Monday, September 16, 2013

Red, Blue, and Casual

 
 

For the first fashion inspiration picture-post, I decided upon a casual outfit. As the weather starts cooling down to what I consider beautiful, I become excited because I can wear my red pants more often. I must admit that I love the red and navy blue combination! One trend that has become very popular is the handkerchief headband. I, personally, really like it and think it's so cute. Most headbands that go all the way around my head don't work on me, but this one does. (Yay!)

My hair is hiding it, but I am wearing my owl necklace that I mentioned before as being my favorite necklace. It goes with pretty much everything, I'm telling you!

Modest tip: As you probably already noticed, I am wearing skinny jeans. If you pay close attention they are actually rather loose, though not baggy. Although finding the "trendy skinny jeans" that are not skin-tight can be difficult, it is possible. My advice: try a size or two larger than you normally would wear, (even if that means using a belt).

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Welcome to Pure and Picture Perfect!

Hello and welcome to Pure and Picture Perfect! I, Mariana, and my friend, Beth, are here to share cute-modest-fashion inspiration with you. I give all of you awesome people who dress purely a virtual high five! I'm so excited for this blog and I want to thank you for checking it out. To give you a bit of an idea of what to expect in the future, here are a few things we'll be posting:

•Outfit inspirations
•Neat and sneaky tricks to turn revealing styles into pure and cute ones
•DIY's
•And more fun things

Beth and I are both teenagers and love clothes, accessories, and shoes; (I believe shoes deserve their own category). There is nothing wrong with having joy in putting together outfits, shopping, and dressing fashionably, as long as clothing never takes God's place and we always dress to glorify Him. Dressing to glorify Him means that we wear what is pure, for all purity we have honors and pleases Him. Modern culture is making it hard for us to dress with dignity, but it's still far from impossible for us to find modest clothing. The way one dresses shows a lot about a person. We want to show that we are pure! We who dress well are raising the standard of dress above modern culture's. It's hard doing something alone, that's why whenever I see other people doing the same thing it gives me hope and a smile!

On the topic of standards there is something important I'd like to point out: every family has different standards. I never try to dress immodestly; I do the exact opposite. If in some picture I wear something that you wouldn't, please understand that the standard of my family might be a little different than yours. 

Now that the simple basics are covered, I'm going to give myself a short introduction. For starters, I am fifteen, the oldest child of eight, a sophomore in high school, a homeschooler, a novelist (still in the works), an artist, a singer (though I'm no pro), and my favorite color is sky blue. I've been described as creative, sweet, and thoughtful before as well as crazy and random. I love to eat fruit, ice cream, and chewy sour gummies. My favorite necklace is one with an owl charm, and I'll tell you that I was very close to putting googley eyes on it. I've always been a girly-girl and I love playing with my little sisters' hair. 
 
To top this all off, I'm going to say that I am really looking forward to everything Beth and I will be doing in the upcoming stuff on Pure and Picture Perfect! Thank you very much for visiting the blog and make sure to keep an eye out for more posts in the near future!
 
God bless and have a great day!
 
~Mariana