How To Get The Perfect Lashes!

We are constantly trying to get the perfect make up looks and going out of our way to make our eye lashes look longer and better. This is why I wanted to share with all you this little "How To" guide that I've found and absolutely love. Now with these tips we ladies don't need to waste time and money on false eye-lashers or weird lash growth products.

Rorschach Inkblot...Fashion? A D.I.Y Snapshot

From psychology, comics, and fashion, the iconic inkblots of Hermann Rorschach's psychological test has been given plenty of different jobs in its day. Lets face it, what has been used to examine a persons personality characteristics and emotional functioning happens to look great on clothes and accessories. This is why I got inspired to craft up my own inkblot jewelry with the "straight off the runway" looks, but with the broke college girl price tag.    

After a few long hours, these was my results!

 Materials Used:

* Leather (I used the leather from photo pockets I had)

* Gold Metallic Painters Pen ($2.43 at Walmart)

* Gold chain for jewelry ($3.00 at Walmart)

* Gold jump rings ($2.00 at Walmart)

* Hole puncher

* Scissors

* Exacto knife for crafting

Inkblot Necklace #1

Inkblot Necklace #2

Culture & Fashion Fusion: "Mipsterz" Muslim Hipsters

    Sheikh and Bake Productions released Somewhere in America #MIPSTERZ in December of 2013. Since then, this edgy snapshot of a few women's individual style and personality has sparked a lot of conversation in the world of social media. One of the producers of the video, Sara Aghajanian, says the purpose of the video is to stress the diversity of Muslim women. She explains in a recent NPR article that the inspiration for the video came from a trip she made to Iran. Aghajanian goes on to say;

"My family is from Iran, and growing up I remember the many media images of Iran with women wrapped in veils and chadors. When the opportunity came for me to visit Iran myself a few years ago, I saw the diversity of color and design in women's fashion. If you look around New York City and other places, you see the same thing. So the project really made me excited because it shows the unique reality that these women embody,"

    After watching the video, reading a few articles, and reading others opinions on the video, I can confidently say that I love their video and the message Sheikh and Bake Productions and the #Mipsterz crew are trying to portray. Obviously the women in the video do not represent all women of in American Muslim culture, this is a small group of young women embracing their own unique style while still holding onto their religious background. What I also think is amazing about this video is the fact that it shows diversity, it shows another kind of Muslim woman, one that is completely different from that we picture in our minds from news footage we see on TV.  

    Somewhere in America #Mipsterz video is showcases and sparks plenty of social and cultural topics, but its also shows great street style. These young women aren't just empowering and creative, they are trend-setters. #Mipsterz? I say High Fashion!


Check out the full NPR article Muslim 'Hipsters' Turn A Joke Into A Serious Conversation
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/12/28/250786141/muslim-hipsters-turn-a-joke-into-a-serious-conversation


Here's another interesting video Hijabistas: Inside the World of Muslim-American Fashion, about young Muslim American women and their story on fusing their Islamic and Western roots.

Flappers, and Speakeasies, and Gangsters! Oh my!

Back In Time For New Years Eve

"Let's prohibit prohibition!"

In every history class you've had or any television series and movies you watch with the 1920s backdrop, an image of creativity, spirit, violence, elegance and prohibition is vividly painted in our minds. So what not relish in its beauty by ringing in the new year by partying like its 1922.The Roaring Twenties was a decade of flappers, jazz, fashion, and gangsters. When I say gangsters, I'm not referring to the guys in rap music videos, I'm talking about the legends of the jazz age; Dutch Schultz, Al Capone, or Jack "Legs" Diamond, etc. As F. Scott Fitzgerald puts it: 

"The restlessness approached hysteria. The parties were bigger. The pace was faster, the shows were broader, the buildings were higher, the morals were looser, and the liquor was cheaper; but all these benefits did not minister much delight."

What I love about the fashion in the 1920s is that it reflected the rapid movement and change of society. Its iconic style has stayed with us throughout the decades and with movies and television shows like Boadwalk Empire, Downton Abby, The Great Gatsby and The Artist, 1920s style has definitely made its come back on the runway and into our closets.

 

 Then

 

Now

 

My 1920s New Years