Nicolette Mason’s New Collection Amps Up The Badassery With Fun Femme Threads
Vintage inspired, cheeky and plain ol’ fun, get set for a dapper femme tux set (jacket + trousers) and the sweetest pink frock I ever did see outside of a 1950’s prom.
You Need Help: Dressing Like a Grown Ass Trans Woman
Picking your own personal style can be hard enough when you’ve got years of practice, so what’s a woman supposed to do when she’s jumping right in?
Luxe Looks to Street Style: Highlights From Fashion Weeks Around The World
Some important looks for Spring/Summer 2015 in no particular order: sheer stripes, mechanics’ suits, Chuck Taylors, lemon yellow, white cornflower blue and co-ordinates/suiting.
7 Ways To Incorporate Cute Critters Into Your Professional Wear
When I’m shopping for things that might be professional attire, I think it’s less soul-crushing when said items have cute animals on them, OR when I can sneak in accessories with cute animals on them.
Nerd Couture: Dress Like Marceline The Vampire Queen
Aside from our deep Marceline feelings, however, is the plain and simple fact that Marceline has presented all over the fashion spectrum — from androgynous to straight-up femme — all while looking effortlessly like a rock star.
He Said/We Said Rocks Fall Style in Prospect Park
Like a boi band.
You Need Help: Battling Heteronormativity with Style
But if you aren’t naturally masculine leaning in your sartorial choices, how do you let everyone know about your lady loving? What if all you want to do is wear traditionally “femme” clothing?
PHOTOESSAY: Stunning Portraits From Portland’s Vev Studios Showcase Every Woman’s Beauty
Co-founder and photographer Gia Goodrich aims to empower women to feel beautiful no matter their gender expression or personal identity.
Most Important Ugly: The Final Monsters
It’s time to introduce you to my last and final monsters. These were the people I had wanted from the very beginning, actually, they were pretty fully realized into their own identities — working with everyone else in the project involved pulling out their narratives a lot more to get what we wanted, but for these three… my muses! It was not so difficult.
A Tomboy Femme’s Dream Come True: Jewelry You’ll Actually Want To Wear
These aren’t rules. There are no rules. Tomboy femme is its own collage of styles, which gives us the most freedom when it comes to presenting and dressing however we damn well please. Go experiment.
Mascara and Minstrelsy: Benefit Cosmetics’ Racist Video Fails Everything
“This could be a recruitment video for The Iggy Azalea School For Basics Who Can’t Rap Good And Want To Do Racist Stuff Too.”
How To Dye Your Own Hair Every Color You’ve Ever Wanted At Once
Doing your hair yourself is fun, much cheaper than going to the salon, and probably only moderately hazardous to your health.
He Said/We Said: SoCal Late Summer Swag
For our 18th edition of HS/WS, we returned to Cali, this time focusing on SoCal style.
Most Important Ugly: My Chemical Romance and Other Majestic Monsters
“Putting yourself first and living for yourself and your opinions is generally attributed to selfishness, which is seen as negative. But you need that most of the time, to survive, because you can’t please everyone and you have to live with yourself first.”
Dapper Brunch Style Served Six Different Ways
The term “brunch style” does not automatically imply a specific level of formality. My suggestions would depend on the occasion (Meet the parents brunch? Wedding brunch? Date brunch? Hungover with your friends brunch? Autostraddler meet-up brunch? Hip-hop party brunch?) and the venue (Five star restaurant? Pub? Trendy café?).
Femme Brunch Style: Casual Glam to Fancy Formal
Alright. You’ve found the brunch meet-up in your city, you are super excited to eat (and eat and eat) but one MAJOR thing stands in your way. You. Still. Need. To. Get. Dressed.
Most Important Ugly: Massiel, Coco and Meta-Human Experiments
“I used that lip gloss, that purple holographic, because I knew it would look great on her, but I wanted it to look like she just ate some futuristic fruit and she was so happy about it she didn’t bother to wipe her face. The glitter in her hair looked like a halo in the dark. After the portrait she told me she planned on sprinkling glitter in her fro on a regular basis.. She couldn’t stop smiling.”
#Fatkini Makes Waves for Body Positivity on Social Media
Curvy, plus-size, big, thick and fat people are heading to the beach and the pool and taking to social media to show off their beautiful bodies and fashionable fatkinis.
Unashamed To Be Fat: Wear the Shorts, It’s F*cking Hot Outside
“This is the root of the problem with fat shamers such as Kelsey. They are not worried about the health of others, they are angry that they must worry and we do not. They are people who fear becoming fat, have been fat or feel fat right now and can’t stand that there are fat people in the world that seem carefree. Don’t you know you are disgusting!!?!?!? You’re supposed to be unhappy being fat!! That’s why I work so hard to stay thin; because fat people should be unhappy!!! WHY CAN’T I HAVE MORE MCDONALDS??? The reason I know this is because I was one of these people for a very long time.”
Most Important Ugly: Brandon, Tyler and Gendered Makeup
“A feminine monster, happy chaos in rainbows and minty lip tar.”