…Annnnd we’re BACK, from our regularly scheduled, annual late spring “break” where I, in no particular order, have a stupidly dramatic month, go on a minor bender, cop an inspirational epiphany, and reinvent Painfully Hip. With vigor. Last month treated me like its redheaded stepchild, but I am ready to rise from the rubble in a foliage of flames. So I apologize for the pause in our regularly scheduled programming, as we are conniving to to re-launch next week – with a new look, new logo, and well yes, a new attitude.
There will be not only more photo shoots styled by yours truly, but I am taking it all to the next level. We are out to make some real art this time, no foolin’ around, by collaborating with local artists and fine art photographers. My goal is to generate some legit dumbfoundery.
First off, the lovely, and nauseatingly talented Kristin Cofer of Hiss and Hearse, has offered her next-level graphic design services to bless this page with a brand spanking new masthead for our re-launch next week! Here is my new business card, featuring the last sweet logo she made for me:
Thanks, Kristin!
I would also like to thank divine men’s fashion website, Definitive Touch for honoring me as the very first female in their holyshit! Lifestyles section alongside the likes of Allen Schwartz of ABS and Örjan Andersson of Cheap Monday. Apparently, I’ve not known humility till now.
 photo by Krysta Jabczenski Thank you for reading and see you late next week after our makeover!
Wait a minute, where were we?
It appears that in the midst of some majorly transformative personal time, 2009 ended in an anticlimactic fizzle and 2010 started out with a veritable atomic kaboom. Sorry for the unplanned hiatus, but I’ve been a busy thing. As of the new year, I am About.com‘s new Budget Style Guide. Legitimately employed! I’d like to offer an obese thank you to all of you for your support.
What does this mean for Painfully Hip?
Only good things:
- Daily links to my comprehensive About.com articles. DIYs, How To’s, store reviews, Lists, blog posts, its going to be mental! My new About Budget Style website will be live next month.
- The Painfully Hipster of the Week. Back by popular demand, Thrift Star of the Day will be resurrected using painfully underrated thrifted outfits from Lookbook.nu, Weardrobe and Chictopia.
- Phasing out corporate ads! Many thanks to the wonderful BlogHerAds and Six Apart for making the last 2.5 years of my life possible! I love you! However, my goal has always been to make Painfully Hip’s sidebars a resource for wallet-friendly independent designers, vintage boutiques and exclusive online discounts.
- The Usual Hip Shit. Still pumping out Painfully Hip Design Collective photo shoots, Check Me Outs, and Painfully Trip Travel stories from much more exotic locales. Painfully Hip will be nothing but pretty pictures, fashionable resources, foreign adventures, and hardcore fun, just like it was born to be.
PS Thank you to Lucky Magazine to choosing me as one of their new Alpha Shoppers and including me in your February and March issues!
We received the following comment today:
I’m loving the hair, & I was kinda shocked I found your lovely face in one of my town’s local bar’s flyers
other than that I love reading your blog.
keep it painfully hip <3<3
-Denisse
We, of course, knew nothing about this. And, Denisse, we’d really like to know the name of your town so we can, perhaps, have a go at the “sexual piñata.” This is the best day ever.
The image is below. Let me prepare you… I am never going to stop laughing at this. Ever
The following post is Rory’s reaction (he’s the handsome devil with the thumb on the right). Who was the other guy, you ask? No idea. Another victim of bad photoshopping… which was also inflicted on my formerly 2D digital boobs (I mean, you can’t pull off a Hooters shirt ironicly if you own actual boobs. C’mon).
via AwesomeAllDay.
-Amber
Original post where our Fayetteville souvenirs go wrong on our Painfully Hip Roadtrip.
Wow… this gives me the cold dead feeling in my insides previously reserved for films by Todd Solondz.The photo is taken from the Awesome All Day Good Will Tour outside of Fayetteville. I’m not sure who the hispanic stubbly guy is but, I’m choosing to believe that he is Diana’s new boyfriend Lorenzo Lamas.
My Spanish is wonky, but I’m pretty sure the flyer roughly translates into:
October 23rd
“NIGHT OF SOLIDARITY”
For tornadoes and people suffering from tuberculosis
LIVE BOOZE of 8-11
And yes a Tornado can coincide with a tuberculosis, they are the two love lives in the Jungle at night!
Discuss this with your sexual Piñatas!
And yes a Tornado can coincide with a tuberculosis, they are the two love lives in the Jungle at night!
Discuss this with your sexual Piñatas!
ummmm…… wow.
So.
I know it. There have been exactly 4 updates in the last two weeks. Things are, um, just a bit complicated (read: simultaneously ass-kickingly traumatic and glorious) in our sphere at the moment. Curious??
The last two weeks since we got back from the Painfully Hip Roadtrip have been INSANE-O-RAMA.
I got a new nephew, became single, moved out, went on a last minute roadtrip to Canada and back, started writing an in-depth emergency article on current hairstyles for the News & Review, found my photo in a glossy magazine (Lucky, September 2009), and planned 5 photoshoots, a yard sale and a solo move to Arizona.
… if you think that’s a bit much, you should see the list I sent to Diana, who, by the way, has an eerily similar list of her own. For instance, swap “Canada” with “Mexico” and change “to Arizona” to “in with Amber.”
Yeah, we were exclusively internet friends only 3 months ago and now we’re practically married (just don’t tell Diana that Arizona is actually a red state). But one thing we have in common is that we take bullshit and turn it to gold. This is how we do.
Therefore? Hang in there, folks. This is going to be a whole new beginning for Painfully Hip, because Diana and I have realized: once we get our heads together, we tend to get a little, ahem, obsessed.
I have created “The Most Stupidly Half-Assed Animated Gif Ever Made” in celebration.
 ROCKIT! In case you haven’t noticed, I am getting REALLY EXCITED about winter for once! And not just because I’ll be able to wear short shorts for most of the year.
Take THAT, pants!
Check out WellWornRoad for more details, including photos of our NEW HOT WATER HEATER!!
Photo party! You get the hint…
Photos by our beautiful, generous, fun and friend-forever Fayetteville hostess, Jeanette Belleza.
 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  Hola Amigo! I like my tequila dressed to the nines  Post tequila shot 
 We love Jeannette! Photos by Train:
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!!
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Thanks for reading,
Amber
painfullyhip at gmail.com
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