work update...

Sorry for the lack of posting... Have been seriously trying to get stuck into my final project, which is a fashion magazine (Hurray!) Thought I'd give you all just a taster of some of the visuals I've made for it. Each style is for a different article that thankfully a few helpful bloggers wrote for me. Thanks Sarah, Catherine and Sinead for that! And also thanks to Margaret from 4ngsquared2 for being my beautiful model.

Hopefully it'll all work out and I'll have a killer little magazine on my hands!

beautiful...

Haven't been feeling the prettiest the past few days (anyone else get like that?) Sometimes I just feel too big for my skin... But when I saw Adele in American Vogue I felt right again, felt normal, felt beautiful. A girl, like me in so many ways, is flaunting her fabulous self in couture and making it her own. Hope she knows how she makes other girls her size feel... So beautiful.

a whimsical wilderness...

Started back to college today and am currently getting stuck into my work... Sigh. No fear though, while I am getting on top of being back to college you can have a good auld read of this guest post by Sinead Kelly of the terribly cute Little Miss Pinki.

I sat in my room and pondered, perched on my bed I trawled through magazines, wondering what exactly I would write for this post. It had to be appropriate for Rose Tinted Uncertainy, I wanted to portray what Rhona portrays in each of her posts – glamour, vintage, classic hem lines and a love for all that is retro, I hoped it would reflect her style and taste in fashion.

Low and behold, I found it!

For those of you who don’t know me, know now that I have quite a weakness for high end ad campaigns. With the new batch coming to life on the pages of the September Issues, the excitement is thrilling.

Let me present to you the Mulberry campaign for Autumn/Winter 2011. A dazzling yet whimsical array of glamour and vintage-inspired look, classic cuts from the 1920s made contemporary for the noughties woman. Lots of layering, winter scarfs and a multitude of textures it’s perfect for the season ahead. The models scream demure screen sirens, yet they are distinctly more laid back. Naturalness oozes from each shot with autumnal shades, warm hues, luxe hair and barely there make-up and of course, the BAGS! (Deary me, they are a tale for another day!) The background with all of its oversized creatures in a cosy sitting room is genius, the use of colour is beyond complimentary in each shot.

It is truly breathtaking. I love!

Enjoy

-Sinéad 

Picking at daisies...

These are just a few screen shots from a photo shoot Asos did with Daisy Lowe. It has this whole chilled out seventies vibe (and as you know that is my trend of choice this year so I likey... a lottie!

I want that green dress! It shall be mine! I think more exclamation points are needed! (!!!!!!!!) Thats enough... The colour is just stunning, the shape is divine, just gimme... please? Also that patterned blouse is so cute... If you wanna buy one seventies style piece just get that, and a big hat (you always need the hat).

Also on a nerdy design point, I love the type in the first picture. It is clean, white, pretty...

Loverly.

The cold makes my chiffon quiver...

This is a beautiful editorial from Elle Turkey, the December edition. The photographer is Senol Altun and the very clever stylist is Melis Agazat. The two stunning models are Ana Zalewska and Karolin Machova.

Enjoy!

Save the Last Dance...

Found this on Fashion Gone Rogue. The model, Lyoka Tyagnereva (look at those cheek bones), the magazine Marie Claire (Spain). All done by David Roemer.

I love the chic razzle dazzle seventies disco vibe... My favorite is the last picture on the right. I want the whole outfit. And the hair (but that's a given).

Enjoy this!

I have...

Hi curtain, I love you...

Being cooped up in your bedroom all day doing work can be dull (well half the day). To remedy this I decided to a photo shoot. An odd one. I don't know what I was thinking when I was doing these poses but hey they're different (which is always good... isn't it?)

Again I was striving for that "I'm too cool to care" look (why am I so obsessed with this look?!?!) Thought I could achieve it with a knitted body con dress, mens converse and opaque tights. Tis a comfy outfit, always a plus and I felt cool (especially listening to Glee!) which is the main thing.

I think I like this look because it is the extreme of the other look I love which is the "done to perfection" look. You know the one, hair and make up are done and well kept, everything is fitted and you feel so proper and special. Just think Mad Men.

Dress/ Belt: Dunnes Stores

Tights: Penneys

Converse: Office (I think) 

Photo shoot...

So here are most of the photos from my photo shoot at the amazing Shutterbug studio with the brilliant brother sister duo of Blanaid (blanaid.com) and Eoin Hennessy. I am delighted with the photos! They came out so well with very little help from me... These two seriously know what they are doing... If you need a photo shoot done give them a shout.

Isn't that tulle skirt just fantastic! Its by the Irish independent fashion label Bonzie. I loved it! It is so beautiful and I felt so extravagant in it... *sigh longingly* Most of the rest of the clothes were my own. I brought up a load of clothes to Blanaid and she went to town with them. Created two great outfits!

Outfit One

Gold Top/ Heels: Blanaid's own

Skirt: Bonzie

Gloves: Vintage, Ebay

Second Outfit

Beret: Haddens, Carlow

Vest/ Leather gloves: Penneys

Feather Collar: Gold

Leather Skirt: Vintage, Wild Child

Heels: Dune, my sisters (sssh!)

If you want to see the rest of that shoot and more of Shutterbug's work then why no click here.

Hope I get to do another one some day...

Me? A model!?

The wonderful Blanaid Hennessy of Blanaid was inspired by an image of Crystal Renn and has hell bent on creating a sexy, vintage style, curvy photo shoot... And I was the lucky girl who was asked to do it. You could say I was excited but that would be an understatement! So in her new (and so cool) photography studio, Shutterbug, I was pampered and plucked and backcombed and put in the most amazing skirt by Blanaid (cannot stress how nice she was and how welcomed she made me feel).

So after she dolled me up like Brigitte Bardot and made me all sexy (at this point I was telling her I can't do sexy) her brother Eoin started shooting me, I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be. It was so fun trying to act sexy with Blanaid moving me to get the perfect shot and giving me directions and letting me know about every trick in the book about modeling. Parts were so hard: I don't think I was meant to bend like that! But they were very nice to me and understood that it hurt...

The two looks I was put in was a sexy 1960's style hollywood starlet and then a sexy russian spy! I was told think Brigitte Bardot for my first look and Angelina Jolie for the second. Now, in my head I can only do one sexy look so I have no idea how I looked and if I did a good job at all (though Blanaid told me I was great- to which I told her she was a great liar).

Dying to see the images! And would totally do it again, even though I am no model!