Cat's Meow

While I was in Hong Kong, Voodoo Vixen asked me to choose a few pieces and seeing as how I love all their vintage inspired pieces I was beyond excited! I ended up choosing a few adorable dresses, one of them being this Kitty dress! It's not typically something that I would go for but I love cats and I love the shape of the dress so it ended up calling out to me. I'm so glad it did because I think it's really adorable! I'm hoping to do my hair pin up style and style this a bit differently sometime soon.
Check out Voodoo Vixens cute retro, pinup and rockabilly styles in XS - 4X here.

 Kitty Dress c/o Voodoo Vixen/ Shoes Aldo

Liesl Binx A/W 15

I fell in love with Seattle designer Liesl Binx and all her stunning pieces the moment I laid eyes on her organza tank dress *insert heart eye emojiz* last year. All her pieces are handmade with luv (ethical fashion everyone!!) and I cannot agree more with her mission statement:

"Her mission is to challenge people to be comfortable in their own skin regardless what mainstream fashion tells us what we, “can & cannot wear.”

 I've been anxiously awaiting her newest A/W15 Collection and was extremely excited when I opened my email yesterday evening to see that she had sent me her latest lookbook! It's 70's inspired and I'm loving everything about it! The colour palette is seriously stunning and I'm already imagining a million ways of how I would style all these gorgeous pieces. My favourites are definitely the Midi Taffeta Skirt, Deep-V Dress, Mock Neck Tunic, Culottes and Asymmetrical Wrap Dress.

Shop her latest collection here!

Exploring Macau

I've had a bit of an overwhelming Summer, spending a majority of it in Hong Kong has definitely taken a toll on me. It's a completely different lifestyle in Hong Kong/Macau vs Canada. I feel much more at peace and balanced here than the constant hustle and bustle I endured over there. Not to mention I came back with family from Macau who have never been here before (aka I was their tour guide for the 2 weeks they spent here and was constantly busy). I've finally readjusted and am slowly getting back on track with things. I finally had the chance to look over some of the photos from my trip (which I will be sharing soon), and wanted to share one of my fave outfits.

 I'll be completely honest I did not pack properly for this trip seeing as I've never been to Hong Kong in the Summer and was expecting it to be pretty hot, not the sweltering everyday totally humid heat that it was. I was ~*literally*~ melting 24/7 (also my camera lens was foggy every single time I took it out). Luckily, I packed a few key pieces that I practically lived in. Including these culottes from New Look and tank from ASOS and my fave summer bag from Topshop. I also ended up getting a few new running shoes since you spend 96% of your time walking everywhere. My cousin was nice enough to pick me up some cute metal toe pony hair Adidas runners from Harvey Nichols.

I made a second trip to Macau before I left Hong Kong and was thinking we'd only be there for the day (turned into 3 days). We ended up spending the day doing a crazy amount of sight seeing, I'm pretty sure I saw all the major landmarks in the span of 8 hours. It was honestly amazing being able to adventure and see all these stunning places (which I will share with you all soon). One of my favourite spots was definitely A-Ma temple, I felt the most at peace the whole trip atop of the mountain overlooking Macau.

Tank ASOS/ Necklace Urban Outfitters/ Culottes New Look/ Metal Toe Pony Hair Adidas via Harvey Nichols/ Bag Topshop

Cottage Lounging with 10 Dollar Mall

While I was in Hong Kong 10 Dollar Mall reached out to see if I'd like to collaborate. I was intrigued by the name and soon found out everything on their site is under $10!! I was super excited that such a place existed and had plus size clothes! I was ecstatic to see what the quality would be like (any clothes under $10 - aside from sales, seemed tooo good to be true). I ended up choosing a cute plain mint striped dress and was pleasantly surprised! It wasn't made of silk or anything fancy, but the stitching was good and the dress wasn't sheer ( I was afraid it would be crazy see through). I brought the dress to the cottage and lounged around on my cell phone by the fire. I love this cute dress and I seriously recommend checking out 10 Dollar Mall - so many cute cheap things!

Dress c/o 10 Dollar Mall/ 100% Boys Tears Case Valfre/ Sandals c/o Charlotte Russe

*Photos by Christopher Vanier