Adding Jewellery to Your Personal Look
Adding jewellery is a great way to change up your look. Nowadays, clothing and fashion has changed. Many of us are going down the route of shopping fast fashion. This is when large scale companies create low cost clothes available in multiple different sizes in the exact same design. Adding jewellery can help you stand out from the crowd. However, hundreds of thousands of people shop from these low-cost stores. So they mass produce relatively low quality clothing and accessories that look good for a few wears. Then they start to break down or lose their sheen. This is understandable….
How To Nail The Link Between Your Fashion + Your Confidence
Your confidence can be strengthened or weakened depending on many factors including relationships, work life, weight gain or a family tragedy. So ‘fake it till you make it’ by upgrading your wardrobe in order to upgrade your confidence. Has the time come for you to upgrade your wardrobe in order to increase your confidence? It’s something that everyone can do, and you don’t even have to spend a lot of money to make it happen. Buying vintage clothes and making use of retailer sales will help you find clothes that look great on you and, most importantly, improve your confidence….
Cleaning Jewellery: Don’t Ditch It Cos It’s Dirty
Cleaning jewellery will revive gems you’d forgotten looked so good and save your hip pocket. So don’t ditch it cos it’s dirty; CLEAN IT. It’s easy. It doesn’t matter whether you invest a small fortune in precious metals, or just buy the cheapest bling you can find at your local market, one thing is certain for all kinds of jewellery: it will get dirty. So cleaning jewellery regularly should be on your ‘to do’ list. The big question is – will you ditch, or de-grime? If it’s the former, you are guilty of waste, as it can be so easy…
The Art of Dressing Well for Any Occasion
Dressing well is, for the most part, subjective. For some it’s a ball gown and tiara. Others are comfortable in dress jeans and hot shoes. However dressing well isn’t simply limited to WHAT we wear. It’s also WHERE we wear it. Most of us struggle from time to time to dress as well as possible for certain events and occasions. It can often be difficult knowing whether our outfit is appropriate, or what it is like in comparison to others’. But as long as you follow some basic rules, you should actually find that dressing well for any occasion is…
Ruby Olive Is The Colourful Creative Bold Distinctive Jewellery You Need Now
Ruby Olive is a cool brand that just puts a smile on your face. The colours will enliven you, the boldness will inspire you, and wearing it… well that’s the super fun part.
Smiles are infectious and Ruby Olive was born to put smiles on peoples faces. Founder, Skye Anderton, believes that smiling increases confidence and the feelings of positivity. And I’d have to agree with her. Go on… do it now… SMILE… now smile a little more. Doesn’t that feel good? So as a brand you might think Ruby Olive is colourful and bold jewellery… and so it is… but Ruby Olive is also very much about SMILES!
What Should You Do About A Bad Tattoo?
Today, a tattoo can be an acceptable and highly prized way to show your personality and enhance your style. Your clothes, your hair, and the accessories you wear all contribute to your personal style. Body art can look amazing, and often expresses something personal about you. But while tattoos can be fantastic, many things can go wrong with them. Maybe your artist didn’t apply your design correctly. Sometimes you might get scarring if you don’t look after your tattoo properly. In some cases, people just decide getting a tattoo was a bad idea after the fact. Luckily, if you’re unhappy…
A Guide To Wearing Rings Like A Pro
Wearing rings is getting trickier. Cool girls on Instagram and in ad campaigns wear perfectly styled rings. So have you ever wondered how you can create a look like that yourself? This guide will help you. Read on for lots of expert tips to help you wear your rings like a pro: Stack Rings On The Same Finger You can start by stacking rings on the same finger to create a cool look. This usually works with smaller rings. Statement rings can be very difficult to stack and pair with other rings. Experiment with some wearing rings that are thinner…
Come Ride With The Dark Horse Podcast
The Dark Horse is an on-line jewellery store created by Aleen Apanian to bring new and iconic designers together in one place. Little did Aleen know that this would be the hardest thin she’d ever done… multiplied by 20.
Bold New Bag Scarf Combos You’ll Love
Welcome in Spring with bold and colourful bag scarf combos from Melbourne-based designers, Squeak. I have always worn winter textiles as scarves in the winter, but these digitally printed and luxurious bag scarf combos are elegant and chic for warmer weather. To READ MORE please click the title.
Eight Unusual Santorus Scarves
I’m a scarf wearer, especially in the winter, but these gorgeous and unusual Santorus scarves have me thinking I might add other seasons to my scarf-wearing repertoire. In fact, the range of Santorus scarves is so unique I might have to just frame them all. They are not only colourful, although some are monochromatic, they are works of art. To READ MORE please click the title.
Samantha Wills : Grit and Glamour
I was delighted to interview the charismatic and talented Samantha Wills for The Style Podcast. From her base in New York City we talked jewellery, business, grit and glamour… and why she might be turning into her mother! To READ MORE please click the title.
Moods of Melbourne Inspire Winter Jewellery
As the weather cools, fashionistas will be thinking about winter jewellery and ways to wear new season colours. Taking inspiration from her home town of Melbourne, Louise Ambry hand-crafts special accessories perfect for cool climate fashion. I’ve been a fan of Xada Jewellery for several years because Louise seems to interpret the perfect combination of on-trend colours. To READ MORE please click the title.
Jagger’s Lips + Ziggy’s Bolt : ICONOSCOPY
When Lara Cross designed her ICONOSCOPY collection for The Design Residency’s latest pop-up shop, little did she know that some of the world’s biggest musical geniuses would be leaving us in 2016. ICONOSCOPY is Lara’s tribute to the music gifted to us from Elvis to Mick Jagger and David Bowie to Axel Rose. Lara says the timing of collection’s release was “crazily coincidental” with resin earrings in the shape of lips, lightening bolts, crosses and hearts, and textiles printed with sequins in a riot of colour. Aptly named ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ the ICONOSCOPY fashion and jewellery range is, says…
Daydream Believer : Sexiest New Sunglasses
Did you see the previous fabulous sunglasses collection Underwater Love from Sunday Somewhere? Well, now it’s Daydream Believer with a magnificent photo shoot in Sicily. Sunday Somewhere has the core values of travel far, experience wide, be curious and explore. Trips without a destination that go with the flow, experienced with a sense of adventure, embody the brand. The photo shoot for Daydream Believer was in Sicily with blue skies, white cliffs, clear water and sun-kissed bodies… you just want to BE there… in Australia’s favourite sunglasses, of course. If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a few pairs of…
Indus Design : An Innovative Powerhouse
The fabulous new Indus Design Autumn/Winter 2016 collection takes inspiration from Nordic Modernism and will be appearing at Reed Gift Fairs, Melbourne starting today. Located is Melbourne, Indus Design is a Melbourne-based company offering bold and innovative homewares and fashion in three sectors: Home Decor (throws and cushions); Baby (baby blankets, muslin wraps and hats), and Women’s Accessories (woven and printed scarves in silk, cotton, wool, Merino wool Ponchos and Hats). Establishing Indus Design in 2009, Founders Deborah and Jeffrey George brought to the business a comprehensive history of retailing in giftware, homewares, women’s fashion and interiors. Deborah parlayed her…
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