Fashion Shows + Dublin Fun | Dublin Fashion Festival 2014



Fashion (noun):

1. a popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour.

2. a manner of doing something.



The weekend of Thursday the 5th to Sunday the 8th of September was when the Dublin Fashion Festival took place. It's basically Dublin's fashion week, but not as big as London or New York... maybe soon it will be! I attended last year to an event in Dublin during the festival, which you can read about here, and it was fun, but 2014; a lot better. I didn't go to every activity on in the city centre, but I made the most of it. I definitely want to get more involved with the festival in Transition Year; it's brilliant and improves as the years go on.

I went to the Creative Quarter Fashion Show on the Friday evening with my mum. It was held in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre (love it there) and it was set up very sophisticatedly and everyone was wearing the coolest, most stylish outfits (how could you not?!). The Creative Quarter Fashion show was supposedly one of the 'highlights of the festival'. I was let in a bit early, as I was a 'little blogger', and the organisers claim me as 'part of the media' (thanks for that Mum!). I'd say half of those who attended the show were bloggers! I stationed on the balcony above the catwalk and snapped pictures of the looks; lots of sequins, feathers, wools, and retro ensembles for the A/W 14 season. The host, blogger Angela Scanlon, was good at show casing the looks.

My Outfit

Dress: American Eagle

Tights: M&S

Shoes: Dunnes Stores

Necklace: Forever 21

Jacket: Forever 21

Isn't this graffiti cool?! I love creative street art that looks appealing!

On Sunday the 8th, I travelled on the Luas again to head back into the centre for a bit of shopping therapy. I was accompanied by my two trusty friends, Caroline and Mia. We hoped for a bit more fashion than we got that day on Grafton Street; the Fashion Bus, that we planned to have a look at and maybe go into, was closed. We took photos of it nonetheless.

When we arrived, we needed some grub. We took out lunch from O'Brien's to eat in St. Stephen's Green. Caroline and Mia had sandwiches and I had chicken Caesar salad, which was very tasty. After posing for a few photos for our OOTDs, the three of us shopped till we dropped!
Topshop, Only and Lush are just a few of the stores we browsed. I bought a choker, my first ever Lush products *gasp*, and a gorgeous maroon top. I have quite a love for the colour; autumn and Tumblr vibes and Maroon 5 are to blame.
You can see what I got at the end of the post as well as the DFF goodie bag I received from the fashion show!



Caroline's Outfit:

Top: Diesel

Leggings: Jack Wills

Shoes: Clarks

Bag: Shop in London

Mia's Outfit

Top: Berska

Shorts: Forever 21

Shoes: Converse

Bag: From Mallorca/Majorca

Rings: Topshop

My Outfit

Top: River Island

Jeans: Zara

Shoes: same as before

Bag: Kipling

Scrunchie: Penney's/Primark

What I Bought / Got

And now, it's time to analyse whether this year's goodie bag was any improvement from last year...

A Galaxy bar (eaten straight away)

Special K Biscuit Moments and Cracker Crips

Palmolive, L'Oreal, Maybelline, Colgate and Comfort Creations (I mean, wow) samples

Chewing gum

Vouchers and brochures

and a Compeed plaster once again!

Well, Dublin Fashion Festival, your goodie bags were, alright... Haha!

What I bought from Lush!

Choker from Topshop. Top from Only

I hope you enjoyed reading about my Dublin Fashion Festival experience.



My Foundation and Brow Routine

So... make up...

Even though I'm really into them, I don't always follow routines. This is more like what make up I wear if I want full coverage - the look I'd go for for special events. The bare minimum; concealer and powder. My essentials. But, today, I shall present to you how I like to hide my entire collection of imperfections with most of my face make up and how I fix up those brows, and will display shocking before and after photos.

Enjoy!



Me with zero make up (it's alright if you gasped)

1. After moisturising, primer is the way to go, especially an instant pore eraser that has a lovely texture, like Maybelline's Baby Skin.

2. I'm attempting to get into the habit of putting on eye-makeup first, but since I wasn't doing my eyes here, I moved on to eye brows. One product is all I need! Maybelline's Brow Drama Brow mascara. I like my eye-brows natural and just need to tame them to get them the way I want. I'm not a fan of filling them in heaps; looks too... artificial... on me anyway.

3. Conceal the spots and under eye circles is what I do next, with my trusty Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer.

4. Now it's time for the actual foundation! I'm loving these two; the MAC Face and Body Foundation and the Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation. High end vs. high street; which is better? Since I've only had the Rimmel foundation for only a few weeks, I haven't got a full impression yet, but so far, they both seem very alike, in a great way! Light and dewy - my preference precisely! I blend my foundation with my Real Techniques face brush.

5. For my make up to last all day long, the Rimmel Stay Matte powder does just the job. I pat it all over my face with my Real Techniques powder brush.

6. As an addition, Girl Meets Pearl by Benefit is gorgeous. With my fingers, I dab it on the apples of my cheeks for a bit of a glow!



Wowza!