Grey Layers

of style and of substance

Can I help you? Your questions answered.

@tayloreborden: How’s your bunny?  He’s grown up so fast! I feel like he’s gotten greyer than black? But maybe that’s just me.   @shereeclaudette: How do you style your hair? I’m thinking of cutting mine really short next year and I’m nervous on how to style it myself?  Haircuts vary and also keep in mind that hair textures are forever never going to be the same ( yours and mine.) When you see my hair wavey, it’s because I did not style it due to running around and not having enough time to. So to answer your question, I shower, and I leave it to dry. Once it’s dried, I add in a tiny bit of hairspray and voila! @valeriemum: Will you mentor me into being a wonderful young lady as yourself? Sure! It would help if you weren’t so far. @catherineyo: Where did you get your “dance all night, sleep all day pillow cases? Also what do you use to style your short hair?  I got it from Gypsy Warrior! They have “ Moon Child”, and “ Gypsy and Warrior” along with the one I have! Check them out.   @rachelhnng: Any tricks? Trying to cut mine similar to yours but it’s stick straight.  Try moose and a blowdryer – together. Work the moose in while using your blow dryer and crumpling your hair. I don’t have stick straight hair , I might be the only Asian who doesn’t, thanks to my dad’s side of the family. So this is actually my natural hair.   @oh.darkingxo: How hard was it to get this popular on Instagram and do you have any advice for someone who wants to get known as well?  I can’t really tell you “how hard” it was, because I didn’t really try to. It just sort of grew. So my advice for you would be to not try and chase fame, wealth etc. Do YOU. Do what makes YOU happy and stick to it. You’ll find that you’re more attractive that way and people will end up finding this more attractive rather than someone who tries so hard to be someone they’re not.   @mrs.row: How do you stay so positive at work, on social media and at home ?  It’s actually more controllable than you think. For one, negativity doesn’t really do any situation any good, hence why I place myself as far from anything…

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Blogging Realness

Major realness today.  I feel I have to state a few truths about Blogging. Not in that ” oh I bought a new pair of shoes and they just magically repositioned themselves beautifully on my fur rug next to perfectly positioned sunflowers.” No. But before the serious stuff, let’s focus on how I’m entirely obsessed with mesh this season. I may be freezing my bootie off but for mesh, I will gladly do so again and again. I have been on the longest and most tiring hunt for the perfect mesh back top and was blessed by DEKA Company’s presence in my wardrobe. I have worn this top 10 different ways and still has not gotten old. Don’t think it ever will! Paired with my Tobi bomber jacket  which I am excited to be talking about in the next few weeks! Now back to the realness. Today I am clearing out misinterpretations about blogging aka what really happens behind the blog when you call us and I ask to call you back in an hour because I am super busy with my blog. One of the things I find difficult about this job is most definitely the vagueness of the field itself. The usual question I get would be ” So, what is it that you actually do?”  If you have a family member that is a blogger, I’m sure you have asked them what the details of their job entails. And if you’re a blogger, I’m sure you’ve had people not take you seriously because of the mere fact that this career has been misunderstood more than a few times , time and time again. I always get weird reactions , especially from adults/ the elderly when I mention things about my blog : Events, meetings, campaigns and what have you. It is a tiny bit frustrating to have to explain the logistics of my career but I feel that I am not only speaking for myself but I know I’m speaking on the behalf of tons of bloggers who have been feeling the same way as I. I. Tons of people don’t believe that you’re actually busy because you run a blog. “Isn’t it just taking a few photos and posting your “OOTD” online?”  Oh boy does that annoy me so much. Most blogs are businesses and make actual incomes. My blog is a business and a brand…

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Behind the ‘Grams [ GreyLayers Blogger Meet #SoHoTakeOver ]

There aren’t many things that give me quite as much simultaneous joy and heartbreak as stumbling on people bursting with such passion and going after their dreams. It brings such joy because it sets as inspiration for myself, heartbreaking because they are just as willing to use and abuse others simply to be the best at their careers. That phrase “taking over” is a seeming example. Taking over what exactly? I’ve grown tired of women in this industry constantly stepping on other women, using each other, countlessly breaking bonds and crushing trusts in exchange for that fame and wealth that they crave. And those that have been on the other side, having been used, left and stepped on, constantly would question genuinity. I don’t blame both sides. But negativity does nothing but keep stagnancy. Aren’t we all fighting to continue walking the path toward our passions? *This is where you agree.*  Passionate people linking together can create boundless possibilities. I’ve preached it once, and I will continue to preach it. Waking up in the morning and reading amazing emails such as yourself starting a blog because of me is everything. There’s a tremendous sense of living in that. I couldn’t think of a better way to thank each of you, but to bring you all together! This weekend was very special to myself and my blog. This weekend proved so much to me.  A heartfelt thanks to the many ( All 50 East Coast Bloggers ) Who came out and took over SoHo’s streets with me at our Meet Up. I was only expecting about twenty young ladies , but fifty was such an overwhelming surprise! * The love was surely felt.*

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More than just clothes: Shop Our Closet event

She’s got new pair of Balmains, time to write about it. Yes I shop Designer Vintage and always have specific Insta-Posting times to get the perfect amount of likes on a photo. I just purchased a domain! Now I have to add in that catchy name to go with my new ” dot com”. Oh! And I can’t forget to make sure I update my insta handle. Gotta make sure everyone knows I now am a blogger. Everyone and their mothers , grandmothers and great aunts have blogs. Hell you can take an ” #ootd “, or a ” #wiwt” and hashtag that photo like nobody’s business ~ and voila! You are now a blogger. Anyone can do it. It’s what you do with your blog and with your sense of influence that makes you stand out. The truth: The clothes do not make the blogger.  Everyone is stuck on becoming the person they’re sitting next to and do what that individual is doing that in the end, they forget why they started in the first place. The other truth: So who stands out now that everyone is becoming the next fashion blogger?    The public’s naked eye seemingly never wants to go beyond what they believe bloggers to be and simply stick to the well known opinion that bloggers are all for themselves.  I definitely have regard to this opinion, but only up to a certain extent. Sure there are those that create videos about themselves, take photos of themselves non stop etcetera, etcetera as the list goes on for miles. Sure, it all comes with the territory. Sure you have exquisite taste, using fancy words as you create your new post, but how are you standing out from that individual sitting next to who who’s blogging about the same pair of pants, same pair of shoes and same cup of coffee? There is more to it than just aimlessly typing up new titles for posts and captions for new “IG pics”. There is more to it than just “selling clothes and selling looks. There is more beyond the social realms and instant gratification that bloggers seem to live for. This post is by no means to speak negatively of my career and the career of many, but an awareness to stand out and offer character into what you do. As influencers of the new age, blogger or none…

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Not another fashion post

I grew up wanting to be Pocahontas. That didn’t really work out too well. I never liked camping or fishing nor was the fashion of feather extensions ever for me as well. So a doctor it was. Sadly that didn’t go all too well either. I never liked blood ~ the sight or odor. That rubber gloves + metal pungent smell never agreed with me. In between all the trial and errors trying to figure out what I wanted to be, I’d find myself sketching. Dresses, shirts, people etc. Fashion it was. But I took courses in biology anyway. Adding to that ,more courses in science ~statistics even. (I know right?) But it was always Fashion. That love never went anywhere. It was patient. Patiently waiting for me to accept it with open arms, take it in and work with it. It was to be my happy place. Through all the labs, the chem experiments, the calculations, it was always there. The only thing left for me to do was pursue what I was made to do. Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives and want for yours. Don’t waste your talent. Whatever it is ~ a writer, a banker, a dentist, a designer, go after it.  The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. The heart and what its passions are, has reasons that the mind will never understand.  Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience. Whatever it is you want to be, go and be it. By doing what you love, you will inspire and awaken the heart of others. You were born awaken your dream and make it a reality. Now go after it. I’m glad I went after mine. Something different for the mid-week. Photos by Ryan Chua Jeanne wears [ White Romper by Tobi , Silk Blazer by Vintage Ferragamo] xo, JG

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GreyLayers is style partnered with substance. Meshing both together in harmony creates depth-filled style, travel and living. Jeanne Grey created GreyLayers to influence the everyday and awaken passion within others through the layers that make her who she is.

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