Style Tips: Dinner Parties, Video Diaries & Long Train Journeys!

2 February 2011, 09:37

Hair

Photo by Adam Bartas

<3 Feel like you need a change? Buy a box of hair dye & radically alter your tresses! (Remember that if you stain floors or counters by mistake, whitening toothpaste scrubbed into the surface will make it look good as new again!)

<3 Recite your affirmations over breakfast (like sweet Katie E. does!).

<3 Stop carrying plastic bags. It’s not chic & it’s terrible for the planet. When the cashier asks if you’d like a bag, say NO! Whip out your own. They fold up teeny-tiny, so you can keep one in your handbag at all times. Walking around with a bunch of plastic bags is not sexy. Look, it’s in the New York Times so it must be true! If you’re not sure where to get a good canvas tote bag, try Etsy!

<3 Dress as your favourite fictional heroine this week. Lily from Black Swan? Marla from Fight Club? Cassie from Skins? How would they dress if they were sucked into a time machine & spat out into your life?

<3 If the cold weather’s got you down, one of the best ways to feel better is by doing something good for someone else. Who could you help & how could you do it?

<3 Leave an orgasm on someone’s voicemail… !

Train adventure!

Box magazine, styled by Amanda Moore

<3 Take a long train journey. Pack a little bag with some snacks & your camera, & make a day trip out of it!

<3 Come up with a motto for 2011. One of my favourites is sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc: we gladly feast on those who would subdue us. (Thanks, Addams Family!)

<3 Order yourself stationery with your name at the top, so you can write thank you notes with flair! Alternatively, design postcards which say “From the desk of ________” on the back. They make for excellent notecards! (Be sure to stock up on coloured markers for writing on the back, too!)

<3 Go ice-skating & teach yourself tricks! (Extra effort: Wear something short & sparkly!)

<3 Hold a dinner party every week. Make sure there is plenty of bread, soup & dessert. Invite your favourite people, do your best not to start a fire in the kitchen, & stay up late drinking wine.

<3 Start making a video diary of your life! Save up & buy yourself a FlipCam, learn how to use a video editing program (I love iMovie, it’s super-easy!), & let the documentation commence! (Imagine how funny it will be to watch in 20 years!)

<3 Light big bunches of candles every night.

<3 Buy yourself an amazing, hilarious pair of slippers!

<3 Northern hemisphereans! Remember that it’s winter—& it’s meant to be a slow, resting, regenerative period. If you’re feeling guilty for not doing a million things like usual, let it go. Use this time to learn & think & restore yourself!

<3 Southern hemisphereans! Remember that it’s summer—so GET PSYCHED! It’ll be over before you know it. Get out there, go swimming, have an ill-advised romance, & enjoy it!

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