Dana | Mascara or Motoroil

this is how we do it

Since I have been the biggest slacker this summer, I’m just now putting up the pictures of us from the Northside Fourth of July parade. Honestly I was waiting to see if I could get higher resolution copies of these pictures from the people who took them, but no luck. I apologize for the sub-par quality on them, I had to save Facebook versions which we all know have crap resolution.

In past years we just kind of crashed the parade from our friend Skip’s house since it’s right on the route, and this year was no different! We still are official members, but if you start at the beginning you have to wait in a hot parking lot for an hour before it even starts. This year we wanted to actually do something a little political so our theme was ‘Disaster at Muscle Beach’.

The muscle man that Skip hired was a HUGE hit.

The lovely Sam gettin' all gussied up, taken by Rachel Elliott

Mabel was rockin' my hat hard!

Rachel always makes me look so good!

Maya the hula hoop queen

I love that freakin' dress.

The palest person and the most tan person

Although I look like Vanna White in this one, I was actually tossing candy filled eggs at kids.

Skip and the muscle man

I don't know how David Sorcher made it look like we were all dancing in unison, but it's AMAZING!!

We had a such a fantastic time again this year and can’t wait to do it again next year! <3 Northside!!

bathroom photo shoot

I have to say that I ashamed how I have been neglecting my blog lately, my life has been kind of a roller coaster lately. Anyway, enough excuses- only cool stuff from here on out.

After the fashion show, the ladies and I went drinking at this great dive gay bar downtown called The Subway. On our walk over we passed the House of Adam, a men’s clothing store that specializes in such things as blue zoot suits and tri color snakeskin shoes. So we had to pay some respect..

House of prayer

After much hiking around in our heels, we finally got to The Subway were lots of drinks and fun ensued. Sadly they had long since planned to shut down and closed their doors last week. Lucky for you we took lots of pictures in their super gross bathroom though! Maya and I started out in the ladies’ room because they allowed us to illegally smoke in there.

Once Dana and Melissa came to join us we migrated over to the men’s room. Good thing I’ve never seen more than 3 people in that bar at any time- not that I’m above peeing in a mens’ room to avoid a super long line at the ladies’ room. Anyway, I love how both of these came out.

Upsidana

Peep show!

Here’s what Maya and I wore:

We didn't even plan to pose the same way, it just happened!

We went to the finale of Fashion Week too, but all of my pictures came out horribly. The few that did come out were of some of the impeccably dressed ladies I saw, so I’m pretty happy about that. See who you recognize from the past few entries:

One of our fabulous cutomers, Shawna

My buddies!

Doesn't this girl and her adorable dress just make you happy?

We had a great time and were really glad to be involved all in all. Thanks to all the people who made Cincinnati’s first Fashion Week a huge success!

spring soiree – part 2

As you can probably tell I am waaayy behind in my posts. It has been another insane week full of fun and Fashion Week, so not much to complain about. Here are the rest of the pictures from the Spring Soiree at the shop, although these are of our magnificently dressed friends and customers!