The Great Gatsby/I got a haircut

In May, The Great Gatsby, a film that I had been waiting on for over a year, came out. Now, being the nerds that we are, and also super excited about the film, my friend Amanda and I went to the first showing at our local cinema, and we dressed up. Readers of my blog (haha) may not know this (as I don't post incredibly regularly), but I am pretty into costumes and dress up. I will go out of my way to put together a costume, even if I'm only going to be wearing it for a few hours. In the past, I have even been known to cut an dye my hair to better suit the costume I am wearing (i.e. Madeline, Velma from Scooby Doo).

This past Hallowe'en, my friend Brandon and his girlfriend asked me to do their make-up. He was Frankenstein's monster, and she was the Bride.

Now, in order to make sure that I knew how to do the make-up properly, I made sure to try it out on myself a few days before the party.

I did the same thing with my make-up for Gatsby.

However, with long hair, I looked a little more Lillian Gish than Louise Brooks, and I wanted to go for a more authentic flapper vibe. So I got a haircut, and I finger waved my hair for the movie. I also bleached my eyebrows so it would be easier to soap them out.

I also did Amanda's make-up and hair (finger waved and pin curled at the front, in a bun at the back), and lent her a dress.

Anyway, this is what my haircut looks like on a day-to-day basis:

Blog Therapy

I have been severely depressed the past few months.
This depression has made it difficult for me to get out of bed and bathe myself, let alone leave the house. It has affected my academic life and my romantic relationship.

When I do manage to leave the house, dressing myself has lost all of its joy. I've had about a week and a half's worth of outfits on rotation since about January (though I've had to augment that roster a bit now that we're having intermittently warmer weather).

Also, because I have very little money (I work two days a week, for a little bit more than minimum wage), and because I tend not to leave the house if I don't have to, I haven't been buying any clothes lately. Even when I took a trip to the mall a few weeks ago with a couple of my friends to pick out a date outfit for one of them, the only thing I bought was a holographic nail polish.
Nail polish has been one of the only things I have been buying, apart from absolute necessities. I've actually become kind of a compulsive polish collector. I buy it whenever I'm feeling sad and need a quick pick-me-up.

Even though I haven't really been feeling better lately, my depression has gotten to the point where it is actually ruining my life, so I've had to kind of struggle to pull myself up by the bootstraps and try to function again.
I'm now finished all my exams for the semester, but I still have five essays to finish. I suppose I should be working on one of those instead of writing this, but ho-hum. Once I'm finished those, I'm free for the summer.

I thought that maybe one of the things I could do to recover this summer would be to start blogging again. I've decided that this will be the blog with which I accomplish that. Since nobody reads this right now, I'm going to just roll with it for a while, and if I can achieve some sort of rhythm I'll start spreading the word on my other social media.

Anyway, I figured that I could give a quick overview of some of the things that I hope to do this summer:

• clean my room (it's a mess)
• organize my bathroom drawer (it's also a mess)
• DIY nail polish rack (plastic ones are hella expensive)
• join the Ord Brighideach (I need Brighid's inspiration back in my life, and I find that the day-to-day processes of worship help to make one's spirituality more present in one's life)
• get my hair dyed (teal or dark green, I think)
• dress up to see The Great Gatsby
• move out of the hell that is suburbia
• j'ai besoin de pratiquer mon français (I've signed up to take French again in the Fall)
• write a self-motivated research paper on queer homeless youth
• read books

I really wish I still had a camera. Maybe I can get a small one off of eBay or something.

I feel like I should post some pictures from my instagram on here or something. Nobody likes text posts.

Well, this is embarrassing...

Hey, remember when I had dreams of being a teen fashion blogger? Yeah, that didn't really work out.

Lately I've been considering starting this this up again. I even went through and made some of my more embarrassing posts private.

The main problem with this whim of mine is that I am broke, and I sold my camera several months ago to try to remedy that situation. That means I can't really do outfit posts or anything.

Maybe for now I could just go through and curate some old pictures from the past few months. I could do a 2012 round-up, or something. Maybe I could drown y'all in a flood of Instagram photos. (by the way, I'm @littlestmatryoshka on Instagram, if you wanted to follow me there)