Finding Strength

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Style, Misc.Monica Krystel RoseNovember 14, 2016ootd, fashion, style, style inspiration, LTrain Vintage, streetwear, boyfriend jeans, VintageComment

Wrap Pants + Manus x Machina

"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
-Walter Anderson

Misc., StyleMonica Krystel RoseAugust 10, 2016ootd, wrap pants, street style, fashion, style, style inspiration, ASOS, vintage, tassel, cropped topComment

Silks & High Slits + A Better Inner Circle

"I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase."
-Jennifer Aniston

Flashback:

It's my 16th birthday & a friend invites me to go watch Ocean's 11. I get home & my parent's house was filled with my peers. They all surprised me for my birthday. It was a good time. They even gave me a board filled with their handwritten best wishes & yadi, yadi, yada.

Present day:

I don't hang with any of those people. Some of them I just don't want in my circle, some of them wronged me one way or the other & some are strictly social media friend's list fillers.

StyleMonica Krystel RoseJuly 21, 2015ootd, Lookbook, style, fashion, all black, Joe Fresh, Michael Kors, blogger, style inspiration, personal styleComment

Sporty Chic

"I got an appetite for destruction and you're a small fry"
- Jay-Z

This summer, I will live in maxi & midi dresses, cullotes & trousers. I think I'm completely over the mini skirts or dresses. Also, I will put importance to comfort times a million! Those super cute & super flat sandals are so bad for my feet and posture so sneakers & thicker sole shoes it is.

StyleMonica Krystel RoseMay 10, 2015ootd, Lookbook, libw, minimalist, minimal, ASOS, fashion, style, style inspiration, AdidasComment

Let's Get Happy

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire

You're not going to sit there and tell me that song "Happy" by Pharrell Williams did not get stuck in your head at least 3 times. You know, "clap along if you feel like a room without a roof". But let's be real, what does it take for a person to be happy?