The FEMME Series

The FEMME Series was something that I've been inspired to make after seeing some similar images!

I've been making these to take a stand of my own sort and speak out. People can disagree or think it's stupid or whatever but you can't deny the facts, stereotypes, and things us girls have grown up to know as a societal norm. No one (hopefully) wants to live in a violent world and some will say that bad things happen, which is true! I feel bad things will always happen. But there are preventable situations too. Women have been taught to defend themselves, but I think it's time to fight too.

Take a stand. Fight societal pressures. Know you're perfect just the way you are.

Song of the Day: Be a Body by Grimes

all images created by me.

Monochrome

Here's another quick OOTD post! For me, stripes are a complete necessity and I'm not lying when I say I've worn this shirt wayy too many times! But it's a great basic for any season, even summer! 

Plus I'm always one for a simple black and white outfit. This girl came into the store I worked at and wanted a colored necklace and of course asked me, the black and white queen, for help. 

Andd I did not make that sale!

Top: Urban Outfitters

Shorts: Free People

Shoes: Windsor Smith (not pictured whoops)

Bag: Kate Spade

Hat: Free People

The Personal Note: My friend and I went to this super trendy beach by us and we both fashioned our floppy hats to fit in. It was a really fun day! I also had literally the best burger in my life.

Song of the Day: Boys by Sky Ferreira

Sunrise, Sunset

      Yesterday I graduated from high school and as I said before it's truly bittersweet! These past few weeks have literally been the best ever and yesterday was no exception! Graduation was a truly memorable event with one poor girl tripping literally four times before she reached the stage, to talking to the guy sitting next to me who is literally so funny! We just laughed about how crazy all the girls shoes were and how the heck they were able to function in them (minus that one poor girl). Oh and as an extra plus, I was able to be in the right place at the right time before graduation to listen to the girl who lost Prom Queen to me talk absolute ish on me. The night before she saw me and my friend going to Bob's and asked us if he was having a party and what not and there I was standing listening to her bitterness. Whoops.

    As mentioned, the night before our great Prom host Bob had another party which was a great time again! I only had one Polaroid of the night with me and two of my guy friends one of which sat next to me in art freshman year. He wrote in my yearbook, "some of my greatest memories of high school took place while sitting next to you in art." And honestly, that was my favorite thing anyone wrote! (I also confessed to one guy that I had a crush on him like the first week of freshman year in his yearbook #fisy) But I thought it was only appropriate that I haven't talked to my art friend since freshman year and just had a conversation with him in our last few days.  It still wasn't real when one girl was talking about how it was our last high school party, although everyone become immediately quiet! But the night was really fun! I started a beach party in Bob's garage including beach chairs and a surfboard and we all danced with a strobe light to the tune of #tbt music while yelling "7th grade dance party!" My friend and I almost did an all-nighter talking about everything from college to relationships to anxiety to eye glasses to going to San Francisco to visiting secret locations to gosh I don't even remember I was so tired aha. But it's really true that the longer you stay up and talk to someone the more personal and real things become.

      Grad night was equally as great! We got our faces painted, funky "ocean theme" hair, glitter tattoo (I got a rainbow flaming skull to fit my bada$$ personality), danced, started a water riot, and watched our friends get hypnotized. It was literally so great! After the night was over me and my two friends drove to the beach and met up with another group and watched the sun come up! Sitting in the dark and talking further proved that staying up late with weary eyes and bodies can stir up some good conversation. Not only that but it can bring out some great Flume remixes. We waded into the ocean, which by the way was literally the warmest it's ever been, and laid out on my friends comforter. And when the sun finally arrived for the day, it was a breath of fresh air! I couldn't get over the fact that only fifteen minutes before it was pitch black. Some sort of symbolism for life perhaps? After the rest of the group left and we were satisfied with our selfies and over our giggling we finally went home! It's a super weird feeling going home after all of that plus when it's light out. I wouldn't trade these past few weeks for anything! The pictures above of the sunrise are from this morning of me and my friend Oscar and the sunset is from awhile back with my boyfriend at one of my favorite places!

Song of the Day: Excuses by the Morning Benders

Shades of Cool

This week's band appreciation goes to the one and only Lana Del Rey. Her haunting and mystical voice makes me slip away from the world for a little bit. One of those artists where I could listen to her music for hours, everything about her lyrics to her musical style is completely on point. 

I saw her two years ago when Video Games was popular in an airport in London after realizing she sat in the back row of our flight. She was more beautiful in person and I still wish I would've said hi when she was five feet away from me in the queue but I was too scared! Since then I've been following her growth in her music and I couldn't be more pleased with her sound!

I've been enamored of her and her work since the start! She is an amazing artist and for that I'll always respect and admire her work!

Song of the Day: Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey

I will love you 'til the end of time

I would wait a million years

Promise you'll remember that you're mine

p.s. I made the lil edit of the first photo! you can find more on my polyvore.

June Gloom

Here's a quick OOTD post inspired by the gray skies, misty mornings, lil June bugs, and June Gloom!

Crop Sweater: Brandy Melville

Circle Skirt: American Apparel

Shoes: Windsor Smith

Hat: Free People

On a personal note: the graduation countdown continues and everything has slowed down a little! I had another failed secret pools attempt, went bowling with my fellow AP Calculus students, had a long hard chat about the future, went out with friends, and got about zero sleep. #sleepwhenyou'redead

Song of the Day: Scribbled Paper by Little Dragon

Prom Queen

                  

    Yep, as cliché as it sounds, I'm the Prom Queen! I didn't run for it or campaign or anything, it just happened to fall into my lap thanks to my awesome friends! (The real reason I wanted to win was because the other two girls were typical #meangirls where they get everything!) I totally didn't expect it so when my friend called my name I was shocked! Only one of the girls congratulated me and the other one was so bitter but alas I'm glad I shook things up for once!

       After a ton of planning and stressing Prom was one of the funnest nights ever. I mean one guy in my group came dressed in a full on suit like the one like Viktor Krum and my boyfriend wore an all white suit! We had dinner at my friends house which is literally on the beach where we took even more pictures. The Prom location was the weirdest place ever but soo fun! I got to "slow dance" to the musical stylings of traditional Mexican music with my friends in a gazebo, gamble on Blackjack and have a gnarly winning streak, sing karaoke with my math teacher (Material Girl by Madonna, his favorite), scream Twist and Shout by the Beatles on stage with my friends, danced with my Senior Crush, and the highlight, as is the highlight of every major night which seems to be some kind of reoccurring theme, dancing to Come On Eileen. I mean that song comes on and brings down the house every time. Even our Principal jumped into the mosh pit and started dancing! My boyfriend and I were singing the lyrics and dancing and holding hands and having the greatest time. I love that guy and I love that song.

      ~*The After Party*~ consisted of a myriad of people, I mean we even had a special appearance of the celebrity #Chris, but we'll talk about him later. My friend and I took Polaroids throughout the night and as you can see above and before and after picture of the night! The crown was passed around and multiple videos have surfaced of my guy friends saying that they were prom queen aha so it was fun to say the least.

   

 The night consisted of all of us walking around, having random conversations, taking pictures, at one point my boyfriend and I were in this side room where he dropped randomly on one knee and fake proposed to me ahaha, and then Chris showed up. He wasn't in our prom group which is why he became a celebrity. He's a pretty fun but mean but awkward guy so my friend and I naturally developed a weird obsession with him. I don't know why but I decided to touch his butt periodically throughout the night ? I mean I guess so ?  and since I've been seeing him at school I die a little, but it was a fun night! I randomly had a who-knows-how-long conversation with this other guy about his family and their business that will eventually be passed down to him, many conversations of people reminding me that I was PQ to which I offered my crown and said, "you can be prom queen too!" (which is probably why there are so many videos of people with the crown on), watched many games of bp, and somehow it rolled around to 4:40 am when the group dwindled down and our wonderful host Bob finally became too cashed. 

     When we all woke up in my morning, courtesy of my badly timed and obnoxious hiccups, we all had breakfast and tried to recall what happened the night before, which was basically three hours ago.  It was literally one of the greatest nights of my life thus far, hands down!                                            Song of the Day: Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners         

Bittersweet Symphony

 

     It was either last Saturday or two Saturdays ago, who really knows? But anyways my friend has thrown a ton of parties at her house. Not only has it been such a gnarly and crazy fun time these past couple of weeks, but it's been pretty sad too! My final year of high school is ending and I'm starting to realize that I will never see or talk to most my friends and random acquaintances ever again. How crazy is that! I'm also starting to realize that I need to become some sort of adult.
     You'll be seeing a ton of Polaroids from me because I love that little camera. Like in the picture on the right we were all sitting in the kitchen when Come on Eileen came on and all I remember is feelin free and spinning endlessly and dancing and all of us singing the lyrics. I've been feeling alive.

 
    Which brings me back to the "Bittersweet Symphony" when I walked out to the front yard and saw my friend just standing there by himself. He just looked at me and said "how do you feel about high school ending?" and I tried to answer in this drawn out fashion filled with a cacophony of emotions and trying to explain the weirdness that I was feeling and he just nodded and said "bittersweet."

 
    Thus, the Song of the Day is Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve. I remember running back into the backyard, playing that song and just sitting by the fire and reflecting on everything. Also featuring some Jimi Hendrix and other throwbacks to complete the mood. It all went by so fast but these past few weeks have literally made it the best I could have ever asked for.

Song of the Day is Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve

Also feat. my Party Mix on 8tracks!

Memorial Day Weekend

       This time I went with Jack to the secret pools. Taken by the fact that it was Memorial Day weekend, the beach was absolutely packed! Since my last visit, the secret pools exploded to be this huge thing that everyone knows about and visits! ugh it's awful. Tourists tend to complicate everything, especially beach communities. By the time we got to the part where you scale this cliff and get to the private beach, the tide was scary high. So instead of casually risking our lives, we nestled up on this dip in the cliff and just sat there for awhile. It had to be one of the most profound moments I've ever experienced! Sitting there with someone you love and taking in the most beautiful surrounds definitely made me forget that I felt like I was going to be blown off this crazy cliff! Anyways, the panorama was taken from our little dip-in-the-cliff-bathtub place and so were our polaroids and the photo below! Crazy obsessed with that little camera!

      After trekking back to the beach we spent the most loveliest time on the sand with 23427978 of our closest tourist friends! But I have to admit it was such a nice day that I didn't really care, especially since we were having such a great time! At the end of the day we went back to the beach by us and laid on this little plateau in the middle of these succulents growing out of the sand and watched the sunset! It was absolutely gorgeous and that day was one for the books!

SOTD: Happy As Can Be by Cut Off Your Hands