... a little reminder that Puerto Ricans are a strong united people.
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Fantasy Review: Pat McGrath’s Lust MatteTrance Lipstick in the Shade – Deep Void
Pinterest is the devil. Well, not really of course but it definitely puts your loves and, let’s face it, materialism into perspective. One of my 55+ (hush!) boards is entitled If I Had Money to Burn. And it includes pottery older than Hera and beds that no longer exist. Or if they do are locked away in the perfectly preserved loft of some long dead Italian socialite. That gave me the idea of writing reviews for these and other items that I may never be able to obtain because of a lack of funds or that they simply no longer exist. It would also strengthen my copy writing chops, so win/win! Maybe this will become a new genre, fan reviewing? (Just kidding.) My first effort follows below and more will follow soon!
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Darling (2016)
How to Dress like Your Favorite Contemporary Horror Protagonist
Even though Halloween is over, we should totally continue to practice costuming. I’ve created the following style boards so that you can dress like your favorite recent horror protagonists year round. I tried to choose affordable and versatile pieces that could be worn together or on their own, but of course if you’d rather not shop online, you can totally use these boards as inspiration during your next thrifting haul!
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Dracula
The Vampire’s Wife Is the Collection for Dark Mistresses of the Night
Stephanie Valente lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has published Hotel Ghost (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and waiting for the end of the world (Bottlecap Press, forthcoming 2017) and has work included in Susan, TL;DR, and Cosmonauts Avenue. Sometimes, she feels human.
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Five Instagram Accounts for and by WOC Pinup Girls
There are many reasons why the pinup aesthetic appeals to women of color.
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Beauty Mantras by Jacklyn Janeksela
jacklyn janeksela is a wolf and a raven, a cluster of stars, & a direct descent of the divine feminine. she can be found @ Thought Catalog, Luna Magazine, Talking Book, DumDum Magazine, Visceral Brooklyn, Anti-Heroin Chic, Public Pool, Reality Hands, The Feminist Wire, Word For/Word, Pank, Split Lip; Civil Coping Mechanism anthology A Shadow Map & Outpost Rooted anthology; & elsewhere. she is in a post-punk band called the velblouds. her baby @ femalefilet. she is an energy. find her @ hermetic hare for herbal astrological readings.
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Beautiful Resistance: A Tiny Altar for Mia Barraza Martinez
She always looked for beauty. She looked for beauty everywhere.
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Via the Los Angles Public Library
A Short Reading List for Fashionable Brujx
...the undeniable magic of resistance through fashion.
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The Alice Aesthetic & What It Actually Is
I can recall a kaleidoscope of Alice.
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Clothing Designer Samantha Pleet on Creativity: 'You Always Find Yourself in Unfamiliar, But Familiar Places'
On several occasions she described herself as feeling "echo[es] of some sort of memory" each coming from her two late grandfathers. On one occasion, just before hearing the news of her grandfather’s passing, she and her sister were "visited by a cat at a cafe…the cat was extremely comforting." Their grandfather loved cats, so Pleet believes that this was a consoling energy sent to her and her sister directly. She confided that she doesn’t "know why there would be horrible hauntings…I’m happily haunted…more cobwebs, please!" And More cobwebs are, indeed, coming this way, as Pleet hinted that the Fall 2016 collection will be partly inspired by Morticia Addams and her notorious lopped off rose heads. I’ll be casually refreshing the online shop until this collection is released!
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