Oufi Giveaway

I promise more photos from lela rose shortly. Until then I want to take a moment to say a huge thank you. I have been busier than ever and am currently booking summer projects. You support has been amazing. In honor of the busy week I have teamed up with oufi to giveaway this special Kelly bag. To enter you must follow the blog. (feel free to say hi to oufi and myself over at twitter as well)

in addition to enter you need to post below a link to an article of clothing you might wear this bag with! We'll choose a favorite look one week from today. For inspiration, here is what I would wear this with:

adam, gryphon, sigersonmorrison, dianakane

High Heel Shoes for High Fashion Models

I learned my lesson when I was just starting to photograph fashion models

lela rose resort show

Yesterday, between meetings I was invited to attend the lela rose resort presentation- in the home of lela rose. Not only was the new line stunning- so was her home. The models you see here are on her dining room table... Here is a photo I snapped at the presentation. More photos from the amazing show soon.

lela rose

Today I am back in nyc- for lela rose resort. I love her work, Here are some favs from previous shows. If you want to see pics from the show, I'm bringing my twitter followers as my guests :)

Fashion Trends High Heels Shoes Women

For some people they are a symbol of distinction and elegance, other people see them as a sexual fetish and for almost all women they are a torture they wear on their feet. However, it is an indispensable accessory for all kind of events. High heels are in fashion again in different styles: Peep toe, Stilettos or Louboutin. There are heels for all preferences.

get out there!

The weather has been just amazing. I have been a bit on the busy side but dying to get out there and enjoy it. Here are some of my favorite green things this week!

sarahklassen, naturescabitnet, amyruppel

poolside at the parker

Good morning! Would like to introduce a new summertime post project. Each Monday throughout the summer a post will appear "poolside at the parker" which will feature beautiful photos of the parker palm springs- and looks to match. If you have your own look to submit for a future post email dallasshawdesign@gmail.com for review.

With that said: happy Monday and here are this weeks picks, for poolside at the parker.

clutch christian louboutin, shoes azzadine alai, dress tibi, ring juicy, lipstain tarte

♥ S.H 'Strobe Light' with Franken ♥

Here is a pretty franken I made using Claire's 'Matte Cobalt', Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear 'Flirt' and Billie 'White'. This was 3 coats with 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat. This colour is really cool ~ I will hunt around for something to compare it to; as well as a cool name for it. I wore this franken plain for the day, then added a coat of Sally Hansen 'Strobe Light'  {{{which I have had for almost 3 months without wearing!}}} I am extremely impressed with the glitter payoff from one coat of S.H. 'Strobe Light'.

At the moment I am soooooooooo busy doing around the house things as well as crafty things which I will post about.......... eventually.  I  am behind on my blog reading as well as posting. I miss posting my own mani's as well as my franken creations & reading all the nail blogs and seeing the cool nail art people do.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Sun/Shade

Shade

Sun

Shade

With 1 coat of Sally Hansen Strobe Light ~ Shade

Sun

♥

too cool for spool

new at spool 72
ALSO today please check out this great post. Thank you so much BagSnob! xo

new at pieces inc

I cannot wait to fill up my place with whits and woods from pieces.

(Please open a store closer to me. I'll run it for you.)

new favs at thread

there are some summer stripes over at thread that may be an all time favorite.

 ps) we are chatting about style ocins today at twitter. if you are there - send some!

♥ S.H. Insta Dri - 'Mint Sprint' ♥

S.H. Insta Dri  Mint Sprint 2 coats wit 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat

Indoor Fluorescent Lighting

I imagined this would be a much lighter shade....but it is a 'dusty mint creme'. When I think of the colour mint = I think of the yummy minty center of an "After Eight" { they are white inside now - but they used to be light green }.  I want to call this polish shade a teal color, they could have made up a snazzy rhyme over at S.H. Headquarters..... maybe "Teal Deal" or "Teal Feel-ings" or " Teal...... Teal..... ummm something else that rhymes with Teal.

This applied perfectly and dried FAST, I am starting to warm up to these Insta Dri polish's, but I would reach for an X-treme wear before these Insta Dri's any day..... even though they have some fabulous colours in the Insta Dri collection.

I am seriously considering inventing some type of dust capturing nail polishing chamber.Some days I have no problems and other days I seal in 2 or more pieces of noticeable fluff and dust. Any tips? Because this is ridiculous.

Sun

Shade

Shade with Flash

Shade

SunShine

Shade

Shade with Flash

♥

getting here and there

dreaming of pretty transportation today.

petitcheri, frenchcloud

♥ Billie - 'Rose' ♥

2 coats Billie White and 3 coats of Billie Rose - no Top Coat

 Wow this is bright - The sunshine picture of this is something else! Taking photos of bright neon's and fluorescent polish's is next to impossible, they really do look their best in the shade anyway, so thats how I will photograph them from now on. 

I started with 2 coats of Billie French White, then a coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat and made sure it was dry. I then applied 3 thin coats of Billie Rose, which thankfully dried extremely fast. I kinda like the weird finish these Billie fluorescent polish's have when they dry; but this wont last long, hence the no top coat, I had some things to paint and fix-up so I just enjoyed this burst of colour for the afternoon only!

HERE is the Page with all my Billie polish's along with some info on where to buy these in Canada ( lucky Ontario Girls) and HERE is the last time I wore this polish = Its so nice to see how well my photography skillz have grown since I started blogging♥

Shade

Sun...... er......ummmmmmmmmmm

@ 2 coats fo Billie French White with 1 coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat

Indoor Fluorescent

Indoor Fluorescent

♥

joy thigpen...

your photos are stunning.

and can I please have this dress.

(flowers in her hair, photo c.o jose villa. joy thigpen. dress via bhughesbridal)

fashion illustration

As a fashion illustrator and painter, I love seeing unique ways people use fashion illustrations in interiors. Really loving this one. (Especially the gold frames.)

do you have my illustrations or other fashion illustrations in your home? how would you display them?