Okay we know this isn’t Game of Thrones, but we couldn’t resist!
But it’s true, autumn is upon us and the signs are already showing – today it was dark by 7PM! Farewell long summer days…
However, as summer slowly dwindles away, it really only means it’s time for one thing! Updating your Autumn/Winter wardrobe! Here’s where WISH’s ‘Wait for Sunrise’ 2014 Winter Collection comes in.
WISH has this winter sorted with the perfect collection of edgy, urban and feminine creations. WISH’s winter collection traditionally plays among the familiar sepia and blue based undertones of winter, but with a twist – capturing an autumn sunrise with shades of vibrant reds, blush pinks and pops of magenta.
We’re loving the clean, modern sophistication of this collection and with its geometric patterns, delicate lace and florals, it’s both feminine and elegant. Experimentation with different textures and materials gives WISH’s collection that extra dimension.
So, where’s the oversized coats and the layers of thick-whatever-keeps-you-warm we hear you say? Pfft this is the Australian Winter fool! We brave the 16-degree chill while getting a tan – cause that’s how we do! Pairing a flowy dress with a fitted jacket? Or a lace long sleeve with leather shorts? Check! This juxtaposed look for the season keeps things fresh and Wish has a range of dresses even for the Winter time. Look at the geometric print dress in the promo! Can’t you see yourself strutting in that enjoying the winter nightlife? We do!
Layering heavy fabrics such as knit over lace and mesh textures, makes for a lighter winter silhouette – say goodbye to that winter bulky feel. These paired with cut out knit details and embossed fabric embellishments makes your winter wardrobe fun! After all, mixing and matching different elements together = MAXIMUM STYLE COMBINATIONS!!!!
Worried about transitioning between the seasons this Autumn? We know we always are. It’s difficult to find something to wear that isn’t too hot and isn’t too cool. Wish understands. This collection covers all bases by pairing singlet tops with patterned trousers, long sleeved tops with shorts and stylish jackets over your short-sleeved evening dresses. WISH achieves a perfect balancing act to keep you comfy this Autumn and keep you warmer as winter unfolds.
Wow I’m finally back from travels (but that’s for another post sorray!)
We had our first blog shop exactly a week ago and it was great success with some pleasant surprises. Here’s what you missed!
Tadah our store set-up. We got a bit high tech with the iPad for the Etude House and Skinfood cosmetics we had on display. It’s all in the details :)
Our variety of “ViVi” inspired vintage items got people curious which was wonderful! Personally, I feel our love for this style is still new and niche for a majority of people but we hope to spread the love around the Sydney scene more! Thanks to Little Treasures Market and Margaret from le petite mademoiselle for having us and to Blackflower Patisserie for all the macarons on the day! Not to mention everyone who came to visit (and to Shu for hanging out with us!) :)
My favourite piece from the stuff I got was this two-piece matchy set. So cute for that summer-by-the-pool kind of vibe. No doubt the person who bought it also thought it was adorbs!
The weather in Sydney has been pretty shiot lately I must say. Cold, rainy than a hint of sun just to tease us blah! But I capped off the busy week with some festive Thanksgiving dinner at Neutral Bay with the home sick office folk!
Couldn’t get past all the pumpkin hype! Got some pumpkin ale from Seattle to wash everything down.
The menu includes honey glazed ham, prime rib and oven-roasted turkey, cornbread, stuffing, *gasps for air* green beans, candied yams, sweet potato pie, succotash and mash potatoes. Absolutely yummo! Dessert was pecan, apple and pumpkin pie! Would’ve liked it more if there was the whole pie and not a tasting plate because family style all the way!
If you came to our blogshop let us know what you thought! We might have another one so stay tuned and make sure you follow us on facebook and instagram!
Siree here. Just five days ago this little blog turned 1 and we can certainly say with unabashed pride we are growing up!
From the beginning to now we’ve gone through many stages of writing, diligent diary syncing, eating, more eating (for science!), procrastinating and idea brainstorming to finally being able to share this space with you. Seriously, whenever we look back we wished we started this idea for a blog sooner. Seeing all these young blood blogging during their uni day makes us envious about what we could have fit into our uni day beside our usual dinner/club activities/uni social event gathering/karaoke after school sessions. Though it would be interesting to show what we did get up to after study was over ahaha (we’ll never tell!).
But we’ve achieved a lot since starting and thank you for staying around, reading and commenting it means a lot to us!
And so, remember here where I said that The Hidden Thimble was gonna have something special happening for the month of October? Well here it is:
Yes! We are going to have our first pop up store to celebrate our first birthday full of lovely trinkets as I travel to the trend cities of Tokyo and Seoul!
I’ll be sourcing not only clothes but also cosmetics and there’ll be some yummy macaroons and home made treats for the store as well!
The blog store will be happening sometime in November so keep up to date on our Facebook on location and details!
Thank you for putting up with our narcissistic selfies, Siree’s questionable spelling, random rants
and just lonnnnng procrastinating periods.
It’s something we can’t seem to shake from our self improvement list.
If you guys have read Le Petite Mademoiselle’s interview featuring us you would not only have come across our fellow WhatIWear fashion bud Margaret’s blog but also the fact that …Siree loves markets.
Margaret’s been a busy lady preparing for the launch of her project Little Treasures Market, a new monthly market showcasing everything vintage, local creatives and emerging Sydney designers. It’s such a great concept to add to Sydney’s vibrant market culture and Talyssa’s been a bit M.I.A because of her new crib (moving into a new place is a lot of hard work!) so I was lucky to have a taste of what’s on offer at the VIP launch night at District 01.
Marked with a cute bunting outside the entrance I was welcomed with the cheery faces of some of the stallholders and the first thing to catch my eye was the cute fashion collars by Collars from Neverland. How fitting! Since our blog’s name is also derived from Peter Pan. Clarisee hand makes all these fashion collars herself and runs an esty store as well.
I also had a friendly chat with the guys behind Pigeon and Weasel. Creative “chandlers” by passion and trade (yeah we had that moment of giddy amusement over that fun fact) I learnt more about their eco friendly triple scented soy wax candles made out of recycled beer bottles that are sanded down and smoothed before filled with wax. The scent (not flavour!) combos are pretty unique with names that pick exactly the sort of scent you were thinking of. Fresh Linen smells exactly like fresh clothes straight out of the dryer, Citrus Sunsetif you could imagine Sex on the Beach would smell like if it was breathable, and Red Frogsthat smells like… Red Frog lollies! Clay did a great job at designing the packaging and logo for the brand! Just proving that candles aren’t just a “chick thing.” Really. Guys, beer, guns and Red Frogs? Yeah, it sounds like a guy kind of gift he’ll appreciate on his man-tel piece.
Hooray for food! Refreshments were sponsored by Santa Vittoria and Mak Mak Macarons on the night with Margaret ‘s home made cupcakes and (vodka) punch. I’m now convinced she is a very multi-talented lady! She also runs a food blog Baking With Maggie and made the gorgeous flower arrangements for the night.
Congrats to Margaret and Chris for organizing a great night and all the hard work involved in making the markets happen!
Want to know when the Little Treasures Market is on next?
For the good and for the bad there are many words to describe the kind of person we are. It’s reflected in the way we carry ourselves, by the way we match our interior selves with the exterior.
When we dress, we want to impress and, unfortunately, doing our hair doesn’t always get the same attention as what we wear here at The Hidden Thimble. Hair arrangements always takes a loooong time and many attempts to perfect. So the next best thing? Colour it!
We were invited to Dove’s Colour Live event in Darlinghurst, hosted by Nuffnang, for an evening dedicated to knowing more about colour appreciation. George O’Neil, the Marketing Director of Dove Hair Care, introduced to use the new Dove Colour Radiance Range.
We had a warm welcome with either a choice of Moët & Chandon champagne or a super cute hair vitality juice before entering the “Dove Sensory Studio.” Siree headed straight for the Moët and Talyssa took the juice because she was driving. Never tasted $80 worth of bubbles for free. It’s bliss on the palette! The secret to “hair vitality” juice peoples is cucumber. Just juiced cucumber. lol.
The whole idea behind the room was to sit in the darkness with dimmly lit coloured lights as you heard what each colour meant, what it reflects as a emotion and finally as a person. It was a unique experience of colour perception though Siree must admit she might have ruined it by the sound of her noisy camera -.-; #thuglyfe
So what does the Dove Colour Radiance Range do? Well it’s formulated to retain the vibrance that dyed hair looses with washing as well as nourishing hair from the damaged caused by the dying process. When you think about it, the process of getting your hair coloured is pretty laborious. You spend all that time figuring out what colour would suit you best, fighting the fear in that “What if…” scenario of maybe regretting the decision later and then dying your hair (which takes ages!) only to finally see it fade. It’s a little heart breaking to see it run down the drain and not stay on your head, no?
From my (Siree) blonde hair experience I noticed that over the weeks, my normal shampoo and conditioner combo would gradually dull my bright blonde shair to a blonde copper that seemed to go into the “greenish” blonde tone spectrum. I realised I had to change my hair products to suit dyed hair. I always thought “Aren’t they just all the same?” How wrong I was! I could definately see a change in the blondess of my hair strands over 3 weeks.
After speeches we broke off into groups with a colour therapist to get a colour analysis and determine what colours suited our complexion and what our colour category says about us. Colour categories were divided based on the seasons.
Colour categories:
Spring: Easily distracted, keen for change, fun loving, excitable
Suits very contrasting bright colours – greens, blues, oranges (pretty much what our colour theory lady was wearing)
Better in colorful shades however not orange – vibrant and bold
Talyssa here now, I know I always appear to be the cynical one in the posts…I seem to be the devil whilst Siree is the angel haha. But! My only purpose is to present a non-biased opinion. I swear it!
For those who didn’t know, colour theory has been around for quite a while, having an extremely popular movement during the 80s. Nowadays, colour theory has evolved presenting 8 different personality types as opposed to four. I think for the purpose of the event, Dove thought it best to keep their colour theory to the simpler 4 season method. You can read more about it here: http://www.prettyyourworld.com/colortheory.html
If I’m 100% completely honest, I thought a lot of the colour theory was a bunch of bull. It is completely impossible to categorise something as complex as human beings into four categories – “Seasons” – and then from that, deduce personality types and colour combinations that suit them. From memory, one of the first “stereotypes” I heard was that people of the colour group “Autumn” typically have red/auburn hair and that people who have black hair are clean cut, sophisticated, well behaved and elegant. A few problems I had with this statement…first of all you can’t control what hair colour you were born with. Secondly…what about asians!??! THEY ALL HAVE BLACK HAIR?!?!?! ARE THEY ALL SOPHISTICATED AND WELL BEHAVED BY DEFAULT?!?!
In saying this though, I was completely enthralled and keen to find out what colour group, season and personality type I was -#OMGLIKEYAY! Seriously, I have some kind of weakness for all these kinds of things (horoscopes, personality quizzes etc)…regardless of the fact I don’t believe in them.
So what colour type was I?
SUMMER.
To be honest summer does describe one part of me quite well, but again, it depends on the situation I’m in and who I’m with. Sometimes I think I act slightly different with every single person I’m friends with. I don’t think I could ever pinpoint one definitive me. I don’t know what my “true” personality is… does anyone?
Ahh I remember this moment clearly. You see, I have never in my life radically tried to change my hair colour. In my J-rock days (ohohoh yes there was a time I wanted to be all gothic-like) I always wanted to get a big, electric blue chunk in my hair because I really liked Meguru’s hair from Panic Channel. But, I was always too scared of a possible negative outcome.
You see the man who is touching my hair right there?? He is one of Australia’s best hair colour-ists and has worked on the hair of numerous celebrities. When I heard this, I took my chance and leapt up onto that chair. I would definitely lap every moment of this up!
You see, I thought this was it, my chance to finally get a professional opinion on what colour I should dye my hair!!! My chance to ask what colour would suit me!! My chance to get that extra confidence to take that very important first step when it comes to dying your hair!!! I was so happy!!
Eagerly I asked him his professional recommendations for my hair. And do you know what he said!?
“You’re hair is already a nice colour. I personally wouldn’t dye it or wouldn’t stray too far from it. Maybe add some chestnut highlights, for some extra definition and glossiness, but that’s about it.”
WHAT FUN IS THAT!!?!?! I’m so tragically upset.
I’ve always wanted to try something crazy like a blonde or some crazy colour, I just needed this one push!!! But no..it’s just not meant to be…
Moving on, we tried to decipher my colour type. We had speculated that I was a summer, and I had it confirmed after holding a fair few colour combo’s against my skin.
Working out what colour palette suits me :)Does it suit me?And…I greatly dislike this photo, but from memory it’s the only one of Siree and I together on the night.
Overall, the night was fun, the goodie bags were awesome and I actually ended up liking Dove’s colour theory because it was girly and fun! It kinda reminded me of something I would do at a sleepover with a bunch of my favourite females :) Most of all, it was great to meet other Nuffnang bloggers. We even made some cool closer blogger friends, Jaybear and Soborii
We’ll share our hair stories using Dove Colour Radiance Range soon! Maybe when we decide to dye our hair crazy to defy the odds. Who knows!
Though winter fashion is a lot of fun to wear, I’ve been hunting for some inspo for my spring time wears to show and tell.
MURUA is a Japanese MODE brand for those who don’t know and I must say, it is one of my favourite brands – out of the many on my heart list – because of my little obsession with the producer Momoko Ogihara and her style. She even has a make up style called the “Momoko Blush” that many Japanese girls emulate which is to put blush on the higher parts of your cheekbone. How amazing is that! To have such influence in the daily fashion of young girls?
But I digress. The collection concept for Murua’s Spring Summer 2013 is called “Futuristic Mermaid.”
Futuristic Mermaid
In the world of crystal clear sea,
you find a romantic and dreamy mermaid.
Soft and feminine colors meet hard and transparent decoration
~ the combination brings you a new futuristic world
So what does a “futuristic mermaid” look like? The creative minds at Murua came up with this image for their campaign…
Super pretty no?
Browsing through their catwalk photos I can certainly see the images of being a “mermaid” with different sized sequins, fishnet mesh facial wear, plastic outerwear and bauble bubble accessories complimenting the green, blue and aqua hues with watercoloured flower prints.
Super feminine, street classy with a nice edge. So which are my bias picks from the collection?
I want these metallic oxford lace ups!! It appeared in last season’s line but dayum!! Still want!
…I might need to buy this ASAP… only if it came with that outer piece lol
I noticed the use of “plastic” material is very in-trend at the moment but only in shoes. Call me crazy but I wouldn’t mind having these little structures wrapped around me. Maybe Lady Gaga patent the look for herself LOL
If you want to purchase any pieces, unfortunately they are only available through Japanese websites but head over to Runway Webstore if you know your Japanese.
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