The Clothes I Hate: Volume 1

The Clothes I Hate: Volume 1

Now I tend to be a pretty positive person. Happy and such but there are some pieces of clothing or stylistic choices I just hate. Pieces that don't flatter anyone, outfits I thought were unwritten "no-no's" and things that simply make no sense. So today, we begin a new series of posts consisting of all the clothes I hate.

The Clothes I Hate: Volume 1 - Vests

I really don't understand vests... at all. Everyone's like "Oh this toasty, cozy vest is so warm and stuff" but all I see is a jacket with no sleeves. What good does that do on a cold day? This excludes fancy man vests. Those are just to look fancy at work and at black tie events so we're not going to think about those in this volume.

The History of my Hatred: It could be the fact that I live in a cold climate and I've never experienced a need to warm my torso while letting my terribly warm arms take in the arctic wind! But I first realized I hated vests when I went in to my outdoor work area on a chilly October morning (Trust me, it's cold then) and I see my coworker wearing the sleeveless uniform shirt... and a vest. What? Zero sense was made that day.

At this moment you might be thinking "Blaire, that is not enough reason to hate vests" Well let me count the ways pour vous.

The Puffy Vest: They give me a socks and sandles vibe (And I know that is an unwritten rule everybody knows!) It's either warm enough for one or cold enough for the other, never both! I don't know about you but like the rest of my body, my arms are affected by the temperature too. Typically, affected the same amount as my torso. So why does my torso get a nice cozy hug while my arms are completely neglected and fall off from hypothermia? 

The Denim Vest: The Denim vest shouldn't even be considered an article of clothing. If anything, it's an accessory that like the puffy vest, makes no sense to me. I find it a try hard piece. Like "Look at my denim vest with fringe and a leather patch! I am so totally a rocker chick!" or "Look at my peace sign button on my denim vest! I am so totally a hippie!" No. It's a jean jacket with no sleeves that gets dressed up to exaggerate a personality.

The Fur Vest: Last but not least, the root of my madness! I had recently come across this lovely fur vest in my house. And the fur vest reminds me of everything but what I'm sure the wearer wants me to perceive.

 A Viking

A Pimp in the Summertime

I don't mean to offend anyone. If I insulted you're love if vests then I am very sorry. I won't judge you. But I just don't like vests and I wanted to share that with you.

Keep Watch for Volume 2!

Fall OOTD

Happy almost Canadian Thanksgiving! I've spent the Saturday pre-gaming by eating as much as I can and getting my grocery shopping on!

While picking some stuff up at The Real Canadian Superstore a lady working told me I "looked lovely today" So you might agree!

Basics can be so fun!

So what are we rocking today?
Let's work from the bottom up. Those leggings are from Forever 21 and you can't see but I went a little risque and they only go halfway down my calf! I know! Rawr ;)
My top is a black ballerina tee from Garage, created in Montreal.
My snazzy piece of arm candy is my trusty Betsey Johnson watch. Some day I'll do a whole post on that little lady and her story.
Finally, the piece de resistance! My go-to leopard print infinity scarf. $15 from Aldo.

Pink Pearl Pop by MAC

I finished off the entire look with a coat of "Pink Pearl Pop" by MAC on my lips. The pop of pink made this outfit a little more fun.

   Happy Fall!!

We getting closer and closer to the most wonderful time of the year! But we can't ignore the wonderful-ness that is fall! Make room for dark colours and copious amounts of pumpkin s*it because I need to get into the autumn-y mood.

First of all I need to get this off my chest now before I get into any of the other stuff. When I was at my cabin in August I saw an ad the most beautiful nail polish ever! I am not kidding, I stared at this ad for probably a total of 2 hours for the weekend. I'm not normally a fan of galaxy print, in fact I get anxiety attacks when I think of space at all so can we end this trend please? No? It's never going leave my life? Whatever because I have the sexiest nail polish in existence and it looks like galaxy print! It's Essie's For the Twill of it and I can't get enough of it!

The Nail Porn

I've unfortunately caught the same disgusting cold as everyone else. Probably from being cooped up with a bunch of germy kids again after having sweet space and outdoorsy time for three months. When I get sick I'm insanely hungry all the time, my mum used to tell me it's because my body is working hard and I need to sustain it, but I think I just get too lazy to control myself. So I've been feeding myself these delicious chunky soups! I had never had one until about a week ago and now I'm addicted and I just can't get enough!

I just can't get enough, I just can't enough!

Shhhhh.... colour whisper is actually a fantastic lipstick! I have a couple from this Maybeline line and I recently picked up "Berry Ready" and it's amazeballs! I normally wear pink lipsticks and this is my first really good red and it's just so... perfect, for me. I'm really pale and this is a really rich colour with still a bit of a pinky undertone and it doesn't wash me out.

Keeping on the Maybeline theme the Age Rewind under eye concealer has really impressed me. I pretty much don't sleep and my eyes need a lot of help in the morning and honestly, I don't think drug store brands get enough credit, this concealer is creamy, doesn't get clumpy, and "fair" is my perfect match and covers every hour of lost sleep!

Bath and Body Works came out with their fall scents. Enough said.

Pumpkin Cupcake and Scarlet Pumpkin...... MWAH!

Finally a music pick. At the end of August I purchased The Treble's Northern Lights album and it is fantastic! I've barely listened to anything else since I bought it. It's really easy listening you can chill out to it or get your dance on to it if you're into that.
Buy it here - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/the-treble/id476477021

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