A BIT MORE THAN 365 VVIBES AKA THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

It's around 11pm right now and it just occurred to me that this blog is completed 1 year THIS MONTH!!!!!!!

I know I said this was going to be a 1 year project, but since I got two jobs and no time throughout this year, I think it wouldn't be fair to just leave it at that, WHICH MEANS I WILL BE HERE FOR ANOTHER YEAR and hopefully 2022 will be an year full of delightful posts, both to read and to write.

I haven't been active here but you can catch me on the Foresight Forum if you want to read about the latest trends. I've been an intern there since July and I absolutely love it. I really love researching trends, it makes me really, really happy, I hope someday I get a paid job doing it, it's the only thing I see myself working with.

Oh and I will probably be getting a boob job by the end of the year so there is that! I hope I'll be able to bring in some stuff in november, but until then:

Take care, if you're reading this, I love you, thank you for popping by! VVIBING's second year is gonna be great!

MEDICATED VVIBES and also, I got a job

Hello friends, it is I, Helena, coming to tell you I AM FINALLY MEDICATED, I have been suffering from anxiety since I was 16, actually my whole life but it only started really affecting me at 16, I also have a suspicion I have ADHD and no one noticed because I have always had good grades. AND I AM FINALLY ON MEDICATION, today is my first day taking it but I just hope I can write better content for you people! Content that has a beginning a middle and an end!!! What a dream!!!!

I also want to announce that I got a job! It does mean that I will have less time to write but let's hope with the medication I can still get both done! And this is supposed to be, at least, a one-year project, so don't worry, I will be here at least until October 2021. 

I just wanted to share the good news so you have a little more info on what is going on in my life and also thank the enormous (in my view) traffic there's been on the blog, I never even dared to imagine so many people would see the stuff that I write, so thank you so much for reading the thoughts of a very confused goblin.

I think that's it for today, love you bebehs!

VVIBING IN: Alphets to scandalize my mother

 This was the very start of this blog, 22nd of October? November? I don’t remember exactly but I remember I said a big "fuck this".

I looked at Mark Foster's outfit for the cover of Foster The People's latest album, aka Sacred Hearts Club, and I thought “Mark Foster doesn't think about what he wears with the cheetah print coat”, like I did, always with an all-black outfit and heels, “he is a star, he just wears whatever he wants and no one questions it.” and that was the energy I wanted in my life.

vibing in a leopard print fur coat from c&a (R$ 99, 2016), iron man t-shirt from renner (R$39), running shorts from renner (R$69), ironing board (R$????)

So I started flirting with the idea of testing the limits of ridiculous, unusual, eccentric and all the outfits in this blog are part of this, I see it as a year-long exercise, let’s see how weird I can get till October next year. I haven’t worn most of them out because… well, because of the pandemic, but I am so excited to wear them.

Dressing up has never been more fun than this, and scandalizing my mother has always been fun, so no news on that front, she thinks everything I wear is hideous, she has always been very classic, like Chanel perfumes, she was an executive secretary when she was younger.

Back to the point, I want to make fun of myself at this point, and of my degree, what’s the fun in graduating in Fashion Design if you can’t wear what you want, right?

Give me suggestions on things to test! Color combinations, print combinations, anything, if I have it available to wear I will make an outfit and tag you! Maybe challenge you to wear something different too! Could be fun, what do you think?

Why a Blog

I'm gonna be pretty straight-forward with it, I have a terrible relationship with Instagram. I just think it's bad, for your life, and for your head, the algorithm is just fucking mean. I even wrote an essay about it back in 2017, it's pretty bad though, but I was distracted so I didn't have the time and will to write something better, Ana if you ever read this, I'm sorry, I was in love.

I think as a society we are addicted to dopamine because of social media and it's starting to be really, really bad for us to the point our attention span is ridiculously short and we can't really retain information the way we used to, there's so much of it being fed to us through our news feeds that we just don't really care anymore, content is being made and thrown away by the second and it can't be healthy, having to synthesize content to the point of seconds of consumption is not normal, what happened to magazine articles and in-depth reviews and when did everything become Instagram stories?

I also don't like the way we treat content on Instagram, the way everybody wants to be an expert in digital marketing these days, I think it's exhausting, creatively empty, the way content has to be served and devoured in less than 5 seconds, otherwise, it becomes boring is just unsustainable and cruel, especially when talking about normal people with normal jobs, who are not models or work in advertising. And it's just not fun anymore, it used to be, I think, but I don't really remember it being as fun as Tumblr or Reddit because Instagram doesn't create a sense of community at least from my point of view. But it's not about pictures anymore, or connecting to your friends and people around the world, it's all about money, "influence" and ads.

I know people don't do that anymore but I really miss those days of coming home from school, turning on my laptop and checking Keiko Lynn's blog, or The Beauty Department, to see if there was anything new, maybe a complete review of Too Faced's new palette, or an outfit of the day. I miss keeping up with bloggers because it's so different from following influencers. Most of the time I can barely remember the @s of influencers, yet I can remember so many names and URLs from 10 years ago.

And everybody was so different because the algorithm didn't select the best images to show, so everybody was living their own truth and creating their own image, and now I keep seeing the same images and the same aesthetics and the same feed organization and messages and concepts over and over again, it bores me, it angers me because I know it could be better and I know it used to be better.

So I am trying something new that's actually quite old, I hope you like it and I hope you come over to talk to me sometimes.

ABOUT ME or something like that

thirsty me drinking soda after an Arctic Monkeys concert

Hi!

My name is Helena Tiemi Guimarães Mendes Suzuki, I am 22, my username is Manoel do Rio because it was my great-grandfather's name and they say he found a pot of gold and got rich.

I live in Brazil and the room you are going to see is my bedroom, I live with my parents, and the picture of Manhattan on the wall has been there since I was 10. I like to think I have a good archive of clothing for a 22-year-old, I haven't grown much since I was 12 so I never grew out of anything past that.

I got a degree in Fashion Desing earlier this year but I am a true normie at heart. I listen to a lot of The Killers and Arctic Monkeys, as well as other stuff that you will eventually see around here.

I predicted the comeback of the polo shirt and the rise of blush. I'm also allergic to cheese apparently? I don't know, it makes me itchy.

I'll be posting some very emotional reviews and critiques of things that I vvibe or I don't vvibe with, some stuff about fashion as well and thoughts in general. Also a lot of dancing, not necessarily good dancing, just vvibing you know?

I hope you enjoy this blog!