Two hearts, One Frida

Saturday July 12 was La Raza Galeria Posada's 'Bound By Love: A Tribute to Frida Khalo; in which there was a reproduction of Khalo's bedroom along with Frida inspired paintings by artist Martha Rodriguez. 

A replica of Khalo's bedroom with the help of Lucy Robles-Garcia and La Raza Galeria Staff

"Broken" Acrylic on Canvas 2014 by Martha Rodriguez

Along with the exquisite exhibition a three-part Frida contest took place. First went the "Friditas",followed by Diego and Frida and lastly the Frida Lookalike contest. My sister and I entered as a pair for part 3.

Friditia contestants (in which they were all winners)

Some Frida and Diego Contestants (left) Chosen winners

(Right) "Los Dos Fridas" by Frida Khalo (Left) Our contest entry for the lookalike contest

Now, believe it or not, this project took my sister and I nine hours to complete. My sister made her skirt out of an old sheet and her blouse was hand painted blue and yellow. My white ensemble was also hand painted. It took us a while to think about how to do my neck high blouse but we came up with a nifty solution. I bought a $3 white button up blouse from the Davis SPCA thrift store and simply wore in backwards! As for our hearts, the core of them are paper bags crumbled up and bound tightly by tape. The red is painted aluminum foil wrapped loosely around the paper.

Our unibrow game was excellent

Lauren and I were contestants #1 and #2 which I was thankful for. I always volunteered to go first for school presentations. I get so antsy waiting.   

We had Diego hold our backdrop. :P

We were sweating a little because the competition was pret-ty darn amazing. 

 Alas, our nine hours of dedication paid off! My sister and I were the first to ever win the Frida Khalo lookalike contest hosted by La Raza Galeria Posada!  We were grateful they appreciated that we were "two hearts, one Frida". 

One member of the press got a particularly close photograph of my unibrow. Hahha

My sister and I and the Diego/Frida contestant winners

 We ended the day by taking some photos near the amazing Frida bedroom replica. 

My sister and I with another Frida sister pair 

Our proud Mama (left)

(Middle La Raza Galeria Posada's director Martha Rodriguez)

 We are super excited for next years competition because next year Lauren and I will be competing against eachother. It's going to be an epic uni-brow battle. 

 You can read about the entire event on The Sacramento Bee's website here.

Thanks for stopping by!

COLORS Salon

I got my hair cut at COLORS Salon in midtown Sacramento. I would definitely go back. I felt oh so pretty from the oh so fab haircut I got. It was both sharp and well sculpted!

The resident pooch (seen above) was the most cute dog I'd ever seen. If you ever go, she'll always be there to greet you. She's a little charmer. 

Best,

B

Clowning Around

It's just the day in the life of a clown. No big deal. What chu lookin' at? :P. Hahah I was abeit nerviosa showing you all this photoshoot but after some encouragement I thought "why the heck not!?". My sisters Lauren and Isabella Rangel went through so much work to get it done so voila! Here it is for your enjoyment.  Leave a comment to let me know which photo was your favorite!

Thanks for visiting! 

<3, 

♚ B

Le Bridgett

After watching many moody fashion documentaries such as Valentino and Seamless, and conducting a few interviews of local designers myself, I realized the number one question people want answered is:

"What inspires you?"

Often the answer is a person or something generic like flowers. After asking myself what most inspires me I began to find it such a frustrating question. It's like someone asking your favorite color when you really love a different color from minute to minute (or maybe that's just me). 

So to answer the question. the inspiration from this outfit was from my stuffed animal weeenieeeee doggy. I had bought a big bag of vintage stuffed animals from the Vacaville Opportunity House and this little cutie was in it. 

Just look how adorable the stitched eyelashes, beret and ears are! Inspired by this French pooch, I decided to sport this dress/top I got from Forever 21 for 2.50! (I just love it when they have the 50% off of 50% off sale...it's like heaven)I felt that the red white and blue stripes were perfect Parisian choice. . I also chose to don a beret because what's more French than a beret? (*Hint...nothing the answer is nothing is more French than a beret ^_^).  I got it at This 'n' That Thrift & Gift when I was on break at the SACFW model casting at Capsity offices the other weekend. I just couldn't help myself. 

(We both have bows on out backsides! X). )

Well...I have nothing else to say...so as awkward as this ending is...

Thanks for visiting The Sun Queen! TTFN.

Shine on,

♔B

♔ “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”

The Courage of 'Davisites'

I really shouldn't bike so fast because my breaks are really getting worn down from stopping every five seconds for another "photo-op". It is soooo worth it though!

It's so motivational right? :P

While I wasn't allowed to "know" what was going on here (they couldn't "say" when I asked them)...I think I will just assume that this is how these three go out on a Friday night. I mean what's your spirit animal? I'm pretty sure mine is a bird of some sort.

I therefore decided to bring out my inner animal when I got home because I want to play too. 

I decided I am a hummingbird. Nice to meet you.