The Outfit Challenge: Fangirl Chic

Despite staying at home with a headache today, Marijke and I went ahead with the outfit challenge, which today was Fangirl Chic as chosen by me. 

I already sent a quick pic of me in bed in my Game of Thrones House Stark t-shirt, Winter IS Coming after all. But I did get fully dressed later in the day, continuing along the same theme. 

It is a warm week here in Galway so an airy skirt was the perfect companion to my House Targaryen T-Shirt (detail shot below). I like that the colours are very autumnal, a perfect look for this time of year. 

No detail shot of hair and make-up this time as I went without war paint today. But as a bonus, here is a close-up of our new little kitten Merlin instead!

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The Gemstone Challenge

Yesterday, my challenge as set by Marijke was to by inspired by a (semi) precious stone. I love gemstones and do actually believe in the energies and qualities attributed to them.
Not that that made the challenge that much easier. I needed to really match the occasion of a day of basically just packing for my imminent house move, my clothes suitable to that and the stones I know.

I decided to go with Citrine. Pretty and yellow! A really sunny stone.

According to crystal-cure.com:

Citrine is a yellow-to-golden member of the quartz mineral group. A deep golden variety from Madiera Spain can resemble the costly imperial topaz gem stone, which is one reason that citrine is a popular birthstone alternative to those born in November.

Citrine has been called the "stone of the mind". Ancient cultures believed that placing a citrine on the forehead of an elder would increase his psychic power.

Citrine is known as the lucky "Merchants Stone". If you are in any type of sales, just put a citrine in the cash drawer and watch what happens. Also used by healers to:

• increase self esteem
• protect from the negative energy from someone else's abuse
• open the mind to new thoughts
• promote clarity of thought

Interesting stuff. I think so anyway. 

So now over to my outfit of the day.

Basically anything below the waist can be ignored as it's only jeans. And this picture makes my bum and thighs look huge.

And the usual closeup. I am wearing a light yellow shimmery eyeshadow and mascara. It's not really visible. Unfortunately I don't actually own any citrine jewellery so no cool accessories apart from my headscarf.

I really like this theme and I would have done more with it under different circumstances. Now I need to think about the theme for this week and then we will probably take a break as I am going to Barcelonaaaaa! (And South of France and Italy)

Unleashing my inner goddess

And it's not a Fifty Shades of Grey thing. I haven't even read those books.

Rather it is this week's outfit challenge, thought up by me for myself and Marijke.

In other words, choose a god or goddess and allow him or hew to inspire you.

Marijke chose Athena (visit her blog!) and I chose the Morrighan. She is from pre-christian Celtic mythology. Wikipedia states that "The Morrígan is a goddess of battle, strife, and sovereignty. She sometimes appears in the form of a crow, flying above the warriors.".

Sounds pretty badass, right?

So here's what I made of it (I cropped out my head as it just looked weird in the photo):
                                       
My black skirt from last Sunday is making a reappearance along with a black top in the gothic style that has a lot of pointy bits that could totally be feathers. You can't see it too well in the photo so click here to see it in green.

Make-up is a smoky eye with lots of black and purple and dark red nails. Lacy black scarf to keep my unruly hair in one place and to top it all off: my necklace with the silver raven skull pendant to get it that extra Morrighany edge.

I was a bit apprehensive wearing this into work as the water outfit with dark green eye make-up got a lot of attention but either this is more toned down somehow or I look to scary to invite comments. Either way, I had the guts to walk into work with it without toning it down. Yay me!

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