The Beauty of Destruction

What an interesting week.

Some weeks, days, months/what ever--- it's just one thing after another. Today was no exception to the rule. Woke up after basically no sleep due to the summer mosquito's (thanks Brisbane river), and anxiety. Then  LONG day at work, which also entailed me getting complaints from my phone company threatening to cut off my phone, and then a $200 fine for littering because rubbish fell out of my bag which I didn't notice- while queuing for sushi.

I came home with some minimal Christmas presents, and some groceries, only to collapse in bed. After a pathetically short cat nap, I awoke in tears feeling like a complete and utter failure at life.

So after moaning around and eating half a bloke of chocolate ... i have given myself some advice.

Put on a cute skirt, watch silly movies and trawl the internet for beauty and prittiness and get inspiration to be alive once again.
Being an artistic creature, I hate constant stasis- I love evolution and change and chaos... especially when it comes to fashion, fun and art!

I feel re-invigorated and inspired by the glitter antlers by dearly departed designs/sold on tentacle threads!
http://www.tentaclethreads.bigcartel.com/product/nymph-antlers

(Buy them!!! Support tentacle threads and her designers she supports)

The stunning nymph antlers by dearly departed designs are sold on tentacle threads. $65 a set, they are glittery, each pair are hand made and set, featuring little bows and attached to a head band so way more comfortable and stable than clip ins!!! Plus, these are hand made in Australia, so you're supporting our alternate fashion culture while looking more suave than if Johnny Depp ate face with Lady Gaga (ok weird coupling but HOT!)

Moving on, I am stunned and devastated by the new designs and prints by 'A is for Arsenic'. Truly amazing. Another Aussie born bonnie lass, Amelia Arsenic was a Sydney girl. Now relocated in London, she also travels between New York and Germany, which has clearly influenced her previous ranges (more on them later) and can be seen with her taxidermy/formaldehyde/bug collecting eclectic inspired wares now for sale!

At this point in time I'm certain 80pounds is out of my budget for laser cut acrylic jewelry, I'm sure some fashionistas have the  moola to splurge in this splurgiest time of year.

I am partial to a couple of the t-shirts and singlets- perfect for these mosi ridden balmy raining sweltering freezing summer days we are experiencing here in  Queensland.

(Oh yes these two sexi babes are gonna rock with me all summer. Come on sound wave I know what im wearing <3 )

http://aisforarsenic.myshopify.com/

Shop for them at the above website and treat your self on my behalf- because i can't afford a damn thing right now!

In closing, even when you've had a shocking day- there is always some beauty in the world. And watching these designers bloom and flourish gives me the courage to stay true to me, and to keep writing. It's my Love, my ambition, and hopefully my career.

These things turned my frown upside down.

- Jekki

Day 4 of my Hell-bourne Holiday.

Still exhausted from what seemed like a week in the car, I struggled from the coffin yesterday morning to dress in my finest Edwardian spooky gear to explore the realm of Tutankhamen. Melbourne museum had an exquisite display of collected Egyptian artifacts from the era of Tutankhamen's reign. No, no photography allowed. They were even clear 'No sketching' either. That was a shock to me, and the security were sure doing their job so i didn't want to try anything, lest my diary be frisked away.
Some of my favourite pieces included a huge blue glass ankh, a decrepit wooden statue of Sekhmet, and a small statuette of Bastet.
After over an hour of exploring, i enjoyed a spicy middle eastern soup at the Egyptian themed cafe with my Dad who rushed off as soon as we entered the exhibit, so i was alone for the whole thing feeling a bit 'curse of the mummy'.
As it turned out, there were no mummies!!!! A shock for me as i have been to the British natural history museum where they are crudely hurled one on top of each other in viewing rooms, as well as la lourve' in Paris where things are more respectfully displayed.
Still, it was worth my Dad paying the entry fee and i did buy the companion book which left me broke...

After hours of shopping and gathering goodies, i met up in the evening with the lovely, leopard print wearing Kerrie. It's really odd how the cafe's in Hell-bourne haggle for your custom. We found a cute place to dine which promised us first drink and tapas for free. Well, as it turns out it wasn't any drink ... which IS what the chickie out front said... Kerrie haggled herself an espresso martini while I had to make do with rum... then our gorgeous mains arrived ... but our tapas never came!!!! (apparently it was given to another table. )We kicked up a fuss, but secretly were too full. It completely worked in our favor as we ended up with MORE espresso martini's!  (glug glug om om)
Then more Melbourne wanderings and checking out odd bar's with random art ... we called it a night and I put up my weary hooves for a good nights rest.

The outfit for Tutankhamen! (plus excuse the blurry photos, my camera is fucked)

Today was slightly more relaxed, swanning around Dad's apartment not doing alot ...Then i met up with Alan for the lunch that never was as the place we went didn't accept credit. I did have enough change for coffee which is always good :D and it was actually good there. After chatter and catching up for an hour or so i drifted home ...

I wonder what thrills and excitement lay ahead in the last 2 days in Hell-bourne city...

Hopefully I'll have better luck with my dinning experiences than the last few days haha.

xxx

Miss 13

The Adventure so far

The last two days have been so fun, weird, chill, exhausting....
I've been road tripping with my Dad to Hell-bourne, from Bris-vania. About 20 hours driving, & many pit stops, steak breaks and energy drinks later i am now- finally- chilling in his apartment.
Ok, so i don't have the freedom to go on the town, get sloshed, but i am due some relaxation after being bed ridden for a week with influenza & stressed as fuck with Uni.

rawww!

I found a nifty place called the crystal kingdom, no... no drugs :P but it did have a fossil gallery, crystals, and a museum on Australian mineral deposits! Best place to stretch my hooves and claws.

Lower jaw of a kangaroo- look at the chompers DeeKay!!!!

My new dragon egg :D 

Actually its dalmatian jasper, but i love it, its so pritty and it hums in my hand. We are good friends now.

The view from my apartment <3

& this is how a grubby Jekki, who's been on the road since 6am this morning looks like- like she needs a cider and a shower! I look metal haha. Brutally sweaty <3

Anyway - share ur adventures and stories with me. What are your holiday plans or midweek mischief's???

Dark Blessings

Miss 13

Time isn't of the essence !

I'm late, I'm late! For a very important date...

No, sadly i'm not, i am just finding my self time poor and exhausted every day at the moment and all the wonderful ideas which are running through my head are just going to have to stay there. Balancing two jobs and uni isn't exactly going to plan, and i find each night i'm going to bed with a huge migraine or, falling asleep at the proverbial text book (actually its on my lap top and i wake up and my face has entered random Google searches)

I am trying basically everything to hide my fatigue- rad eye creams from lush, chain smoking, increasing caffeine, decreasing caffeine, drinking green tea, drinking miso @ breakfast, eating healthy fresh vegies & fruit- cutting down on carbs, baking motivational cookies...

But none of these things seem to be helping me do much, but go through the motions....

(Buffy: going through the motions, losing all my drive, and i can't even see, if this is really me, & i just wanna be... alive...)-cue's vampire getting dusted... and possibly a long drawn out sex scene between spike and myself <3

Anyway, i think the only avenue i haven't taken here, is to actually increase my sleep... which means getting on top of uni quicker rather than pottering around with a stack of novels and magazines, or trawling others blog or online shops :(

Some up coming articles you can look forward to include: 'if these boots could talk', tentacular spectacular-ode to my favorite fashion obsession: tentacle threads, corsetry by Louise Black of doll flesh & Australian corsetry: Lady moon designs!

I swear all of these will be worth the read and the wait, they deserve my full attention, not the wandering eye of a disgruntled uni student. 

Until next time my darklings. x

sugar & spice & all things nice ....

http://www.sugarpillshop.com/

Good evening all my lil darklings. Tonight im pointedly avoiding my studies by doing everything with in my power to procrastinate. This includes baking walnut and dark chocolate bite sized cookies, playing with my cats, finishing off all the books i have on the go & last but not least... bring to you a new post on magical magical me (haha sorry j.k Rowling.)!!!

Although i had a magical week, im not talking so much about magical me, more about magical makeup.

Saturday night was the latest dark symphonica gig. So, going out with my friends was a must. I am so bored with cosmetics at the moment. Although i love Illamasqua, i don't love the price. My one cosmetic saving grace, the diamond in the rough is SUGARPILL COSMETICS ! Bright vivid hues, opalescent & metallic, their colours are startling & eye catching. For around $13 aussie you can pick up one of their loose eye shadows and create some inspiring make up designs. My belief is to be loud and proud, and yes sometimes i cringe at old photos of the loud/proud me, but i think I'm starting to get it right. I recommend purchasing sugarpill from http://www.beserkclothing.com/sugarpill-cosmetics-c-205.html. Not only do they stock most of the range, its also a local store, which in turn helps support not only Australia's alternate scene, but Brisbane based alternate fashion. Beserk clothing can have it's own article in the not too distant future, but for now lets leave it at 'beserk rocks, buy fleur's gear', trust me the prices are fair and her range is getting rather extensive. 

But, getting back to me and my make up.

This look was created rather easily, coz i have had too much practice at wearing too much make up. But if you like dark eye make up and are getting sick of wearing black and grey everyday, then splashing on some lighter colours might bring the edge back to your spooky ensemble. Here i used a lighter purple as a base, so light its almost grey, but you can use anything as a base for the eyelid (pale blue, grey, white, peach... these all work) then with a shaped brush i added loads of sugerpill's poison plum pressed eye shadow. Then after lashings of black eye shadow, Illamasqua liquid eyeliner and mascara, i finished off with the opalescent white lumi loose eye shadow, then brilliant ol' me added some miss x adhesive to it, and making it into a liquid 

eye shadow/eyeliner concoction. I wont go into the nitty/gritty of how to perfectly apply eye shadow, all i recommend is using a large flat brush to begin with and then a finer, angled shaping brush to make it more symmetrical, defined and sharp. The rest is up to you, how dark and bold you go, how BIIIIG you make it, whether u do cats eye's like i cant help but do ...

The eye shadows of sugarpill are your palette and your face is  the canvas so get cracking, no more excuses and wear your war paint voraciously!

- miss13

Little addictions

Alright then my little misfits...
I am the first to admit i have an addictive personality.
Not what my avid readers were expecting for post number two right ... ? well trust me when i say, I'm not what you'd expect, unless you expect me to be unpredictable.
My first addiction, by far is whiskey. or is it fashion... nah its whiskey, well this week its fashion...
These two lil beauties are all ways in competition to come first in my heart, I love to sit down with a nice glass of whiskey and a cigarette any time of day... especially early and continue on from there. At any time of day or night i can conjure the scent of some of my favorite malts, (if u know my dad i blame him for this and you should too), and i can recall the taste almost anywhere, to the point where i know most of the pubs and bars around Brisbane and they know my drink. HEY HEY, I'm not complaining, I'm just explaining. I don't drink in excess any more and those of you who knew me a few years back know what i mean, i am now picky about my drink, and i go for days with out drinking, sometimes weeks. But i still love it. Whiskey is like an old lover, a sweet and familiar caress....
(ok Jek u have uni 2mrw... u don't need to mission to b.w.s)
But my temperamental love is alternate fashion, ever changing and always evolving i have a huge and extensive wardrobe which i often clean out and sell via face book and eBay. I adore alternate fashion. For about 6/7 years I've been considered goth, but i find it a limiting term as i have so many area's of I fashion need to explore. At the end of the day though i always add my own spooky/scifi/gorey/viking/faerie twist and trust me, it works. 
This weeks addiction has been fashion, last night while talking on the phone to a friend and trying to unsuccessfully organize my week I realized I was in the process of ordering and paying for one of my dream trench coats... not overly expensive- but when I'm struggling to pay off my car and afford text books it's a ridiculously irresponsible thing to do.
But here it is...

My latest coat/gasm ... My darling Nubia trench coat.... we have been playing tag for a few years now, always missing out on it in stock, or not having the cash... this time before I knew it my credit card was in my hand, a sheen of cold sweat on my forehead, pulse in my ears, my friend on the phone realizing i wasn't entirely all there... until I hit 'pay now' via paypal .... all of a sudden it came rushing back to me, my current debt and lack of funds and up coming tattoo appointments i need to find cash for...

But its quite possible I will DIE with out this trench coat...

And whiskey is a patient lover, always willing to a take a back seat while fashion runs riot with my heart.

So... does any one else have any crazy addictions they wish to share, come on don't be shy, we're all anonymous here? any comments/feed back or lol's are welcome as well!

Until next time my darklings

-Cheers

- Miss13

The chaos of the void, an introduction...

Welcome ghouls, graverobbers, corpses, weres, vampyre, monsters, creatures, fashion victims, drag queens, muso's & all the other unmentionables i forgot to mention!

This post is simply a summary on some of the topics you can hope to in the future posts + articles.
Initially this wasn't to be a particularly personal blog. I wanted to highlight things that fascinate me... alternate artists, bands, fashionista's, writers, performers...locally & internationally. I wanted to praise these people for their talent, their strength, their dedication to their creative fields, the sacrifice's they've made- but, how can i truly write about these things dispationatly, this simply wouldn't do them justice. Media dictates that sex sells (gasp/shock/horror!) but, why does sex sell... because it touches something primal, and instinctual that we can all relate to (even priests/bwahaha), that raw emotional response or that animalistic craving. i guess what im trying to say is, i cant drop the emotion from this, as my emotional response's to these alternate artists are what landed me in the situation of wanting a blog (to bring them the attention they deserve) in the first place.

so, i have resolved to write this how i see fit/no matter what/with honesty.
It's a personal decision to start a blog, so why leave out the personal stuff...?? why a particular alt/fashion style is important, or why Dir en grey & lady gaga changed my life, why i no longer consider myself goth (just a gore-whore), why i love Aussie metal/punk/rock/alternate bands, why i adore spooky surreal art, tattoo's, suspension, boots, skeletons, werewolves, orcs.... ok the list could go on!
basically, i hope i get allot of people reading this.
I am an amateur writer  but i do not plan to stay that way. I love writing, I love sharing all my dark little obsessions with the world, its no fun to explore alone... & support & feedback would be wonderful. not just for me, but for the people i am writing about.
Who know's, ... through this you might discover an amazing band you can see locally, wicked fashion right next door, you're next favorite horror movie or the next book that becomes your bible.
Discovery keeps me alive, i hate to be bored, i love to find something amazing and new to be drawn to... to dissect and devour...
whether it be burlesque, sci fi, 80's music, heavy metal, or corsetry---- there is something odd quirky & wonderful in this blog for everyone... just be patient as i write the little article's for your cannibalistic pleasure...
( I study full time, have 2 jobs & am always psychotically busy with social lives/hobbies/interests & obsessions)

In conclusion, i welcome you into the inner sanctum of my personal obsessions, enjoy, destroy & share the love & longing that is the way of the alternate community & alternate life.

- Miss 13