Summer Trend - Bright Polish!

Don't let anyone tell you that summer is coming to an end - half the fun is still left!

Bright polish is a classic summer trend - it pops up every single summer. It so happens, that I love bright and fun nail polish, so I have a few to choose from. Above are some of my favourites, all by OPI. It's been a while since I took the picture, but let's hope I still got the names right!

L-R: Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?, Holy Pink Pagoda!, Big Hair... Big Nails, Too Hot Pink To Hold'em, Do You Think I'm Tex-y? and Houston We Have A Purple.

And of course, have fun with your polish! You can do accent manis, ombre manis... the options are endless!

Love,

Miss Diorista

Summer Trend - Bold Brows!

You have probably already noticed this trend, which has been popular since spring, when leading fashion designers incorporated big, bold eyebrows into their models' looks on the runways.

Personally, I've always liked my brows bold, but this season, I make them extra bold (maybe not quite as bold as in the picture, but still bold!).

What can you do to stay on trend here? Below are the steps I'm following this summer, but experiment to find out what you like and suits you!

1. Tweeze less (and avoid making your brows look thin).
2. With a brow powder, I make my brows slightly thicker.
3. With a brow powder, I make my brows slightly darker.
4. Stay natural and true to your brows, just go one further with your brows, not fifty :) Overdoing your brows is not the same as going bold!

My favourite product for my brows is Make Up Store's Tri Brow Color, which is an amazingly versatile product with three shades of brow powder. You can mix and match to find your perfect shade, and go lighter or darker according to your needs and wishes.

If you would like to read my post on how I do my brows when I really want to make them look good, click here. However, when I'm in a hurry, just brushing the powder into my brows in the usual way works fine as well.

Do you like this trend? How do you like your brows?

Love,
Miss Diorista

P.S. The beautiful picture is from http://krisandmakeup.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/page/4/. It is not mine in any way.

Summer Trend - Bright Heels!

Oh my! Have you ever seen such a pretty shoe like the one above? I might quite possibly be in love.

Bright heels can add a pop of colour to any outfit, and I love them for summer. Those particular ones I bought in January for a stage performance (you know how the story goes, I looked at my shoe collection and felt like I didn't have anything at all :) and then kind of forgot about them until the past few weeks... maybe because they aren't really great for the snow we had during winter.

But it's not snowing now! The shoes are made out of a bright coral/orange fabric, but what really adds the perfect summer zing to them in my opinion is the bow on the heel! Love!

I wore them to a concert last Saturday at the new music and conference hall in Reykjavík, Harpa, and I definitely caught a few ladies checking them out :)

So, how about you? Are you more of a flats person or do you wear heals frequently? Any recent purchases or lemmings? Share!

Love,

Miss Diorista

Summer Trend - Big, Bold Rings!

I'm starting a "short and sweet" series of summer trends! Those trends will be ones which I've spotted around me, on other blogs, in magazines, on TV or somewhere else, but they will all be ones I love! I'm really excited about this!

This first trend is big, bold rings (as you could probably tell from the title ;). There are endless possibilities here. You could go big and bright (I'm thinking yellow... or orange!), big and glam (a few sparkles won't hurt, promise!), or... you could go big, bold and dark! I fell completely head over heals when I spotted this ring two or three weeks ago, and have been wearing it almost every day since!

As you can see, it is pretty big and a solid black. It is made out of a bunch of metal roses. How pretty is that? I bought it in NEXT, when looking for a birthday present for a friend (I always end up getting something for myself when shopping for others! In my defense, I did buy her something really cute as well :)

And as if this ring isn't chic enough on its own, it goes amazingly well with fun, quirky polishes! Above I'm wearing Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Mint Sprint, but I also love it with yellow polish, such as OPI's Need Sunglasses? (both are soon to be reviewed).

So, have you been wearing any big, bold rings lately? I'd love to see them, leave me a link if you've seen a cute one!

Love,

Miss Diorista

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