Weekly Wish List: Sail Away

CottonOn Gilligan Flat

First off, Happy new year! In a way I'm a little sad to say goodbye to what has been a year full of some great memories but of course with the good there was the bad so I am excited for what will be an even better 2012.  So now for my first post of 2012... (!) This week's item of want is a pair of boat shoes. They are perfect for summer and a little different from a pair of flats or the good old slip on sneaker. I found a style of them that I really like from CottonOn. I love that it's made from suede and I especially love the fringing. Even though you don't see it is much fringing is still in fashion. I never really got into the fringing trend but why not start now with these shoes. The one problem I do have is choosing which colour.  As you know I am loving burnt orange right now but I also love the summery light blue. Then there is the plain grey which would be good so as to be able to continue wearing them into winter. The thing about this style of shoe though is some can look grandma like, so you have to be careful when choosing. If I can decide which colour I want I may just treat myself to a new years gift...

Which colour do you like best, if any? Do you even like the style of shoe?

A visit from Santa

Cat Hammill

Cotton On

Even though I have been very naughty and haven't posted in a long long time, I was lucky enough to still get a visit from Santa. It may be late but I hope you all had a very happy Christmas and were spoilt rotten. I have decided to share with you some of the presents I got. It's not all of them but I thought it would do for now. So the first is a ghd (the black mat under the bracelets is from my ghd kit!). I am uber excited to try out different styles with it but mostly just excited to be an owner of a ghd. Second is the bracelets from Cat Hammill. I don't really wear much jewelry but I fell in love with these as soon as I ripped the wrapping paper off them. You can buy a few and stack them up hippy style or stick with one or two. At the moment I have three with the colour theme of burnt orange ( which I am also loving and is very in fashion right now). They are made in lots of other brighter colours which I am hoping to add to my collection. Finally the third, swimmers. I already have a huge collection of swimmers but I am always more than happy to add to it. I originally wanted aztec printed swimmers (it has become my favourite prints) but instead got these, which I also love. They remind me of the House of Holland dress, bright and almost Mexican. I love the zig-zag stripe print and colours used. Even though these are only a few things I got (Clothing wise I also got a dress and a beach dress) I was spoilt and I had great Christmas was family. I hope it was the same for you...

Weekly Wish List: Beach Bag

Country Road Techno Tote

Even though they are one of the most common bags around most people wouldn't be brave enough to let them face the environment of the beach or pool. Mainly because of how much they've spent on it. I admit I am one of those people.  So when I saw this new creation I was very excited. It just screams summer and I love the bright blue straps. I know it's not very original to have a bag made from see through plastic but it's still cool. Though there are two things putting me off. First, the cost. If I can only possibly use it for three months a year then it's probably not worth the $60. The second, the see through bit. Yes that's the part that makes it cool but it also makes me worried... do I really want anyone and everyone to see what I'm carrying around? There is also no where to keep your valuables. So unless your really sneaky with your hiding, have a water proof phone (if so where is it from, I want one!) or just don't need to bring anything at all. The see through part causes a minor problem. Despite all that it still is my item of want for the week...

Shemale



Confused? I know I was when I first saw pictures of him. Yes it is in fact a him. His name is Andrej Pejic. He grew up in Melbourne. So he's an Aussie! He's becoming very popular in the modeling industry for both men and womens modeling. Still shocked... well something even more shocking is it's natural. Andrej hasn't had surgery to become a women. He was just born like that. Now he's using it to his advantage and modeling as both women and men. I'm still not sure about it. At first I was really creeped out about it. How are we sapose to know if he's being a man or a women... too confusing. But now I don't mind it so much. It's still a bit creepy but if I looked like that why not get extra money by being both a man and a women...

What do you think? Is it too weird? Should he stick to one gender?

On Top

MinkPink Burning Man Tank

Cotton On Flynn Sleeveless Shirt

My summer wardrobe is terrible. I have some trouble with it and I can never seem to get it right. Like in one of my previous posts, Not So Shorts I can't find the right shorts. Now I dealing with my issue of summer tops. Like the shorts, these too I struggle with. So I have found two tanks that could possible change that. The first being from of course my favourite, Mink Pink. I love the simple loose style of it and the pattern. I am loving aztec at the moment so it fits in perfectly. It's also different from the many stripped things I own. The second tank however is stripped (I couldn't resist). This ones from Cotton On. Cotton On has done much for me lately in terms of clothes. They use to be cheap and have some really good pieces but they have seemed to have changed that. So I was really surprised when I found this tank which was reasonable. I love everything about it. The colours are pretty much my favourite and of course the stripes. I also really like how the front does up. It gives it a more casual feel seeing as it is made almost shirt like. Now the only issue is am I going to get them? Well see this is where I think my summer wardrobe problem actually lies... It's Christmas time so most of money goes to presents and things not leaving me much for clothes...So may be my issue isn't that I can't find anything for summer rather I just can't buy it because of the time of year. New years sales, I'm waiting for you!

Newspaper Nails



Yes I am holding the new Frankie!

 With the new nail art trend becoming more and more popular, I decided to give them a go. The pictures are quite dodgy (sorry!) but they are newspaper nails. I basically painted my nails the colour I wanted and then transferred newspaper print onto them. How, you ask... Well the trick was to use something with alcohol in it. The instructions I was using suggested vodka but I stuck with using the little alcohol wipes you use when you get a cut. They seemed to work quite well. This was my first time doing it so they weren't too amazing but I still think they look pretty cool. I'll keep practising! Though the queen of nail art, Alexa Chung has the most amazing type of nail art.

I would love to be able to do these ones myself because they are absolutely gorgeous. But somehow I don't think that's even close to being possible. I love the green colour and how it gradually gets stronger. I also love how it'd made up of little crystal type things. May be I'll be able to get it done in a proper nail salon...

Mullet Dresses

So I've done two things wrong recently... First I am skipping Weekly Wish List because I don't have anything I want ( even with Christmas coming up!) and second I haven't made a post in a long while. Sorry for both of those! Seeing as my formal was on Friday night, I decided to write about a popular style of formal dress. A dress I like to call, the mullet dress.

Long at the back, short at the front. I am a little unsure about them though. If worn by the right person they can look really good but on others it can look terrible, just like a mullet. I think it's because it's not a really flattering cut. It doesn't do much in terms of making your legs look longer or making you look taller. So if you are going to wear a mullet dress you would have to have long legs or be tall. I do like the fact though that they are a different to a normal straight hemmed dress. I like how there are lots of different layers in the dress above compared to the one mullet layer dresses. I also think they material used would has to be plain. If it's printed it would take away from the hem and be a bit overpowering. I also think the top half has to be simple and like most of the mullet dresses I have seen, strapless. Even though I've given them a bad name I don't think the mullet dress is that bad. I'm just not one hundred percent convinced yet...

Are you convinced? Will the mullet dress stay for long?