Saturday, 24 May 2014

FunkyLaser - Necklace Giveaway!



How exciting, my first giveaway!!
So basically Funky Laser are a cute jewellery/design company who laser cut various items. They offer three main services, custom design, custom fabrication and custom woodcutting. All their shipping is free and they specialise in acrylic name necklaces and cake toppers.
All their stuff is so so cute and I (queen of the world) am giving you a chance for your own custom name necklace in this funky pattern.



They do custom and large orders, you can contact them personally at info@funkylaser.com and they will give you a quote. They have commissioned work for big companies such as Soap & Glory and Oasis. Look how sassy this is!!



So anyway, they are relatively new so need all the publicity they can get, even if you don't wish to enter the competition support them by liking them on facebook or something. And comment on this blog post with your opinions of their stock



Please complete the Rafflecopter below  to enter this
giveaway (UK entry only).

Come back daily for more entries.
Good luck :)

Ends: 20th June 2014 11:59pm

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They have the cutest things ever, here's a few I liked:

I love this, I feel like is it a family, is it an extremely modern relationship senario? We will never know.
These next two are prefect for summer, very 'cutesy' and whatnot, the rings remind me so much of those elastic band animals that everyone was obsessed with a while ago... and I can't lie, I still own loads so I am especially loving these.



These are just a few examples of what sort of name necklaces/cake tops etc you can order. I like how simple they are and that you can pick your own font, size, colour etc. Makes them much more personal... personalised accessories, if you know what I mean. 







Good luck!

xx

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

How To - Winged Eyeliner Cheat

So this is just a bit of a quickie tutorial post...
Thought I'd share my ja'mazing cheat on how to get matching winged eyeliner. I also am a victim of the un-matching flicks, where the first one you do will seriously bang and then you just can't match the other and it turns into one big mess of Amy Winehouse eyes. 
So to avoid that tragedy, I have made up this extremely easy way to sort it, or at least I think I've made it up but whatever.
In advance, I did not sort my face for this, so excuse eyebrows and dark circles. It's exam period and I am allowed to look gross.


WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

  • Eyeliner - any type, kohl, gel, pen liner etc
  • post it notes or sellotape, or if you have micro-tape that will work perfectly
  • your face
So, these are the two eyeliners I own; the first, obviously clinque, is a gel liner in dark brown and an angle brow brush for application, you can also use a bent liner brush but I find this quicker. Oh and top tip, it helps if you dampen the brush beforehand so you can get a clean line (something I may or may not have learnt from the film Burlesque) The second liner is a Topshop black felt tip style liner, and I find these are the easiest type to use.



Next you will need an individual post-it note, tear away around the blue line, the smaller it is, the easier it is to fit where you want the flick against your eye.



Then, place the post-it  note in line with your lower lash line, but underneath all your eyelashes and at the slant you want the flick. This is so when you open your eye the post-it doesn't pull half of your eyelashes out, and speaking from experience here, it is an uncomfortable process.




Basically, you just trace your upper lash line following out along the paper as far as you want to go. I'm
gunna say leave it for a few seconds, probably for about 10 just to let the liner dry. These pictures were before I decided to rip the post-it smaller and as you can see it was causing mass aggravation.



There we go, I saw the error of my ways and made the post-it small and cute, much easier.


Don't worry too much if that turns out a little messy, that bit doesn't show up. And if it does wrap a pencil end in a make up wipe or whatever and neaten it up.
Final step, after a few seconds, peel off the post-it (slowly) and Voila! 
Perfect flicks everytime!





You are so welcome xo

Sunday, 18 May 2014

A Very Different Sort of Photography

Backtracking on the fashion posts, I decided to do a cheeky photography post. And as my final exhibitions are currently being put together, it means I am getting a chance to go back through all my work over the past year, which is actually really jokes because I keep discovering old shoots I've forgotten about. This particular shoot I am blogging about is controversial, but extremely appropriate given recent headlines....

Even if you didn't watch Eurovision this year, which I'm guessing you didn't as most normal people don't, you must have seen who won. The only person I know who actively watches it every year is Noah Levy, classic. So just in case you have no idea who I'm talking about, here he(she) is...

Thomas Neuwirth better known as his drag 'persona' Conchita Wurst
Austrian Singer and Winner of Eurovision 2014
I feel like he looks like a bearded Kardasian?
























Anyway, the reason I'm sharing all this Eurovision trash is because the shoot I did was based on an artist called Leeland Bobbe, who actively supports drag acts. He is a relatively new photographer, with quite contemporary work, but the work I became most familiar with was called 'Half Drag.' Which was a series of shots, where a variety of men are photographed half in make up and half clean faced.
So here are a few of his collection:









Miss Fame © Leland Bobbé

The transformation is wild!!
Anyway, got a little sidetracked going back through his work, so you get the general idea. My shoot plan was to combine Bobbe's work with the classsic shots of David Bailey, Vogue's personal own. But in particular, his shots of Jean Shrimpton. Seeing as I'm giving examples for all of this, here's a few of Shrimpton, looking ravishing as ever.





So I thought to myself... who's a guy, who's pretty, and who is extremely comfortable with himself? Obviously it had to be Oli Savage, and what a beauty he turned out to be.
So, I have babbled on long enough, here are a few of my final shots, enjoy!








Well there you go, now you are all as aware of Oli's beauty as I am...
Huuuuuge shoutout to Oli for being a fabulous and very cooperative model, you make a great Jean Shrimpton.





Ta ra!
xxx