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☠ Rude Fashion – Bringing Back The Graphic T ☠

Posted on April 19, 2016

Back in the spring of 2011, the Rude project started taking shape somewhere between Milan, London, Los Angeles and Miami. It was the brainchild of celebrity PR manager Marco Bacini and Gianluca Gigli, who both had the same passion for fashion and communication.

Travelling between these cities in particular helped develop the brand’s direction and looking at their trends help mould a unique new a philosophy for the Rude Project: the Rock’n’Dandy concept.

Born in Milan and totally ‘Made in Italy’, Rude is unique in that it reads the same in both English and Italian. Rude is an irreverent skull, “raw” – T-shirt’s that are fun don’t take themselves too seriously, designs which send a strong message of character and sensuality.

Making waves across the city, Rude immediately became a “cult” must-have for all celebrities. The Rude project is a constant work in progress, which continues with the same explosive energy now as it did at the beginning, with Marky Ramone being one of the brands biggest ambassadors!

“Rude Mania” has hit town… in just 9 months, it’s in more than 300 boutiques worldwide and has opened their first pop-up here at Dubai’s infamous BoxPark.

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Bikini Ready with Blue Ink Beachwear

Posted on April 12, 2016

Another day and we’re another step closer to summer here in Dubai. As the saying goes, summer bodies are made in the spring, so it’s also true that the bikini’s we’re buying to wear in the summer, we’re shopping for now.

There’s a new designer on the net who’s highlighting the maillot in exciting ways. Designed by Anisha Lalani, Blue Ink Beachwear is a pretty mixture of prints and pastels that have us wanderlusting after the long sunsets in the Med. Designed in Belgium and made in Italy, Blue Ink is made using carefully selected luxury fabrics, that are both girly enough and sexy enough to excite us here at TBS.

With a focus on ‘strong is the new sexy’ Blue Ink furthers our mantra for a more confident summer outlook!

Check out our favourite pieces from their inaugural collection and the details that made us fall in love with them:

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🌾Plants – The New Gift of Romance 🌾

Posted on March 22, 2016

Most girls love getting flowers… it’s romantic, they smell nice and the give a pop of colour to your interior décor. I’m not most girls… I would MUCH rather be given plants over flowers. Sounds weird I know, but their leafy green textures are much more appealing to me than flowers whose pollen stems are bound to leak all over my desk or ruin anything I’m wearing.

For those of you in Dubai who know where to shop for these, there’s a few hotspots I’d head to first and one that I would DEFINITELY recommend for outdoor landscaping. The Dubai Garden Centre is my go-to green house normally, not just because of their delicious little café – Roseleaf, but they have plenty of little indoor plants at only 10, 15 AED each that look très cute dotted around the house. There’s a new garden centre up at Al Barari that I am dying to check out, but I’m hoping to be surprised at the prices up there.

My favourite little nursery is just behind Wasl road’s Spinneys, on a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it lawn around the corner, full of gorgeous ceramic vases and plenty of tall leafy’s for the terrace. Cheap and very cheerful, we’ve recently spent an afternoon homing bougainvillea and grasses on the patio.

I’ve trolled through Pinterest (none of the below are my images) to find those gorgeous green elements for our home, which is fittingly known as ‘the beach house’.

Here’s my favourite finds… time to get inspired by all this greenery!

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Making Waves over the Weekend

Posted on March 14, 2016

I love a good cocktail at sunset on the beach… i mean who doesn’t! So we wasted no time heading down to the Layali shoreline at Al Qasr hotel on Saturday for a surf inspired sunset session with global brand BCBGMaxAzria.

Live music permeated the venue, with tones more ethereal than the songs she was covering… …must find out who the singer was! 🙂

The collection was a mixture of floaty fabrics, perfect for the So Cal summer they were taking inspiration from, festival florals combined with a few bulky booties. Expect Coachella to be full of this SS16 line up!

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🕶 Throwing Shade with Glassing Sunglasses 🕶

Posted on March 9, 2016

I’m a big sunglass-aholic… literally drawers full, but as much as I love all shapes and sizes, there’s only ever one pair in my handbag at any one time and these Italian imports have made quite an impact.

Born in 2010 by two LOVELY designers Alessandro Forte and Stefano Ottone, they opened a vintage store in Ibiza and escalated their entrepreneurship to creating and producing ‘Glassing‘ – their own brand, after an adventurous summer on the white isle. It quickly emerged as one of Italy’s most cutting edge brands, focusing on using innovative materials, often combined in unusual ways.

With four flagship stores in Italy; in Milan, Portofino, Taormina and Capri, they have now brought their famous frames to Dubai and I have fully jumped on their beachside band wagon (they are currently retailing in a bright yellow pop-up container down at The Beach Dubai). Fans include Kate Moss, Justin Bieber, Beyonce and Jay-Z, P. Diddy, Cristiano Ronaldo and Anna Dello Russo to name but a few.

They have tons of designs but these are my Top 5 Frames:

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Fish & Chips at their Finest 🐟🍟

Posted on March 3, 2016

There’s a handful of ‘authentic’ British dishes that I judge quite harshly out here… with fish and chips being the hardest for restaurants to get right (or so it seems). Their mushy peas are either too dry or non-existent or their batter is too oily, but i’m pleased to announce i’ll be haunting this new waterfront hotspot on a Thursday eve!

Where: SENARA is a homegrown concept fusing the UAE’s staple seafood cuisine with Head Chef Anthony Reilly’s British flair. It’s the newest seafood bistro to open in Dubai, fully conceptualised in the UAE and situated perfectly on the waters edge of the Palm Jumeirah, boasting some of the best sunset views in town. Just a stones-throw from the Shoreline, Golden Mile and Frond villas.

What to try: Signatures include a host of fresh fish dishes daily. Its famous fish & chips is a must of course, buckets of mussels & oysters and a mouth-watering lobster linguini is amongst many more mains. If you’ve got a sweet tooth, the baked cheesecake is a worthy dish, and don’t underestimate the apple crumble or sticky date pudding… a true fusion of cultures.

It’s also just about to get its alcohol license through so stay tuned!

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Powered by Coconuts 🌴 Competition 🌴

Posted on February 25, 2016

Why love the coco?

Apart from the fact I LOVE wake-surfing with them and Xtreme Wake UAE, they have just furthered my organic obsession with their new range of coconut oil!

Coconut oil is one of the few foods that can be classified as a “superfood.”

Its unique combination of fatty acids are well known to have some amazingly positive effects on health.

This includes fat loss, better brain function and various other amazing benefits like helping reduce the risk of heart diseases, aiding weight loss, helping improve your immunity and aiding digestion too!

Not only can you cook with it, you can use it as a form of skin moisturizer and it’ll even help protect against hair damage…

What are you waiting for?

We have teamed up with Vita Coco Coconut Oil to give one of you the chance to win a month’s supply! To win this jar of wonders simply like this image and follow @vitacocooilae! Super simple!

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In love with… SAPIA•KANG

Posted on January 19, 2016

There’s nothing I love more than beautiful resort wear. I work hard to try and ensure that my body looks half way decent in it, so it makes sense to reward those efforts occasionally and right on time… along came SAPIA•KANG.

It’s the brainchild of founders Sapia Simone and Ellen Kang who met in Dubai and started working together back in June. The brand is a true result of their explorations and adventures, living this sunny expat lifestyle that we all share and love.

If you’re as desperate to get your hands on one of these gorgeous pieces as I am, wait no longer… on January 28, SAPIA•KANG’s e-store, will be unveiling its very first collection, ‘Fantasy Island’. With wild inspirations, it’s a collection perfect for future globetrotting… swimwear to be seen in!

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Work Hard. Play Hard. Cleanse. Repeat…

Posted on November 25, 2015

Having survived the busiest month of the year, it’s high time I wrote up one of the main reasons how I have managed to stay relatively healthy here. The lovely people down at Detox Delight sent me a weeks survival kit, full of some of the tastiest soups I have ever tried! Vegan in design, these cold-pressed and pureed vegetable soups are so full of flavour… one of my favourite concoctions was the hot pink pear and beetroot combo.

Detox delight soups are neither pasteurised nor preserved in an artificial way. A healthy way to support your immune system in times of stress…

Why is cold press so good? Traditional blenders use a process that adds some heat and exposes the ingredients to air, two things that cut down on how many nutrients make their way into you directly. The cold press method extracts the goodness by pressing the fruits and vegetables without adding heat. With this method, the natural enzymes from the fibers of the fruit and vegetables are liberated. This way of extracting the goodness ensures the maximum amount of liquid from the least amount of produce.

If you haven’t tried one of their juice cleanses, then that is well worth a look, (it’s next on my list after the Christmas holidays).

The optimum balance of fruit and vegetables is crucial: Pure fruit juices contain too much fructose, which increases our blood sugar levels, triggers ravenous cravings and impairs our bodies’ ability to burn fat.

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You Can Never Have Too Many Facials….

Posted on September 22, 2015

What a week it’s been! Busy doesn’t even cut it, so when the opportunity to try out one of Biolite’s many treatments presented itself, I jumped at the chance to help my weary skin with a PSF facial. Created and named after Dubai’s favourite twins, the ‘Pintsized fashionistas’, I did wonder if this facial would be able to thoroughly aid my (slightly older) and more sensitive skin. But this facial really is a great way to wake up, feel rejuvenated and totally cleansed. Bursting with freshness and using only natural products, I was treated to a deep cleanse, steam, skin balancing and an overall totally blissful experience.

You’re taken step by step through a thorough deep cleansing (extraction) & exfoliation using a pineapple based scrub, then you’re massaged and a cleansing mango mask is applied. Finishing the facial, a fruity scented moisturizer made up of apricot and beeswax leaves you feeling completely refreshed. As it’s full of active ingredients like pure pineapple enzymes, fresh mango and strawberry cells, it’s recommended for all skin types too.

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