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Books

‘The Luminaries’, Eleanor Catton

Unfortunately I had not read any of the previous works by Eleanor Catton, and purchased the book on a whim (not in half directed by the gloriously inky-blue cover), hoping for a book that would transport me away from the mundane act of studying. The Luminaries is foremost a complex web of human relationships and […]

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Books

RIP Terry Pratchett- One Huge Imagination Gone…

  Dear Mr Pratchett, Many times I have leafed through your wonderful Discworld chronicles, expecting to understand why people I knew always loved your books. Then I began to search in them, to look deeper and to read every page like it was an adventure- I could feel the pages speeding up as my eyes […]

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Japan

My December on Instagram

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Fashion & Beauty

The Colour Game

Every couple of months or so, the fashion crowd shifts shades- from pastel to navy, just in time for the changing seasons and below tolerable temperatures. However, there are the new kids on the block who don’t think that wearing seasonal appropriate shades is important. Why not wear canary in winter? Who has defined it […]

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Fashion Weeks

Valentino: Butterflies in Paris

After a first few blurry photos posted up on Instagram showed me just how seriously Valentino took their embroidery this season, I quickly typed up my review based on those blurry images and a bit of help from Style.com up on my site. I have always been fascinated by fashion inspired by the art of […]

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Student

Glamour Magazine Styling Workshop

Working at the Glamour Styling workshops was always some kind of an aspiration- before, at the Fashion Journalism, I learnt a lot, but frankly, made no progress. After creating Stylion and Sparkle my work took a life of its own… Let me show you the more successful workshops, with pretty shoots, make up creation and […]

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Travel UK

Kingston Day Trip

When it comes to recreational time, my idea is usually having a coffee. If I am not, the only reasons are usually because there is something stopping me- in this case, a group of swans. Since the incredibly haunting (and slightly nightmarish) Swan Lake, I have in a sense been obsessed with the feathered white […]

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Fashion & Beauty

Fashion DIY: Sparkle Sneakers

When it comes to shoes, I usually have only one preference- that they have a heel. And maybe that they are pretty. But no matter how many heels my feet can bear, I always need some comfortable shoes that I could wear when not hobbling on stilettos. The usuals are ballet flats, from Salvatore Ferragamo or some other […]