† The Dandy

Dress: COREY (Similar) / Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell / Rings: Verameat / Lips: Stila


I do a lot of part-time work to make that moneyyyyy. I love my day job in fashion PR but LA is not a cheap place to live and I have a closet to fill up with shoes that I'll wear once and then never again. (But they make me happy, and that's what matters, I'm told.) This weekend's job was seating at... The Daytime Emmy Awards. Yeeessss. Yes. Days of Our Lives crew and cast, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, and all the other daytime soaps crew and cast showed up at Warner Bros for their Emmy chance.

Tbh I didn't recognize any of them as I haven't seen a daytime soap since approx 1997 but Tyra Banks hosted and it was fairly intimate and quaint. Not what I would have expected from something with Emmy in the title, but I guess they scale it down for the soap stars.

I walked away feeling like I had a lot to learn about daytime tv, so maybe my next step in life is to take a week to watch every Young and the Restless episode. Just maybe.

Do you guys watch daytime tv? Any favorites?


Photography by the talented TAPPERINTO.

† 4 (& 1/2) Drugstore Products Infinitely Superior to More Expensive Stuff

This is not me embarking into a new phase of beauty blogging, for the record.  This is me wanting to be sparkly all the time but having a non-sparkly budget for sparklefication, therefore faking it til I make it only to realize I've more or less made it all along.

Wait, what?

Stop paying so much for beautifully packaged cosmetic products when you really should be saving that money for tacos. (Unless you have the dollas to spend, then buy whatever you want.) Cheap it out and buy this stuff instead.

1. Jordana Mascara

You can get this at Walgreens for $2.99, or from Amazon for 1.99, and bam, insta-lashtastic. My only complaint with this is that sometimes it makes your lashes so long it actually weighs them down and they lose curl, but it's va-voom enough that you probably don't even have to curl your eyelashes in the first place. I don't anymore; I don't even know where my eyelasher curler is right now. Also, can we talk about how much eyelash curlers look like medieval torture devices? That you apply to your EYEBALL?

2. Wet n Wild MegaLiner

If I only got to take one product to a deserted island, it'd be eyeliner. Wet n Wild makes this super smooth liquid eyeliner for a pocket-breaking $2.00. Note that it is kind of smudgey, but that makes it easier to get off and to fix when you end up with accidental lines across your face. If you have a swift, practiced hand, go for the expensive products that never move again once they're on your face, but if you're still trying to figure out what goes where.... MegaLiner. All the way. 

3. Almay Clear Complexion Makeup

This is so far into too-good-to-be-true territory that I keep buying more expensive foundation just because something that's $40 a bottle HAS TO BE better than something that's under $5 per bottle, RIGHT? If it's true, I haven't found it yet. I'm looking at you, Marc Jacobs, MAC, bareminerals, Kat Von D, and everything else inside Sephora. Almay gives really clean coverage, no caking or feathery lines, no oily finish, and has never made my super temperamental skin breakout. I will go down with the Almay ship, and I'm sorry I ever doubted you, little makeup bottle.

4. Cover Girl Outlast

I've written about my love for Cover Girl Outlast a bunch of times now, ever since rocker girl Emmy Wildwood introduced me to it. You put it on and it stays on, end of story. It doesn't go anywhere. Red lips all day, not red lips for an hour in the morning and then red lips all up on your coffee cup and not your mouth. Amazon's got it for $7.00 in a whole range of fun colors. It's that easy.

4 1/2. Hairspray

This only counts as half because everyone already knows about it, right? Hairspray, the ultimate makeup setter. Please don't ever buy expensive stuff to keep your face on all night. I've had conversations with professional makeup artists that went like, "when should I use something specific and when should I just use hairspray?" and ended with "basically just use hairspray all the time." 


Note that no one's paying me to say any of this; I really use all these. (But if you want to pay me to say something, I'm available. I totally need a day job.)

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† Honeyrider

I am so tired rn I don't even know what to do with words. Big things are happening! They're good big things but good doesn't exempt them from being overwhelming. Consequently, it's a good time to know how to ask for help. I tend to be painfully self-sufficient but I'm tryin, and everyone has responded mar-vel-ous-ly.

Can you guys help me out too? I have a project going on (codename: Los Maceles) to help fund my bizarre awesome internship in Los Angeles. I am exciiiited but I need all the help I can get along the way. Cali be expensive for a chica comin' from Utah. Here's my campaign: http://igg.me/at/losmaceles

What you can do:
† Donate! There are lots of cool perks up for grabs.
† Share it! Post it on your blogs, Twitter, Facebook, anything.
† Send good vibes! I need 'em. :)

I'm going to put some stuff up on eBay to help fund this adventure (goodbye Vivienne Westwood shoes ;_;) but I would be most honored if you guys would pass around the link too. 

http://igg.me/at/losmaceles!!!

(I'm wearing a Motel Rocks bodycon dress, kimono thing from a vintage store, and boots I've worn maybe twelve times before.)

Interview † Emmy Wildwood

This time around, I did an interview with classy rocker girl Emmy Wildwood. When she's not fronting her own band, VELTA, she kills it in an all-girls Guns 'n Roses cover band featuring equally classy rocker girls Charlene Kaye, Mia Von Glitz, and Erin Marsz. (I'm starting to think we should start a genre here -- classy rocker girl jams. I'd buy that compilation.)

I was also tempted to call this post Emmy Changes Macie's Life Forever by Recommending Cover Girl Outlast but that was a little too lengthy.

First up, you definitely have a signature style and I love it. It feels like something an old Hollywood star would style to spend an evening at the old-school Viper Room. Is this a look that you sought out, or did it find you?

"Awesome Macie! I love this description. I like the idea of looking cinematic. There is so much drama in it! And obviously I play rock n roll so that is going to come across in my vibe too. I haven't intentionally sought out a look. It's just sort migrated to this based on my lifestyle and working around so much music, art and fashion. 

I loved Marilyn Monroe as kid and collected all kinds of her memorabilia. I loved her movies and of course her red lip! I've been wearing red lipstick since I was 14 years old. I would buy tubes of the Wet N Wild brand for 99 cents at the drug store. This is was same brand my great grandmother wore. She also played music by ear and loved sequins. I think I inherited her desire for music and glamour. 

But there has to be functionality to that when you are playing and rocking out on stage. I just started wearing converse sneakers with my dresses so I wouldn't fall over in front of everyone. It's a look that people ask me about all the time and I tell them it's just easier this way. But I get creative and match my sneakers to my dresses for fun. Coincidentally, my band VELTA, became a face of Converse Fall 2012 campaign."

You have so many projects and collaborations going on -- what keeps you inspired and motivated? Do you ever feel burnt out, and what helps you get back on track?

"I do have a lot projects but I wouldn't have it any other way. As a musician you feel like you are doing something really wrong when you are not playing regularly. It's super unnerving to not be working. So when I feel burnt out, which happens from time to time for sure, I just remember that that feeling equals incredibly hard work and it just means I'm doing what I want to be doing. I am so lucky to do this."

What are you listening to right now?

"I love Fiona Apple's new record. I just saw her at Terminal 5 and she blew my mind. A total genius."

I hear you just opened up a boutique, Tiger Blanket. What was that process like and what's your vision for it?

"Here's our short description...

Tiger Blanket Records & Vintage Boutique is a Brooklyn-based record label putting out limited edition 7 inch vinyls for unsigned bands. The first single release is "Let's Get Married" by VELTA coming in November! You can buy these records as well as amazing vintage leather motorcycle jackets, collectible concert t-shirts and beautiful dresses at our location in Williamsburg.

But from a personal standpoint..

Friends of mine walked in the store and immediately said it looks like my closet. It's true! This store is filled with vintage concert t-shirts, some of which used to be in my personal collection. There's an entire rack dedicated to sequins blouses and we carry skinny jeans in all the colors of the rainbow. It's all something I would wear to play a show. And I have always bought vintage things for stage because they cheaper and still more fabulous than anything you can find at a mall.

I'd like to think its a very well-curated collection similar to what you described earlier as old Hollywood glamour meets the Viper Room. We have have a giant bowl of red lipstick at the cash wrap."

Guns N Hoses, all-girl Guns N Roses cover band. The awesome speaks for itself. How did you get involved in that, and exactly how much fun is it to wear a lot of fishnet on stage and rock out to Welcome to the Jungle?

"Guns N Hoses was such a huge surprise! Musically speaking its not something I ever thought I would do but when Charlene Kaye, Erin Marsz and Mia Von Glitz came to me with proposal to join I was so excited. These girls are all hugely talented and a blast to play with. We are all front women for our own projects so there is stage presence just boiling over into crowd.

We are all super into fashion and for a few hours we all get together before shows just to help each other get dressed. Its ridiculous the things we come up with. Its also so fun because its stuff I would never wear to my own shows. At our sold-out show at The Viper last weekend, I wore sequin underwear and a python top that cut clear down to my navel. I definitely wear the least clothes on stage with this band. It's all sort of an out-of-body experience. "

What can we look out for in the future?

"VELTA has our next single "Let's Get Married" coming out in November. This is a super rocking track with a Phil Spector vibe about it. Kyp Malone from TV On The Radio is featured in this tune as well as Erin Marsz from Erin Mary & The West Island and Deva Mahal. It's a banger."

And the most important question for last -- how can I achieve the same mastery you have over red lipstick application?
"Girl, you can master this look for 7.99 at the Cover Girl station in your local Duane Reade. It's Outlast Lip and it NEVER comes off. That's why I wear it on stage. Other brands rub all over the mic and then right back on to my face. One time I forgot the brand and bought another kind for a show, and when I got off stage I had red lipstick on my cheeks, chin and forehead. Cover Girl Outlast is the jam!"

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