SHOW YOURSELF! (The Obligatory Pics Thread)

Welcome!
Depending on the weather, you can throw it over a tshirt as a jacket too!

 

I am totally reveling in the ability to buy any clothes I want, seriously. I wanted a black button-up so bad a while ago, but Mom wouldn't let me have them because they weren't ladylike enough, and I... forgot. YAY, CLOTHES.

 

My mom did something similar, except she was complaining that there was too much black in my wardrobe. Never enough black clothes!

 

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Selfies before lunch at the colleges sushi place :DDD

 

I really like your lipstick, what color is that?

 

It's maybelline colorsensational in #401!

 

Cool! I might have to pick that up at some point.

 

I'm really liking the colorsensational lipsticks so far. I have #401 and #202, and I might have to get a few other colors too because 401 is really moisturizing and 202 has a very pretty natural matte finish, but as I have some.... Eighty-plus lipsticks it's getting kinda hard to justify a purchase.

 

I know that feeling. So much lipstick so little space.

 

Which reminds me I have to organize my stuff again - I think I have more makeup inside my various bags than in their rightful places.

Eta: I mean, these are just the ones I have in my bag right now, the ones I wore this week.

 

Oh boy, yeeeeeep. That me. My purse is a mess of ALL LIPSTICK

 

Sometimes I open a purse I haven't worn in a while and it's like Christmas!!! All these lipsticks I didn't remember having!!!

 

I keep finding lipsticks in my jacket pockets XD

 

jacket pockets are for Keys and Cellphone and Ear Buds, but my purse is a goddamn free-for-all. the only thing that is mostly organized is the first aid kit.

 

My purse may contain a small universe at this point, idk

 

I mentioned above there is a relatively easy method of determining undertones.
greenish veins = warm, purpleish veins = cool, mixed/undeterminable = neutral
(that's the veins at the inside of your wrist btw just for convenience, those show up easily on most people. If those don't show up well for you try the ones on the inside of your elbow maybe those show up better?)
now you just go color theory all over everything. Check if your black has an undertone other than... well black. Most blacks are super dark versions of either a) blue (cool undertone), b) green (warm to neutral), c) purple (neutral to cool) or d) brown (warm). This usually becomes annoyingly obvious when the black starts fading. btw Neutral black fades to grey so that's how you know your black WAS true black.
so basically if a black makes you look sicklish(-er than usual??) maybe it just has an unflattering undertone.
and that is all there is to know to wearing black. Also why I had a tiny fit or hysterics upon receiving my beloved second hand Atelier Pierrot blouse I thought would be true black, holding it up to my navy blue Innocent World JSK and breaking down upon realizing the BLOUSE WAS A GREEN BLACK NOOOOOOO
*coughs* well i mean i just wear it with green now but. Annoying, that.

 

Oooh. That makes sense! Warm colors, then. That does explain a lot, most of my blacks have been fading to blue.

(... ninety percent of my wardrobe is some sort of blue. >>; I like blue. Welp.)

 

the complicated part is there are neutral and warm blues.
i'm not kidding. colors are stupid.
get a gold bracelet or necklace or something and hold it up to any clothes you wanna buy. looks good? clothes have warm color! looks kinda weird and would look better with silver? that's a cool undertone then and you could probably wear it but its not as flattering as a warm color would be.
basically just trial and error your way through fashion forever everyone else does it too and just pretends to know how it works :P

 

Spoiler: it's a-meee

Spoiler: i really miss this hair color

 

@boyacrossthestreet you are damn cute.