Lash Royalty

The Lash Royalty website launched in June 2010 and over the past few weeks I have been lucky enough to trial a range of their lashes. I therefore thought I would share with you some photos I took while creating an exclusive video for Lash Royalty on how to apply false lashes.

 These are the Duchess lashes - subtle, natural and very wearable.

The Chloe lashes add drama and interest.

These are the Luxe-2 lashes, full, dramatic and flirty.

If you want to see more lash styles or watch my exclusive video detailing how to apply false lashes you can visit the Lash Royalty website here.

I personally love the Chloe lashes, which are your favourite? xxx

Work It Out: Installment Quatorze

One of the best ways I have found to stretch your wardrobe is to use pieces that you wouldn't immediately associate with work wear, but combine them in an appropriate way. As I have two wardrobes (work and fun!) I often move certain items around and find new ways of encorporating them into my daily wear.

With the weather turning slightly chilly I have started wearing one of my favourite ensembles - a blouse/shirt and dress. In this case I took a satin long sleeved tunic (which I usually wear with a thin belt and leggings) and a plain black dress, which shows of the decolletage, but is long enough to still look sophisticated.

Dress (actually knee length, but my weird posing has made it ride up) and Tunic both from ZARA (I really never realised just how much I have purchased from ZARA over the years, I need to branch out)!

So yes, here we have it. Party-wear to work wear through layering, particularly useful if you are planning an evening out and can't face the fuss of changing (or are lazy like me).

I think it works, what do you think? Now if only I could figure out how to make those frilly, strapless Summer dresses office friendly... ;).

Retrospective.

This is another post I did before 2009 A/W came. I love velvet, therefore, I am so excited to see that "velvet" finally rushes into runway 2010 A/W.
There are at least 4 months combing fall and winter for me to showcase my revolving styles whenever my mood fits". ^^

Is Fall Here Yet? Trench Coat, Leather Bomber Jacket, Scarf, And Hat, Bring them  on!

Till this year, I still love the looks very much. ^^

My gal friends are flying back one by one before school start....presuppose you know most of my gals are fabulous moms.... We do our best to keep up our looks, our friendship, the kids' school performance and the most important, our friendship/partnership w/ our husbands!!   

Ah, right, I am so happy that we perhaps are going to chat about the damages we should do for 2010 A/W collection/trend!! lol 

So...... what are the things that my gals laid their fingers on??

#1 Karen walker sunglasses

ps. I am only modeling for my gals..... (NOT MINE) :P 

Karen Walker Number One sunglasses in green!
This style found at Shopbop.com

#2 A. Wang Diego bucket bag in mustard and black

chic chic chic~~

My ODJ.

Today I am tardy driving my daughter to her ballet class and the only thing my brain can coordinate w/  is ... the color!!

So there I had head to toe brown/taupe... ^^

That's an easy breeze outfit!!

1. Top:

• some tank w/ leather adjustable strap
• Rubbish cardigan

2. Bottom:
J. Brand cropped pants


3. Accessory:

• J Crew mustard green studs belt 
• Karen Walker Dandy tortoise sunglasses
• Chanel matte black reissue 226

4. Shoes:
Chole taupe w/ gold buckle tall boots 09' 

So, Barney's having their warehouse sale starting this Thur. at SF city.... GO or NOT GO!!??

How about you, girls??? Carpool? ^O^

xoxo Rachel 

Fun in the weekend sun.

This weekend was lovely, but rather hectic (as per usual). It seems that often I look forward to the quiet days, but there is just too much fun to be had in London. So today I am squeezing two outfits into one post, akin to my weekends...

This dress is from Kookai *gasp*, do you remember Kookai? I have seen the odd Kookai corset lurking around House of Fraser (and select stores in France), but long gone are the days when they could be found on every high street. It's a shame really, as they did have some lovely, structured dresses. I may be giving away my age, but this dress is about 5 years old, and I still love it. It has boning in the top portion, which keeps it in place, is shaped beautifully to fit every curve, and even has a little pleat in the back for comfort when walking (pencil skirt designers take note, I would like to walk with my knees more than 2 inches apart every now and again lol). I wore this dress with white heels and a casual shawl for the evening. I love versatile pieces that can easily take you from lunch with friends, to tea and a few glasses of bubbly to a Summer garden party.

I also wore this beautiful gold necklace that was sent to me by the lovely Zoe from Junk Jewels. I am usually a fan of bold, costume jewelry as I am tall (and not the smallest person in the world overall), so I feel I can carry it off better than really soft, delicate pieces. However, I had so many compliments on this necklace that it completely won me over.

I'm not sure of you can pick up the detail in the photo (well any detail other than my horrible freckles), but inside the little book are the words Je t'aime. I thought this was so lovely, right up until my bf saw it and enquired (euphemism for got huffy and demanded to know) who had given me such a romantic gift... hehe ;).

On to a more casual Sunday...

This is a cat print playsuit I fell in love with on ASOS. Although I feel a little bit like an overgrown toddler in it, the print is just too adorable (and strangely reminscent of Miu Miu, which makes me like it even more).

Hope you had a fun weekend my lovelies! I think I need another weekend to rest after my weekend ;). Does anyone else find that to be the case pretty much every week? xxx

Update

Ok, so it's become increasingly apparent that I don't have any spare at all this week to blog! I am heading down to Loch Lomond on Thursday morning and there's still alot to sort out.  So I won't be blogging between now and then because I don't want to add extra stress on myself.

So that basically means that I will be absent for about 3 weeks what with the wedding and then the honeymoon.  But I will definitely update you guys with everything wedding and honeymoon related when I get back.  These are the kinds of posts that are lined up:

• Wedding Day makeup look and what products were used
• Wedding Day hair
• Wedding photographs
• Honeymoon photos
• Honeymoon clothes
• Purchases made in Kuala Lumpur, Borneo and Hong Kong
• Products that served me well in extreme hot/humid conditions
• Recommendations on sun protection products for hair, face and body

I love blogging so I will really miss having that contact with you guys but I will have so much to talk about when I get back.

Until then, take care of yourselves and wish me luck!

xxx