Daily Outfit 2

Taking photos at night with black clothes is not the smartest idea for Daily outfit photos, and this is a pretty random pic of me talking, but oh well :P

Shirt: ebay

Vinyl skirt: pretty old skirt, I forgot where I got it

Lilac necklace with skeleton hand: Twisted Mind of Mine

Bag: Restyle

Little crown: Gift from a friend ^^ 

For make-up: dramatical eyebrows with a very simple eye, just black eyeshadow and eyeliner with a little wing. No fake eyelashes, I just have naturally long lashes :P. Lips contoured with light purple and filled with a purple/pinkish lipstick - very light colors.

Last pics were taken at home, me and my BF were waiting for the League of Legends world championship finale :D - It started at 3 a.m. here,  and lasted till almost 7 a.m. O_O, we are creatures of the night so we're used to pull an all nighter muahah. But it was a great game, GG TPA! :D

Daily Outfit 1

 First daily outfist post ;) Very casual look I wore the other day just to take a stroll in the park ^^

 

Super baggy and cute bat shirt: H&M

skirt: H&M

Boots: Milanoo

Tights: DIY

Sunglasses: Prada replica

Little bat wings with black eyeliner, grey eyeshadow with a splash of pink in the corners. Dark purple for the lips (in the pic looks like grey..) 

Happy Birthday to Cookie!

It was 3 years ago that my canine best friend was born :D My adorable companion Cookie :3 I can't believe she's already 3, seems like yesterday when she arrived and could fit in my coat's pocket!

Cookie is the most adorable dog I've ever met, she's a true friend and she definitely holds a sweet special place in my heart ^^ Happy birthday to her!

Now I'll spam you with some photos of her cuteness :D

 Cookie with only 2 months

 

First Christmas at home

First thing I see in the morning

Me and Cookie today, just a few minutes ago :D

It’s the “Too Bad to be True Horror Movie Marathon”!

A couple of days ago me and my BF decided to watch the “Ruins”. It was screened 2 years ago on MotelX, but we didn’t had the opportunity to go see it back then, so we decided to gave it a try now since we were bored and in the mood for an horror movie cliché. Summing up, the movie sucked. It was not only cliché, it had many plot holes, terrible acting, it was just too dumb to be even remotely scary, it was just… funny :D So it ended up being entertaining since we gave some good laughs (although I have to say, almost everything seems funnier when watched with my BF, we’re just a couple of goofballs).

The next night we wanted to repeat the experience, MOAR TERRIBLE HORROR MOVIES PLS – “Summer’s Blood” was the chosen one, and cinema gods have mercy on us! That was probably the worst piece of crap I’ve ever seen O_O  and trust me, I’ve seen some pretty shitty movies. I gave it a 1/10 on IMDB and even that is a high rating. Atrocious acting, non sense plot and dumbest ending ever, it was so obvious I even figured out the plot “twist” just by reading the synopsis!  “The Ruins” compared to this was a freakin’ masterpiece! 

But we are thirsty for more! Can there be even worse? We want dumber stories, worst acting and directors. We want to scream “OH THE PLOT HOLES, WHY?! OH WHY?”, so I can make my (at least) top 5 Too Bad to Be True Horror Movies.

 I challenge you to make your own marathon – A week with a terrible horror movie per day, are you up for the challenge? You can follow my suggestions, which I’ll post later, or you can share your own suggestions! They have to be bad enough to either make you want to burst into tears of laugher or make you wanna gauge your eyes out :D

Next in the Marathon: Smile

   

Celebrate Bisexuality Day

Today is Bi Pride Day a.k.a. Celebrate Bisexuality Day :) and it's celebrated worlwide on September 23, the day of Sigmund Freud's death (73 years ago), since Freud was the first theorist who spoke of the existence of bisexuality. Freud believed that all humans were bisexual, by which he primarily meant that everyone incorporates aspects of both sexes, and that everyone is sexually attracted to both sexes. In his view, this was true anatomically and therefore also mentally and psychologically. Heterosexuality and homosexuality both developed from this original bisexual disposition.
But anyway! Bi day is important to make the bi community more visible, fight biphobia and share some love!
You can learn more about it here: http://september23.bi.org/

 And so, today I decided to make a simple Bi flag inspired makeup as a mini celebration ^^

A couple of days ago I went for a walk at downtown Lisbon and decided to check out the new stuff on Fnac (which is a store like Virgin Mega Store for ex, just in case you weren't familiar with it). I was taking a walk through the book's art section and hold and behold!There it was, without even expecting, I saw the Vampires Postcards, from the Vampire Art Now collection, with one of my artworks in the cover :) Altough I've seen my artwork in book covers before, it's always an amazing feeling to see them being published and actually see them on stores.
 
I used to spend hours gazing at books on that same section, discovering amazing artists, and now I'm amongst them ^^

American Mary Review

Oh hai!

So I decided to return to the blogosphere, this time I'll try to be more active. This is going to be a mixture of a personal blog + movie reviews + fashion style and pretty much whatever I'm in the mood for.

I'll start off with a movie review, since 2 days ago was the ending of MotelX which is an international horror film festival held in Lisbon - in other words: a dream come true for cinephiles, specially horror fans.
The "closing" film for this year was American Mary, and it's the one I pick for today's review.

Synopsis

American Mary is the story of a medical student named Mary who is growing increasingly broke and disenchanted with medical school and the established doctors she once idolized. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the messy world of underground surgeries which leaves more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele.

The movie was directed and written by the Soska Sisters, known for their previous movie "Dead Hooker in a Trunk", which I've never seen, therefore this was my first contact with their work, and I got to say that I'm not at all impressed.

First impression I got from this movie was that no real study was made about the body mod culture, so it came across as ignorant one too many times. I thought I was going to watch an horror movie about EXTREME body modifications, when the majority of the mods represented were no way near extreme, they were actually pretty common.

To gain some extra cash, Mary decides to help RealGirl Ruby in her desire to become more doll like, which involved getting rid of her genitals, so she could look as "smooth" as possible. Sometime after the surgery Mary decides to search for body modifications online, when she enters a website some pictures pop up with stretched ears, some genital piercings and what not. Mary quickly closes her laptop in disgust. So... "mutilating" a vagina is weird, but apparently stretched ears and genital piercings are just BAT SHIT CRAZY.  Maybe 20 years ago stretched ears would be scary, but today... The way they approached the subject just made the directors/writers look dumb.

Mary decides to drop med school and make body mods for a living, she builds her own doctor's office in her apartment and it's all very secretive and illegal, no one knows her true identity, and some clients are seen being hooded when others are not, not sure if this has an explanation or if it's just a mistake. And excluding the amputations, everything else asked by her clients seemed pretty normal to me. Ok maybe for some people tongue bisections, stretched ears and implants aren't "normal", but it's not something you haven't seen before! And I'm pretty sure it's getting more common by the day.
The idea this movie attempts to portray is that if you want  to stretch your ears or to fork your tongue you need to go to a fake surgeon on a back alley (not to mention that you must be some kind of an aberration)  when this is completely fake! You can go to professional on a tattoo/piercing shop and they'll do it in a clean legal environment! (EDIT: Ok, I didn't know this but apparently splitting your tongue is not completely legal in the US o.O). You can even stretch your ears at home in an healthy easy way if you read about it - I don't get why this movies tries to make such a taboo out of this stuff.
 At one moment a girl shows her heart shaped nipples - which again, reveals ignorance about the subject - since the heart shaped nipples are tattoos, and not achieved by any kind of surgery!

I think I'm complaining too much about the inaccuracy of the ""body mod world"", but it ruined the movie for me, although the ending was also pretty terrible. There was no build up to it, it looked like they had to wrap it up in 5 minutes - tried to make a drama/tragedy out of it and failed, was pretty emotionless and senseless.

Some pros: Beatress, the character played by Tristan Risk, you can't help but to love her, she's an exotic dancer who has had herself altered to look like Betty Boop. Trinstan played this bizarre part in a remarkable and endearing way.
It was also good to see Katharine Isabelle back on the screen, last time I saw her was in Ginger Snaps 12 years ago, and she looks as stunning as ever.

Overall, it wasn’t the worst movie I've seen, but I sure which I hadn't spent the money to go see it either.

3.5/10