Columbia College Fashion Shoot

During the last few weeks in our Freshman year at Columbia College, Gigi and I were asked to do a photo shoot for a group of seniors. The collaborative school project involved stylists, makeup artists, art directors and a photographer. It was a super fun experience, and the photos turned out amazing (thanks to Alex Friedland). Enjoy!

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Go Team! 

Instagram names of everyone involved:

ashtonx

kaileykroth

kels_dano

maureesullivan 

alexfriedland

Pictures from Europe

I traveled to Europe alone over summer and met up with my sister there and here are some of my favorite pictures from my trip. PS I know this post is super late but I still wanted to share!

London 

This is the backyard of the hostel I stayed at

When I was shopping in Camden Town

Love this random little house I found in St. James park

Holland

My sister and aunt

The day of the Holland vs Argentina World Cup game

Rome

All about them jellies

JELLIES
OOTD

Sorry this picture doesn't show my outfit very well! My shirt is a pink blush crop top from Brandy Melville. They don't sell it online anymore but I found it here. My light wash denim skirt is from LF but it's basically the same as this one! I got my clear jellies at this random little store in London for like 15 pounds. I found them here for super cheap and the original JuJu ones can be found here. 

How to style: Glitter Jellies

Jellies are hard to style. Which is weird because they are clear so you can wear socks to make them any color you want, but I find them harder to style than solid colored ones. I was sorta scared and nervous when I got my glittery clear ones. I honestly thought I would never wear them but I got them anyways because they were so cute! I thought I wouldn't be able to pull them off, but honestly, you can pull anything off if you wear it with confidence.

I think clear jellies look awesome with denim. Denim is always the answer yooooo, especially light wash denim!! So you could pair them with a denim skirt, or denim jacket (pictured to the right) or denim dress! In the pictures below, the girl with the pink hair wears them with a denim dress and black sheer tights. The picture on the right features Kylie Jenner wearing her jellies with a denim dress and cute socks. They look great with frilly socks like these as well.

 How to Style: Solid Colored Jellies

These are easier to style in my opinion. Honestly they go with basically everything especially if you're getting them in black or white. They can be worn with an edgy, girly, spunky, funky (basically anything) outfit. In the photo to the left, she's wearing her jellies with super basic pieces that I bet you already have in your closet! So just pull out a basic tee and jeans and you're good to go. 

The photo to the right features a girl wearing them in a girlier way. She's just wearing them with a floral romper and I bet you already have a floral skirt or dress! Moral of the story is to buy a pair because they go with everything!! 

SO basically I made this post to bring jellies back because I feel like I haven't seen people wearing them lately! So buy them :) Thanks for reading!!

Iris xx

Phone Photos

These are just a few snaps I have taken on my phone when I never had a camera on me. All are from either an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5c.

-Olivia

a local favorite taco shop

lights from a concert

accidental pic while running down my street

noticed the only lights on in the building, snapped a pic

the sunset from a boat

random closed store in Pacific Beach

view from ferris wheel, first night out in Chicago with roommates 

fireworks from the pier

tobacco plants in a lab

Nova and Cher Shoot: Gigi

Gigi and I had the awesome chance to spend the night with our friends in Idlewild. We slept in this adorable strawberry cabin, and loved it (and the town) so much that it stimulated us to do a shoot. Here are the photos that the inspiration evoked. Enjoy!

 -Olivia

Traveling Essentials

Hello, I hope you're having an awesome summer! As I'm leaving for Europe next week, I thought I would share some traveling essentials with ya. I'm going to London, Holland and all around Italy! These are items (I think) that are often forgotten but I know they'll be super helpful whilst I'm there.

Adapter
This may be an obvious one but I feel like it'd be super easy to forget. You don't normally think about charging your electronics and if there will be an outlet available because you just assume they'll be available ya feel ( In case you're curious, I got this one)

Reusable Water Bottle
Super important! You have to stay hydrated especially in foreign countries because your body is adapting to the time zone and weather. In Europe, water is hella expensive so bringing one of these will be very helpful. There may be public water fountains but you should do research on where you're going to see if you can drink from the fossett. (PS I like Camelbak and Contigo water bottles)

Fanny pack
You might think they're lame but let's be real , people will be able to tell you're a tourist anyways. A cross body purse is also a practical option, but someone could still tug at it and take things. A backpack may be a little risky as well since you can't see what's going on behind you. I just think the safest and least risky thing to take is a fanny pack but just take a small backpack or small purse if you aren't down for a fanny pack. ( BTW there are cute fanny packs!! Like these ones)

Umbrella
Even if you're going to Hawaii or Venice, it's always a good idea to bring an umbrella. You never know!! There can be tropical rainstorms or sudden showers. It's always good to look at the weather of the places you'll be traveling to anyways.

Disposable Camera
I don't really feel comfortable lugging around my big and bulky Canon camera in Europe. I constantly worry about it and I'm always so paranoid I'll lose it or someone will steal it. It's just unpractical and annoying to carry around. Soooo I think a disposable camera is a great idea!! I know you won't have the pictures electronically but there's something special about holding the pictures instead of looking at them on a screen. And you can always scan the pictures too. If you loose it, it wouldn't suck that bad as they're only about $3-$10.

I hope you enjoyed this post and got something out of it! I know all of these are pretty obvious but I came close to forgetting them so I wanted to prevent that from happening to anyone else. 

-Iris xx

Black Mountain

Zak and I decided to do a trash clean up in the abandoned arsenic mines over by Black Mountain so I thought it would be nice to take some pictures.

It's a really neat place tucked away in a crevice of the mountain with some cool history to it. The mine was funded by actor and rancher, Frank Hopkins, and was used to obtain white arsenic. At the time, the South had a bad boll weevil infestation and white arsenic was known to be an ingredient for a pesticide that attacked boll weevils. The mine was abandoned not long after it was founded since a few years of rough weather in the South was enough to get rid of the boll weevils. What remains is a cool little secret of San Diego...

The entrance to Black Mountain

I am not entirely sure what this is (oven maybe?)

Destroyed mine shaft

Destroyed mine shaft pt. II

Exploratory mining cave

Crashed Jeep, no idea what the story behind this is

Giant flume that scales down the mountain and to the mines

Climbing up said flume

So yeah, that's it.

Special thanks to Zak for doing this with me! I've been wanting to do this for a while and I'm glad to say that we cleaned up a considerable amount of trash.

Happy Hiking

-Chris