She Loves Blog » Blog

Hello Cherubs!

just a quick one to introduce you to our lovely new products now being stocked at www.saralli.com.au !!

1. LIME CRIME

An American based cosmetics company who produce beautiful, affordable, animal friendly (VEGAN!), bright and fun lippies and eyeshadow dusts! they are a little bit theatrical, a little bit ethereal and a lot fantasy-full! The brand is all about fun, femininity and fantasy! With lots of sparkle and unicorns – and the creator, Doe Deere (perfectly matching name to her brand) is just beautiful, and exudes her brand inside and out, truly inspirational to me!

Doe Deere - creator of LIMECRIME

this leads me to sharing with you my favourite lipsticks from this range! I have 5 in my personal collection, and let me tell you, they DON’T DISSAPOINT! Some are combined with a lipstain to prolong the colour, eg the red and the deep pinks etc, and when I wear these out, I probably only go over it once (perhaps after dinner/or half way through the night) and the colour is still on until I get home!

click to buy here!

My other favourite, is this nude colour below….its very special to me. Kind of a staple shade. I don’t have very big lips, so I never really liked the idea of lipstick. But since buying a few MAC ones and these LIME CRIME shades, i’m totally converted and think I can get away with it on my teeny lips! just has to be styled well! i’m usually all about the eyes when it comes to make up, so a killer smokey eye and this nude shade are actually partners in crime for me now.

click to buy!

Who am I kidding? I pretty much love the whole range, its so hard playing favourites when they are all amazing in their own rights!

click here to see the full range and to order.

Don’t forget, they also do amazing eyeshadow dust colour too! this is my favourite pic, cannot wait to get my hands on it!

medusa

its a baben’ shade of navy, perfect for my smokey eye and nude lip combo!

So next brings me onto something for our fingertips!

2. introducing….Nicole BY OPI. Nicole is the daughter of the OPI founder, so she has come up with an off-shoot product which targets younger girls who are fashion savvy and want on trend fashion nail colours at an affordable price.

The product pretty much speaks for itself, again, sooo many colours and not enough sets of hands for me to want to try them all!!

I have picked out about a dozen of my favourite colours for pre-sale, but they actually have a range of 114 shades! it was so hard to choose! so  if anyone wants something different, let me know because i’m sure they will have it!

the cool thing about Nicole by OPI is also that they collab with celebrities to make their own colour ranges. At the moment, the “Biebs” has his own collection. yep, hows that for a great way to cash in on his fame? very smart me thinks. The colours are actually really  cool, I will be stocking a few of his which I think are on trend right now.

click here to see which colours I have chosen!

but the even better part is that their next collection with be a collaboration with the KARDASHIANS! woo – now were talking!

cannot wait for their collection!

to see the ranges I have chosen, click here!

Anyway, get your orders in ASAP to ensure you get the colours you want in the first drop I get! it takes about 3-4 weeks so if you don’t order now, their will be a much longer wait until you can pretty up your make-up collection!

love, light and colourful kisses!

S xx

Beautiful Sarallian’s….

the time has come to celebrate our 2ND BIRTHDAY! we were actually “born” late 2008, but launched to the big bad world on the 19th June, 2009!!

For those who don’t know about Saralli, here’s a little synopsis on what we have achieved and how much we have grown over our 2 years of existence.

It all started when I brought home a box of Strella fabric headers (eg sample swatches you look at when you buy fabric) because I couldn’t bare to see them go in the bin (we sold it at work).

Every piece of this fabric was ABSOLUTELY breathtaking, I mean, you have never seen anything like it in your life. This fabric company is based in England, and its the kind of fabric you would see on the runways of Milan and Paris, haute couture to the max. Picture massive silk flowers hand stitched onto a hand painted silk satins, some of them you could picture in a magnificent designer bridal gown, others, more suitable for a drag show costume! anyway, I think you get the point.

So I thought – these would look fabulous on headbands!

one of our first creations...

and so it begun…. traditional “sewing nights” every thursday night, and my room mate and I (me Sarah, her Allison, which makes the name Saralli!) worked like machines creating cute one of a kind accessories, from headbands, cuffs and necklaces for 6 months until we had enough stock to hit the markets!

We launched at the Brisbane Young Designer Markets on the 19th June, and for a few months that was where we made our money to keep then buying more materials and branching out to bigger and better things.

Early 2010, we picked up local accessory store Thousand Island Dressing as a stockist, then we started making a special collection of necklaces for Brisbane designer Sacha Drake for her flagship boutique.

She bought it from the Sacha Drake store! woo!

As it became harder to get spots at the markets, I moved out, took the label with me and decided to take on Fashion Week. Saralli’s very first collections were born!

I travelled through Europe in May 2010, and while that was happening, back home, all the great things I was planting seeds for began to bloom. I had been accepted to showcase at MBFF (QLD fashion week runway show). yay! I also was a finalist for Fashion Exposed debut collection, which saw me travelling to Melbourne to set up a small stall in a massive fashion trade show and runway show. This also created a lot of media for Saralli, we were featured in some local media, front cover of MX and loads of online media too. All this while working full time too!

Front cover of MX with beautiful Gaelan x

At the end of 2010, my second collection was born, and was sold online through our website. It was a huge hit, and stores like Littlelace and Jorj Clothing were now Saralli stockists!

Jorj Clothing @ Stones corner

Now mid 2011, with Australian Fashion week also under our belt, Saralli is still hanging in there! we launched our e-commerce online store in March, which has been a huge success! I see a great future for us in online shopping, and am really happy to continue to focus on making great limited edition things, that can be sold to you from the comfort of your home, whenever you want. This is great for me because it makes all the hard work worthwhile when I see the orders coming through, especially from my home town, Brisbane. I design it, make most of it, photograph it, market it, package it and post it and its just lovely to see how personal that is for my customers. A lot of love goes into every piece, and I am there through every step of the way.

So anyway, that brings you all up to date and thus leaves us now to celebrate the great achievements Saralli has made. It may all seem small on the grand scheme of fashion labels, but to me, i’m really proud and although i’m taking baby steps, one day my baby will be all grown up, heading to school and eventually conquering the world.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!

To celebrate, I have decided that on top of the items that are already on sale, that there will be a 20% off online store wide until the end of the month! thats a good 2 weeks to order anything you have had your eyes on over the last couple of months, until it all sells out (and i’m telling you, there are literally like only 2-3 things of most of these items left, so don’t procrastinate any longer).

There is also a tag yourself to win competition going on at the moment, and I will announce the lucky winner at the end of the month also….however, there is now going to be another competition! and it involves YOU!

I have many closet Saralli girls out there who are too camera shy/lazy to upload pics of them in their Saralli, there have been a few brave ones, but for the most of you – COME ON! PICK UP YOUR GAME!

beautiful shot from Saralli girl Samara, thanks for this amazing image!

So this is my announcement. There is going to be a competition based on who uploads a picture of themselves on our page. The photo with the most “likes” wins a $100 Saralli voucher!

so to enter, this is what you gotta do!

1. take a photo of YOU wearing your saralli, whether its vintage saralli or new, whatever you  have got, I want to see!

2. email the photo to sarah@saralli.com.au OR post on the saralli designs fan page (not the online store page).

3. I will put them into an album where your friends and fans can vote for you.

4. Winner will be announced on the 30th June 2011.

5. Then you can go shopping!!!

so, I will leave you all with that and hopefully be seeing your creative styling efforts on our page very soon….consider that Saralli’s birthday present! she will be thrilled

love and light my pretties, enjoy

S xxx

Hello lovelies

How exciting is the changing of weather?  this is actually my favourite time of year…With change comes new life and the freshness of new beginnings. 

Autumn must have - Cosmic Love Necklace www.saralli.com.au

Have you checked out our capes on our online store yet?  They are selling out fast – with an array of beautiful printed chiffons, if you have been eyeing one off, nows the time to pounch because they are only limited edition and production on these will be finishing up very soon!

Aurora Maxi Cape - available www.saralli.com.au

Well today we celebrate beauty and fashion at every age – age is just a number right?  Have you see Zelda Kaplan lately?  She is a 94 year old New York party girl extraordinaire who stands out as one of the most iconic nightlife fixtures.  How does she do it?  Zelda does it with her flamboyant zest for style and fashion, mixing unusual fabrics with accessories that stand out from the rest.  And I’m telling you – that you are never too old to play with colour or accessories, nor should any Saralli girl stop having fun, no matter the age.   

Big changes going on in Saralli land at the mo – we are collaborating with Terri Donna Swimwear for their Rosemount Australian Fashion Week show on Wednesday the 4th of May! we are so excited, its a huge step for Saralli in all the right directions and are honoured to be apart of it, working with such an amazing team <3

inspiration for RAFW show...

More updates to come, and some BIG suprises are are in store so stay tuned

love, light and fashion,
S xx