Festival season is almost here

Festival season is among us and that means time for some of my favorite fashion trends. I love the bohemian inspired fashions I have since I was a young girl. I always loved to look at old photos of my mom and dad wishing my mother had saved her wardrobe from the 70's. I have always loved old graphic and band tees, bell bottoms, high waisted skirts or pants, cut off shorts, fringe, suede, crochet, lace and the gorgeous eclectic jewelry with large natural stones all mounted in chunky silver settings. 

Festival season means floral headbands, layered boho chic jewelry, crochet and fringe tops, cut off shorts and the higher the waist the better, this year a large trend we are seeing return is laces. Not lace alone that is also very trendy still but laces. From shoes and sandals to lace up tops and pants. I have seen some of the cutest lace up crop tops and body suits, not just with front laces but side laces or lace up backs. I absolutely love this trend. From some of my favorite designers like Pam & Gela creators of Juicy Couture and now their current line Pam & Gela, to even more affordable options like Forever 21 which this last year I have found myself sharing more and more of their styles on my blog. 

I recently purchased the cutest pair of lace cut off, distressed Jean shorts from a store I found over a year ago online called Fashion Junkee. I then was on the hunt for some more cute Jean shorts, skirts and tops for our up coming music festival in Jacksonville named Rockville. We attend it yearly and enjoy the weekend of many bands and festivities. I would love to attend Coachella one year but until my girls are both older for now we will stay local. My oldest daughter is 16 and last year we brought her with us, she loved it and this year she counted down the days to the announcement of which bands would be performing along with the dates. Last year we had some horrible weather the first day in the mid portion of the shows which led to getting soaked and later mud all over but we were prepared. I have ocd so I always over pack and of course had my bag with ponchos, change of shoes, and more. 

I love the weeks before the festival planning what I will wear. You want to be comfortable be at the same time it is so hot here but you also have to be prepared for rain. One minute it is sunny and gorgeous the next it is down pouring and winds are gusting then before you know it the storm blows over and the sun is back out but now it's hot and very humid. You 100% don't waste time flat ironing or doing your hair in any style that won't hold up to rain and lots of humidity. I love to wear my hair in braids, a messy bun or half up half down with a floral headband or bandana. I always am cautious what accessories I choose because with rain you don't want to wear something cheap that once wet will turn you green or black, also you don't want to risk ruining or damaging anything you really love. 

One tip I have learned over many years of buying jewelry and being a bargain shopper, I don't always but sterling silver or gold sometimes I find cute pieces I have to own that are costume style or less expensive alternatives which will change your skin color. I use a spray clear coat or sometimes smaller pieces I will use a clear nail polish to coat the metal and smaller stones that may be set in the jewelry to provide a protective coating. This works amazing just make sure that larger pieces you use a spray which you can find at Joann's or Hobby Lobby even Home Depot and Lowe's carries these as well as Walmart and Target. You can find in the craft department or sometimes in the paint department. I use Krylon clear coat, do not purchase a matte or high gloss finish just the basic clear. I also use OPI clear top coat nail polish as mentioned above for smaller pieces like rings and pendants or over smaller stones set in the jewelry. 

Over the next week or two I will be featuring lots of amazing styles and designers for the festival season as well as for the end of spring and of course summer. Lots of cropped jeans, tops, tanks, cut off shorts, cut sun dresses and much more. I also have some great products I am going to be reviewing for your skin, hair and more.  Enjoy and can't wait to share some of my faves for the upcoming season... 

Above are the lace cut off shorts and some lace up flats from Fashion Junkee. The tank is by @SiennaMoonLa on IG and the floral headband is an older piece I got from Love Culture. Black fringe backpack was a free gift from Victoria Secret. Think it's cute for concerts or festivals and since it was free don't have to worry about if it rains it getting ruined...

Some cute spring trends from Express. They have some amazing cropped jeans and graphic tops along with this light weight black jacket perfect for those cooler spring nights. Love the style and made sure to get a couple colors of these motto cropped jeans. 

One of my recent ootd posts from IG is this tank by Pam & Gela which is on sale now on their site for spring. The jeans are by Hollister and are cropped distressed jeans, I also got a pair with the bottoms cute and frayed in alms of the same style they are higher waisted and very figure flattering. The kimono is an older piece I got from Fashion Junkee website. You can find them on IG @Fashionjunkeedotcom. 

Have shared this Pam & Gela tank previously but wanted to share these lace up back pants. The ankles have a lace up feature on the back bottom ankle. These are a track motto style pant in army green and you can also find these on sale on their site. I got mine off eBay for under $50 and adore them super comfy and stylish. 

Excuse my pose here lol was trying to get the holes in my pants and ended up standing like a dork lol. But was only shot I could show you the holes in my Pam & Gela Betsee Sweats I scored off eBay for $20 they have them on their site now and have matching sweatshirts also. The tee is a fave new brand I have found on Etsy called Punk Masters. Love their designs and the tee shirts are all super soft. This one says Art/Punk and is a heather purple tone. Matches my hair almost perfect. 

New designer I am collaborating with from Etsy, 31ements and you can find her IG @31ements and she has a link to her store. Lots of amazing hand made jewelry, I will have a more detailed post coming soon and her shops link will be added to my favorite shops this weekend. 

While I was away I got a lot of mail one was this tank by Pam & Gela, was sad I missed out on this design from their current spring sale. They have the best sales but make sure to grab what you like quickly because they sell out fast. I had missed this "Yay" tank which was available in white and black but lucked out and found this one new with tags on Poshmark and for less then the sale by a few dollars so was meant to be. I did grab a few tanks from their sale and have a few more items I am hoping won't sell out before I get paid next week. The brushes are from the LiveGlam Morphe brush subscription box and enjoy their brushes so much. I got this monthly box for my teen daughter she loves makeup and does my makeup for me all the time now want her to have the best brushes for her collection. 

A couple more Pam & Gela scores off eBay. I am super in love with their fashion line just in case you haven't noticed over the last couple of years and I am always looking for designs I missed from prior collections as well as pieces to complete sets like these animal print sweats that match my cut off top. 

Here you can see both together, I got the top awhile back and have a cute skirt but have been looking for the sweat pants for a while finally found them in a medium. 

Last up may have shared this in my last post from my vacation have to look back and see how far into my trip I was when I last posted. Tomorrow I will be going on my laptop to add links, where to shop links for my pieces that are still available as well as updating my fave shops and adding some new discount codes. I will also be updating my tabs for favorite fashion trends and home decor. Adding spring and summer looks along with lots of posts coming with festival looks, spring and summer fashion trends and beauty reviews. 

This outfit above is a Pam & Gela tank I got off Blue and Cream for $46 on sale. Paired with Jbrand jeans, Target flannel and FreeBird boots. 

Everyone have an amazing weekend and keep an eye out for lots of updates coming next week. Been laid up this week due to my injections I received on Tuesday but really wanted to post something since over my vacation I have received some amazing new products and styles to share as well as my research for spring and summer styles I am excited to share. Happy shopping and deal hunting to all. Xoxo 

On Vacation

Hey there everyone, just wanted to take a moment to post that I am on a much needed vacation with my family. I am working on some amazing posts for the round up of spring and start of summer. I am sorry for my current absence I have had a lot of health stuff going on along with being very busy with work. I am going to leave you with some recent photos of my latest hair color and some of my recent fashion posts. 

Pam & Gela graphic lighter tee, FawninginLove opalite necklace and ring. Alex and Ani bracelets 

Alex and Ani arm candy. 

Hope for Humanity tee with Silver jeans and a striped chambray tee I found at Marshall's on sale. Horn necklace is FawninginLove on Etsy my favorite hand made jewelry shop. She has amazing quality and detail products I love. 

Love my pastel silver, purple and pink hair by Chrissy B at Hair Frenzy in Pembroke Pines at the shops at Pembroke Gardens.

Pam & Gela destroyed graphic tank paired with some destroyed boyfriends jeans and lace up black faux suede flats I got from Fashion Junkee. They are laying on top of my Sand Cloud towel. Don't forget I am an ambassador for Sand Cloud you can use my code Wanderlust25 to save 25% off your order now. This is the tie dye bag and I recently got the acid wash tie dye towel also. Can't get enough of these amazing towels..

Lots of selfies lately mostly because I am loving my new hair color and have been having fun wearing purple tone lipgloss and eye makeup makes it fun to experiment with different looks. 

My boss sent me to the thrift store to purchase some items for a blog post for our work blog on thrifting and DIY styles. Graphic tees that I got for $1-2 and cut the neck, sleeves or back to make them more fashionable and stylish. Will have more on my thrift scores coming soon. 

Got my hair blown out for the trip and loved the way she styled it with the curls on the ends. 

Some more of my favorite Pam & Gela looks, packing for our trip I was admiring some of my eBay and sale scores by my favorite designers. Love this tie dye skirt with v neck tee, then my sweat suit with pink and cream tie dye. Love these sweatshirts with the back zipper. Everything is so soft also. 

A flashback to my many shades and hair colors. 

In honor of St. Paddy's day my tank and tee from Walmart jeans are from Hollister. 

Hollister jeans and Dreamcatcher tee 

Lots of pastel in honor of Easter and spring. 

Savannah Georgia our first stop on our 12 day spring break get away. 

Hope everyone has an amazing spring break and Easter will have more photos from our GA and NC trip soon. Xoxo 

One more Pam & Gela, What's stopping you tank with Silver Jeans... 

Sorrel Weed House in Savannah, GA 

Amazing detail in these older homes love historic homes. 

Front street view of the Sorrel Weed House.

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Towel bag in purple and blue tie dye 

XL Denim towel is perfect for family beach days, picnics and rock concerts with lawn seats or general admission. 

Tie dye with zipper pouch for storing items. 

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Graphics & Punk Masters

Punk masters on Etsy, check them out on Instagram @PunkMasters will be adding a link to their website on this post shortly. 

PunkMasters.com

Punk masters on IG and Etsy designed these amazing tees. I ordered a black and she sent me the white also, love the distressed hem on the tees and they are so soft. Planning to order a few more next payday wanted to make sure my size was good. This tee is awesome love the feather with skull design and punk rock or 80's retro music is a fave of mine. 

L💛VE WILL SET US FREE tank by Spiritual Gangster paired with a vintage bohemian skirt that can also be worn as a dress. Has a very Renaissance feel to it. The lace kimono was a clearance score from Pacsun last year. 

My new hair color is finally unveiled after months of lightening from dark burgundy red and bright red with blonde to now a pastel silver with purple and a touch of pink which is what was left of the red. My graphic lighter tee is a favorite of mine by Pam & Gela. 

My necklace is by Fawninginlove and is her Opalite triangle necklace. Love it. She makes the best handmade jewelry I have found on Etsy, always the highest quality and have never had any of the items break on me. 

Wildfox Couture feather sweatshirt I scored for an amazing deal off eBay not long ago just realized today it matches my hair perfectly with silver, pink and purple glittery feathers. The jeans are my new Capri length Silver jeans, which j can't get enough of all their distressed jeans. Was going to get some shorts but honestly need to tan my legs and drop a few pounds from winter before I rock some shorter length shorts so for now going to keep with my capris. They have some amazing new styles in stock. 

Wildfox Couture

Volcom Good Vibes Only, tie dye tank from Pacsun last spring with some grey Silver jeans in distressed finish. One of my all time favorite pair of jeans and if you roll them up they are capris. The for is amazing and the color is excellent. 

Wildfox sweatshirt, I shoulda been a f*#$!&g sailor. Love this, had to share one of my first ever WildFox Couture tops. Love how comfy they are and love all the designs. 

I think that should have me caught up, going to take a look back at my last post and if there are any tops or outfits I forgot to share I will add them later. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend. Want to take a quick moment to say thank you to all my new followers on social media and here on my blog. My FB has been taken down temporarily as I update some stuff for my job and fashion stuff, but I am so honored to have over 12K followers and to know they aren't all ghost followers with some of my photos reaching over 3-6K likes. It makes my heart warm and smile. I send love to all of you and am thankful for everyone's support. 

Peace, love and rock n roll 

Xoxo 

Kylie Cosmetics Lip Kits

If you don't currently live under a rock or maybe like me you aren't up to date on all the hot makeup and beauty trends taking the Beauty Vloggers and Bloggers by storm. My daughter luckily is a huge makeup lover and she keeps me in the loop pretty good. 

Kylie Jenner whom is the queen of makeup and especially lipstick with her tips on making your lips look fuller along with many people whom now won't leave the house with using contour on their face. I myself have not been a huge of the reality style celebrity world totally, I don't always think that some of these people make a good role model for the youth of America, especially being a mother of two girls. Honestly though my daughter is not looking at Kylie as a role model of who or what she wants to be like or even look like but she does really appreciate her knowledge in makeup and fashion sense. I have to agree I am a little older but she does have a pretty amazing eye for everyday fashion, I adore some of the lace up sweat suits and street wear style outfits I have seen her in more recently. To avoid all controversy here I am not supporting the Kardashian clan I am simply being a mom who loves to see her daughter smile so when she told me that she wanted one of the liquid matte lipstick and lip liner kits that she had seen all the hottest beauty blogger and vloggers raving about I was ready to get her one. 

I had no idea how hard they were to get. My daughter told me that they had several online releases that sold out in less then five minutes. I saw on eBay people trying to sell these kits that retail for $29.95 for over $100 which makes me sick. I hate to see people buy out a product to turn around a price gauge especially something like toys and then a product like this so many young girls want to own. 

I made it my personal mission to find out when the next release date and time was set my alarm or reminder on my phone, and managed to get very lucky. It was crazy. The lip kits sold out in less then five minutes again. Luckily I had my phone and MacBook ready with my account pre made then the ease of my credit card being set on auto fil for my iCloud to make online purchases. At exactly six I logged on to the site and added a Candy K into my cart on my iPhone then the Dolce K, Koko K and Posie K into another cart on my laptop. When I hit to process my order everything started to crash and I kept getting an error code, when I hit refresh I was excited to see my confirmation. The Candy K order had gone through I wasn't as lucky with my laptop order it took a little longer to refresh and we weren't able to get one of the three but we did manage to get the Dolce K and Posie K, I wasn't even 10% which one had sold out but I was just happy to have confirmation. 

I had a slight issue with one of my orders being messed up due to me accident hitting something when refreshing and trying to enter information back so one package was at the post office. It is now in our hands I am happy to say but I have only had time to photograph the Candy K order. 

Below you will see the box it arrived in, packaging and the actual liquid matte lipstick with liner. Again this is the Kylie Cosmetics Candy k. I will be sure to post more photos of the other colors when I have a chance. 

Thought the color she wanted the most was lost to whom ever lucked out and got the package delivered to their PO Box since I messed up the address. It was all kinds of flipped around with my city showing up as the street then the street and house number being the city it was crazy. Also was weird cause on my confirmation receipt and email I had only erased one letter of my street ad trees everything else appeared normal. Luckily I made it to the post office when they opened and the person had not gotten their mail from their box so they were able to retrieve it for me. 

The box is rather plain on the outside but I love how the carefully package the lip kits in an oversized box with plenty of padding to protect what is inside from any damage during shipping. 

Once you open the box you instantly see the colorful and cool graphic design with lips and Kylie's name. I love the box the kit comes in and the card included thanking you for your purchase. 

I am big into graphics and love her choice of design to use on her boxes. The actual liquid matte lipstick container is very similar to colour pop style lipgloss end and liquid matte lipsticks. Similar tube and applicator. The product is thick but goes on amazing, drying to matte form quickly and evenly. The lip liner is one that needs to be sharpened with a lip or eye liner sharpener which I think it would be nice for the money to be a retractable style liner without needing the messy sharpener but maybe she will change this since her price point is so high then of course these are selling like hot cakes so she isn't hurting on the investment she has made back that times a hundred I am sure. 

I am waiting for my daughter to try it out and test them but I know since she loves matte Mac lipsticks and other liquid matte lipsticks that she is going to be in love with these kits. I know I am not a huge matte fan but I applied it and loved the pigmentation, coverage and how it dried. I didn't have product all over my drink cup or straws plus I have had the color on since 9 am and it is now after noon, I have eaten and had two drinks it is still as vibrant as when I applied it this am. I personally would like it more with a touch of gloss to make it less matte but that is my personal taste. I am more a fan of the regular lipsticks or shimmers then of course glosses. If you are a matte fan like my daughter and can get your hands on these you won't be disappointed. 

Hope you enjoy my quick review of this hot trend in beauty right now and honestly I have a feeling this is just the start of a huge makeup empire for Kylie. I think it is fantastic she is taking something she loves and is passionate about to turn it into a business she can be proud of and that will represent her as an individual outside of her family which has been primarily famous for reality television, and fashion. 

Happy shopping and congrats to everyone who was able to score this product it was nerve racking, I hope that soon she can produce enough to where everyone will be able to order the items without having people who want to make a quick dime off the popularity, demand and difficulty of purchasing. If one of the color lip kits isn't for my daughter I will be sure to let everyone know and would giveaway before I sold but if I was to sell it I wouldn't ask more then what I paid myself. 

Happy Friday and have a wonderful weekend my friends. Xoxo

Peace, love and rock n' roll ✌🏼️💋🎤to all. 

Melissa