So Baby Is It All You Got? Tell Me If You Got Some More, I'm Thinking Of Some Time Off, I'm Dreaming Of A Time You Knew Me...

So yesterday I said a bit about how I want to make a few changes here- primarily that I want to start using my Pentax instead of my crappy Lumix and stop posting so many pics with my  that include my face...

Wellllllll... I'm half way there, all today's pics were shot with my Pentax... However- they're all of my face!!...

Ha, gotta learn to walk before you can run right?! I actually managed to get relatively clear, non blurry face shots, which is the first time i've ever been able to do that when taking self-portraits on this camera!! Full body shots however are gonna take a while longer to master and I couldn't be bothered today so...

• Shirt- from my mum's friend
• Shorts- Ebay

... By the end i'd even figured out how to get the light right in my face but by that point all my expressions were resembling The Fonz which wasn't cute so I stopped.

Hopefully i'll have body shots down by next week.

I trust everyone's been listening to Solange's new EP True which came out today. It's so damn good!! All the songs are really catchy and in today's musical climate it really does stand out stylistically, well worth a listen if you haven't already!!

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'Some Things Never Seem To Fucking Work' by Solange from her new EP 'True')

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Life's Too Short To Even Care At All... I'm Losing My Mind, Losing My Mind, Losing Control...

One of my greatest character flaws is impatience. I'm not impatient in every sense, I don't get annoyed easily or anything like that but when it comes to things like: learning new skills, waiting for a delivery to arrive or buying something I feel I need I can be ridiculously impatient- Once my mind is made up- I want things when I want them and that doesn't always work to my advantage...

That is why I still haven't learnt how to use my camera. 

My mind was set on being able to take better photos for my blog and in general, so when my friend offered to sell me his old camera at a reasonable price I emptied what was left in my bank account and bought it.... This was several months ago.

As hasty as i'd been with making the purchase, I was so impatient with learning how to use it that it's basically been sitting on my shelf collecting dust while I use my other (inferior) camera or borrow other people's for 99% of my photographs.

Well today I decided I was finally ready to take a deep breath and tackle it again. The quality difference between the Lumix i'm always using and the Pentax I should be using is like night and day. See for yourself...-

Even though i've obviously messed around with the colour etc, the first pic (and unfortunately the best one of the bunch) was taken with my Lumix...

All the rest were taken with the Pentax...

• Top- Ebay
• Leopard print bra- Next
• Chain- Forever 21
• Robe- from a friend
• Docs- from a friend
• Lipstick- in Trash by Illamasque

What a difference!!!

I've always wanted my blog to have big, clear, bright pictures on it, with better detail. More about my clothes, hair and make-up products and less about my stupid, unchanging face lol...

 Maybe with a bit of intense practice I can finally put my impatience aside, stop wanting to throw my camera out the window every time a picture doesn't come out how I wanted it to and make the adjustments here that i've been wanting to make for so long...

I feel my patience increasing slightly just saying that lol

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'Cough Syrup' by Young The Giant)

P.P.S Solange's new EP is out tomorrow. Yay!!

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I Saw The Mirror Staring Back At Me And It Told Me I'm A Self-Machine...

After posting my 'tutorial' yesterday it occurred to me that I haven't actually posted a single photo of me with my current braids!! Well these are pretty thick- more Poetic Justice /Jumbo / Patra/ Whatever you want to call them style. Excuse the terrible lighting and have a lil look...

Ha, going to pull my sheet onto my mattress properly right now, shame...

• Knicker shorts- Ebay
• Cheeks- MAC paintstick in Nocturnal Plum
• Lips- MANC paintstick (same ^^) & Dior Ultragloss in 982
• Eyes- waterline- white kohl pencil MAC, eyelid- Collection 2000 liquid eyeline, black

... And as you can see BOTH sides of my hair are shaved- dunno why people ask me that so much, both sides have been shaved for most of the year!!... Aaaaaaanyway...

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Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'Self Machine' by I Blame Coco)

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Played Around With Your Heart... Guess I Played Myself From The Start...

Hey booboo!!

Well i've got to say this is easily the worst tutorial i've ever seen on youtube... And it's mine!! Ha.

 Pretty much the only reasons i'm posting this here and not discarding it into my recycling bin where it belongs are:

1. I haven't had time to do another blogpost yet this month
2. This video took close to 8 HOURS to upload due to the super slow internet connection in my flat
3. I despise the sound of my own nasal Mancunian voice, so in a way, i'm forcing myself to face my fear lol (but really though who talks like this??!)

Anyway, i'm braiding my hair again next week and i'm hoping to borrow a camera from someone so I can make a high quality video- with less of my babbling and more close-ups and non alien lighting so that you can actually see what i'm doing...

Seems like a good time to ask if anyone has any braiding questions?????- if you leave them as a comment or e-mail me within the next week, i'll try to address them when I re-shoot the tutorial.

Anyway, i'm out.

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to my new favourite song 'Lover in the Parking Lot' by Solange)

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Fast Life Gripping, Yeah We Still Tippin, Codeine Cups Paint a Picture So Vivid, Fakes Try To Mimic, Get Girls Timid, But Behind Closed Doors They Get Oh So Rigid...

Why hello there my pretties, I know it's been a while but... Well, i'm just hopeless at being overly consistent with anything!! I have my active spurts of posting followed by a few weeks of unintentional silence and that's just the way it is, what can I say.

Anyhow, this week I shot with Arsema... Well more like she tried to shoot me whilst I freaked out about people in the streets looking at me which resulted in a lot of flaring of the nostrils and squinting.

I'm in between braiding atm so you have something a lil different to look at... If nothing else at least my hair is looking good if I do say so myself!... I'm going for a Morrissey / '40s '50s-esque look right now...

• Jacket- a friend's
• Hawaiian shirt- Cow Vintage
• Jeans- Cow Vintage
• Faux fur coat- a friend's
• Bag- Cow Vintage... I think
• Shoes- my mumsy
• Lipstick- Nars 

My favourite picture is probably the last one, it was our last-ditch attempt when we got back to my flat... I dunno, I think i'm just a sucker for shadow and our so-wrong-they're-right kitchen tiles!!

What d'you think?? My hair's growing out nicely i'm sure you'll agree?!

*Also i'm repeating my request (and will keep repeating it until everyone does it) that people check my tumblr before reposting my pictures... It gets tiresome seeing pictures of yourself pop up on your dashboard that you've taken and posted on your own tumblr but yet aren't the source of, get no credit for etc... Laziness is no longer an excuse, it now takes 2 mins to check whether the pic you wanna post is already on my tumblr-

1. Go to http://zizziswardrobe.tumblr.com/
2. Click on my 'About' on the nav bar
3. Click on 'My pictures'
4. Hey presto, a full list of all the pictures of myself i've posted on tumblr...

 HELP A SISTER OUT- reblog from ME :p*

Love ya long time.

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. title = lyrics to 'The Morning' by The Weekend)

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Ghetto Kraviz...

Dance til you're... from Samuele Apperti on Vimeo.

Me and Sam made a lil video a few days ago. This is the final product.... What d'you think? Toodles to you bitches xx

Feel The Warmth We'll Never Die, We're Like Diamonds In The Sky...

Firstly, I just created a facebook page for Zizzi's Wardrobe. I never really wanted one and have fought it for a long time but it just makes sense if I ever want this lil blog to pick up any speed...

So here's the link, www.facebook.com/ZizzisWardrobe I don't ask you guys for much but if you have facebook and are a fan of my blog please go over and like the page cos if I don't have 50 likes by the end of next week i'll probably shut it down out of frustration and turn to alcohol!! No pressure, just sayin.

Anyway, it's been quite a while since I did a post that was in any way artistic.

Sam is refusing to take any more pictures of me atm, (booooooo)... So here's a self-shoot I did after watching some turban tutorials on youtube...

I can't be bothered to list where all the jewellery came from- a few pieces are from Forever 21 and some of the rings are my friends.

I bought the material for the turban from an African shop in Upton Park (East London).

My lipstick is from Nars.

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'Diamonds' by Rihanna)

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You Talk Way Too Much, You Talk Way Too Much, It's Only The End, It's Only The End As We Know It...

As i've acknowledged in the title, I 'talk' wayyyyyy too much in these posts sometimes so imma keep it short today....

This is how my room is getting on decorating wise....

Still some stuff to do but we're nearly finished...

Would be nice to have a little art hanging up but hey...

Patience is a virtue etc...

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1. The right hand side wall
2. The clothes rail
3. The carpet- no we didn't choose it but i'm quite fond of it anyway
4. Outdated methods of entertainment, Hookah, Vintage cases used as dressing table
5. Fashion magazines, primarily Vogue UK
6. New Pentax, Old Pentax
7. Noticeboard
8. Me, pretending to do nothing

What do you think?? I'm really happy with how it's coming together.

I'll probably do another, more detailed,  interior post when we've finished.

Any ideas for cool twists we could add would be more than welcome!!

BTW if anyone's wondering why i've been posting so much these last few days it's cos I have a week off work and i'm trying to make up for months of blog neglect, ha.

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'You Talk Way Too Much' by The Strokes)

My Black Fire's Burning Bright Maybe I'll Go Out Tonight, We Can Paint The Town In Blue...

So there is quite a history that built up to today's post... Sit down and get comfortable kiddies, i'm gonna tell ya a little story...

In the summer of last year I entered a give-away on a blog for two pairs of earrings. I didn't really consider the fact that i'd let my ear piercings heal up a few years ago and didn't think I had any chance of winning... but a few days later I received an e-mail that I had in fact won... Wooooooo... but hold on, how could I wear the beautiful earrings that were travelling across the Atlantic to me with no holes to hook them through?!
So I resolved it was time to get my ears re-pierced and needlessly-long story short, a year later I put my fear of ear piercing guns aside and did.

I'd kept my earrings safe and sound in their boxes and now, finally, I can wear them.

This is my favourite pair, they are in the shape of Africa and painted with a leopard print...

(Photographed by http://www.samueleapperti.com/)

• Africa earrings- Zoe Love
• Tank- Brick Lane
• High waisted knickers- American Apparel

My one qualm with these photos is that they look like we shot them against a screen, or copied and pasted me onto the background when we actually just shot them against our recently painted blue bedroom wall. Oh well.

What d'you think of the earrings?? I can't wait to wear them out!

*This isn't directly related to this post but this has been nagging at me for a while now- my tumblr zizziswardrobe contains almost all of the pictures I post here on my blogspot... So while I am grateful to people using my pictures on their tumblr's it'd be helpful if you could check my tumblr before posting anything and reblogging my pics from there if you can find them rather than posting them yourself. This helps me to promote both of my blogs (tumblr and blogspot) and keep better track of where my page views are coming from.

If you can't find the picture you want to use or are posting the pic on a blog, feel free to post it yourself but please always include a link to either my tumblr page or my blogspot and if it's a blog please let me know you've used the picture. Sorry to rant but it's necessary.*

K, i'm off to watch Solange's 'Losing You' video... AGAIN!!

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'Serial Killer' by Lana Del Rey)

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I Don't Know Why I Fight It Clearly We Are Through... Tell Me The Truth Boy Am I Losing You For Good??...

I know this is a few days old now but i've only just seen the finished product of Solange's fantastic video for 'Losing You' and it would be a crime not to post it. 

Everyone knows how much I love Solange, she's been a major inspiration with my hair choices and I think her style is one of the best. I've been playing this on repeat as every time you watch it you pick up on some detail you missed the first, second, or in my case 35th time you watched it. 

The cinematography is incredible. The fashion is flawless. The location (Cape Town) looks amazing and of course the song is great too. 

As you can probably tell i'm very impressed but what do you make of Solange's latest offering?? Are there any clothes you wish you could steal from the video?? I want EVERYTHING but the  shorts, patterned top and cardigan look she's wearing in the doorway is just something I need to be emulating ASAP! PATTERNSSSSSSSSSSS!!

And isn't the girl with the long braids a blogger?? I swear i've seen pictures of her before.

Toodles to you bitches xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'Losing You' by Solange)

(P.P.S. for anyone following me on instagram I haven't deserted it but my phone broke so I wont be posting again till next month, bear with me)

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She Figured If She Didn't Move No One Would Notice Her... Underneath A Winter's Sky Her Eyes Were Bright, Tonight Would Be Her Night...

We have no internet at home atm so this is a super quick, low-quality post!!!!...

Thanks for the lovely comments regarding my realllllll hair, I will get back to y'all when I have tinternet back (sic intentional, my family visited today, feeling very Northern right now)...

This is the camera I bought thanks to the advice of the wonderful blogger Sade, didn't use it for the pics in this post but will be doing so in the near future so hopefully I can finally start to step this up a bit quality wise...

• Jumper- Sam's
• Shorts- H&M

What d'ya think of my new braids??? They're thin and many so it's a slightly different look, i'm feeling it atm, though I did only plait them the other day- took the entire Lord Of The Rings trilogy to do as well!!! Longggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!

And FYI, no, I don't like cats!!!!... I like Dawgssssssssss.... Sooooooooo...

Toodles to you BITCHES ;) xx

(P.S. Title = lyrics to 'Winter's' Sky by The Pipettes)

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