Fashion Trend: Brightly Coloured and Patterned Tights!

Hello my lovelies!

Today I will be posting about a fashion trend that has come and gone and seems to be back once again: brightly coloured and patterned tights. Now, some people think that brightly coloured or patterned tights are only for children. Not so! In fact what better way to add a bit of colour to a basic neutral coloured outfit? Today to work I wore a black skirt with a white shirt and black weskit. A good way to add some colour is to either wear colourful shoes, or to wear colourful tights. My tights today are blue. Police box blue to be exact. It gives my outfit a bit of colour without being completely over the top.

Police Box Blue tights

So, what is so great about tights in general? They are on your legs. Why does it matter what you wear when you are wearing a skirt or dress? Why not just wear socks under your shoes? Good questions. Why does it matter? Well, for one thing it helps prevent those painful blisters one gets from wearing flats and heels. Most of the time blisters form when the skin rubs against a material that is not very giving in terms of how something slides against it. Leather and leather substitutes are the worst at this. However, if you wear tights with your shoes it gives a slick layer for the shoe to slide against and not your skin directly. This means the chance of getting a blister is reduced! Also, if you wear socks with your strappy heels it looks stupid. Do not wear socks with your strappy heels!

On to the coloured and patterned tights then. Why are coloured tights so popular? Well, you know those lovely candy coloured jeans and leggings that you think are super cute and you want to wear them every chance you get? Yeah, those do not look so good when you are wearing a dress or a skirt that hits at or just below the knee. It looks dreadful in fact. Do not do that either. Instead, they have candy coloured and patterned tights. You can find all sorts of them at Joy of Socks. I will link that at the bottom of the post so you can look around. Also, you can find them at Old Navy. Coloured tights help add a splash of colour and keep you warm as well. I know some people insist on being old fashioned and do not want their legs to look blue or green, but there are some tights that have patterns on them. I have some black tights that have lace print on them that is not overly noticeable. It can add a bit of something fun to an outfit that would otherwise be a single solid colour without any print whatsoever. You can also start out small. I have some tights that are flesh coloured with a little bit of gold glitter threads woven through them. They are pretty fun and go well with everything.

So, what do I think of this fashion trend? I think it is cute! I work at a jewellery store and that requires me to wear a dress or skirts to work. What better way to spice up a plain outfit than with colourful tights. Granted, some work places may not like it, but our jeweller does not particularly care as long as we get our work done. It can add colour without being overbearing or as bright and obnoxious as you want. I have all different colours of tights that I wear to work, to dance classes, to church, and sometimes when it is really cold in the house and I do not feel like lighting the pilot light for one random cold day. Just keep in mind that not every dress or skirt that you wear tights with can go with brightly coloured or patterned tights. If you are wearing a bright floral skirt you probably should not wear bright tights. That would just be too much colour. A good rule of thumb to follow for this trend is that if you are wearing a solid, neutral colour then go for it! As long as it does not clash with the other colours you are wearing. Do not wear a plain red dress with pink tights. That would look like a five year old dressed you. A red dress with charcoal lace tights would be okay. As long as you follow basic fashion rules then you should be okay with this trend.

Hope this is insightful for you all! Here are the links to some of my favorite places to purchase tights online! Enjoy and stay lovely everyone!

The Joy of Socks
Old Navy Socks and Tights
Silkies

Fashion Trend! Bright Eye Liner!

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I have been so busy with work, school, and vacation to Vegas that my blogs have suffered a lack of attention on my part. I am very sorry!!! Anyways, I am back and have so many topics to write about! Vegas is a great place for fashion. If you have been there you know this is true. Today I will be writing about a fashion trend that will lead into my product review for next time; brightly coloured eye liner!

Most ladies at some point in their life will wear eye liner. Some wear it every day. I am not one of those people. I need a break from waking from waking up early every day for work and school. It is good to always have the standard black, black-brown, brown, and white in your make-up case.  However, some people do wear navy and eggplant to spice things up. Things have been getting really spicy in terms of eye liner colours lately. For example, I am wearing bright turquoise right now. It looks good with my eye and skin colour.

Bright eye liner was popular when I was a little kid and Mutter wouldn’t let me wear it except for dance recitals and on All Hallows Eve. Vater did when Mutter was at work though. Of course then about an hour before Mutter got home he had to scrub my face clean. I think the main problem was that I was a little kid and I didn’t know how to put it on. I actually didn’t learn to put on make-up properly until my first year of college when my friend Kevin taught me. Thanks to Kevin I have been hired to do make-up for weddings and what-have-you events, but back to bright eye liner.

The key to putting on bright eye liner, or any eye liner really, is knowing how to put it on right. Part of it is practicing on getting lines straight and the other part is getting it applied correctly for your eye shape. For example, I do not look good with winged eye liner. It makes me look funny. I also can’t pull off thick lines or ultra-thin lines. I just look odd beyond all reason. My friend Ayaka, for another example, can do winged eye liner and ultra-thin lines. She, like me, does not look good with thick eye liner. Eye shape and how the liner is applied is really important! It is also the first step in getting this look right.

Back to Kevin for a moment. Not only did Kevin teach me how to do hair and make-up, he taught me about colour when it comes to fashion. Make-up colour depend on skin colour. Eye make-up depends on that AND eye colour!!! My eyes are hazel so I can wear numerous colours well. However, my sister has blue eyes. She wears browns and pinks well. My friend Ayaka has brown eyes and wears pinks and blues well. People with green eyes wear browns and purples well. People like Kevin, whom I am incredibly jealous of, that have purple eyes wear greens and pinks well. Gray eyed people like my friend Brennivina can wear pretty much any colour they dang well please. Lucky girl. Bright colours need to follow this guide too. A helpful tool that I have found is my colour wheel. I actually bought it for my quilting, but it comes in handy for matching make-up colours as well! Rejoice fellow crafty nerds! Colour wheels may be purchased at almost any craft or fabric store. I purchased mine at a little quilting shop in Ponca City called Completely Quilted. You can click on that and visit their site and do some shopping. It is pretty awesome! I love that store!

Well, now that I have told you all about it and how to pull the look off properly, what do I think about it? I love this fashion trend! I love it to pieces and then some. Bold colours are really cute if you know how to pull it off. Lots of bright colour on one’s face is not appealing though. Keep that in mind. However, a little bit is super cute!

Until next time!

P.S. I got new charms for my Pandora Bracelet! Check it out! That dice came from Vegas! Also, that little Union Jack is actually a double decker bus. You just can't tell from the top. :P