Jewelry Friday!

Last week I showed you my new lace duster from Hellaholics (you can read about it here), which I found when searching for jewelry to post about. So, here are a few of the jewelry pieces from that same company - We Are The Hellaholics!

Raw Clear Quartz Crescent Earrings

Moon Quartz Necklace

Serpent Snake Necklace

Pentagram Ring Large

Black Onyx Crystal Ball Necklace

Black Magic Gold Tourmaline Ring

Scarab Ring

Starry Night Bullet Necklace

La Luna Headpiece

For more from Hellaholics, follow this link!

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Affordable Fall Coats

After a pretty bad summer, we're now having a beautiful fall here in Sweden. The leaves have just started changing color, and it's not until mid-October it has started to get really cold outside. A nice, warm fall coat will come in handy right now, so today I want to give you a few tips on affordable, yet stylish coats from ModCloth!

Tender Loving Carriage Ride Coat

City Lovin' Coat

Central Park Sashay Cape

The Importance of Being Onyx Coat

You Don't Know Jackson Coat in Plaid

Preferred Pairing Coat in Croissant

Winterberry Tart Coat in Burgundy

Fab at the Fundraiser Coat

Eccentric of the Eye Jacket

Symphonic State of Mind Cape

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Dreamchaser Lace Duster

I just bought myself the perfect black lace duster! It's from Hellaholics - a Scandinavian brand and online store, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. They find their inspiration in vintage treasures, starry nights, music, and generally fabulous chicks from all walks of life. They aim to create a collection of garments and jewelry that embodies fearlessness and fun, things that gives you that instant attitude, yet are easy to wear. And here is my new duster!

It's made of sheer black lace with embroidered details, and has cap sleeves. Although I'm just wearing lingerie underneath it here to show it off better, this is one of those pieces of clothing you can wear in so many ways! Throw it over any outfit to make it a bit more interesting. Use a belt and wear it as a dress. Or just over your lingerie while at home...or going grocery shopping. Haha!

It comes in sizes small, medium and large, and although I'm usually an extra small, the small one fitted me perfectly! It's called the Dreamchaser Lace Duster, and you find it here!

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Sugar Lace Lingerie

Everyone who likes shopping on Etsy knows that you can get stuck there forever. Searching for different items, and just finding more and more stuff to add to your shopping list. Well, here's another Etsy shop to add to that list! It's called Sugar Lace Lingerie and is owned by Adrianna Tenoiro, who creates beautiful, very feminine lingerie! Everything is handmade, often comes in several different colors, and has a very sweet vintage look. Here are a few of the items in her shop. The rest you find here!

Pom Pom Bloomers

Dark Ballerina Set

Ruffled Panty

Robin's Egg Blue Babydoll

Black/Ivory Garter Belt Tutu

Silk French Knickers

Satin Floral Sleep Mask with Baby Pin Trim

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Jewelry Friday

Part of our costumes (or lack there of...) in La Traviata consists of really cool jewelry. I asked the costume designer Sanna Nyström where she had found it, and she said she had bough most of it at a shop called WOS. So of course I had to check this place out! WOS was launched in 2012, is run by Jenny Widing and Ulrika Stöllman, and has a physical shop in Stockholm, as well as a web shop. Their vision is to be able to offer an oasis of accessories, and also to be a stepping stone for unestablished avant-garde design. Currently they have around 80 designers and artists working for WOS, creating unique pieces of different materials. Although you find everything from bags and sunglasses to art here, this jewelry post will of course be about their jewelry! To see everything else WOS has to offer, just follow this link!

Them there Eyes

Flugor

Fatal

Spike

No no no

Razor Divine

Shark Tooth Ring

Bla bla bla

Fern bracelet

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No Pain, No Gain...

I found some very interesting images of very interesting beauty treatments during the 1940s. Today, these methods look both horrifying, funny and ridiculous. Had people from the 40s traveled forward in time though, and seen what sort of beauty treatments exists today, their comments would probably be that they look both horrifying, funny and ridiculous... Haha! And I wonder what we will be putting ourselves through in the name of beauty in the future...

Anyway. Here are the pictures I found. Don't try this at home children...

Max Factor's ice mask! A mask with plastic cubes was filled with water that got frozen. Then you put it on your face to decrease swolleness. It was popular among the 40s movie stars, and was invented to be used after a rough night out on town.

On the other hand there was also Helena Rubinstein's heat mask! This was meant to increase circulation in the skin, and give you a rosy fresh look. I'm sure you could also use it as a tea cosy...

Electric hot rollers! Seems very safe, and was probably not damaging to the hair at all... Hm...

Freckles were to be avoided at any cost! Even if that meant going to the beach looking like a ghost. Obviously...

Another very flattering mask from Helena Rubinstein! This was put on to tighten the skin. Could also be a good look for Halloween...

This actually looks really nice! Just sitting there doing some knitting while getting a good leg massage. It was used to get a slimming effect, since it was thought these metal rolls stimulated muscle growth.

Another useful metal contraption! This was created by Max Factor to simplify getting you makeup applied in the right spots. Uhm... Well...

And finally - the vacuum pumps! These were to be moved over the skin to reduce acne.

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Jewelry Friday

This Friday I have an amazing tiara for you! It was made around 1900, and I'm sure it would fit my tiny head perfectly! Haha!

In the center sits a sunburst and crescent moon motif over a large cushion-shaped diamond, on a scrolling frame of shooting stars, set throughout with old brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in gold. The principal diamond is of approximately 1.75 carats, the rest of around 14.00 carats in total. It was sold at Bonhams for 16,250 GBP.

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