Weekend outing!

Salam!

Here is one of my look when I'm out having brunch or coffee with my friends.

I wore this dress for a very casual brunch at IKEA Mutiara Damansara. So I had to keep my look very minimal because you do not want to be overdressed to a place where the crowd only put on their sweat shirt and shorts only.

For this casual outing I had on me:

1. Plain teal dress from Nichi

2. Esprit denim jeans in blue

3. Grey ballerina shoe from Crocs

4. Printed chiffon scarf in yellow from my very own EL.humaira (EL.humaira collections are made by me!)

Tips:

Do not afraid to play with the color. Sometimes, contrast color can look great too! Wear your printed bright scarf with your plain clothes as one of your accessories!

-DINA-

Tulle Lace

Salam!

let's wear lace for hari raya! This was my baju raya some years ago. People always think lace for engagement party, wedding or any formal functions only. But don't worry because if you can pull it off you will look good and you will not look like you are overdressed.

For this modern baju kurung, i bought the material at Jakel and used satin silk in apple green and pair it with orange tulle lace. I asked the tailor to make a short top for me with the mermaid skirt. Then i had the ruffles for the inner sleeve and slit the outer sleeve up until my elbow.

So together with the clothes, i wore:

1. Same tone orange tudung bawal

2. Beads bracelet in pink from Cotton On (i know i love bargain!!)

3. Diamante heels from Charles& Keith

Tips:

1. For ruffles, used flowy and soft material like chiffon silk.

2.Wear your lace dress to cool places only because you will get sweat easily in hot and humid weather like Malaysia.

-DINA-

Can hijabi wear short dresses?

Salam!

I know most hijabi out there have short dresses to be worn with pants and leggings right? This is actually one of my favourite styles because I always have a thing with cute short dresses. Although they are short, that does not means we, hijabi cannot wear them. Just mix and match with pants, legging or wear them with your boots and yeayyy!! You are all covered up! For those who still hesitate to wear short dresses, give it a try soon!

Owh I love this dress very very much. Wore this to my friend’s birthday at some cool café (I forget the name! hehe). The material is Lycra so it drapes beautifully. And yes… I love printed dresses like this very very very much! It suits my personality and it is so DINA!

Let’s see what I wore that night

1. Knee-length dress from Supre paired with black legging

2. Soft pink tudung bawal (the material is actually voile)

3. Diana Ferrari calf length high heel boots in brown leather (bought at 50% less!! Luv it!!)

4. Pink pearl necklace from Diva and some cheap beads bangles from Cotton On!

Tips:

1. Printed from top to toe is BIG NO NO! You do not want to look like a rose garden, don’t you? So always pair up plain and printed stuff. If you have all plain from top to toe, do accessorize!

2. Know where you go and the crowd you are going to hit!

3. For hot places like Kuala Lumpur, it is not advisable to wear boot higher than your ankle. So you can opt for your normal shoe or ankle lenght boot and pair it with same color sock. See, you got your boot look already!

3. Last but not least, LESS IS MORE BUT NOTHING MEANS NOTHING! If you feel like you are over accessorize, take off one of your accessories and you are ready to go. But if you have nothing, that means you have NOTHING! Nothing cannot be more because it is nothing there!

So you got it? Dresses are meant for us hijabi, too!

-DINA-