Preen Two Year Anniversary and Painfully Hip Roadtrip Celebration

Hey Tucson!
Join us tomorrow night for party times!
Thanks to Preen for letting us be a part of this momentous action! More thanks to the Diana‘s brother, the devastatingly talented Asher Deaver for gracing us with his vocal stylings and things.

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Woo! Can’t wait. See y’all there!

Painfully Hip Design Collective: Shop the Shoot!

A couple of lovely items from our Cirque de Soixante Six Painfully Hip Design Collective photo shoot are up at Market Publique! Let us know if anything else from this shoot tickles your fancy so we can make them available online!
Click the image to purchase (only 22 hours left to go)!

Vintage 60s/70s European Primary Color Confetti Skirt Navy M

Vintage 60s/70s European Primary Color Confetti Skirt Navy M

Vintage 60s/70s European Primary Color Confetti Skirt Navy M

Vintage 60s/70s European Primary Color Confetti Skirt Navy M

vintage confetti skirt

Vintage Red &White Chevron Candy Stripes Dress w Pockets M L

Vintage Red &White Chevron Candy Stripes Dress w Pockets M L

Vintage Red & White Chevron Candy Stripes Dress w Pockets M L

Vintage Red & White Chevron Candy Stripes Dress w Pockets M L

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Photography: Kristin Cofer
Model: Danielle and Dee
Styling: Amber Mortensen
Makeup: Reanna Saddoris
Hair: Luxe Salon, Sacramento (ask for Kat!)
Clothing from Babyfoot Vintage, Linden Simone, Market Publique and Neneee.com
Shoes from MustHaveShoes.com
Special Thanks to Lindsay Campbell, Lyndsay Hoff and Alicia Black

In other Painfully Hip Design Collective news, our Summertime at the Ranch photo (which is also happens to be on our Painfully Hip Roadtrip car magnets!) won SECOND PLACE in the Crossroads Trading Company Fashion Photography Contest!!!

Painfully Hip Roadtrip: We Still Live / Fayetteville Clothing Swap

PHEW. One fourteen hour drive later and we are in Tucson, AZ!

Apologies for the lack of posts… as awesome as Corpus Christy was, Krystal informs us that the city can be a tad stingy with its wifi. Combine that with deathly weather in Austin where we could barely function if not up to our waists in water, Diana’s texmex food poisoning, an all day Design Collective photoshoot and the gracious red carpet Corpus Christy hospitality we feigned to deserve, we did not get a single chance to keep up with postings. We love you and will attempt to rectify this in the next couple of days as we decompress in Tucson at the Casa Diana!

The first thing that needs reporting is that our Fayetteville Clothing Swap was a blast! We had about 20 fashionable southern belles (and one extremely fashionable male) show up to update their closets. Despite the fact that our tiny and pretty little venue became one notch less humid than a sauna with all that body heat, we had a great time!

Photos by Jeanette and Diana:

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painfully hip clothing swap

A very special thank you to…
the beautiful Mayapple Salon for hosting our swap
Jeanette again for being so beautiful and supportive and sweet
Fayetteville for showing up in full force and us an great time!

road trip – painfully sexy gone painfully wrong!

sorry guys! diana’s been busy with food poisoning, and amber and rory have been busy having all the fun, so there hasn’t been a lot of posting round these parts lately…

this is a fashion and road-trip related true story that was lifted directly from wellwornroad. sorry to those of you who have read it already – we still think it’s funny!

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amber and i found something we thought was hilarious at Cheap Thrills the other day. and those hilarious things are called “Inappropriately Tiny Vintage Hooter’s Tank Tops.”

not that this is something that the entire internet needs to know, but amber and i are not very well… padded, in the upper rib-cage area. this was a source of huge distress when i was in my mid teens, but at this point in life i honestly think it’s one of the best things that has ever happened to me. bra-less in the summer time? heck yes!

back to the story though. sorry.

we tried on said tank tops (which actually hung in a really flattering and not-exactly Whorish Thing In The World kind of way, due to the fact that we weren’t trying to squeeze small watermelons into them.) we giggled uncontrollably, purchased them, and snuck them back to the house for “surprise attack.”

last night while packing up to leave fayetteville, we picked out the most hussy-esque matching shorts and white shoes we could find in our luggage.

this morning we wore loose dresses over the Secret (Awesome) Outfits and said our goodbyes to jeannette and will. the three of us – me, amber and rory – stopped at a thrift store on the way out of town to drop off the last of the clothes that were left behind at the swap yesterday. rory sat unsuspecting in the car.

unsuspecting, until amber announced loudly on the sidewalk, “wow diana, it’s pretty muggy out today. maybe we should take off a few layers” and we tore our jumpers off in unison.

see, it’s totally anti-climactic when i tell the story in words. that’s why it’s so awesome that cameras were invented:

IMG_2427see, now THAT’S pretty darn funny.

rory’s reaction was great. pretty much exactly what we’d anticipated, right down to this:

hootsi think this is what Spring Break looks like

but yeah, it’s all fun and games and we feel victoriously hilarious, until we fall asleep in the car on the long ride to austin, rory pulls over at a gas and home-made-candy (?!?!) station/shop in the middle of absolute nowhere, oklahoma, and amber and i run inside for a desperately-needed pee break – completely forgetting what we’re still wearing until it was way – way – too late.

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rory took a picture of that too. note the less-than-enthusiastic smiles?

do you have any idea how hard it is to pay for your snacks with your arms crossed over your chest, the cashier sending you straight to hell with her eyeballs, and the full attention of every trucker at the gas station? how about i share this with you: don’t try it.

Painfully Hip Roadtrip: 4th of July Fun in Fayetteville

Photo party! You get the hint…

Photos by our beautiful, generous, fun and friend-forever Fayetteville hostess, Jeanette Belleza.

Sarah, Jeanette, Amber, Diana

Sarah, Jeanette, Amber, Diana


Diana was wearing a thrifted hiked-up skirt which I covet to this day and I am sporting my trusty ModCloth romper.

Pre-tequila shot

Pre-tequila shot


Hola Amigo! I like my tequila dressed to the nines

Hola Amigo! I like my tequila dressed to the nines


Post tequila shot

Post tequila shot


Sparkler photo
We love Jeannette!

We love Jeannette!

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Thank you for having us, Fayetteville! You rock!

We arrived in Austin, TX last night (thanks, Cary!) and are about to go swimming and then thrifting!!