'Pacific Getaway' Lookbook

Picture Source: http://forloveandlemons.com

All I want is an adventure like this - endless days exploring forest lakes and lonely beaches. Where time constraints don't exist and neither do hair straighteners. Wet hair simply air dried by the breeze and your skin washed clean with the salt and sand.

Perhaps this For Love and Lemons lookbook captured my summer longing for road trips. Or maybe I'm just sucked into their Spring 2015 collection. Honestly I too want to jump into rock pools with sheer mesh clinging to legs. They do the appliqué and sheer-cross-lace placement so well - as if it's light enough to float.

P.S. Our apologies on the lack of outfit posts, we will be shooting soon but we've been quite busy filming our YouTube style videos. You know how it is: new year, new projects.

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TRENDING: All Black

We’re in the midst of yet another Australian summer - where the sun’s rays have tinged our skin golden, where the beach serves as the ultimate day-off retreat, and where matte black shades and SPF 50+ are absolute must-haves. For many mere mortals, summer bares images of bikinis and board shorts, crystal blue waters and sweet tropical fruit.

But as I’ve come to notice, from those cool kids walking down Bondi promenade, to my very own go-to summer outfits, all black looks - or anti-summer dressing (as I love to call it) - is a growing trend. One must simply look at Solestruck’s Summer Lookbook to see that this trend is all the rebelliousness rage it claims to be. And boy does it look good, almost Tim Burton-esque.

Titled ‘Goths in Hot Weather’, I found the lookbook possesses an enigmatic beauty about this nonconformist way of summer dressing. Maybe it’s the ‘stick it to the man/I couldn't care less’ attitude you seemingly adopt wearing something all black. Or perhaps the timelessness of the outfit by this simple choice in colour. Regardless of what it is, anti-summer outfits have already, and will continue, to dictate how I dress this summer.

PS. Sharon and I have recently started our very own YouTube channel, at Primped and Primed, and we would really love it if you could have a look around and let us know what you think. It even features anti-summer looks. 

 

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Travel Diary: The Whitsundays

Every year my family and I travel to somewhere tropical; anywhere with a temperate climate and breathtaking ocean views. Despite the obvious similarities of 'beachy' destinations - palm trees, straw umbrellas and blue waters - there are subtle yet distinctive differences. That being said here are my
5 things I learnt about the Whitsunday Islands. 

1. Hamilton Island's transportation of choice? Cute little golf buggies.
Hire one for the length of your stay and it'll take you from Catseye beach at midday to the top of the mountain for the sunset. Such is the island life.

2. Sand that feels like powder does exist.
Living in Sydney, I thought I've seen the best beaches but Whitehaven Beach beats them all: 7km of fine silica sand that apparently doesn't get hot since it's 97% silica content reflects the heat right off.

3. Ice cream is replaceable when you're viewing Whitehaven beach from above.
The aerial view takes me back to childhood days of Rainbow Paddlepops as the beach swirls into a mixture of minty green, aquamarine and white. It's not everyday that an island serves you a scoop of Mr Whippy.

4. Free diving beats scuba diving any day - even Cruise Whitsunday's crew agrees.
Take a deep breath, dive all the way down and you can get up close with the marine life without all that heavy gear. That, and you kind of feel like a mermaid. A mermaid with snorkel goggles and plastic fins … very magical.

5. Out at sea, you don't know where the horizon is anymore.
The sea and the sky seems to blend together into this hazy ombre. You could walk straight into the mist and disappear right off the Earth. That's what I call escape.

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OUTFIT POST: Inspire NYE

HER 

Dress: Three Floor
Watch: Raymond Weil
Bracelets & Rings: Wanderlust + Co 
Clutch: Mnologie

HIM 

Shirt: Topman
Pants: ASOS
Hat: Fallen Broken Street
Belt: Connor
Watch: The Horse
Shoes: Ezra Basics via The Iconic


Twenty Fourteen was a major year; a year of clarity, of discovery and endless inspirations. Escaping out of the suffocating high school cycle, it didn't take us long to realize what we wanted or needed to do.

So many chances were taken.

So many fears surfaced and resurfaced but eventually washed away.

Our supportive circle of friends encouraged us to laugh, to dream and to not run from our weird shadows that forever follows us.

Twenty Fourteen was the year that Marvic left his hometown of Darwin to start a new life here in Sydney. And any great city should pride themselves in the wealth of inspiration it provides. It sure gave us plenty of location spots to shoot at, probably more than we can cover in our whole lives. So what better way to thank beautiful Sydney than to do a final 2014 shoot with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge as the backdrop.

This year saw us to do something more with our creativity. Filling our days with aspirations and hopes (and stopping to do the occasional assignment), each idea became more absurd than the last. But as far as New Year's Resolutions go, we're just happy with figuring out how to use this new camera lens.

So to coincide with 2014 Sydney NYE theme 'Inspire', what inspired you this year? And let that continue to do so in Twenty Fifteen.

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OUTFIT POST: Holidays

Top: Gypsea Swimwear … Skirt: Spell Designs … Sunglasses: Quay Eyewear

Being whisked away to a tropical paradise is perhaps one of the most refreshing ways to conclude a year. Just a suitcase full of swimwear and a heart longing for escape and adventure. These photos were taken early morning at Catseye Beach, Hamilton Island, Queensland. My travel diary will be posted after the festive season.

Merry Christmas lovelies and stay happy and healthy.

 

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Behind the Camera: Gypsy Smith

 

Playsuit: Spell Byron

Hat: H&M

Necklaces: Regal Rose and Tiffany&Co

One exceptionally busy afternoon at Sydney's Hyde Park, a 5’7”, fair beauty with lengthy limbs was lounging and laughing amongst the perfectly manicured Sandringham Gardens. 

Some metres down the track, awkwardly crouched on sandy gravel, dressed head to toe in white (likening to a Pascall marshmallow), wielding our photographic weapon of choice, this dorky duo.

It isn’t often that Sharon and I get the opportunity to work together behind the camera. But on the rare occasion that we do, it’s seemingly a match made in heaven. Maybe it’s the combined power of our two minds, our genuine love for photography and art, or simply, the fact that we aren’t the ones awkwardly running around in front of a camera. Regardless, this shoot brought together our creative minds in a way that we have never done so before.

As for the statuesque beauty? The focal point of this particular post? That’s Paige. And at 18, is such a humble, mature and warm-hearted human being. One to which Sharon and I are lucky to call our friend.

By Marvic Casingal 

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OUTFIT POST: Hideaways

Top: Gypsea Swimwear … Skirt: Spell & the Gypsy Collective

Necklaces: Dove & Lyre and Ebay

I have an obsession with being busy or a fear of staying static. An ideal day is one where no hour goes to waste and every minute is filled up with something, anything, productive. 

But this obsession gets exhausting. 

At times I crave brief moments of solitude between working two demanding jobs, blogging and squeezing in social activities. When this feeling arises, I retreat to my little hideaway at the bottom of these Marsala (which FYI is Pantone's colour of 2015) stairs. Not quite the claustrophobic Harry Potter set up, I could spend a whole day reading, people watching (not to be confused with neighborhood spying) or during low tide, observing the creepy little crabs that inhabit the river. An entire day spent in either pajamas or as above, swimwear and maxi skirts. 

Admittedly, it is important to have a day where time creeps alongside you instead of its usual bad habit of zooming past the meagre hours. 

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我痴迷于忙碌的生活节奏，害怕静止的状态。对我来说理想的一天是不浪费每一个小时,每分钟都充斥着任何一些富有成效的东西。

但是这种痴迷使我疲惫不堪。

有时渴望在我两份兼职的工作、撰写博客以及社交活动等等当中获得片刻独享的清净。每当这种感觉出现的时候，我就撤退到小小的阶梯下的隐蔽处，这里不会像哈利波特场景那样的幽闭。我可以花一整天的时间来阅读和观看人群，或者在退潮时，观察栖息在河岸上的那些令人毛骨悚然的小螃蟹。一整天就这么穿着睡衣或者图片中展示的这种衣服、泳装或者马克西裙度过了。

诚然，很重要的是能有这样的一天，时间悄悄地跟随着你，而不是在不知不觉中转瞬而逝。

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Kinahuhumalingan ko ang palaging may ginagawa. Ang idolong araw ay isa na walang nasasayang na oras.

Pero, ito ay nakakapagod din.

Minsan, hinahanap ko ang pagiging mag isa. Pag ganito ang nararamdaman ko, nag tatago ako sa ilalim nang hagdan. Hindi kagaya sa movie na Harry Potter. Na papalipas ko ang isang araw na nag babasa at pinanonood ang mga tao. Ang buong araw na naka suot nang damit pang tulog at nasa itaas.

Minsan, ito ay importante na mag karoon nang araw na ang oras ay para lang sayo - kesya kung nagmamadali.

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