Lush Valentine's Day 2014

I'm usually not one for pink everything, but you can't deny that the color just makes you happy. As soon as I saw all the products that were launching with Lush's Valentine's Day collection, I thought "YES PLEASE CAN I HAVE ONE OF EACH?"
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Doesn't Take Much

I know, I know - it seems like it's been a whole year since my last outfit post. Ha, see what I did there? I kid, I kid. 
You know how some days, you don't really want to put much effort into your outfit? This was one of those days. I had a doctor's appointment at the infusion clinic earlier that day and it was third day hair. I was wearing something underneath this coat though, I wasn't that bold.
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On being a role model.


I've been making YouTube videos for over 3 years now, and before putting my face on the internet, I didn't feel like a role model, at least for anyone besides my sister and her friends. I was the awkward kid in high school. I was the newspaper geek in college, and most of the other people in the student organizations hated me because I knew what I was doing as a student journalist. I had friends, sure, but I always felt like I was the one looking up to them, not the other way around.

This week being deemed Body Confidence Week 2014 is a great thing. I've been participating in this Instagram challenge every day this week, as a way of showing people how to come to terms with their body and loving it for what it is. I don't have a perfect body. If you follow this blog, you know that. I look decent in clothes, but I've figured out how to look that way in clothes to make myself feel the most comfortable. 

Recently I've gotten a lot of comments from girls telling me that they look up to me, for one reason or another. Last week I posted my own version of a feminist rant about gender stereotypes in music and yadda yadda. I'll embed the video at the bottom of this post. But that video garnered some of the most emotional responses I've had in a long time. I'm really passionate about music and when people connect with that passion it makes me really happy. 



I know people put me in this hole of "beauty guru" sometimes because I make some beauty-related videos, which I'm not necessarily opposed to because it does bring in a lot of younger subscribers. But with that fanbase that I've built of largely 13-17 year old girls, I have found myself suddenly as a role model for these girls. That's something I've never been before, but I like it. Nothing makes me happier than when someone connects with my videos on a personal level, because those are my favorite kind of videos to make and watch. There's only so much discussion that can happen on a makeup collection or "what's in my purse" video. Hence, why I won't make those videos.

There are also those comments that I get that both make me sad as well as extremely happy. They make me sad to see that there are so many young people struggling with depression and self harm (it's a staggering amount of people, I can tell you that), but it makes me happy that I've somehow done something to help them without even knowing. I make videos about music because I love music, and when someone can find a band that they love from one of my suggestions, literally nothing makes me happier. And if one of those bands or songs help them through a rough time and stop them from doing something drastic, that hits me really hard.


Honestly it's comments like these that make me want to cry tears of joy. I have this opportunity to do something good with the platform I've been so generously been given by you all, and I will never try to squander that. You guys make me happy every day and I'm so fortunate that I get to do the same for you.

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Build-An-Outfit: Winter Layering

The Grand Tour Guide


I haven't posted anything on Polyvore in a long time, but I was recently contacted by Modcloth asking me if I was interested in entering their Uniquely You Polyvore challenge, and I thought - heck yeah! I had to build an outfit around the Grand Tour Guide Top, so I added a ton more warm browns and beiges to fit fall/winter season. Those are my favorite colors to wear, so I stuck to my wheelhouse. 

I also took the layering to a new level, layering thigh high socks over tights to keep warm during winter while still wearing shorts. I don't pack my shorts up for the winter, why should you have to?

Links to all the items are on the Polyvore set, all which came from Modcloth (and honestly Modcloth is one of my favorite online boutiques). If there was a Modcloth storefront it would be dangerous because I'd be there all the damn time. 

I might make this a monthly feature, building outfits without actually having to get dressed. Online window shopping is fun, and Polyvore is a great way to put things together in one neat layout without having to go try things on. It helps give me more ideas for items I might already have something similar to. 


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Vinyl | Reignwolf


Here is the second installment of my budding vinyl collection - Reignwolf. I saw Jordan Cook and his band Reignwolf last week at the Neptune - as my last show of 2013 and it blew my mind. I've seen him twice before - Sasquatch 2012 and Sasquatch 2013, but I was super stoked to see him again. Not only because I love shooting him, but because I owed him a big fat thank you for loving my photos. 

This last summer his publicist emailed me about using one of my photos from Sasquatch 2013 for Lollapalooza PR, and because I was incredibly flattered that Jordan wanted to use my photo specifically I said yes. 

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NEW IN: Thierry Mugler "Alien"

I thought about doing a perfume collection post, but decided against it in favor of a perfume collection video (which will be uploaded on Monday) and a couple key posts on here about my newest scents. The first of said posts concerns this here perfume from Thierry Mugler called Alien. How fancy is this bottle, seriously?
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A Photoshoot

 
While most of the photos on this blog aren't necessarily taken by me (of course the ones without me in them I take) I am a photographer first and foremost. This last weekend I met up with my friend Lindsay, her boyfriend Scott, and her sister Madi for a little photoshoot in downtown Gig Harbor. It was cold that day, so Lindsay and Madi inadvertently turned into scarf models for the day. 
Madi's nautical attire lent itself well to the the marina.
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So this is the New Year

Happy 2014 all! I hope you all had a safe and sexy and social New Year's Eve (pardon the alliteration, I felt the need). I stayed in with my best friend and her toddler for the night, five minutes away from my house and have been sitting in my living room for a couple of hours. Here's to another year of blogging, another year of living, and another year of exciting things. 

I'm looking forward to:
We Are Scientists going on tour
More YouTube
Vidcon?
My friends having more babies
Maybe not being single all of 2014?

I'm dreading:
Turning 25
More of my friends having babies
Maybe being single all of 2014
Paying my car insurance every month

I didn't make any resolutions, except to move out of my parents' house. That's the only one that matters to be perfectly honest, because it comes with a lot of other things that I don't need to mention in a resolution because chances are I won't do them.

P.S. I got a ring light for Christmas so look forward to portraits and videos with that.

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