Pictures of Emma Pt. III

I finally finished the rest of my photos with Emma! I gasped when I saw this tree. It was so dark and mysterious so I styled Emma with just a long black piece of fabric acting as a dress to contrast with her skin and blond hair. I love how these turned out. 

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Pink Snow Nails

For as obsessed I am with my nails, I really don't do much to take care of them. I love painting them and I love looking down and seeing long nails on my hands (I love hands in general) but I don't do much for them. So when I was sent some nail tips by the nail polish company Julep (and when I bought my mom a manicure set for Christmas) I actually started to think about how to better take care of my nails. I usually have long matte-painted nails or super sparkly ones (here and here) but I decided I would go for a little subtlety for winter. I cut them a little shorter than usual since they generally just grow long from my neglect. I stole a little of my mom's new cuticle oil, rubbed on some jasmine lotion to improve the overall health of my hands, and got to work on some powdery pink nails.

A note about the books: I have been having many conversations with myself about if I want to pursue a job in fashion and if I will feel fulfilled when doing so. I still don't know the answer, but I decided to consult some of the greats. Grace Coddington's memoir is especially interesting because I think creative direction is really what I would go into.

 So for these nails I used a very light shade of pink polish. It took like 8 coats of that stuff but I finally made it to a really lovely pink base. I then applied a topcoat and pressed the powder onto it. I used this sparkley powder I got from ULTA ages ago and I never knew what it was for but it worked pretty well here, so I must have solved the mystery! I think the key was to just put a copious amount of powder on my fingers, let it dry, and wash my hands so it came off of my fingers and stayed on my nails. I actually really like the result and it seems that it was applied pretty evenly.

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Christmas Magic

I put on a sparkly and red Christmas outfit and my bro and I played with sparklers. This Christmas has just been so nice. A really great end to a rather tough year. I hope everyone had a great holiday!

DETAILS: Coat--Old Navy//Skirt--F21//Turtleneck--Thrifted//Shoes--Urban

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Gift-Wrapping!

I love getting people gifts and I LOVE wrapping gifts. I used brown paper and red berries this year, with a touch of glitter. I love the glitter in these vials I got from Michaels. They just look like magic in a bottle. 

Merry Christmas Eve! Have a lovely holiday!

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Up North

This is why I was so excited to come back home for a while. My boyfriend came up for the weekend and we went up to the snow. It looks like an entirely different world up there. I love home. All of these photos were edited with VSCOCam just to try something new and I love the saturation in these edits when I did it on my phone, so I was like "sure yeah these can go on my blog". My VSCO username is Nibinquiel.

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Goth Girl Looks

I never do makeup posts because I definitely do not think I am any kind of authority on makeup products. I generally have no idea what I am doing. But I have to show off my new discovery today. Purple eyeliner as lipstick. Hell yeah.

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Pictures of Emma Pt. II

Part 2 of pictures with gorgeous Emma who can ROCK A DAMN TURTLENECK. We loved the wintery darkness in these photos.

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Instaaaa

Might I just say, my Insta has been gorj lately. My username is @poopsahl. Go follow me! Please!

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Anthropologie Confessions + Christmas Tag!

So I have a secret. I worked at Anthropologie for a total of three weeks. I thought I wanted a retail job. I was wrong. It was okay, but just wow the hours sucked and I found myself wanting to be a part of the making of the gifts and clothes so much more than the selling of them. Sadly, that has meant a long period of unemployment while I finished my internship and job-hunted for other positions. 

HOWEVER, that doesn't mean I haven't fallen in love with their most recent gift lookbook. Oh my goodness it is so dreamy. Here are a few of my favorite photos from it and a tag taken from Queen of Jet Lags!

Like seriously, these are gorgeous. 

AND NOW! 

1. What is your favorite Christmas Movie? A Christmas Story will forever be the best Christmas movie, and maybe even one of the best movies in general.
2. Have you ever had a white Christmas? I don't actually think so. It snows usually in the month of December at my house but never on Christmas. We had an 80 degree Christmas once.
3. Where do you usually spend your holiday? HOME HOME HOME! Ain't nothin' like small-town Christmas.
4. What is your favorite Christmas song? Baby It's Cold Outside. It's kind of a creepy song, maybe? But there is a version done by Brian Setzer and it's so good. Look it up.
5. What is your all-time favorite holiday food/sweet treat? My grandma's fudge. It's actual heaven. Since her passing I have had to carry on the tradition and I hope I'm doing a decent job.
6. Be honest: do you like giving or receiving gifts better? Giving! I love picking out things for people and wrapping presents.
7. What makes the holidays special for you? Spending time with the people I love.
8. What's your favorite makeup look for the festive season? Dark red lips and glitterrrrr.
9. Real or fake tree? Real 5ever. We have been going to the same farm for years and I love going and running around their small forest of trees.

I haven't done a tag in aaaages but I am really getting into the Christmas spirit so I had to do this. You should do it too and link to it in the comments. :)

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A Little Pinspiration for Ya

I mostly post my own work on here, which I am very proud of. Every so often I do an inspo post, but this blog is mainly my own content. However, I wanted to do a little showing-off of my Pinterest. Because it's pretty darn beautiful. And it's kind of like curating, so there's still some creativity in it, right? I put together some moods boards (I haven't made a mood board since my good ol' Polyvore days) from the things on my Pinterest. If you like them, go follow me so I can follow back. :)

All photo sources on my Pinterest.

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Bathroom Selfies

My aunt's house in Hawaii had a really nice all-white bathroom. Selfies had to be taken.

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