i am helium raven

friends in a phone box (because it was cold outside)

pimms, doritos, and mugs of tea at mine (spy the disposable camera!)

me. in liverpool. with a wonky skirt.

cardigan; vintage. blondie(!) tee; h&m kids. skirt; fat face. bag; internaçionale. very dead shoes; topshop.

basically, i'm going to university this weekend. this means i have no idea when i'll next have an internet connection, ergo have the ability to reply to comments.

and yes, i'll get round to buying a digital camera at some point, promise. i know you must all be getting tired of these disposable excuses.

wow

the reality of me moving out hasn't actually hit yet

title lyrics: birdland - patti smith

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got a lock, got a key

got some kind of vice-like grip on me

nicola of golden indigo tagged me (i'm sure i've been tagged by others, i just can't remember, apologies, i've had a weird few days), so i'm going to continue this chain as i like the questions.

Why did you start blogging?

if you know how many blogs i follow, then i think you'd get the idea that i need to give back somewhat.

Do you prefer Spring/Summer or Autumn/Winter?

i would quite happily live exclusively in jumpers for the rest of my life

What do you notice first: Smokey eye makeup, or bright lips?

Who are your style icons?

chung, poésy, bardot, birkin, dellal, lowe, tennessee thomas...

and, in terms of bloggers, carrie, caroline, alix, rumi, rhiannon, emma, et al.

Describe your personality in three words.

i've gone off the number three, will two do?

i can't remember why i wrote this. it's quite cliché.

christ, the eighth feels like a year ago, not six days.

If you had to leave the house with only one item of makeup, what would it be?

i like my eyeliner to be a nice mash up of chung and badot. liquid, all the way. currently using one of rimmel's

Which era do you think influenced fashion the most?

fashion is in flux, this question is void.

What beauty product do you always purchase?

nail polish, then i pick it off after about a day, once i've got bored of it.

i'm not going to tag people.

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demimonde

beardyman and a beach ball

i still have my wristband on (:

these photos are from brownstock festival that i attended last weekend.

still suffering from what has been dubbed "festival flu", so i reckon that marks it as a pretty good event. i'd recommend it to anyone who fancies a weekend of good music for £50.

see you there next year?

and here's a video of beardyman, he's insanely talented

(and i was awake during his entire set, shut up)

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all that glitters

it'd be nice if it wasn't always me who had to make the effort.

always.

thanks to everyone who wished me a good time at brownstock. despite getting far too little sleep, drinking too much (even if not playing wizard myself), and my phone dying, it was okay.

i didn't get food poisoning, anyway.

shame every photo i've seen of myself so far makes me want to throw up

i put five disposable cameras into boots' vaults yesterday, so we'll see what treats there are in store soon.

title: patti smith - glitter in their eyes

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saturday dream team

cake eating machine

i don't have any new photos (these were taken midway through last month) - that's the problem with disposable cameras. i have three ready to be developed... there'll be more soon - promise!

ps i'm going to brownstock festival for the next couple of days and then varying social occasions call, so it'll be a while before i can reply to comments, but i'll do it! followers + commenters, love you. anonymous lurkers? that's just a bit weird.

blouse; fat face. cardigan; fat face. skirt; american apparel. oh, come on, i'm wearing quite a bit of their stuff...

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here in my car i feel safest of all

no need to hitchhike.

all photos by eleanor hardwick. (click though for individual sources)

she's stupidly, stupidly talented for a sixteen year old (she's done the photography for the jack wills catalogue for the past few issues) and has a great blog, even if she doesn't update very often!

i've wanted to share her work for a while, so why not do it when i've just passed my driving test? :D

i am the stig.

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at it again

chanel, number 19.

i love you far more than i could any man.

(as far as make up goes, i'm also wearing rimmel eyeliner and no7 mascara. i don't really "do" foundation)

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in reverse order

1.knuckleduster and peter pan collar

2.deutsche mädels

3.photo booth not doing a countdown

4.my first ebay purchase

5.decent eyeliner

6.dressing like alexa chung with bruised legs

7.debbie harry

what is it about photo booth that turns you into a complete narcissist?

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kodak moments

i would've lost my digitial camera, so i took two disposable ones:

palmistry on brighton pier

jack wills (with added expensive jumper)

the apartment we stayed in

digital

okay, a2 results tomorrow. kind of numb about how these four letters can contain such gravity. i think i'm going to read trashy magazines (look, vogue, elle collections), watch films (500 days of summer, my fair lady, roman holiday) and generally be a loser (disaronno, vodka, cranberry juice) till i can't stay awake any more.

like a dog lying in a corner
they will bite you and never warn you.
look out
they'll tear your insides out

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