black and pearlyyy

check out this chanel spring 2011 hot nail color! the most anticipated color of the season is a pearly, iridescent, greenish-grey master piece!  can't wait to get my fingers in it!! x

rooster tails

feathers: 19 blue - sweater: wildfox

so very sorry for the lack of actual dialect in my most recent posts, but now that i am home in manhattan beach i finally have some time to sit and think!

HOW COOL ARE THESE?!?! after seeing my wonderful hair dresser melissa with two gorgeous feathers in her hair i went on a quest and found a LOCAL salon that did them!! (thank you brittany koegel) yesterday morning i arrived at 19 blue to get these rooster feather extensions put in.  tawni did an amazing job that took about 15 minutes and $45.  i was shocked and i am absolutely hooked.

she used some sort of crimping ring to secure each little grouping to a tiny group of hair and then poof!  the final result is not given justice in these pictures - in real life they move and flow like natural hair and can be washed and blow dried/curled/straightened.  they are supposed to stay for a longgg time so im crossing my fingers they will survive the ski season!! 

xoxo

stone cold

stone_cold_fox gypsy decay 2010. did i mention i would like a creepy bull skull too?! hyperventilating im so in love!! 

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mermaid queen

first peek! australian beauty gemma ward in the newest pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides. LOVING the darkness/i wish i was a mermaid! also just saw the tourist so way into johnny depp today!

photos here trailer here

freeing

still going crazy over the october free people lookbook...

here

finsk

finsk wedges. effing cool. so cool.

here

embellished

chanel pre-fall 2011. super duper embellished and wonderful.

via style{dot}com

voodoo child

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i sometimes fantasize about living in a big ancient house with years and years of history full of hand painted tiles and old wood floor...then i am rudely awakened by the newness of everything.  i would rather walk on hot coals than live in one of those "modern" cookie cutter houses.  ugh.  i think it's almost time for me to get out of southern california for a while...

also totally into these dark altars and the indian/mexican/voodoo sort of polytheistic magic.  dont worry i wont be holding any seances anytime soon...xx

nebullar

nebulla.
{actually just a cloud of space dust with a little hydrogen/plasma...yes, ill be your ms bill nye...} but really - soooo cool. totally understanding christopher kane, i love this!! xx

check out more galaxies far, far away here

HOWL

i want to share this AMAZING gem i found through a friend -- handle only with love -- this miami based jeweler creates the most WONDERFUL dreamcatcher necklaces with recycled chains and pendants. i would really like them ALL, like right now - but hopefully i have a special little project for tini, the founder of this awesome shop - so more info/fabulous pictures will come asap!! (these pictures were sent to me from a recent shoot in california - basically i would kill to be the girl (tini) in white...) 

visit HOWL here