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

Jul 15, 2013

Pixie Lott - Steal Her Style

Coming up with a look that is both cute and sexy can be a very difficult thing indeed, and it’s something that many of us strive for when putting outfits together. In the world of celebrity, no one has pulled it off quite like Brit singer Pixie Lott, who always manages to look super sexy and flirty at the same time as being innocent and ultra-cute. How on earth does she do it?

Pixie Lott’s natural attributes help quite a lot, namely her long, shapely legs and big brown eyes. However, it’s the clothes she chooses that help to create her cute-sexy image, and this is something we can steal for ourselves. If you want Pixie’s look, here’s all you need to know to steal her style:

  • Go for playful accessories. Pixie is often pictured teaming her outfits with playful, fun accessories, such as bunny ear hair bands, heart-shaped sunglasses, hippy chic floral headbands and cute headbands. The way to avoid looking too childish with these accessories is to stick to just one per outfit, and keep the rest of your look grown-up.
  • Wear wedges. Although she is occasionally pictured in heels, Pixie often sticks to wedges. Chunky, cute and easy to walk in, wedges make the most of a great pair of legs like Pixie’s.
  • Brogues are best. Another shoe that Pixie seems to love is the classic brogue, which again shows off her legs whilst also being a sexy look for daytime.
  • Show off a little skin. Pixie tends to stick to the fashion rules when it comes to showing off some skin – either legs or cleavage, but never both. She loves showing off those pins, but also likes to wear swimsuits, tops and dresses with cut-out sides. Another way to show off a sexy bit of skin is to go for a midriff-baring top, which also happens to be a big trend right now. Wear it with a high-waisted pair of shorts, trousers or skirt on the bottom half and flash only an inch of flesh if you want – the look will still be both cute and sexy.
  • Throw on a blazer for a night out. To avoid showing off too much (or freezing to death) on a night out, Pixie is often pictured in a fitted blazer jacket, usually with rolled-up sleeves. The simple addition of a grown-up jacket is all that’s needed to inject some sophisticated sexiness to a cute outfit.
  • Keep your look young and fresh in shorts. Pixie wears lots and lots of teeny tiny shorts, some high-waisted and some bum-baring, like the ones she wore on-stage when first breaking into the music scene. Even though some pairs of hotpants and shorts may be a little revealing, injecting your look with a touch of sexiness, they also help to keep your look fresh and youthful. If you have great pins like Pixie, wear as many shorts, minis and skater skirt styles as you can get your hands on!

Missy White is a Writer at Fashion Union provider of on trend women’s clothing in the UK.

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May 3, 2011

Fancy Dress Inspired By The Films

Fancy Dress

f you’re considering throwing a fancy dress party, consider the following themes which will give your guests enough restrictions to prevent a mental blank but which are wide enough to offer some level of freedom.

Fancy dress parties don’t happen very often within my circle of friends, however when they do I often find that I have a mental blank despite months of excellent ideas beforehand. If the party has a central theme I often find it easier to decide what to wear. If you’re considering throwing a fancy dress party, consider the following themes which will give your guests enough restrictions to prevent a mental blank but which are wide enough to offer some level of freedom. Once you’ve decided on your theme, have a look through your DVD collection for costume ideas; you never know, you might be able to pick up a cheap copy of the costume online.

Superheroes

Superhero parties are a great conversation starter, and luckily the costumes are readily available. Take inspiration from films and dress as the black suited Spiderman from the third film in the franchise (remember the eyeliner; the gothic girls will be lining up for you) or go for vintage style and dress up as one of the Watchmen. Turning up as Sally Jupiter (complete with victory curls) will have the geeky boys at your beck and call all evening.

Wizards and Witches

Don’t just restrict your costumes to characters from Harry Potter (as tempting as that may be) but court your inner theatre geek by dressing up as characters from Wicked. For a hit of nostalgia, dress up as half man half mouse as if you have been caught spying on one of Roald Dahl’s Witches. Another fun costume evoking early 90s cheesiness would be the three witches from Hocus Pocus; before Sarah Jessica discovered Sex and the City.

Vampires vs. Werewolves

Thanks to the Twilight series, supernatural creatures are experiencing a new level of popularity. Have a look through the new DVD releases for inspiration from the latest exploitation film. If you have a partner you could opt for a couples outfit of Bella and Edward, on the other hand if you’re looking to snare yourself a new man you could dress up as sexy Selene from 2003 hit Underworld. Boys, think more Benicio Del Toro in the Wolfman than Count Nosferatu.

Burlesque

If you are invited to a burlesque or vaudeville party, there are many films to choose costumes from. Chicago and Moulin Rouge provide inspiration in the way of stunning corsets, stiletto heels, and feathers. Boys, if you’re feeling daring, delve into Frank N Furter’s closet and watch 70’s classic the Rocky Horror Picture Show. You might feel slightly strange dressed up as a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania, but it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll be an instant girl magnet (especially if you can do the Time Warp).

Sci Fi

For a science fiction party it would be almost too obvious for girls to come dressed as Princess Leia; even if you spend hours getting your buns just right and searching for the perfect gold bikini, it’s guaranteed someone else will have thought of it too. Be slightly more obscure; if you have the body for it, think of 7 of 9 from Star Trek or LeeLoo from the Fifth Element. The more obscure you go, the more attention you are likely to get.

Jennifer is a part of the digital blogging team at getyourblogsout.com who work with a growing number of entertainment brands. For more information about me, or to keep up to date with the latest in entertainment news, check out my posts at getyourblogsout.com or visit my Twitter account, @BlogsOut

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Apr 30, 2011

Anime Fancy Dress!

Anime Fancy Dress

As a nation we all love dressing up! From birthdays, to stag do’s and hen nights, to Halloween and Christmas, or just wanting to jazz up those mundane routine Friday nights out, fancy dress has become a favorite past time for many Brits both young and old alike.

Some people get REALLY get in to the whole fancy dress UK scene with things such as Anime conventions, and Fantasy reenactments. The Warwick arts Centre are holding an Anime convention from 19-21st August this year that will see thousands of devout anime fans turns up in the most elaborate and expensive fancy dress costumes in order to impersonate their favorite anime characters.

Most popular characters people impersonate are ‘Cloud’ from the Infamous Final Fantasy games and film, Light Yagami and the illusive L from the hit Japanese comic and cartoon series ‘Death note’ and of course no anime convention would be complete without a few Kai’s from Dragonball Z running around, along with a few Pokémon too! Fans really do go to town when re creating there favorite anime characters costumes, everything down to the spiky mo-hawkesk hair of Cloud, right down to the makeup simulating the signature over sized eyes of most anime characters you will encounter.

To give you a little more background, ‘Death Note’ is an anime series and Japanese comic book by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata in 2006. Most fans opt to dressed up as one of the death Gods or ‘Shinigami’ (as known in the comic) named ‘Ryuk’.

Ryuk is a giant, demon looking Death God, dressed entirely in black PVC, with skulls on his wrists, belt and chains and really spiked out black shoulder cuffs with a spiky white collar to match. He has jet black spiked up hair that stands on end, a white face, piggy nosed, black lips and eyeliner, glowing red googerly eyes, and giant black claws. As you can tell from the description this would be one hell of a costume to re create. But many anime fans love characters like this and often imitate the harder costumes the most as they see it as a challenge and love to outdo each other!

Ryuk also has a female counter part called ‘Rem’, who is similar in appearance but has alot more white PVC to her costume along with a large hoop through one year, thick tubes of white with purple tips for her hair, yellow cat like eyes, and two rows of stitching around her neck. Anime couples often sport this combo at the conventions as the two characters are Death Gods and do have a weird attraction to each other.

Although they are not the main characters like Light Yagmi (also known as Kira), L (also known as Hideki Ryuga) and Misa Amane (also known as the second Kira), they are the most popular at such conventions, as the other main characters although more integral to the plot don’t really have much of theme with their costumes. Therefore the outlandish and exhibitionist amine fans can’t have as much fun when re creating there outfits, so don’t! Ace fancy dress, also do amazing anime outfit if you don’t want to go to all that effort and time!

Maria works for Ace fancy dress and is a huge lover of anime and all things fancy dress UK

May 25, 2007

Bai Ling To Hit "Ocean's Thirteen" Red carpet


"Ocean's Thirteen": George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin...


Well, you may dislike Bai Ling and her style but the Chinese actress's manner appeals to me. She always manages to be in the focus of everyone's attention and on top. Bravo, Bai Ling, for a new stunning appearance!

Bai Ling visiting "Ocean's Thirteen" premiere at the 60th International Cannes Film Festival, May 24, 2007:

May 24, 2007

Carmen Electra Does Know How To Write And Look Sexy

Carmen Electra wrote a book! Well, that's amazing news! The books is called How to be Sexy and lists the actress's experience of reaching the top of the most beautiful. I haven't read the book but I can imagine what it is about. Carmen's beauty receipt is simple: enlarge your boobs and appear in public wearing a bikini as many times as you can. Sooner or later you will get noticed!


It's good to see Sophia Bush again! Yesterday she visited Christie's Sale of Important Jewels & The Elie Tahari Fall 2007 Collection held in New York on May 23.

May 23, 2007

Eva Mendes: Cannes Best Look

Eva Mendes was among the A-listers to visit Cannes hottest event - De Grisogono Party held at the Hotel du Cap, Eden Roc (May 22, 2007). Hosted by owner of the popular international luxury jewelry house Fawaz Gruosi, the party featured the fabulous fashion show presenting the collection of the iconic jeweller Fawaz Gruosi himself and the new collection KLS by top model and designer Kimora Lee Simmons. After that the guests were entertained by the performances of former Destiny's Child Kelly Rowland and rocker Kid Rock (sorry for the battology).

Eva Mendes's taste is just perfect: long silver gown on the background of her dark latina skin; no jewelry on the neck, and glamorous earrings and accessories!

May 22, 2007

Keira Knightley Stylish Vogue Photoshoot


'I would love to have Monica Bellucci’s figure.'

In June Vogue issue London-born celebrity Keira Knightley demonstartes Nicolas Ghesquiere shirt and pants, Rag & Bone jacket and skirt, sand-colored Phillip Lim dress and Banana Republic belt, Marc Jacobs ruffled dress and many other stylish outfits looking so natural on her.

Keira Knightley continues expressing her dissatisfaction by herself. Recently she revealed she would like to be her co-star Sienna Miller with her abilities to behave in public. And now Keira says she admires Monica Bellucci's curves and wishes she had the Italian actress's full figure and boobs. I would say Keira is the most modest A-lister or she just enjoys us talking about her beauty.

Keira Knightley, Vogue Magazine, June 07:

May 21, 2007

Mischa Barton Hates Kids

Mischa Barton was yesterday spotted in France walking with the book 'I Hate My Best Friends' Kids' while enjoying herself at Roberto Cavalli's yacht.

Kelly Hu: Cleavage Of The Day

Kelly Hu's dress choice attracted everyone's attention at 7th Annual Taurus World Stunt Awards (MAy 20, 2007)


May 18, 2007

Lena Headey Does Have Her Style

The 4400 and The Unit star Summer Glau literally glowed yesterday at 2007 FOX UpFront beside our new celebrity Lena Headey who is most known for her recent part in 300. Well, Lena looks not her best, I should say; I wouldn't even recognize her unless a few sources claimed that was really she. Headey looks a bit sick but what I really like about her that unlike other celebrities Lena manages to look differently at each public event and is not afraid of experimenting.

FOX 2007 Programming presentation at the Wollman Rink in Central Park, NYC (May 17, 2007):
(Summer Glau and Lena Headey with Thomas Dekker, and Richard T. Jones)



Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose Looking Too Young

Parker Posey, 39, and Lauren Ambrose, 29, chose an interesting style for FOX 2007 Programming presentation... They look like two young girls who were in such a hurry that forgot to change after some house work. On the other hand, that outfit really makes them look much younger. I'd say these are two teen girls if I didn't know exactly how old they are.

Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose attending 2007 FOX UpFront held at Wollman Rink in Central Park, New York City, 2007/05/17