Well, the weather is completely absent of Hope and Grace, but luckily for you the blog is filled with both. We have some utterly beautiful creations from Hope and Grace that we are sharing with you this doom-y and gloomy afternoon-y.
Hope and Grace are a sparkly and brand new company who like every smart entrepreneur saw a gap that wasn’t being fulfilled, and the gap that they have filled is a suitably gorgeous one. The accessories gently whisper bridal in your shell like as opposed to hitting you over the head like a tomahawk. There are lush oversized head pieces alongside delicate Swarovski Crystal headpieces – which is bang on the button nose for what will be one of this year’s biggest trends: Gatsby Glamour.
The stunning shutter candy is courtesy of David Jenkins Photography. So get inspired by this lovely bridal headwear with a gorgeous difference.
The photographic glory goes to: David Jenkins Photography
It’s best of guest number two, and not in the toilet reference sense either…
It’s about Jubilation so this little collection is Jubilee inspired, we are kind of monarchy haters we think we would quite like an accident of genetic birth that allows us to jet set to foreign lands be benignly politically incorrect to our ‘subjects’ and get to live in the best council house in the planet. But, we figured that we could pick an outfit that would allow you to be a queen in your own right – so we didn’t have to look much further than Queen of Fashion – Vivienne Westwood. Now, we know you are giving us the side eye saying why are we wearing Vivienne Westwood –do you know how much it is!!!
Well the thing about a Westwood, it is an investment piece to be proud of, so you can guarantee that you can wear over and over again also *cough* brides *cough* if you were really in the mood to super pimp your bridesmaids *ahem* this would be it… *beyond beyond awaits high fives from grateful bridesmaids for that fashion serving suggestion*
These are the gowns that will slay like they were Buffy (See what we did there, you don’t care for our wit do you? Oh Well!)
Controversially, we kind of like smoking… but since emphysema and blackened lungs aren’t really on trend… smoky eyes will have to do you instead. We love this image of Xiao Weng for Style Singapore that we spied via one of our fave make up sites eyeshadow lipstick see the full spread.
Video tutorial right here lovers, so that you can be all smoky and such like
Gradients and incredible textures are what Westwood does best and we really like this tutorial from Cutepolish it is hunger games inspired (but that has made us wonder if the royals would do a hunger games inspired Jubilee event, they did it’s a royal knockout… but Charles trying to take out Andrew with a crossbow could be the TV event to rival the Olympics we tell you!)
Curly hair tutorials… tumbling and tousled, we think that foxy maidens deserve wild locks… so in this triple we have afro warriors, mixed race hair and European hair covered as ever…
Gotta love a piece of art called ‘Tristan’s soul flower sermon’ by Tom Lewis, from Culture Label.
Pin ItWell, you know a promise is a promise around these parts. And although we have been breaking so many promises of late that we might as well be poli-trick-ans. We are solidly determined to bring you a double dose of Best of the Guest– we didn’t want to let you down as we have been oh so naughty-naughty on the content front; but it was a case of strange games and funky things- there was a massive need to get some behind the scenes things sorted (as we’ve mentioned). And one of the little babies that fell by the wayside in the effort to get things popping and locking around these parts is this post!
So here’s to doubling up! Hello spurious R Kelly.
So, you bump this song and please work hard to stifle a laugh when we say that that is an aqua theme (Mr Kelly has an unfortunate association with water that is hard to shake – but we won’t take it there *falls on floor and laughs a bit, tries not to wet self in case Mr Kelly shows up… yeah we said it*)
Anyway, back to the fashion part of shenanigans. We like to hope that eh only reason why you are blue is because you are dressed in Aqua, and not because you are watching you homeslice/sister friend/ or frenemy high tailing up the aisle. Oh and you thought Aqua like the colour but we mean the crazy, directional and monumentally badass fashion range Aqua by Aqua.
We adore Aqua for all their gravity defying and edgy shapes. Now some of the dress lengths could make a WAG blush (We are showing our age aren’t we worrying about dress lengths). However, whilst sexy is in full effect Aqua do a nice line in demure. However, even the demure has some hidden kick or little unexpected fillip.
So, if we had to pick the perfect outfit that made you look all kinds of Modern wedding awesome – the lovers, this would be the one.
Kimono Maxi Dress by Aqua, Cuff Scott Wilson for Aqua, Jude Metallic Flats by Faith
It is about Mac attack and we are totes in love with the new range designed by the too cool and quite frankly amaze Beth Ditto! We love us some her, and we go a lot of lugs and hugs for her new range for Mac, the range will hit like a sonic boom in June, lovelies.
We do like a bit of gold Foil in our lives and futurists need some futurist nails so we’re backing golden talons for the win. Now, you can be the perfect foil! We love it!!!
Modern wares require modern hair and we are all about dip dye at the moment. We love the mad hair dreams and crazy colour schemes cooked up by Bleach London, who are linked with the rather awesome Wah Nails.
Now, whilst we would say kids don’t try this ish at home – we believe in qualified hair technicians helping you with dip dyeing and such like. Here’s how to have Ombre hair, hombres!
You gotta love us, we get you to spend oodles on outfit and then we let you welch on the present price, (we’re tempted to say that you should take the Kanye approach and tell them that your ‘presence is a present, kiss my ass’ but we thought this is subversive with a nice modern twist.
We even have the perfect pun to put in the gift card ‘Pull the udder one’. We have a gift crush on this Udder Milk Jug, it is perfection and a weird kind of cute that works for us. However, you can wait for the next best of the guest if you want spend some more pennies on the happy couple.
Our design crush of crushes, the person who stokes are foot fetishist fire – the one who sings to our souls and our soles today has gotta be Nicholas Kirkwood. He is all kinds of disgusting amazing. We would walk over hot coals with unprotected bunions for these! Yes, we know that bunions are the wrong kind of visceral on a slightly empty/ or full stomach (you been to lunch yet?)
But, yeah… all kinds of gorgeousness for the feet *foot candy sigh*
Nicholas Kirkwood how we love… these delightful shoes are located in an online digital playground monikered Farfetch
