If Shopbop were my closet...

I'd probably be filthy rich.
And I'd be having a hard time trying to choose which pair of sunnies to wear out of this lot:

Starting at 12 o'clock and moving clockwise:


Elizabeth & James taylor sunglasses
Karen Walker soul club sunglasses
DITA Vesoul sunglasses
Elizabeth & James fairfax sunglasses
Elizabeth & James wooster sunglasses
Super Sunglasses matte people sunglasses
Oliver Peoples Eyewear graziella sunglasses
DITA savoy sunglasses
Marc Jacobs flat top ombre sunglasses
Sass & Bide mendoza sunglasses
Super Sunglasses lucia sunglasses
Alexander McQueen textured sunglasses

Being trapped inside the hospital for a delivery shift with no babies to deliver is conducive to browsing online shops when you've run out of steam to continue studying.  Be prepared for more collages if my two remaining shifts turn out like before!

xx T

One dress, Two ways

This is a new kind of post for us, hope you like it!  The full outfits are after the jump :)

Sometimes Dressing

Sometimes I feel like sashaying around in bejewelled velvet & silk with sky high stilettos, trendy as can be.  But usually, I just want to dress like these pictures below.

Elizabeth & James lookbook, images via Iletaitunfois

Red, white, black & denim.  Does it get more classic than that?

xx S

White Hot

This is the kind of outfit I wear when I get way too overexcited about Winter as soon as May begins, resulting in a sweltering-at-midday situation.  It's an annual process I've come to terms with, much like the annual oh-I-won't-get-sunburnt-it's-way-too-cloudy episode.  Anyway...

Jumper - Benetton (op shopped)
Pants - Asos (similar)
Shoes - Bardot (op shopped)
Bag - vintage Ferragamo
Sunnies - Love Couture


The amount of green accumulated by both of us lately is insane.  It's all the same shade of green as well, so I think a green-detox is in order. (And I don't mean the green juice kind)


xx S

Family Break

Here, as a short break from our usual fashion-y posts, are some photos (stolen from my brother) of our recent family holiday down south, a lot of it featuring two cute little boys.  Our holidays usually revolve around food, drink & walks along the beach (so romantic), and this one was no exception.

Dressed like Farmer Joe for a bushwalk, with some very inappropriate footwear (below).



Happy weekend everybody :)

xx S

New Times

Apart from showing you multiple pictures of my face, this post does have some other purposes. (scroll down to read)

#1  This new lace top from Dotti that doesn't look too "Dotti"-ish.
 (Nothing wrong with Dotti, it's just that I'm not a teenager anymore & feel the need to move on...)

#2  I have new hair! As well as a chop, the hairdresser lightened it a bit to suit my blonde moments ;)

#3  T put her heart-shaped-bokeh-filter (tutorial here) to use again in these pictures.

 

Lace blouse- Dotti
Jeans- Cheap Monday
Shoes- CR

I should probably stop wearing these jeans in every outfit post...

xx S

Bec

Flora Noir

Hair & Makeup by Riti
Photography by T

This has been a long time coming - was originally part of a photo shoot we did for fun last year, but we never finished it and I never released the photos that we had (until now of course).

More to come in time.

xx T

Monochrome Florals

Zara blazer
Uniqlo t-shirt
Sass & Bide jeans

As it turns out, S and I have a lot of green clothing for this month's COTM.
I teamed my favourite S&B jeans (here) with a lightweight blazer (a recent acquisition thanks to dad's trip to Malaysia) for a fuss-free outfit.

xx T

What Should Never Be Seen?

A little collection of proof of why blue & green actually should be seen... even together, & with nothing in between :)

Picture from Streetpeeper, Zanita, Stockholmstreetstyle, LazyMazei

Pretty obsessed with out May colour of the month, as you can probably tell.

xx S

It's Pamper Time.

1. Clarins Pore Minimising Serum  2. Clarisonic Mia - I hear this one's definitely a winner  3. Clarins Pure & Radiant Mask   4. Neutrogena Oil Free Acne Wash Grapefruit Cleanser - my all time cheapie favourite.  5. Essie Apricot Cuticle Oil - my cuticles hate me; perhaps some TLC will change them  6. Dermalogica Multivitamin Hand & Nail Treatment  7. Skinceuticals Advanced Body Firming Lotion - can't get jiggly this Winter.  8. La Prairie Skin Caviar - I wish...  9. Napoleon Perdis Barely Blushing Barely Rouge - for when less is more.  10. Lanolips Rose Balm Intense - for very dry hands & lips  11. Lanolips Lip Ointment in "Apples"  12. ghd Opulence Mask - a once-a-week luxury for blow-dried hair  13. Moroccanoil Treatment - cult classic  14. ghd Thermal Protector   15. ghd Remedy Cream Daily Leave-In Treatment - for when your hair has been through too much.

Go forth, and be luxurious.
xx T

Cosy Kelly

Simple cosy outfits are my favourite kind & this jumper, being humungous & elbow-patched in nature, is conducive to easy jeans & boots.  Perfect for a mother's-day-lunch-feast (last week), don't you think?

(Also perfectly colour of the month, very conveniently)

Looking purposely grumpy to show off the elbow patches


Jeans- Cheap Monday
Jumper- Trenery
Boots- Country Road
Earrings- Forever New
Hair- very messy

Thanks little sis for risking your life in the middle of the street for these photos :)  And thank you abundance of silver cars for ruining the background.  Thou art so kind.

Happy Saturday!

xx S

DIY Filters for Shaped Bokeh

When I bought my prime lens two years ago, it was really because it was going for cheap online.  I didn't really know what to do with it, and the lack of zoom annoyed me to no end!  However, I discovered the magic of bokeh (along with the other perks of the prime) and now that lens is permanently stuck on my camera body.

For this DIY Friday (which hasn't been run very consistently - sorry about that!), rather than a fashion-related project, here's a quick and easy camera-based project for you to try.

SHAPED BOKEH 

(yup, done to death on those trusty camera forums)

How to get those pretty shapes without having to fake it on your iPhone.

What you'll need:

Pencil, scissors, tape, ruler, and black paper (preferably heavier paper)

Trace your filter (or use a protractor to make a circle ~1mm smaller in diameter). 

Find the centre of the circle, and trace a smaller circle in which your shape will be cut out of.  To find the size of this smaller circle (which corresponds to the maximum aperture size of the lens you're using):

1. Take the focal length of the lens which you want to use - in my case, this was 50mm

2. Divide the focal length by the smallest aperture value of your lens - f/1.8 for me

In my case, the maximum aperture of my 50mm f/1.8 lens would be ~28mm.  

Therefore my shape would have to be smaller than this.

Read more here if you're confused.

Cut out your shape, and then cut out the big circle, being sure to leave a small tab.  This will make it easier to remove the piece of paper from your filter.

Fit the circle into your filter - it might take a few tweaks to make sure it fits snugly.

Reinforce with some tape if you wish, then go shoot something!

The result:
(after about an hour of trying to get my dog to sit still enough for a photo)

Little stars and hearts!

Too easy, right?

xx T

P.S. If you look through Monday's post with a keen eye, you'll notice that many of the photos have shaped bokeh ;)