NEW SERIES! || Talking Trends Ep 1 : The Negative Space Trend

Trends are always changing, whether its fashion or memes, slang or TV shows, it can be a bit hard to keep up -- which is why I decided to make this series where I give you the details of the latest trends! 

In this episode I'll be talking about the 'Negative Space' fashion trend that swept across the West last fall and is continuing into 2017. I'll give you all the details and styling tips you need to know so no one will end up giving you the cold shoulder ;D 

Be sure to let me know what your thoughts are about this new series by rating this post and leaving a comment of what you want to see next! 

- H A N -

Taking Stock : Winter 2016/17 || Finding The Balance

Hey guys! We're already almost through with January, isn't that crazy? 2017 is already in full flow. Anyhow, as the beginning of the year still represents the start of a new journey, I thought now would be the perfect time to do my seasonal stock take! 

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Today is January 15th 2017 and I am: 

- MAKING - The latest series for my EGL fashion brand, Heaven's Atrium, its going to be called 'Queen's Window' and it's based of the queen's window from St. Hilarion Castle in Cyprus that I visited with my beloved elder sister last easter.  

- COOKING - Nothing, because I'm going to get food (probably at McDonalds) from the food court before work. 

- DRINKING - Once again nothing, but I'll probably get a bottle of water soon. 

- READING - "Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear' to learn more about the technical side of creating clothes and make my designs look even more professional. 

- WANTING - My dissertation research to do itself so I can focus on my businesses OTL 

- LOOKING - For a flight to Japan for less than 500 pounds because I want to go see my friend (and vlog!) but I ain't ballin'! OTL

My First Bullet Journal Flip Through!

Whooop! The first video of 2017 is finally here, and as is basically obligatory, it's about last year! ;D 

On a more serious note tho, you guys have asked for this flip through, so there's no way I couldn't deliver; I highly recommend you get some refreshments before endeavoring to watch this short film (LOL) about my first bullet journal! 

[#Vlogmas Day 5] Travel Log: A Day In The Life

Okay, so today was one of the few days this vlogmas that I knew was definitely going to be a blog post ahead of time, and that's for one simple reason: I don't have time! You guys all know how I am with uploading on time - although, you've gotta admit I've been pretty good so far - but it is honestly because I have so much going on. To better illustrate what I mean, I'm going to take you guys around with me and show you what I do on a typical day!

[7:32am] Wake Up

[#Vlogmas Day 4] Christmas in Korea vs the UK

Okay, I was straight up exhausted when editing this video (and I'm going to sleep right after it's uploaded XD) so unfortunately I don't have my usual humorous on-screen comments today~ 

But that being said, I hope you guys enjoy this video and you find out something interest that you didn't know before! Also, if you have any interesting traditions in your culture, be sure to let me know too~!

I'll be seeing you guys, back here on the blog tomorrow~! 

- H A N -

[#Vlogmas Day 3] My Christmas Wish List

I knew getting a video out this weekend would be difficult since I work both Saturday and Sunday, but it turned out to be damn near impossible! That being said, the festivities must continue, so today I'm bringing you guys my first Christmas-related vlogmas entry~! 


Okay, so I'm actually the type who prefers giving more than I like receiving gifts - mainly because I think I'm great at picking presents - but also because I feel like I'm slowly getting to that age where what I want is too expensive for anyone to buy me OTL Yes, I'm getting old....

BUT SINCE THIS IS A WISH LIST, LET'S GO WILD ;D

[#Vlogmas Day 2] Chatty GRWM : My Current Go-To Everday Look

Real talk guys, as much as editing out my verbal diarrhea nearly killed me, I actually really enjoyed recording this kind of video and just being able to have a chat! 

I did end up talking mainly about makeup today, but maybe in future I can talk about different topics? Lemme know if you'd like to see more of these kind of videos, and what topics you'd like me to talk about~  

Also, don't forget to look out for today's hint towards the Christmas surprise~! 

- H A N -

[#Vlogmas Day 1] The Han Clan's First Vlogmas!

I have finally submitted to the highest form of masochism, and I've publicly committed to making new content - video or blog post - for you guys EVERY SINGLE DAY until Christmas! 

I'm super excited for what's in store, and I hope you guys will play a big part of making this vlogmas super fun and special! There's also a massive surprise that I'm keeping until the end, but I'll be giving you hints every single day to help build your anticipation! Today's hint is:

"Here's a pieces of me that you can keep"

If you think you know what it is, be sure to leave a comment; remember that the success of this vlogmas is dependent on you guys participating, so I hope we get to interact a lot! 

Anyhow, that's all from me today, I'll see you guys TOMORROW!? 

- H A N -

Taking Stock: Autumn 2016 || Painting The Future

Hey guys, Han here~!

This week is my reading week at uni - essentially a week off to catch up on homework for those of your not familiar with the UK school system - so I'm nothing short of snowed under with work. But in a bid to recharge, I took a break to roam around the internet (as you do) and I came across this great post idea called 'Taking Stock' on my best friend's blog - her name is Wunmi and she's legit the most exemplary person I know; don't worry, I'll introduce her to you in due time ;D 

Anyhow! Back to the post: in short 'Taking Stock' is all about self-reflection which is something I love to do, and I thought this would be a great way for you guys to get to know me too, since it covers a lot of stuff I usually don't get to talk to you guys about. I plan to keep my answers 'short' (ha!) but hopefully from reading this you'll learn something new about me, and also start to reflect on yourself a bit too! 

(N.B. I wrote this a few days ago, but so much has changed in that time so all my side comments will be in this colour)

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Goodbye To The Han Siblings: Why I Changed My Name

As I'm sure many of you have noticed by now, my channel name is no longer going by 'The Han Siblings', but rather 'The Han Aesthetic' and I will now be referring to myself as Han instead of Harmony or Hanzel. This post is just going to be a brief explanation of why I made this change and how this will affect my channel and content. 

The Blog Is Back!

Hey guys! It's been a long time since I've greeted you from here, but I come bearing good news: 

The blog is back! 

Earlier this year I told you guys I was putting this blog on indefinite hiatus because I couldn't manage posting on here and YouTube all at the same time, but recently it's been in the back of my mind and I've finally come up with a way for it to be useful again. However, things are going to work a little differently from how they used to before - rather than running this blog alongside my YouTube channel, I'll be using it as a backup of sorts. 

Essentially since I'm now covering a wider range of topics, and also trying to increase my videos' value of production, each individual video takes a longer amount of time to film and edit that before. So rather than keeping you guys waiting, I thought I could at least upload some simpler but still relevant content up here on the blog.

In layman's terms: video = no blog post, and blog post = no video. 

I know some people just don't like reading so I'll do my best to keep blog posts short, but I just want to make sure you guys always have some form on new content coming to you on a weekly basis. I also plan to try and make the content on my blog a sort of a BTS (not the boy band) so you guys can see more about things that don't usually make it to video such as mini hauls, easy DIYs and stuff like that. 

 I'll do my best to keep a balance between videos and blog posts where possible, I just don't want to leave you guys waiting while I work to put out a video I'm proud of. I hope you guys all look forward to all that's to come, because trust me, it's gonna be great! 

- H A N -

P.S. Note the new URL: www.thehanaesthetic.blogspot.com ;O 

Maybelline’s ‘The Blushed Nudes' Palette || First Impressions & Swatches

It’s ironic actually, just recently I was working on a new spring-summer makeup look; romantic, a fine balance between mattes and sparkles - Korean inspired obviously - and using a lot of blush and gold colours. As I was doing so, I remember picking up my 4th eye shadow palette needed for the look and thinking: “How great would it be if there was one palette with all the colours I wanted in it..."

Cue Maybelline.

I kid you not when I say I literally have every colour in this palette already, but I just didn’t have them together! I don’t know how Maybelline heard my prayer but this palette has definitely been the answer.

Mid-Hiatus Update || Where The Heck Have We Been!?

If there’s one thing we’re not good at, it’s consistency; we know, you don’t need to tell us... 

That said, it’s very much so a problem we’re aware of and constantly working towards fixing. It’s been a fair couple of months since we last posted any content on our YouTube channel and even longer on our blog/website, while we do have some valid reasoning, that doesn’t change the fact that we should and can do better.

Over the last two months a lot has happened: the school year was ending (though we still have exams) so we were extremely busy, then Harmony went away on a week’s trip to Cyprus with our elder sister, and then we decided to make a huge business move - which we’ll elaborate on shortly - so a lot has been happening during the time we were away.

But, rather than justifying why we’ve been away yet again, this time we want to talk about how what we’ve been doing will hopefully mean that we can improve our consistency in future, which is where this ‘huge business move’ comes in.

[FEATURE] Ulzzang :: How to Vary Your Style? (by DANI)

:: Picture added by Harmony ::

When it comes to Korean makeup & fashion, you've probably heard people say that it all looks the same, especially the Ulzzang style. That's why recently we've been discussing a lot within our community how we can all expand our styles and create more variation without diverting from the Ulzzang look. Cue DANI, a member of our facebook community, who came along with such a great point, I had to share it with you guys!

Disclaimer: I have received DANI's permission to share her post, and as she doesn't have any public pages, unfortunately I can't give you any links. Everything inside the speech marks (",") is a direct quote from DANI's original post - though I may have formatted slightly (eg, added paragraphs) - everything outside that is my added commentary as indicated ^^ Enjoy~! 

Hello 2016 || 2015 Recap & New Year's #Goals

IT'S 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Yeah and that's about as far as the excitement goes.) 

Okay, really though, we've never really been 'big' on the whole New Year's hype thing, to us it's really just another day, but we do also thing it's a great reminder for all of us to look back and see how far we've come, appreciate the things that have been done for us and set ourselves goals for the future (not just the new year) based on the things we've learned~ so that's what we're going to do in this post :3 

Dubai Haul || Sephora, Duty Free, New Yorker & More!

As those of you who follow us on SNS already know, this Christmas holiday we went to Dubai with our family on a short but fun packed family holiday. Of course when travelling, shopping is always on the to do list and our mum was kind enough to give us some spending money which Hanzel kindly gave to me since he isn't very big on shopping <3 

I'm already planning a couple of haul videos revolving around my Otome clothes haul and the Colour Pop haul video that I promised you guys coming in the new year, and I didn't want to bombard you with another haul video, so instead I'm writing this post. I bought quite a bit so I tried not to go into too much detail but still give you a brief idea into why I bought them~

『「乙女系」というのは？』 What is Otome-kei?

Previously I've introduced you to underrated/unknown (life)styles like Mori and MODE-kei, as well as lesser understood ones such as Dansou, but this time I'm going to be passing the spotlight to a predecessor style that even most of its Lolita descendants have never heard of! 

My Fashion Identity? || November Epiphany

TL;DR: I've been thinking a lot about my style, in regards to: what I wear and why I wear it, and also what I'd like to wear but have never tried. After a series of events, discoveries, and a lot of personal evaluation, I've decided to expand my style and try the styles I've always dreamed about rather than restricting myself to one look. In this post, I basically want to tell you a bit about where I found my inspiration (and hopefully you can to!) as well as some info on the new 'style identity' and the styles I'm going to be challenging: Lolita, Otome and Mori! 

I put the tl;dr at the start of this post because it's most likely going to be a long one, and if you can't be bothered to read that, then at least watch this short video explaining (very badly) what I'm going to be talking about: 

Now that that's said and done, I've broken all the information up into questions to make it easier for you to find whatever you're interested in, so read on to have all of your questions answered! ^^

HYPER JAPAN Christmas Market Mini-Haul || Dreamy Bows & Minori Fan Merch

As you probably already know from my last post, I visited an event called Hyper Japan last week, and one of my main objectives was to buy a few things for my start in something new and exciting - I'm not going to tell you what just yet, but I'm sure you'll get a hint or two in this post! 

Admittedly my main objective was to buy clothing  HUGE HINT ALERT  but unfortunately I didn't quite come across what I was looking for, however I was lucky enough to come across some cute accessories instead. 

[SPAZZ] I Met Shironuri Artist, Minori! (Fan Account)

Wheeeeerrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee ddddoooooooo IIIIIIIIII bbbbeeeeeeeeggggiiiiiinnnnn? 

Disclaimer: This being a fan account, means there will be copious amount of fangirling, if you can't handle it, then I suggest you don't read for the sake of your own sanity~ 

Last Friday I attended an event called HYPER JAPAN Christmas Market, which is a Japanese cultural event in central London. One of the main reasons I went to this event was to get a chance to meet a fashion celebrity I have been following for years now, and that would be Shironuri Artist, Minori! 

Minori is a prime example of how one can transcend the fashion world and become a true 'artist', even though Shironuri existed long before her, she was the one who really propelled the style with her unique makeup and outfits, both of which really are works of art! One of the things I respect about Minori is that she makes all of her outfits, (or should I call them art pieces??) so she can really express her style. She's fearless, but also sweet and humble. 

Anyhow, now you know of the glory that is Minori-sama, let me tell you about our encounter! 

The meet with Minori was organised by a UK Lolita group called 'The Tea Party Club' so we all got to sit in a circular formation and talk and eat with Minori. After everyone was settled and eating, we were allowed to approach Minori and talk to her or ask her questions or for autographs and pictures and whatever else we desired - within reason, of course. 

I did feel kinda bad for her at first because since food was served first, she was interrupted while eating a number of times and did eventually give up on eating altogether, but even then she still greeted everyone that came up to her with a smile. She also looked really tired because she'd just flown into the country the day before from Bangkok(? - I don't remember exactly where but I saw it on her SNS) but despite her red eyes she was lively and active for the whole event.