Love to inject colours into my everyday outfits or rather what the people in instagram would say #OOTD or outfit of the day. Since it’s Spring and Summer and bold colours are making a comeback, this was what I have come up with by far.
I have a fetish for all things red these days. Not so much for clothes but bags. Whatever I search through the net, I’ll always end up looking at red bags. So what does red actually signify?
Red
Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. It has very high visibility, which is why stop signs, stoplights, and fire equipment are usually painted red. In heraldry, red is used to indicate courage. It is a color found in many national flags.
Red brings text and images to the foreground. Use it as an accent color to stimulate people to make quick decisions; it is a perfect color for ‘Buy Now’ or ‘Click Here’ buttons on Internet banners and websites. In advertising, red is often used to evoke erotic feelings (red lips, red nails, red-light districts, ‘Lady in Red’, etc). Red is widely used to indicate danger (high voltage signs, traffic lights). This color is also commonly associated with energy, so you can use it when promoting energy drinks, games, cars, items related to sports and high physical activity.
Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love.
Pink signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness.
Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
Brown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall.
And how ironic that I don’t own a single red bag? Well if you could count my red CHANEL wallet but that does not categorise as a bag at all. Whenever I say that I will get a red bag I’ll always end up with none or rather other colours. Then I’ll start regretting and all. I’m very determined to get a red bag this time and hope it’s in a form of a ‘B’ 
In short I love RED. Makes me feel more confident as a woman. Here are some of my favourite RED ‘IT’ bags.
While trying to figure out what to wear for an upcoming dinner tomorrow night, what better way then to talk about hijab fashion right? Hijab fashion has come a long way. Muslimahs are no more clad in just abayas or baju kurungs these days. The younger generation is now becoming more hip and trendy and introducing more styles to the hijab sense of style yet maintain that modest look. Loose shirts, coloured maxi dresses, gypsy maxi skirts, togas just to name a few that hijabis have been seen wearing. Shawls too are becoming more uptrend and colourful.
For me particularly I have been closely following a style icon whom I am deeply in love with. Her styles are immaculate. Whatever that she throws on herself is already a style in itself. I’m talking about the uber famous fashion extrodinare Miss Dina Toki O who is from Cardiff, London. First found out about her through facebook and then I found her website, her online shop which sold great shawls and accessories and is ALWAYS SOLD OUT (as the saying goes faster fingers first).From there I grew fond of her fashion sense and always will refer to her pictures for upcoming occasions. She also uploads youtube videos of her many many styles and even has tutorials on donning the hijab the Dina Toki way. I love her segment of Celebrity Looks for less. She really has a way of re-inventing and re-styling the whole look! How impressive.
This is one of my favourite looks from her and I just might try to pull this off at the dinner..
I’m currently reading BRINGING HOME THE BIRKIN by Michael Tonello. I’m nearly halfway there and I must say the book is hilarious. It’s not as so-called bimbotic or rather himbotic (forgot author is a man) as I thought it would be. Rather entertaining I would say. What is the hype anyway about the BIRKIN? Well it IS THE BAG TO HAVE and the most sought after and not anyone can own or have one. There I’ve said it.
I’ve heard from friends that it is not easy to acquire the bag when you’re at the boutique. Ok don’t talk about Singapore. They don’t even have it off the shelf and I’m sure thay have countless requests from customers asking about the bag. I’m talking about overseas mainly Paris and most of the european countries. The staff will scrutinise you first (I think more so to asians) and they will not entertain you if you ask about a certain colour that you want. They’ll just bring out some weird colour for you. And it’s either you take it or leave it. And my advise would be just TAKE IT. The next time you come they’ll be (hopefully) much nicer with the colour.
There is a place that’s easy to attain the Birkin and that is in Tokyo,Japan. I also heard from friends that Tokyo have the most delicious and lushcious colours in store. But of course it comes with a hefty price tag that’s way way more over the top than their counterparts in Europe.
Loving my favourite icon’s extensive range of Birkins. Some bought and some given by her husband David. It’s been estimated that her Birkins are worth an estimated whopping 1.5 million pounds! Such an investment I would say.
Sigh..What chance then does that leave us mere normal people? Do what I do.. ogle more and hope and pray that the bag would just fall and land on my lap.
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