DIY | summer is Tie Dye season

The cool thing about being underemployed is all the free time, which I use for DIYs. Here's the latest:

This is a shirt I got from a show I did earlier this year. Check out the video if you like.

I found some large rubber bands in my house; I basically pinched the center of the shirt and twisted it into a ball.

I added bleach and let it sit for about five minutes.

Wash and dry

I didn't get the twisted pattern that I was hoping for, but I still like it.

 Day 57: Reconsidering the locals...

Finished Product

...enduring summer times 
of listless days
and restless nights.


Day 56: Prepped one found another.

DIY | The Hi-Low Cropped Sweater for Winter, Spring and Fall

...but not summer because global warming is legit and I have no time for knitwear in that kind of heat.  

Step 1: Find a boring ass sweater. This one is from Charlotte Russe ages ago and the most exciting thing about it is the hood.

Step 2: Flip it on its side so the front and the back are now left and right...

Step 3: Start snipping at an angle; start hi and go low (duh)

(Save this part)

Step 4: When you flip it back, it should look like this...if it doesn't, make it work like Tim Gunn says.

Step 5: Snip out some chunks from the 'hi part' so the front is more jagged and whatever and just liiiiike totes cool and edgy for a fashion blog okaaaaay

Step 6: stretch the edges so they start to fray a bit (all the way around)

Step 7: Now pull on the edges so it looks EVEN EDGIER

The final product should look something like this. If you wanted more fraying in the back, just pull some more strands out, but I think it looks better if the messiness is kept in the front (but if you went fully cropped, it would look good with fraying all the way around--yes, it's really THAT complicated okay).

I will take pictures of myself wearing this because sometimes I like to pretend I'm a fashion blogger. 

Bye for now.

Retro Comic Book

I thought should finally post these after recently experiencing some unseasonably warm weather--I wore this a month ago when it was about 80 degrees (it's now dropped to a more normal 50-60 degrees, but it's Michigan so it might shoot back up to 80 next week). The shirt was snipped up so it's cropped without bearing my midriff and I decided to color coordinate so I would look like a featured character in the Peanuts scene across my chest...except I'm pretty sure I ended up looking obnoxious.

Mary Kay "apple berry" lipstick and some Stila In the Garden concoction I can't remember..

shirt...from JCPenny when I worked there as seasonal help
skirt...American Apparel
shoes...Keds
bag...Urban Outfitters

DIY STUFF: Giving in to the Stud "Trend"

I still can't tell if studding is a fad or a trend. I felt like it was a fad at first mainly because moderately good-looking hipster girls were doing it--you know, the ones with the duck faces and too much make up and stringy, too-long hair that usually completely covers their faces in pictures all over Tumblr...there's no way those little bitches are setting trends. No way.

I decided I would stud these almost-out-of-commission JC two-timers after I stopped wearing them due to some staining caused by the dye on my jeans. The staining was only around the top area of the shoe, like the rim or whatever...to be honest, the white coloring on the suede is so powdery that the blue was starting to fade on its own. But once I set my mind to something, it gets done regardless.

Although I am a proud perfectionist, I decided to only retain the shape of the pattern, not the pattern of the studs themselves. I kinda like the right one a little better.

The studding did take quite some time; there was a total of about 250 studs or so. The perforations made getting them in pretty easy, but my fingers are still a little numb from pressing them down as I bent the prongs in.

 I'll probably wear them towards the end of summer; hopefully studding is still cool then.

 

Next, I decided to stud this crop top because...well, why not? I couldn't use these pyramid studs any other way and I wasn't about to put them on the collar of one of my shirts--not that I don't like the look, I just feel like the studded collar thing is a fad I'm not willing to poke holes for.

I think the finished product looked somewhat classic and non-fad-ish.