Indian Cultural Tempting Printed Saree for Modern Parties

Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sarees are the most booming evergreen dress of India. One of the illustrious types is printed sarees. Sarees which I am going to shares are in colourful Printed styles. These sarees are decorated with beautiful embroidery, have beautiful neck styles, stylish pallu, latest saree lehenga styles, and gorgeous Saree blouses, and Tops.
These sarees are designed specially for parties wear, like wedding (Shaadi wear) and outdoor night parties. As a traditional style these saree styles are designed by following Indian culture.

 
Stunning Indian sleeveless saree have beautiful stylish blouse which have a sweet-heart neck style and have colorful saree-pallu and draped lehnga. Mostly Indian celebrities wear these types of sarees in holiday parties.


Elegant Indian bridal party wears saree with Tuck Drapes. Tuck Drapes are very familiar and simple approach of draping a sari. Draping is normal like “Sidha Pallu” and then the edge of the right side of upcoming Pallo is tucked in front to give a wavy effect.


Latest Hot Trend in Indian Saree in Maroon color with beautiful lace border. This sleeveless saree is giving a fantastic look with Tuck Drapes. Mostly Indian beautiful girls wear these types of saries in night dancing parties or casual evening parties.

 

Modern Indian Maharashtra cultural saree for parties in blue color have an eye-catching look. This sleeveless saree blouse have round neck and has lovely blouse with red floral border. It's a stylish indian cultural Lehnga style. This saree is also designed for morning or daylight parties even can be wearing in college functions.

 

Indian Tempting printed saree. Mostly Indian villager women preferred this saree trend and this saree may be designed for upcoming saree patterns. The saree blouse have stunning glamorous look. That's why it's a stylish and glamour saree styles.
 

Beautiful Bangladesh cultural saree with floral and dot styles. The saree has black & white colors but looking dashing with pink lace border.

 

Indian glamorous saree in maroon color with fitted short saree blouse and have printed net colorful saree pallu. The saree lehnga in beautiful latest stylish style have beautiful gota patti border. This party sensation party wear glamorous saree has romantic look and can be wear as night club wear and evening parties.

 

Indian old cultural saree style i maroon color and have a colorful border. The saree style also follows the Indian celebrity Deepika Padukone who wear this saree style in Om Shanti Om film. The Fitted sleeves, elegant blouse neck, drape style and net transparent sari pallu style  was most famous style of Indian women that's why the sari designer designed this saree dress for modern Indian culture.
 

Latest and new style of Indian saree which have romantic saree style which may also be used as Indian Night Party Wear Saree. This hot style style is specially designed for evening and dating parties. The saree pattern in black color have short stylish saree blouse which is decorated with straps. The saree focus on three colors white, black and red.
 

Abaya: Latest Arabic Abaya Styles

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Abaya is mostly used in Arabic countries like Dubai, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and also in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Abaya, Jilbab is a Muslim culture, to wear when even they have a outdoor visits. Even in Europe countries, Australia, Canada, USA (American women) or western girls (Muslim Girls Students) wear Abaya, Jilbab, Hijab or Ladies Scarf in schools, colleges and universities.
Jilbabs, Abayas are used like a long upper or long coat but style is different the abayas are used to cover all the body. In Asia Abaya or Jilbab is also know as BURGA. These abayas which is I m going to share, have beautiful floral designs, baggy and fitted styles, heavy embroider, have beautiful drapes and drape-less and have beautiful neck styles
 
It’s a gorgeous abaya design which is decorated with colorful floral designs and has floral net sleeves. This abaya has elegant lace border and showing good impression with Arabic Hijab.

It's a stylish Arabic abaya which is decorated with colorful floral design and have baggy sleeves. These types of abayas or Jilbabs are mostly used for some special event like as party wear abayas or any festival wear and looking gorgeous with Latest Islamic Hijabs.


This abaya is decorated with finest and stylish Swarovski crystals and have a western long coat style. The border of abaya is decorated with heavy embroidery and looking beautiful with Arabic bridal Hijab and also looking elegant with jeans pant.


Modern trendsetter Abaya in black color with is decorated with silver floral design which is pasted on front bottom, back top and sleeves borders. These V neck style of abayas are now mostly wear outdoor special events.


The abays is decorated with satin motif and zari, . This baggy and Arab style abaya can wear as casual war or daily wear

Stunning abaya which is decorated with beautiful stylish round neck. This abaya style is taken from Egypt cultural traditional wear. The neck is decorated with golden embroidery.
 

Orchard Farm on Etsy

Friday, January 29, 2010
I do love some of the stores on Etsy. This packaging and identity caught my eye. For a handmade product brand (of which there are many) it is stylish, appropriate and looks professional. Nice ideas, nicely executed.







Boutique Brand Discovery - Jelly Pong Pong

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Jelly Pong Pong, founded by Susan Chyi, has a cute name designed to invoke the playful, eccentricities that lurk within.






Gift Bag

According to the website "Jelly Pong Pong places an ardent emphasis on creating products which evoke the dreamer in you & which clearly defines what it means to be passionate about cosmetics. With such pride in our creation comes a focus on product integrity & efficacy. Great-quality products that work."
The packaging doesn't take itself seriously and is cute - needs a little refining from a graphic design point of view, but very cute nonetheless for a small brand. The ideas are lovely, and I could see this brand evolving into a new Pout - RIP : ( or Stila, Too Faced or Benefit style brand if it can survive in the saturated cosmetics industry. I suspect that at this stage this brand has had a minimal budget for design, production, photography and website but you can see that the idea behind Jelly Jelly Pong Pong is full of inspiration, creativity and passion.
The lovely boutique brands for colour cosmetics are fabulous, and I take my hat off to any make up entrepreneur, as it's a jungle out there. For anyone starting out, my thoughts are this: keep you range small.
Have a "hook" product and design the packaging, marketing and site around this and do it well from the start. It's a lot easier to keep an inventory of 2 products and displays and pay for packaging, design and advertising than it is for 40 products/shades. It also gives an icon product to the general market place, so that they will say "Oh they do such and such product". Beauty Editors will remember, as will your target market. Think of Benefit's Benetint or Nar's Blush. Its a lot easier to aggressively market a single idea than lots of them. It's also a lot cheaper.
Finally look at brands that have survived and work out what is different about each one. It might be that the founder is an incredible self promoter and business person or that the brand has lots of celebrity clients and money behind it. Or in some cases, it could just be a right place, right time situation.

Whiskers on Kittens Colour Palette of The Day

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Elegant Hairstyles for Events

There’s a new hair interpretation every season when respects work to give a new style definition to match the hanging world of fashion. This time it’s all about ultra femininity and stark modernism. by Nabanita Das
These are western cultural hair style for outdoor night parties and street fashion. Some of these hairstyles with pins are mostly seen in bridal night parties.


 



 

Braid Roll


  

Take a bit of peasant fashion and translate into hip hair for the party season.
This easy to do hair can up your glam quotient and make you stand out in the sea of straight sleek tresses. Simply pull your hair high up on one side in a ponytail, divide into sections, twist, wrap, Rolland pin for a trendy side bun.


 

Cut, Color and style


 

Every major hair care and color brand worth its dyes creates looks to match the changing taste in fashion. So keeping up with this, Schwarzkopf Professional has announced its Essential Looks - a compilation of brand new hairstyles and colors for the coming season. We got hair color and styling expert, and National Technical Head, Schwarzkopf Najeeb Ur Rehman to interpret the looks for us regular women, and how best we can wear it. “The major inspiration is from the catwalk couture from London, Paris, Milan and New York. Based on that we have defined four looks, which can be transformed very easily to match Indian skin tones, and popular hair styles,” he says. Since the inspiration is from the fashionable eras of 80’s and 40’s there’s lot of movement in the hair, and play with colors like rich, warm brown, beige, gold and copper. “Also most of the looks can work wonderfully on short and medium hair. We have colored the hair in circular and rectangular sections and have used graphic shapes interests like Reverse Triangle to create the cut,” explains Najeeb. It is a highly stylish look that will need maintenance. Taking the 80’s as the cue, jewelsand precious metals are a major reference point here. So you can wear this look on a rounded bob, sliced into at the fringe and ends. This trend also embraces luxurious curls and waves. Color-wise, think of rich and glossy browns lounging alongside the most expensive of blondes, and beige, with a luminous finish. “Since we like rich color in hair, this is a very wearable look for Indian girls. It evokes a sense of luxury,” adds Najeeb.



40s ROMANCE:

  
Take a nostalgic trip to a decade when femininity, mystery and romance reigned. Glamour is the order of 40s romance, featuring shapes inspired by this elegant decade. Always beginning with side partings, we play with wartime waves, tight pin curls, victory rolls, chignons, romantically collapsed spirals, and blown out curls that give the head an asymmetric shape. Veiled fringes sweeping across the eyes add a sense of drama. Colors are soft-focus and romantically tinged -think of soft copper tones and medium blond blended into the hair. “It adds style to longer length hair and also it is very much wearable. It has a normal texture which is suitable to Indian women. This hairstyle can be tied up in a pony tail and can be done into a bun as well,” suggests Najeeb.




OUT OF SHAPE:


 

This season sees a stylistic streamlining that matches intellectualized shapes with nonconformist cuts. Genre-bending short styles take on avant-garde forms, with multi -layered shaping creating depth and dimension. The clarity of simplified lines and lengths contrasts nicely with the anarchy of elongated wedges, fins, quiffs and almost Mohawks. Colors tend towards the synthetic and experimental two– tone blondes, ultra – whites, and anti –establishment reds. Says Najeeb, “It is an asymmetrical look that goes very well with round shaped faces. Pastel colors are used here; also colors that are not very intense are used in this like brown and violet.”


THE DARK AMAZONS:

  
 This is a beautifully brutal look. This season The Dark Amazons are taking control, with colors, cuts and clothing that are strong, sexy and stylistically dominant. Hair is definitively straight, yet far from prissy.  Precise cuts with razored edges or sharply sliced fringes give a powerful accent. While the fashion palette is largely black, but there is sensation through color conflict, splicing negating shades such as inky tones with stark blondes. Updos like headdresses reference Post apocalyptic warriors which is overtly sexy. “It is a style for women who are confident, and young at heart. It works beautifully with long hair, and stark contrasts like blonde-black and red-black mark this fashion style,” says Najeeb.  (This topic is taken from Indian Beauty Magazine)


Nice Footer Inspiration

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The footer has grown up. Designers are no longer content to use the footer as a place to put all the stuff we can't find room for elsewhere, the footer has become a vital tool for SEO, navigation and the punctuation mark of the page. Check out the designs below:



Piet Boon - I'm in Looooove.

I've just been reading about Dutch interior designer Piet Boon. I was looking at the pictures of the apartment below and simply fell in love.
Boon focuses on functionality, comfort, timelessness and durability, with his "technical insight and acute eye for aesthetics detail" .






Images above are from the apartment of developer Ara Hovnanian and his artist wife Rachel Lee Hovananian designed by Peit Boon.

Pink It and Shrink It - The New Fiat

OK I admit it, I do like pink. Is this just a case of shrink and pink or is it really catering to a market? I suspect it would appeal to most wannabe fashionistas - although maybe not the very chic.
Personally I would feel as little like I was working for Mary K Cosmetics, but it is cute - for a 16 year old at heart. The target market is young (minded), emotive when purchasing and concerned more about surface than substance.
Not sure about the dodgy guy painting the car with nail polish, I think this was a guy's creative idea, but I could be wrong. If I could choose who painted my car with nail polish I would probably get a female nail tech without a smarmy look on his face to do it. : ) or maybe that's just me.
Still it's a pretty nice pink, although for me, if I was to go for a pink car, I would probably want something in a 50's pale pink like Pantone 691.
Guys cannot apply nail polish, and this guy looks a bit dodgy.
You can visit the site at: http://www.fiat.co.uk