Showing posts with label makeover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label makeover. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Staying home blues

In the last 72 hours I...

Graduated college with more honors and degrees than my brother did (just saying). Ok, so I'm not in this photo because I skipped that ceremony but aren't my friends too cute? They look happy here but really everyone spent the day drunk and crying.

Packed up all of my shit in my like 250 square foot room.

Managed to make it all fit in my 150 square foot bedroom in my parents house and somehow make it look nice. Photographed are my cheesey childhood trinkets, my CD collection, yearbooks, box of letters, box of prints and postcards.

Began experimenting with room fragrance. Here is a terracotta bear usually used to keep brown sugar soft. Put in a dish (with a little water, although I'm not sure if the water is necessary) and add a couple drops of lavender essential oil and voilĂ  at least 24 hours of aromatherapy. A far better solution than spraying roomspray over and over again. I am going to assume you could even coat the bear with roomspray instead of oil (or perfume, if you're a big spender) and you'd still get this lasting effect. While the lavender soothes my soul, I think it would be nice to mix it with something else, probably from Demeter, which is $15 at Duane Reade, baby. Don't touch their new Snickers-inspired shit. Dirt and Wet Garden are both good.

Perfected my Egyptian Princess Look. To go with my flannel.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

I AM NO LONGER THE PURITANICAL ONE. THIS IS MY NEW COSMETICS/PARTY BLOG.


Two nights ago was Columbia University's Senior Ball. I went to Washington Heights and got my nails especially done for the occasion. The purple/black/silver zebra stripe design came to me in a dream.


The following evening I went to Providence for le Bal Oriental. Here I am taking a nap in an opium den. I am wearing a turban, Nefertiti makeup, and a Japonesque shift dress.

Friday, January 5, 2007

The New Me


When I go to college I plan to create a "new me." this will possibly include changing my name (for example, "maria mendez" is easier to pronounce than "maria paz mendez hodes," furthermore, "paz" sounds bad with other last names; thus men will not want to marry me) i also plan to have a new ethnicity. i have been asked if i am a member of the following races:

-japanese
-chinese
-korean
-mexican
-russian
-afghan
-iranian
-lebanese

from which country should i originate? i am going for "glam" & "exotic" here, so keep those 2 words in mind.