Many of you know that I RARELY take pictures without make up on! As a matter of fact I never ever ever go on webcam with my friends or anything else for that matter without make up on.. yet I hardly put it on in real life when I go out. Sad Right? Anyways I took This picture back In January of this year I think? A lot of girls over the course of this year asked me about my makeup in this picture and where I got the dress from and all of that. The dress was purchased at Hot Topic Last year and It sadly is no longer available for purchase at that store. You might be able to find it on Ebay. The brand is Sweet Love. Good luck finding it. I bought it for 40 bucks but I am sure if someone has listed it on Ebay you can find it for less than that. The Bow is from Hot Topic as well and is made out of pleather. I am sure you can find a similar one on ebay. I hardly shop at Hot Topic these days but sometimes I see things from the window that I must have so I end up walking in and buying things from time to time.
I do not know why so many people like this pic of me but w.e
Now for my makeup.. These are the following products I was wearing in this picture. I might do a video tutorial if anyone REALLY wants me to. It's real simple though. All i did was put eye shadow over my eyes and erm.. put liquid eye liner on my bottom and lower lids. I have naturally long eyelashes so I only curled them. I never use mascara.
I only apply concealer under my eye lids because I have dark circles (because I am hispanic and most of us have dark circles under our eyes due to genetics). I used Mac's select moiturecover in NC30. This is the ONLY concealer that works for me. I have tried plenty of others and they always make my lower lids look green or pale yellow. It is WORTH THE PRICE.
Mac's Vex Eyeshadow. THIS IS THE PRETTIEST COLOR EVER! It works great for that whole smokey eye look. It looks grey at first glance but if you look closer you can clearly see that is has bits of purple and pink in it as well. this eyeshadow as a weird look to it. I guess the best word I am looking for here is iridescent? I also put black eyeshadow on the corners of my lids as well.
Loreal Liquid Eyeliner.
Ok now ya got to be careful with this stuff because if you over do it your gonna end up looking like a suicide girls reject. Liquid Eyeliner either makes you look hot or like trash. So make sure not to apply a thick coat of it. It takes A LOT of practice to put this stuff on properly. This first time I used this was when I went to go meet Trent >.< eww.. erm.. anyways I did not now how to apply it properly and I ended up accidently stabbing myself in the eye with the brush and got liquid eyeliner inside of my eyeball. My whole eye turned red. NOT FUN! I usually always wear a cat eye but in this picture you can clearly see that I am not.
Now if you look at this picture it CLEARLY looks like I am wearing lipstick. WRONGO! I am allergic to lipstick and lip balm. Found that out the hard way! I would rather not talk about it.. that was a really bad incident that happened and well.. lets just say my lips swelled up for a whole month. Instead what I do is a little photoshop magic! I basically just selected my lips with the magnetic lasso tool and then changed the hue of them to a bright pink. FOOLED YA! I actually never photshop out my blemishes so if your calling me a cheater than you are sadly mistaken. Only time I ever do is when I am changing the color of the whole picture or when I am putting on digital lipstick.
okay so now all of you girls on FB know about what make up I used in this picture! Go out and buy everything I mentioned! ASAP!
I want to post more Holiday Themed Entires here so I decided to research some other Holidays that are celebrated during this season other than the ones that were are all familiar with (Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukah). I have always had fascination with these cute little girls with wreathes on their heads but I never really took the time to find out what they were actually celebrating until just now.
The girls in this picture are celebrating a Swedish Holiday known as "St. Lucy's Day" Or "St. Lucy's Feast". This day is not only celebrated in Sweden, Many other nordic countries participate in St. Lucy's day as well and also it is celebrated in Sicily as well (St. Lucy herself was a Sicilian). The Holiday falls on December 13th and is celebrated in congruence with Christmas in Switzerland. Before i get into all the ways this Holiday is celebrated I am going to give everyone the background info on why it is celebrated and who the holiday is about.
St. Lucy: Who was she?
St. Lucy was a Sicilian born into a noble and wealthy family in Syracuse, Italy. Her father passed away when she was very young which meant she was raised solely by her mother. When She was a young girl she vowed to keep her virginity for Christ but her mother had different plans for her. When she reached her teen years her mother tried to force the girl to marry a pagan boy but Lucy of course, refused the marriage. Lucy's mother eventually developed a hemorrhage and became very ill so Lucy begged her mother to pay visit to the Tomb of St. Agatha in order to receive healing. Her mother agreed and she was cured soon after she paid visit to the holy site. After her mother was healed, Lucy told her her about her vow to God to stay a virgin and then asked if she could bestow her fortune amongst the poor. Her Mother agreed with her choice and she was let off the hook from marrying the young pagan man her mother had chosen for her. Of course, he was not very happy about this. This young man accused Lucy of being a Christian in front of a Judge and she was sentenced to serving life in a brothel (ironic huh? a virgin in a brothel..) As the judge's guards tried to drag Lucy away to her faith they were shocked that they were unable to budge her. She was then sentenced to be burned and amazingly she got past this consequence as well. It was finally decided that a sword would be struck into her throat in order to punish her. The date of the day Lucy was killed is believed to have fallen on December 13 AD 310.
There is another story of St. Lucy as well. Some believe that she was working to hide Christians in the catacombs during the terror of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. In order to bring with her as many supplies and food as she needed, she wore a wreath with with candles attatched to it in order to free her hands from having to carry a lantern so she could carry all of her surplus.
How is this day celebrated?
This Holiday is celebrated in many different ways in different countries in Europe. I
n Sweden, the oldest (or youngest) daughter in each household traditionally carries a tray of coffee and traditional pastries called lussekatter (Lucy cats) to her parents before they arise in the morning. She wears a white gown, scarlet sash, and a crown of greens and four, seven, or nine lighted candles . Her brothers, wearing white shirts and tall, cone-shaped hats decorated with stars, and her sisters, all in white and carrying lighted candles, follow her. In many towns, a Saint Lucy is chosen to carry coffee and buns to each house. She and her followers, each bearing a lighted candle, sing carols as they traverse the dark streets while St. Steven, represented by a man on horseback, leads the way. The procession is done in memory of Saint Lucy's traversing darkened woods to bring bread and other food to the poor.
In Switzerland, St Lucy strolls around the village with Father Christmas, giving gifts to the girls while he gives gifts to the boys. In Venice, folks celebrate the Feast of St. Lucy by enjoying fried cheese. Italians eat small cakes or biscotti shaped like eyes, light huge bonfires, and conduct evening candlelight processions, all in honor of Saint Lucy.Sicilians pay tribute to a miracle performed by St Lucy during a famine in 1582. At that time, she brought a flotilla of grain-bearing ships to starving Sicily, whose citizens cooked and ate the wheat without taking time to grind it into flour. Thus, on St. Lucy's Day, Sicilians don't eat anything made with wheat flour. Instead they eat cooked wheat called cuccia.
Below is A video of A St. Lucy's day Procession that was held at the Sweedish Embassy In Washington D.C Feel Free to watch it if you like choir music :P
People are always asking me like what kind of bands I am in to and what kind of movies I dig and uh.. I like kind of get tired of repeating myself over and over again ESPECIALLY seeing how I have all that stuff posted in my about me section on facebook. I thought I would make a blog post about All that stuff so that everyone forever has a place to get the answers to these burning questions! ER HERM here we go..
1. Krista what bands do you like?: Well I could answer this and take up the whole entire day in doing so. I prefer to usually just tell people that I like to listen to 90's alt. rock and some modern day pop and 80's hair metal. That is never good enough though and people always want details so here ya go IN DETAIL some people that I think make good audio candy.
A PERFECT CIRCLE!
I first discovered this band when I was in 6th grade. As most of you all know my parents own dry cleaners and have had a fair amount of employees over the years. Some of them were actually pretty cool people. My parents had hired this 18 year old goth guy (who was my actual first crush oh wait.. erm second crush I forgot about that kid in my 5th grade class) named John and he had the prettiest long hair that was dyed jet black. Sadly he never got his roots touched up so my parents used to call him skunk boy for obvious reasons. Anyways skunkboy, erm I mean John, Let my dad borrow his perfect circle c.d. My step dad really liked Tool at the time so he was eager to listen to Mer De Noms (for those of you who do not know the lead singer of apc is also the lead singer of Tool) Anyways my dad borrowed this c.d from this kid and it actually never left the c.d player in my step dad's white toyota supra. I think he must have played that cd about a total of 300 or more times the whole entire time he borrowed it. I don't really even think it was because he liked it that much. I think it was because he was just too lazy to take it out of the cd player. I specifically remember this one time when we drove to D.C and like.. we listened to the album back to back the whole way to and back. You would think that I would have gotten sick of it but I LOVED IT! I never wanted my dad to give John his C.D back. When he did I was really bummed. I ended up eventually buying it (it was the second c.d I purchased in my life.. the first one was melon collie and the infinite sadness from the smashing pumpkins). My step dad actually ended up buying be the Mer De Noms Tab book for christmas that year because I loved the album so much that I wanted to learn how to play all the songs. HE EVEN BOUGHT ME ACOUSTIC GUITAR so that I could do that. If I ever end up becoming a huge musician I will have these guys to thank because Mer De Noms was the album that made me want to play guitar.
TOOL!
Ok so after I heard a perfect circle it did not take me very long until I started to listen to Tool. I had heard them being played in my step dad's car before but I never really payed much mind to them because I was only in 5th grade and music did not really matter to me much back then. Well fast forward to 6th grade and that's when music started to matter to me! BIG TIME! I can not even explain how much I love this band. Maynard's voice is god like and Adam Jone's is a flippin bad ass guitar player. Danny Carey is prolly one of the best drum players of all time! I think the thing that I like about Maynard the most would prolly be the fact that you would think he would be like this psycho crazy guy who is really mean and sinister but well... I think this picture speaks for itself (get a load of the star floaties!). I still remember the first day I saw these guys in a magazine. In my head I had pictured them to be covered in tattoos and have scary clothes and all that. When I saw how harmless they looked I was so confused.
The Smashing Pumpkins
I have loved this band ever since I was a liddo Krista. First song I remember hearing by them was today. I was 5 years old and driving around with my mom in her Chevy Pickup. I did not know their name back then but like, one day the d.j said it after the song ended and I remembered the name for the rest of my life. When I was old enough to start shopping for music (yeah my mom did not let me do that till i was 13) I made sure that the first album I bought was Melon Collie because I was obsessed with "Bullet with the Butterfly Wings" This is a silly little story but I remember in 6th grade home ec. class this kid that sat next to me named C.J started to talk about SP and I flipped out because I thought I was the only one at our school who knew them. I actually had the chance to FINALLY see them live in person last year (check out my flickr page for pics). Sure Billy is the only original band member left but meh I don't care. They put on the best show I had ever seen (and I have been to quit a few shows over the years).
LADYTRON
Funny how most of these bands I did not discover on the internet huh? First time I heard them was when I lived in San Deigo. Me and my mom were driving to the mall and "witching hour" came on. I was so happy that the d.j said their name after the song ended because I was determined to hear the rest of their music. I wrote the name down on my hand and then when I got home I wrote it down on a piece of paper. I did not buy an album from them until after I graduated from high school actually. If you have never heard their music than go to youtube right now and look them up! I like to describe them as neo new wave or electropop.
Jane's addiction
I will be honest I had never heard anything by these guys except for "been caught stealing" and "jane says" and of course "mountain song" until I saw them live backstage two years ago on the nin/ja tour. I eventually downloaded nothing shocking a few months after I saw them live and fell in love. I don't really know why I never got into them when I was in middle school. I listened to EVERY 90's alt. band under the sun back then yet I never bought a jane's album. I think the main reason why was because of the cover art. I did not want my parents to get made at me for having a cd with naked people on it. Anyways I have stood in the same room with both Perry and Dave and.. ok ok im done name dropping and bragging. NEXT!
Rage Against the Machine
HATE THEIR POLITICAL BELIEFS BUT DAMN I LOVE THEIR MUSIC. Rage is the first band I remember listening to when me and my mother and my step dad first all joined our lives together. He had picked me and my mom up to take us to Clear Lake (that is a place in Houston) and yeah they were in his cd player. I have had the wonderful opportunity of meeting Mr. Tom Morello myself and he is the coolest flippin person I have ever met. He was super nice and just as talkative as me so we got along great! I have a picture of me and him together on Facebook. I look gross in that picture so I don't want to post it here.
LADY GAGA
NO I DID NOT GOOF. YES I LIKE HER OK?! I have gone from loving her to hating her to back to loving her. She is the only pop artist I have ever liked. I am guessing it is because of her crazy clothes and her over sexual lyrics. Still pretty ticked off that she stole my gimmick >.<
Ok I am not going to post every single picture of every single band/artist I like. As I have already stated that will take too long. So yeah just look at this list below to see who makes my top ten.
7th grade was such a weird time for me and I am pretty sure it was pretty weird time for others as well. I just started feeling like a little bit nostalgic today so I am gonna list all the stuff I miss about 2001.
STARTING WITH THESE BAD BOYS!
Ok so let's get a count of hands of the people that have owned these at some point in their life. Jnco JEANS! I really do not know why everyone thought these bad you some kind of sk8ter or goth bad ass but anyways.. I think most of us that wore them ended up looking like circus clowns. I know at my school we actually used to call these "circus pants". I owned QUITE a few of them and just recently (if you can call 2006 recently) donated the last pair of what I had to the salvation army. I think the only reason I even still had them in my closet when i was living in San Diego was because I was keeping them as a momento from my middle school years. The fondest memory I have of these is how they used to rip up at the bottom due to repetitively being stepped on. The way to prove that you were a fuckin bad ass in my school was that you continued to wear them even after they started to get all ripped up and split all the way to the middle of your leg. I can't even begin to imagine how idiotic me and my friends used to look walking around with these things. I do miss them though to some degree because they were comfortable as hell and I was a BIT of a tomboy back then. I used to wear them mainly to rebel against all the girls that were shopping at wet seal and like.. making out with boys and stuff.
THE 80's NOVELTY T-SHIRT
Once Upon a time Hot Topic actually used to sell somewhat cool shit. The first hot topic that opened here in Richmond was actually the one that is still in operation to this day inside of Chesterfield Town Center (yeah the one in Short Pump Closed due to a lack of mall goths in the west end of town). I had just gotten into the whole "goth/raver/alt." scene when i was in 6th grade, anyways Hot Topic opened up in the summer of 2000 I think and I was ecstatic! I made my parents buy me all my school clothes for the next year at this damn store. I specifically remember buying my first pair of bondage pants. they were so tacky!
WOAH I ACTUALLY FOUND THEM IN GOOGLE IMAGES!
I remember these pants actually were banned from my school at one point because of the straps. Our principles reason? BECAUSE KIDS WERE GOING TO TRIP OVER THE STRAPS AND BUST THEIR ASSES. I never saw how that was very likely seeing how the straps usually only came down to your knees but whatever. You would have had to be a pretty high stepper to make that happen. I was so mad when one of my teachers made me take them off (the straps that is). It's like ok.. these are bondage pants.. the WHOLE fucking point of wearing them is because of the straps!
Just incase ya don't know what I am talking about.
THIS FRICKIN WATCH!!
Dude I remember having this and I felt like i was the coolest person in school. You could drop his pants to see the time. Sponge Bob was HUGE in 7th grade and I remember making my parents buy me all this frickin sponge bob merch. I even had a Sponge Bob hoodie.
VOLATILE SHOES
I had about 5 pair of these. I honestly do not even know how my parents used to buy me all of these clothes .. oh wait.. yeah that was before the economy crisis.. kay now I remember why. I even had mary janes that were made by this company. I think it is pretty sad that I still had a pair of these chunky shoes up until last year. they had rainbows on the sides of them. I ended up selling them on ebay for 8 bucks to someone in Italy. The chunkier your shoes were the more goth points ya got!
Handmade Cartoon rave pants
Ok So I never actually owned a pair of these but I remember I used to look through all the listings on Ebay and drool over them. I wanted a pair of superman pants sooo badly. Basically people prolly used to make these and sell them on ebay for e money I think.
TOONAMI!!!
The last year it ran was in 2008 but like.. all the bad ass anime shows were pretty much aired in 7th grade. It was the LAST year sailor moon was aired on cartoon network If I am not mistaken. I REALLY miss gundam wing! I remember I used to buy the models that they sold at walmart. I never actually completed making any of them and I ALWAYS ended up breaking one of the smaller parts.
THE OSBOURNES
I was obsessed with this show! I wanted to be a part of their family SOO bad it hurt. I even bought the cheesy t-shirt that they were selling at Hot Topic at the time. Actually wore that thing until 10th grade. sad I know. I wonder what happened to that tank top.. prolly could have sold it on ebay today for a good price.
Kittie
Alright my music taste back then was not the best.. I remember seeing this video and thinking it was the most kick ass thing ever. I used to listen to Nirvana and alice in chains but I also used to listen to new bands as well. So before ya judge me just keep that in mind. here is another tune I dug..
and I am actually embarrassed about the one below.
I actually thought the lead singer was cute. good lord what was I thinking? I bet he is prolly working at a 7/11 by now and the rest of his band mates are prolly all in alien ant farm cover bands..
CHAIN WALLETS!
I had two of them. One was actually really cool. It had felix the cat on it and it was made out of this shiny pleather material. I actually think I still have it somewhere. I will post a pic sometime. I dont have the chain that went with it anymore. I used to have a pink and black checkerboard one as well that had skulls on the pink squares. NOT UNLIKE my bondage pants, these got banned from school as well. Reason being? KIDS COULD BEAT THE HELL OUT OF EACH OTHER WITH THESE THINGS! Ya know.. I am starting to think our principal just did not like alt. kids. Why were mini skirts from american eagle not banned?!
MAMON! (that would be a binkie for all you white folk)
I used to have two of these and I wore them around my neck. My mom had a package of mamons that were left over from her baby shower and she never opened them. I found them in my sisters room and turned both of them into necklaces. No wonder I got picked on in school. -_- Maybe I thought english class would turn into a rave or something? I had the beads too.
Ok so these are just a few things I remember about 2001. Do you guys remember any of this stuff? do you remember when we actually had to listen to music on cd's and with a walkman because there was no such thing as an ipod? Do you remember when there was no such thing as youtube and you had to actually go on Ebay and buy cd's of obscure bands because it was the only way you were going to hear music from them? Of course there was Napster but erm.. It got shut down thanks to ....
Anyways I WANT FEEDBACK PEOPLE! What do you miss about 2001?
Ok so Maybe I have been coming off as a bit of a humbug online because I have not really been talking much about Christmas like everyone else has. Everyone on FB keeps posting endless status messages about all the awesome things they have bought for their significant others/ family members/ Best Friends and well.. I find myself doing is bitching about things and erm.. posting up tool videos? Well I decided that maybe I should just talk about nothing but Christmas stuff This week On here to make up for it.
So yeah I think all of us have that ONE christmas show that is aired on cbs or fox family channel that we ALL have to watch around this time of year. Like in my house it is mandatory that every year we watch the christmas story marathon. I actually do not like watching movies that much because I am super flickin add and I can't pay attention to anything (except for the internet of course). I guess if I had to pick one favorite christmas movie it would be The Santa Clause (staring Tim Allen, who by the way I actually can't stand but for some reason I loved this movie when I was a kid). Instead of listing a bunch of Christmas movies on here and talking about them I decided to just talk about my one of my favorite christmas programs of all time. RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER! OF COURSE
I think we have all seen this one right? Cute liddo clay animation cartoon about a adorable oddball reindeer that teaches kids to have high self esteem and believe in them selves no matter what.. yeah we have all seen it. If you have not then you prolly had a miserable child hood and I feel sorry for you. ok ok all sarcasm aside, I loved this special because I myself as a child had the same self esteem issue (er herm my close friends KNOWS what I am talking about (hardy har pun). Yeah when I was a kid I got picked on heavily because of my nose and I totally related to Rudolph because he too was ostracized by all his little reindeer friends and.. YIKES even santa and his gym teacher! His parents desperately tried to hide the fact that their son was "handicapped" by sticking a piece of coal or w.e the heck that black thing was that they stuck in his nose in order to hid his "problem" No one could just accept the fact that he was as Lady Gaga says "born this way"/. Anyways we all know the rest of the story, he runs away, meets an elf with a lisp that wants to be a dentist, the stick together because the do not fit in (they even wrote a song about it), then they meet some frickin psycho drunk prospector with a red beard and join up with him, they find themselves on an island full of defected toys.. yada yada yada they meet the abdominal snow man and then kill him .. and then yeah.. at the end everyone loves rudolph and he is the lead deer that lights the way in the fog for the other deers while they haul Santa's fat ass across the globe in 24 hours. Anyways, yeah this is my favorite Christmas show of all time because I totally related to Rudolph when I was a kid and erm.. we did not have cable in the 90's in my house when i was growing up so I used to look forward to any kind of cartoon that I knew was for sure going to be aired on "regular" television. I actually recorded it on VHS and would watch it year round.. that and the other clay animations that they used to air (like the one with santa clause's story erm.. I forget the name of it)
Ok so in high school i was this card carrying feminist. Ya know, the kind that cut their hair short, listen to le tigre on their walkman that is covered in riot grrl pen graffiti and stickers, and have picture of kathleen hannah all over their school binders with bikini kill lyrics scrolled over every page of her text book.. yeah.. I was "one of those". But over the years I have matured into a fine young woman and my opinions have changed a lot. I think the biggest problem I have with most feminists is the fact that they are indeed, Misogynists. When I was a kid me and my friends used to constantly put down other girls because they were "barbies"yet I don't think we realized that we were actually criticizing people that we did not even take the time to know. We just assumed they were stupid bimbo's that only cared about boys and lipstick jut because they listened to brittany spears and were in show choir. We thought they were weak because they were "girly". Is that not the same attitude that misogynistic men have towards women?
Back in the day I used to dress really tomboyish (still do sometimes haha) and did this not because I really liked wearing jnco jeans and band t-shirts. I did it because I thought it's what "feminists" were supposed to do. I thought we were supposed to distance ourselves as much as possible from any kind of girly image because that meant we were the weaker sex. Throwing on a pink dress with cute heels to me back then meant that I was giving into to mens needs and not my own, when in reality.. I really did want to dress girly but I was afraid to. For one I knew if I did my other feminist friends were going to make fun of me, and for two, in a way I was rebelling against my mom a bit. She always wanted me to dress girly and even though I wanted to deep down inside, I always denied it. I still remember the first day I cropped off all of my hair and gave myself a fashion mullet, my mom was not very pleased but over time she just began to accept the fact that I was a teenager expressing myself and she eventually stopped trying to force me to wear girly clothes. One day though all this changed.
In my senior year of high school I had finally decided that I was going to quit denying myself of dressing the way I wanted to. We had just moved back to Virginia around this time and I decided to give myself a whole new look. I still had the short hair and all, but I started to dress in GASP* PINK CLOTHES! My clothing style still was based off of punk rock and goth fashion.. But I was not wearing 32 inch wide pants with Marilyn Manson t-shirts anymore. I was wearing dresses. YES DRESSES that were similar in style to clothes from Betsey Johnson and Liz Lisa. The Urban Outfitters dress section became my new favorite spot! When I enrolled back in Powhatan High I was feeling pretty confident. My old friends however, were not feeling my new look. One girl in particular stopped talking to me all together. I guess it is because she felt like I was betraying the "Riot GRRL Scene". Basically the only people i had left to hang out with were all guys (both and gay straight, the gay guys at my school LOVED me). I was so shocked that guys were accepting me but my girlfriends were not. I had a lot of guy friends senior year and I think that was due to the fact that they thought I was a bad ass chick because I liked to listen to Metallica and I did not look like a gross metal head guy (yeah the girls that liked metal at our school were all butch).
Since high school has ended I continue to dress that way I actually want to dress because I feel no obligation to play the roll that a scene wants me to play. I actually fucking hate riot grrl music now and i ended up deleting al my my albums I had except for hole albums and that's because courtney is a lot like myself, she does not give a fuck if feminists criticize her for not dressing like joan jett.
Now I am gonna bring up a short story that I think I bitched about the other day on facebook. Anyways, I was at target a few days ago searching for toys to buy for my ten year old sister for Christmas. As I was walking down the girl's isle and I noticed there was a very slender faced, dark, 30 something sinister looking goth woman complaining about all the Barbie Dolls. Her and her husband were shopping for toys as well and she was very displeased to know that there were no science toys at all. I just thought to myself, ok you are looking for science kits at Target, what did you expect. Everyone knows you have to buy stuff like that from http://www.smithsonianstore.com/toys/ . This woman went on and on about how Barbie's were bad for little girls and how they pull down a girl's self esteem. I mean really? a piece of 9 inch plastic and synthetic hair ruins self image? How is that even possible. Everyone should know that little girls understand that Barbies are toys and that real women do not all look like Barbies. Ruth Handler did not make Barbies to intimidate girls, she made them because her daughter was growing up and during that time period in America the only dolls girls had to play with were baby dolls. She wanted her little girl to have a doll that had more grown up features because her daughter was growing older and was growing bored with bottle feeding plastic babies. I noticed that he woman at the target has two babydolls sitting in her basket. I mean, if you ask me buying babydolls is about as un-feminist as you can get. Teach your little girls that they are only meant to serve the purpose of being a mother? really? Barbies has had 108 career changes, she has been a teacher, a doctor, a vet, a flight attended. You name it she has done it! most women go through life only having one carrier. Barbies teaches girls that you can be whatever you want and that there are no limits! I have no clue how Barbie makes girls have a negative self image. Yes she is very "fake" looking by most peoples standards of beauty but so what? Is there some kind of law book that states that you must be a frumpy woman that wears her hair in a bun and thick rimmed horn glasses in order to be considered smart and successful? In my opinion, Barbie is a role model doll. She looks good and she is able to have a carrier! WOW! beauty and brains! I wanted to give this woman a lecture but I thought it would have been a waste of breath so I just let her be. I continued to shop for barbies and bylthe dolls will ms. negative nelly continued to search for her babydolls and crystal making kits. (by the way I had a smithsonian crystal making kit and it was AWSOME!) That's another thing I forgot to mention. When I was a little girl I had both mountains of books about natural science subjects as well as a pile of barbies shoved into an oversized pink plastic house.
I guess the message I want to get across here is that girls should never be made to feel like they have to fit the mold for being a feminist. You can be just as much as a strong women in a dress and stilettos as you can be in baggy pants and an oversized shirt. There is nothing wrong with both ways of dressing, it is up to a girl to choose who she wants to be and she should feel pressured by men, feminists or anyone else to dress or act a certain way.
Alright everyone I REALLY need one of these. If you are not familiar with arpakasso then chances are you do not have a tumblr account and you are not obsessed with kawaii things such as myself. Anyways I am pretty bummed out because you can not get these little guys anywhere in the states. You can win them in ufo catcher in video arcades in Japan though.. but erm.. I do not live in Japan and I do not plan on going there anytime soon (but I WOULD love to if I could). Anyway if anyone is able to get one of these for me feel free to do so cuz if you did I would be your best friend in the whole entire world! I was scanning through ebay last night and they actually do have some listed but they are 60 dollars plus 20 dollars for shipping and all the ones that are listed are from China so they are probably rip offs and of poor quality.
