Some Beautiful Ugliness

There's a whole lot of "ugly" in the world. A whole lot of complaining, put downs, and altogether rudeness to one's self and towards others.



Where's the beauty?

What happened to being beautiful? Glamorous? Pretty? Gorgeous? Alluring? Appealing? Cute? Even NICE?!

I mean really... when was the last time somebody said, when every other girl was critiquing herself and putting herself down, that she looked beautiful? When really?

I've never heard one of my friends look herself in the mirror and whisper to herself how beautiful she looked.

What happened to being unique, being yourself, and being beautiful?

Here are some women in the world who look ugly or wear ugly clothing, but inside (and in reality) are some of the most gorgeous women I've ever seen.

Reyanne Graff from My So-Called Life: Beautiful... wore weird clothing.

Betty Swarez from Ugly Betty: Beautiful without the braces, glasses, hair do, and scary clothing (reality).

Quinn Pensky from Zoey 101: Beautiful minus her glasses and capability of turning lip balm into sleepy gas.
(Hah, I watched this episode last week early in the morning!!)

AND SO MANY MORE!!! So many girls and women who may look odd or out there but EVERY GIRL IS BEAUTIFUL! INSIDE AND OUT!

No matter what your style, what your race, what your personality.... YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!

And I dare each girl who reads this (which probably isn't a a lot but either way) (and this is probably a complete shot into the dark) to list ten reasons why your beautiful and keep the list somewhere that you'll be able to read when something goes wrong. Ten reasons aren't a lot and I think that just by doing this, self confidence and self realization of beauty will SOAR up!...... I dare you all.

And remember, you are beautiful.

Some "Redneck" Culture

As telling my friend I would be spending my spring break in West Virginia, he immediatly stated that I should have a blast with all the rednecks I meet. So hanging with my redneck friends, I took some pictures of the sites, the things, and the odd things I saw. My favorite picture was of a sign (above) outside by a store in the square of downtown Virginia. "You Are Beautiful!" <-- I'll come back to this in another post...


{What is Gourmet Popcorn? Popcorn is popcorn; it only changing depending on how much butter you put on top, I thought...}


{This is an illustration of an old Vogue cover. I found it in a cute print shop and I'm sorry that you can't see the date on this one.}


{A stand covered in cheap sun-glasses (note: there were three other tables of this!), I was in heaven!}


{A set-up of nice (note: extremly fake, remember when it says 100% cashmere and feels like polyester) scarves, pashminas, etc..}


{A sad, homeless old man humming on his harmonica on a street curb... he was actually pretty good.}


{You know... just another "Celebration of the Book" where a cute old fashioned movie theater should be....}


{Some college instrumentalists, they were very good musicians. They had a big hat... har-har.}

Boho Skirts: Yay or No-way?

Searching in H&M yesterday I realized that although bohemian, flowy-blowy skirts are in- they look really awful on the racks! Maybe if your a supermodel with a crew of stylists and designers running around you trying to make you look good for the shoot, you can pull it off. But if your an average person... it's going to take a lot of effort to pull this off.



Yay or No-way?

The Variety Show

{Creepy. Beautiful. Scary. Talented. Glamorous. = Bryce Dallas Howard}

The L.A. native kicked off her acting career doing creepy and dark movies (one which still gives me with nightmares after watching it almost four years ago) such as The Village (2004) and The Lady in the Water (2006). Then (hopefully realizing how amazing she was at being scary and disturbing) she decided to re-invent herself, thus landing the role for blonde model Gwen Stacy in Spider Man 3 (2007). Then this has no importance but she was in Terminator (2009) and will star as Hilly Holbrook in 2011's spin off from the book The Help. From her changes from scary to sexy..... she looked a little bit like this.
Bryce Dallas Howard is actually very pretty and a major icon (now starring in Kate Spade's spring ad campaign). Here are some photos and clips of her throughout her acting years...... and looks.


(OH! By the way- she also plays Victoria in the Twilight series!)

And These Are A Few of My Favorite Things...

{OPI's Sparkle-icious from the Burlesque collection}

Spring break! Whoo hoo! And what better way to start then by painting my nails in my favorite nail polish (although it chips very easily, which is a major downer), smack on my favorite lip gloss, curl up with my English book (which I need to catch up on), watch my favorite TV show, and buy the pair of shoes that I desperately want!


{NARS Hot Wired, pot of lip gloss}


{Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- reading for English class}


{The Office, seasons two, three, and seven- recently bought seasons two and three (could not find the first season) and have been currently watching season seven on TV and online}


{And the one thing that I want very badly right now. These are five dollars at Forever 21. The simplistic looking Keds spin-off come in about five different spring colors and designs. Note: the angle looking at the show makes it look very boxy and large but in actuality they are very cute and summer-y.}