I’m so excited about this next photoshoot & blog post I have for you guys. I’m glad this is my second post for July, this year is going so well so far and I’m loving how it has turned out! I also did like, three posts last month and I might do at least that for this month, too, finally getting more & more done as I go on my blog. So I’ve been basically going to the club every single weekend with my friend Kwame since February, and I’ve been wearing all of my dresses & stuff & it has been super awesome! But now getting around to July, I was wanting to finally get a couple new dresses for the club & everything, since I had been finally wearing them all the time so consistently! This post is about one of the new ones I got, which is a kind of sheer black torn-up type dress from Dolls Kill that I love that they called the Basic Elements Mini Dress. I love this dress, I had to get it. My friend might be out of town right now so I haven’t gotten to wear this dress to the club yet, but I did this photoshoot since I finally got this new dress! I’ll wear it to the club sometime later too, I’m excited that I finally got some new club dresses. For now, I just had to do this photoshoot for Basic Elements, & it turned out really awesome, I’m excited about it. In addition to the dress, I also got this new gold heart flame choker & matching earrings, both called Natural Desires from Dolls Kill as well with that order. I think they both went perfectly with the dress and I absolutely love the choker & hoop earrings! They’re so rad & perfect for me too. Not to mention, I also got a few more gold things too, like the new gold cross lip ring I have on for this, I totally love it! This photoshoot turned out awesome & I can’t wait to get more into it too.

So what I thought was cool is, last month also I ended up doing one of my (older/other) black dresses that I had in a blog post that I named Basically. which I thought was awesome, because then I bought this dress that was named ‘Basic Elements’. I loved that the name was similar, I thought this was a cool spinoff to the similar photoshoot & that they both turned out really good! That dress I’ve had for nearly 10 years though, and this dress is brand new, but I can’t wait to wear this dress out to the club later on this year too because that’s what I was excited about getting it for! The dress also worked so perfectly with the ‘Natural Desires’ set that I bought as well, the hoop earrings & choker, like I already mentioned. What’s also new is those cute gold heart crystal stud earrings in my second holes in my ears, as well as the gold cross lip ring that I was wearing (plus a new gold helix stud that I didn’t really picture). I love getting new things and it was much needed to get new gold studs & everything! I love how my gold jewelry has been going, I was so excited for the lip ring & choker. The dress was a super cool find too, it goes really well with the new gold series I’ve been doing with my last few posts! I love how these have been going since then. I’m super excited about this photoshoot & let’s get into it next!

Outfit Details for my ‘BASIC ELEMENTS?’ Photoshoot:

• Basic Elements Mini Dress Size S $28 which is a black shredded sheer-type mini dress that I just got from Dolls Kill this month from the site. I love this dress, I’m so glad this is one of the ones I got!
• Natural Desires Hoop Earrings $10 & Chain Choker $15 from Dolls Kill which is a gold matching pair of earrings & choker, both with the same name, that I also got this month from Dolls Kill as well.
• Heart crystal gold stud earrings $28 that I just got this month from AMYO with another pair, I love these ones! I wore them in my second holes. I’m glad I got these, I really needed new gold studs!
• Gold cross labret lip ring $24 that I just got from Body Jewelry Plus in the mall as well, & also a new gold helix stud earring $20 which was in the shoot, but I didn’t picture. I love these new gold pieces.
• My gold industrial that I got at Body Jewelry Plus in March, along with a gold heart rook on my other ear, that isn’t really pictured. As well as my gold nose ring that I got in 2020 from BodyCandy, also.
• 14kt Gold Tinkerbell Necklace by Disney Couture which I got from Little Black Bag in 2012. I had to wear this necklace again! I also wore it in 2022’s Know My Worth & in this years’ ‘RUN IT BACK’.
• Tiger’s Eye gold ring on my left pointer finger that I got from my friend in 2019 for $80. I really love this ring! Plus, two gold wire pearl rings on my thumb that I might’ve gotten from my stepmom too.
• Gold chain-like bracelet that I got from like, my stepmom back in 2019 that I wore up my arm. Plus, my new gold key & handcuff anklet to replace my other one that I had lost, which I just found online.
• Double crystal gold belly ring from Spencer’s that you can kind of see, sometimes, under this sheer dress. As well as my Victoria’s Secret black v-string panty plus Very Sexy black bra underneath it, too!
• Basic black pumps by LC Lauren Conrad that I got from Kohl’s like a long time ago, when I was like 16 or something probably. I also wore these in 2022’s Christmas Time & 2017’s Beggin For Thread.
• Kayla light-ish purple colored nail polish by Julep on my nails which I loved, with a little bit of Lights‘ Mitsuki white nail polish stamped flowers on some of the nails. These nails turned out pretty good!
• Gold Lust Dry Shampoo by Oribe which I got with like 100 points from Sephora last month. This is a pretty good dry shampoo! I have like three different dry shampoos at the moment, & I like these.
• Curious 1.7 oz/50 ml eau de parfum perfume by Britney Spears, which I just finally repurchased. I love & missed this one! Plus, the Curious Totally Ticklish Shimmer Powder that I have had for a long time.
• GG Marmont small black leather shoulder bag $2,550 by Gucci which is like, my favorite purse I’ve ever had! I love this bag & got it last year, too. It was mostly in the background of some pictures below.

Makeup Details for ‘BASIC ELEMENTS?’ on July 15th, 2023:

• Purlisse Silk Glow BB Base Primer $28 which is my favorite primer that I have right now. I always love the brand Purlisse so much! I got this one from Ipsy like, two years ago or so, which is cool!
• Complex Culture Letup Concealer $25 in the shade L200 which is basically a light shade. This is a pretty good concealer. I also got this one from Ipsy a couple years ago as well, & I still have some.
• Kat Von D Lock-It Liquid Foundation $40 in the shade 48 Light Neutral, which fits me the best out of all the foundations that I have pretty much right now. It’s also my favorite one of my 4, as well!
• V Kosmetik Loose Powder $27 in the shade N02 Cool Neutral. I love the texture of this powder, it’s a pretty good one overall, too! I got this from Ipsy like around this time last year, in the summer.
• Hikari Cosmetics Shimmer Bronzer $23 in the shade Flush that I got from Ipsy so many years ago. Probably in like 2017 or earlier! This was the last use though, & only, like, the blush part was left!
• TheBalm Cosmetics FratBoy Shadow/Blush $21 that I used as the actual blush for this time. This is a pretty light pink blush that I got as a sample from Ipsy a long time ago! I should use it more, too.
• Lovecraft Beauty Highlighter Palette $29 in the shade Borealis which is the gold shade. This looked so perfect on me for this look! I love how this one turned out this time, & it’s super pretty in pics!
• REALHER Power Wear Shadow Stick $20 in the shade Eye Am Glowing which I got in my Ipsy box a couple months ago! This is a pretty awesome shadow stick, & it looked perfect for this look also.
• Ofra Cosmetics Exquisite Eyeshadow $12 which is a black sparkly magnetic single eyeshadow that I have that I got from Ipsy like a few years ago or so! This is a pretty good one for sure, I like it a lot!
• Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner $34 in the shade Black Ink which is a pretty good gel eyeliner. I’ve been using it since like 2017, I’m on my 2nd. I used MOTD‘s Sultry Smudge $10 brush with it.
• Violet Voss Just Slayin 3D Faux Mink Lashes $10 which I got from Ipsy last month, as a 600-point reward! These are pretty lashes, I’m glad I got these. For glue, Duo‘s Brush-On Lash Adhesive $5!
• Urban Decay Perversion Mascara $28 my favorite mascara these days! I really need to use this one more often, too, it’s such a perfect mascara for me. It looked pretty good in this photoshoot, too.
• Gucci Long Wearing Powder Eyebrow Pencil $33 in the shade Auburn which is one of my favorite brow pencils right now! It’s the kind you sharpen & comes with a sharpener. It looks good on me!
• MAC Cosmetics Prep + Prime Lip Primer $23 in the Limited Edition Mother’s Day 2023 pink hearts packaging! This is my new favorite lip primer, & I’m so glad I got this one earlier this year as well.
• MAC Cosmetics Subculture Lip Pencil $24 which is an ‘underground pink’ shade, or that’s how they describe it at least. I got this when I was like 16 & it’s a perfect light nude pink lip liner, & I love it!
• MAC Cosmetics Hue Glaze Lipstick $23 that I really love, & I’m so glad I have this! It’s discontinued now, but it was a glaze lipstick, & it’s a really pretty light pink nude. Hue is such a perfect lipstick.
• Urban Decay All Nighter Pollution Protection Setting Spray $34 which is my favorite setting spray of all time! It, of course, actually makes my makeup last a long time, & I love pollution protection!

I love how this look turned out, I always love my different gold & heart jewelry & things! I’m excited that I’ve been getting some new stuff lately, and who knows, I might get more of something later on or not but I love going through my gold jewelry like I’ve been doing lately, it’s always awesome. I’ve also been doing really good lately with everything, & I can’t wait to see where I go with things as I go through the summer! I love that it’s already the middle of July, & I know things are going to continue to be awesome as I go. Like last week I went to a concert & things like that this month already, but it’ll be great to get back to the club like next week! I always love doing that, and that was the point of me getting the few dresses that I got recently, so that’ll be awesome to see how that goes soon. I love how things have been going lately. I’m also always progressing and getting better with my photoshoots & everything, so that’s super awesome that I got all that new stuff lately. I always love getting to finally buy new things for myself & photoshoots when I do. Let’s get into the last collage & that’s it this time!

That’s the end of this BASIC ELEMENTS? photoshoot, I loved this one! So, I named this one BASIC ELEMENTS with the question mark, kind of inspired by how Basically. was named with the period, but the question mark worked perfectly for how I’ve been stylizing my last page of blog posts! Ever since after Basically., I’ve also been capitalizing my blog posts’ names (again) as well, so this one is named BASIC ELEMENTS? after those two different series on my page of blog posts of stylization. I love doing that, creating different patterns & things on my timeline of posts as I go, that is always awesome. I love the question mark, too, I think it was perfect for how I named this shoot! Anyway, thanks so much for checking me out, I’ll see you guys probably later in the month for something else, I have a couple more things planned for what’s coming up. That’ll be cool to get to as well, I love the ideas I’ve been having for more shoots. I have a couple other new dresses to include too also, but I’ll do those kind of gradually this summer because I might not want to do them all at once! It’ll be good to get those ones done & up soon as well though, but I’ll be busy getting some other things done in the meantime too until I get everything done. We’ll see how the rest of the month goes! I’m excited about everything that I have coming up & planned out, it should all be pretty awesome. I always am doing what I love & making more progress on my blog. I love how this one turned out, it’s really so perfect for where I’m at with everything. Thanks again for checking out this post, I’ll see you all later!