Aussie Curves

Aussie Curves – Cocktail

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Greetings from the Gold Coast!

As I haven’t really had much time this week, what with all the traveling, reading, swimming and eating I have been doing, I realised I hadn’t done my Aussie Curves post this week for Cocktail. But I have done it just in time!

Now cocktail is something that I can really do – I have so many pretty dresses, as Man Piece would say.

However, as I am without camera or really most of the things needed to create an awesome post, this one is mostly going to be a flash back to what I have worn this year.

This year seems to have been one filled with cocktail events for me, particularly for my job and mostly in the last quarter of the year.

I have been lucky enough to be invited to several architecture awards nights and a wedding or two. From this I seem to have accumulated a few really nice dresses.

For this week’s blog post, I am going to show you three of them, as well as the best cocktail venue I have ever been to.

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Aussie Curves – Headwear

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I own a lot of headbands. I love headbands. I blame Gossip Girl. No shame.

I tend to go through phases of wearing them. Currently I’m in an off-phase of wearing them. But there is no way I am going to get rid of them, I will definitely wear them again.

So this week for Aussie Curves – Headwear I have put together a bit of a montage of all the headbands I own. Technically I have more, but the rest of them are packed away in New Zealand. Sad face. I will be reunited one day.

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Pretty much all of my headbands I got for free. The magazine I used to work for in Auckland gets lots of beauty products for review. All of these headbands are from Mita via McPherson’s Products. They can be found at any pharmacy in NZ.

The one I’m wearing on the bottom right I featured in the Races post. These headbands create great fascinators for that type of thing.

Added bonus of this post is that you get to see my new hair colour! I just went with black, but it doesn’t look very black does it? Got a bit of a red tinge to it. It definitely is darker though.

Short and sharp this week. Make sure you check out the other posts from the Aussie Curves ladies below.

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Aussie Curves – Yellow

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When I saw this week for Aussie Curves was yellow I immediately thought of one dress and one dress only.

This one:

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More technically a tunic, I usually wear this on really hot days with a pair of leggings, as pictured above.

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I’ve tried doing many things with this dress, but it always looks better just by itself.

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You might be wondering about the hat. I had it lying around the apartment left-over from my work trivia night (my team dressed up, essentially, as a rainbow. I was yellow. So on the way out of the door to take the photos, Man Piece suggested I use it. I really didn’t know what to do with it. At least it is sparkly.

Short and sharp from me this week. It’s only Tuesday and work is kicking my butt already (deadlines).

Click through below to check out the other Aussie Curves ladies and their yellow outfits.

Dress: City Chic
Leggings: Moda from Target
Shoes: Target
Glasses: Glassons
Hat: costume shop

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Aussie Curves – Black and White

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Black is my signature colour. I love black. White on the other hand is not a colour I have a lot of in my wardrobe.

It’s not that I despise white, but when I wear white, things tend to be spilt on my clothes. White is a stain magnet for me, which is why I tend to avoid it.

So for black and white week, for me, it tends to also mean stripes. So as an added bonus, this is also my stripes catch-up post. Yay!

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This outfit is a fairly typical work outfit for me. Usually I will pair a top with jeans and add my blazer or cardigan. The top itself is a bubble-hem singlet. I actually have three of these now in different colours because they can easily be dressed up or down in summer, so I can wear them to work or with shorts over the weekend. Bonus is that they hide the lumpy bits and give me a smooth line. This might be in part to the fact it is double-layered material.

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I paired the singlet with my new All Zipped Up skinnys. They fit really well and I love the zips. Unfortunately, the day I wore this outfit one of the zips got caught in the entry barriers at the train station and ended up ripping one of the zippers off. I’m yet to figure out how to re-attach it as I need something strong to force the metal back around the zip teeth. Pliers are most likely needed. Sometimes I wish I had my Dad’s toolbox handy.

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I already featured this blazer in my Pink post and I actually can’t praise it enough. When I first bought it, it was a time when I really shouldn’t have been buying anything (in the few weeks before moving to Australia. Tsk tsk.) But I got it on sale, so all is justified, right? Anyway, it has become a staple in my wardrobe and I wear it multiple times a week. It has really been one of the best buys I have ever made. Also, I will reiterate, I think City Chic needs to make it a staple in their line, because black blazers are always a closet must-have. Plus the stripped lining is awesome.

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I am wearing one of my new favourite lipsticks as well. It’s almost not a lipstick, it’s a lipgloss/lipstick mix. It’s L’Oreal Paris Shine Caresse in ‘Princess’, which I got from the October Bellabox. I love it so much that I went down to the Priceline make-up sale and bought it in ‘Milady’ as well, which is a purple-y colour compared to this coral-ish one.

This week has been so busy and hectic, I am so glad it is the weekend. I had good intentions of getting this post up earlier than today, but alas, apparently my social life decided to kick in. I actually can’t describe how exhausting it is when you go out three nights in a row and don’t get home until after 11 on all three nights. Anyway, that’s me for black and white week (and stripes). A bit of a shorter post than usual, but my brain is not functioning at 100% right now.

Make sure to click on the link below to see what the other Aussie Curves ladies put together for their black and white outfits.

Blazer, Singlet, Jeans: City Chic
Shoes: Target (gifted)
Lipstick: L’Oreal Paris Shine Caresse (from Bellabox)

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