EDITOR-IN-CHIEF/HEAD STYLIST......OCTAVIA WASHINGTON
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY......SABRINA CARRASQUILLO DIRECTOR OF HAIR AND MAKEUP/WRITER......ORIAN POLANCO PHOTO EDITOR......ISAIAH WASHINGTON
CO-PHOTO EDITOR......AMANDA CHRISTOPHER MODEL/SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR......KIARA TALLESGRAND FEATURED WRITER....ZUHILA MUSIC CONSULANT/BETA READER.......CHARMAINE EJELONU BETA READER.................STARR
COLLECTOR.............LARRY DONAHUE COLLECTOR.............GABBY MORAL SUPPORT.........KATY ODA
CALLING FROM THE KITTY PLAYROOM......8 27 COLLECTION......26 MEET THE PURSE WHISPERER......28
H E R R I N G B O N E S T U D I O
mission statement
ueer dear is a magazine for the scrappy gyrl, born of course from the most scrappy gyrl of all…Elsa Schiaparelli.
Kidding. I mean, not that we don’t love Schiaparelli. (Who’s done surrealism like her?) I’m talking about this quote from a 1936 interview in Photoplay:
“Wear your suit to business; wear it to dinners; to the theater; wear it twenty-four hours a day, every day in the year, if you must, and if it is a good suit, you will always look smart, attractive.”
And thus was born a style guide. I’m no socialite. I’m no designer. But here’s what I get from the text: cultivating a fashion palette doesn’t take money (well, maybe a little). It doesn’t take approval. It’s all about re-inventing. Re-imagining.
A year ago, I got caught between my many Instagram personalities: juggling octaviawears, octaviareads, and my main account (which I guess is technically octaviabreathes). Some friends have asked why I am obsessed with cataloging my many hobbies (I am a Capricorn; I do not know how to answer any clearer). @octaviawears, more relevantly, has been a project where I archive pieces in my closet that I wear all the time; my repeat scream queens, as I’ve been calling them. People have always asked how I put clothes together, how I have so many; but I wear the same things all the time. I believe in keeping clothes until they’re just thread; and even then resuscitating them for a second, third, fourth life.
I’d call my style funky chic. I live by the bigger, the bigger. My fashion heroes have always been Fran Fine, Eartha Kitt, Miss Frizzle, and Junie B. Jones. That’s because they are all 1) repeat scream queens. (Seriously! Google them.) 2) Queerly one-ofone, originals by their claim or inevitability. 3) Looking repeatedly at the same sketches, pictures, screenshots of them and studying their pizzazz in the privacy of my growing up has become very dear to me. That’s sort of the genesis of the magazine.
Caught somewhere between the tackiness of Tiger Beat and the glossiness of Paper, QUEER DEAR finds style in every corner. It has nothing to do with high fashion, except of course when we say it does. By high we typically mean on our own supply, because the truly QUEER DEAR has a never-ending appetite for the self; this is the type of diva who looks in the mirror and flexes. We’re QUEER because we’re off-beat, under-thebelt, over-the-rainbow, etc. Some might throw out the word SELF-OBSESSED like a ring light around the room. Except of course they are wrong. Because we also exist in communion, in the witching hour with our DEARS, those who are soul-minded to us, who also see style in everything. I turn to my friends for guidance. We are a community of icons; the operative word in the phrase we’re obsessed is we.
What does it take to be a QUEER DEAR? It takes tenacity; silliness; opportunism; obsession; campiness; gaudiness; superstardom; character; grit; morality; randomness; annoying-ness and whatever else you’d like. The requirements are steep and also low. Only a certain type of bad(die) can do it. We are vast but we are not for everyone (and you’d waste your life trying to be). I have always felt comfortable in my style, like I can experiment because at the end of the day, I come home to myself. And I know that in myself is the queerest dear, is a river of iconography.
PHOTO CREDITS: FASHIONTOFILM WORDPRESS COM
Re: Y2K RETROSPECTIVE
letter from the editor
Famously, I hated the early 2000s.
Yet somehow this first-ever issue of QUEER DEAR is dedicated to them - to its style; to my favorite picture of Mariah Carey decked in Hello Kitty memorabilia; to purple palettes, inspired by squeaky-clean photoshoots of Britney Spears; to its general tackiness, ugly, and whimsy.
Perhaps I hated it just because I was generally having a terrible time. It was not the nicest time to be dark-skinned, or not-skinny, or Black, or a girl. (I mean, you’ve all seen America’s Top Model, right?)
Give me your unnecessary belts, your smelly ballet flats, your Uggs for every season, your glam tracksuits, your Apple Bottoms, your platform flip flops, your rimless frames, your tiny shiny purses. Hell, even give me your skirts over jeans. (Everyone say: thank you, Ashley Tisdale.) I’m ready.
Since I’ve been watching Ugly Betty and inhaling Chappell Roan performances to cope with grad school, I’ve been changing my thoughts on tacky. Once, I was afraid. I was petrified. Now, to quote my oft-forgot and unused Twitter: What is tacky to a bad bitch?
Volume 1 summer 24
calling kfromthe ittyplayroom
It’s always been brighter around Kitty. Messier too. I had this thought while helping her bury her exboyfriend in the woods, behind the playground where we met for the first time. It’s by sick accident that we’re wearing the same jeans, these Apple Bottoms that she found (overpriced) on Depop and I found (free) in my mother’s formerly-slutty closet.
“Sugar honey iced tea,” Kitty says, holding out her hand to me. She’s broken a $10 press-on nail. With a pop, her Zebra stripes dig into the dirt, almost like an offered finger at Chad’s altar. Recently, she’s been trying not to curse and she thinks emulating my grandma’s (on the crazy-side, aka Dad’s) sayings is charming.
I push her hand away. “Told you so.” I am usually repairing things for Kitty; sewing together holes in crotch areas, crocheting broken tote straps, hot-glueing jewels back onto earrings, etc. I enjoy it, usually. I am the arbiter of nags. Perhaps that’s why this whole debacle is my fault. I come to in the same cycles The dirt and the yarn and the needle In and out of my brain. Over and over till I’m covered. Or until Chad’s covered, actually
“I need a break ” “I need a lobotomy.”
-Excerpt from “Kitty Paraphernalia”
Re: where does Kitty come from?
The title of this collection, Kitty Playroom, comes from a story I wrote called, “Kitty Paraphernalia.” It’s about two girls obsessively into 2000s style (and each other, of course). Long nights of music videos on VH1 and ABC Family movie marathons. Posters of Manny Santos pinned to the wall. Daily rituals somehow veer into murderous, Black comedy (emphasis on Black), existential crisis territory pretty quickly; all topped with a parable about the importance of best friendship. (If you know me, you know this is how my work usually goes!)
But Kitty’s more a state of mind. In the story, she’s the only person who knows how life is supposed to be lived I craft a lot of characters like that, actually, like Kitty and Em and Aphrodite: Black women who take starring roles, in all aspects of their lives. And they all live under the same commandments. Since this is my 2000s revised, I thought I’d share them with you.
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QUEER DEAR IS A MAGAZINE DESIGNED TO HAVE THE FEELING OF OPENING MY BRATZ THEMED MYSPACE IN 2009 THAT PLAYED “PARTY IN THE USA” ON LOOP.
FANTASY
does anyone remember stardoll?
The name QUEER DEAR comes from a short story I wrote a few years called queer beer about three Black witches, one of whom tries to make the lives of queer people around her better with her magic. But this mag, and this edition, is also about recreating the feeling I had whenever I opened Stardoll.com as a kid. For the woefully uninformed, Stardoll was an online dressing game where you could create an avatar and unlock multiple levels of makeup, fashion, celebrity, and riches. This is the icon that prepped us for playing Roblox and Episode: it’s either spend $50 of your real adult money or wear a trash bag to a date with your bad boy werewolf stepbrother.
Uh-oh. Your Stardoll needs a new dress for an upcoming premiere but you just spent your last remaining stars on a new suite in your pentbouse. Do you:
Give up. It’s allfake anyway.
Wow! You are so well-adjusted. And not supposed to be here.
Ask your mother to give youherhard-earned moneywhich she uses on your and your siblings, nothingelse,tofuel your virtual capital?
Correct answer!Except she says no.Worsethan no: she banishes youto your room so youlearn yourlesson about humility,connectingto reality,blahblah.In your room,do you:
Respectfully process your mother’s lesson and learn not to be so superficial.
Exclaimthat when you’re an adult things willbedifferent.Exceptby thetime you’re of adult age THEREISNOSTARDOLL(atleast notthe one you want)so youhave no choicebutto create: No! You are not gettinghow this game works.
kittyplayroom
strengths: capricorn weaknesses: capricorn
If there was one thing I was gonna do as a child in the early 2000s, other than cheat at Poptropica, it was play a dressing doll game. Now, I can’t exactly program you a game (I have JavaScript-related trauma) BUT I can certainly help you make your own!! (Hey, if I can cut famous people out of magazines and use them as extras in my dolls’ scene recreations, you can too.)
sequin bag that your mom picked up from Claire’s multiple patterned grandma blouse which ran Rory Gilmore & Marissa Cooper for their money (though the former would not be cool enough to wear this pattern). is back in style (if you walk into any thrift store), & of which I’m still convinced is very ugly
flare jeans with flower accents that I definitely had when I was 9 don’t forget your gargantuan chunky belt to go with it (right over your top, I know that’s right) PHOTOCREDITS: EBAY(JEANS),TWITTER @MAHOGANY MAMI(BOOTS), ALIEXPRESS(BELT),PINTEREST (BAG),HOMELYHOMESVIA TUMBLR(ICARYBEDROOM),IMDB (ANGUSTHONGSHALLWAY),NBC NEWSVIATHEOC(SETHCOHEN), MEDIUMVIASPIDERMAN(MJ), IMDBVIATHEWAYANSBROS (MARLON),TWITTERVIA GIRLFIENDS(TONI)
Carly Shay’s redesigned bedroom (left), perfectly suited for a young internet star OR the iconic flat that Georgia did not deserve to live in from Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging (right) to go through your quintessentially British teenager trials and tribulations?
absolutely, positively, indubitably insane!! Like the lead of your own Disney Channel original (Sans Raven, who always had that thang on.) But at least you got your new hot beau in tow. Now pull out your iPod Nano and wait for the first chord of Decode to play as
insane Manolo Blahnik suede Timberland boots that Raven Baxter wears in the first season of That’s So Raven
STARRING KIARA
kittyplayroom
“AND IN THAT MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD, I’D HAVE TO EAT HER OR BE HER. MY FEELINGS HAD NO IN BETWEEN.”
MAY2024-SophiaHalimaParker--MissParker,ifyou’renasty--wearsmanylabels Thoughherhumblenesswould keep her from admitting to some that I list here, I'll proceed: A dancer, writer, dramaturg, poet, Scorpio, lover of MarthaGraham,ofDegrassi,anddeepromantic (Ifyougettheopportunity,youshouldtakehertodinnerandlisten to her make narrative out of an ex) Her life strikes me as caught in seesaws, between Berkley (her home) and New York;betweenperformingfortheAlvinAileySchoolandhercurrentpursuitofadramaturgyMFAatColumbia It’san interdisciplinaryfeelingthatmakeshertheepitomeofwhatadramaturgshouldbe Throughhappy-coincidence,Iwas the dramaturg for Sophia’s most recent piece, Play Cousin A mix between dance and text, the show is about two charactersnamedGoerandBouncer,inasmuchtransitionastheirnamessuggest Withanendearinglybrattysway, andthehelpoffriend/soulmate,Bouncer,Goerattemptstounderstandherself--andherfamily,andintimacy,andall the fears she can’t quite mean (Favorite moment: Sophia’s character, Goer, attempting to help Michael’s character, Bouncer, perfect his Dallas Cowboys cheerleader routine) After following its early conceptions as a play about two charactersmeetinginHeaventobecomingtheshowshepresentedinShapiroinApril2024,it’sclearthatshe’salways thinkingaboutthebodyandthedramaturgysurroundingit Eventhisinterview’swrittenformatisashamebecauseit meansyoucan’ttrackthevariousSophia-isms,ie thewayshe’sgesticulatingandinventingasshetalks
Sinceshe’scraftingaperformancejournalwhereinsheattendstheshowsofherartistfriendsandleavesreviews,I'm hoping to borrow a tool from her canon She uses her voice as a cultural critic to write stunning love letters (one of themopeningwithDearDorchel)--notjustasanartifactofthezeitgeist,butasadeclarationoftheirfriendship (See: whataromantic!)AtPomp&Circumstance,IaskSophiaaboutwhatherbiomeans,herrelationshipwithherparents, andwhatshethinksaboutlove Sophia’swide-eye(toowide,byherowndescription)isalwaysprecise,usuallynailing someonewithonerazor-sharpdetail It’sasightshecan’tunsee,whichIthinkmakesherrefusingtowearherglasses veryironic--orverychic,ifyou'reintothat.-OW
INTERVIEWER
Goodness gracious Well, here we are again. Who are your icons and your inspirations?
SOPHIA
Oh, icons and inspirations I really enjoy the performance and visual artist, Lorraine O’Grady. She had a career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum It’s this performance that she staged in Central Park. The trees are so lush. And there’s a photo of a young man and a young woman, they’re called in the photo on a rock. And that was a really big visual inspiration for Play Cousin
INTERVIEWER
Is she the woman that’s on your iPad?
SOPHIA
Yeah, that’s the woman shaving coconut at the table My friend Collier just shot photos of her and I was really jealous, like, oh my gosh I have the book here of all of her stuff This is my coffee table book. She has these magazine cutouts that I feel like you would really like and these newspaper cutouts from 1977 when most of this series [was] done And the title of the retrospective was called Both/And, and I was just obsessed with that as a title as well
INTERVIEWER
Can you tell me more about how those two images show up in Play Cousin?
SOPHIA
Well, there’s one of the captions from the photo of a teen, it’s like with a girl who’s wearing all red, laying on a rock, and I think the caption is the teenagers alone and she has depression or something When thinking about a visual and physical world, that’s how I’ve sort of approached how I visualize things I see the body position and there is the caption that’s like, the girl is peeling tomatoes
So I think there’s something about that format of that photo series that helped me organize [the play] Some of the scenes that were happening felt like, okay, we’re going to be by the rock by the lake, and then we’re going to be on the beach, and then we’re going to be in the kitchen
INTERVIEWER
That makes a lot of sense with some of the phrases in your bio Maybe you could tell me what they mean in relationship to Play Cousin, specifically: the intersection between personal narrative and performance movement, improv, and then physical motor.
SOPHIA
That piece was really at the intersection of intimacy and memory because I was talking about my family and just people that I know very well and then was also really trying to just tell those stories -- tell those memories -- in a sort of abstract way by making my family members into these metaphors But then there’s this physical narrative and this physical motor that’s happening between me and myself, and then also me and Michael, because we had to create movement to accompany the text And so that was really matching these memories and these narratives around my family and the story I tell myself about my family and meeting that with this need to personify that physicality, or the need to demonstrate that with this other person that what we’re creating is our own thing, that can exist on its own, maybe without the text as the same way the text can exist without the movement. But the whole point is they’re coming together in this way because they need each other
INTERVIEWER
How did you get comfortable writing about your family?
SOPHIA
Part of it just happened in Leslie’s class, and it was easier as time went on I didn’t realize that I was going to write about my uncles so much One of my uncles has one kid, but he is not a part of her life because he’s a career alcoholic, doesn’t see any of our family really And then my other uncle doesn’t have kids at all and is this eternal bachelor, and he’s a firefighter So those very much directly show up in the play. And then my other uncle’s a chef, so I’m like, okay, they both deal with fire They both have control of this element. So once that metaphor came through and the fact that I, as a kid, was so interested in fire and bringing myself close to something that could hurt me, all of that became really like, oh I just followed where that world took me.
I would love to write more about my parents’ marriage and how their marriage has impacted my relationships or what I think about love and relationships. It’s still a little sticky sometimes Now I’m writing about my friends a lot more, which we’ve talked about for Vinson’s class, which is really fun It’s just like, oh God, I don’t want to make a character out of someone that I care about. But at the same time, maybe the story of their breakup or the story of us being friends, it’s sort of my way of honoring it.
INTERVIEWER
You would describe yourself as a romantic? I’d describe you like that
SOPHIA
Oh, yeah
INTERVIEWER
Can you describe passion to me?
SOPHIA
I’ve always loved being in love, and ever since the first time when I was 16, I was like, this is it, man! It was even better when it hurt because it just meant that everything meant something You know what I mean? And so I love being in love now still for those reasons too Everything feels so urgent And I’ve had that urgency feel really terrible, but I’ve also had it feel really good I did this really short solo for a friend who was having a roof party, and I was just kind of standing there and pretending to hit a baseball I don’t even know much about pitching, whacking, hitting, whatever Baseball to me is just the most romantic sport for some reason The image of the lights going down and the stadium and it’s booming, and something about caramel corn and the ball just going off into the distance and it being so America, whatever. And then I started watching clips of the saddest moments in baseball history.
I was just getting so emotional about when a player dies or someone’s wife comes on the field and the way that the announcer was kind of overhead telling the story to the crowd, it just felt so big and romantic to me I don’t know if that really answers the question, but in my work, passion exists when something’s bigger than me I don’t even know why But it’s about this thing.
INTERVIEWER
Your tendency to fall into YouTube spirals feels directly related to the Dallas cheerleaders line
SOPHIA
They have that reality competition show where they’re trying to make the team The devotion and the desperation and the little short shorts and the Southern woman who’s like, “we’re going to need an inch off your thigh ” This is again an extreme version of feelings that I’ve also felt where I want to be wanted and I want to be seen
INTERVIEWER
That definitely seems related to your transitory state right now, between once being a full-time performer and now a dramaturg At least in name now, it sounds like you were doing dramaturgical work before too. I wanted to ask what’s different about what people learn about you as an artist now versus when they used to watch you dance as an Ailey student
SOPHIA
When I was dancing more, I really learned about myself from what people told me. Whatever feedback I would really internalize or I would kind of push back and be like, nobody knows me, I don’t have a voice in my career. Because also, at the peak of my fulltime touring with a company, I had this surety that I could do anything with my body, which is definitely a feeling I miss a lot
And [I had] this sort of fluid androgyny visually during a time where I didn’t actually feel that internally. Now it’s interesting that the sort of opposites happened where I feel like through my writing and constant reading and of other people’s work in school, I know myself so much more I know what I’m interested in. I’m more than one thing, and I’m more than even that, the multiplicity of self is a big thing that I think about in my work. I hope that people just feel closer to me through my work now But there’s just something about being so vulnerable as to put your body out there that people really attach themselves to and think about a little bit more.
INTERVIEWER
What do want your friends to know about you now that you don’t think they did in your previous life?
SOPHIA
I want my friends to know that I see them and that they inspire me in a way that’s not so much like, oh, you wrote a book, so I want to write a book. But more like who they are and what they’re thinking about and how they respond to it makes me want to think more about the shit I’m thinking about You know what I mean? It’s what’s so nice about the fact that most of my friends are other artists that live [in NYC] There’s this level of support and community around.
I keep things a little bit, not hidden, but I’m just like, I’ve got the thing, and I like to take my time with things very much, but I have a lot of friends who are musicians who play a lot of shows all the time. I think with me, I have two big things a year that they get to see For them, it’s like every couple months or even sometimes every couple of weeks, I’m seeing them play maybe a couple of the same songs or then a new song, or they’ll send me a song. And so I actually can keep up more gradually and see how their work changes and develops, which is really exciting to me, and I want them to know that I could help capture that process I’m curious about little changes and if they ever need someone to just talk to about the little changes and notate that
INTERVIEWER
What a dramaturg thing to do Do you think you could describe your voice? Because I always struggle when someone asks me to describe mine
SOPHIA
Oh, it’s so funny you ask I’ve lost my voice a little bit, and I’m so nasally, but my allergy voice is way cuter than my normal voice I cannot stand my speaking voice.
Anyway, if someone asked me to describe it, I’d say that I hope that I’m getting to the heart of the matter in a sincere way that is also funny, but not quirky for quirky’s sake. But if it is quirky and if it is a little tongue and cheek, it’s just so that I can also talk about things that are hard for me to talk about
INTERVIEWER
I would call your voice sweet, but precise There’s something really endearing about the way you write about people, but you always have one line that’s exactly seeing who they are Your father or your uncle? The chimney
SOPHIA
My father The chimney
INTERVIEWER
Yeah That’s the exacting line
SOPHIA
Yeah
INTERVIEWER
Last question Fuck, marry, kill Sean: military Sean [from Degrassi], Sean when he was dating Ellie, early Sean [dating Emma]
SOPHIA
Ooh, I'd probably kill military Sean Marry Ellie’s Sean Have some fun with Sean coming back from Wasega for the first time, you know before the hit and run
PHOTO CREDITS: RIVERS FIRST DRAFT GALLERY, LORRIANE O’GRADY COM
House of Heigl is dedicated to collectors and hoarders alike. Give us your idiosyncrasies, your baggage, the luggage-in-the-dark. As children of Katherine, specifically birthed by the scene where she pulls out her unreasonably large walk-in closet full of bridesmaids dresses, we hereby invite you to rejoice in some ridiculously awesome paraphernalia. t h e
My hat collection represents a gallery of moments that I can not only look back on, but also wear and add to outfits I consider myself somewhat unfashionable and only learned about color matching during college--the eureka moment of “I can wear a purple hat with a purple shirt and it will look better” is something I distinctly remember happening in my junior year dorm room
Pictured are 27 of my favorites. They range from gimmicky like my Santa baseball cap; to representative of my travels and my goal to visit every baseball stadium; to gifts from friends and family; to pieces of memorabilia from experiences, places, and people dear to me.
27 Funkopops
EDITOR’SNOTE: the greatest teacher UA’s everseen,Iknowthat’sright
notesfromthecollector:
My Uncle started my first collection. He gifted me my first Groot and it took off from there. My mother gifted me Punchline and my Dad got me Wendy. At that point I slowly accumulated them from conventions, my Uncles comic shop, and other fandom stores.
from the collection of Gabby Heigl
EDITOR’SNOTE : metomyself :nowwhohaveIliterallyseenamassaFunkopopcollection over various comi c cons?Why,noneotherthanmy dearfriendGabby!
AQUARUIS (JAN 21-Feb 19)
What every Aquarius needs is a statement piece to do all the talking for them so they don’t ruin everyone’s day by saying how they really feel!
Homage Years Ova bag is the perfect staple to fit all your emotions and all the other random gizmos that you find in your possession.
Every Tarus needs a bag to keep up with their active lifestyle. Finding the best cafe with the best iced chai latte and doing museum crawls is not as easy as everyone thinks. The Baggu Crescent bag is the perfect accessory for such strenuous activities and comes in the (many) very obscure color(s) you love so dearly
LEO (JULY 24-AUG 23)
The ever so subtle Bingo Prick bag by Poppy Lissiman is perfect for that date with what’stheir-name, disassociating at the club, or oversharing to the cashier whilst picking up a little treat.
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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20)
A Pisces on the go needs room for their journal, the book they meant to finish weeks ago, all the poems their current lover can’t stop writing about them, their airpods, a pre roll with the lighter they’ve decorated with stickers, and all their other daily essentials. Luckily Parallel x Studio has heard their cries and their Moto Leather bag can fit all that and more.
GEMINI (MAY 22-JUNE 22)
For the ultimate curator of life the Anima Iris Zaza bag is the perfect bag to take with you for every occasion, such as the vacation you planned that finally made it out the group chat; a trip to nail salon (don’t worry, your nail tech already knows what you want but is still going to suggest something different); or to the family party where you will be side eyeing that one aunty all night.
VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23)
You see a bossy, commanding, intense, meticulous individual but it’s just a Virgo strutting around with their Luar Ana bag in tow.
SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)
The soft girlalala nature of the Sandy Liang Regalo bag is a wonderful tool for the Scorpio to distract people from the emotionally volatile bitch carrying it!
(MAR 21-APRIL 20)
heart. Your friends will be in awe with it as you try to find the best way to break up with their partner
CANCER (JUNE 23-JULY 23)
A deeply unserious design but in an intentional way that sparks controversy and excitement is how we can describe the Butterfly bag from forBitches...and Cancers.
(SEPT 24-OCT 23)
For the diva who simply can’t decide what personality she wants to wear today the Telfar shopper bag comes in endless colors, sizes, and textures to match every single one!
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21)
The Kuei bag by Brandon Blackwood is the perfect bag for the Sagittarius divas who want an effortless slay that allows them to worry less about the small stuff and instead why so many people are obsessed with them. Or focus on why you would say that, in that specific tone, during that specific time, in that specific order…
CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)
Blue Marine’s Kiss Me handbag adds a playful yet chic touch to the Capricorns hard exterior! Don’t worry, your journal filled with endless to do lists will fit just fine.
The Sadi Studios Kiss bag is perfect for the Aries with an attitude problem and a big
ARIES
LIBRA
THE STELLAR
MIRROR
You’re picking up your purse on the way out It’s vibrating like crazy You’re almost out but you caught a smear in your eyelid. Okay, let’s go back and fix it.
“I’m almost there,” you text, but you know you’re not even out the house Now your friends will start to call you unserious. But it’s still worth it, cause who goes out the house a mess? So set down the palette, get a little bit of makeup remover THIS time we’re gonna apply the setting spray correctly But there’s also this crease on your shoulder, and the pants have a little stain on them too. And is that your chewed up purse in the back......who let the dog out?? This is a mess now your friends are blowing up your phone This mirror is exposing a little too much for the time that you have, and no one would’ve noticed this had you not looked right before you left!!
When I was in college, it was a given amongst all my friends to have a mirror somewhere near the door. Check yourself before you leave. Mirrors help you see what you can’t see immediately And for that, we’re eternally thankful Better an inanimate object than a stranger, or worse, someone who hates you But a mirror doesn’t cause what you failed to see.....it just helps you put things in focus. Things that you couldn’t see in the rush
The truth is, there are so many more “mirrors” around us if we’re careful to stop on our ways about. There is a mirror in the ways animals treat us, in catastrophes, in the ways people treat us, and even in our health -- yes, your health is a mirror There are even mirrors in the stars and planets millions of miles beyond us
We typically flatten what a sun sign a moon and rising, for those f i astrologically gifted an program) means for us “S so she likes to cry, she’s she’s bitchy, she’s an X so s mirrors don’t just tell us our clothes; they shape ou the shadow. They show lighting affects the pitch o how our bodies glide in They’re so much more than adjective, they are e description and analysis A they don’t *cause* w seeing they just help you couldn’t No, mercury retro make you wake up with a like a rabid raccoon wha highlight a communicatio always had. Scary, right supposed to be a fun starter, not therapy But oh interesting, if you can figure out w the stars are reflecting
So let’s start now. Come sit down and stare with me Let’s learn about the details, curves, and forms this stellar mirror reveals Let’s learn about the planets, the signs, their aspects, and how they put YOU on full display. Welcome to the stellar mirror.
ft icons who represent the values of the stellar mirror (some icons who have designs dedicated being literal mirrors, looking at you Garnet lol) !
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(of course you do, you’re in your 20s!) need someone to decide what you should do? (of course you do, you’ve seen Fleabag)
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