This is my Tuesday face. Freckles, wrinkles and all.
Tuesday's are such a blah day, right? I mean, I've never met a Monday I actually liked and Wednesday is 'hump day' and Thursday is just a hop, skip and a jump away from Friday. Tuesday's are kind of like that cousin you sorta-didn't-really-like but your parents made you play with them anyway.
When I come home on a Tuesday, I want peace, I want quiet and I want a book. A cup of tea wouldn't go astray either but we can't all have everything. It's to my eternal annoyance that I have a standing dinner-date each and every Tuesday night. People want to spend time with me - say what now?!
Anyway, I thought I would share with you my outfit from this evening. I rushed home from work and put together the quickest, most comfortable outfit I could possibly find.
Et Vola - Terrible Tuesday Outfit ala Lola
The skirt is a $20 bargain from Target and the top is actually a Peter Alexander PJ top that's so damn comfortable I often wear it out. The shrug is an old Paper Heart one that I purchased a bazillion years ago and still wear to death. It's actually a size 10 but it's so oversized it fits me perfectly. I added some Samantha Wills boho earrings to brighten the whole thing up - a pop of silver and turquoise makes the outfit a little bit less monochrome.
Until next time, lovers.
Let me preface this post by saying that I am a HUGE fan of 17 Sundays. I discovered their brand just before a quick jaunt to Bali and I purchased quite a bit of stuff from them before my travels (more on that later) and ever since then I've been pretty darn impressed with their clothes.
I'd had my eye on this Knitted Jacquard dress for quite awhile before I finally purchased it through The Iconic store just after Christmas. The material is a touch too heavy for my liking in the extreme Summer heat we've had lately but I can see it being the perfect trans-season dress and I'm itching for a chance to wear it. When I do, you'll be be the first to see.
2013 for me was the Year of the Hen's Party.
Seriously. It was like all my friends got together and decided to get married in '13. I had everything ranging from a traditional Cambodian wedding (6am wakeup for 7am start!) to a magical dream wedding in Bali that can probably never, ever be repeated. It was the best of times and the very best of times. Nobody loves a good wedding more than me.
Along with the weddings comes the Hen's Party and for me last year, there were a LOT of them. It felt like every other weekend I was off to another one of these dingin' things. Needless to say, some (all) of those weekends are a tad blurry. I had everything from stripper cruises (Magic Mike eat yo' heart out) to magical nights dancing the night away in the Zita Bar at the Hilton Hotel and getting whisked out of stretch Hummers into VIP sections (!!!) back to private Puppetry of the Penis shows (?!?!?).
When all of your drop-dead gorgeous friends (I may be slightly biased) are straight-sized and you are not, it's so damn easy to feel left-out. Oh, how I'd love to spend hours with them trawling through shop after shop for easy, breezy, fun hen's party outfits. Alas, it's not to be but I did manage to find quite a few fun outfits that worked for me and made me feel a billion-trillion dollars on those fun girls-gone-very-very-wild nights out.
This bold blue peplum dress from City Chic got quite the workout on the Hen's circuit. I wore it on two different occasions in two completely different ways and lah-ved them both. There's something about the cut, fit and shape of this dress that makes me feel young, fun and just a little bit sexy. Winning!
A non-Hen's Party Outfit. (Yes, that green stuff is absynth. Yes, shit got a little out of hand)
The first Hen's party I wore it too was on a stripper cruise in Sydney Harbour in 40 degree humidity and pouring rain. The theme was "Bling" so I paired it with some sky-high gold glitter heels, huge gold cuff, necklace and earrings. I ditched the black belt it came with and rocked a sweet gold-metal plated belt. The overall effect was exactly what I'd hoped for. I only wish I had thought to take a photo at the time.
The "Bling" accessories. Big and very, very gold.
The second time I took this lovely dress for a hen's party spin was in September for a fun night out in Sydney for my very best friend's bachelorette ball. She did things a little differently from most brides and shunned the bridesmaid concept but being the bossy, loving friend I am, I self-appoitned myself as her maid-of-honor (or dishonor) and whisked her away before the party to get our makeup did at Napoleon Perdis. Gosh darn I love it when someone else does my makeup for me. I had a really clear vision of how I wanted this look and outfit to come together so I made sure I took along a photo of what I had in mind. I knew I was wearing the blue dress and I wanted to do something completely different to the normal smokey-eye, fake lashes, soft lip look I usually rock for big events. I wanted something FUN, something BRIGHT and that something was this:
When I showed the lovely girl from Napoleon the photo, she was both surprised and excited. I was nervous about how it would all come together, there was no doubt it looked great on the model but that hardly guaranteed it would transfer to my face. Overall, I was pretty flippin' happy with the results.
The end result (dress on) looked a lot like this.
I'd been waiting to try out a flower crown and I knew this was the perfect occasion. I kept the other accessories to a bare minimum (no belt, no earrings, no cuff etc) and because I planned to dance my perfectly-primed face off all night, I wore some pretty beaded sandals. Sure, I looked short and stumpy but damnit, I had flowers in my hair and I did not care.
