Avoided heatstroke, missing lipstick, awesome wedges and a California girl.

Light blue denim shorts and awesome wedges Johanna is kind enough to let me borrow, Monki. Glasses, Chanel. Flower print tie-up shirt, Asos.com. Brown leather satchel, Vero Moda.

My plan was definitely not to wear these shorts (they same I was wearing the day before) out to a fancy dinner. I had brought a pair of high waisted jeans that I thought would go great with my new tie-up shirt from Asos, and I even put them on - but it soon became all too clear that I was going to faint from a heatstroke if I didn't take them off again, fast. So, shorts it was! I can see how people can put style over comfort and I sometimes do it too, but there's a limit, and that limit was well reached. Dark skinny jeans + 200 billion degrees = nah, don't think so.

These shoes! I tried them on at Johanna's house and fell in love. I couldn't believe they're from Monki - I'm there all the time (well, a lot at least), and I've never seen them. When we were leaving for the city, Johanna told me that she's not going to bring them when she goes back to California next week, and asked if maybe I wanted custody of them until she came back and felt like she'd want to use them again. Ummm... maybe?! They were back on my feet and I had wrapped my arms around her before she'd even finished the sentence. I have to take better photos of them soon, you can't really tell how perfect they are in that one above.

Cudos to Johanna, by the way. She took these two outfit photos, and that I've uploaded them is quite the proof of her photography skills. You see, it happens now and then that I ask friends to take outfit photos for the blog when I'm in Stockholm and can't take them myself - and so far, I've never used one. It's not my friends' fault, though (not entirely, haha). But I'm used to taking like a hundred photos and then I usually end up picking out seven or eight that I think are okay. So when a friend takes five photos and then says "there you go", the chances of me not making awkward poses and weird faces in those five are very, very slim. But these two are not that bad! (Even though I have to stop putting one hand in the hair on Every Single Photo.) So if dark skinny jeans + 200 billion degrees = nah, don't think so, then Giving me custody of amazing wedges + outfit photos where I look decent + letting me ride her sister's expensive horse + being a great girl in general = Johanna is awesome!

Oh, and here she is:

 

I'm not sure where she bought the oversized flower print tee, but her (faux) leather shorts are from Forever 21, and the wonderful floral sunnies are from Urban Outfitters. And her litas, they're from... well, Jeffrey Campbell, obviously. I have the same shoes and bought them from Solestruck.com.

Johanna is a copywriter and has been working in California for the past year, first in Newport Beach, then in Venice Beach (seems like this girl likes beaches, huh?). Now she's going to stay in San Francisco instead, and I'm so jealous it's not even cute.

One thing that is cute is how her style has become soooo California girl:ish! There's just something so beachy about her. I think it's absolutely adorable and I'll admit, I'm almost as jealous about her sunglasses as I am about her going to live in San Fran. Wait. I said almost, okay?

The only bad thing that happened during my 24 hours with Johanna (first she stayed over at my house, in the morning we went riding at her family's house, and then we drove into Stockholm) was that I forgot my best lipstick in her apartment. Typical. It's brand new, the most useful bright red shade and it smells great, which isn't that common when it comes to lipstick. I might have to get a new one. Stupid Lady Red! Why did you have to disappear? I who treated you with such appreciation and devotion these past weeks. And this is how you thank me. Pfft.