Thursday, March 24, 2011

Crackle polish!


been super excited to try out crackle polish!
so last night I got my haul from karen and tried it out!
white on a... darkish natural colour.
applied the white crackle over.it dries matt so I put a top coat...and it looks exactly the same here but its shiny!

and the final product!
I think its super chio la, but I wish my nails were longer. I hate my short nails.
conclusion. it works? lol
got it in grey as well. idk what I'll use as a base colour, natural pink?

see how see how
xx. J





bigger.. better?

we're back and better (:
:O

Saturday, March 19, 2011

venice


SINCE, I'm already on blogger, might as well post this.

I was in Venice a couple of days back, I was sadly SADLY too late for the world famous Venice carnival.

Reasons why its world famous:
pictures are copyright to whoever took them. etcetc

during the carnival of Venice, people dress up in such costumes and walk around. imagine.

if you wanna know more about it, google it? lol sorry. the visuals of google images paint a better idea.

You get my drift la, but honestly the pictures don't do the masks or costumes justice.
super bummed I didn't get to see people actually walking around in the costumes and such, I did however of course explore all the mask shops. and its amazing. sadly, photography is prohibited, but I did buy a very simple lace mask for myself.

Alot of the masks didn't fit me quite right cause my face isn't of a european build so. ohwell.
I filmed venice and will post it on my youtube channel... like in a monthish or so.

xx J.

shit.


oh my goodness god. OH MY GOODNESS GOD.

I'm obviously heavily censoring myself.

I leave Europe to come home to sg in like 2 days? and I just unpacked everything from my suitcase which I have been living out of for.... about.... almost 2 months la.

Obviously, I have acquired plenty of new possessions (just a different way to say I shop too super much)

but I didn't think it was... THIS MUCH.

I'm in a serious knot right now.
I'm allowed 30kg.
thing is....
I CAME TO EUROPE WITH 30 KG.

and honestly I think my stuff has bred and multiplied like bunnies.
aiyah how?

I want to take pictures of all the pretty things for show and tell (: but I don't have photoshop on my computer since it got wiped out.

Monday, March 7, 2011

How do you define style?



the one thing driving me to write this post is pure irritation, which probably isn't a good thing. when I'm irritated I tend to say things I regret, but never mind!


there is this sentence which I tend to try to stand by and follow,

People can be and do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt anyone and are happy/comfortable with themselves.


so this would imply that I don't judge, which I try my hardest to do, but obviously I'm no saint.


what I'm getting at is that, in relation to fashion and what attire people choose to adorn, I really REALLY can't stand it when people trash what other people choose to wear, as in really trash talk it. Usually I would be like, oh dear goodness, what on earth is she/he wearing? Looks like something out of a halloween shop, and I end my criticism there.


Some people, and when I say some people, I'm referring to sites or shows where stylist 'gurus' or just writers in general completely bash a celeb for wearing something.


what brought this about was when I googled Taylor Momsen, I like her sense of style, she maybe a little underdressed for my tastes, but I think her long blonde waist length hair goes very well with her, rockish-trashy* style.


*Trashy, I consider this a style I actually like, not as an insult, that doesn't mean I like dressing trashy but some elements of the genre(?) can be used for everyday dressing.


Back to Taylor M., I got onto this site which was comparing young starlets to each other in terms of dressing and elegance and all that.


http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/06/29/trashy-stars-miley-cyrus-taylor-momsen-lindsay-lohan-classy-stars-taylor-swift-kristen-stewart-photos/


and that would be the site, feel free to go take a look if you're interested in a load of crap.


So for contenders you had, Miley Cyrus vs Kristen Stewart, Taylor Momsen vs. Taylor Swift things like that.


I found this. horrifying.


Picture of Miley in a tight leather(?) tube dress with a sweetheart neckline, which obviously emphasized her, assets. and Kristen with a long sleeved dress with honestly what looked to me like random pieces of fabric that were tact-ed onto the dress with no real reason. it certainly didn't flatter. (see, my opinion, I could have said nasty things about it, but its her choice to wear the dress, I'm just saying that I wouldn't)


Kristen was marked as Elegant, whilst Miley, Trashy.


Basically, the website was saying, oh, you can gracefully go from being a young star to an adult actress without going the slut route, here they inserted Christina Aguilera and Lindsay Lohan as an example.


Here is what pissed me off, who the are you to say how they should dress as they advance in their careers?


and besides that, what BAD comparisons. How is Taylor Swift in anyway like Miley Cyrus. Taylor Swift has such a different sense of style, hers is more, pretty, more country, and much more princess. Whether this is her personal style or something she adopted because it good image for the sort of audience and style of music she was going for, it works on her. She looks comfortable and happy doing what shes doing.

obviously, from the website, lets take the worst photo of miley ever and put it up againist Taylor in Concert in which she plays COUNTRY music.


has it ever occured that Miley looks like this too?

never the less I just googled Miley in 2011 and she HAS changed her style to something more, questionable.

please tell me how a concert photo of Taylor singing for her band is the same as wearing something for the red carpet. please enlighten.
she could look like this too.
or if I'm being a hypocrite showing photoshoot pictures of her and not of her on the red carpet, this is what she looks like in a red carpet
is that trashy? I think not?

this I found hilarious, again, photoshoot in comparison to redcarpet. PLEASE.

again, concert in comparison to red carpet.

THIS, I just found beyond unbelievable. how is lady gaga's mass fan base even remotely close to Carrie Underwood's? country vs. pop? er. hello?

its like comparing,

Elvis to...
Charlotte Church.
NO LINK AT ALL!


and one more...

how is a leaked porno picture in anyway the same as a 50s bikini at the beach. *palmsforehead.


I'm getting slightly carried away here.


Basically what I wanted to say is that, I don't think magazines/writers/tv should bash and trash what starlets or people in general wear. I think its mean because after all, its only their OPINIONS. Its THEIR lives. I find it distasteful when people think that there is only one way to dress. that there is only ONE way to be elegant. URGH.


the way they say it make it sound like its a crime to wear something like that out, to have a style different from the rest and that there is only one way to dress to look elegant. which in my opinion is complete rubbish!


I think different is wonderful, if not all of us look like robots coming out of a factory, where is the fun then?


if your sort of elegant is wearing a long simple black dress with lovely goldball sized diamond studs on your ears, then wonderful for you. because that is always a classic oozes elegance and sophistication.



but if your sort of elegance is wearing an absolutely over the top Oscar De La Renta gown, or a Machesa gown, then good for you as well!


I would personally choose the latter, but thats just me, my opinion.


I believe that no matter what you wear, if you feel great and beautiful in it, you will carry it off. Confidence makes such a difference.


So bottom line, I hate people who impose their views and write/talk in a way that suggests there is only one way of dressing. Who do not accept that different can be beautiful too. Magazine tend to suggest there is are only several different styles that Look Good, and little girls that pick up Teen Vogue and the sort and strive to look like that.


I'm not saying that is bad, I'm just saying, I wish fashion was promoted or brought across to people in a more approachable sense. That no one has to fit in a cookie cutter world, that everything has variation.


So instead of a fashion magazine being a bible, it should be used as, a source of inspiration, something you can flip through and find something you like, and wear it in whatever way you like. Same goes for this blog.


Fashion is a medium of expression. No one is the same, so no one has the exact same sense of style.


Thats the message I think that gets lost in all these magazines and critique.



xoxo J.q


Ps: I don't know if what I wrote makes the same sense it does in my head :S


AND I don't any of the pictures I've posted, they belong to the people who have taken them, etc etc. All were found on google or the site I mentioned earlier. cheers!


Sunday, February 20, 2011

hey so I know I haven't blogged in like, months, literally.

haven't been able to find inspiration to blog about fashion.

I'm going to Paris next week, city of loveee and fashion. so whatever not.

so I guess, I'll be strolling along the streets of Paris and feel inspired.

Euro news:
I have bought tons and TONs of stuff. will blog about them when I'm home, if the airport doesn't stop me for overloaded baggage. which is a super possible and very scarily possible. cause its mad expensive if that happens, 500 euro kind of mad expensive.

ON A MORE PICTORIAL note,
I have StumbleUpon-ed (which is an amazing webbie that shows you to sites, pictures, videos of what you're interested in) this website which is http://looklet.com

and I gots myself a page? and I just put together what looks nice basically. you pick stuff you like and you put it together. kinda brainless.

my page is: http://looklet.com/user/695120/looks



My fav.


my 2nd fav.


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Behind the scenes on day 1 men's fetish shoot w. Daven Lee!

Wheeee, I'm in class and therefore have extra snippets of time to post the Behind-The-Scenes-Footage of a Fashion shoot.

I played Fashion Stylist for 4 days straight before I left to HongKong. This was the first shoot, men's, it is a fetish shoot.

Photography by Daven Lee
Make up & Hair : Veronica Leong & Angeline Leong
Styling : Jade QueenQuin
Wardrobe & Art Direction : Me DI Assistant : Clifford Loh
models really do eat salad LOL.
actually no la, we just feed them rabbit food for the first part so they don't like get bellies.

lol.
chilling while waiting for their turn, feel quite bad cause it really was cold.
make up and hair chilling and watching the shoot.
so the concept was Fetish and I had a list of things that Daven wanted to shoot, my job is basically to have all the guys ready by the time the previous guy is done.

which is actually harder than I thought it would be.

alexy and gerard,
NOTE: alexy has like The Nicest Abs.
alexy is on the left and gerard on the right, russian and australian respectively, I THINK.

CAN YOU TELL I KINDA REALLY LIKE STYLING LOL
Lacus!
Matthew, lucky there was like a hose at the back so he could wash this off.
POOR LACUS, it was SO cold cause they were just pouring water on him.
matt after shower, looking all macho.red meat part of the shoot, think lady gaga's meat outfit.

positioning meat. I actually can't touch meat with ease now because one time my parents went overseas and I accidently left the freezer open and ALL our meat, and we have alot, got defrosted and rotted within a 12 hour period and... sigh. it was a horrifying experience for me.
fooling around after the shoot which ended pretty late. ALEXY DID THIS SUPER COOL HELICOPTER HIPHOP MOVE AND I WAS LIKE WTF. never saw that in real life. HE ALSO DID A BACKFLIP. omg.
matt and lacus had left by then. so after shoot and all tired (:


I'll post the final pictures of the shoot when I get them (: