Style

Style

So Distressed

How to make your own distressed t-shirt

There is no need to pay a ton of money for a t-shirt like this, but if you want to you totally can.

Kendrick likes to make fun of me for the MySpace profile I had when we first met (which was also his first impression of me, because we met when I "friended" - or "liked"? How did MySpace work again? - his band, and he invited me to one of their concerts). In my "about me," I wrote about loving my dog and Kraft macaroni and cheese (obviously; both of these facts remain true), and also about how my favorite thing to wear was t-shirts so thin they were practically disintegrating. And oh, I get why he makes fun of me for this ("aren't I sex-ay? With my t-shirts that are practically disintegrating?"), but it's also...actually...true.

See, I'm extremely specific about t-shirt fabric weight; it's one of my things. If a shirt feels heavy in the slightest, I do not like wearing it. If, however, it is essentially a tissue, I will love it forever and ever and wear it until it grows holes, and then I will love it even more.

Style

My Habit x Ramshackle Glam Curated Event

Jordan Reid in a maternity outfit

Pregnant Me in a Hatch dress, circa 2014

If you click over to My Habit anytime through Tuesday, you can check out a curated event featuring my top maternity picks at phenomenal prices - including cool sweatshirts, beautifully cut tank dresses, and confusingly affordable designer sunglasses. (And there's plenty of great stuff for those of you who aren't expecting - ahem, Schutz sandals for less than $50 and Foley & Corinna bags for under a hundred bucks, AHEM.)

(No but seriously. These prices are ridiculously good. You've got to see them.)

My Looks

High Desert

Francesca Vannucci in Desert Hot Springs, California

This is the Hotel Lautner, in Desert Hot Springs, California: a tiny little place conceived of by iconic architect John Lautner and tucked away in the sleepiest desert town ever. It's all midcentury furniture and cowhide rugs and glamour and makes absolutely no sense sitting at the end of the dusty road where you find it, but that's part of what makes it so spectacular.

Francesca, Brie and I spent a good amount of our girls' weekend at the hotel: we were scouting nearby locations for an upcoming shoot I'm doing for Francesca, and I took a few test shots of her in the surrounding desert (hence the makeup and hair situation going on here). All this, of course, in between dips in the plunge pool and glasses of wine on the balcony and hikes and cactus shopping. (Like I said, "working weekend" is a slight exaggeration.)

It was good. This whole weekend has been good. I have so much more to show you, but for now: this.

Makeup & Beauty

Five Cool New Beauty Discoveries

Jordan Reid in L'Oreal's Pro-Matte lip gloss in pink

I try out a lot of products. Below are some recent discoveries that are (mostly) new to the market, and that are quickly becoming serious contenders for the Favorites category.

(1) L'Oreal Infallible Pro-Matte Lip Gloss (pictured in Blushing Ambition)

When I first tried this highly pigmented lip gloss, I did a double take - because it doesn't just "dry" to a matte finish...it actually goes on matte. And somehow isn't drying at all - I've been wearing the color you see all morning and it's still right where I put it - and my lips feel completely soft and moisturized. Weird. I like it.


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