let’s be friends : @nicole_fichera 

 
Tucking in a cardigan is twice as warm and almost as delicious as raw cookie dough ✨⠀ .⠀ Image description: A mirror selfie of Nicole. She’s wearing a cozy yellow, black, and white plaid cardigan tucked into dark blue jeans, with large circle handpainted acrylic earrings of her own design. The environment is colorful, maximalist and full of art: teal acrylic boxes on the desk surface, a gold coral-shaped jewelry holder, and artwork, shoes and vases on shelves in the background.⠀
Friday affirmation: More tassels, less hassles ✨💥✨💥✨ Got a limited amount of these Little Pills with gold tassels, also available in Dusty Blue and Glassy Green! DM to snag!⠀ .⠀ Image description: a pair earrings hanging from teal glitter paper in a geometric environment. They are neon pink laser cut acrylic rings, with a 16k gold plated tassel dancing underneath.
Mushy VDay photo alert. 😬 Love you sweetest man ❤️ .⠀ Image description: A wedding photo of Tyler and Nicole, laughing with their foreheads together against a backdrop of weeping willows.⠀ .⠀ 📷 @sashapdro
I hope you love the shit out of yourself today. I hope you use this day of love to revel in the absurd and glorious miracle of your own existence. I hope you do something weird and embarrassing because it gives you joy. I hope you spend money and time on yourself. I hope you cast off your urges to hate and deprive your body and your soul. I hope you indulge your own ridiculousness. I hope you do something that you’ve been putting off, something that matters to you, something to build your foundation. I hope you do fun things for no reason, or maybe for the most important reason: because they are for you, because enjoying your aliveness is a beautiful and sacred act, because you deserve fun and care and love, and because the best person to give you those things is you.⠀ .⠀ Image description: Nicole wears a deep pink satin dress with huge puffed sleeves and a ruffled neckline, with her own neon pink Chill Pill Earrings. Her hair is down and she has bright pink lipstick and teal eyeliner. There is pink glitter paper in the background, and a mirror on the left reflects her image again.⠀ .⠀ 📷 @allyschmaling for @hourglassboston
Monochromatic outfits are the new kale 💙⠀ .⠀ Image description: Nicole wears bleach patterned distressed blue jeans by local designer @babyciladenim with a light blue button-down shirt, tied at the waist. She’s wearing long blue heart acrylic earrings of her own design, and her hair is in a high straight ponytail. She’s leaning on a stepladder in front of a white door.
Accepting your weaknesses and shortcomings can be hard...but it can also weirdly be super fun! ⠀ .⠀ For example: I find showering and taking care of my hair to be kind of weirdly exhausting...so now I have a hairstyle that looks best when it’s air-dried and a little dirty, and I love my hair A LOT for the first time. I’m also super absent-minded and have trouble remembering small things...so I decided to get Transitions lenses so I don’t have to remember sunglasses AND eyeglasses—and it turns out that Transitions are hella cute! I’m terrible at email, so I don’t use it a lot, and people have started to expect that from me, and I get less emails, which is amazing. I’m tired all the time, so now my life is quieter, and I can allow myself to sleep when I’m ready, and I’ve started to actually enjoy bedtime, instead of fearing it. ⠀ .⠀ I still wish I was better at sleeping and remembering things and doing perfect hairdos, but I’ve accepted that I’m not good at those things, and started to build a life around my actual self. It’s much more fun than building a life around my idealized self, and constantly coming up short in a universe of my own creation.⠀ .⠀ Image description: A selfie of Nicole on a Boston street, with brick buildings in the background. She’s dressed for winter, in a navy coat and a gray sweater; her hair is down and tousled, and she’s wearing glasses with dark purple lenses.
*David Attenborough voice*: “Scientists have discovered that Space Jellyfish are just as sparkly as their earthbound counterparts, but instead of stinging they emit a pleasant tinkling noise. These rare and delicate creatures are friendly, and will often gently attach themselves to the ears of space explorers, beginning a lifelong symbiotic relationship, an unbreakable bond as they travel through the galaxy together.”⠀ .⠀ Image description: A selfie shows the lower part of Nicole’s face. She wears a pair of her iridescent Space Jellyfish earrings with her hair down. She is wearing a coral/colored knit sweater and has a baby pink manicure.
I’ve been making earrings and eating Fritos all day and I genuinely feel amazing. Some days it’s pretty simple 😋⠀ .⠀ Image description: Nicole is wearing a purple down jacket with puffed sleeves, and sunglasses with purple lenses. Her hair is down and wavy, and she’s standing in front of a yellow brick wall looking into the camera over her glasses.⠀ .⠀ 📷 @nickgeeko + @an_erin
The Space Jellyfish earrings are floating, tinkling, iridescent dreams, soaked with light and color, joyful and weird and sparkling, just like you ✨⠀ .⠀ image description: A simple brass earring display covered in iridescent fringe earrings, made with love by Nicole from laser cut iridescent acrylic with lavender metal rings.⠀ .⠀ 📷 @carliecarlie for @hourglassboston
I used to think “what if I’m not what I’m supposed to be?” And that idea would fill me with fear. We’ve been told since birth that we are supposed to be certain things, and failing to embody those things seems catastrophic. ⠀ .⠀ According to society, and capitalism and family pressure and the patriarchy, there’s a lot of things I’m not supposed to be. I’m not supposed to be aggressive. I’m not supposed to be in love with myself. I’m not supposed to be loud and critical. I’m not supposed to be silly and joyful. I’m not supposed to prioritize my body or my relationships over work. I’m not supposed to lead.⠀ .⠀ I’m supposed to hate my body and fear for my status. I’m supposed to work long hours for some abstract growth imperative. I’m supposed to sacrifice my best years, my time, my body, my relationships and my values to the gods of work.⠀ .⠀ But at some point I realized that “supposed to” is a terrible foundation on which to build a life. Every time I did what I was supposed to, every time I subscribed to someone else’s vision for my identity, it hurt. What if not being what you’re “supposed to be” is a release? What if it’s a reason for joy instead of shame? ⠀ .⠀ Image description: Nicole stands in front of a red background and wears a sparkling dress by @an_erin, made of sword-shaped sequin fabric that drapes loosely and reflects gold, green, yellow and red. Her hair is down, and her hands are raised to her forehead, elbows out. ⠀ .⠀ Photo: @hannahroseosofsky, Styling + couture: @an_erin, Makeup: @_najeema, Assist: @_thepandashow⠀
EARRING ALERT 🚨 💗 I am furiously making heart earrings, and today is the last day for 10% off plus Valentine’s Day delivery for these neon pink heart babies!! Only two more pairs available! Link in bio or DM to purchase via Venmo! either way, code SELFLOVE for discount 💗💗💗 .⠀ Image description: A portrait of Nicole wearing fluorescent pink heart statement earrings of her own design, with teal eyeshadow, ted lipstick, and a black and white striped blouse.⠀ .⠀ 📷 @allyschmaling for @hourglassboston
Me and my pink ruffles are here to remind everyone that Boston is more than just a sports-fueled testosterone dumping ground 🏈🤮⠀ .⠀ Image description: Nicole wears a white and pink plaid ruffled wrap skirt by @an_erin, with a hot pink sweater and mint green peep toe ankle boots. Her hair is down and she’s standing in front of a peach pink wall with an industrial looking door grate in it.⠀ .⠀ 📷 @nickgeeko, 👗 @an_erin