"Homeless Chic"?

The fashion world is always filled with crazy surprises. Well, as long as Lady Gaga and her Haus of Gaga are still around. All jokes aside, we all can agree that we never really know what's next in the fashion industry. What makes the industry so wonderful, is that we have the choice whether or not we follow the latest trend. We can follow trends or we can make them our own or we can completely ignore them and go entirely against them. I think that's wonderful, I really do. I don't like the idea of everyone looking a certain way or feeling the need to look a certain way, but enough about people expressing their individual styles because what I am about to talk about has nothing to do with individuality(That's another blogpost within itself).

When I first heard the term "homeless chic", I jokingly thought to myself, it's actually called derelicte duh!(that was a reference to the movie Zoolander if you haven't seen it, you're missing out). I didn't actually think that this would become a trend, but unfortunately it has. My question is, how many people actually follow this "homeless chic"-ness?

I thought the concept was dumb from the get go. I thought that fashionistas actually buying into this tacky trend(yes, a trend can be tacky) were being ripped off. I thought that the designers were being lazy. Aside from that, I didn't really care because I knew that there were people who felt the same way. 

Until, I noticed people associated "homeless chic" with hipsters. Seriously? Sure, we're trendsetters and our style is unconventional, but since when has nonconformity been synonymous with looking like a hobo. The truth is, I can't help but find the whole look somewhat offensive. It's like you want to look like someone who looks the way do because they cant afford to look any different. Does that make sense? The sad part is that everyone is getting ripped off. The homeless chic-ers are trying to look like a poor person with expensive poor-quality clothes. There's just something not right with that. 

Ombre--Hottest New Hair Style

Hipster style is often referred to as effortless and understated. We all want it to seem like our appearance is incredibly different, yet not difficult to achieve. However, as women we all know that looking both good and natural is far from easy. The idea is you want it to seem easy.

Let's say you're a natural dark brunette and you'd like blonde. That's fairly reasonable right? Being a typical color-treated girl, you would dye(punny) if your roots started to come in. That's where being a hipster allows you to bend the rules a tad. Create the appearance of roots coming in. That faux roots-coming-in look is known as ombre.

It's where from the tips of your hair to your chin is a lighter color than from your chin to your roots. Get it? I know, I know it sounds somewhat tacky. When I first heard of it, I thought it was yet another moment in fashion history when hipsters take the idea of "homeless chic" way to far. The "homeless chic" trend---it's too tacky to be even considered a trend---really grinds my gears. I tend to refer to it as " the Ashley look" because people like Ashley Olson and Ashlee Simpson tend to sport it often. So believe me I would never blog about it if it was even remotely--um what's an adjective describing homeless fashion being cute? Oh right, there isn't one. Ombre is actually the complete opposite of what I initially thought. It's quite classy.

"Homeless Chic"

To better understand the ombre do, check out this video below that breaks it down.



Photo from YouTube

Still don't get this whole "homeless chic" thing? Check out my next blog post ;]