Introducing Our New Blog Series :: 『Talking Trends』

Earlier this year Hanzel wrote a comprehensive post on 'Korean Fashion Trends for Early 2015' and it got a huge reaction from our readers - yes, you guys - and we often get asked to talk about other trends too. Therefore, we thought it'd be a great idea to create a series where you could find out all the information you want to know about almost any trend. Which is why, we're introducing to you, our new blog series: 

Each post will be on a new topic (or rather, new trend) that we will go over in complete detail, including information like: 

The Origins of the Trend
A Quick Tutorial on How to Pull It Off
Our Personal Tips & Tricks
How to Make the Trend Your Own
Links to Resources & Products
Our Personal Opinions on the Trends 
& Much, Much More!

OOTD :: Superman || 슈퍼맨

::OOTD Details :: 

• 'Get Out Get Into' GD Cap: ₩6,000 ・ Hongdae
• Feather Necklace: ₩9,000 ・ Bloody Cat
• Long Plaid Shirt: ₩10,000 ・ Gangnam Underground Station
• Tank Top: £4 ・ Boohoo.com
• Sports Stripe Shorts: £14 ・ Boohoo.com
• Black Sneakers: ₩19,900 ・ eBay

#THSChallenge 5th Week of Summer :: My Summer Foundation Routine

Week 5: Talk about your summer routine! It can be in terms of your work day, what you do at home or on holiday, on even more specific like your cleansing or hair routine. 

I was originally going to do my summer skincare routine but it's really only one product different from my usual skincare routine which I've already written about, so I thought it would be better to write about something new I've never mentioned before: my foundation routine! 

I personally have oily/combination skin and I feel oily skin can be a real hassle for most in summer since we're usually more oily in the hotter weather. Moreover, dewy skin is trending meaning liquid foundations are really in season too but these can be hard to pull off without looking greasy if you have oily skin. 

Therefore I thought it'd be nice to talk about the products I personally use to stay grease free. I'm not going to go too into detail since I plan on doing a video on how to get the dewy skin look, but I'll take you through the structure of my routine and why I use each product. 

BB Cream - Maybelline Dream Fresh

£7.99 @ boots
(# Deep Sheer Tint)

After my moisturizer the first step of my routine is BB cream, actually which BB cream you use isn't too important as long as its a no-oil formula, as I mainly use this as a layer to protect my skin from my makeup and give the oil one more layer to go through.

#THSChallenge 4th Week of Summer :: Opinions on a Summer Trend

Week 4: Talk about a trend you're loving (or hating) this summer, it can be fashion related, food and health related, even about your favourite TV series, it's totally up to you! 

Being a primarily fashion related blog, of course we're going to talk about our favorite fashion trends, and we've decided we're both going to talk about different trends. Harmony is going to talk about muscle shirts and Hanzel is going to talk about the denim boom. We've had some pretty interesting blog formats for our last few blog posts throughout this blog challenge, so we decided we're just going to take this one easy and keep it short and sweet! We also have something cool to announce at the end of this post so stay tuned! 

Get Ready With Me 같이 준비 하자 || My Birthday! 내 생일!

Recently it was my 20th birthday and my best friend, "Bubba" bought me a bunch of new make-up as a gift. Since she came early to help me prepare for the party, I decided to use the new make-up she bought me for the rest of the day. Even though it was my first time using them I felt like my look came out pretty decently, so I decided to do a 'Get Ready With Me' video and share this look with you guys!

This video is also a lot more upbeat and laid back than some of my older ones, so it's definitely worth the watch! 

최근에 내 21살 생일이였어~ "보빠"란 친구가 선물로 화장품을 사 주고 파티 준비하러 일찍 왔으니, 그 화장품을 사용해서 내 메이크업을 하기로 했다. 처음으로 쓰는 화장품인데 생각보다 메이크업이 잘 나와서 이 "같이 준비 하자' 비디오 만들기로 했다~! 

지난 비디오들보다 좀 편하게 녹음해서 이 비디오는 분위기가 좋고 진짜 볼만 한다!

#THSChallenge 3rd Week of Summer :: A List of Summer Related Things You Love

Week 3: Super simple, all you have to do is write a list of things you love that are summer related; you can go into as much or as little detail as you like! 

It's finally week 3-- wait what? Only week 3!? It feels like we've been doing this blog challenge forever XD maybe because that last two weeks have been really hectic with Harmony's 20th birthday and our grandmother's 80th birthday as well. Anyhow, this week's challenge is a list of things we love about summer, but we had a hard time thinking up how to make this blog post special after last week's entry, but fortunately we did come up with something! 

#THSChallenge 2nd Week of Summer :: Tips For Summer Proofing Your Look [Part 2]

If you haven't read part 1 then we suggest you read that first~! 

Took us a while (and a lot of Photoshop/InDesign) but we've finally finished the other two pages of our 'magazine spread' with our tips on how to stay cool while still looking good this summer, so enjoy!

#THSChallenge 2nd Week of Summer :: Tips For Summer Proofing Your Look [Part 1]

Week 2: Tips For Summer Proofing Your Look - Give all your tips and tricks for how you keep yourself cool and looking good during the summer, this isn't just restricted to make-up either, you can branch out to other aspects of fashion or outside fashion all together. 

In our last installment of our Summer challenge we told you guys our plans for this summer and one of those was that we wanted to try out different ways of writing and presenting blog posts to you guys; last week we used the medium of poetry, but today we went with something a little closer to home. Since we are all about fashion and lifestyle, we thought, where do people usually read about that stuff? Magazines! So this week's blog post is going to be in magazine article format. This took quite a while to put together but we have to admit we had a LOT of fun doing it. 

Actually, last summer Harmony wrote an extensive post on how to summer-proof all the aspects of your make-up look, so this time around, we're going to make it a little more personal by talking about all the things we are actually doing and products we are actually using this summer to look good while still keeping cool. Enjoy~

(Hint: You may want to click the pic so you can zoom in)