First day of holidays: T's outfit

Can you tell that I'm so happy that the uni year is over, and that we can blog every day now??

It was also the debut of my DIY glitter-back shoes!

Looking like a real midget in this last photo.  Oh well, not far from the truth.

Country Road button-down

Ray-Ban Clubmasters

Zara jeans

Longines watch 

Marc by Marc Jacob handbag

DIY sparkly boots

Thanks for all the DIY-loving - and a special shout-out to our DIY-idol Geneva of A Pair & A Spare.  We've got more projects that we'll reveal to you over the next few weeks, so be sure to pop by again :D
  

xx T

Colour of the Month: Peppermint

With Springy weather well on the way, it is a good time to start bringing out the gelato-type colours like mint green and wearing them with more serious ones (brown, nude, beige) to avoid looking like a packet of lollies.

       

Or of course you could go all out on the pastels!

pics via lateafternoon, whatiwore, asos, bonniefriday, thistimetomorrow

I am keen to pinch T's minty green nail polish colour and try out a spotty pattern.  It would be a nice change to my fluoro craze happening at the moment!

By the way - are you following us on twitter & Instagram (lefanciulle & stephvdm) for more odd pictures here and there? 

xx S

First Day of Holidays: S's outfit

If clothes reflect your mood, then I must have been feeling very happy on the first day of holidays.  (My brother said he needed sunnies to look at me!) This post is also a belated tribute to our October colour of the month.

Cheap Monday jeans
Sunglasses & bag- Salamanca markets (surprisingly spacious bag from this post)
Thrifted pink silk shirt
Asos belt
Mama's shoes
Kit lipstick in Fire Lighter

I am smitten with this lipstick.  It's bright and garish, but who cares!?  It's holidays and my lips can be whatever shade of pinky-orange they like.  (Not that studying and lipstick are mutually exclusive at all)

xx S

DIY Glitter Heel Boots

I was so pleased with my Oasis 'Fran' ankle boots until...

The stooooooopid fake stacked heel started to wear off!!  

(They also used to have that nubuk leather look, but due to a slight mishap with some weather-protector, they now look like normal polished leather.  Oh well, at least they'll be ready for the China snow.)

So this got me thinking - how do I make the heels look good again?  You can see in the picture of the heels above that I already tried colouring the white bits in with a sharpie, but to no avail.

It was time to whip out the glitter and get my DIY-magic on (again).

I googled around a bit for some inspiration, which led me to some glitter heel boots from New Look (£34) and also from Maje (pictured below.  A not-so-cool £305...)

Exams finished on Thursday, and I swear I went a little manic due to my sleep deprivation (2hrs sleep the night before thanks to major exam-cram-time...  If you follow us on twitter you'd know about this haha).  So... I decided it would be a good idea to try to crank out this DIY at 1am.

Of course I still had some sense left, and abandoned it halfway through to be finished in the morning.  (7am to be exact...)  Seriously there is something wrong with me now.  But at least I can still entertain you with a new DIY tutorial!

DIY GLITTER-HEEL BOOTS


Things to assemble:
Glue, glitter, some sort of abrasive material, masking tape, and a pair of boots to maul.

Step 1:
Tape around the heel of the boot, so that you can get it clean and glitter it without ruining the leather.

Step 2 (the fun bit): 
Make the surface of the heel rough so the glue sticks (basic science, my dear readers!).
I used a steak-knife.  Like a maniac.  At 1am in the kitchen by myself.

Step 3:
 Mix your glitter into the glue.
I used very fine glitter for this project (compared to the larger glitter I used  for the other boots here), since I wanted a more subtle effect.  My original plan was to have black glitter, but I didn't have enough...  So they became silver instead!

Make sure you save some glitter to sprinkle over the heel later!

Step 4:
 Apply a coat of glitter-glue.
Dry, then repeat with another layer and sprinkle some loose glitter over to finish!

Step 5:
Remove the tape and do spot touch-ups where required.
This part is the kicker if you want a really polished, non-I-made-this-myself look.
Then spray over the heel with spray-adhesive (or some good old hair-spray).

Et voila!  
You've got yourself a re-vamped pair of kicks.  

Don't forget to send us your take on this DIY!  We'd love to see how you interpret it!

xx T

Holidays: finally, our day on the town!

If you hadn't realised it already, WE'RE FREEEEEE from exams and university for this year!!!

On Friday, we hit up the town to browse the shops and get all our errands done.

Consider this Diva necklace DIY-ed.  Next week... possibly...

Visiting Kit Cosmetics to check out their wares.  Our new colour of the month - mint green! S bought a pale yellow colour.

As suggested by the ladies at Mecca Cosmetica, we went to Zubias Threading to tame our post-exam unruly eyebrows.

A clandestine shot of a lady's perforated shift-dress.  So cool!

Some super-cute platform wedges from Rubi shoes! (S: Oh my gosh I want them! But they make me gigantor...)

Outfit posts to come next week!

As you can see, we've hit the ground running with our holidays!
Hit us up tomorrow for a NEW DIY!!!

xx S & T
    

Sparkly Boot DIY Recap

With the Sparkly Boot DIY having inspired a few spin-offs around the DIY-world (& our sparkly boot post hitting nearly 10,000 views - we are blown away!!), we think it is safe to say they warrant a recap.  Keep scrolling down; we have tried to collect images of all the amazing sparkly boots that other talented bloggers have created!

(In case you're wondering, we definitely don't claim to have inspired every sparkly boot that ever was born, don't worry!  We're humble little bumble bees.)

It was Style Crusader photo (below) that created the spark that lit T's DIY flame.

And then T's sparkly boots were born:

Some more amazing boots:

These from Glitter & Goat Cheese - so perfect with the more subtle fine-glitter finish!

These made by A

These beauties made by A Sequin Dress at Breakfast 

These from See Jane  

And some more by Makena Cahill on Twitter!

If you have DIY-ed some sparkly boots (inspired by T or not!), send us a link & we'll add it here!!

I mean, the more glitter we see, the happier we are... right!?

As per usual, there is a LOT more where that came from.  Literally!  T has another glittery DIY to show you very soon :)

xx S&T

Holiday excitement!

We have nothing to say except YAY IT'S HOLIDAYS!

We have so much in store for you young readers.  You want DIYs, food & crazy adventures?  You've come to the right place!!  Check back tomorrow for one of the above.  Hint: may or may not involve glitter...

xx S&T

PS: if you also want holiday-induced insanity, you have probably also come to the right place.

Mermaid

We're currently in sleep-deprived crazy-cram-time-mode for today's two exams...  BUT for those of you lucky enough to be free, here's some eye candy!!

Favourite piece from Poppy Lissiman's SS11/12 Pantonia Collection

xx T

The Truth of the Purse

This is not a regular What's in my Bag? post.  In fact, it may even be an anti-What's in my Bag? post.  
I doubt there's a high flying blogger out there who hasn't done a variation on this theme, but I am sceptical...is that REALLY what is in their bag? Surely they're not that trendy/organised...

So you want the the truth, the whole (embarrassing) truth and nothing but the truth, so help us God?

This is what was really in my bag a couple of days ago:

Contents of bag: 
1x pen - the only evidence of study week's existence
5x lipglosses/lipsticks (Kit, Clinique, Maybelline, Lucas' Paw Paw)
Apple earphones
iPhone (hot pink = COTM)
Smartrider & ATM card
$1 (oh my gosh come and rob me)
2 hair lackies


As you can see, lip-care is paramount in study week.
xx S


PS: A new month calls for a new COTM in this town, but seeing as we're in exam hibernation you'll have to wait until Nov 4 for that excitement.  Hold onto your seats children.  But for now, the hot pink header gets a few more days of glory.