I took the leap and went back to a natural hair color– not my natural hair color, unhealthy but one that ostensibly exists in nature for a person. It took a week of leaving crushed vitamin C powder in my hair and washing with a clarifying shampoo to lighten the teal out of my hair, generic and… Read More Garden Party!

Hi. Never your dye your hair teal.   It may look super cool with some things, store like a Free People stripe top (size L) from work and a Cynthia Rowley bicycle belt, look but it’s a more permanent investment than you realize.   It is somewhere between blue and green, so it looks off… Read More

Shortly before I made my last post I had been thinking about my struggle to find readers for this blog, about whether I wanted to start doing contests/giveaways (I do, but more to promote the many, many talented people I know than to simply promote the blog) or what I was doing wrong, and I came… Read More the girls of e-bay

I can identify my aesthetic with a few phrases: “sexy party clown”, “precocious uncomfortable baby”, and perhaps “aggressive whimsy machine”.     Fat female-identified people have only a select number of roles people feel comfortable with them filling: “curvy” vamp, matronly mother-type, non-sexual best friend, and whimsical quirky girl. Christina Hendricks is allowed to be… Read More trope-ical thunderstorm

I feel like fashion has currently caught up to what I’ve always been into. I feel lucky! Truly, I don’t like feeling not unique but it is good to be able to easily purchase things I like.     I got this dress at a Buffalo Exchange in Center City, which is not the consignment… Read More resigned to consign

  It’s been universal knowledge for generations that the best way to dye your hair is with a sleepover. Kara and I both used Manic Panic Ultraviolet (with a splash of Electric Amethyst) and it turned out… turquoise? Not really what we intended, help and I am kind of over Manic Panic as a result.… Read More destroy it yourself

Pennsylvania weather has been hovering around 60 for the past 6 months because we think we are San Francisco without the basic concessions to human rights. I realize none of my clothing is seasonal. Any of my outfit posts could happen at any time of the year. Looking towards summer, order which is the worst… Read More TIGERFUNCTION

  When I was a young mall goth, freshly outfitted in the finest UFO pants and oversized t-shirts with slogans that said things like “As a matter of fact the world does revolve around me”, my primary fashion goals were to let everyone know what a snarky asshole I was and to hide my body.… Read More my life: pants edition

“that’s not LOLITA,” someone would say, “she’s not wearing a PETTICOAT and her TIGHTS HAVE HOLES and she’s FAT and i HATE HER and i will ANONYMOUSLY FIND OUT HER ADDRESS and INFORM HER WORKPLACE SHE’S A SLUT.” 5 years ago that would bother me. Or I’d be the one saying it, probably. Surely, dressing… Read More here comes my BABY

OH GODDAMMIT I HAVE WORK AND I NEED TO WEAR CLOTHES TO WORK AND NOT BE NAKED   I NEVER WEAR THIS DRESS (FROM PAYHALF, click SIZE L) I WILL WEAR THIS DRESS BUT PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK WHEN I AM DUE WHEN I WEAR IT AND I AM JUST NOT IN THE MOOD I WILL… Read More throw it together