Necklaces - markets around the world, blue velvet dress - charity shop, bag - China, tights - no idea, boots - Doc Martens, denim vest - mum's
Sometimes when I go into charity shops, I come out empty handed, but then other times I feel like the thrift gods have blessed me with good luck and put something in the rails which could pretty much could have been made for me. The last time the latter happened was when I managed to get this aztec/paisley/awesome waistecoat featured in this outfit post.
This time I managed to find this AMAZING crushed blue velvet baby doll dress with a black satin panel across the bodice. I mean how much more amazing and perfect for my style could it be! The best thing was that it only cost £1 in the sale rack of a local charity shop - win! On the tag it says it's from the "Next Runway Collection" and I've never seen Next sell anything like this before, which leads me to believe that this dress is pretty vintage. I also love how the blue velvet catches the light to become an electric/cobalt blue colour and just how well they match my blue Pascal Doc Martens. Ah I just love this dress so much! My only problem is that it is size 10 when I'm really a size 6-8, so I just have to tie the bow at the back of the dress really tight and I've made the straps as short as possible, to make sure the dress does not fall down.
Please excuse the fact that I stupidly decided to wear holey white tights with this outfit. To begin with, I thought I would be able to channel an ice-skater sort of look with the velvet, but it just ended up looking sort of incoherent with the rest of the outfit, but whatever!
I realise I have been the world's most terrible blogger, and I hate it when bloggers are constantly apologising on their blog, so that must mean I am also the world's biggest hypocrite. Since you guys probably realise that I hardly ever post regularly now, I am going to point you guys into the direction of two other bloggers who are probably my favourite bloggers of right now. They are just both so cool and I wish we could be friends in real life. :D Angelina from "Angels and Lace"
Ah, so much tie dye, so many crazy prints, so much awesome. I just love this girls style and I personally think her little paragraphs underneath her outfits and the comments she leaves are so hilarious. She is just generally such a babe and so much cooler than I am. Everyone go follower her today as it's her 1 year blog anniversary and it would be awesome if she hit 100 followers today too! Chrissy from "Chrissy Chrispy"
This girl has wicked style and absolutely awesome taste in shoes. I love all the print prints she incorporates into her clothes and I think it's so cool that she makes some of her own clothes as well! She also encouraged me to wear my hair in pigtails, despite the social conventions the tell me otherwise. Ah I just love her blog so much.
So everyone, go over, follow and fall in love their blogs as both girls deserved heaps more followers!
Ciao dahlings (and check out this awesome beyond belief signature courtesy of YCT (THANK YOU SO MUCH!))
Even though I was only the ages of 0-4 years old during the 90s, for some reason lately, I have been really obsessed and inspired by with 90's style fashion, mostly due to the fact that I have discovered some awesome fashion bloggers recently.
Oh yeahhh
Things I want: Turtleneck crop top:
Combining two trends into one, I never thought I would like a turtle
neck again. However, recently, I have been opting for high collared
clothes and this with high waisted jeans, hair up in a high pony tail
would be awesome. Unfortunately, the only brand I've seen selling them is American Apparel and I'm afraid I'm not rich enough to afford them.
The inspiration:
Beanies:
Oh I love beanies, but I can never wear hats as my head always gets far too hot and I get a headache. I am on a mission to find a really thin beanie as I feel like I have been missing out.
Yin-yang necklace, spiked choker and tattoo choker:
I am on a mission to find these necklaces as I have suddenly had a desire to own them. I remember my sister a decade ago wearing necklaces exactly like this, it's funny how things always come back into fashion (or at least I think they're cool again). I already have a spiked collar necklace but the spikes are so measly and tiny - I want one that can impale. I can't find the stretchy black necklace ANYWHERE though. :(
And here are some clothing items not related to the 90's, but I still
want them anyway.
Lace cycling shorts: I have this weird vision in my head of them being paired under some black high-waisted denim shorts and looking awesome. I can't seem to find any anywhere though!
Converses: I need these in my life - perhaps change the laces to some coloured ones?
Army jacket: I'd like a jacket like this, but slightly more over sized, chunkier with lots of pockets and sewed on patches. I think I'm going to have to go to Camden soon again, as I saw loads being sold there.
Lastly, here is some 90's music for you to enjoy.
So yeah, that's what I want to buy as I love trying to be cool.
Rebecca x
P.S. The formatting of the pictures are really pissing me off, but I can't be bothered to change them.
P.P.S. Here is a bonus GIF I made earlier as I think I'm cool.
Don't take this serious.
P.P.P.S. And here a bonus furby as we all used to love these creepy things.
Everyone seems to like talking about hair, so I'm currently planning
what to do next with my barnet. The red ends have faded a fair bit, but
the bottom of my hair is still pretty light compared to the rest of my
hair. I still love the red, but I'm getting a bit bored of it.
A quick image just to show you guys what my hair looks like now. My face looked stupid, so I covered it with a yummy cheese burger...
The Options:
Go over the ombre with the same, permanent red dye
Damage caused: pretty bad
Longevity: very long
Awesome factor: average
Go over the bottom red bit of my hair with a semi
permanent red/other colour (will blue make purple?), such as
manic panic or something. This way, my hair will not be damaged anymore,
but I can imagine this being very messy and lasting not very long or
being very vibrant.
Damage caused: minimal
Longevity: short
Awesomeness factor: average
Bleach the life out of the ends. I mean, the
ends are pretty much dead anyway, I might as well squeeze any last
moisture out of it. This way, the ends will be very light, so I can go
over with a semi permanent and it will be super vibrant and I can change
the colours if I wish. My ends will truly be frazzled, so I assume I'll
have to get them hacked off, but it will be fun whilst it lasts.
Damage caused: apocalyptic to my hair
Longevity: short
Awesomeness factor: off the scale
Say tah-tah to the dip-dye and go short.
Damage caused: none - it will be better for my hair
Longevity: as long as I want
Awesomeness factor: not sure, depends on how it turns out.
Hair Inspiration:
SHORT
Here
are some reasons why I want to go short - these people are super
awesome...
... I hear my blog cry. Yes, I think it is about time that I
make my blog aesthetically beautiful. I’ve decided that February* is going to
be the month of home improvements on ScatterrBrained. As you can probably tell,
I have made quite a few changes already. RIP old format! (I should’ve print
screened it)
What I have done
already:
1.BACKGROUND
- Probably the most obvious difference is the omission of the cartoon brain,
tiled background. I loved the obnoxiousness and quirky aspect of it, but I
think it’s time to opt for a more mature look. Instead I have changed it do a
dark purpled-toned gray.
2.HEADER
– Gone is the loathsome bubblegum pink back ground and childish font, since
pink is my least favourite colour. Instead I have replaced it with an image of
a real nebula, which I took from my “Tag! You’re it!” post, as I just realised
how pretty it is. I usually hate the font Courier New but I thought that it suited the space aged look.
3.PAGES
- Deleted them entirely since I only had 2 pages, 1 which was home with all my
posts, and 2, a “About me” page which was completely vacant.
4.FAVICON
– I changed the favicon so it is a cute little brain!
What I want to do,
but can’t seem to do as Blogger is pissing me off/I’m a noob at HTML:
1.HYPERLINKS
– for some annoyingly annoying reason, all my hyperlinks are a grotesque
bright blue colour, even though I’ve changed the settings template’s advanced
settings. Perhaps it is just a glitch, but it’s genuinely ruining the entire
aura that I am trying to convey on my blog.
2.BORDER
AROUND THE HEADER – Why is there that horrendous light pink boarder around
my beautiful nebula? I google-ed it, and it told me to change some HTML code.
Even though editing the HTML to be feels like open heart surgery, I found the
bit of code I was looking for, but it said the value was 0 already!!! If anyone
is a wiz at that sort of stuff, please could you help me!
Here are some of my favourite fashion/style blogs which also
happen to be absolutely gorgeously made too.
a.Mentioned in my post about Inspirational blogs,
this blog is very simplistic with its design, but well put together. I
particularly like the hand drawn header, and how the images in the posts are
cool toned to match the colour scheme of the blog
a.The design has, as the post there mentions, very
clean lines, making it look very professional and sharp. I like how everything
is centred, rather than aligned left.
a.Probably one of best put together blog, with a
consistent theme that is light water colours.
What I have noticed in all these blogs:
1)Consistency:
probably the main thing which I have noticed in these blogs is that, whatever
theme the blog has, it is consistent through out.
2)Width:
The screen shots are quite deceiving, since I zoomed out when taking them, but
something which was common was that very little background as the width of the
blogs were very wide, with only thin margins.
3)Big
Pictures: most images are very large, pretty much filling the entire width
of the blog.
4)Large Headers:
most headers took up about 1/3 of the web page space, and very clearly stated
the name of the blog.
What I am planning to do in the future:
1.FONT – I want to change the entire font of the bulk of my text, to something more sophisticated and chic than Calibri. However, at the moment, I am writing my posts in Microsoft Word and then copying and pasting them into Blogger, the text is already formatted in that font, and so I’m not sure how to change the whole lot of it. I have a feeling this will involve some more HTML editing though, eek!
2.ABOUT ME – I want to have a little icon and description this blog and me in at the top of the right hand margin.
3.CUSTOM URL – I am tempted to buy my URL (it’s only $10) so it is memorable and professional. However, the typo in ScatterRBrained, would bug me so much, but I think it’s too late to go back now!
4.MAKE IT LOOK BEAUTIFUL AND PROFESSIONAL – This is my end goal.
So, with an entire new look and atmosphere surrounding
ScatterrBrained, I feel like its optimum time to also slightly change the
direction of my blog. Of course, there will be the usual impromptu posts of
whatever comes into mind and the ~bonus nuggets of knowledge~, but I also want
to start to include more fashion/styling posts. The January sales mean that I
have bought quite a few new items, so I finally feel content with my clothing.
Thus, I am going to commence a new series on this blog, where I am going to
post outfit’s of the days, or in my case, outfit of this Saturday. Why
Saturday? Well the other 5 days of the week I wear school uniform, and on
Sunday, I usually lounge around in whatever, so yeah. I’m currently thinking of
a name for this series, perhaps Saturday Stylings, but not so lame?
So everyone, be
honest, do you prefer this format or the old one with the brains? Comment
below!
Thanks for your support!
Rebecca x
P.S. *you are probably wondering why it’s home improvements
February, rather than January. Until the end of this month, I am ridiculously
busy. By that I mean, biology, chemistry and physics exams, Arkwright exam, 2x
maths mocks, 2x speeches to prepare for, all my resistant materials coursework
in for next week (ARGH!) and two sets of music coursework to be completed by
the end of the month, even though I haven’t even started my second composition
yet. I honestly don’t know I’m wasting my time at the moment writing this post!
I want to stick to posting on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday and Sunday, if
there is a slight blogging hiatus, this is not because I have disappeared off
the face of the earth. That is of course, unless I get abducted by aliens...
P.P.S The HTML of this post is for some reason messed up too. Darn computers.
Here is this yet another pointless post, me answering some
random questions and answers about me… fun times.
Nicknames?
Roboco, Rebok, Wangsypoo, Wango, Mango, Banana, Becca, Becky, Bex
etc.
But I always just stick with Rebecca.
Self Portrait
Favourite subject?
Resistant materials. If you don’t know what that is, it is
not just drilling/sawing/ planning/ sanding wood. It’s more than that… it’s a
way of life. Nah, being serious, most design and technologies actually involve
very little practical. We seem to spend most of our time drawing designs and learning
theory, which I really enjoy. A close second would be chemistry and in third
place would be another science or maths.
Albert Feleinstein returns with a chemistry joke!
Wow, I'm such a nerd.
For more witty and banterous science jokes, I Can Haz Cheezburger has a extensive selection.
Favourite drink?
I used to love drinking fruit juice - especially orange
juice - but drinking so much from a young age has had a detrimental effect on
my teeth (acidity). I do like some plain H2O most of the time (Wow, I’m
literally so lame.) I am slowly warming up to (English) tea; I was never really
a heavy tea drinker. Would soup count as a favourite drink? If so, I would say
that potato and leek, or a warm rustic pumpkin soup etc. Mhmm…
Favourite band/artist?
I can vividly remember someone asking me this exact question
when I was roughly 7 years old. I replied “Green Day”, even though I don’t
think I had listened too much of their music. It may just have been because
Green was my favourite colour at the time, and I thought that if I said a rock
band, they would think I was cool. But throughout years after that occasion, I
grew to love them, and they DID become my favourite band. I don’t really listen
to them much more – they haven’t made a new album in sometime. 21st
Century Breakdown was slightly disappointing compared to American Idiot, but
they do have a Broadway musical which sounds awesome. As for now, I like too
many bands and artists to just have one favourite. Go on my Facebook profile if
you want to see a more extensive list of people I like.
What would you name your kids?
Hmm, good question. I have always liked names which are
unusual/uncommon, but are known as being names. Being called Rebecca, I have
always been in a class where there have been multiple people of the same name.
I like names that are original, but aren’t so unique that no one can pronounce
it. I like Evelyn for girls, Felix and Harrison for boys.
Any pets?
Well, we keep fish, but they are very, very, very old and most
of the time, they are belly up… Fish suck, once they die, I don’t think we
should look after them anymore. It must be quite monotonous swimming around a tank in
circles whilst being blinded by a blasting light from above.
Favourite colour?
My favourite colour has changed several times in my lifetime
so far. The first colour in my living memory that I can remember liking was blue,
then turquoise, orange, purple, green and now I suppose my favourite colour is
red maybe? Everything that I seem to currently to be buying/dying is red:
school bag, ukulele, hair. However, my favourite group of colours would include
burgundy, wine, navy, silver, black (even though not technically a colour).
This nebula pretty much sums up all my favourite colours. Pretty.
Favourite movie?
I like Moulin Rouge and Mulan / Aladdin or some other random
Disney movies (they are my childhood!). It’s not my favourite movie, but I
watched Ip Man the other day and it is a very good. I’m not really that knowledgeable
when it comes to movie though, I don’t watch that many compared to most people!
Favourite year of life?
I have terrible memory, thus can’t really remember my
younger years more that vividly, but that suggests to me that they mustn’t have
been that interesting. My favourite year, by far, would’ve been year 9: 2010.
It was a good year at school: good stable group of friends and it’s a bit of a
pointless year as there are no major exams and most people doss around in
lessons anyway since they aren’t going to pursue it to GCSE. The holidays were
what made it though. In January, I went to Finland to visit my uncle and also
go skiing which is always lovely, and then in Easter and summer, I met some of
the best people I have ever known at camp, and made some truly awesome friends.
Favourite quote?
Live to eat, not eat to live. (I’m a fatty at heart)
Life goes on.
What type of phone do you have?
At this current moment none, since I have managed to lose my
indestructible and terrible Nokia (argh!). I hope that my dad will now buy me a
new phone. ;)
How tall are you?
Short.
"You're so short, you smell of feet!" I hear you cry.
I personally feel like all I seem to do on this blog is talk
about me. I acknowledge that it is suppose to be my own personal creative
space, but I feel like I end up always talking about my life, which really isn’t
the interesting. However, I do like the concept of a “tag” game online, where
basically you answer some questions, and then tag someone else to also respond
to the questions. I would love to get to know all of you guys better too, so, I
TAG:
I’m going to write an entire post about my hair. Conceit and
pointless? Yes. Oh well, it’s my blog muahaha. My blogging powers are sensing
that it’s going to be a long one today, to make up for the lack of posts in the
last few days! Sozboz.
·Another blogger who I can’t seem to find, but
she had the most amazing hair :(
Sad times. But all I remember is that she was asian, with blonde ombre which she dyed red with manic panic.
N.B. I had this hair way before the likes for… (kind of
ironic as so many people have ombre hair anyway)
1.Snooki (whoever she is!)
2.And Jessie J (Even though it was just
extensions)
Just like to add how much I love
her outfit with the disco pants and bright red creepers. I want them.
At the moment, I actually really like it for once, but I am
very tempted to change it up. This is because I am encountering some annoying
problems.
Problems:
1.SPLIT
ENDS: The first and probably most obvious problem would be that constantly
dying your hair in the same area (the ends in this case, which are most fragile
since they are the oldest part of your hair) leads to inevitable damage. Now, I
do not have lots of split ends compared to the major of people who dye their
hair, but it’s the fact that I have split ends at all which is annoying me. I
had never had a single split end in my life until year 9, when I touched by
first home hair dying kit. Now I look down and I see so many, it’s
heartbreaking! Okay, slight exaggeration, but I don’t like it.
2.LONGEVITY:
Having dyed hair – especially brightly unnatural coloured hair – is never going
to stay in hair permanently, unless they make some sort of chemical
breakthrough in hair dying technology (possible career path?). This results
keeping hair washing to a minimum, otherwise the colour will be gone in a
flash. Being a teenager who cares about personal hygiene, this is a problem.
3.KNOTTY NUISANCE:
I rarely brush my hair through, resulting with the back of my hair becoming
more and more matted. I’m surprised that it hasn’t started dread-locking. This
is probably not helping the split end problem.
4.COPYCATS:
It’s not that I’m getting bored with this hair, but so many lower years are in
my school are dip-dying their hair. Most
aggravating is that they only do about 2 inches of a colour at the end of their
hair and leave the rest hair natural, thus looking absolutely ridiculous, since
there is a harsh line. Furthermore, more stupid year whatevers, dying the ends
of their hair different colours means that teachers are going to notice this
trend and try to eradicate it, resulting in me getting probably having to get
rid of my redness as well.
Because of these 3 reasons I am very tempted to change up my
hair in either of these ways:
CHANGES:
What?
Why?
Inspiration
Verdict. Yes/No
Get a fringe
I currently love the look of a slightly long piecey fringe which skims over
your eyes and splits in the middle.
I realised that I hate having hair in my face, plus my forehead would
become so ridiculously spotty if I were to do so, so that’s that idea off the
list.
NO!
Bob time!
They look
so edgey and yummy, plus I feel that long hair makes me even shorter (if that
is even possible!). You’d also save a fortune on shampoo and conditioner.
Alexa
Chung
Arizona
Muse
I would
miss my long hair at this moment in time, plus growing it out would be a bum
so
NO!
So I suppose my hair is going to
stay the same for the moment being. This doesn’t rule out those options for the
future though.
Enough about me, here are some of
my more general musings about hair (Yes I am being serious).
HAIR TRENDS AT
SCHOOL:
I find it really quite interesting
how there are always trends in hair styles in school which come and go. Here
are the most obvious ones I have notice.
The girls:
In secondary school, there is one prominent hair style: long
with a far side parting and side-swept fringe. An interesting thing which I have
noticed is that in the UK, the messier and more backcombed the hair is, the
better, whilst on the other side of the Atlantic, the Americans much rather favour
a sleek, poker straight look.
I don't own a hairbrush.
The boys:
A few years ago (and still in some schools) the Bieber look
of having helmet hair was all the rage. Low and behold, just as the Biebster
opted for a shorter hairstyle, this is being emulated within the classrooms of
our nation. Now it has evolved into a
short back-and-sides style with a longer fringe, which I can’t say I dislike.
Going for the chop!
POSSIBLY THE
COOLEST WEBSITE ON THE INTERWEB (for hair):
This is a truly pointless website, but it’s a guilty
pleasure of mine. Here are some rather embarrassing
screenshots of some of the hairstyles I tried on.
Here is a selection of hair related songs to tickle your
fancy.
1.Lady Gaga: Hair
2.Regina Spektor: Samson
3.Willow Smith: Whip My Hair
Lastly for this post, I would like to condone you for
reading an entire post on me over analysing filamentous biomaterial sprouting
out of your head. (Sounds ridiculous thinking back!) I hope you haven’t
lost too many brain cells whilst reading this post. I’m going to leave you with
one last nugget of knowledge to compensate for the absolutely superficial post.
~BONUS NUGGET OF
KNOWLEDGE~
Did you know that the
quills or spines of a Porcupine are actually hairs? They are modified hairs
with thick plates of keratin which are embedded into the skin’s musculature.
Keep calm and have good hair,
Rebecca x
P.S. Blogspot please update your video uploader, having to post links to Youtube videos is becoming rather tedious!
P.P.S I will blog more regularly promise!
P.P.P.S More regular shorter blog posts or better, more indepth but longer and less regular posts like this one? What's you opinion? In the end you're reading it, not me.
Probably my favourite method of procrastination is
reading/looking at blogs, and here is a selection of a few of my favourites.
BLOGS BY PEOPLE I
ACTUALLY KNOW
Only two of my friends in real life have active blogs. I’m
not including Tumblr blogs of course, that is only re-blogging and rarely
includes original content.
oStripeyTofu is a blog by one of my friends. It
includes a wealth of hilarious memories, diary entries, and cringey stories. ;)
You may notice that on the link above, the blog appears very empty. That is
because all his past posts are in his StripeyTofu2011 blog, since he has been
blogging well over a year now! That in itself is a fantastic achievement, not
to also mention that he has over 10,000 views! Congratulations to him! I hope
that I can be as persistent with my blog, but I highly doubt it.
Favourite post?
oMy favourite post is this one called “Home Alone: Day 2”. He told me that he wanted to cook something by himself, so I
told him to make pasta with a sauce of some sort, as its fool proof. Oh how
wrong I was! Somehow he came up with “Coconut Marinade Salmon Cavatappi” and
also filmed the process for his Youtube channel. To manage to screw up
something so simple is simply hilarious!
oI am apprehensive in whether to include this
blog or not, but I thought I might as well as only 2 of my friends have blogs. K
expresses his own opinion on things as a whole, such as politics, philosophy and
other deep things I should care about but I don’t.*Slight ammendment, K himself does not approve of my description of his blog, so here is his own "I'd describe it simply as a simplified set of euphemisms coming from the
brain of a 16 year old bbc"* I must admit, I do not follow his blog every
day, but I applaud him for his very well articulated posts. (See, I am nice to
you K)
Favourite post?
oMy favourite post is his one on K^ism, a set of
religious beliefs of which he is the founder of. I chose this post because I
told him that the ^ meant “to the power of”, if you were to type it into Microsoft
Excel. He mentioned this in his post, so I am happy.
Yay.
I have just noticed, both of my favourite posts from both
blogs involve me in them, to a certain degree. Whoops! I am a pretty selfish
person, I must admit.
FASHION BLOGS
Apart from those two blogs up there, I only really follow
fashion blogs. I spend probably more time on these blogs than I should, but in
my defence, the pictures are yummy. I realise probably most of you aren’t interested
in these blogs in any means, but oh well.
I like fashion blogs. I might do another more in depth post
about them, but then I might not, since I don’t really know if this post was
any use to anyone/slightly interesting at all.
So yes, that is all for today, see you tomorrow for day 5 of
Blog Every Day This Week!
Rebecca x
Always ScatterrBrained
P.S. If I know you, and you write a blog, please tell me
about it, I’d love to read it!
