Retro Storing

Picture this, you’re in your bedroom with 2 minutes left until you have to leave and you need those chandelier earrings because they’re the only ones that work with your cocktail number. You shake your jewellery box around and you can’t seem to find it in any compartment. Frustrated, you tip out everything onto your bed, find the matching pair, grab your shoes and stumble out. Sound familiar? That’s basically me everyday. If you scour through pininterest, weheartit and instagram, you’ll see that everyone seems to have their own creative way of storing their bits and bobs. I wouldn’t say my organisation methods are very ‘neat’ but I like the clutter because it looks visually interesting on my bureau although highly impractical. I use teacups to store my hairbows, a Pringles Chips cylinder to store my tools and a recycled glass custard cup to store my bobby pins. Some other fun ideas I found included spray painting a grater and using it as an earring hanger and putting magnets on the bottom of makeup palettes so it sticks to a fabric covered magnet board. Fun!! Do you have any special methods on storing your makeup and jewellery?

 

x Karen

Charmed & Dangerous

Arm candy, especially stacked like crazy seems to be what all the cool kids on the fashion block are sporting today. You can either go wild and put all your favourite bracelets in one go or you can be reserved and follow my basic rules. Firstly, choose your watch, this season, the thicker, the better. It can be one of those colourful neon chunkies or a classy gold man watch. If your watch is colourful, make sure the rest of your stack works with the scheme. If you go for gold, any colour goes, even silver, don’t be afraid to mix metallics! The whole arm candy piece is a statement in itself so keeping the rest of the outfit is ideal but here are some ideas I dare you to try anyways!

If you are wearing something zebra, cheeta or leopard printed: Leather strapped, gold clock face watch with woven leather bracelets, big tan beads and souvenir jewellery you brought back from Africa!

If you are wearing all black: Accessorise with all black bracelets then add a neon chainlink bracelet for impact that goes boom! Bonus points for glow in the dark or neon nail polish.

wearing: accesorize charm bracelet, baby g watch, diva bangles

xx Karen

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Do or Dye

Dip dyed ends are a fun way to wear your hair to parties and throughout the summer. It’s super easy and there are several methods, some longer lasting and others which you can wash out right after. My personal favourite is using soft pastel chalk which is an inexpensive alternative to colour bugs: 1. Spray the areas that you want to colour your hair with water 2. Start with your first desired colour and rub it against your hair, if you’re blonde, the colour will show up quite quickly but if you have darker hair, you might need to rub it in longer. Try twisting your hair because this will release more pigmentation. 3. Continue this process for your second and third colour. 4. Wait for your ends to air dry. 5. Flat iron your ends or curl them with heat, this will ‘melt’ the colour into your hair. 6. Instead of using pastels you can also use, really pigmented eyeshadows, food colouring or Kool-aid!

♡Karen