Donna Ellen Fashion

The big round ‘1 rupee bindi’ on your forehead sure marks you as a personality. Bindis can morph your looks. Monotone colours remain in maroon, black and brown. Designer wear bindi’s are truly fashionable. The range and colours in bindis is amazing and can change your entire look. Go as per shape of your face to choose a bindi. A long forehead or a widows peak is well camouflaged with a long bindi. If your face is round as a moon then all styles suit you. Bindi your forehead with henna work, liquid liners or colour liquid applications. The bindi can be worn in between your eyebrows or just in the centre of your forehead.

The Rajput nose ring or Maharashtrian nakti is perfect for traditional outfits. The dot size is for regular wear and unisex nose rings for the flunky look in oxidized trinkets.

Earrings range from plastics, oxidized and premium metals. More and more international fashion shows are dedicated to exploring variety in designs for this industry. A simple pearl earring is preferred for daily routines and evenings are bright with long shoulder length hangings in ethnic designs. Hoops in plastic hues are casual classics. Anklets worn singly or in pairs come in minakari work on gentle silver strings. Amulets suit slim hands and adorn a traditional outfit. Finger rings are necessities for any girl. Designated as funky, traditional or prized collections finger rings are highly feminine.

A bandana, head band, stole or scarf can change your entire look. Belts come in various tie-ups, regular or loose over the hips, jute belts and leather fashions. A handbag or evening bag comes in clutches, animal prints, faux alligators or bulky bags with wooden handles. Going to buy grocery becomes fashionable in sack and jute varieties. Sturdy and stylish international travel bags also govern the style scene.

Eye wear can alter face shapes. Perfect as sun shades too and eye-protectors these are niche brands. Long jackets worn over saris can change your body shape. Bling is in and funky wear for the roadie look is comfortable too. Wrist bands and fluorescent elbow pads on denim wear come under accessories.

Gizmos n gadgets like a mobile or laptops and covers for the same are fashion accessories. Shoes are fickle fashion wear be it a casual chatai chappal or terrain shoes, stilettos, pumps or high boots.

Neck pieces are ultimate feminine fantasies. Gift them or buy them they are your treasure forever. Designer wear in necklaces come in strings, single pendants or chokers and collars. Beadwork uplifts normal attire. For the more affordable, the Patiala necklace retains a royal shine.

By: Jennie Gandhi

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Rainy days don’t have to be gloomy days. Jazz up the winter months with a
home-made personalised brolly. Express yourself and shake off those rainy days blues. Add pictures, phrases, names or symbols to your umbrella. You don’t need any artistic skills, just a steady hand.

All you need is a computer with a printer, an umbrella, fabric paints, a lamp and some selotape.

Choose a plain umbrella to work with. Patterned umbrellas distract from the design and drown it any colour brolly will do, even dark colours such as navy or black.

The umbrella should be made from a nylon plastic and not PVC. The fabric paints used to decorate on the umbrella are not as effective on PVC umbrellas.

Adding a slogan onto the umbrella.
To do this, write a slogan onto a word document on a computer. Make the font as large as possible and chose a font for your slogan. I chose the slogan
“It’s raining again…” Which I thought was appropriate and would be great for any Madness fan, and I chose font “Goudy Stout” A bold chunky font.

Print out the slogan when you are happy with it. Due to the size of the text the words may get broken up onto different lines, don’t worry about this because they can be selotaped together.

Cut out the words leaving a good couple of cm’s all around the text. Selotape the words back together as necessary. Balance the ‘up’ umbrella on the backs of two dining table chairs back to back but parted. Sit a lamp on the floor beneath the umbrella so that it shines up through the brolly like a backlight. This is so that you can see the text through the fabric of the umbrella.

Using the selotape, stick the slogan to the underside of the umbrella ink side up.

Using fabric paint trace around the text, filling in the appropriate parts in paint. Because the text is traced it is neat, all the same size and constant and looks professional.

The same principle can be applied to images. Find a simple bold picture in a
Google image search, or photobucket.com. Hello Kitty is a great example.
Print out the image and then trim off the excess paper.

Selotape to the under side of an umbrella panel, ink side up. Shine the lamp up through the paper and the brolly and trace the picture with fabric paints.

You could have a whole array of characters in a freeze around your brolly, the sky’s the limit. Rainy days will forever be funky vibrant days!

By: S. Roberts

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