Shredded tee

This see-trough, lace patterned, 10$ shirt from Gina Tricot was turned into a piece of post apocalyptic fashion, worthy of the 2008's trend - The Shredded Tee.
Childhood Flames has an excellent DIY guide for making your own shredded tee.

A little tip: Sometimes your panels come to a point, where they won't shred any longer. Make a horisontal cut with your scissors and keep shredding! Adding holes here and there by stabbing the tee with your scissors also adds a nice touch of randomness.

New sunglasses

Guide: Dolly kei colors and key parts

I've been researching dolly kei some more and I made a colors scheme for colors often seen in dolly kei outfits.

If you look at my post "A Victorian home" you can probably pick up some good ideas about how to combine the colors.

I have broken down the anatomy of a dolly kei outfit to these key parts:

• Tassels!
• Hair: Loose waves, sometimes bangs that are either straight or rounded, curls, braids, a bob with the ends curled inwards or long and loose hair. Colors are typically shades of caramel, brown or blonde. But any haircolor would work, especially jewel-toned.
• Hair accessories: Bows, vintage hats, flowers and feathers. More is more!
• Makeup: Winged eyeliner, brown, copper and silver eyeshadows, sometimes with false eyelashes, blush applied with a circular motion on the cheeks, neutral lips or some shade of red.
• Jewellery: Tassels, copper, silver, crosses, doll parts, animal bones or skulls, old keys, flowers, lace and ruffles.
• Outerwear: A shawl is often seen instead of a jacket, the material would could be brocade or velvet, it would have a fringe or tassels, a jacket in brocade or velvet material would also be fine, capes or ponchos are sometimes seen.
• Fur: Fur hats, fox tails, fur collars, fur muffs... you get the idea! If you're not a fan of real fur, faux fur can be used instead.
• Bags: Embossed leather, brocade or tapestry bags are usually seen.
• Tights: Printed or solid tights, knee highs or tigh-highs, patterns would be floral, lace, arabesque or anything with a vintage or fairytale feel.

Here's some more photos for inspiration:

The pictures are taken from Fashion Japan and Tokyo Fashion.

Dolly kei fashion

As promised, here is a little introduction to dolly kei fashion!
I discovered dolly kei after I found out about mori girl fashion. The styles have some similarities: A love of vintage and second hand clothing, use of layering, mostly earthy colors, neutrals and some pastels, folksy prints. But mori girl is very down to earth, the ideal is that of a girl who lives in a forest and leads a simple, quiet life.
Dolly kei is more dramatic, incorporating many intricate little details into the outfits and using jewel tones. The ideal is to look like a vintage doll, who has stepped right out of fairytale stories.
Mixing and matching is crucial, you don't need to fuss over patterns or time periods matching. Individuality and creativity is more important. The feel of the outfit.
Common accesories are: Hats, headpieces with flowers and feathers, stuffed animals, doll heads, big tassels, religious etc.
Skirts and dresses are usually favored over pants.

As you can see here, the makeup is often doll-like: Doe eyes are created with winged eyeliner,

silver in the inner corners of the eyes and copper at the outer corner, pink blush applied with

a circular motion on the cheeks create a dolly-like flush to the face, and slightly tinted lips.

Pictures are taken from: http://dollykei.tumblr.com

Dolly kei links:

http://strangegirlblog.blogspot.com/

http://community.livejournal.com/dolly_kei

http://tokyofashion.com/grimoire-shibuya-japanese-dolly-kei-vintage-fashion-wonderland/

http://thefashionatetraveller.com/tag/dolly-kei

I'm thinking about incorporating a bit of dolly kei into my own wardrobe. What do you think?

Eyecandy: Kalafina

I found these pretty girls while browsing for dolly kei inspiration. The music is not my style, but the video is definitely eyecandy.

"What is dolly kei?" you may wonder.

Well, I promise to tell you about it later!

A Victorian home

Yesterday our class went on a field trip to different museums. One of the things that caught my eye, was a completely preserved appartment from The Victorian era. Some of the pictures are a bit grainy, but it was a very dark place with drawn curtains and mostly dominated by an earthy, dark color palette: Burgundy, mustard, olive, brown and gold.

Chocolate & Strawberry Birthday Cake

500 grams sliced strawberries

½ litre cream

250 grams dark chocolate

1 teaspoon vanilla

The juice from ½ orange

Chocolate birthday cake base

Chocolate sprinkles

1. Melt the chocolate, add the orange juice, vanilla and let it cool. Remember to stir the chocolate mixture so it doesn't become lumpy.

2. Beat the cream until the point where it almost becomes whipped cream, add the chocolate mixture and keep beating until you have chocolate whipped cream.

3. Here in Denmark you get birthday cake base in a package with three layers - that's what I used for my cake.

You take a layer, spread out the chocolate whipped cream, spread out some of the slices strawberries, put another layer on top, spread another layer of chocolate whipped cream, add the last layer, spread chocolate whipped cream all over the cake - the sides and the top. Lastly you decorate with slices strawberries and chocolate sprinkles.

Et voilà!