Dear World... I am Melli...and I rock. :)
I DID TOTALLY SUPREMELY AWESOME! I wasn't even nervous! Even after preparing for two models, (that was likely one) and three outfits each, plus two additional each just in case...AND HAVING SIX SHOW UP???!!!!!! I DIDN'T PANIC IN THE LEAST!!! So totally, rad dude!!! Still a little eighties rocked out. Sunday, after so many years of wanting to do this sooooo much, I was IN CHARGE of the entire look of the shoot! I've styled friends, family etc...Never done make-up, never even tried doing anybodies hair...except for the occasional slumber party, but even then I wasn't that interested in it. But wow...OK, so the photographer is thinking early 1900's. GREAT!!! Then maybe the 20's or 30's...PERFECT! Then he gets to the 40's for a second and moves on to the 50's...um...OK still COOL! Then he skips completely the 60's & 70's and goes straight, head first, full speed,rock on bitches ...to THE 80'S! NOOOOOO!!!! Awesome music...but the clothes? Neons, loud, gaudy, obnoxious and completely all that is NOT Melli? HOWEVER IT IS FOR THAT VERY REASON THAT I AM SO FRIGGING PROUD OF MYSELF! I really did kick ass. Good news, the 80's are all you can find in the mall. Bad news? Well, I really don't shop all that much in the mall, but if you do? I guess be happy with spandex and "Sassy Grass Green". Good news, love the lace... AND if it's already everywhere in the mall, that means the highest designers have been over it for at least a couple years, next down on the list, the high end boutique's are over it and have been about a year, the smaller but higher end boutiques got rid of all that crap six months ago, and the mall will be over it well... as quickly as trends go. "Fashion fades ~ Only style remains the same" Coco Chanel.
The BEST NEWS is that if I can do the one era I didn't want to do...AND DO IT BETTER THAN AWESOME ... I CAN DO ANYTHING!!! It's like being at "camp". ...Oh my goodness talk about the seventh circle of hell! What those people did to me on a daily...no, not daily, HOURLY basis? The staff was just as bad as the campers...Talk about abuse...holy smoke stacks! BUT I GOT THROUGH IT AND CAME OUT ALIVE... If I did that, I have to believe I can get through anything. Having that really makes me see that whatever doesn't kill you can actually make you stronger...if you so choose it too. It ALSO gives you EXPERIENCE! So, I kicked butt on the eighties shoot. ALL BY MYSELF with SIX models not two...or really one... And I did it calmly, and happily, and if anybody can deal with a challenge it's me...these girls all happen to have been sweet as pie...little tipsy but sugar coated all American sweet-hearts with good souls. Anyway, I did it. I LOVE styling people, and I'm good at it. I'm really really great at it. Make-up, I faked it through...and it worked! Hair? Whoa, but hey, 80's? Punk it up grab a bow and we were all good. The wardrobe though...wow. Not huge giant wowy zowy oh my goodness...just simply wow. It's my passion...putting clothing together, pieces from here and there and everywhere, matching, combining this, that and every other thing, and finding the right colors, fits etc...then the jewelry? Simply Wow. I was on cloud 22! Way above cloud 9. I wasn't talking non-stop, I wasn't obnoxious I was just doing my thing getting it done and I was awesome...not nervous nothing that you (or even me) would have expected...Partly because I was in charge of it...but the photographers were in charge of me...it was costly because I wanted it to be awesome and so I bought every thing you could think of...from the clothes and accessories to the clothing tape, hair spray for static, and to get wrinkles out...every cosmetic ever offered, towels, puffs, potions, lotions, oils, removers, needles, thread, sharpies, safety pins, thimble,measuring tape etc etc etc etc etc...2300 dollars later, well I have a lot of stuff...from my least favorite clothing era...but hey, this is what I do. I can make it work now for anything, and it was awesome. I'm posting a handful of photo's, some that I took, and some the photographers took. So have a peak and join me for a temporary blast from the past, and rock on to your favorite "hair bands"...Welcome to 1985 baby!
Some of these were taken with my iPhone (back to 2011), the photography credit goes to Mike Miller and Sarah Browne. Some of the jewelry is part of my Melli collection, the rest of the clothing and accessories are from Hot Topic, Claires, Forever 21, Express, Toxic, and a combination of odds n ends from CVS & my closet. ;) Quite Kindly Yours, Melli D
I DID TOTALLY SUPREMELY AWESOME! I wasn't even nervous! Even after preparing for two models, (that was likely one) and three outfits each, plus two additional each just in case...AND HAVING SIX SHOW UP???!!!!!! I DIDN'T PANIC IN THE LEAST!!! So totally, rad dude!!! Still a little eighties rocked out. Sunday, after so many years of wanting to do this sooooo much, I was IN CHARGE of the entire look of the shoot! I've styled friends, family etc...Never done make-up, never even tried doing anybodies hair...except for the occasional slumber party, but even then I wasn't that interested in it. But wow...OK, so the photographer is thinking early 1900's. GREAT!!! Then maybe the 20's or 30's...PERFECT! Then he gets to the 40's for a second and moves on to the 50's...um...OK still COOL! Then he skips completely the 60's & 70's and goes straight, head first, full speed,rock on bitches ...to THE 80'S! NOOOOOO!!!! Awesome music...but the clothes? Neons, loud, gaudy, obnoxious and completely all that is NOT Melli? HOWEVER IT IS FOR THAT VERY REASON THAT I AM SO FRIGGING PROUD OF MYSELF! I really did kick ass. Good news, the 80's are all you can find in the mall. Bad news? Well, I really don't shop all that much in the mall, but if you do? I guess be happy with spandex and "Sassy Grass Green". Good news, love the lace... AND if it's already everywhere in the mall, that means the highest designers have been over it for at least a couple years, next down on the list, the high end boutique's are over it and have been about a year, the smaller but higher end boutiques got rid of all that crap six months ago, and the mall will be over it well... as quickly as trends go. "Fashion fades ~ Only style remains the same" Coco Chanel.
The BEST NEWS is that if I can do the one era I didn't want to do...AND DO IT BETTER THAN AWESOME ... I CAN DO ANYTHING!!! It's like being at "camp". ...Oh my goodness talk about the seventh circle of hell! What those people did to me on a daily...no, not daily, HOURLY basis? The staff was just as bad as the campers...Talk about abuse...holy smoke stacks! BUT I GOT THROUGH IT AND CAME OUT ALIVE... If I did that, I have to believe I can get through anything. Having that really makes me see that whatever doesn't kill you can actually make you stronger...if you so choose it too. It ALSO gives you EXPERIENCE! So, I kicked butt on the eighties shoot. ALL BY MYSELF with SIX models not two...or really one... And I did it calmly, and happily, and if anybody can deal with a challenge it's me...these girls all happen to have been sweet as pie...little tipsy but sugar coated all American sweet-hearts with good souls. Anyway, I did it. I LOVE styling people, and I'm good at it. I'm really really great at it. Make-up, I faked it through...and it worked! Hair? Whoa, but hey, 80's? Punk it up grab a bow and we were all good. The wardrobe though...wow. Not huge giant wowy zowy oh my goodness...just simply wow. It's my passion...putting clothing together, pieces from here and there and everywhere, matching, combining this, that and every other thing, and finding the right colors, fits etc...then the jewelry? Simply Wow. I was on cloud 22! Way above cloud 9. I wasn't talking non-stop, I wasn't obnoxious I was just doing my thing getting it done and I was awesome...not nervous nothing that you (or even me) would have expected...Partly because I was in charge of it...but the photographers were in charge of me...it was costly because I wanted it to be awesome and so I bought every thing you could think of...from the clothes and accessories to the clothing tape, hair spray for static, and to get wrinkles out...every cosmetic ever offered, towels, puffs, potions, lotions, oils, removers, needles, thread, sharpies, safety pins, thimble,measuring tape etc etc etc etc etc...2300 dollars later, well I have a lot of stuff...from my least favorite clothing era...but hey, this is what I do. I can make it work now for anything, and it was awesome. I'm posting a handful of photo's, some that I took, and some the photographers took. So have a peak and join me for a temporary blast from the past, and rock on to your favorite "hair bands"...Welcome to 1985 baby!
