Must wear: Orange

Hi,  I am back with a new must wear: Color. This time it is orange! Although this pretty mix of red and yellow exists in many shades, it is a rare color of nature. You will find it mostly in fruits (the orange :-P, peach, apricot), vegetables (pumpkin, melon, carrot) and in flowers (gerbera, parrot flower). For me it looks like an artificial, mechanical color.

My first orange item is a handbag/purse. It’s pretty big (25 cm x 30 cm x 12 cm) so I can fit all my necessary (but most of the time unnecessary) things in it.

Some details about the bag:

As accessories I like to use:

Scarf

Colorful bracelet

Orange shade nail polish (to see these shades on nails please visit:  http://lililalanailblog.blogspot.com/)

I would recommend wearing vibrant shades of orange (like the ones in my post) only if you have a darker / olive skin tone. If you are paler or have blond hair you should try the pastel shades (ex. apricot). You really don’t want the color to wear you!

I prefer to associate orange with black or white (Of course!!! These two are the perfect colors. They match with everything), with darker brown and blue (especially jeans). The complementary color of orange is azure (blue) so it can be worn with blue nail polish too. 

Must wear: RED

My love story with the color red started last summer and I can now proudly confirm the fact that it wasn't just a summer-love. I still like to wear it! :-)

My favorite items are:

• Red purse with ribbon

The ribbon (detail):

The inside (detail):

 

• Red belt. I brought it from C&A for 30 RON (7 EUR, 8 USD).

• Must have: Red shoes (my nr. 1 favorite!!!). I brought it at Deichmann for 99 RON (23 EUR, 28 USD) last year.

Must read: Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

I just started reading Bridget Jones’s Diary for the second time! Although I (fortunately!!!)  can not identify myself with the main character, I really enjoy Jones’s humor. I also saw the movie and when reading it I picture myself Renée Zellweger and her round cheeks.  You can order the book on www.ebay.com or download it from here.

Source: www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155/

Some of my favorite quotes:

“I looked at her wistfully, her vast, bulbous bottom swathed in a tight red skirt with a bizarre three-quarter-length striped waistcoat strapped across it. What a blessing to be born with such Sloaney arrogance. Perpetua could be the size of a Renault Espace and not give it a thought. How many hours, months, years, have I spent worrying about weight while Perpetua has been happily looking for lamps with porcelain cats as bases around the Fulham Road? She is missing out on a source of happiness, anyway. It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth or power but the pursuit of attainable goals: and what is a diet if not that?”

“Completely exhausted by entire day of date-preparation. Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturized, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised.”

“'Mother,' I said. 'Tom has known he was a homosexual since he was ten.'
'Oh, darling! Honestly' You know how people get these silly ideas. You can always talk them
out of it.'
'Does that mean if I talked to you really persuasively you'd leave Dad and start an affair with
Auntie Audrey?'”

I promise to be back with more as I go on with the reading!