#l529

When I first saw this dress, released on the heels of D&G’s painting dress collection, I thought: wow that looks ugly.

There was no focal point. It’s like someone took several stock photos of cherubs and mashed them up in a blender. There’s loads of purple foggy areas, like oil paints after you’ve mixed up too much pigment and it turns to mud. And to cap it all, there was this totally random black bow floating up there like a mustache.

Go home Bodyline, you’re drunk.

And yet- after mentally filing it away as a Photoshop hack job - it wouldn’t go away. I kept thinking about it, and eventually I saw pictures online that made it look... not an abomination.

In fact it looked... nice?

(Image from CatPrecise - http://catprecise.tumblr.com/post/112340680873/bodyline-l529-this-was-a-birthday-present-i)

So, the damn thing wouldn’t leave me alone. Years after I first saw it, and much waffling over whether I should/should not buy things on impulse: I did buy it. And the very first thing I did was snip that silly bow off, and put it together with this blouse.

Sometimes the coordinate practically puts itself together. To date, this was the easiest coordinate I’ve ever created. Sometimes it is very hard, especially when dealing with Sweet prints (more on that in an upcoming post) but other times it’s like those B-movies where the cursed object wants to be reunited with its body.

JSK - Bodyline l529

underskirt - Bodyline l353

blouse - offbrand

belt - offbrand

jewelry - a mixture from various stores including H&M, Fisher, and Landmark

flowers - a mixture of ToxicKitty, Landmark and apostrophe

shoes - H&M

bag - offbrand

Shots from my comm’s first photoshoot meet in 2018! The theme was loosely based around fairy tales to suit the setting, and for fun I decided to try more dramatic makeup than I’d done so far. While I did not intend to look evil, by consensus I ended up the villain of the shoot and it was a blast, haha.

More photos, including the rest of the comm’s coords, are on my blog post: Comm Meet: Antique Fairy Tales

In order, the photos are by the following:

Kristina Abaya

Bri Rodelas, @tagagloria