T'is the season for: LBDs!

Hey everyone! So as y'all are surely aware, November is almost over. And you know what that means: DECEMBER!

December is one of my favourite months of the entire year, for a couple reasons. The first one is a given: Christmas. Secondly, winter break! And lastly, New Years! And what do all of these occasions call for? Parties! Yes, it is the season for holiday parties, New Years eve, and all sorts of seasonal events. And when it comes to party season, I know a lot of people will be reaching for their standby Little Black Dress (or LBD for short!).

I know everyone has at least one LBD in their closet. And if you don't, you should. It's a staple piece that can be worn all year for almost every occasion. So if you don't currently own a LBD, now is the perfect time to get one!

I've been holiday shopping online for the last couple weeks, and I've spotted tons of adorable, edgy, and classy LBDs! So I figured, why not share 'em? In this post I've compiled a list of all my favourite LBDs that I've seen online this year, from a variety of different stores!

So check them out!

Sister Jane Spike Chain Collar Dress, Urban Outfitters, $110

Transparent Cut-out High-Low Chiffon Dress, H&M, $17

Paneled Embellished Mesh Dress, Forever21, $29

French Connection Lace Slash Bodycon Dress, Asos, $137

Velvet Polka Dot Dress, MissKL, $96

Phantom Burnout Lace Maxi, Free People, $196

Midnight Dancer Sequin Dress, ModCloth, $54

Not into the LBD? Willing to go for a bolder hue this holiday season? Then check out these festive frocks too!

The Trust In Me Dress, MissKL, $146

Scalloped Peplum Dress, Urban Outfitters, $69

Embroidered Hi-Low, Urban Outfitters, $152

Bandeau Galaxy Dress, Romwe, $95

"Ode to a Grecian Sojourn" Dress, ModCloth, $49

This is probably one of the seasons that has the most events and parties to attend, so why not look smashing while attending all of them? Whether choosing a classic LBD, or a bright bold colour, rock your frock with pride and you can never go wrong!

What are some of your favourite holiday pieces? How would you accessorize? Let me know in the comments below!

ALSO!!!!

This year, since I'm revamping my YouTube channel, I decided I'm going to take part in Vlogmas this year! For those of you wondering, Vlogmas is a special time during December when vloggers will vlog every day of the month! Although, since I'm just getting into vlogging now, I might make it more of a every other day/three days a week type deal. I just don't think I'll be able to manage every single day! Or else, you'll get a lot of vlogs of me watching Netflix!

But I will be participating, and I'm looking for some video ideas! So if you've got any suggestions for me, let me know in the comments as well! I want to make videos that you guys actually want to watch. So definitely shout out to me! Leave a comment, send a tweet, ask on Tumblr. I want to hear from you!

Anyways, that's all for today! I hope you guys are as excited for the holiday season as I am! See you guys soon!

P.S. How do you guys like the new layout? I think it's a lot less cluttered now, and more relaxing of a reading environment! :D

Fall Haul!!

Hey guys! So last week, I uploaded my Fall Haul vlog to YouTube, and hopefully some of you guys have checked it out already! I'll link it here just in case, and if you enjoy watching my videos please feel free to subscribe to my channel! I'm going to try and vlog more often since it's quite fun and I've enjoyed it so far, so we'll see how it goes!

Anyways, as promised, I'm going to post some photos of some of the items I purchased/featured in my haul video. I don't have all the items I showed (mostly the makeup has been left out), because I'm probably going to make a review post on those products a little bit later on!

So firstly, if you haven't watched it, here's the vlog:

And now for the photos!

Radical T-shirt - Urban Outfitters

Cat Print Sheer/Lace Blouse - F21

Striped Blouse - F21

Gold-Tipped Collar Blouse - F21

High-waist Shorts - F21

Velvet Rose Pants - F21

Sheer Striped High-low Skirt - F21

Neon Leopard Print Skirt - F21

Geo Print Leggings - F21

Spike Earrings - F21

Gold x Pearl Bib Necklace - Aldo Accessories

Knit Headband - Aldo Accessories

Yen Snapback - H&M, OBEY Snapback - Urban Outfitters

Like I said, the makeup products I purchased aren't in this post because I'll be reviewing them soon enough, but I also did some more shopping today (BAD JILL ;^;), however today I went thrifting! I bought a ton of kick ass sweaters! I plan on going back and raiding the story soon for other cool items, so I'll hopefully be posting about that soon as well! For now, here's a preview shot of my sweaters :3

They are such funny awesome sweaters! And they were so cheap too *w* Thrifting is going to be my new addiction, I can feel it...

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the vlog and the photos! Hopefully I'll be able to make a post again soon. Until next time, stay tuned!

Bye guys, don't forget to subscribe to my channel! :D

Recent Gets + Style Inspiration!

Howdy y'all! So I'm officially into my third week of summer vacation, and I am thoroughly enjoying it :3 I know this is no excuse for my lack of postage, but I've just been a very laxy TV watching butt for the last couple of days while I recuperated from all the grad parties I've been attending :< hahaha. So far I've rewatched all of Avatar: The Last Airbender, finished off Legend of Korra and Game of Thrones, and just recently started watching Community! All very good, if you haven't watched Game of Thrones yet, I highly recommend it!! *w* It's excellent!

Anyways, onto the main point of this post: some recent summer-y gets! If you follow my Tumblr (which you all should, I blog much more frequently on there, although it's significantly more personal), you'll know I've been heavily influenced by the Pastel Goth style recently! A friend and I have actually started our own Pastel Goth blog, which you can follow here if you're interested!

So here are a few pieces from my most recent shopping trip!

BDG Dip-dye high-waist shorts, Urban Outfitters

Polka dot collared shirt with cut-outs, F21

Sheer star pattern tank with Peter pan collar, F21

(Truly) Daily Style + Cosplay Progress!

Hey y'all! It sure has been a while since I last blogged :P I can't even say I've been very busy, just a little bit lazy! Haha. I guess you can say I've been a little busy getting ready for proms, since I am a senior this year! And I was asked to two proms in addition to my own school's, so it's been a little stressful trying to prepare for all of those as well as Anime North! I had my first prom last weekend, but my camera's battery wasn't charged so I didn't take any pictures myself ; ^ ;. Thankfully, other people did! I'll post a few pics at the end of this post for those who are interested :3

Anyways, usually when I do a Daily Style post, it's more like a staged daily style than what I truly wear on a day-to-day basis. Meaning that it's usually an outfit for a special occasion or something. But recently I've been trying to take more pictures of my actual daily style to show on my blog, since this is definitely becoming more of a personal blog :P

Anyways, I have two outfits today to show you! (P.S. I am trying out new locations in my room to take outfit pictures, so bear with me! xD)

Necklace: inherited

Top: F21

Skirt: F21

Scarf: F21

Top: Urban Planet

Shorts: F21

Both of these outfits were quite simple in essence, but I really like them! The first one I wore for dinner yesterday (Mother's day!), and the second one I wore to run errands after school today. These are truly outfits that I wear every day :P I was really happy with the second one :D I quite like it, and those are the first pair of high waisted shorts that didn't make me look like an old man, which is AWESOME.

I'm going to try and remember to take pictures of my outfits everyday now, or at least a few times a week so I can do more posts like this! What do you guys think?

And now on to cosplay news! Anime North is approaching VERY quickly (almost too quickly), and I've just started working on my costumes. Yeah. Go me. King of the slackers. Anyways, I finished my Matryoshka Gumi sweater the other day, which if you follow me on Tumblr or my FB fan page you would have seen already! Here are a couple pics in case you don't.

Yay for being cheesy! Anyways, that's done, and pretty much the only other thing I need for this cosplay are striped stockings, which I can buy easily. This was 90% closet cosplay for me, considering all I had to do was stitch the details on the hood! :P But at least it's done now!

Melty however, I have barely even started =_______=;; I've cut some patterns and I've got all my fabric and what not, I just need to start sewing like a mad man now!! And I still need more lace and some notions for the accessory bits. I am super pleased to know that the anime version of Melty does NOT have the ribbon wraps on her gloves or stockings, so I will most likely be omitting those details for now. I'll probably add them after Anime North though, because I want to try and go to FX or some other summer con this year, and I'll probably just re-wear Melty if I do!

I got my contact lenses in the mail today as well, JUST in time! :D I'll probably do a review of them soon, I need to buy new contact solution though :P

And as promised, here are a couple photos from the first prom I went to! Anyways, I'm going to try some fun nail art now, so until next time! :D

Art & Daily Style!

Hey y'all! So today I wanted to post about whats been preoccupying the vast majority of my time lately! I alluded to it being a photography project, and a photography project it is! But its also a combination between photography and sculpture! So here's what I've been working on!

Yes, its a photosculpture of my Jeffery Campbell Litas! This was my photography project for my media class this year, and I am quite happy with my result! It got lots of good comments from the viewers in the gallery, which was really nice for me! 

Basically what I did was carve and shape a model of my shoe on a 1.5:1 scale (approx. 18"x18"x6") out of pink foam, and then take hundreds of macro photos of my shoe and all the details of it and then collaged them onto the model, attaching the photos with Dressmakers pins. 

It took approximately 3.5 weeks to carve and shape the model, and then another week or so to photograph and attach all of the pictures to the model, so it took me a total of just over a month to complete! I am very satisfied with my work, although there are still some touch up to be made.

As well, I wore this outfit to go to the Closing Show at the gallery!

Jacket: Danier (given to me by mum)

Scarf: ???

Necklace: F21

Dress: Spoof!

Leggings: Urban Behaviour

Shoes: Jeffery Campbell

Bag: Aldo

It was a somewhat simple outfit since I only had about 15 minutes to throw something together after a fitting for a modelling gig I got, but I quite liked my result! It felt artsy enough to be an artist at a gala, but fancy enough to go out for dinner afterwards! And of course, I had to wear my Litas to show off my Lita sculpture :P Anyways, here's a couple of other photos from the night.

Explaining a friend's piece to a onlooker.

Went out for dinner with my friend afterwards. That loaf of bread was as big as her head!

Anyways, now that its getting nicer out, I feel more inclined to really try with my outfits! So I'm definitely going to try and post more outfit shots more often! I also want to do a Spring gets post as well, so hopefully that will be coming soon! In the mean time, look at these pretty tulips from the park near my house!

Anyways, I must go to bed now! Until next time!

Happy Easter!

Hey y'all! Just wanted to drop by and wish all those celebrating a Happy Easter! :D I took this opportunity to camwhore in a cute somewhat Easter-themed outfit, but most of the pictures turned out crappy ; ^ ; So I just have a couple of photos to share today!

Not really Easter-themed, but I had the ears anyways :P So I figured, why not! But I did get that dress recently and I'm super in love with it :D It has a super cute cutout in the back too! Unfortunately you can't see it, but I might do a Spring GETS post soon and I'll show it off then!

Also, I'm going to try harder to take more pictures of my outfits daily, since I do wear some pretty cute stuff some times :3 So let's hope this works out!

And I finally cut the bangs into my silver Melty wig this weekend :3 I'm super happy with the results! I was super nervous as I didn't want to mess it up and then have to order another wig :| Now I just need to trim up my Gumi wig!

Anyways, I do have something else I want to blog about soon, but I've yet to take any pictures of it! So hopefully sometime this week!

Until next time! :D