Yikes

Every 20 or so years, trends come back around. Attached is a great video of trends that will be popular in the upcoming year or years and how we can adapt them to our own personal style. 

without your past,

you could never have arrived-

so wondrously and brutally,

By design or some violent, exquisite happenstance

here’s a small list of videos you can watch and passively donate to different funds that are a part of the black lives matter movement. if you are interested in donating as well, i’ve linked most of the funds and organizations the youtubers are donating too. please do not skip the ads!!

I FOLLOWED A PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP ARTIST’S TUTORIAL: to the Black Visions Collective (x)

80p makeup... but what’s the catch? TESTING SHOP MISS A! First impressions and WEAR TEST!: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x)

In-N-Out Mukbang: to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (x)

how to help BLM with NO MONEY/leaving your house: to protestor bail funds of different states

I Got Drunk And Gave Relationship Advice! The ULTIMATE guide to BOYS & GIRLS!!: to the George Floyd fund and other racial equality charities (x)

Baby Products I Regret Buying: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x) and National Bail Out (x)

MY #1 PRODUCT FROM 10 DRUGSTORE BRANDS: the Black Visions Collective (x)

BIG LOUIS VUITTON HAUL | SS 2020 ESCALE + MORE | hollyannaeree: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x) and Campaign Zero (x)

WANT TO DONATE TO BLACK LIVES MATTER BUT HAVE NO MONEY? WATCH THIS VIDEO: to the Black Lives Matter organization (x)

Watch To Donate For FREE: Black Lives Matter: to Campaign Zero (x), NAACP (x), Black Lives Matter (x), Unicorn Riot (x), Comminuties United Against Police Brutality (x), ACLU (x), Color of Change (x), Equal Justice Initiative (x), Reclaim the Block (x), National Bail Out Fund (x)

Huge Prettylittlething & Missguided TRY ON Haul NEW IN... MAJOR Retail Therapy!!: to the George Floyd fund (x) and others

MAY FAVORITES & BOOKS I’VE READ THIS MONTH | I Covet Thee: to The Bail Project (x)

Quarantine Graduation Cap Cake for Class of 2020 | How to Cake It with Yolanda Gampp: to an unspecified organization dedicated towards the education for black students

AMSR Putting Fenty Makeup on Rihanna (Paper Makeover): to the Black Visions Collective (x) and Support the Cities (x)

DECLUTTER, DIY & DECORATE #WITHME Little Girl’s Boho Room Transformation UNDER $100!!!: to the George Floyd memorial fund (x)

TikTokers SPEAKING OUT About RACISM & BLACK LIVES MATTER (Ft. Charli D’amelio, Dixie D’amelio): to the Black Lives Matter foundation (x)

Let’s Talk About It: Racism & Social Injustice: to the Black Lives Matter foundation (x)

“but i’m not racist?”: to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (x)

As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Someone put red paint on the "Serve and Protect" sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building and it is such a powerful statement.

In my last blog post (which you should check out), I dived into the topic of fast fashion. If you aren’t aware of what fast fashion is, it is basically when brands make cheaply made clothes and produce them at a quick speed. It is not sustainable. These facts found on the business insider website(https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10) give us statistics about how fast fashion and the industry affects the environment. 

Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions, dries up water sources, and pollutes rivers and streams

85% of all textiles go to the dump each year

While people bought 60% more garments in 2014 than in 2000, they only kept the clothes for half as long.

the fashion industry is also the second-largest consumer of water worldwide

So What Can We Do To Prevent Fast Fashion?

I understand that some people do not have the funds to buy some high-quality pieces all the time. But that is not always the best excuse when buying fast fashion. The best option when trying to cut down on purchasing from fast fashion brands is thrifting! It’s challenging to go thrifting, but sometimes you can find some great articles of clothing. It can be hit or miss, but buying second-hand is always a great option. 

most of them were like “everyone told me I should become a nurse or a pediatrician” and “people assume that I don’t know what I’m doing” you know, your average sexist bs

one of the women’s last name was starboard (yeah I know great name) and she was talking about how even though now she was one of the most accomplished surgeons at the hospital, the male scrub techs (read: guys who didn’t go to fucking medical school) and some of the male doctors call her starbitch in the OR because they (scrub techs mostly, strangely enough) try to suggest different ways to care for the patient and she always tells them no you didn’t go to med school and I did and so they would go out of their way to get the male doctors to treat the patient differently and then she would have to argue with him to prove what she was doing es right but sometimes the male doctor would come and take over the case anyway and this went on for a while

but then the hospital statistics changed bc this woman was literally being prevented from treating her patients bc the men were interfering and so the administrative head heard about this (she was female) and she was like y’all better stop or y’all better start looking for new jobs and then starboard was allowed to work on her patients and got the scrub techs replaced and all of the sudden, the patients were suddenly doing much better during and after surgery.

when she told this story she was like “people still call me a bitch, and maybe I am because I won’t let them walk all over me, but when you’ve got something to do, when you’ve got a life to save, you have to ignore their bullshit so that you can save someone’s fuckin life. Sexism should never stop you from accomplishing that”

I joined the fashion community on twitter around July last year. I went in knowing next to nothing about fashion. I just knew I loved it. When I was in middle school and high school, I was obsessed with Georges Hobeika haute couture. I would see the photos from fashion week and print them out and put them on my closet doors. I never really thought much about where I brought all my clothes and the ethics behind them. The main objective of middle school is to fit in. By dressing cute and fitting in with the trends, then it did not matter if the quality was good or not. When I started going to a small private school and wearing a uniform, I was not picking an outfit every day. It started to change my mind on trends. You started seeing how quickly trends were coming and going when you did not participate in them. After my freshman year of high school, I started a twitter account and started becoming aware of ethics and fashion. So what is fast-fashion? Well, fast-fashion can be described as cheaply made trendy clothes. A popular fast-fashion brand is Forever 21. I had never thought of how fast-fashion was not only unsustainable but unethical. The video attached below explains fast-fashion and sustainability in 5 minutes.