Recent content by Octavia

Antje, all of those are just gorgeous! Well, I haven't bothered to do much with my hair lately because it was just getting too long. I hadn't done pin curls in about a year! But I finally got a haircut this week and tried some pin curls again (a dry set). I am rusty, and I didn't have any...

I've been feeling something similar. I've been in sort of slump lately due to high stress and depression. I actually want to dress down and nearly disappear. I credit some of this to the fact that I'm so shy and introverted, and the attention and staring I get where I live sort of scares me off...

I prefer pale on myself. I don't wear spf whenever I go out, but if I go to the beach I'll use spf 100. :lol: My mom's Norwegian side keeps me pretty susceptible to burning, even though my dad gave me a touch of olive in my skin. I always agreed better with classic standards of beauty and found...

LizzieMaine, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. She was gorgeous. May she rest in peace. I lost my Pumpkin hardly a month ago, though it feels like it's already been too long. So I made room for another friend just days ago: I named her Olive. She was at a local shelter. She...

Thank you so much for the kind words, everyone. One really doesn't realize how big of a place a pet can have in your life until that place is suddenly empty. It's easy for me to think I could have done a better job as a pet owner and prevented it somehow, but one of the hardest things is a lot...

Here's my beloved first cat, Pumpkin. I had to make the heartbreaking decision of putting her down a couple days ago. She was 14 years - and it seems far too young still. She had fluid building up in her chest that was putting strain on her heart and lungs. She was having difficulty...

Wow, I so want your bad hair days! You look fantastic. You're giving me hair inspiration.

I love looking at these! You all look fabulous. Penny Dreadful, both dresses in both of your after pictures look divine on you! Let's see...this is really not fair because the quality of my before picture is leagues below that of my after picture, but it was really one of the better "before"...

In theaters, the most recent adaptation of "Jane Eyre" I was really pleasantly surprised by this one.

Gosh, this doesn't happen to me enough. I've known a lot of people who appreciate the way I dress but don't really like it if that makes sense. Despite my shyness, I always try to speak up if I notice someone wearing any kind of vintage flair, but I've never seen anyone in my area in full-on...

"The Majestic" Interesting...I liked the nostalgia and the nod to Capra and older films in general, but it reminded me of "The Truman Show"....because of Jim Carrey, I suppose. =P

I set my hair every night. It took me a little while to get into the routine, but I finally found a way that works for me. I do a nice pin-curl set after I wash and blow-dry my hair smooth, then before I bathe every night I loosely re-set the curls just so they don't get ruined overnight. My...

^^ So I don't know which way is the correct way, but I've tried both ways (sort of), and here is my two cents. When I first had it done, I chose to get standard layers. This made for less volume at the bottom and I lost the gentle "U" curve in the back a lot, because the bottom layer would...

I still have this problem, mostly because I’m on a limited budget but it has been slow-coming in general. Personal style never occurred to me ‘til I was probably 18-19 years old. And by then, I had such a lack of feel for style that I might as well have been a 5-year-old trying on her mom’s high...

That's appalling. While I've had my fair share of dirty looks, comments, and clear gossip behind my back at work (you'd think they would've grown out of that by now), I've never experienced anything like that. What's baffling is that it's pretty clear it's all from the same person, despite the...