Styling: Pom Pom Earrings | Part 3

It's Sunday, and I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Bad, that the weekend is over, but good because I am bringing part three of my pom pom earring styling posts.

So the final earrings of my trio I have created so far are these hot pink pom poms! These were the first pair that I made and the pair I find easiest to style, I personally think they are the most subtle of the lot.

So I have opted for a fairy casual look with these and throw in elements of smart. Black skinny jeans are always a go-to, and stripes are equally as trusty! I put a plain white tee under this grey and white striped shirt so you're able to unbutton the shirt for a cooler, relaxed look.

My shoe of choice where the worlds comfiest but SLIPPIEST silver loafers. These are quite a classy and smart feature for this look for me, and I think the silver compliments the grey but makes the shoe situation more interesting.

The reason these are the easiest to style (casual or dressy) is because they are a nice size. These are the inbetween size - smaller than the mixed pink, but bigger than the green. I also find that for me personally, they hang at a nice length in comparison to my hair length, and as well are complimentary to my hair colour.

Now that I know how to make these pom pom earrings, I am looking forward to experimenting with colours, and also lengths, as I can cut the chain shorter for the pom pom to hang higher.

    

These have been a lot of fun, both to make and to style, and I hope my choices can be of some inspiration to you. Whether you plan to make your own, or may just wanna go out and see where you could buy some, I definitely say "Go for it!" Be brave, be experimental, and have fun while you do it.

This is the bittersweet end to the Pom Pom Styling trilogy. I have had a lot of fun shooting and styling and I hope you have enjoyed them. Hopefully it was nice to have something a little bit different having three consecutive posts over the weekend.

I will be back with more content before you know it, I have more exciting things to style and share!

See you soon

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Styling: Pom Pom Earrings | Part 2

It's the weekend, and I have a new post to share!!

I shall introduce you to part two of my pom pom earring styling posts. Today I have different pom pom's to share with you than yesterday's, today's are greeeeeen!

For these green pom pom earrings, I have chosen to style them with some blue skinny jeans, these are aaaancient River Island ones. I opted for this really cool MTV burger-style t-shirt with white converse and a forest green blazer (vintage find).

Green and pink work really nicely together, despite red being green's opposing colour. I feel like they're very complimentary of each other and in my opinion, i feel that pink shades soften my face and also help to make the green stand out. 

This is a really comfortable look for me, cool and casual. I decided having my hair up in a messy bun would be the perfect way to pair my hairstyle with my outfit.

Nevertheless, this could totally be dressed up with an alternative hairstyle for a cool-smart look.

I hope you have enjoyed part two with a different pair of pom pom earrings. There may be another to follow tomorrow if you're lucky!
If you think plain hot pink pom pom earrings are your thing, keep your eye out!

See you soon! 

Styling: Pom Pom Earrings | Part 1

Happy Friday!

Something a little different is on it's way for you all this weekend and I am very excited about it!

I'm always up for fun, colourful, unique accessories and pieces to make an outfit look interesting, and currently I am loving this look. Pom pom's on anything will make me fall in love with an item and I was wondering ways in which I could put an outfit together that I could incorporate some pom pom's and have some fun.

So I decided to make some pom pom earrings and style them in a way I personally would. I always like to dress fairly casually, and comfortable for me, while adding elements of fun or smart.

I styled these mixed pink pom pom earrings with these super comfy wide jeans with a dark denim strip around the bottom and a frayed hem, this Paul Smith 'WEEKEND' t-shirt, black shirt-jacket, amazing hot pink ankle socks (unfortunately these photos don't compliment the detail), trusty old skool vans, and a novelty donut bag.

You may have noticed by the title that this is part one of pom pom earring styling. Excitingly, you can expect another pom pom earring styling post tomorrow...exciting for me, don't know about you!

Hope you have enjoyed reading, I have some more style posts planned to go up, but for now, see you soon!

Art Exhibition

Hello, hello, hello.

Hello Stranger! Long time no see! It's been a while! All that jazz. I have returned.

You might be wondering where I have been for the past year and what I have been doing to occupy my time, and this post will hopefully sum some of that up!

So for the past year, from September to very recently, I have been studying on an Art Foundation course. And in all honesty, it has been one of the greatest opportunities and experiences I have had; I've learnt so much, experimented with my skills and interests and produced work I would never have dreamed of ever creating.

At the end of the year, we have an exhibition of our project work to display and celebrate. Now that it is all over, I have more time on my hands than I know what to do with, so I'm deciding to write and share some of the work, thoughts and ideas I have had during my Final Major Project.


My first piece, which if anybody follows my Instagram (@connellaoife), you may have seen, are these comic book covers. So I began exploring female stereotypes in comic books and as it developed, it became pretty feminist based. This led me to producing this series of comic book covers representing feminist issues, each cover features a different character, representing a different issue.

So the next piece that was part of my exhibition, was this series of photographs which explored stereotypes and sexism. I made cut-out speech bubbles and used mannequin heads to create these photographs. I like that there's really something off and creepy about how realistic they look. This was a pretty fun shoot, but with there being two of us in the photos (Dale & I), we relied on the camera timer, which required a certain amount of patience.

I also made a film as part of my exhibition work but unfortunately I'm not able to share that anywhere. The film was a care-free, liberated compilation of clips of myself, dancing to feel-good songs in different locations, as my feminist superhero character.

As the same character, I did a mini photoshoot using action figures and photographing perspective with Batman and Superman. These were really difficult to achieve, but the outcomes are very interesting and exciting, in my opinion.

The two images below are from the end of the night after my exhibition. In the first image, you can see the film projected on the wall of my studio, as well as my superhero cape hung up next to a small shelf. In the second, a close up of the shelf, this was filled with miniatures from the action figure photo shoots I did.

Outfit
I wore this cute Paul Smith 'Wise Up' top with high-waisted, navy H&M stretchy trousers. I paired the outfit with the most amazing blue metallic Next loafers, opted for bright green eyeshadow which still remained fairly subtle, and fun, multi-coloured pom pom earrings from Forever 21.

I hope you have enjoyed looking through some of my work, hearing about what I have done, and seeing what I have worn.

Hope to see you again very soon!

Aoife