Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts

Monday, 31 August 2015

Fashion is an Art

Hey Surfers!

Wow it's been ages since I've posted, I haven't been feeling very inspired blogwise and fancied a bit of a break but now I'm back and raring to write!

So this the long promised continuation from my trip to London with my friend and fellow blogger, Josie of A Pretty Post It. After we finished with the Topshop event, which you can read about here, it was far too early to go home so we decided to head over to the Tate Britain and check out some of the artwork which was soon to be moving on. After jumping off of the tube we spotted a picturesque side street and Josie asked me to take some pictures for her blog. It was my first time attempting fashion photography and I had a lot of fun with it. I especially loved having a model for the first time, it took me a little while to get used to but soon I was ordering her to pose all along our route!



Had some fun photoshopping these. The light flare for example :)

This has got to be one of my favourite pictures of the day! I love the colour splash setting on my camera, I've used it for London pictures before which you can see here and it always gives great results, of course it helps when you have such a gorgeous model :)

After a stroll along the Thames we arrived at the Tate Britain Museum and had a very artistic afternoon taking pictures of, and with the pieces on display. The Tate has such a wide collection of art, ranging from classic paintings of the Greek gods to modern, thought provoking sculptures. It's most definitely worth a visit.


This was a picture of the beautiful domed roof, I had to lean very precariously over a spiral staircase to get the shot which is why it is slightly off centre. I so want to go back and shoot it again in the winter, get the night sky and also get the angle right!

More fun with the colour splash

Poor Josie being papped again.



The two pictures above are of the fantastic artwork to which the museum is home. I took quite a few photographs but these were two of my favourites; especially the one with the cameras. 
Unfortunately I'm not very well educated in art so my comments are limited >.<

We finally left the Tate in search of food, and a short tube journey found us near Trafalgar Square; all of the restaurants were packed but we managed to squeeze into Bella Italia for a delicious dinner and to rest our aching feet! My pedometer said we had walked nearly ten miles in one day.
We had a brief stroll through the square on our way to the station and I got some of my final shots of the day. I would have liked to have stayed longer but we still had to get back to Paddington and get on the long train journey home.
I hope you enjoyed this post. I have a little stock pile of pictures ready so I'll hopefully be back next week, I'll leave you with the fountains until next time.



Love Lily

Friday, 7 March 2014

Mufti-Day!

Hey Surfers,

Hurray for Fridays! Looking forward to relaxing on the weekend.
Every Friday at work we have a casual day, or as it has been lovingly nicknamed, Mufti day, so I decided to make a mini fashion post.

Below is the jumper  I picked up in Primark last weekend whilst out shopping with a friend. She happened to point out that the top was "Buffy-esqe". I'm not ashamed to say that I am a fan of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series so fell in love with the top immediately. Unfortunately they didn't have my size but I tried it on anyway and it actually fit quite well.

I paired the jumper with a very girly and somewhat flamboyant statement necklace which is something I would never usually wear, but, my lovely friend J rocks these necklaces on a daily basis and she helped me to pick this one out. It gave the oversized jumper a more mature look and I honestly forgot I was wearing it. Finally I chucked on a pair of grey skinny jeans and my white Converse All Stars and I was out the door.



My outfit got lots of nice compliments, I was told I looked like Sunshine :)
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Also in the interest of fashion I have another little post. Below is a graphic tee that I bought on the same trip to Primark. Jurassic Park was one of my favorite films growing up so I snagged this as soon as I walked through the doors. The only issue I had with this top (other than people asking me if I bought it from the boys section...) was that crew necks do not suit me at all, so I did a little search on YouTube for videos on how to alter t-shirts and found this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZWs58mhuOc which helped me turn this

into this 

Looks much better now, very happy with it :)

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the first post on the ElleMimi blog, I'll mix it up next time and discuss something new. 

Happy surfing

Love E

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