30 FACTS ABOUT KG

  I love connecting with each of you and sharing music, fashion and various posts with you. I try to keep my personal life, well personal, but I understand that some of my readers and followers would like to know more about the girl behind the blog; so i'm going to do the 30 facts about me tag, hopefully that will help you all get to know me a little better.

I'll try to make it interesting, hopefully there's 30 things I can tell you about myself!

Feel free to share your links with the tag in the comments, it would be nice to know more about the people reading my blog and fellow bloggers.

1. I was named after Krystle Carrington, a character from a TV show named Dynasty. It aired throughout the 80's and my mum loved the show. 

*I had a huuuge crush on Orlando Bloom as a teen and his teen crush was Krystle Carrington!

2. I am 26 but most people mistake me for between 19-22, I never get offended when i'm asked for ID - only when it is refused! 

3. I grew up in a small countryside town called Malvern, then spent my teens living in nearby Worcester. I went to high school there and still miss it, even though i've not lived there in years.

4. My birthday is May 7, though it should have been two weeks later, I was premature as my mum took a fall down a spiral staircase. Eek.

5. Ancient ruins, old forests and the Jurassic coast are some of my favourite places to escape to, I love the history and the fact they remain untouched despite it being the 21st century.

6. Vintage maps, old books, vintage clothes and old photographs are some of my favourite things to collect, I like to feel everything has it's own character and story. I currently own four vintage geographical maps, a map of Westeros, a map of Tamriel and i'm after a map of Middle Earth to complete my collection.

7. Oh yes, I am a bit of a geek when it comes to fantasy. I love Tolkien, Pratchett and fantasy-adventure novels. *Apparently Tolkien stayed in Malvern while he was writing The Hobbit and some of his inspiration of The Shire comes from there, the gas lamps inspired C.S Lewis while he was writing the Narnia stories. I love Tim Burton films, anything to do with dragons and playing Skyrim - that's often where I'll escape to when I need to hide from the world.

8. I normally play Skyrim as a Nord Warrior and have great interest in Scandinavia, it's folklore, history and Native American lore and history.

9. My passion for Native American lore is what inspired my blog name, when I needed guidance in my life and a direction to follow, I came to create LITTLEBEARWOLF, since then it has remained my way to connect with the world and build my career.

10. I have Blue eyes, but they often turn a shade of Grey when I am sleepy or poorly and a Greenish colour in the summer months. This has led to a longstanding joke that I am part-faerie or mythical creature with my friends.

11. I am 5ft 3 which makes me fairly little in terms of people. However Buffy the vampire slayer is apparently also only 5ft 3.

12. My hair is naturally Blonde, though through my teens I dyed it almost every colour it would go. I have it lightened to a white blonde shade using toners at the moment, though I am considering letting my darker blonde grow out.

13. I don't really care for shoes and bags. I own only a handful of pairs of shoes and even less handbags. Right now i'm loving faux-fur lined walking boots and winter boots as well as one giant handbag. *I do a lot of walking so tend to pick practical items over things that look pretty and I only purchase them when I really need them. The sound of a thousand retailers and bloggers readying their pitchforks...

14. I do have an obsession with jewellery and treasure. I never buy expensive jewellery as I'm far too likely to break or lose it, so I have gathered a collection of costume jewellery in a variety of style but mostly mythical / historical inspired pieces and I have a collection of herb bottles, little stones and candles.

15. I did ballet, contemporary, jazz, street jazz and tap dancing classes and Michael Flatley's The Lord Of The Dance is my favourite dance show EVER. Second is Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.

16. I love to cook, my signature dishes are a vegetable linguini for summer and a vegetable stew for winter. I am indeed vegetarian. 

17. Whilst studying at college, I did a Shakespeare course in drama at RADA, London. 

18. I almost always get cast as sweethearts or damsels in distress. Apart from when I played the angel Gabriel in a school production back in 1992.

19. I absolutely love huskies and wolves. Especially the ones with piercing blue eyes.

20. After first watching Star Wars as a kid, I would only wear brown or beige clothes and was determined I would be a Jedi when I was older. As I grew up I decided I would be an astronaut and after realising science and math were not my strengths, I turned to my creative side to be an actor. I am yet to play an astronaut or a Jedi.

21. Though I mostly studied performing arts, music is my biggest passion. Other subjects that interest me are ancient history, astronomy and alternative therapies like crystal healing, yoga, herbology and meditation.

22. I should probably have gone to school at Hogwarts instead of Blessed Edwards.

23. People tell me I remind them of Luna Lovegood, Daenerys Targaryen and Amanda Seyfried. I also often get asked if I am Swedish or Norwegian and sometimes Polish, though I do have some Scandinavian in my heritage and apparently something odd like 1/127 Spanish.

24. I absolutely love Dinosaurs and Dragons.

25. I know all 50 states (and state capitals) of the US, despite never having actually been to the USA!

26. My favorite actors are Steve Buscemi, Bruce Willis & Tom Hanks. Oh and I have a minor crush on Kit Harrington.

27. No matter even if you make me a small cup of coffee or tea, I will always leave a little at the bottom of the cup. This has led to the nickname two-sips as apparently I only take two sips before leaving the rest.

28. I don't really like sweets, chocolate or dessert, I do love savory scones, tea cakes and carrot cake.

29. This ones going to get me shunned from the blogger community buuuut I really don't get the Disney princess thing. Don't get me wrong, I'll watch the movies, I actually grew up watching them and enjoy them, but I really don't get the 'totes obsessed with princesses thing'.

30. I used to carry a small framed poster of Elijah Wood around, I even took it on holiday to Devon with my parents, then cried when my mum said I couldn't bring it to lunch. Awkward.

So there you have it, 30 things you never knew about me before.

LOVE & PEACE
♥☮
KG

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KG IN REAL LIFE

Okay, so there are always going to be subjects that on the whole, humanity will always use as a battlefield. I vowed never to blog about image, politics and social issues as it goes without saying that if you breathe life into a fire, it will only become stronger. I feel no need to add to the issues humanity creates for itself.
However, that being said I am breaking that vow tonight to share a post that has been whirring around my brain for the last few days. To the point that the thoughts have become so prominent and tangled amongst my being, that even the choices i'm making outside of the web-world I live in are being affected.

The subjects that have been on my mind touch on image and social issues. I don't know quite what everyone's deal with image is. How is focusing on someone else's image ever going to advance your own life. When you judge a person, it is not a reflection of their personality, but of your own.

So I'm not going to name call, name drop or stereotype. I'm simply going to share my opinion of the subject, in the vain hope that getting it off my chest will free my thoughts up to the subjects I actually feel extremely passionate towards and may at least help just one of you out of the dark.

I'm fairly little at 5'3. After a childhood of dancing, I have grown to develop a muscular, athletic build. After a childhood of being called bony, when I started to show a little curve in my late teens, I found a confidence boost. I used to look through catalogs and want to be a size 12, except these days I realise how futile that was, as what even is a size 12.
As no store, or even two items within a store represent a consistent sizing system, to refer to yourself as a particular size seems fairly ridiculous. Considering we live in a world where we want to be accepted regardless of race, gender, persuasion, look and career, to be so desperate to be defined as a number seems very odd.
I have clothes in my closet that range from age 14-15 through women's to a men's M. So if you'd like to waste your time working out what size that makes me, go ahead but I feel no need to converse or spare you my time.
My weight generally fluctuates over a stone difference depending on time of year, mood and phase of life and again if you're so desperate to judge me on my number than please understand I'll have nothing to do with you. For when you judge someone, you have no time to love them.
I'm very sorry if weight takes over your life and you feel trapped with the on-going battle you face, I've spent my life around someone with an eating disorder and I would never wish the suffering she struggles with on anyone. I hope that those around you, provide you with the support you need.
I bet you're beautiful, but my saying it won't make you feel it.
The same goes the other way, if you have curves and more as long as it's not detrimental to your health, who gives a flying f*** what 'people' think. As long as you're comfortable and feel good, than that's really all that matters.
I have times when I feel great and times when I think 'okay need to be a bit careful and look after myself now', but ultimately I don't regard anyone's opinion but my own of my image. At the end of the day, no one else needs to be me, if you're having to figure out my flaws to improve your own confidence, honey something's fundamentally wrong.
Gok Wan (who may I add that a (and if you're reading this by some magic enchantment Gok, I totally respect you and highly revere what you do for the confidence of womankind but you are a) man and if we really need a man to show us how to love our bodies, something really is very wrong with us females. We go on about not needing no man, being some career driven, sexual goddess with the perfect winged eyeliner who also is allowed to be Bridget Jones; yet we tear ourselves apart looking in the mirror and we tear each other apart (which is more savage than THAT red wedding).
In a world where no two humans (even twins) look EXACTLY the same or have the same passions, why do we allow ourselves to be stereotyped into a shape or number from a system that's older than the women adhering to it.
I appreciate all of the females I see and no offence but I couldn't care less what size you are or how you dress, as long as your not endangering your health. I have far bigger things to be focusing on. For one this ball of rock that's hurtling through space at 4966856523434 miles an hour round a HUGE burning ball of gas and I'm supposed to be worried that I've put a pound on?! I'm more interested in learning how something as small as an atom can create this, the world as we know it and why I am afraid of spiders when I am 454564562453453 times bigger than (most) of them.
As far as my own perception of image goes, I try to treat my body like a temple, I try to eat healthily and enjoy things in moderation. I won't starve myself to fit into something, I'll simply buy it a little larger. (Given that we live in an economy that needs throw away fashion to survive (if it's made to last, you won't buy more) than I highly doubt that the sizes are fair anyway.)
All i'm saying is the media is made up of people, people who are told to write bullshit stories about image, 'celebrities' and size by other people. They are no more powerful than you or I, except you have the power and the choice to not read the bullshit they feed you. For every detrimental article, there is one that builds confidence.
So please see your beauty because you really are one of a kind and there will never be another like you.

That's enough, let's look now at the other harbinger of doom on my thoughts. Social Media. We thrive on it, as bloggers we use it as a tool to gain traffic, share our posts and build our profile.
People get so torn up over it. If you're really concerned over how many followers or 'friends' you have, I'd suggest delete your profile because you're not using it right.
I have over a hundred 'friends' on social media, yet less than 5 that I would call if my life depended on it, I'm fully aware of that fact and it doesn't bother me.
I have a handful of people that I trust and love unconditionally and everyone else is simply a pleasure to know. There is no room for jerks.
I don't blog because I want to be famous. I blog because I LOVE writing, sharing and music. When I had no experience or a career to speak of, it became my tool to work towards the dream career. I don't really know what that is, I'm just enjoying the journey for now.

Fame and fortune are dangerous cards to ask for. Your'e giving away the one important thing -anonymity. For money that won't buy you happiness or the answers. For fame, people presume they own you, people presume they have a right to discuss, spit on and glorify your personal life. They begin to live their lives how you would live yours, which isn't what the aim is, you're hoping to inspire people to be confident in themselves.

To be well known for your art, is slightly different. To me celebrities are not to be envied. Artists, doctors, scientists, professors, people with exceptional talent and character, these are the respected people. The people to be inspired by.

I don't blog in the hope that I'll be surrounded by fans of screaming people who aspire to be me. I blog in the hope that one person reading it may listen to the band I have shared, or that they may find some confidence or inspiration from my words. If through doing that, I end up being known for my blog than okay, I'll have some bridges to cross and hurdles to jump. I don't do what I do for fame or freebies, I do it because it's what I am passionate about. If that changes than I'll do something else. I'll tell you something for free, I'll never let people's opinion affect me, because as long as I know I have done the right thing, been a good person and feel happy in myself than their hurtful words and rumors mean nothing.

If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.

This world is full of beauty, passion, people and life. Yet we so often focus on trouble, misery and people that we don't live, we exist. Understand that just because one person says a thing does not mean it has to be that way for you. Only you know how you feel and you are different, incredible and have your own story to tell.
I write because that is what I do best, I have friends who are nurses, teachers and scientists. Without them the world would fall apart, if we were all artists, writers and musicians, where would the world be?
You might not like writing but feel that if you aren't a blogger you aren't cool. That's not the case, you might be the person to cure cancer, you might be a mother or father to the worlds next man to walk on the moon, or woman. There's no knowing of what you might achieve.

Blogging is my life, it's how I found my way into working in the music industry. Every message of praise or offer of work is an honour and I can't help but smile, but all I'm looking for, is to keep doing what I love and live my life. Maybe five years from now I won't even blog (though that thought saddens me) I can't help but wonder what new adventure I might be treading.
All i'm trying to say is that we each are who we are. Fame and fortune don't necessarily bring happiness and peace. Be you, stand out and be different.

Maybe you hate your part time job, but if it provides you with the funds to go trail-walking at weekends or pays for your kids dance classes or provides you money to use on creating and running a blog, or doing things with loved ones than it's worth it. While asking if people want fries with that, or if they want to wear it now, may not feel like it, you may be the highlight of someones day.
While bloggers have helped me more than I could express in words, sometimes it's the server at the coffee shop, the smile of a bus driver and the hello from a passerby that makes me feel like carrying on.
Maybe people don't chase you down the street, maybe they don't ask for your autograph or photo but that doesn't mean they don't respect you.
Ultimately if you don't respect you, how will anyone else?

I hope you can understand my opinion, though I know some will disagree, none of this is meant in bias or to hurt another. I hope that for at least one of you reading this, it provides food for thought.

IT'S A BLOGGERS LIFE FOR ME

I put my heart into my music blog and it seems fair that I do the same with cove; the lifestyle, journal, fashion and beauty side of LBW. I decided to start a second blog when it was clear that the music aspect of my blog was it's central core. As the music progressed into more than reviews after a shift in the shop, I then found that the little corner of the web I had created for myself, after months of reading BeckyBedbug, EffiesMakeUpBox & NotSoCity (back then Jennie Masters) those three girls without even knowing it saved my life. was no longer a place for ramblings, I decided to create a separate space on the web for that side of my writing.

It just so happened then summer came along and I got so busy with all things music, that I then couldn't keep it updated, so I've spent the last two months racking my brains as to how I can fit everything in and that's when it struck me.

The reason I was struggling to keep it all together was because of the words of another. This shadow that kept trying to overpower me, I realized was no friend when she stated that my work needed to have no face, because people don't want to know a girl like me. I put my energy into believing that. It wasn't long before I realized the face of my work is actually what people connect with, that I realized, was why I was struggling to create content.

The thing is and bloggers you will know this, is that when you create a post your readers connect with you as a person. I find people tell me they like my personable way of writing, my personality in my work. So I vow never again to let the words of another bring me down.

I've suffered with anxiety for a good few years now, it started as a kid, I would have crippling panic attacks when I felt scared. I managed to overcome these by the age of 16 but after getting my heartbroken at 18 and ending up in several downward spiralling relationships and a personal rut, the anxiety came back in the form of fear.

I never attended college meet ups, stopped attending auditions and eventually managed to convince myself I was never going to amount to anything interesting and that life was work, houses and chores. As a creative person, this not only brought me down but managed to bring me to a standstill.

I made one last vain attempt to free myself from my demons, I cut out the people in my life who brought me down, I quit my job, ended my relationship, everything but cut my hair. (One bad haircut from my mum, my best friend Caz - I still remember crying and Stingray from neighbors (long story) was enough to persuade me to keep it long and stop going for daring cuts.)

I remember buying company magazine, it had become the light in a dark place and I loved it's colourful pages, pretty clothes but mostly it's bloggers, street stylers and beauty queens. The fact that they were for the most part real girls, took away my crippling fear and made me feel that maybe just maybe one day, I could be much like them.

It led me to Jennie Masters fashion blog, I loved her style, it partly reminded me of my own except I'd never had the confidence to talk about it. The blog I found alongside this one was BeckyBedbug. Between these two girls, there was rarely a day I didn't log on, to see if a new post would be there for me to read.

As I began to look for more blogs I came across EffiesMakeUpBox, so cool. I LOVED the outfit posts and I started to read more and more blogs until one day I decided to start my own. I thought this is it, this is the moment my life will turn around. So I sat eagerly planning my blog and posts, only to discover that it wasn't easy, I couldn't create an empire or look stunning in my outfits and I began to deflate again.

Then while listening to music a 'review' fell out of a case. I used to review every CD I bought and write the review on a piece of A4 paper and tuck it inside the case in case someone in hundreds of years were to find it and wonder what it was like, they might not be able to play it if a new form of technology took over CD's!

I thought about it when the phone rang, Mel 'hey do you want to go to a gig tonight?' we trundled down to a pub in Portsmouth and watched the band play. I found myself excited and after went home and typed a review. (The story doesn't end there but I could write all day about the journey that followed.) So to summarize LITTLEBEARWOLF was born.

Fashion and beauty were hard for someone with little to no self esteem to write about, music has and always will be a massive passion of mine and throughout my darkest times it was there to create a moment of bliss.

The journey that led me to here has meant a boost in esteem, confidence and knowing that following my passions is what makes my life happy.

That character that has evolved is me and the heart I put into my work comes from that character and passion. So I'll never again take the personality out of what I do.

In fact if anything, it's made me feel stronger as a blogger.

I only recently started to watch vlogs. It wasn't long until I came across Zoella. Firstly like the blogs I first read all those months ago, the thing that drew me into her videos was that I felt I could connect with Zoe. As if in a another life or time we'd be friends. I liked her personable nature and when I watched her videos about anxiety, it sealed the deal that she'd be added to my list of inspiring blogger people.

The trouble is though, when you have a blog that you pour your life and soul into, it becomes very personal. I sort of think it becomes your horcrux, the one you didn't mean to make. A little part of your soul goes into it, meaning when people (not Harry Potter as we're not all demon wizards trying to destroy humanity, i'm talking more about internet trolls and gollum like 'friends') so when people say or do hurtful things to it, it's personal and painful.

It's because I can tell you first hand it's bloody hard work running a blog. It's the greatest thing I've ever done but it's everyday of my life, being me and the musicians I work with, people sometimes expect you to be on it 24/7 when actually I'll be hiding in Skyrim building my archery skills just to feel an escape from the world.

People who don't have the fire (by fire I mean creativity, inspiration, motivation and get up and go) to create their own piece of happiness, they turn to destroying the people who have. 

I thought that by now being in the adult world that people would be more compassionate than to try and turn others against those they are envious of. If Bowling for soup taught me anything, it's that high school never ends. So unfortunately where light shines, darkness dwells.

What's important to remember here bloggers is that they will never be you. We each alone have the power to be us and make our own stories as incredible and exciting as we desire.

I've met non-blogger types who say it's pointless and a bunch of teenagers making videos about lipstick, but I don't need to explain myself to them. They are entitled to their opinion.

Blogging brought me a whole new world, new people, new places and experiences.

Blogging is a huge community of people that can express themselves in areas they are passionate about for hobbies, part of or all of their work. It's a big industry that's ever growing and one day maybe we'll all be doing something different, we're not hurting anyone, we're simply sharing things with others that make our lives happy. Be it bands, make up, help for conditions like anxiety or local business' worth checking out.

So to those who down on bloggers and tell us we're wasting our time, I ask what they're doing with theirs that provides them with the power to control others.

A wise tutor turned friend once told me 'they accept convention and when someone challenges convention, they worry that you may break the convention and they realise they could be doing it differently. Without the willpower and motivation they never will, so their only power is their hold over you'.

Here are a selection of blogs that provide me with inspiration and the bloggers who have become my friends and colleagues.

BeckyBedbug // EffiesMakeUpBox // NotSoCity // Music&Manxies // Le-Happy // Songbird // USN // Scarphelia // Ella Masters // Flat Eleven // Gembolini // Jough // PierreLeCat // Annarack // Zoella 

Just in case you'd like to take a wander to my music blog LITTLEBEARWOLF you can!

The above blogs are my faves, I read others and always like to read more so feel free to comment below with your links. Either through email, tweets or blogging I've come to know these bloggers and have respect for each of them.

We each forge our own paths in life, whether we know it or not we all have the power to be creative. It took me a long time to feel as worthy as some of the bloggers above but when I got to know them I came to realise just how lovely they were and human too. They each have their own magic and have helped me to find mine.

LOVE & PEACE

♥ ☮

KG

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LITTLEBEARWOLFCOVE  © Krystal Gemma. 

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BILLY TALENT // FALLEN LEAVES



It's that time of year again, the nights are drawing in, the breeze is crisp with the scent of summer fading. The leaves are falling and everything's turning red and orange.
I absolutely love Autumn, it was always my favourite season as a kid because it meant a new term at school (geek I know!)

Fashion week was full of hot new looks for S/S15 but what I am totally stoked for is all the awesome Autumn looks, layering, textures and winter knits. Topshop is always a great place to start for key pieces for any closet.
The start of a new season is always difficult too though, the weather hasn't quite adjusted as quick as the time or it's snowing one minute and a million degree's the next.
Versatility is the absolute key for that awkward changeover part of the seasons.
While scanning their 'New In' items, I came across some total beauties. It was hard to single it down to one outfit but here's my summer to autumn look from Topshop.

Parka - £98
Fisherman Beanie - £12
Slouchy Cardigan - £48
Lace Insert Flippy Dress - £26
BALLISTIC High Leg Boots - £68
Flower Collar - £20
Faux-Leather Clean-cut Satchel - £36
Cost of outfit £308 //
Sassy rating 10/10

I love this outfits day to night styling. Simply remove the coat and hat for a casual evening outfit. Perfect for those short autumn days!

 I love the colours, the muted grey tones with the pale blue keeps the outfit from becoming too dark. The green parka adds the extra layer needed for those autumnal breezes. I LOVE these boots but you'd have to be careful when dressing these as it would be all to easy to take them from sassy to slutty. Pairing them with the casual dress gives them a daytime feel, while the lace inserts in the dress provide the glam touch to keep the outfit sassy.
I'm not normally one for HUGE collar necklaces, there's just something about this one that keeps an air of summer infused into the look. *KG's Style Secret - add a messy fishtail braid for the daytime look and then shake out those light waves for a voluminous evening look!

I'll be back soon with another Autumn look to keep you stylish and stunning throughout this mid-season swap over!

LOVE & PEACE

♥ ☮

KG

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LITTLEBEARWOLFCOVE  © Krystal Gemma. 

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Hello,

C-B and her famous closet

I used to think having the perfect closet meant owning millions of items of clothing and accessories and hoarding them in some big room of fashion. I used to shop every few days on my way back from classes or work. I ended up with a treasure trove of fashion in my room.
Except. I hardly wear any of it.

Over the last year and a half I've started to find myself by creating myself. When I started blogging I was more or less a lost soul in the sea of life. In time, I've started to find comfort in my own skin, through blogging, through working towards my ambitions and creating new ones when one is achieved. Through finding happiness in my own space, in my own time, in my own way.

When I started blogging, I had come from a 'nice' life that I tore apart to find passion and experience the world for myself. It was terrifying leaving a nice job, a nice boy, a nice house, nice foods, nice things, nice way of life. People thought I was mad, except I knew I wasn't. Fast forward a year and a half, that nice job was a for a company that ended up closing down. That nice boy turned out to be a stranger to me. That nice way of life was not what made me happy, in fact the complete opposite.
I didn't mean any of it personally, I just needed to be away from it for my own sanity.

From 'Spirituality for busy lives'

My income is never certain and I work day and night doing what I do now but I've never been happier. My boyfriend is a musician who has traveled the world doing what he loves. I've never been happier and more comfortable around someone. He's my best friend. That's when it occurred to me; unless it's been for a wedding or very special occasion, in the last year I haven't been shopping. I've been given a few items of clothing and found the occasional treasure in a charity store; apart from that no high street binges, no online late night bargains. I realized; it's because i'm happy.

What if you were told you could have infinite closet space filled with beautiful clothes that looked lovely but when you wore them you felt conscious or one outfit but every time you wore it you felt like a force to be reckoned with. Which would you pick?

I find myself no longer 'in fashion' I love fashion shows, seeing the store displays change throughout the year, I just wouldn't say it's how I am styled. I've found my style and though from time to time I may take a little inspiration from a trend, my style more or less feels like it belongs to me. It's my expression of my personality and the type of person I am. I didn't get that while working in fashion.

So I find myself no longer hoarding and collecting throw-away fashion from all my favourite high street stores. I can't stand looking like every other person in the world, it seems we've all become mannequins incapable of finding our own look. Mannequins should be an inspiration for a look or style but shops use it as a way to sell you an entire outfit and we use it as a way of finding the perfect outfit without really putting any of ourselves into it.

It's taken me a long time to find my own style but when I get dressed these days I do feel like a force to be reckoned with, I feel comfortable, I feel good.
So the fashion part of this blog will look at trends, shows and events but it won't be a high-street haul shopping blog. The fashion featured here will be hunted down from treasure troves and brought here to LITTLEBEARWOLFCOVE.

How would I describe my style? Like a Romantic-goth-Russian-doll-gypsy-hippie with a penchant for 90's grunge. I've loved anything grungy and goth since I was about 14. My mum was a hippy and that's certainly left an impression on me, I had a giant sun painted on my bedroom wall when I was 9 to bring light into my life, with a moon on the other to remind me that even in the dark there is light. The gypsy, romance, Russian aspects of my style have come from the stories I've read, the places I've been and the things I have seen.

I'm off to clear my closet, my mantra for my closet space is 'If I don't LOVE it, it doesn't stay'.

What are your style inspirations? How do you feel about fashion? What is your closet like? I'd love to read your fashion blogs, hear your thoughts on the subject. Feel free to link your blogs in the comments below.

LOVE&PEACE
♥ ☮
KG

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LITTLEBEARWOLFCOVE © - Krystal Gemma

WHAT KG WORE #1

  If you had asked me a just over a year ago what kind of closet I wanted; I would have told you I wanted a room I could walk into that were filled with lovely clothes and accessories. Fast forward to today and the answer could not be more different.

  So what changed in a year? Well I quit my job working in fashion management; I no longer needed to keep my employers happy with wearing all the latest trends. (For the record this resulted in a near panic attack every time a new trend emerged in our deliveries that I would have to a. Afford to buy and b. Convince myself I looked nice in.)

  Along with quitting my job, I broke up with my boyfriend (this caused more emotional stress and not wanting to get dressed up as all I really wanted to do was throw everything out and start over) and then I also moved back in with my parents. (Goodbye independence and personal space)

  I removed all mirrors from my bedroom (my mum has an obsession with antique mirrors; I figured the ones covering the rest of the rooms in the house were enough of a reminder to what I looked like).

  After a month of creating the biggest mess in my life, I started to crawl towards getting my life on track. This last year and a half has been my happiest but toughest. As I continue to move forward, I find daily challenges and obstacles to overcome. 

  One of those has been my personal image, the way I see myself, the way I am perceived by others. I had a number of closets packed full with beautiful clothes (most of which had never even been worn).  I didn’t really care that I had not worn them, just that I owned them. If I saw something I liked I had to own it. I liked having the most clothes out of all my friends. Yet it didn’t make me happy. It didn’t help me survive; it certainly didn’t help my financial situation.

   I liked knowing that I had almost as many clothes as the ‘celebrities’ I admired. I liked knowing that whatever the trend or weather I had something pretty & ready to wear (despite the fact I lived in the same few outfits).

  After breaking free from my previous life choices, the clothes were one of the things playing on my mind. I had all these beautiful clothes that were not fulfilling their fashion destiny. There were people in the world with not even clothes to cover their backs and I had closets full of things I would neither part with nor wear. Horrid. 

  That’s when I started to clear my closet. If I didn’t love it, it had to go. To charity, to friends, to sell, wherever it could best be used.

  I no longer enjoy days of shopping, in fact I tend to only shop now if it’s something I need. I only buy things that I need or will use ALOT. I tend not to buy throwaway fashion anymore because a. It doesn’t last. B. You end up looking the same as every other Joe average.  C. I was finally starting to find my own style, which wasn’t trying to keep up with wearing the latest trends. D. I don’t agree with forcing people to make millions of items a day for us to buy and throw away as we wish when there are people in the world that could really benefit from those clothes.

   I still have items from high st shops in my closet and it’s not that I never buy clothes. It’s just that I’m finding my own style and more cautious over the items I purchase these days.

  I love seeing the clothes my friends and fashion bloggers have been buying and wearing, it’s not that I don’t like fashion. I love fashion. I just know what I’m looking for in my own style and what I feel comfortable in. 

  These posts ‘WHATKGWORE’ are simply that journey put into pictures and words to share with you. Perhaps you are on your own style adventure or perhaps you like having lots of clothes and wear them too, feel free to share your fashion/style ideals with me in the comments below the post.

  Alternatively I have started to sell various items from my closet that I still love but don’t wear very often. Items that I have worn a few times but not worn again and items I have worn lots but feel someone else could now benefit from. If you would like to browse these items you can do so on my Depop page. I don’t accept swaps as I’m not looking to build my closet anymore but if you have something you feel I may be interested in I’m always willing to take a look.

 D E P O P // LITTLE KG

  Feel free to check out the rest of my features and my music blog LITTLEBEARWOLF. I’ll be sharing my adventures here as I live each day and keep focusing on the happy things. I was down for a long time until I overhauled my life to feel happy with my choices. I know it will be a while yet until I am where I want to be but I know that I’m moving towards that and I’m happier now.

LOVE&PEACE

♥ ☮

LITTLEBEARWOLFCOVE
KG

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