OOTD | Maybe There's A Bit Of Me, Waiting For A Bit Of You

OOTD | Maybe There's A Bit Of Me, Waiting For A Bit Of You

In my younger days, I was very bold when it came to "fashion". Although I can hardly count the silly outfits I wore during those days "fashion" anymore, I really do miss the confidence of my younger spirit. A good example, one that is rather embarrassing and in a way odd, is in middle school, I decided one day that I wanted to study and build a career in fashion. The problem was, I didn't always feel confident, and I knew at a young age that to survive in the fashion world you had to be confident, and so I decided to wear Tigger ears to school every day for a month. Because if I could pull that off without giving a shit about what people thought, I could do anything. It worked, after that I was unafraid to wear anything, however once high school rolled around that confidence seemed to disappear, and I slowly began to wear mostly neutrals.. But with fashion trends being so colorful lately, I decided, to hell with my shyness, I am working in the fashion industry, its time to bring back that confidence, and well, here's my go at bright bold pastel spring colors! Hope you enjoy.

So as a shorty, my jeans are always too long for me! & yes I could easily get them hemmed for a few dollars, or even do it myself on my sewing machine.. but I don't know I quite like the way rolled up jeans look. I know some people loathe the idea of it! What do you think about it?

Photo credits go out to my gorgeous best friend Jamie Sarah, she's a doll!

The camera doesn't do this cute top justice, but in case you can't tell, on it are little Poodles, made out of beading! It looks just like my malti-poo, Vinny, and so i had had had to splurge on this shirt! 

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Poodle Shirt - Miu Miu
Mint Jeans - BDG
Black Purse - Chanel
Heeled Booties - Some Boutique in Taiwan (sorry)
Pearl Bracelets - Dea Villa, Bali, Indonesia

Hope you guys enjoyed this look, in case you were wondering, these ARE the mint jeans from my previous haul post. I couldn't wait to wear them for you guys and so this is how I would style them! Let me know how YOU would style them in the comment section below. 

with love,

BALI | What's In My Travel Make Up Bag?

BALI | What's In My Travel Make Up Bag?

If you've been keeping up with fashion-impossible, you'll know that the past five days, I've been in Bali, and that's also my quick and in my point of view very good excuse for why I haven't blogged in five days. One of my favorite posts to read is "What's In My..." posts, so I thought you guys might enjoy to find out what I brought make up wise!

In bold are the products I actually got a chance to use.

❤ Urban Decay | Naked Basics Palette

❤ ELF Cosmetics | Blush in Pink Passion

❤ MAC Cosmetics | Lipstick in Hibiscus (Limited Edition)

❤ Chanel | Vitalumiere Aqua in 20 Beige

❤ Urban Decay | Eyeshadow in Buck

❤ Loreal | Eyeliner in Brown

❤ Urban Decay | Eyeshadow in Naked

❤ MAC Cosmetics | Painterly Paint Pot

❤ Kiss Me | Eyeliner in Black

❤ Maybelline | Fit Me Powder in 210 Sandy Beige 

❤ the Balm | Mary-Lou Manizer Highlighter 

❤ NARS Cosmetics | Blush in Super Orgasm

❤ Benefit Cosmetics | Stay Don't Stray Eye Primer

❤ Eyeko | Big Eyes Mascara

❤ Shu Uemura | Eyelash Curlers

❤ ELF Cosmetics | Blush & Contour Palette

❤ Biore | Sun Block SPF 20

While I was in Bali, I was water sporting, swimming, surfing, and just constantly in the water! When I wasn't in the water, it was so hot had I wore a whole face of make up it would have just melted right off! So even though there's a lot of products in bold up above, I really only put on make up once while I was in Bali! 

It was my last night in Bali, and we were planning to end it on a good note, and so we did. I got back from surfing and to the villa at 7:20pm & our dinner reservation at Mozaic (a French restaurant with a dress code) was at 7:45pm which in the girls world means your pretty much totally utterly f#cked. However, I must say with pride I pulled it off pretty well. I took a shower as fast as I can, getting as much of the salt water out of my hair as possible, then sat infront of the mirror doing my make up while my gracious mother, who was a key factor in my success helped me blow dry my hair. 

MISSION-IMPOSSIBLE? FASHION-IMPOSSIBLE?
Yeah right, I got this. :P

xo,

Shannon Marie

:-*

ps. God I wish I were still in Bali...

Spring Fashion Trend-Motifs

Spring Fashion Trends

Starting around September, granted this is while I was still in LA basking in the warm weather of SoCal, I was starting to be tired of the heat, and dying for winter to come so I could pull out all my fluffy scarves, big wooly coats, and shuffle around it my furry boots. (boots with duh furrr) But now that winter has been around for a while, I'm starting to resent the cold, and hating having to bundle up.  As cute as it is, my peacoat is tres heavy, its definitely time to start dreaming about sandals and bright spring colors. Its still too cold here in Taiwan to wear, but hey a girl can dream right?

Let's Talk Trends

For the Spring 2013 season, we're seing a lot of different types of looks, style wise. Its rather hard to say exactly what style is trending, so I don't want to exactly call it a "trend", but its more along the lines of a trending motif, in which each designer interpreted their own way and us, as fashionistas (; gets to choose our own preference, so I'm going to call it trend-motif. 

The first trend-motif I'm seeing a lot of from my research, aka me reading style magazines and blogs, is the whole black & white look, otherwise known as the contrast look. However, like I said, each designer seems to take black & white contrast into their own hands, therefore maintaining the designers own artistic style. My personal favorites for the Black & White Contrast trend-motif is from Chanel and Ralph Lauren, as shown below. 

Chanel Spring 2013 & Ralph Lauren 2013

Photographs do not belong to me, I only "own" the collaging of these photographs. 

The second trend-motif that's popular for the spring is the whole sheer veil-like look. We're seeing a lot of organza, chiffon, and silks, creating this translucent effect, in which I find can be a little intimidating, this is a trend you're probably not going to want to wear if you're going to grub! :P However, despite the down side, its very gorgeous and sexy in its own classy way. My favorites of this trend-motif come from Missoni, but I do love the Roberto Cavalli, Rag & Bone, as well as the grungy style of MaxMara as well, see some of my favorites bellow!

MaxMara Spring 2013, Rag & Bone Spring 2013, Roberto Cavalli Spring 2013, & Missoni Spring 2013.

Photographs do not belong to me, I only "own" the collaging of these photographs. 

The next trend-motif is mixed media, or as most style pages like to call it, the Collage Look. I am usually not a particular huge fan of this style, because I'm not a big print/pattern wearer, I find that some prints can be rather unflattering on, however recently I have been testing the waters a bit, and I am starting to like prints more and more. My favorites for this trend-motif is from Bottega Veneta and of course when it comes prints and patterns, Proenza Schouler is going to be in my favorites! I also really enjoyed the Julien David RTW line, check them out below. 

Bottega Veneta Spring 2013, Julien David Spring 2013,  & Proenza Schouler Spring 2013.

Photographs do not belong to me, I only "own" the collaging of these photographs.

This next trend-motif makes me smile! It can be so classy, yet it has that flounce of fun! They call this one the "Flouncy" trend, basically big bouncy ruffles! My favorite from this section is Balenciaga, half because its a line that was still under Nicolas Ghesquiere's reign, and the rest because he's a genius and took the peplum style to a-whole-nother level of sexy. However, though totally different styled, I also very much enjoyed the House of Gucci's take on this trend-motif with its bright beautiful shiny colors and high collar look, its absolutely stunning and fun! I also really loved Givenchy's take too, so I had to include a small picture of it! See below.

Balenciaga Spring 2013, Givenchy Spring 2013, & Gucci Spring 2013.

Photographs do not belong to me, I only "own" the collaging of these photographs. 

The next trend-motif is very business women looking, its not my favorite, I feel like every season there's this style no matter what, bold blazers, very feminist styled, suit-pants, blah blah blah. My least favorite part about it is just the idea that I look pretty silly in anything alongs the lines of blazers. However, I guess I can still appreciate the look right? However while I've been "appreciating" I must say I did fall in love with some! :D I'm not going to lie though, most of it was from Saint Laurent, and definitely the fact that its a little fun and a little witch-like was my luring!

Saint Laurent Spring 2013 & Mulberry Spring 2013.

Photographs do not belong to me, I only "own" the collaging of these photographs.

Thanks for reading guys!

Hope you've found this interesting and fun!

I had a good time picking out my favorites and talking about all this!

xo,

Shannon Marie

:-*