Wing to Wing: Creativity With Dress Codes

  Greetings! Today I had a motive to write my first advice post. School is soon aproaching and some baby bats may be having some trouble with there dress codes. I have spent a small amout of time reviewing my dress code and I have noticed a few loop holes in it that are easy to get around.

 

My Dress Code's Loop Holes

        = Quoted from my uniform code

• "No students are to have any unusual or unnatural hair colors." This rule is a giant pain if you love how the color purple looks on your head. I  have gotten around this rule many times. The automatic color that came to mind was black, but I tried colors like white and grey, that are technicaly natural colors. Also, I had black hair with white and gray streaks instead of solid colors.
 




• "No students are to have unusual hair styles." This rule depends on what your school considers unusual. Mostly it means no mohawks, spikes or sidecuts. I usualy have bangs or slightly big and messy hair, but a way to immitate a side cut look is to braid, twist or gel/slick down the area where you would have cut you hair. 
• "No students are to have any visable peircings exept on the ear." This rule never say how many peircings you can have, so go on and get an extra peircing.
• "Students are to only wear predominately black or white tennis shoes. Exeptions depend on occasion." This one doesn't bother me much considering that there are tons of black tennis shoes out there like these creeper-like sneakers and these studded sneakers. 

Other Ways to Show Creativity

 

  Your Body

If you are a male don't exclude yourself from any of these listings.

•  Make up is a great way to show creativity. Simply some dark eyeshadow will do for those not allowed to do much with makeup or wear very much. Possibilities are endless or at least too much to enter here. 
• Nail art is one of my favorite things to do every Saturday. I usally glue some eyeballs or paint cobwebs and spiders.
• Temporary tattoos or body art are usually forgotten in my dress codes. I usually have small ones around my hands that I paint myself.

Your Material Items

• For notebooks, try to get the ones with tranparency film pockets in front. this way you can insert artwork in. If you can't find any, draw or paint on the  front or back (if allowed).
• On pencil pouches and backpacks sew, paint or iron on decals pictures or whatever you want.
• Find odd backpacks. There are weird shaped backpacks such as coffins, but I have found that many of these odd shaped backpacks don't offer much space. Some designers actually offer nice artwork already on their backpacks. There are some nice backpacks in this post from The Everyday Goth.

More Craft Buys

I think that this should be changed to "a bloggy blog of a baby bat shopper"  because around  80% of the posts on this blog are about shopping. Don't worry that will change soon because I'm almost out of money. This means I will actually use the things I bought.
Today, as in the last post, I was in my favorite craft store. Today, found another spooky find. I don't know why but the store seems to be  celebrating Halloween early. I found the perfect ribbons to go with the charms from my last post. They are black sheer, cobwebs, and bats. Take a look for yourself.

Craft Store Finds

Today, I took a small trip to a local craft store and I found some beautiful goodies.  There was a 50% off sale and I found a bag of charms that were only 2 USD. I was a little surprised to find scorpions, spiders, and a bat together in one pack! Now I have a new GIY project!

Sorry That I'm Busy

 Currently, I am attending my final(and most busy) week at camp. I will not have time to post but I will be making one for when I return. For now, goodbye.

Yet Another Shopping Trip

 It seems that the majority of this blog is about shopping. I think that is because of my journey to outgrow the baby bat title. Anyway, I spent nearly the entire past week shopping.
  While shopping, I came across a new thrift store in my town. It's called Plato's Closet, and(if you went to the link) you will notice it's a very mainstream place. Even though it's mainstream, I really like the store because of it's quality. The store is really strict on what it sells, interesting, and the one in my town organizes by color, size, and item. That means I can skip to what I normally like and then spend time looking in an area with less possibilities. In conclusion, I'll be going back.
  I found a really cool jewlery rack too. This is not from Plato's Closet it's from a locally owned discount store, aaaand I forgot the name. I love it because it's also a headless doll. I used to pull the heads off of my dolls because I liked to imagine what they looked like. The gown has the stichings that I love from time to time.

Red & Black Week

 Hello to the 5 people that came across this blog. Today I am very glad to be paricipating in Sophistique Noir's Red & Black Week.  I think that she looks very lovely today, as always. I decided to wear a black pants, a red tank top, my lace sleeved vest, and a red clutch. I pretty much got dressed up, after a hard day of shopping to find these items, just to post a picture. It was worth the work though. Enjoy the rest of your Red & Black Week!

Going to Camp Soon

   Hello my readers(Honestly I don't think I have any.)! This is just a small post to tell you that June 10th, I will be attending a camp away from home. According to the information I have, I will not have access to the internet, but I will write down any posts I want to publish in a journal and publish them later or I can schedule posts for later. Also I will try to posts more often these remaining 5 days.
   The camp seems like it will be quite an expierience and great way to start my summer. I will live in a dorm on a college campus with my own roommate. There are classes I attend where I think I will solve equations and use scientific methods and such. Considering I am only eleven. this is quite a head start in college life.