Your Teenage Self vs Your 20-Something Self

Cuz' Thought Catalog never gets old. 

"Money

Teenage self: I’m rich! My parents just gave me twenty bucks to go out with my friends. That means I can afford a movie, a soft drink, and some candy! Must spend immediately. Burning a hole in my pocket. I love money!

20-something self: I hate money. Why does it cost so much money to simply exist? Why I can’t afford an iced mocha and some Sour Patch Kids? I really don’t ask for much. No one told me life was going to be this expensive. No one told me that if I get sick, I must pay insurance companies thousands of dollars. What’s more expensive? Cancer or a Birkin? WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Self-esteem

Teenage self: I love to hate myself. I wish I was born with a better body. If I had a better clavicle bone, maybe the opposite sex would notice me!

20-something self: I’m a pretty dope person. Why doesn’t anyone realize that?

Drinking

Teenage self: I get crazy wasted. Can I have another wine cooler?

20-something self: I pretend to get hungover after drinking one beer. I’m just so…old.

Love

Teenage self: I’ve been in love once. I don’t think they knew I existed though.

20-something self: Love’s a necessary bitch.

Parents

Teenage self: Hate.

20-something self: Love.

College

Teenage self: Can’t wait to go. It’ll change my life!

20-something self: So. Much. Money.

Excuse to stay in

Teenage self: I have to finish my reading journal for King Lear.

20-something self: I’d rather wash my hair and watch Top Chef.

Style manta

Teenage self: This bracelet would look good with this necklace. And this necklace would look good with this headband. And this headband would look good with some wacky earrings!

20-something self: Messy meets sophistication meets go fuck yourself. Looking 12 and 80 years old all at the same time.

Fights with friends

Teenage self: I hate you today because I’m bored!

20-something self: I’m beginning to realize that I don’t like who you are as a person."

 

Inside Lauren Conrad's Closet

Why do I do this to myself? I enjoy looking into the closets that for my life can be marked as "forever unattainable". We'll call it sartorial masochism. 

Hate or love LC, you can't deny the woman's got one helluva closet. The Coveteur peeped her digs and they are....beautiful.

(PICTURE MY HEART RATE.) I love maxi dresses and think they are such versatile and romantic pieces. I wore this nude, tiered chiffon dress (from my first collection for paper crown) with a sash to a ball held at the National History Museum. The silk dress on the right I wore for a photoshoot at my home in Laguna. In the center is a vintage nightgown – I love the little details and bias cut of this particular piece.

"This photo is lovely, very much represents paper crown."

"These [Chanel] shoes were my favorite this winter. I wore them all the time with tights or black skinnies."

"I love vintage jewelery, not only to wear but also to hang around the space Iʼm in. I usually have luck at flea markets or The Way We Wore. The necklace in the center is one of my favorites and often makes appearances in paper crown lookbooks. It's an old hair barrette turned into a necklace. When I am designing for LC Lauren Conrad jewelry, most of the collection is inspired by vintage pieces."

"Clearly, I have a fascination with Chanel. I began collecting old perfume bottles a few years back because I thought they were so pretty. The crown is (embarrassingly) from when I was on the homecoming court in high school."

"Phillip Lim is my favorite designer of all time. I like the shoulder detailing on this top because it reminded me of a sea anemone."

You can drool more over here. 

"Sometimes all you can do it not think..."

"Sometimes all you can do is not think. Not wonder. Not obsess. Not imagine. Just breathe. Breathe in, breathe out. Everything works out in the end, and the more time you spend worrying about it, the longer it takes for things to end perfectly. Just the way they should."

Photo by: Charlie Engman

DIY Antipasto Plate

A party for your tastebuds; with all the right guests.

From: The Ink Remains

Casual weekend date.

Dress//Shoe//Cuff//Purse//Nailpolish

I want a polka dot door

Mostly because it looks just like my cell phone cover. I'm down with polka dots. But chya'll knew that.

Image via: Oh Joy!

Let's talk about the second color you need in your life.

M I N T

So it's no "color of the year" like the hue we talked about last week, but mint is surely becoming my favorite color for spring and the shade I am most excited about incorporating into my wardrobe. Diane Von Furstenberg's spring runway show had it paired with tan and gray—but it works so well with pretty much all neutrals. 

Get some.

Layering T//Shirt//Dress//Another dress//Belt//Jeans//Bikini

*Photos: Coco & Kelley via Vanessa Jackman, Gary Pepper Vintage, Tululu Vintage