The Serial Shopper - Moroccan fashion and photography blog.: makeup

A white christmas

1/16/2014

Back in Morocco my family and I do not celebrate christmas. It's just not part of our moroccan traditions. But this year, since I happened to be staying in Paris for the christmas holidays, I did gather with some friends and two of my sisters around that oh-so-famous christmas tree.

We decided to add our little touch to the celebration and played "secret santa": each person had to buy a gift without knowing who it was going to go to. So you can only guess how hard it was to find something that could work for both boys and girls...

When it came to the food though, we respected the traditions and stuffed our stomachs (okay maybe we also added a moroccan dish or two to the menu).

As for my outfit, I really had no clue what I could wear since most of my fancy clothes I left in Morocco. I eventually came up with this little white combination which made me think of that famous song "White christmas".

I hope you like the pictures and I'll be back very soon with some news to share with you !

Our dear host also prepared a moroccan tajine...

...and other moroccan treats.

I think I got the most adorable gift of all !

Top, Promod

Pants, Zara

Shoes, little boutique in Casablanca

Necklace, Stradivarius

beauty

DIY: Ombre nails

8/20/2012

Hi guys! I know I've been a little bit missing in action these days and I'm sorry about that but a recent loss in my family made me take a few days off the computer.

Now I feel ready to resume blogging and before I share with you my next outfit post, i just wanted to show you a nice nail design that I've been liking to do lately.

You need:

-colors of your choice
-clear topcoat
-sponge
-piece of plastic (or paper)
-cotton buds
-nail polish remover

put a drop of black naipolish on a piece of plastic or paper

use a sponde to dab the black nailpolish at the root of the nail

use coton swab to remove the nailpolish on your skin

Voila! You can also do it with different color combinations and why not add more colors to the design? I can picture this look in a gradient of deep blues or reds or any other colors that you have in different shades... Get creative!

Nonetheless, i have made a few mistakes while doing this :

-first off, for this particular color combination, I should never have done it on short nails cause it made them look even shorter…

-second thing, and this applies to any color combination, I should have mixed the two colors I chose to create a third one that would work as a bridge color between the two first and make the ombre effect smoother...

*here is another example of ombre nails that I did on my sister*

another example of ombre nails in red and orange

I hope you liked this ombre nail tutorial and also let me know if you want more beauty related posts in the future...

xx,

Meelena

accessories

Refreshment!

5/30/2012

New Kenzo perfume. I have tried to recreate the fruity romantic feel of this frangrance on these pictures...

I'm not a "perfume girl". I don't have thousands of perfumes. I like to buy three to the max and stick to them. They somehow become MY perfumes, people think about me when they find those smells... You get me ?

This is my favourite print of the whole MARNIxH&M collection. I initially wanted the coat but couldn't find it...

New nude heels I'm gonna wear to an upcoming event. Pictures coming... (you WANT to see that!!!)

Suede shoes I bought a couple of months ago...

New Calvin Klein mini clutch my sister gave me as a gift.

Cute little pouch from Fossil. Also a gift from my sister.

Three lip products I currently use: L'oréal lipstick that I use overtop of a lipbalm during winter...

...red lipstick from Yves Rocher and my current favourite lipbalm AKA Le Petit Marseiller.

In love with this necklace I got at Aldo!

FINALLY !!

I did it! I changed the design of the blog! TheSerialShopper now has a new look, fresher, brighter, better! Don't you think so?

After a little while thinking I should switch to a white background, I finally held my courage and took the plunge. I didn't know it would be so hard to take this decision but I guess I was really attached to the old TSS look...

Although, I have to admit, the black background wasn't really complimenting the pictures and I guess it wasn't very comfortable for your eyes, right?

Anyways, I'm very happy with this new look and I really hope you like it too!!
Tiny little changes are still to come but that's pretty much what the blog is gonna look like from now on.

Let me know what you think...

xx,

Meelena.

P.S: Expect outfit pictures on the next post...

blogueuse mode marocaine

Black tips

11/23/2011

Black tip nails were everywhere lately and I 've always thought they looked gross but then I guess I got used to it and even started liking it so this is why I decided to try it today.

So all you need to make this version of it is a pale pink nailpolish, a black one and a clear top coat.

Start with applying the pale pink nailpolish (I used only one coat) ...

Then apply the black one to the tip of your nails. If you don't feel comfortable applying it directly use the little stickers that you get with all the French Mani sets.

Although I was doing this for the first time I decided to try the "direct" option...