In Far Away Lands With Golden Locks

One last blonde-haired post, way after the fact!

Not only did I dress up as my favorite Disney characters before going purple, but also as my favorite blonde fantasy female characters. Of course one of them was a Lord of the Rings elf and another was the one and only Daenerys Targaryen. Just like for the Disney post, I used only materials and clothing I had on hand, and had fun doing it. It's amazing what easy costumes we sometimes have in our own closets that we don't even realize. I encourage everyone to be as creative as possible this Halloween (if you're actually cool enough to dress up) and see what you already have to work with. That being said, I hope you enjoy these photos that made me feel so magical!

Lady of Light

  (Shirt: Forever 21/ dress: part of a costume from Amazon/ circlet: handmade/ elf ears: a Renaissance festival )

The elves in the Lord of the Rings movies are some of the most beautiful and elegant looking people I have ever seen in a fantasy movie, if at times cold and distant, and I am admittedly very much infatuated with Orlando Bloom as Legolas and Lee Pace as Thranduil. There language is so beautiful and poetic and they seem so wise and mighty, even if their time has gone. One of the most beautiful and wise of the elves is Galadriel, Lady of Light and of Lorien, played by the always wonderful Cate Blanchett. I took these pictures with what was a very general Lord of the Rings inspired elvish costume, and just put together a very last minute circlet of some wire I had, but looking at the pictures again I realized that it sort of looks like Galadriel's own dress and circlet. That was a happy coincidence, even though I will never be nearly as beautiful and captivating as Galadriel or Cate Blanchett.

Mother of Dragons

  (Shirt: actually a skirt from GoJane.com/ skirt: Target)

Daenerys Targaryen is such a fabulous and sincere character on Game of Thrones, even though she still doesn't really know what she is doing or how to rule quite yet. I really wanted to dress up as her in one of her more beautiful dresses, but I didn't have any that would do her justice. Instead I threw together an outfit inspired by when she was still living among the Dothraki as Khaleesi, and took the photos to present the moment after her dragons are born out of the fire. To do that I made an admittedly horrid and unconvincing card stock dragon and put black eye shadow all over myself like soot. I loved creating this hairdo especially and wore it to school afterwards still feeling like a khaleesi.

I hope you enjoyed these nerdy photos, and I can't wait to show you what costume I am working on for Halloween!

Love,
Michelle

DisneyBounding: Blonde Edition

Anyone who knows me will know that I am crazy about Disney. Like many other kids, I grew up on Disney movies about princesses and heroes, magical lands, pirates, sword fights, wonderful animal side kicks, and beautiful and inspiring music. The characters that Disney has developed over the years and their wonderful personalities are a large part of what makes Disney so magical for me (problematic stereotyping and traditional gendering aside). 

Last week I decided to DisneyBound three of my favorite blonde Disney characters in order to celebrate my last week as a blonde before dying my hair purple. I used only what props and materials I had on hand or could quickly make, and these photos are the result. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them!

Rapunzel

 

(Dress: vintage from Etsy/ chameleon earrings: Claire's/ flowers: handmade)

Tangled was such a beautiful movie with Rapunzel presented as such a wonderful innocent character, so it was wonderful to dress up as her. I actually had another much more simple and plain purple dress and outfit in mind, but this beautiful vintage dress that I had ordered on Etsy came in the day before I planned on taking the pictures, and I realized how perfect it was for Rapunzel. My chameleon earrings for channeling Pascal were purchased with dressing up as Rapunzel one day in mind a while back. The flowers I had already cut out and painted with the intention of adding them to the 200 or so flowers I have already put up on my walls, so I just sewed them loosely onto barrettes and stuck them in my hair.

Tinkerbell

 (Dress: vintage from Miami Twice/ shoes: Modcloth with cotton ball shoe clips/ wings: handmade/ elf ears: a Renaissance festival)

Tinkerbell is such an incredibly fiery and emotional character that communicates how she feels despite only speaking in bells. One of the reasons I really love her was that she is so different from the other female characters created before the Disney Renaissance in the 90's. She can be a bit naive and rash at times, but in the end she's very loyal and spirited. Dressing as her was pretty easy to do, and the wire wings I made literally only took me two hangers, two minutes, and a little bit o duct tape. The shoe clips were pretty easy too, as all I did was glue cotton balls onto barrettes. The only problem was that the cotton balls started to fall apart when I walked around and took the pictures so I kept having to put it back together very roughly. Also I love these elf ears that I got at a Renaissance festival earlier this year and I look for any excuse to put them on.

Elsa

(Dress: Forever 21/ necklace: gift)

Due to Frozen's popularity, dressing up as Anna and especially Elsa has become a little cliche, but I love Frozen too, so I just went for it anyways. I've had this dress forever, and it's perfect for Elsa so I just went for it. In preparation for these photos, all I had to do was cutout a whole bunch of snowflakes and draw Olaf on a piece of paper with magic markers. It was really fun repetitively throwing snowflakes in the air, though not as fun picking them all up between takes.

This DisneyBounding post was a lot of work but also really enjoyable, considering how much I love Disney, dress up, and pictures. In fact it was so fun that think I might make it a recurring feature on my blog, especially considering how many DisneyBounding outfits from my closet I always come up in my head.

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I loved working on it!

Love,

Michelle

Darker Shades of Jewel

 

 

 (Blazer: Target/ top: Ross/ skirt: Forever 21/ necklace and earrings: Lulu's/ shoes: Modcloth)

I meant to post this last week, but life has been super hectic. This was my favorite school outfit from last week, worn on Tuesday, with beautiful dark jewel tones. This is the first time I've been able to wear this boyfriend blazer since early spring, which I'm pretty happy about. The colors are this outfit are very fall, even though I usually don't dress for the season since I live in Florida anyways and there are no seasons. Also even though I love theming, I refuse to let the month of the year dictate what colors I can and cannot wear.

My apologies for not posting in over a week, but that being said, I have a lot of exciting things coming up here so keep a lookout!

Love,
Michelle