About

Hi. My name is Cara but I like to call myself Ruby Velour. I got it from a rock star name generator years ago and I’ve used it ever since.

I am mostly shy, with an obnoxious streak. I am obsessed with the colours pink and black, it’s all I wear and colour of my hair. I am passionate about music, film, fashion and almost anything creative. I’m a dreamer and a hopeless optimist, but I do have a little bit of emo tucked away somewhere (though I’ll deny it passionately if you ever asked me about it). I love tattoos and dancing and poodles (sometimes all at once) and am very good at creative swearing and inappropriate fist shaking.

I’ve done a decent amount of traveling, living in London for some time, with much more planned. I am a Branch Administrator for a busy office in the sunny city of Brisbane where’s it always bloody hot or pouring with rain. When not at work making a humble living I like to get out and about and see the world or buy fabulous new things. I also dabble in graphic design and have organised a few events in Brisbane, such a the Brisbane Zombie Walk (http://www.brisbanezombiewalk.com).

This blog is not intended to be exhilarating reading because I am not famous and don’t do shocking, awe-inspiring things with myself (not all the time, anyway). But I love to live life as fabulously as possible and then write about them in such a way to make myself sound as exciting and mysterious as I like to think I am.

The main topics I like to post about usually involve music, movies, nail art, fashion, feminism and the infamous Ruby Rants. Amongst many other things that capture my interest.