Inspiration= Ellie Goulding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katherine xx 

 

Tanya Burr London Meetup

 Hey Everyone,

Me and my friend Yasmin went to Tanya Burr's London Meetup yesterday, Wednesday 29th May 2013.
For those who don't know who Tanya Burr is... well she is a makeup artist and she does tutorials on her you tube channel.

I would definitely recommend watching her you tube channel because she knows every single MAC eye shadow and that's saying something! She does amazing makeup tutorials and does collabs with other YouTuber such as Zoella, Casper Lee, Millie Mackintosh (from Made in Chelsea), her lovely partner Jim Chapman who also has his own channel and many more :)
Blog: http://www.tanyaburr.co.uk/
You tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/pixi2woo

However we didn't get to meet her and only a few lucky people did! and this was because they're was such a HUGE turn out of fans waiting to meet her. You can see this from the pictures below or search on twitter #TanyaBurrLondonMeetup
It was a great day though! Didn't rain as much as it was forecasted and we both got some new makeup and ate loads of sweets :) We arrived at 2pm so 2 hours early for the meetup which was outside the apple store in Covent Garden, London so we just spent ages on Photobooth on the Apple Macs.

This is who everyone was dying to meet!

 They look like the 3 musketeers with professional cameras.

 

I hope you enjoyed this blog post and comment below if you watch Tanya Burr too.

Katherine xx

Thrift Shopping #TBT

Heyyy Everyone,

I was inspired by this song: Thrift Shop by Macklemore Ft. Wanz 

It's a Throw Back Thursday because I went on a quest a few months ago to actually go thrift shopping which is the equivalent of charity shops in the England, but it doesn't sound as cool. So instead I decided to go vintage shopping and near my aunt's house is Brick Lane, this is like a treasure chest crammed with cute little vintage shops. 

 This is the first one I went to "The east End Thrift Store" I was walking around for literally ages, in circles, trying to find this place! Basically, its down a little road (see above) and the door has the big shop sign on (also see above to see what it looks like.) The atmosphere in there was so cool like you have walked into some sort of secret garden. The shop was full of rails and racks of clothes all which were vintage and sorted by type of clothing. I was instantly attracted to the over sized bleached denim jacket with slightly "Aztec" detail on the front zip pockets and it was only £15! Bargain, however I didn't get it because i absolutely drowned in the jacket, it was huge.
I recommend this store if you are in East London and love searching for unique items, love vintage fashion or exploring the secret places within the city of London.

My Insta is : Katherine_tran

http://instagram.com/katherine_tran

Okai so everyone love MAC, but this MAC was different at first I didn't even recognize it. All of the stores on Commercial street has some kind of uniform to them, on the exterior they looks identical with the same minty green wooden look if i remember right and obviously the signs are different. Also what shocked me was, for once MAC wasn't packed like in Westfield, so the shop assistants were there to help whenever. 

I was so excited for the Lomography store and it was just amazing. The variety of different types of Lomogrpahy cameras was obscene, I was inspired by my discovery of Lomography in my previous post. I brought a mint green Diana F lomogrpahy camera!!! I'm well haps :) Also this is on commercial street like MAC the shop assistant was very helpful and advised me as I am a beginner.

Absolute Vintage was one of the shop which I came across on the internet, however I wasn't planning to go there. Although I saw it as I was making my way from the Lomogrpahy Store (Commercial Street) to Rokit (Brick Lane), so I popped in. i didn't really like the vibe that much as it was in a large warehouse with no lighting therefore on dark days, you wouln't really be able to actually browse thoroughly  The people who owned the shops seemed... a bit grumpy tbh and they were really stressy about no pictures but yolo. I quite liked this bag as it was a little tan brown leather vintage bag with a strap and intricate vintage detailing, i think it was about £20. 

Rokit is a small chain of vintage shops in the London Area, i really like the cool & funky atmosphere in there. It had loads of variety of clothing and accessories. They also sell upcycled things such as the jeans turned into slouchy denim bags with belts as a strap (see above) I thought that was very clever. My favorite is the Levi denim Shorts in size 6, perfect for petite me. FAB!

Website: http://www.rokit.co.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rokitvintage

 This is the actual route I took on my day Thrift Shopping

1. East End Thrift Store
2. Costa for a hot chocolate
3.MAC
4. Wonder around Spitafield's market
5.Lomography Store
6. Absolute Vintage
7. Rokit
8. Unknown cool shop
9.. popped into loads of other vintage shops on Brick Lane

http://www.zeemaps.com/pub?group=512233
This is the website I used to create my own personal map.
Make your own here : http://www.zeemaps.com/

If you are in London or even live in London you should really check our some of these unique places or do some of your own exploration and find your own personal hidden secrets in the city.

Thank you so much for actually taking the time to read my blog posts.

Katherine xxx

How can socks be so cute x

Hey,

In haven't done a blog post in literally forever, for some technical reason with my crazy computer.
Okai, so my weird obsession at the moment is socks...

Frilly socks,
Graphic socks,
Tie dye socks.

I think that's it :)

Collage of my favourite Topshop socks around £3.50 each

I am going to do a blog post soon on my DIY on bleach tie dye socks.

Katherine xoxo

Young Saatchi

Hello everyone,

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while ICT GCSE is stressing me out. Today me and a group of other girls from my school who study Art when to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, SW London. Very posh area ;) The main purpose of the art trip was to form an acquaintance with the Saatchi Gallery and represent the young people inputting what goes on in the Famous Art Gallery which is free for the public to view ad has Free Family Days.

At the moment there is a Russian exhibition on revealing  Russian artists work after the Soviet Union Collapsed. I found it so interesting to look and intriguing to find out the story behind the art works.

I was in a rush this morning with hair and make up so I totally forgot to add accessories, sorry!

Obvs me and Jeevi HAD to to take pics for my blog and instagram etc.

Instagram: Allthingsbrightandfashionable_

This was one of the past pieces we saw but it caught my eye immediately  I love the hues of blues, the clouds in the background and the 1 point perspective graphic effect.

 

Jeevi <3 with her Ruby woo lipstick

Superwoman

Nails: 

Misa Cherry Glaze, Rimmel London Lycra Pro 397 Beige Babe, Rimmel London Lycra Pro 421 Clearly Clear 

On my right hand I did my thumb the red/pink colour.

This rope was just dangling from a hole in the ceiling in a room detached from the main exhibition room and it was just laying there so silently abstract.

We love you Mr. Rope

Sergie Vasiliev

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encylopedia Print 

The extensive range of designs made by prisoners onto their skin. These homemade tattoos, scraped and inked into skin with melted book heels, urine or blood, contained a whole range of coded messages against the Soviet regime and about the prisoners’ individual crimes.

Gallery 1 was one of the best!

I love it the most because of the further meaning of these black and white photographs, basically the story behind these are prisoner in Russia would have a "Tattoo Encyclopedia " on their body and each of the tattoo tell a story and I found this so inspirational. 

The tattoo designs were individual to the person and their crimes, the tattoos were done to show secret rebellion against the Soviet union (Knee tattoos to shows they will not kneel down to the authorities), Cat if they were a burglar, Various symbols to show how many people they had murdered or how many crimes they had committed.

Yelena Popova

Balance Of Probabilities

With their transparent, softened geometric forms, Yelena Popova’s paintings recall the graphics and aesthetics of both Russian Constructivism and Minimalism, and open up conversations about the materiality of painting today. 

Valery Koshlyakov

Valery Koshlyakov’s large-scale cardboard paintings, collages and installations – sometimes hanging from the ceiling, sometimes made out of sticky tape placed 

directly onto the gallery walls – irreverently engage with ideas of empire. 

Covered in paint drips, his flattened-box panels are blown-up postcard images of state-approved classical and monumental European architecture that have more in common with street art than with photorealistic obedience. They look wet, urgent, quickly rendered, and they show his iconic subjects, from a Soviet stadium to a gothic cathedral, as a madman’s fantasy.

These pieces are just so fascinating how they are made of scraps of cardboard and created using a limited paint palette. The thing I love the most is that this artist used the cardboard in it's raw form, for example he allowed the previous cardboard text to show, stabbed the cardboard and he has ripped layers of the cardboard away to show the corrugated side. 

I like how this student had edited these photographs by sectioning them into circles therefore rotating some of the photo looking distorted. 

 I hope you enjoyed this post of my day at the Saatchi Gallery and did you recognize that this outfit was the one I tried on in the H&M Changing room in my A Girly day out Shopping with Lauren *snow post in January and I ended out buying the whole outfit.

Katherine xoxo

My new Hobby... H&M Online Dressing Room

Hello,

I have a new addictive hobby... H&M Online Dressing Room.
I think that you can tell from the name that you get to dress up models in H&M Clothes and It's so fun!

Here's some of my designs:

I love all of these designs and wish I could buy them all :)

Love,

Katherine

xoxo

Everything LOMOGRAPHY

Heyyy Everyone,

Ages ago I too a screen shot of something called a Lomography camera and Taylor Swift apparently has taken some shots with it, she like a big inspiration for me. In music, life and FASHION :)

Sooo what is Lomography..
The camera themselves are supossed to produce amazing photos with the effects and just to warn you these are not digital camera, most Lotography cameras need AA batteries and 35 mm film, but the cameras themselves are such a fashion statement (depending on the one you've got)

Fisheye No2 I love you I love Lomo Edition

Fisheye No.2 Voyager

Fisheye No.2 Gold Edition 

Fisheye one purple

Fisheye Underwater combo

Lomography Fashion

Lomography layered photo

Lomography photo with fisheye

Lomography Store

Just to let you know that I don't actually have a Lomography camera yet but I just love the lomographs which it produces and I am thinking about started a collection of lomographs because they are so special.

Love Katherine

xoxo

P.s. Let me know if you are thinking about getting one or have a Lomograph camera already!