Friday Photo Diary

Yesterday, unlike most other Fridays did not involve me working from home in my jammies and then eventually making it out to some form of dinner/drinks/dancing scenario. Nope — headed over to the casting call for ABC’s Shark Tank (see first picture below, where as you can clearly see I have brushed my hair).
Anything for a chance to get on TV, this guy dressed up as Kevin O’Leary aka Mr. Wonderful to help pimp his buddy’s product.New spokesperson? Sidenote: this is as “corporate” as I get aka corporette — jeans, blazer.
Post-audition (after having made it to Round 2!!) and in the back of Ken’s car heading to get some K-BBQ.Post K-BBQ deliciousness. Brushing our teeth (I have a slight obsession with brushing my teeth) before going to see the Avengers at ICON V.I.P. (with red velvet cake and whiskey!)
“You look like you should be on a motorcycle, with the leather jacket and all.” Ok what you don’t know is that a) the dress I’m wearing is actually possibly a nightgown.
Followed by whiskey smash at old standby (not pictured). Weekend is starting out fabulously…tacos tomorrow night @ Big *

Squat Butt

You can’t tell because this is a blurry iPhone camera photo (no flash) but I smell like pineapples and Dove soap here. What was I doing, you may wonder? Showing Claudia the proper deadlift form (which I’d learned earlier that day at CrossFit) and overall being a silly goose.

I went a little sherbert-sicle with the outfit colors (Shorts are last year’s Akira and top is this year’s H&M, jacket is from Target and you can’t see it here but I’m wearing pretty bad-ass brogues from Zara)

You can kind of see them here:

Chicago Spring Brunch

So excited that in the < 24 hours I’ve been back in Chicago, I’ve managed to see 3 of 4 wolves for what was a delicious spiced-meat and sake dinner followed by my favourite drink ever (beet juice, ftw) and follow-followed by brunch at the fastest yet freshest dig in town. New month resolution — stop wearing pants, it’s spring-summer for crying out loud. I already miss the skimpiness of the clothes I was wearing in Florida for the past few weeks. Also, dress up more. I always look like I’m on my way to the gym or from the gym or in my pajama’s and heck, I usually am but what a waste of closet.

Dress: Akira, Jacket: Marni x H&M, Boots: Akira, Clutch: Express

K.T. took these photos after a lack of caffeine induced moment of “Mel, it’s not focusing” (hello, the camera was off) but magically, the pictures happened when we turned it on.

I stood beneath an orange sky (PANTONE x Sephora)

Seriously PANTONE, A+ on your industrial design. Freakishly odd or not (who’s to say, more on this later), having been brought up by a dad who’s worked in the printing/advert biz pretty much his whole life, I scrutinize print and packaging like there’s no tomorrow. If you’ve handed me your business card, I’ve probably judged it at some point and I know where the term “pixel-perfect” comes from. But this brand was spot on from the box to the actual packaging, to the product. I’d seen this collection advertised and hadn’t given it a second thought until walking in to Sephora yesterday and seen the giant poster.

I ended up snagging the blush duo, eyeshadow quad, and lip gloss set — mostly so I could come home and play artist with the uber-saturated colours. Not sure how much I’d take this look to the streets, especially not in S. Fla. where I barely put on any of the makeup things, but there’s something that I find fascinating about a tangerine tango lip that rivals well…tangerines.

Still trying to rock the Katniss braid — anything to keep party gorilla under control.

Wanna make out? Kidding…you can’t go to work looking like that.

By the way, in case you were wondering…

…Dad liked the packaging too.

Don’t go thinking you gotta be tough and play like a stone

A pretty normal day if you consider hilarious moments of chasing the puppy around the yard and tanning in the backyard in the nudest of nude-coloured bathing suits normal. A failed attempt at Katniss’s side french-braid led to a braided crown and the ridiculous unbrushed mess that you see above. My brother Mike (photographer of the above photos) managed to come out with some fantastic one-liners pertaining to the car I’m driving, Spinal Tap, and not kissing people during lunch dates while he was snapping these photos. Not sure why the dog is sticking her tongue out at me…jerk.

You are…a fresh start.

Picture by Brian S.

A few weeks ago, I forgot to renew the domain/hosting on this blog and lost all of the contents I’d written over the past year. I was a little bummed at first but happy that it wasn’t my other blog) because although it sucks, let’s face it — this blog is strictly ongoing ramblings and pre-caffeine in the morning stream-of-consciousness with minimal brain power exerted in my efforts to write it. Now I’m happy for the fresh start it gives me to take this in any direction I want.

I promise the following things (in true Bitchlorette manifesto form):

  • that fashion != expensive/outrageous/overly sexy and can basically be, well, combat boots
  • minimal wearing of the pants
  • maximum criticism of all the things reality TV (except Shark Tank), dumb girls, dumb guys, overly made-up gym rats
  • to still swoon over the concept of my own coat-of-arms
  • scandalous pictures involving shoes way-too-high, coats way-too-long, fur hats and/or jackets (possibly, underpants), vacation collages, my dad (in none of those items, he’s pretty fashionable)
  • hatred of Sidney Crosby and the rest of the pansy Pens
  • the dirty details of what it’s like to date a dating coach (dating coach, that’s me!)
  • random posting of videos that get me giggling like a 4-year-old on a sugar high

xoxo,

The B