Choose Happiness

Smile!

Because the we are alive, and life is an incredible thing!

Evidence?

Here you go:

Unconventional love

Banyan Trees

Aqua Eyeshadow

Roald Dahl

A fat, delicious bowl of pho

And the luminous late Elizabeth Taylor

ALSO

Berit's boyfriend is visiting!!!!!

Ahhhhh the wonderful, wonderful world

- B & C

I love natural brows!

I recently opened up Vanity Fair's Hollywod Issue

to a page with Elle Fanning and Haillee Steinfeld

My first reaction was LORDY EYEBROWS

Their ungroomed, untouched eyebrows were a shocker in an industry of perfect arches-

And you know what?

As much as I love a really delightfully groomed brow, I LOVEEEE IT!

Now, young stars have been sporting naturally unruly brows for a while:

(thats Brooke Shields if you didn't already know :D)

But lately the natural, fresh faced look has been making a resurgence in young hollywood.

Carey Mulligan

Ellen Page

Mia Wasokowska

Dakota Fanning

It accents the youth in their features, and I think it's utterly refreshing!

What do you think? Would you ever go au natural?

<3

Claire

How To: Feather Extensions

If you are from the Pacific Northwest,

chances are over the last few months you have seen someone sporting feather extensions.

Long rooster feathers are crimped onto strands of hair using crimping beads,

and once in can be washed and styled like the rest of your hair-

you can even use low heat hot tools on them!

Many salons offer this service, but for up to 20$ a "bead"

Here is how to put them in your own hair at a fraction of the price!

Materials:

*Feathers

Feather Goddess offers the best prices,

and a great high quality selection of colors and styles

I chose white for my hair

*Beads-

available at any craft store,

try and get the smallest ones possible, they will be more inconspicuous

*Crimper- also available from craft stores

*Floss- to thread your hair into the bead

1) Choose your location

2) Fold floss over a few strands of hair, thread your bead onto the floss

3) Using the floss, pull your hair through the bead

4) Thread your feather(s) in- I put two in every bead.

Leave a little extra up at the top so that the feather doesn't break when you crimp it

5) Using your crimping tool, squeeze the bead shut TIGHTLY.

5) Cut off the extra at the top

6) VOILA!!!

Stay lovely!

<3

Claire

A Day in 'Dena

Hi Friends! Today was one of those days (in Southern California, at least) where Spring, even Summer was definitely in the air. Of course, I probably better appreciated such days after long, rainy winters in Seattle, but still...

(Top, thrifted; Jeans; thrifted, shoes, Steve Madden; bag & scarf, thrifted; bracelet, self-made)

We visited the Crossroads consignment shop in Pasadena for the first time... four words: HIGH WAISTED SAILOR JEANS. For $12.

Spent the evening at the Norton Simon Museum (it's free for students and has the most incredible impressionist collection I've ever seen at such a small museum)

What are your plans for this weekend?

Choose Happiness

Hello Lovelies,

On top of it all, with everything going on in Japan, this week has no doubt been a hard one.

Despite it all, here are a few things to smile about:

BOOKS

Pixar Films

Lavender tea

The Walla Walla Windfarm

A Glee-ful kiss

Of course, it does no good to forget about other people's happiness as well,

so here are a few ways to help Japan:

Doctors Without Borders

Save the Children

Unicef

Red Cross

Medical Teams International

Human compassion is an amazing thing.

If thats not something to smile about, we don't know what is.

- B&C