I Want To Be Sophia Loren When I Grow Up [fashion/beauty]

Usagi

Welcome to the SE++ Beauty Thread/Lookin' Fine Thread/Your Mother Would Kill You If She Saw You Walking Out of the House Like That Thread/You Have A Purty Mouth Thread/etc.

Discuss all things makeup, hair, clothes, anything that you put on your person that makes you look in the mirror and go "yes this is acceptable for outside my house." Humans are vain creatures and if you've ever walked past a parked car and fixed your hair in their mirror then YOU BELONG WITH US. This thread is for ladies, dudes, and everyone in between. Don't feel weird about posting here, we're all very nice and we all want everyone to look super hot. Let us help you look super hot, SE++.


FASHION

previous fashion threads:
On Wednesdays We Wear Pink
Gurl You Look Good
Vilify Vanity
Sephora F&Fam Sale
Are Those Galaxy Leggings Or Is Your Butt An Astronaut
You're So Vain
Florals For Spring, Groundbreaking
Where Do I Buy Hairbrush, Chemist?



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Makeup
Temptalia
Essie Button
Lisa Eldridge
MakeupAlley
MakeUpGeek

Nails
All Lacquered Up
The Swatchaholic

Glasses (courtesy of Pooka!)
GlassesUSA
Coastal
Warby Parker
Classic Specs
Mezzmer
Zenni Optical
39 Dollar Glasses
Global Eyeglasses
Sneaking Duck
Tortoise and Blonde

http://hellofoxy.com/cheap-prescription-eyeglasses/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/fashion/eyeglasses-on-spec-online-retailers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Fashion
Etsy
Modcloth
Pinup Girl
Zappos
6pm
Lookbook
Dappered (for dudes!)
Put This On

Blogs
The Sartorialist
Advanced Style
Street Etiquette
The Bengal Stripe
Man Repeller

HellaJeff

Going to SoHo today!

Muse Among Men

Man Repeller is a great blog.

Ooh I really like this outfit

Sheri

That is adorable and I could never wear it

Straightzi

I am so uninspired fashion-wise

I lost three good shirts recently, and have a pair of pants I've been trying to work a tahini stain out of for weeks. I really need new clothes, is what I'm saying.

And I could go to H&M and buy some new white shirts, that's what I lost. I even went there to do just that. But ugh. I couldn't do it. I want to do something different but I have no idea what works for me aside from my standard dark jeans/slacks, light solid color button up shirts, solid dark ties thing.

And I need to be able to stick to button ups and slacks for my current job, at very least.

Rorus Raz

I need a wholly new wardrobe, as years of being manchild has left me with nothing but t-shirts with pop culture references.

Oh, and PAX shirts. I think I have a PAX shirt for every day of the week now.

interrobang

Muse Among Men wrote: »

Man Repeller is a great blog.

Ooh I really like this outfit

aaaaaaAAAAAA

Liiya

One day I'll go to a PAX and get a shirt!

Sara Lynn

I am fashionable because I am wearing this today.

nuka

I don't particularly care if ombre is out or not, I just know I need to dye my hair this color.
http://www.voglue.com/ombre-hair-is-it-over-already/red-ombre-hair/

Sara Lynn

That's really pretty, nuka! I guess it would just depend on if you were up for the task of upkeeping the redness. I've heard a lot of horror stories about how much effort it takes, but obviously people do it. I don't think I could, though.

nuka

I have virgin hair. My hair is a dark chestnut brown color, and it's lovely but oh my god that red.
Anyways I dyed my hair in high school with multi colored streaks that went with my hair color, but were just a bit lighter, redder and darker and it was amazing.
The red didn't stick at first and I had to get it done again but I think that was the shampoo's fault.

cabsy

Red is one of those colors that is a bit of a bastard. It doesn't stay vibrant very long but it stains forever

Antimatter

I'm a little scared of dying my hair because of how pretty the color is already

I'd like to try others but ehh

interrobang

if my hair was thick enough and could handle bleach without withering up and falling out like straw, it'd be purple

times like this i remember why i wanna just shave my head and buy wigs

tynic

my hair always ends up purple when I try to dye it red.

Lost Salient

Funny story! Today I went to the gym and did zumba before I went mother's day gift shopping. And after class I jumped in the shower and got out my change of clothes (lime dress) and realized that I brought no underpants.

So I went without and hustled to the nearby lingerie store and got a really pretty pair and the lady was like, do you want to try these on first over your own underwear?

No ma'am because I have none

tynic

well, more mulberry.

Grey Ghost

I've often thought of how I'd look with a different hair color
blonde, mostly

pooka

apparently i get a little desperate without this thread. need mah fix

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i'm digging these more and more, as cheap-feeling and 30-40-bucks-ish as they are. may return for them.

i am apparently all about short skirts now. it is finally warming up, kinda. (this is the only clothing item i actually bought.)


i picked this up from what appeared to be the dressing room leavings rack, and the girl kinda squinted at it, said the skirt was not technically in the store yet, but that i could try it on, anyway. so i am on the razor's fucking edge of (fast) fashion, people.

i follow trends! i tried on a maxi! which is unflatteringly boobalicious yes that is a thing

plus i'd have to wear heels like whoa

and a cute stripey dress but paying full retail hurts it burrrrrrrrrns
if it'd had pockets, it would probably be a different story

but my new thrift store bracelet, yes mmhm

and i tried on this expensive, discounted thing because why not (Interrobang)

not particularly flattering beyond the ooh shiny leather factor

everything but the shoes and last dress are from a store called Only; which, coincidentally, was the same brand of the only (hah!) clothing item i got from the thrift store earlier today.

Antimatter

pooka

damn

Kilroy

when I was in high school I used some costume spray stuff to darken my hair once (at my girlfriend's insistence)

it looked... incredibly stupid

there's now no way I would ever sully the burnished gold that sits atop my head

Liiya

That skirt looks fantastic, you've got great legs!

pooka

Liiya wrote: »

That skirt looks fantastic, you've got great legs!

thank you, i think they're rather shapely under the fuzz. (you cannot see the dirty hippie hair on my legs because my phonecam is crap/rather forgiving.)

e: i should clarify -- the only thing i actually bought was the skirt, though i'm considering going back for the shoes. they're so bold, though!

tynic

I like the shoes! oh, when I'm in amsterdam we need to look for some really funky boots. I have a cute plain black dress that I suspect might look awesome with some startling footwear.

Goose!

Ladies, I just bought my mother this for Mother's Day. Please say you approve:



Its got 2 compartments and a middle zipper pocket in between, and my mom had a similar color Coach bag.

Liiya

My name is Liiya and I approve that handbag.

For reals, its a great size and lovely bold colour.

Goose!

Her's broke right at the zipper (the fabric of the zipper ripped from the rest of the bag) and she sent it out for repair and they sent it back saying sorry we can't fix this, here's 40% off your next bag.

So I paid the difference. Had to be a little dishonest about my usage of the letter to make it a surprise.

pooka

tynic wrote: »

I like the shoes! oh, when I'm in amsterdam we need to look for some really funky boots. I have a cute plain black dress that I suspect might look awesome with some startling footwear.

i cannot both agree and awesome, so i will agree here. part of why i didn't get those trainers is because i want to buy boots. shoe budget is boot budget, or so i'm telling myself. hopefully there will still be stores clearing stock!

tynic

ooh I hope so.
I think I know where there's a pretty weird but large-ish second hand store near the western part of the city.

cabsy

I have a pair of bright red straight leg pants I got for $8 from Kohls on a ridiculous discount and they felt so nice in the store! And they felt so nice walking around in them... and then I sat down to post about how my pants match my earrings and I realized that I have the shortest torso god ever gave a person and these are mid/high rise pants so the waistband is somewhere around ribcage height in the front. To add insult to injury, the crotch is just a little too low. What did I ever do to deserve that kind of torso. At least my plugs are still really cute! I'm wearing these red acrylic roses and I think maybe in the fall when I have disposable income I may order whatever other colors are still available.

Theodore Floosevelt

Never dyed my hair, and don't really foresee it happenin

Oh wait I did halfheartedly spray my head with peroxide in high school because I was too scared to commit to dying it, but it just sort of barely oranged the odd spot or two

tynic

eh it's just hair. It grows out.

About the only thing I'm not up for is shaving it completely off, because I suspect I have an unattractive skull shape.

Theodore Floosevelt

I'm definitely much less of a weenie now than I used to be about my hair

I was super self-conscious about it starting in my senior year of HS, because that coincided with the start of my soul-crushing acne phase

Wanted to make sure at least one part of my head looked good

....not that it did look good, mind you. This was high school.

Beasteh

if i had money i would buy nice clothes

Sheri

Argh I want to post about how annoyed I am at people flipping their shit over the princess redesign of Merida from Brave

I just

I'm not sure how to put it into words

Eh whatever

Grey Ghost

Sheri wrote: »

Argh I want to post about how annoyed I am at people flipping their shit over the princess redesign of Merida from Brave

I just

I'm not sure how to put it into words

Eh whatever

the what now?

Sheri

This shit

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/disney-princess-makeover-sparks-outrage--merida-petition-goes-viral-175251230.html

Like

I hate the redesign because it's fucking ugly

Same with ALL OF THE OTHER PRINCESSES that they redesigned

But I'm not mad because her curls are more stylized or because she's got glitter 'n' shit

Lost Salient

None of my students grasp that Merida's name is Merida

They all call her Brave

Most of them also seem to possess toy bows and arrows

Angelina

I've been up since before 6, worked over 12 hours, and now at half 10 at night my friends tell me to come out. I look like death and haven't shaved my legs.
I love my shiny tights.

Sheri

I'll also point out that the article drives me nuts because it repeatedly refers to that dress as the dress Merida detests, but it's not

That's this dress