My Style Inspiration: Summer 2016

I'm constantly gathering inspiration for my own personal style. One of my favourite past times is endlessly scrolling through pinterest for inspiration and saving them into neat little folders. Since I was younger I've loved poring over fashion magazines, cutting out my favourite pictures and putting them into scrapbooks. Now I'm older and absolutely love looking at a wide range of influences such as music, art, photography and bloggers. Here's what I've been obsessed with for summer...

Petra Collins's photography just sums up summer and being a teenager. You can see the sun setting in so many of her pictures and it just looks so dreamy. A lot of the pictures are taken at night which is so atmospheric and pretty. You feel like you are really there with the girls in her photographs. She is a great inspiration for my OOTD pictures.

Festivals are full of fun fashion, coachella is like another fashion week with all the amazing outfits. People seem to take more fashion risks- giant headbands, glittery face paints, colourful clothes. I really want to go to a festival because I have so many outfits planned!

I am really interested in Japanese fashion subcultures- gyaru, lolita, harajuku. They dress like actual princesses! *squeals* I love all the bows, frills, lace and satin. Some of it is way too out there for me but I can take inspiration and make it more my everyday style. 

Thank you for reading, what inspires you?

Melissa xx

New styles to try in 2016

As we go in to a new year and have a fresh start, I always want to change my style up a bit. So I put together some of my favourite unique styles and trends to get ideas from!

Mermaid/ fairy style

A really easy way to create a staple item for the summer would be to get a crop top, cut out a stencil in the shape of a seashell, and paint over it on to the top using fabric paint. Sequin skirts finish the outfit and look just like you have your own mermaid tail! I also love tutu type skirts for a fairy style.

Black and white / Gothic style

I usually wear a lot of colour, but I do like to wear black from time to time and embracing the gothic style. The essentials for this look are a black crop top, a pair of black jeans. I've been wearing a lot of black lipstick lately. Even though it is so different from my usual style, I fancied a change.

Kawaii Japanese style

Japanese fashion is so adorable. Most of the colours are pink, lilac and blue pastels with images of cartoon and cartoon characters and cute dainty shoes to match.

Seventies style

The seventies style is still going to be popular in 2016, I love silk 70's shirts from secondhand shops, hippie headbands and flowing, over sized dresses. You could try the 70's headband DIY I did back in the summer to get started!

Wearing every colour of the rainbow

If you usually wear neutral colours and black, why not experiment with more colours of the rainbow? Bright pastel colours are going to be a big trend for summer 2016 and I'll definitely be getting on the trend early! Something I'd really like to try this year is having multi coloured hair!

Hope you enjoyed and have an amazing 2016, can't wait to share my year with all of you!

Melissa xxx

Get the look: Melanie Martinez

Not only does Melanie Martinez make amazing music (I'm obsessed with her song carousel.) She also has an adorable girly style that inspires me so much.

Her style is pastel and feminine and takes inspiration from her childhood, wearing children's accesories such as big bows and heart shaped purses. The main colours are pale pink, baby blue, lilac and mint green. Her fashion sense is reflected in her music, which has many childlike themes with songs like 'dollhouse' 'sippy cup.' She looks like she takes a lot of inspiration from japanese street style and vintage style.

What to wear to recreate Melanie's style:

♡ 50's style prom dresses in pastel colours
♡ large bows
♡ any kawaii, lolita and japanese items
♡ flower crowns
♡ studded collars
♡ tennis skirts
♡ lacy and fluffy socks
♡ dunagrees dresses
♡ checked and tartan skirts

Products to recreate Melanie's beauty style:

♡ pink, black and purple hair dye
♡ if you don't like commitment, hair chalk
♡ purple eyeliner
♡ black lipstick
♡ purple and blue eyebrow pencils
♡ A LOT of glitter
♡ glitter eyeshadow
♡ daring colours of lipstick such as blue

Hope you enjoyed, who's fashion sense are you loving right now? I would love to know as I always like to get inspiration! Are you getting excited for chistmas? Finally just put my tree up!

Stay cute,

Melissa xxx

What I'll be wearing in spring/summer

I've found that inspiration posts are the most fun posts to write, it's so fun to get inspired! Since it's march and it's getting a little bit warmer, I've been thinking about what to wear in the summer.

1) The 'pastel candy Barbie'

                        

Pastels are the big trend for this summer, and they'll be big in summer 2016 as well. I love how playful pastel clothes are, they remind me of summers from my childhood. For a look that it sweet as pie, I'll be accessorising my outfits with scrunchies, lace socks, lilac lipstick and popcorn purses. I'll also be buying plain t-shirts and tie dying them in beautiful pastel colours.

2) The 'glitzy hippie mermaid' what does that even mean Melissa?!

The new styles appearing in Ark have a very cool hippie and bohemian vibe. I'm combining this DIY faux fur and sequins, making gorgeous things for super cheap. I've also been going on about the holographic trend since last summer, and I'm still utterly obsessed. Put on a good old flower crown and I'll be very, very happy this summer.

The colours I'll be wearing are mainly pastels; light lilac, light green, light blue and light yellow. Knowing myself though, I'll probably end up just wearing pink.

I'm getting a lot of my inspiration lately from instagram. Joanna Kuchta's kitten inspired style is so sweet. For hairspiration, I've been looking to amythemermaid on instagram. (I can't believe her hair is completely rainbow coloured!' As usual I've been looking to the 90's a lot for inspiration. I love 1999 Britney Spears' style, 90's Barbie and Cher Hororitz. As for bloggers, I'm obsessed with lultrixablle's and Kayla Hadlington's looks.

What will you be wearing this spring/ summer? Let me know!

Melissa xxx

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Fashion Inspiration: Sugary and Sickly Sweet

The sort of style that is giving me inspiration at the moment is very sugary and sickly sweet. Enough pink, glitter and pvc to make most people vomit.

Like many people, I was absolutely mesmerised by Moschino's Spring/Summer 2015 barbie collection, It was so unique, like nothing that had ever been seen before on the catwalk. Pink is such an underrated colour in fashion! 

Another amazing collection is the Manish Arora Spring/Summer 2015 collection. Piled on florals, pastel blue, metallic shoes and yet again, an excessive amount of pink may be too much for some people to handle, but it inspires me to be more creative with my clothes.

A great brand that nails the 'sugary sweet' style well is Shop Jeen. Holographic crop tops, Metallics, Luminous pink and plastic. It's almost tacky but in a pretty, quirky way. As for accessories, I love adorable little pink bows (they're very easy to make yourself.) Heart shaped bags, pink lipstick and glitter eyeliner.

What inspires you this winter? Let me know! 

Melissa xxx

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Taking Fashion Inspiration From Songs

It's not just flicking through fashion magazines and blogs that gives me outfit inspiration. Listening to songs also gives me ideas of what to wear. I like to imagine what the people in the lyrics of the song would be wearing at the time. So I thought I'd share some of my favorite songs and the inspiration I get from them.

Stay Out // Nina Nesbitt

 This is a really beautiful song, one of my favorite lyrics is "stay out tonight, and see through my eyes" and "All these boys and girls are people looking for someone to be." The song is about going out in the evening and all the different things you would see there. I think it During the events of the lyrics of this song, I think the sort of clothes that would be worn are crop tops, high waisted shorts and skorts and red lipstick. The characters in the song would wear a lot of black as it goes with the night sky and the atmosphere of the song. There will also be a lot of sequins as the characters may be attending a party. As most of the outfit would be quite dressed up, they would wear a causal denim jacket over the top.

King City // Swim Deep

I have a lot of memories with this song, It particularly reminds me of an event that happened last summer. It is a very atmospheric song with beautiful lyrics, one of my favorites is: "Cause I'm in love so old,  put your flowers down, it's so cold." The lyrics of the song are about falling in love and the feelings that come along with it. The lyric "With the sun on my back it's a nice day" suggests the events of the song take place in summer, and reminds me of sunsets. The clothes that the characters would wear is a lot of tie dye prints, faded colours, pastels, floaty fabrics and flowers. They would wear a lot of denim shorts in the daytime and dresses in the evening with flower crowns.

Smells Like Teen Spirit // Nirvana

There are many different interpretations of the lyrics of this song, but personally I think the characters in this song could be popular high school students with a 90's style. The quirky clothing brand Glitters For Dinner is perfect for this, with their preppy, cheerleader style skirts and plaid clueless outfits is what I think the characters would wear. They would also make the girly outfits more casual by wearing denim jackets, complete with patches of different bands. To complete the look, they would wear really cute tattoo chokers in different colours. 

 These are some little illustrations showing the different types of fashion for each song. I am really pleased with the denim pocket and lipstick drawings for 'Stay Out' I think I'm improving a lot with drawing. See you soon, there will be lots of personal style posts coming soon! Melissa xxx

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Summerspiration: Mimi Elashiry & Holographic Clothes

I am constantly looking on instagram for fashion inspiration, and there so many stylish girls out there. One of my favorites is Mimi Elashiry, she's an Australian girl with such a refreshing and inspiring style. Her outfits are inspired by nature and have such hippie vibes to them. There are so many tropical and exotic prints in her look, with a lot of jewellery. She also wears a lot of crop tops and skirts, which I LOVE.

I also put together this collage of things from the high street that are similar to what Mimi wears so you can get her look! I love the head chains from Miss Selfridge!

I know holographic clothes have been around for a long time now, but I'm still obsessed with them! There's something about the really shiny, silvery, colourful material that gets me so excited. I hope this is a trend to stay and I really hope to see more of it on the high street, the closest I am going to get to holographic clothes at the moment is looking at pictures on tumblr!

I also made this cute collage that mixes all of my favorite items of clothing that I want for summer. I think this outfit goes together really well, the grey crop top is quite plain and simple, the bright pink blazer gives it some colour and the choker, socks and heels add interesting details to make it look more unique. Melissa xxx

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