this rocker of a beauty spread from elle france december 2010 is just beyond cool, and model daria werbowy completely rocks it. mostly, i love how the images create a sort of progression - from natural to all dolled up to total morning-after mess. check it out --
blank slate . . .
*hands down my favorite picture from this shoot. she is such a natural beauty and this shot is just perfect. kind of a shame she has to ever put on makeup*
starting to put on makeup . . .
love this styling!! gorgeous makeup & love the soft curls
but then she adds even more makeup . . .
and dances the night away . . .
and has quite a few shots . . .
. . . and then wakes up looking like this!
i'm pretty sure this "natural beauty to hungover hot mess" wasn't exactly the photographer's goal, but when organized this way i just think it's hilarious!
there's something about amanda seyfriend that i just love. maybe it's because whenever i see her, even in a serious role, i hear: "there's a 30% chance that it's already raining." or maybe it's because she will always be known to me as lily kane [instant friendship if you catch that reference - before googling it of course!]. whatever it is, i just love her. and can NOT WAIT for red riding hood ~
anyways... she is in a gorgeous editorial in this month's issue of interview magazine, looking, well, gorgeous. these are just my 3 fave shots:
bright & fun! spring summer 2011 look book. see more here
~ beautiful blue outdoor seating ~
i don't know where this image came from but i like to think it was the scene of a fun garden tea party for a group of fun-loving and fashionable women....who are also super quirky. what do you think?! [via]
~ zooey deschanel tweets ~
i don't do the whole twitter-thing, but i'm soo glad jezebel does, or else i would've missed this gem of a tweet by my girl zooey d :)
and....
last, but not least - i started a tumblr! the main reason i did this is because i started developing a pretty elaborate dream where i open my own quirky little boutique, selling equal parts stationary, art, books, accessories, and maybe a sprinkling of clothes. who knows if this dream will ever come to fruition, who knows if it will stay a serious aspiration for much longer... but until the day it dies down, i have started a tumblr to keep track of the types of items i'd like to sell. hop over & take a look if you want, but i won't be offended if you don't :) it probably only makes sense to me anyways! (and there's a lot of overlap between the pretty things blog & the dream.plan.act tumblr)
i don't want my little pretty blog to turn into a personal soap box, but every now & then i want to share things that are near to my heart. today that is body image. i post a lot of pictures of models - tall, thin, impeccable models. i love these images because of the artful photography, exquisite clothing, & beautiful expressions, not because i idolize their bodies or aspire to look like them. i have struggled in the past with having a poor body image and during those times such images would have served as triggers, sending me into a downward spiral of destructive behavior. now i am older, wiser, stronger, & know that there is more than one type of beautiful. i know that my short, curvy, flawed self is beautiful with the same certainty that i used to know that only supermodels were beautiful. the problem is, weight is constantly on my mind, on every woman's mind [it seems], & this obsession makes me doubt my own beauty. so let's stop it. fat talk somehow creeps into our everyday speech, convincing us that size is important & thinness equates happiness. but do we really believe that? strong, intelligent women know that no, that's not the truth, but still we repeat all the sayings... "do i look fat in this?," "i'm having a fat day," "i just need to lose 5 more lbs" ....
let's stop this "fat talk" that we seem to love so much.
even though i love the city girl i'm becoming, i've been missing rural iowa lately [i went to college in the middle of the cornfields]. this editorial shows the simple, & simply breathtaking, beauty of farm girls :
