Gave up some major real estate yesterday and started this thigh piece. Because after 3 and a half hours I had well and truly hit a wall pain-wise (plus it was half an hour after the shop closed) we couldn’t finish it. All the more reason to come back to London next year - to get this baby shaded!

By the amazing Raquel Corrales at Jolie Rouge Tattoo in London. She’s a real sweetheart and does beautiful work.

Original idea of the girl smoking a cigarette with the smoke spelling “homesick” came from a piece of flash by Amelia Martin, an awesome apprentice tattooist in the States. She was darling enough to let me use it as the concept for this piece, and I’m so thankful.

À Paris, mes chéris!

Laura thinks I’ve gotten more of a moon tan since I’ve been in the UK. I didn’t think it was possible. Thoughts?

Hello, this is your fairy gothmother speaking.

I know I wore almost this exact outfit in another post, but the lighting was terrible and this has black lips and creepers involved! Now to go out for coffee, get some drawing done then go pick up my cousins from school. Cue weird looks from the teacher.

About to get on the bus back to Glasgow. See you in 10 hours. Sigh.

Okay, so as promised here is the mint/aqua bed jacket I got at Beyond Retro… Plus a few other things.

I apologise for the weird lighting/colouring. The perils of having to shoot by lamplight then edit them to make them remotely true to life… The things in the first two photos are from Beyond Retro: a new black leather pencil skirt (my old one literally fell apart at the seams a few days ago), aforementioned bed jacket and a floor-length cream robe. Kind of like a super-long, slinky bed jacket (if anyone knows what the correct name is please tell me!). It’s going to look so awesome over skin-tight black outfits. Love it.

Third one is a ballerina-style lavender tulle skirt that I found at a designer sample sale today on Brick Lane for 10 quid. So cute and floaty.

Today’s plan: Brick Lane Market. I found these floral overalls at Beyond Retro (as well at the mint green bed jacket. Pics when I get back) and I’m in love. They make me feel like an overgrown toddler!

Hmmm, the idea of “attractive” is a complicated one, particularly when interacting over the internet. So here goes!

First off, thank-you for thinking I’m attractive!

Second, unless I know you in real life, you only get to see what I put up here ie. photos, writing and the occasional low-res iSight video. The only photoshopping I really do is changing the colour/light balance of my photos (I have photoshopped out the bags under my eyes a couple of times in the past) but I take a million pictures before I find ones I like enough to use. So what you see is me, just a very selective slice of me haha.

I also wear quite a bit of makeup day-to-day and therefore in most photos I post, and any photos I put up here without makeup on have been pretty low-res. So here’s a high-res one of me barefaced:

This is how I woke up this morning. I took this picture when I received this ask. Spotty skin, big dark circles, pale, messy eyebrows and chapped lips. I don’t think I look ugly here, I just don’t feel very “me”. I enjoy looking like a cartoon character on a day-to-day basis. This is how my face looks right now, post-makeup:

Big difference, huh? My makeup does change how I look, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t wake up looking like a queer, gothed-up, crack-addled Jessica Rabbit, but it’s how I like to look.

Also, I try to smile in my pictures, or at least add a cheery comment. My neutral face looks like I just got back from my best friend’s funeral, so I make an effort to not look aloof and pissed off haha.

Third, what makes someone attractive is subjective. As a whole society tends to favour tall, slim, white women, and I am privileged in that respect. At the same time, I personally find people attractive who are ballsy and confident, and who translate that into how they present themselves (Read: comfortable in their own skin, not arrogant). So pretty much, anyone who owns who they are and presents accordingly is hella sexy in my book. It can take a long time to get to that point (it took me 19 years, 10 of which I was in therapy for) but once you tap into that there’ll be no stopping you. If you think you’re awesome, other people will too. Take a look at my babin’ friend Lexi for instance. She has the most positive, super-cool aura around her and is one of the loveliest people I know, and she couples this with her amazing, creative style. Just don’t be afraid. The sorts of people you want to attract will totally respect you for loving yourself and your body, and creating the sort of aesthetic you want to embody. And for being a lovely person too.

I hope this didn’t come across as “how to look hot on teh internetz”, I really just wanted to let you know that what I put up on here is a constructed/edited-version of me in real life, and that - for me anyway - 99% of how attractive someone is comes from how they feel about themselves and in turn express it. So roll around in some glitter, head out the door with a big smile on your face and go get all the babes! xx

thelessdeceived:

Going out dressed up like a high-femme gothic baby doll. Perfect start to the evening.

Just got in from danceytimes. Crowd was average, but I felt like a million dollars. LOVE this outfit (seems like a few of you did too!).

I think vintage bed jackets, like the one I’m wearing here, may be my new obsession. They’re so pretty and lacy and perfect. Plus they’re always super cheap in vintage stores, probably because most people don’t think to look in the lingerie/sleepwear section for clothes to wear out and about. So here’s a red-hot tip for all you red-hot femmes out there!

I think I’ll go back to Beyond Retro tomorrow with my fingers crossed that the mint green one with balloon sleeves (I think that’s what they’re called) I was eying off the other day is still there. I’ll report back, hopefully with pictures of my new baby, tomorrow xx

Going out dressed up like a high-femme gothic baby doll. Perfect start to the evening.