Fashion: Styling Coloured Pants

Coloured pants. Something I thought to be completely ridiculous and silly when the trend was introduced for spring of last year. Since then, my opinion has most definitely changed from being unsure and despising them, to considering them a staple in any wardrobe. Coloured pants are just the thing when looking to switch up your look (bye bye leggings!) Whether they're vibrant, pale, or anything in between; coloured pants can be the perfect piece to add an extra touch of personality to any outfit.

Once you have your perfect colour of jeans- styling can be intimidating. And wearing them out for the first time can definitely be a bit nerve racking; but when paired with the right items you'll be confidently rocking those trendy jeans in no time.


Colour + Neutrals

One of the easiest ways to wear some bright jeans is to keep everything else neutral. Keeping up top to the white's, grey's or black's is a safe way to keep your vibrant bottoms simple. Having a fairly quiet top will put more attention on your pants and will help balance out the look. Mixing classic colours and styles with a trendy colour will have you finding the perfect medium.

Pants: Vera Moda, Tank: Hollister

For this outfit I specifically like the way the cardigan adds texture with the heavy but loose knit. An intermixture of textures and materials will help break up a seemingly smooth canvas, the eye won't only be caught by the brave pant choice but also by the various textures creating an overall balanced look.

Sandals: Sam Edelman 

Bag: Marc by Marc, Sweater: Gilly Hicks

Patterns + Denim

If your not wearing denim on the bottom- why not wear it on top? Denim really does go with everything, especially with coloured jeans. It provides just the right amount of coolness and colour to make your jeans pop. Denim's just like another neutral, it's another option to your black sweater that is more suitable for the warmer weather. A patterned top and vest draws a little more attention to the overall outfit, rather than just the pants.

Jeans: American Eagle, Top: JCrew

A structured denim vest is casual, yet it pulls together and polishes a look instantly. Its a cool way to be chic and comfortable -perfect for day shopping or going out for a lunch date with your girls. 

Belt: H&M, Vest: Garage, Bag: Thrifted

Sandales: Forever 21

Stripes + Button Down 


Button down shirts are another versatile way to dress up coloured pants or make them more cool and effortless. A boyfriend shirt can be tucked in and buttoned up to the collar with a necklace to make your colourful jeans more professional. Or undo those buttons and let the breeze flow through the shirt and pair it with a simple tshirt. 

Pants: Winners, Button Up Shirt: American Eagle

 In this outfit, I chose a more beach casual outfit. The button up undone with the nautical tshirt underneath and the cuffed peach jeans is simply sweet for a spring day. Paired with a silver necklace to add some detail and some double strapped flip flops this ensemble is the perfect fit for a lazy stroll in the spring.

Flip Flops: Roxy

Tshirt: Gap, Necklace: Tiffany's, Bag: Marc by Marc

Coloured jeans are an easy, yet unexpected way to change up any style into one a little lighter and a little brighter for the upcoming spring and summer. With a few easy tips using pieces you probably already own, you'll be rocking those bright bottoms just in time for the warmer (and hopefully sunnier!) months to come.

- Madi

Top 5: Spring Makeup Essentials

With every new season coming about, I always find myself changing up my makeup routine; taking out some old products, and adding some new ones that I have fallen in love with once again. The generic picture of spring is the light, golden sun gently beaming down but swept away by the soft breeze before the rays have a chance to caress your cheeks. Light, glowy, flushed and healthy- all words that lay under the blanket of 'The Perfect Spring Look,' and here are my top 5 ways to achieve that.

1. Bobbi Brown Corrector ($23)

With everything you make, you need to start off with a base to build upon. For a freshly faced spring look, a brightening under eye concealer is a must. Not only does it cover up dark circles, but it adds an extra gleam under your eyes making you look awake and rested. Its creamy consistency and peachy colour provides the perfect dewy finish to open up and brighten your eyes for the springtime sunshine.

2. Benefit High Beam ($26)

An illuminated face that catches the suns light adding an extra sheen or shine is something that suits the spring well. A liquid highlighter with a light pink base will give a natural glow to your winter ridden skin; brightening your complexion while accentuating your facial features. 

3. MAC Mineralize Blush in Dainty ($25)

No healthy glow is complete without a little pink flush in your cheeks. A light and bright pink blush will give you a natural flush when applied to the apples of your cheeks. The slight sparkle that the mineralize blushes have adds a little more dimension to your cheeks making them pop out just that much more. Blushing cheeks are the perfect way to achieve a new, fresh look- just in time for the new season. 

4. MAC Lustre Eyeshadow in Gleam ($15) 

A simple sparkly shadow all over the lids is a care free, yet polished way to give a nice 'gleam' to your eyes. A shadow that has a hint of peach and bronze, with some gold sparkle will pull together any spring look. If your looking for more depth or definition, try a natural look by running some bronzer through the crease with a fluffy brush. For that fresh face look, simple and light eyeshadow is the key to achieve it. A peachy gold shadow lightly dusted across your lid will give you a fresh sheen while bringing out your natural eye colour.

5. Stila Lip Glaze in Piñata CH (Sample Size, 3 pack for $12)


























A little lip gloss is just the thing to tie together any look. A berry-watermelon colour is the perfect fit to add a wash of colour to your pout. A pigmented lip gloss is not only ideal for a pop of colour, but is easy to throw on along with a little mascara for those rushed mornings. Just a little colourful gloss will instantly brighten up your face for the sunny days to come.

This spring I'm looking forward to using these products that I've fallen in love with even more for a few soft, brightening looks to go along with the beautiful weather to come.

- Madi

A Review: L'Oreal La Couler Infallible Eyeshadow

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I've had my eyes on these new L'Oreal shadows ever since they came out. The iridescent colours, the seemingly buttery texture was all too much to resist for a girl who's got a knack for makeup. After months of swatching them whenever I went to the drugstore, and watching review upon review on Youtube, I caved. I walked out the store leaving behind a bill, but walking out  with my sought after L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow.


























 I picked up the colour 001 Time Resist White, a very light and iridecent cream colour. The packaging is nice and sleek, and very easy to see the colour. It comes with a pusher to keep the pigment in place. There's a range of 16 shades in this collection from your neutrals, to your colours, matte to the most irridesent finish you may ever see. You get 3.5 grams of products, quite a bit for the 8-10 dollars you spend for this. Even though it is so cliche to say this, a little bit of these shadows, truly does go a very long way.

These shadows are highly pigmented, just a dust of your brush and you've got more than enough to cover two lids. The consistancy is smooth, buttery, velvety, and very blend able. I do believe that these shadows are loose pigments, rather than a shadow explaing why they have so much more pigmentation than your everyday shadow. Since they are pigments, there is a bit of fallout, so beware when applying to avoid looking like you cry tears of glitter!

Sadly, these buttery shadows crease after a number of hours. Even being someone who has dry skin and uses a primer, it still creases after 5-6 hours of wear. However with a little touching up throughout the day, or a quick blend with your finger will do the trick to blend out any creasing.

I find this shadow applies best with a courser, and fluffier kind of brush, definitly not the synthetic types. The natural hair brush gives it a better edge and picks up more product in each swipe.

MAC 239SE

Pro's:

-Pigmented
-Iridesent
-Smooth

- Blendable and build able
- Drugstore
- Good colour range



Con's:
- Creases after 5-6 hours
- Can be messy










After lusting after this shadow for months, my craving finally came to an end with a beautiful iridescent shadow brought to us by L'Oreal Paris. I was very impressed with it and am defintily looking into trying more from this range for this spring!

-Madi

Fashion: Black&White

One of the biggest spring trends this year is black and white. An unusual combination for spring time, as we are used to bright colours and pastels for this time of year. Nevertheless B&W is back, and I thought I'd put a more familiar spin on the trend by mixing in a colour with an outfit focused around the two colours- for springtime of course!

Feminine Tux

With a classic oxford shirt buttoned up with some high waisted trousers, this is quite the official looking outfit. To bring it back down to a casual level, I slung over a loose, long knit cardigan and added a statement necklace in a light rose colour. This necklace is very frilly and girly, with a bit of sparkle, just the fit for a rather serious outfit. On your feet, go for some neutral shoes, black, nude- or be a bit daring and try some raspberry coloured flats.

Leggings and Oxford: Aritzia

Necklace: H&M, Sweater: Gilly Hicks

90's Flashback

I took a black and white polka dot dress, to bring out the white dots, I added a cream sweater overtop and paired it with a denim jacket. I kept the accessories simple with a long silver necklace, and your classic brown bag. It may look like you walked out of a 90's movie with the polka dots and denim, but it's a casual way to be just on trend.

Sweater: Brandy Melville, Necklace: Tiffany's 

Vest: Garage,  Skirt: Sakura, Bag: Steve Madden

 Boho Chic

A long, black, sheer maxi skirt with opaque hearts on it, is quite the statement skirt. Sticking to neutral colours, I added a loose, light burgundy tank top tucked in and a cream crochet vest. The vest added to the skirt tones down the formalness of the skirt, in that 'boho' kinda way. I finished off this outfit with a cream purse that has the detailed gold chain. This outfit is the ideal ensemble for the girl looking for the happy medium between 'downtown chic' and the California hippie.

Skirt: Forever 21, Top: Brandy Melville

Vest: Betsy Johnson, Purse: Vintage

     






Blushing Blazer

As you might have been able to tell, I do love polka dots and oxfords- and the colour light pink. This tank top just happened to perfectly be on trend, white with a peplum cut and small black hearts dotting the fabric- makes for not only a flattering fit, but a simply adorable top. To add some layers to this look, I first put on the white oxford and black leggings, then overtop a blush coloured blazer. I think the light pink is perfect for spring, it's light and girlie, and stands out with the neutral colours. '

Top: Guess, Blazer and Oxford: Aritzia

Leggings : Aritzia, Purse: Marc by Marc Jacobs

With a slightly more colourful take on the black and white trend, these outfits take the very classic colours, and make them (in my mind) a little more springy to jump into the new season.

-Madi

Fashion: One Skirt, 4 Outfits

With the cold winter subsiding and the spring weather coming out, it's time to put away the jeans and leggings and bring back those skirts you tucked away to the back of your closet. It's finally time to get out of the winter rut and to jump into the fresh spring style. When it comes to styling a skirt, we often come up with one adorable on-trend outfit - and nothing else. Not wanting to offend the 'never wear the same outfit twice' the skirt gets its one glorious outing, then is banished to the back of your closet to collect dust rather than compliments.

Here I have put together four different looks, with the same skirt. The outfits are very varying from dressy to casual, daytime to evening, only proving that you can in fact wear the same piece over and over again- no fashion laws broken.


This first outfit is a day time casual for more of those chilly, early spring days. The light materials are perfect for spring, keeping you warm with the loose knit sweater, but not too warm when paired with the flirty, flouncy skirt. Tying up any shirt into a knot is a quick trick to dress down an outfit, and gives an extra nod of detail.  I kept the accessories simple with a long silver necklace to add a little more attention to the neckline. The simple sun hat ties together the look along with the equally as simple brown bag. This simply sweet outfit seems to be a perfect fit for an afternoon date along the pier with some ice cream, hand in hand, enjoying the spring weather.

Necklace: Tiffany's, Sweater: Brandy Melville

Skirt: Brandy Melville

Hat: Gap

Bag: Marc by Marc Jacobs

The second ensemble is more conservative/dressy, great for a lunch with the family, while keeping on trend. The denim shirt buttoned up gives a slightly more casual look to your classic oxford, but when paired with a blingy statement necklace- it's meets the perfect medium. A big knit sweater overtop is an addition to the 'preppy' classy look, while being the perfect thing to throw over when it gets chilly. To pull the look together I added this fun, patchwork little bag with a big flower pin, it adds some fun to this otherwise 'serious' outfit. This look is halfway between business and casual with the untraditional spin on the oxford and with the fun bag, it makes for a versatile spring time outfit for many places and occasions.

Skirt: Brandy Melville 

Sweater: Gilly Hicks, Shirt: American Eagle

Necklace: American Eagle

Bag: Fossil

For the third outfit, I picture hanging out during the end of spring, in anticipation of the summer to begin at the beach, or a party or even shopping in the city. With the skirt, I pared a loose fitting tank top, in the same colour as the skirt- making an honorary dress. Of course you can pare any tank top with the skirt, but I specifically liked the idea of taking a skirt and tank, and making it into dress. I added a gold braided belt to break up the colour, and a denim vest- because a denim vest instantly adds some detail and edge to an outfit. Again I added my brown bag to the mix, with the gold hardware it ties in well with the gold belt. Wheather you are shopping or splashing around in the cool ocean waiting for the long summer nights, this is a fun casual outfit that will make transition from spring to summer a breeze.

Skirt: Brandy Melville

Bag: Marc by Marc Jacobs

Vest: Garage

Belt: Gap, Top: Brand Melville

The last outfit is feminine, girly and just peachy all around. The skirt parred with a classic tshirt is quite the typical outfit. Opt the ordinary tshirt for a more on-trend that has embelishments on the shoulders or studs. Since the shirt already has some bling, I didn't add any accessories, if anything a bracelet would do the trick. For an evening I would add a denim jacket, it's a great for some warmth and will compliment the colours beautifully. This is the ultimate sweet and girly outfit- for a date with your man, your mom, or just your girlfriends- sport it with some nude flats or some light brown wedges and your set!

Skirt: Brandy Melville

Top: H&M

So there you have it, one skirt- four outfits all sporting the flirtatious skirt differently. Don't let that skirt have a single glory day, then spend the rest of the season in the closet- try it out with different parings, hopefully these four ensembles can help you get out of the winter rut of boots, jeans, and sweater over sweater, then a jacket to bring it all in, and help you shed off those layers for the warmer and sunnier (fingers crossed) spring time.

-Madi