CanTeen National Bandanna Day

As I blogged last week, Friday was CanTeen's National Bandanna Day which raises much needed funds for their incredible work with young people and siblings of children and teens suffering from cancer. Every year they sell close to 1 million bandanna's and this year I helped out by volunteering at the Styling Booth in Martin Place. Above you see Massiel who interns at CanTeen and also blogs at Pretty Perfect in Paris and me in Martin Place working our bandanna's for the cause.


Over 300 volunteers helped out in Sydney, above some high school volunteers with my styling assistant for the day Vanessa from The Monday Issue (who also took all the photos in this post for me, except this one of course)


Here I am styling a happy customer.








Benefit cosmetics were doing make-overs in the styling booth too.


There also was a hairdresser on hand to do more complicated looks.






Biggest Loser trainer Shannan with Jay from Masterchef.




CanTeen appearing on channel 7's Sunrise with Mel and Kochie with CanTeen celebrity chef spokesperson Manu most recently from the so bad its good show Dinner Date.


I do believe I was out of frame and not on breakfast television...this week.


The channel 7 news reporter getting her bandanna on.


Me with the charismatic Frenchman and celebrity chef Manu.


Outfit Details
Black top City Chic $30
Maxi Skirt Ginger Tree in Little Collins Street Melbourne $29
Sandals Melissa Aranha flock jelly sandals $65 from Monk House Design
Necklace Titanium Quartz from a Crystal shop on Murray Street in Perth's CBD for $140
Bangle Elke Kramer gift
Rings MOMA NYC and Corky Saint Clair
Bag Quick Brown Fox in Newtown on sale for $39
Lipstick Sportsgirl Pout About It in fuchsia $9.95
Bandanna CanTeen $4

CanTeen Style

Tomorrow, Friday 28th October, is National Bandanna Day, which raises much needed funds for CanTeen who support young people living with cancer. Most people have been affected by the terrible disease in some form, whether its a friend, relative or even yourself. I'm no exception, a close friend from primary school died from cancer at only thirteen years of age, a terrible loss especially as she was so young and full of life. CanTeen do really great work and every year I try to support them by buying a bandanna. This year I'm going one better and I will be at Martin Place in Sydney from 7am - 9am tomorrow morning helping to sell bandanna's and demonstrating the many ways that they can be styled in the special fashion booth. There will also be a red carpet photo shoot for people to get shots of themselves styled up in their favourite bandanna so please come along. Above you see me wearing the pink birds design as a turban, a cute chic way to style the bandanna.


Another idea, which is perfect for gents headed to the upcoming Melbourne Cup, is to fold the bandanna into a suit pocket square, and for this look I chose the checks design.


Another way to wear a CanTeen bandanna is to tie it onto your bag to add some colour and personalisation to it whilst also doing your bit for charity. For this look I used the Autumn Leaves design by bereaved offspring CanTeen member Natalie Jordan who was chosen as the winner of the 2011 Member Bandanna Design Competition and you can see why as its such a beautiful bandanna.

To see the full range of CanTeen National Bandanna Day merchandise click here. Hopefully I will see some of you tomorrow morning from 7am - 9am in Martin Place. xoxo

Maximum Impact

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A photo of me at my current blogging station where my latest post for Sunglass Hut's Inner Circle was devised.

My love of sheer maxi skirts is well known, check out my favourite go to dress to wear in my wardrobe right now over on the Inner Circle. Its just so versatile, I can dress it down for browsing local markets by simply wearing a shirt over the top, or dress it up for heading to fashion launches during the week by wearing it as is. Maxi skirts give your look maximum impact for minimal effort, there is no need to shave your legs or worry about tan lines the length hides all sins.

Click over to see what's inspiring me this week.

Spring Styling

Have had a busy few weeks of work since getting back from my Aussie fashion week adventures in Melbourne and Perth (and I still have some stuff to post from those trips, yikes!). Above is some recent styling advertorial work that appeared in last weeks issue of The Brag magazine for Westfield Sydney's urban level.
Team
Photographer Ken Leanfore
Stylist Me
Hair and Make-up Rosalie Musso
Models Zac and Natasha from EMG

Limedrop's Calypso Pop-Up

Limedrop, aka my favourite Australian designers and Melb-town buddies, launched their three week Sydney pop-up store last night. Held at the Grand Social's Edition concept store at 214 Crown Street, Darlinghurst with their full SS11/12 Calypso collection on offer and some limited edition pieces thrown in its a must visit for anyone in Sydney.


The calypso theme means the usually minimal Edition is now a tropical. floral paradise.


Limedrop's prints really stand out.


Fittingly (or maybe I should say randomly) Yvan Facehunter is in town as he has actually now been to all three of Limedrop's pop up store launches, which for someone who 99% of the time is not in Australia is quite the feat. Clea from Limedrop and I were joking that for the next one they should just fly him out as its tradition now. Nathan and Clea wear head to toe Limedrop as always, they actually got confused for the models in their lookbooks by Gracie Otto the other night.


Like I said Edition has become a tropical paradise.


Candice and Matt from Mother Father PR in the floral with Ash from Operator Please.


Limedrop boater hats, visors and limited edition signature print bow ties.


The lovely ladies from Capital L.


Mitch has recently moved up to Sydney from Melbourne which is awesome for me and sad for Melbourne peeps.




The bow ties are the perfect gift for that special man in your life. I've already had requests from Henry to get him one for his upcoming birthday.


Claire from MCM PR and Jackie from The Grand Social.


It was lovely to chat to fellow bloggers Jessica from Tuula Vintage and Nicole from Gary Pepper Vintage


Things got a bit floral at this point.


Everyone got in on it.


Lovely ladies. I'm actually testing out a new foundation in the above pic and am pretty in love with it, expect a blog post on it soon!


Outfit details
Cape Romance Was Born gift
Dress Limedrop sleevless tail shirt $247.00
Leggings Gisela Ramierz during her 50% off sale for $40
Bag DI$COUNT Tote bag gift
Necklace Titanium Quartz from a Crystal shop on Murray Street in Perth's CBD for $140
Bangle Elke Kramer gift
Rings MOMA NYC and Corky Saint Clair
Belt Random belt that came with a skirt
Sandals Melissa Aranha flock jelly sandals $65 from Monk House Design
Socks American Apparel $14
Lipstick Sportsgirl Pout About It in fuchsia $9.95

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Nathan and Clea from Limedrop are the nicest people in fashion, they work so hard yet stay so sane and deserve all the success that comes their way.

UPDATE
For those of you in Melbourne you don't miss out on some Limedrop goodness, this weekend Limedrop are having a
MELBOURNE SAMPLE SALE
Friday 14th October 11am- 6pm
Saturday 15th October 11am- 5pm
Sunday 15th October 11am- 3pm
Limited edition, samples, sale items and selected new season styles available this weekend at the Limedrop studios Level 1, 395 Gore Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065. All cards accepted. Enjoy xoxo.

Fash-spiration

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Image from Tokyo Fashion.com

Collecting fashion inspiration images is a favourite past time of mine, as I'm sure it is yours (or you wouldn't be reading my blog). Continuously hitting next page to devour more and more content is a scenario I'm sure we've all been through, so that's why the Sunglass Hut Inner Circle website is so exciting. Sunglass Hut's Inner Circle aims to be a central source of the best style blogs and up to the minute international trends, capturing every fashion moment and keeping readers ahead of the curve. Always on, always in the loop, Inner Circle is the essential style bookmark no fashion-savvy soul can be without.

I'm currently obsessed with:

• Digital prints and frosted coloured sunglasses.
• Two current obsessions are polkadots and sheer panels.
• Platfrom glitter boots.
• As always Tokyo street fashion is high on my rador. I am obsessed with sheer maxi skits over patterned tights.
• Palazzo pants rule my roost.
• Socks and wedges, a dream combo.
• Tokyo street fashion illustrations by my friend Brandon always inspire. 
• Flatform shoes, maxi skirts and dip dyed hair = hell yeah!
• A hodge podge of layers and patterns can look amazing.

Illustration by Lactose Intoler-Art

I love finding street snaps of my friends in Tokyo, head on over to the Inner Circle to check out Tavuchi, my Japanese bestie who also is the owner of the Spank stores and all the other images that are inspiring me this week!

WIN: All Day I Dream About S#%uper Nails

Recently I embarked on a journey of self discovery. That journey started with my first ever manicure in my life a little over a month ago which has led me to learn that I FREAKING LOVE manicures! I have now tested out Shellac, Gellac, Minx and Sphinx and I don't think I will ever be looking back or buying regular nail polish ever again. So when the people at Adidas Originals emailed me and asked me if I wanted to come in and get a free manicure as part of a promotion they are having in their concept stores this month I was all "hellz yes I do" when normally emails like that get trashed in my junk folder (I get eleventy billion press releases and offers every day and I choose to ignore 99% of them). More info on the in store promo can be found on their facebook page.


At my in store manicure I got to choose out of the four on offer limited edition designs; iconic three stripes, the Adidas trefoil, Jeremy Scott’s camouflage and a chic black lace design. I went with the Jeremy Scott camo nails foils as I'm all for some khaki action.


They came up a treat.

Now I have a treat for you my lovely readers (don't say I never think of you), you can WIN the amazing prize pack below of all four Adidas Originals nail foil kits.



The prize pack includes all four nail foil designs and each nail kit comes with all the essentials for at home application; nail scissors, a nail file and a buffer.

To Win just comment on this blog post and I'll use random.org to choose a winner. Competition closes Wednesday 19th October at 5pm AEST and is open to anyone in the world!

Good luck, xoxo

Competition now closed. The winner is comment number 58, Gertie, congratulations, please get in touch to claim your prize xoxo

Walking the dog

This is as casual as you'll ever see me. A simple blue maxi picked up at Glebe Markets worn with my trusty old denim vest and simple loafers for some dog walking and brunch in Darlington. I love how pretty the streets are in my local area, every day I see something unexpected on my walks with Hachi. Today we found this fern pathway by taking a new route home and we just had to stop to take some outfit photos.

Outfit Details
Dress a Glebe Market find $35
Vest City Chic denim vest from last summer
Sunnies Borrowed from my husband
Loafers Sportsgirl $35
Bag DI$COUNT Tote bag gift
Necklace Titanium Quartz from a Crystal shop on Murray Street in Perth's CBD for $140
Bangle Elke Kramer gift
Rings MOMA NYC and Corky Saint Clair.

A skirt to dye for

Its Buy Nothing New Month and in honour of the month I finally completed a craft project that's been on my to do list for a couple of months. I bought the above turquoise button down skirt at my favourite Sydney op shop, Summer Hill Anglicare, for a whopping $1.60. I was never too into the colour and as such I never wore it in its blue incarnation. Knowing I had some left over black fabric dye from an old project from years ago (remember this old post? I still wear that dress) I decided to give the skirt new life in my wardrobe by taking the plunge (the skirt literally into a hot dye bath) and changing the colour to a more wearable black. Below is the result. I just followed the instructions on my fabric dye pack (I used Dylon dye) which was very easy but still the process is a bit too messy to photograph so sorry about the lack of process shots.


The skirt went a bit more of a grey tone which I'm actually pretty happy about and I was expecting it anyway seeing as that's what happened last time I used fabric dye. I guess you have to be pretty flexible on the final result when using fabric dye as it is hard to know what exact colour you will end up with as it depends on the colour of the original item, the fabric and how long you soak the item for. I love that I gave an unwanted skirt new life instead of contributing to landfill and as a bonus I now have an awesome grey skirt to wear.

Outfit Details
Stripe t-shirt Antipodium for Sportsgirl tee that was a surprise gift from the people at Sportsgirl
Skirt Summer Hill Anglicare op shop $1.60 and dyed with dye I had on hand
Necklace Man The Label gift
Belt Random belt that came with a skirt
Sandals Melissa Aranha flock jelly sandals $65 from Monk House Design
Bag DI$COUNT Tote bag gift
Bangle Elke Kramer gift
Rings MOMA NYC and Corky Saint Clair.


My perfect summer sandal I picked up in Melbourne. So comfortable and as a bonus 100% vegan too as all Melissa shoes are.