Have your lover bind your hands & feed you a cupcake. Bonus points if you film it. (Thanks to Violet Blue for this idea which has never quite left me!)

<3 Sing at inappropriate moments.

<3 Bake a cake. Then use frosting to write something pornographic or risqué on the top. I call this a “porn cake”. The world doesn’t have enough porn cakes!

<3 Take raunchy photobooth pictures with a friend.

<3 Spend some alone time on the swings in a playground.

<3 Devote yourself to having at least one orgasm a day!

<3 Kiss.


Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala <3


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  1. This post is so wonderful.
    And I’m totally baking a porn cake!

    <3 Brittany · Jul 30, 06:59 PM · #

  2. Oh, I love this batch — they remind me of a slightly raunchier version of myself. ::sexy wiggle:: Although, I am the self-proclaimed master of singing at inappropriate moments – grocery stores, busy streets, kitchens and living rooms… no one can escape my realm!

    I love your hair in those photos, by the way. I’ve been debating on whether or not I want a dramatic side-part at my next appointment for a while now…I think I am leaning towards yes.

    <3 Lizzie · Jul 30, 07:07 PM · #

  3. Miss Gala is saucy today! I like it!

    xoxo.

    <3 Miss Elle · Jul 30, 07:08 PM · #

  4. Oh I love the one about being bound & fed cupcake – ultimate in lux glam! & cutting up stockings, I have to give it a go… it’s a hot look.

    By the way, those photos look hot, black looks great on you, especially with the hair colour & tats to accessorize.

    PS: are you back in oz? I hope your flight wasn’t too horrible!

    <3 Katie · Jul 30, 07:08 PM · #

  5. I’m all about #4, 9 and 10. Hmmmm. Yessssss. ;)

    <3 Mandy · Jul 30, 07:19 PM · #

  6. Love the note about changing your passwords… I did that at the start of the year when I made a move towards living a more positive and vital life. It’s brilliant when everytime you want to access your email account you have a mini-self affirmation.
    P.S. Love the porn cake idea – thinking I’ll translate it to cup cakes (that make a porn-ish sentence when put together) for one of my friends who is down in the dumps at the mo. It’s the soon-to-be English teacher in me that loves the word games :D

    <3 Scribbles · Jul 30, 07:21 PM · #

  7. www.flickr.com/photos/clevercu…
    Porn cupcakes! Well….penis cupcakes.
    Love the photos too, gorgeous girl :)

    <3 popartpistol · Jul 30, 07:36 PM · #

  8. Sexy tips! Matches the sexy pictures perfectly… makes me want to dye my hair blue, cover my arm in fake tats, and buy a super-sleek slip. Love the whole post!

    <3 Kristen · Jul 30, 07:47 PM · #

  9. “the world doesn’t have enough porn cakes!” = quote of the day.

    at the gogo bar i work at someone always makes dick-shaped porn cakes on the dancers’ birthdays. & we present it onstage during the birthday girl’s set with a gazillion candles & then do a crazy all-dancers-at-once show to make it rain for said birthday girl. it is ossim. i cannot wait for my birthday.

    <3 Rachel Radness! · Jul 30, 07:57 PM · #

  10. These are very sexual this week. Me like.

    <3 Caitlin Marie · Jul 30, 08:16 PM · #

  11. Yay for orgasms!

    Gala, you’re glorious.

    <3 Kate · Jul 30, 08:18 PM · #

  12. I think I’m going to have to go for baking the porn cake, it sounds like something my housemates and I will go nuts over. Fabulous ideas, as usual =)

    <3 Ayesha · Jul 30, 08:35 PM · #

  13. Gala, you look so thin! In a “Im a super-hero raw vegan” way of course!
    I love the idea of Sing at inappropriate moments too, definetly a new way I’m going to spice up conversations/ moments!

    <3 Julianne · Jul 30, 08:41 PM · #

  14. YOUR TALK OF PASTRIES IS INFURIATING.
    I would kill a man for a cupcake right now! I don’t care if I have to eat it alone!

    [The reason for this is that I recently moved in with my father and his family, and there is nothing to eat here EVER. I am DYING, Gala! Simply DYING!]

    I’m having just such an awful week. An awful month, really. An awful EVERYTHING right now.

    le sigh.

    I wish I had a pretty girl to feed me cupcakes.

    Love,
    Katie Bird

    <3 Katie Bird · Jul 30, 09:04 PM · #

  15. Yep, sex-fixated this week, Gala.

    My nickname is Slutcake. Heh.

    <3 Opium · Jul 30, 09:04 PM · #

  16. I used to live in a little house on the bottom of the highest hill in my city, and at the very top of this hill, there was a park. I would often walk up the hill and swing on the swingset, thoughtfully, playfully, flirtatiously (wasn’t alone that time), composing poems in my head and thinking about boys… while looking out at the horizon and the great view.
    It was really wonderful. :)

    <3 Annie Spandex · Jul 30, 09:07 PM · #

  17. I like spending time alone on the swings in a playground; I’ve been trying to do that a lot lately.

    Haha~ porn cakes, we definately don’t have enough of that!

    <3 Leanne · Jul 30, 09:35 PM · #

  18. Hehe Porncakes for everyone!!

    <3 emma gahan · Jul 30, 10:10 PM · #

  19. gorgeous photos! and totally raunchy list today, very nicely done!

    <3 s11m · Jul 30, 10:56 PM · #

  20. smutty cupcakes, best ever.

    smutcakes!

    <3 kitten` · Jul 30, 10:58 PM · #

  21. ohlala gala….. we’re very risque indeed, today. I love it all though, all this talk of penis and porn cake makes me want to go crazy and make loads. or even just random quote cakes.

    it reminds me of the ginger bread men i made for my friend hannah when she finished her exams, they said “WELL DONE HANNAH MONTANA !” Someone ate the “well” and the “montana” and we lined them up to say “ i done hannah” lol like a pretty childish version of your porn cakes but she loved it.

    <3 Nix Pix · Jul 30, 10:59 PM · #

  22. These pics are fantastic! You look hot, mon cherie!

    <3 Ammu · Jul 30, 11:03 PM · #

  23. haha @ Opium: slutcake!

    I’m drooling over those pictures!
    Oh & last night I was complaining (I was drunk btw) about my miserable sex life, so this post came right on time ;D

    <3 irmak · Jul 30, 11:32 PM · #

  24. Yay for risqué! :) I like the orgasm tip – have you read about all the health benefits one orgasm can provide? Just amazing :) What an excuse….

    You look gorgeous, by the way!

    <3 sparrow · Jul 31, 12:28 AM · #

  25. Gala, the tabletop pics are fabulous. The colours are great, and the lighting is perfect!

    I can’t wait to go on my own ever-closer OS adventure!

    Now if I ATE cake, I’d be bakin a big ole porn cake right now!

    xx miss amy lou

    <3 Miss Amy Lou · Jul 31, 12:53 AM · #

  26. Wheeee! I just mentioned swings on the playground in my blog as part of the Weekly Glee column! See? www.doedeere.com/blog

    I love swings, it’s my most favorite activity ever :D

    <3 Doe Deere · Jul 31, 01:28 AM · #

  27. “Change your passwords to words which make you smile”

    hahaha. a girl at work loudly proclaimed monday that she’d changed her computer password to “BOOBS”. as she shrewdly pointed out – you’re not allowed rude or naughty words in the work email because you get in trouble by the censor who makes sure your emails are work related.

    BUT they have nothing to say about rude words as passwords. Hahahahaha.

    x

    <3 Audrey · Jul 31, 02:11 AM · #

  28. ooh gorgeous pictures! very minxy!
    i LOVE the cupcake idea. and violet blue! she is amazing.

    <3 tara · Jul 31, 02:13 AM · #

  29. mmm…the cupcake idea will sure incite my boyfriend (plus the fact that we haven’t seen in almost 3 weeks!) :p
    the pictures are very very sexy, I like them :D

    <3 fran · Jul 31, 04:10 AM · #

  30. picture three is just awesome – I can’t get enough of you :)

    I am whole-heartedly devoting myself to at least one orgasm a day, even if i have to get there by myself seeing as my lover-boy is on the other side of the country and I only get to see him once (next wednesday!!) until christmas when I’ll be too busy having a baby to get laid. sigh

    Mind you, I don’t think one orgasm a day will be a good thing when I’m at the work conference with my boss across the hall in the hotel… Maybe very quiet orgasms for that week. I can’t wait to go – I fly off on friday night.

    <3 Song · Jul 31, 04:14 AM · #

  31. ahahahaha i definitely cracked up at the porn cake.
    oh and i’m pretty sure i already do make it a goal to orgasm daily!

    <3 sara · Jul 31, 04:16 AM · #

  32. ohh no gala don’t smoke you have perfect skin why ruin it with a nasty habit lilke that!?

    <3 fe · Jul 31, 04:21 AM · #

  33. this post equals fun times. the photos are super gorgeous and yes to the ripped stockings. rawr!

    <3 nerdyspice · Jul 31, 04:32 AM · #

  34. Oooh yummy! Someone is in a very sexy mood today…

    These are style tips that I am more than happy to indulge in. Except I just ate my cupcake before I read it, but maybe tomorrow!

    You look lovely in those photos by the way.

    <3 Ashley · Jul 31, 04:48 AM · #

  35. Porn cakes, orgasms, sexy cigarettes – Gala is a hot tomale!

    <3 Wednesday's Child · Jul 31, 04:53 AM · #

  36. lovely as per usual!

    my friend’s birthday is in a few days, i do believe she will be receiving a porncake from me. hee hee hee.

    <3 martini · Jul 31, 04:54 AM · #

  37. Once upon a time, back in the days of high school sexeducation, to celebrate our completion of a particularly fun unit on STDs, my friend Rose and myself baked a most decandent cake that read “SEX EDGE (penis)” in electric green frosting. But we forgot to put the eggs in until right before baking, and ended up with a layer of scrambled on the bottom of the cake pan. Most delicious.

    Stay cool

    <3 Sarah Decay · Jul 31, 05:11 AM · #

  38. Daily orgasms sound like a great idea. I’m usually on top of that one, and it just makes me a happier person. I kind of wish I could manage to do that in the morning before work- I think it would make me way more productive while I’m here.

    <3 Rachel · Jul 31, 05:23 AM · #

  39. Have your lover bind your hands & feed you a cupcake. Bonus points if you film it.

    Why have I never thought of this??? It needs to be implemented immediately.

    I like the PhotoBooth idea too! Gives me a reason to clean up my room- make people come over and take pictures with me with my fancy computer. Hee.

    <3 Chesney · Jul 31, 05:26 AM · #

  40. Porn cake?!
    Oh Gala, I do love you!

    Unfortunatley I don’t have a lover and placing the cake on a desk and then ramming my head at it somehow doesn’t quite seem as romantic… Hhmm..

    And I’ve always meant to ask you…
    You don’t actually smoke do you? I’ve seen a few pictures of you with what definitley looks like a cigarette in your hands/mouth but you just don’t seem the type..?

    Hope you not jet lagged!
    Vixxie.

    <3 Vixxie · Jul 31, 05:39 AM · #

  41. Gala, you should crop pic three so you have a copy of just your reflection in the mirror. that’d be a cool abstract kinda thing.

    <3 thefishanddelilah · Jul 31, 05:59 AM · #

  42. ^ooh! @thefishanddelilah…awesome idea!

    <3 [a} · Jul 31, 06:25 AM · #

  43. Your porn cake idea reminds me of when my friend baked me penis-shaped cookies for my 18th birthday. Ah, fond memories…

    <3 Dollface · Jul 31, 09:03 AM · #

  44. Ahh! At college this year, there was a joint birthday party for me and a friend and it was penis themed, complete with a penis cake with cream filling! It was delicious.

    <3 nicole · Jul 31, 10:03 AM · #

  45. Hah! Fantastic.
    Gala is renewed, this post feels like you’re back and lively again. I’m so glad that this wasn’t blocked on my work computer!

    My partner and I have hit the slump after more than 5 years together. We definitely need to rev it up again. I’m feeling very bored and unloved.

    As Wednesday’s Child said, you are one hot tomale!!

    <3 Ms Constantine · Jul 31, 01:16 PM · #

  46. a very close friend is having a birthday in about a week, and i’m probably going to make some type of erotic pastry for it. teehee. this is easily my favorite and the most sexy Style Tips post you’ve made! there’s nothing more stylish (and empowering) than feeling sexy.

    <3 lise · Jul 31, 01:17 PM · #

  47. I am SO in love with this post!

    <3 Orchid · Jul 31, 04:23 PM · #

  48. porn cakes!! when my friends hold their regular sex toy parties (like tupperware parties – but more fun) they bake cupcakes with all kinds of naughty words, pictures and diagrams on them. mmm.

    <3 mlle emily · Jul 31, 06:23 PM · #

  49. hi gala!

    i was wondering what type of camera do you use, and how much did it cost?

    im thinking of investing in a new camera, and am looking for one that takes clear, crisp photos like yours, but i really have no idea what price bracket or type of camera that actually is.

    x

    <3 candyapple · Jul 31, 06:45 PM · #

  50. I’m totally making a porn cake this week.

    <3 Lindsay · Jul 31, 06:54 PM · #

  51. Lizzie — I am a devotee of the side-part :> It’s a goodie!

    Katie — I am indeed back in Australia! Not for long though, I fly back to Wellington tomorrow night!

    Rachel Radness! — That is totally great :D

    Katie Bird — Oh no! Not being able to eat when you’re hungry is the worst thing ever! I feel your pain!

    tara — She is a major girl crush. I love her. I am trying to entice her to come to New York… always!

    Vixxie — I used to chain-smoke when I lived alone in Auckland — I would smoke & write stories & drink whiskey & it was very, uh, single-tragic-writer-girl idealised. I wasn’t very happy, though. These days I will only smoke if I’m having a drink, which happens extremely rarely. They do make a good prop for photographs, though.

    candyapple — I use a Nikon D80, which is an SLR camera. I got it in 2006 & it was pretty expensive, I think the body was about $900 US & with two lenses the total was probably somewhere around the $2000 mark. But the price will have dropped since, because they’ll have newer, better models now. I am a Nikon devotee, I have owned 3 of their digital cameras & they have never disappointed. Do some research online — Amazon is a great resource for reviews! Good luck cutie!

    <3 Gala · Jul 31, 07:57 PM · #

  52. thanks for the reply gala, i appreciate ~
    i think a good camera is a worthy investment, especially since im thinking of travelling next year and want high quality pictures.
    im from melbourne too :)
    x

    <3 candyapple · Jul 31, 09:31 PM · #

  53. I’m in love with this list.

    Completely!

    <3 Emily · Aug 1, 07:56 AM · #

  54. I love this post!

    <3 Sassy · Aug 1, 10:21 AM · #

  55. You look unbelievably sexy (and manage to make spending an afternoon cutting up stockings seem like a highly alluring plan!), but it bothers me a bit that you sometimes use cigarettes as props; doesn’t that rather play into the glamorisation of smoking?

    Good luck sorting out everything for your immigration; I hope it goes really smoothly :)

    <3 Heather · Aug 1, 11:06 AM · #

  56. this is the best post in awhile!

    totally made me smile….hehe thanks Gala!

    I’m gonna do some of this….the whole “filming your boy feed you a cupcake” thingy is great! hehe

    thanks alot, You guys better try this stuff!!

    xoxo
    Katie

    <3 Katie · Aug 1, 01:49 PM · #

  57. Those photos are SO EFFING HOT!!! I holed a pair of my stockings and turned them into make-shift stirrups =D Didnt photograph myself though, i probably didnt look that attractive in that bent over possition hehe.

    <3 pinkrock · Aug 1, 04:44 PM · #

  58. I love this!
    it inspires me so much :)

    <3 elizabeth · Aug 2, 05:35 AM · #

  59. I’ve actually heard the porn cake idea before – but it’s not called quite that. A restaurant in my town serves slices of cake, and a friend who works there told me that the swirled frosting on the top isn’t random. The cook writes amusing phrases on the cake, from funny to offensive, but once it’s cut up customers have no idea what was there. one more reason to eat cake

    great post, loved the pics!

    <3 kikiem · Aug 2, 05:26 PM · #

  60. Looooove this. I am making a porn cake for my new male friend this week, it is decided. Oh jeez, and he and I have to find a photobooth.

    <3 Kortnee · Aug 2, 05:35 PM · #

  61. Those pics are bad ass.

    <3 Philip McCluskey · Aug 3, 04:21 PM · #
 

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