Pierced Off

So actually, I am a little peeved today because people have just generally been rude and horrid and as far as I can perceive, for completely no reason. But, I thought to cheer me up (in addition to the 9 cans of energy drinks I bought myself ^_^) I would post a new blog update.

So, on the weekend just gone I went to Sydney to see some friends, attend a 21st for my lovely friend Mel and to check out Worn Wild. So I had an utter blast, crashed at my friend Todd's place (thanks dearest!) and *drum roll* visited Polymorph in Newtown for my first facial piercing!

So I got my septum done, which I just randomly decided a week ago or so I wanted. I'd been tossing up for a while whether or not to get a facial piercing, and then I decided to get one but had to decide between a medusa or a septum variety. So I finally decided on the septum because they're easy to hide if need be, and if I decided I didn't like it you can't exactly tell that it's been done with the hole being up inside your nose and all.


Here's a pic of me on Saturday night with Pat, Todd's significant other:


Please disregard how gross my hair is, it was stinking hawt in Sydney and goths and heat don't really mix...well, Steph at least doesn't mix well with heat...ergh



Aaaand here I am at the train station about 10 minutes after it was done, sorry about the crapness of the photo, it was taken on my phone.




I wasn't really sure that I was the kind of person that had facial piercings; that they would suit me, you know? And I guess I'm still not really sure about it, but I promised myself I'd give it at least 6 weeks before I made my decision, so yeah still a while to go, and it may still grow on me.

What do y'all think?

Also, Worn Wild was pretty fun; though I guess I was a little disappointed at the size of the event considering my imagination had conjured this massive story-upon-story event with people everywhere and mountains upond mountains of stuff to buy. There were only a few stalls, and few I was actually interested in. There seemed to be a lot of tacky pvc-wear, which I'm not all that fond of as I can;t see my chub-tacular figure looking any good in, and a lot of run of the mill boring things I could buy anywhere. However there were a few pieces I got that I love which I will post pictures of and descibe in detail next week when I shall be posting on location in COFFS HARBOUR!


...Yeah so it didn't at all earn the caps but yeah..holiday for christmas, and hopefully my back will recover from the two weeks off work. Plus, I'll hopefully have a pre-paid wireless broadband connection up there so I'll be able to actually take new pics and post them in high def rather than stealing crap quality pics others have uploaded of me off failbook. I thought the free time might be nice for me to do a few makeup tutorials, which I never seem to get time to do nowadays, because I'm always in a rush doing my makeup because I'm the world's best procrastinator. And, I might take the items I bought on the weekend with me and lay them on the beach, and they can have their own exotic little photoshoot like some bronzed model...except, you know...way better and more pleasing to look at :P Stupid tans being fashionable, they're so ugly and common and unhealthy! I swear, if I get skin cancer it will be some sort of fucked up miracle, because I hiss at the sun..like..literally...Evil bitch... :P

Anyway, enough of my bitching about the sun. Oh and another reason I'll be doing the photos of them up there is because I've lost my battery charger for my SLR and it's currently dead as the proverbial doornail.

I'll leave you now with a pic from the Bohemian Masquerade Ball which I went to a few months ago during my internet blackout (I think anyway). I just remembered this photo existed and so it's currently my profile pic and I love it! The event, which I promise I'll discuss in detail one day :P, was sponsored by Green Fairy Absinthe, so (how exciting!) for the night I became the toast of the town, and the event's mascot if you will.

Here we are:




Over and out my lovely readers :)

Steffles

xx

Let the children lose it, let the children use it, let all the children boogie...

So I went to my good chum, Gracie's 21st last night with the theme 'Come as a song'. I went as 'Starman' by David Bowie, because I'm a massive Bowie fan :P. Anyway as anyone that knows me in real life, I'm also OBSESSED with glitter. I draw my eyebrows with glitter, I use it for eyeliner, put it in my hair sometimes and my handbag is full of the stuff from leaking canisters, so pretty much everything I own that's been in my bag at one point or another has flecks of the light-catching stuff on it :P So I tried a bit of a space-ee-themed look with my makeup and I thought I'd share 'cause I thought it was a bit rad. Oh and keep in mind, the rest of my costume had fallen off by the time the piccies were taken :)








I think that's the best eyebrow I've ever drawn, so I insisted it be acknowledged :P





Myself and Mr Clinton.





In the last two you can see my new Jenni Gloves from Naucler Design. They took FOREVER to arrive, but they're super cute!


99% of my cosmetic glitter is from Medusa's Makeup, that particular shade I believe is called .44 Magnum and the lashes are from Manic Panic.

That's all folks :)


-Steph

*My* Industrial Heart

So I can't exactly remember whether I mentioned that I commissioned a one of a kind Industrial Heart from Monster Kookies in any of my previous posts (and to be honest I can't be f-ed going back and reading through to find out), but in any case, I did and it arrived during my long absence from my blog! I only just realised that I hadn't posted it on here, so I thought I'd share!

Kimberly from Monster Kookies is the lovely lady that brought me Verne the clay-polymer octopus, whom I adore! Anyway, she has these anatomically correct clay hearts she creates and I sort of described down to ridiculous detail what I wanted out of mine, and somehow she managed to wade through the verbal diarrhoea that were my ideas and create something magnificient!

So here it is:











Originally she did make it without the little wire thingy-ma'bobba, however me being the pain-in-the-arse customer that I am felt I required it and I seriously think it just topped off the perfect Industrial Heart like the cherry on the proverbial sundae. She named it 'Mutated Affection' on her Deviantart if you'd like to check it out.



Anyway I'm running late for work, so I best be off.

Over and out!

-Steffles

xx


Listening to: Morningstar in a Black Car - Ashbury Heights

Corset Mania

So, I am of the opinion that a girl, especially lovely ladies of the Gothic persuasion can NEVER have enough corsets. So keeping this in mind, when I buy corsets I always have another lined up for my next purchase (unfortunately they're generally a little bit pricey and so I can't really afford/justify buying them all the time).

Anyway so a few months ago I purchased my first Louise Black corset, unfortunately the 10 week waiting time means I still haven't got it -sadface- . So it'll look like this when I get it, only in emerald green instead of black:





Prettttyyyyy


So, now for my next corset! I've decided it's to be one from Allycat Metalware, and I have cut the list down to a few options. Though, each have their pros and cons, such as some of them not having any clasps at the front, making them difficult to get on and off (especially dreadful when you've been drinking, ergh :P).

Okay, so here they are:

Circuit Board




Probably one of my top favourites. I think I'd get it in this neon yellow-green colour, but with black side panels and green circuit detailing.





The next of the option list is this nifty little number:


Steampunk prop off-centre Clip



I'm a little concerned with this one that the clips in the front wouldn't be all that secure. Other than that however I love it, though I have two gold and black corsets already.





Next is a rather simple style, but nice nonetheless:

Steampunk Bolted Seams




This two has the issue of being black and gold (Somewhat obsessed with that colour combo :P) but otherwise I think it's simplicity would make it easy to make it work with pretty much any outfit. I also think the bolts might be slimming?




Moving on:

Metropolis




This one is much the same as the above but without the bolt detailing and with lovely removable hip panels. I think they might be quite useful for hiding unwanted hip flab :P Plus this even more so would suit copious amounts of outfits, with or without the panels.




And last but not least:

Industrial Steampunk




I LOVE this one so much, but unfortunately it has no front clasps, making getting dressed and undressed somewhat problematic.




Sigh, so many choices! Oh well, I'm sure I'll make up my mind by the time I can afford it surely.

Which do you guys like best, I'd love to hear your opinions!

Anyway, that's all for tonight.

Over and out.

-Steph

A Goth in Hollywood

I know I haven't posted in ages, and I apologise for that; unfortunately life has been a little hectic and unpleasant lately. A few weeks ago one of my close friends and her younger sister lost their lives in a pointless and utterly blameless car accident. It's ridiculously tragic and has just drained me of any motivation to even get out of bed in the morning...

Georgie and Bella were two of the most beautiful souls I'd ever encountered and I really can't imagine anyone less deserving of such a horrible fate.


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...plus I'm still having Internet issues unfortunately therefore uploading pictures is still as slow as a snail on a salt lake...I just made that analogy up, but yeah, slow :P

Anyway, let's move on.



So my friend Kathryn turned 21 on Halloween (lucky bitch :P) and this weekend she had her party with a Classic Hollywood Glamour theme. I was the photographer for the event and I just kind'a rocked a flapper look with a little gothic twist. I was quite happy with the results, and Kat herself did the fingerwaves in my hair, I've always wanted to try them!

I apologise for the bad quality photos, I just took a few off facebook because they mostly small file sizes. Anyway, here's a few snaps of me and friends nicked from various people.





This was me towards the end of the night, and yeah my lashes are starting to come off...sorry about that :P.

My eyebrows are done with glitter from Medusa Makeup, my eyelashes are from Amelia Arsenic's shop Black Pill Red Pill, the green pearls and cameo and feather facinator are from this AMAZING little shop I discovered in Melbourne, Madame Pompadour and the dress was from some generic chain clothing chop in the Canberra centre and it only cost like...$20. Bargain I thought.



Bec and I





James, Bec and myself




The two Stephs :P





My cousin Aaron and myself





And just me



That's about all, thanks for reading.

Over and out.

Explanations and Apologies

Hellllllllooooooo worrlllllllllldddddddddddddd

No, I'm not dead! Though in the world of technology I might as well be!

So I know I haven't posted in ages, and no it's not because I'm a slack bitch, I actually really look forward to posting, and get excited about things I can blog about, and it's REALLY frustrating when your internet provider just decides it's no longer financially viable for them to give us internet and turns it off without letting any of their customers know.

See we'd had a shitload of storms and the net was unreliable, i would often go off for days when there were storms and such. Anyway we just figured they were taking ages to fix the net, and we did ring them a few times, and they gave us various excuses why it wasn;t done, one of them that it was snowing and therefore no one could brave the cold and fix it, despite that whilst the gentleman from Cirrus told me this, I looked out the window and it was a pleasent sunny day...Hmmm..

Anyway, after a while one of my parents got a bit stroppy with them and their excuses and spoke to one of their head honchos who informed us that they weren't fixing the connection and that we'd no longer have a contract with them.

Well thanks a fucking lot you bastards.

Anyway, to makelong story somewhat shorter, we've tried several options and unfortunatly due to our circumstances we can only get dial up. Grrrrrr! So, yes, I'm not sure if I'll be able to bother posting while this torture continues but I'm just letting you folks out there (if anyone does in fact follow m'blog that that's why I haven't been around.

In other news, if you'll recall the green snake skin patterned tights I ordered from Black Milk ages ago, well they did arrive but up until now I hadn't really gotten a nice shot of them.

This shot was taken by my good friend, Gracie and is featured in the latest Black Milk blog post.

There's more photos of that shoot with Grace (like the two in this post) on Grace's blog.

Okay, I'm off

Bye!

Easy being green

So I haven't posted in ages, and I apologise for that if there's anyone out there that reads my blog religiously (A girl can dream :P ) but it's been due to a multitude of reasons. First of all our Internet was down for 8 days, and it seriously nearly killed me. I was like crack whore Lindsay Lohan at the beginning of a stint in rehab. I ate a whole packet of biscuits despite not being hungry, I wandered around aimlessly, I played like a bazillion games of minesweeper, and got up and turned the modem off and on around about 200 times a day; it was horrid!

Then, a day after the net came back up, my hard drive decided to have a coronary and shat itself, taking all the intricacies of my life along with it. Luckily I had backed up about 2 weeks ago, I'm kind'a lazy with that, but yeah lost about 3 gigs of music which I had just recently acquired, which is really annoying.

So for the last 10 days or so I have had no computer. I feel faint saying it out loud, or in text..or whatever. I'm currently on my mum's computer, and she's been good enough to let me borrow it a couple of times. She also bought me a new hard drive which has arrived and we installed it a couple of days ago, now we're just waiting for software my uncle's sending down.

Anyway, the weather had been pretty much constantly raining for the past 2 weeks and so taking photos has been kinda not possible despite that I have so many new editions to talk about!

I will talk about one today however, so I went to Sydney last week, not for a very nice reason but Mum and I wanted to get away from my Dad and Nan who we'd been stuck with all day and were driving us a little loopy, so we went for a wander in Newtown. Mum was interested in having a little peek into the subculture that I've claimed as my own and so we visited a few of the awesome shops along enmore road. Anyway after about 40 minutes in Gallery Serpentine, we were walking back up to the train station and I asked if we could take a little stop into In Visible Light, because a few years ago I got a really nice hat from there. Anyway a had a discussion with the lovely folks in there for quite a while, they were really sweet! However, probably just saw me as a dollar sign on legs but anyway, I bought a pair of Hulk green Colourvue lenses, and I love them! I had so much trouble deciding between them and the glowing green ones that react with UV light. I ended up going with these because they were cheaper, but I admit I'll probably get the other pair anyway :P

Anyway, here;s a picture that Grace look today after the photo shoot I had with her. I gothed her up and took some photos around our paddock. Hopefully I'll get those soon, and when I get my computer back I'll upload them here.



Anyway, that's about all I have to say,

Laterz

Steffles

xx