So I decided

That I'm not going to limit this blog anymore. I'm just going to post whatever I want and stuff. Ever since I've started it I've always waited 'till I had something "blog worthy" to post. Meaning, I always waited until I got some really nice pictures taken of me, or 'till I went to some kind of fashion event and took really cool pictures at it to actually post on this blog, but I realized that there's a lot of other things I'd like be posting in the meantime.

Anyway, here are some random pictures I took the passed few weeks.

A random collage I made. This isn't scanned so I do apologize for the bad quality. All magazine cut outs were taken from one of my favorite Vogue issues (Vogue Paris August 2010), and the other random things I sort of just found in my room.

I got a new internship for IfashionNetwork and Fashion Trend Magazine, and the other day I was flipping through the pages of the Fashion Trend Collections Edition which is the one they put out twice a year for both fashion weeks, and I loved the collages on the fist few pages. 

New velvet black shoes I got from Urban Outfitters the other day, they were on sale.

Also, I'm addicted to braiding my hair now.

 And a not-so-fabulous picture of me. My jacket and jean/tights are both thrifted from Buffalo Exchange and my sneakers are from All Saints. I really love this jacket because it reminds me of M.I.A.

And by "reminds me of M.I.A," I mean: 

Patterns, bright colors, and shoulder pads. Oh yeah, did I mention that I really really love M.I.A? I can't even begin to explain how I excited I am about her collaborating with Madonna soon! Check out a video here if you're interested: 

I am so stoked that today I actually caught myself singing the chorus to this song that's playing in the background of this video and doing the arm movements to it like she is...... A little scary. (Thanks a lot, Nakul)

And I also promised myself to stop looking at how many page views I'm getting and stuff. That stuff really does take away from the fun of running a blog. (Thanks, Tavi) I will however still acknowledge your comments and always try to comment back!

Thank you for reading my very long out-of-nowhere post!

My Room: Before

First off, Happy New Year! New Year, new me! ...Joking, but I figured for the new year I might as well redecorate my room since I've been meaning to anyway. Initially, I spent the majority of my time living here in a reeeaalllyy huge room in the upstairs portion of my apartment, but a little less than two years ago I moved downstairs into my mom's [now] old room because my little brother was born. That room was really too good to be true to have for too long anyway. (sob) Anyway, I thought I'd post "before" pictures of my room before I redecorated so you guys can see what it looks like now, and so I can get an idea of what I really want to change. 

Now, despite the fact that my room now is a lot smaller than my past old rooms, and has no windows, it has it's perks, too. First: the closet! I was always jealous of my mom's closet, and I must admit that I was really excited about moving into this room for this sole reason. 

Here's one side of my closet. I decorated the first shelf with patterned paper (lol) and a poster of Audrey Hepburn. I used the very top shelf only for shoes. My family makes fun of me that I dedicated a whole shelf in my closet for shoes, but I think they deserve it?!

 When I redecorate, I definitely want to finish decorating the rest of the shelves (and take out that really boring and dirty wallpaper that's there now) and possibly change that poster. 

Next, the other side of my closet where I hang my jackets and dresses up. I really want to paint the inside of this black. And lord please, new curtains! Another perk: the cool-looking door. My step-sister always laughs and says this door looks like an entrance to a dungeon or something, but I like that. I like you dungeon-door, you can stay. I might just shift around what I have on those shelves there. (Peep my Christmas decor) ... (the teddy bear by my TV... toooo cute, ugh) 

 My long mirror and quite sucky "inspirational" wall posters. I like the collage I made and everything, but I should replace those printed out pictures underneath with some new ones since their corners are now curling up. Can't really see it in the picture, though.

 My "make-up area." I'd like to replace the bigger black shelf with something different (perhaps and actual chest of drawers or something) and I want to find a different way of displaying my jewelry.. Although I really like the wine bottle set up I have going on now. 

 The part that needs most change: My bed and "work" area. As you all probably already recognize, yes, I have that bed "that looks like a crib and has hearts in it." And for those of you that don't know, its a bed that very commonly shows up in the back of a lot of teenage girls' mac pictures. (sigh) Had I known this tragedy of me possessing the same bed as 50% of the rest of the girl-teenage population, I wouldn't have gotten it. Okay now I'm just being stupid. But seriously: a possible bed change. Oh, and new sheets, too.

Another dilemma: Why does everyone and their mother have this same painting as me? (Because it's from Ikea) Oh. Right. So, I definitely want to put up new art. I also would like a new chair to sit on while doing my homework and stuff... this one really isn't as comfortable as I thought it would be.

The last picture I took couldn't be a polaroid since I ran out of film, sorry guyz! But here's the other entrance to my room: my door where I unfortunately hang all my bags. There literally cannot be anymore stupid, unless you like your entire collection of purses falling almost every time someone opens the door to your room. This was not supposed to happen, okay? My mom was supposed to move out and this was only supposed to be "temporary." 

So, someplace new to place my bags. Also, I have so many polaroids just lying around in my room.. Does anyone have any cool suggestions of how I can somehow put them decoratively around my room, without framing them? I'm also open to any suggestions you guys have about anything I want to change in my room, or even about things I haven't mentioned.

I hope everyone has had a good start to the new year! 

Calm

(All clothing is from American Apparel, besides plaid jacket and stripped sweater from Express)  

So here are the results from that 'Bombay' video-like shoot. Turns out by the time we (me and my friend Htat) met up, it was dark out and we really didn't think the pictures would turn out the way we wanted them too, but some of them are still blog-worthy! We practically had to work with street/car lights outside due to lack of equipment and what not, haha. I actually really like how calm and simple the photos came out. I also just really love this plaid jacket. 

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Photo credit: Htat Lin Htut (http://www.flickr.com/photos/htatlinhtut, http://vimeo.com/htatlinhtut)

Free People

Okay, wow, hi. Good news... this is actually me writing, which means, I haven't died. Just, lost my motivation to blog for a while, I guess? Miraculously I've still been gaining followers, so thank you new followers for following me! Now that the semester is over I feel like two crying babies have been surgically removed from my shoulders (joking, I don't hate college that much). But I can finally find time to do other things. 

So a brief update on my life because I know you, my loyal followers, are ohhhhh so curious: my name day just passed (some Polish holiday where all Dagmaras celebrate the fact that they posses the name Dagmara and get presents for it... totally not joking..), I've stocked up on Marc Jacobs Daisy perfume, finished the all-too-short My So-Called Life series, cut my bangs and dyed my hair, AND bought my first pair of docs. *loud gasp*

A while ago I also attended this Nylon Mag/Bloomingdales/Free People event in the city where I got to make bracelets with the bloggers from the Honestly WTF blog and obtain lots of other free stuff with my friend Rachel. Fun!

(A close up of my pants)

(Top: Buffalo Exachange, Pants: Mom's closet, Shoes: Forever 21)

When I said some of my favorite pieces of clothing came from my mother's teenage closet, I wasn't lying. How cool is the detail on these pants? And the flowers are all suede!

Thank you for those of you who have been patient with my sporadic blogging. 

And about that shoot I mentioned before, it didn't come out exactly in the style of those videos, but still came out pretty cool so I will be posting those pics soon.

Photo credit: Rachel (http://lestylechilddd.blogspot.com) 

Bombay

I've been super preoccupied lately, but I have exciting news. I will be doing a shoot this week that's inspired by these two videos. I also have a million pending posts that I've been meaning to finish; perhaps I'll post them before the shoot. I hope you guys don't mind phone-quality pictures.

Bombay- El Guincho 

 

SYNDROMES - a short film by Kristoffer Borgli & The Golden Filter

Rayanne Graff

So, among all the costume parties I've been to in the passed two weeks, I'm going to blog about the non-halloween one only because I'm extremely mad at myself for letting this legendary show go over my head in the 90's, and I must blog about how awesome it is now. Thanks to my friend Billy, I put together a last minute Rayanne Graff from My So Called Life costume for a 90's themed party we were invited to. (Warning: This post will consist of consecutive Mac webcam pictures) 

Close ups of the accessories: 

(Snapback: Mishka, Floral-print dress and Socks: TopShop, Flannels: Club Monaco and h&m, Leaf Earring: Stand in Soho, Rest of outfit: Courtesy of my mother's infamous closet)

Basically, an outfit that consists of a lot of my favorite things (floral print, flannel, accessories that I love but never wear, converse, a snapback, and a fur coat) all worn effortlessly at once. Ironically, I've been putting random braids in my hair and (embarrassingly enough) putting little effort into what I've been wearing for the passed few weeks, so when Billy introduced me to Rayanne the other day, naturally I fell in love.

Entering college (especially one like FIT), any person would assume that I, without a doubt, stomp around the halls with my nails polished, outfit carefully planned out, and with the wind blowing through my perfectly done hair. When in fact, college is having the exact opposite affect on me. While the majority of the girls (and the small percentage of guys) in my school look amazingly flawless every single day, I think my urge to look "amazingly flawless" was left somewhere in the dirty and old hallways of my high school. Its kind-of a paradox, I guess. I went to a rather ghetto high school, so I woke-up early every day to fix my hair and murder my feet during school days wearing heels. Now everyone in FIT looks undeniably gorgeous, and I barely care that I leave my hair curly most days (and let's just say that 90% people I went to high school with probably thought my hair was naturally straight). And I'm not trying to be the "I must be different and ~uinque~ from everyone else" type, but I guess since I grew up being convinced that only what is socially acceptable is beautiful, I'm realizing that that's not true. Beauty is generally conceived with the idea of perfection, but things that socially are considered ugly or weird can be really esthetic, too. Now, not that Rayanne is ugly (she's hot!), but in my opinion she's a great representation of this socio-realism concept. 

And this doesn't at all mean that I'm losing interest in fashion, because I still have my days where I want to put on my Jimmy Choos with a fancy dress and lust over the newest Dries Van Noten collection.

Now please excuse me while I attempt to feel better about the fact that I missed out on this show years ago, and watch every single episode and inevitably become obsessed with Rayanne and Angela...(and Jordan Catalano, of course!)