clarissa explains posh frock friday

dress - h&m

vest - from my mom

belt - h&m

tights - urban outfitters

shoes - modcloth

Okay, it's not really posh but it is a frock and it is friday! ;) Unfortunately, today is the end of Clarissa Explains it All Week. I had so much fun while it lasted though! It was so fun dressing like her all week! I know that I didn't really nail her look completely, but I did the best with what I had. And I won't deny that I'm going to really miss doodling on all of my photos ;D

clarissa explains insects

dress - modcloth

sweater - h&m

belt - modcloth

tights - h&m

shoes - high school

necklace - some beach store

This dress is covered in insects! You can't tell too much since my photos aren't close-ups but you can see it better in the product listing here. I got it for three reasons - I love novelty prints, Clarissa had pajamas covered in ants, and my dad has a glow in the dark roach print t-shirt that I've loved since I was a kid. So I guess my dad is a bit of a style icon for me too? ha! He'd laugh if he read that.. I always make fun of him for accidentally wearing his shirts inside out, and with the collars all bent out of shape. He's very absent-minded professor-ish. Almost eerily smart, but he has no idea how to dress himself.

Luckily I only inherited the eerily smart gene ;) har har. Actually neither of my parents like clothes very much. My mom has like 8 dresses that she wears on rotation, and my dad wears the same old polo shirt & jean combination every day. Somehow me and my brother both ended up being very interested in style, though. Whenever he mocks my extensive dress collection I just mention his tie hoarding problem and he drops the subject completely ;)

clarissa explains the spice girls

shirt - gift from my dad

shirt/vest - forever 21

shorts - h&m

tights - h&m

shoes - c/0 blowfish

necklace - some beach store

hat - my childhood

First, no your eyes aren't playing tricks on you, the writing on my shirt is indeed backwards. I take my pictures using my imac webcam and for some reason I like this alternate backwards version of me & my room much better than the real life version, so I keep the photos this way :)

I highly doubt Clarissa would have liked The Spice Girls, but I thought it would be fun for two of my 90's obsessions to collide ;) This is definitely the wackiest (and least flattering lol) of the outfits for Clarissa week, but I had so much fun taking the pictures! I found this pink hat in the basement with some of my other childhood relics and I had to wear it, even if I was left with a pounding headache after squeezing it over my skull (or trying to) for the photos ;)

clarissa explains unicorns

dress - h&m (altered by me)

shoes - target

plaid shirt - forever 21

headband - h&m

necklace - some beach store

I keep seeing horse prints everywhere lately, and while I think horses are a super cute animal, I really love unicorns more. And what is a unicorn, but a horse with a horn, right? So when I saw this adorable red horse-print dress at h&m a couple weeks ago, I decided to fiddle around & make my own unicorn print dress with it.

Materials needed:

1 horse print dress

1 white fabric paint marker for dark fabrics

LOTS and LOTS of time to waste

After I finished working one day last week, I popped a bowl of popcorn, picked out some cheesy bad horror movies on netflix and sat at my desk for three hours adding little white horns to all of the horses on my dress. I love how it came out!! It's really subtle, but if you look closely you can tell they're unicorns. Now I think I need to try it on something more bold, like this sweater :)

clarissa explains it all week

dress - h&m

cardigan - old navy

shoes - modcloth

tights - h&m

bracelet - vintage

I am a HUGE fan of Clarissa Explains it All, the 90's tv show starring Melissa Joan Hart. For the last decade I've had to satisfy my fix with my old VHS recordings that have since almost entirely lost their sound, or buy bootleg copies of other people's old VHS recordings that have since almost entirely lost their sound. I still watched it every once in a while, but I couldn't enjoy it the way I used to, thanks to the muffled audio and irritating tracking lines. BUT NOW... drum roll ... TeenNick is playing Clarissa every weeknight! Eep!! Words can't even begin to describe my excitement!

In my very first Style Idol post earlier this year, I wrote about how much of an influence Clarissa has had on my life & my sense of style. While I don't normally dress like her, per se, her individuality and disregard for fitting in played an important part in shaping how I dress myself. She was, and always will be, a huge role model for me in my attitude towards life and fashion.

Despite the fact that I don't dress like Clarissa on a daily basis, I do tend to buy things just because she'd wear them. I can't even count how many times I'm in a store with my mom and I hold something up to her squealing "Wouldn't Clarissa wear this?!?!?!" I usually buy it. It might be totally different from what I normally wear, painfully 90's and not at all flattering to my shape, but I buy it. And this week I'm wearing it. I thought it would be super fun to do a week of all Clarissa-inspired outfits, and finally drag all of my "omg this is SO Clarissa!" items out of my closet ;-D Some of the outfits I've picked out are awfully goofy, but bear with me, because I'm having SO MUCH FUN.

If you've never seen the show try tuning into TeenNick one night this week! It was a kids/pre-teen show, but I think it definitely holds up now that I'm an adult. I might be biased since it's so important to me, but I really do think it's stood the test of time as a classic show for kids AND grown-ups :)