What I Wore: Alice Inspired

Blue dress, ???; white tunic, Old Navy Kids; leggings, Gina Tricot; shoes, Aldo; rose pin, handmade by me; butterfly brooch, "borrowed" from mummy; bracelet, handmade necklace.

When I was putting on this outfit, I saw this pin that I never wear lying around and I knew that I had to wear it, because there are a lot references to red roses in the movies and books. 

The rose pin was originally attached to my bracelet, which is really just necklace wrapped around my wrist, but I couldn't write, so I moved it.

Mu butterfly isn't bright blue, but I still had my own little Absolum* :)









And last but certainly not least, it wouldn't be an Alice Outfit without at least one little bow, would it? These shoes look bottle green, but I swear they are black. It's just that the white balance was  a little off, and in what little time I had I couldn't fix it without loosing the nice green in the grass.

Love, Rosie

*I'm not sure if that's actually the Blue Caterpillar's name, but I think it is.

Dressing like the Mad Hatter

As I said yesterday, the Mad Hatter is my favourite character from the new Alice in Wonderland. I mean Johnny Depp is super talented, the character is amazing, and the wardrobe is stellar. Once I had finished my "OMFG that was... just so!" stage, and my analyzing stage, I pretty much said "I have to do a Polyvore set based on him!"

This morning though, once I started really thinking about it, I realized that I HAD to do two sets. 

Not Quite as Mad Hatter Outfit by RosieUnknown

The first one is the outfit that is in my opinion fairly simple, the sort of thing I can see most people probably getting away with most of the time. This one is more based on my feeling of the Mad Hatter, a sort of country feel, but with plenty of eccentricity. I struggled with this one though: to hat or not to hat? I mean, he is the Mad HATTER, but top hats aren't necessarily very wearable. I left it out, but feel free to put wear one.

This one is my favourite though:

Very Mad Hatter Outfit by RosieUnknown 

This is the set that I REALLY love. It has multiple loud patterns two colours of nail polish, and THE hat. Well, not THE hat, bat a pretty cool costume version. If you are wondering why I included a plaid skirt, it's because in one of my favourite scenes, the final battle, the Mad Hatter wears a kilt. This obviously makes him like a million times more awesome, and he wears it with a BRIGHT BLUE VELVET JACKET. The only reason I didn't include a blue jacket was I couldn't find one I liked.

What did you think of the Mad Hatter? Would you wear either of these outfits?

Love, Rosie

A Week of Wonderland

I thought life would calm down a bit once the theatre production finished Friday before last, but boy was I wrong. I spent all week catching up on everything I neglected while devoting my life to the play. I finally got things mostly under control yesterday, so I went to finally see Alice in Wonderland with my family. 

I'm fairly certain that it may be my new all time favourite movie. From the minute it started to the time the lights came on again, I was spellbound. I'm kinda still in awe really. It was the first time I had seen a movie in 3D (I don't go to the movie theatre that often), and it was amazing! And I know I'm a bit late to be catching on to the obsession, but this is my blog and I will do what I like*, so I will be celebrating Alice all week here.

I sort of want to paint this image on my wall, or just random scenes from the movie. I would kill to live in Wonderland!

I'm fairly positive that the Mad Hatter is my favourite character. I love all of him, but his style is just AMAZING. Stay tuned for more Mad Hatter posts as the week continues, including a post on Dressing like the Mad Hatter (Monday), Top Notch Top Hats (Wednesday), and Not Quite as Mad Hatter Makeup (Saturday).

Alice is amazing too though, and she wears so many gorgeous costumes. I plan on doing an Alice Inspired Outfit Post on Tuesday.

She is completely mad, obsessed with red, and incredibly self centred. So pretty much like me. Only I would never, ever use a flamingo as a golf club, they make much better lawn ornaments :P. All joking aside, the Red Queen is a stylistic force to be reckoned with, and I will be tackling Dressing like the Red Queen on Friday.

And last but certainly not least, the White Queen. Who can resist dark brows, lips and nails on a sea of white? To conclude the week, I will be Reviewing Green Beaver Lip Shimmer in Bordeaux.

Love, Rosie

* I don't mean to sound childish, I just think that I should be allowed to write what I want on my own blog.

What I Wore: Left Me Spinning

I am actually still alive. More alive than ever, in a way. This past week has been a blur of rehearsals, shows, late nights, early mornings, fingernails covered in stage makeup, moving walls, lunch hours spent laughing back stage, dancing like crazy at the cast party. Pretty much the best week I have had in a long long time. And this whole actually having a life thing has sort of left me spinning (quite literally at times), so by the time my day is over I usually just want to collapse into bed and make the next day come as fast as possible.

Skirt, thrifted; leggings, La Classe Couture; sweater, vintage hand made; tank top, Joe Fresh; boots, La Canadienne. 

I happened to pick the skirt over my March Break, and it happens to match the turquoise in my sweater exactly.

 I ended up not wearing the sweater for most of the day though, because the sleeves are so long that they got in the way when I was doing stage makeup, and it was so warm that I actually ended up over heating.

Thoughts? Requests?

Love, Rosie

Mega Volume: life and mascara

Life in Rosieland has been pretty much insane lately, I've been so busy with theatre that I've barely been able to keep up with my homework, and forget about actually having interest. The result of all this is that I pretty much haven't had time to blog over the past week, and next week will be worse. It's not that I want to push TtW to the side, it's just that real* people and real commitments have to come first sometimes.

In other news, I bought Covergirl's LashBlast mega volume mascara in black brown today, and I love it. My only problem is that it's a lot closer to black than brown, but that's fine. Ok, I have a second problem, but it's not with the product. I don't really like the package. It's big and chunky and bright orange. I much prefer Maybelline's Lash Stiletto for packaging, but the actual mascara isn't as nice, in my opinion.

Thoughts? Requests?

Love, Rosie

*Not that you all aren't real, it's just that I have sort of two lives: my online life, and my "real"life, with people I have met in person.