Lillian bassman: a lover of art, women, & fashion

Here's something to bring back the era of dresses and pearls.

Can you believe that these are all photographs?

Picture Montage

We Tirvani folks love taking pictures! It's always fun to take pics of some lovely summer memories. This summer I went to a photography camp and took some pretty artsy photos. Check them out:

Pretty legit huh?

The nail polish files #3: newspaper nail art

One of the cutest things that I’ve seen lately is a new nail polish trend called Newspaper Nail Art.

I’ve included both the steps and a video for you below.  If you try this look, please let me know how it turns out!

Newspaper Nail Art Application Steps:

1. Apply a base coat
2. Apply a white or light gray nail polish color (you might also get away with using an almost white light pink color)
3. Spray a piece of newspaper with rubbing alcohol
4. Press the newspaper onto your nail
5. Apply a top coat of your choice
6. Comment below and tell us how it went!

How-to video by CutePolish:

A new favvorite

Before I start this post, thanks to the lovely ppl at llamafont.com:

(The above reads: hi there friend. thanks for visiting our blog!)


Thanks to an after-school conversation with a really cool friend named Tina, I've learned something (or rather learned about someone new) today. Kumi Yamashita. Or as I like to call her, Yumi Kumi. I'm pretty sure these images speak for themselves. (But if you really don't get it... she uses shadows and the positioning of light to create the images you see)

{all images shown are found from google image searches}