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Accessories are key to making a good outfit fabulous … they add personality and individual style to your basics.

Take a simple capsule piece, jeans and a white tee, .. add earrings or a necklace, a fun bag and shoes, a belt, scarf and bracelets and the basics now look stylish and put together.

I am going on my holidays soon and being the tight Yorkshire girl that I am, I have booked two cases on for the four of us. My husband seems to travel with the kitchen sink, so I am often forced to pack light… taking only two or three pairs of shoes, basic shorts, tees, bikini, clutch, skirt, dress and a couple of kaftans … the one thing that I don’t forget are my jewels .. these are key to making my basics work.

STEP 1 DAYTIME / CASUAL LOOK

I start with my clutch, beach bag and daytime shoes or flip flops. I make sure I have pieces in neutral colours when packing light so that they will compliment most of my outfits (navy, tan, black, white). I then pick day time jewels, studs or small hoops, a couple of bracelets or the super useful bangle bobbles and possibly a delicate necklace.

Here are a few examples

Navy day time edit
Multi-colouloured day time edit
Neutral day time edit – silver
Neutral day time edit- gold
Turquoise day time edit

STEP 2 EVENING / SMARTER LOOK

For evening or smarter occasions I then pack wedges or heels in a neutral colour that go with your clutch or bag. I also pop in a couple of pairs of statement earrings that will look good with your dressier outfits, a couple of statement bracelets or leather wraps or a statement necklace. Think about the colours of your tops and dresses, shorts and skirts that you are taking and try and tie in or compliment them if you can, or go for statements in plain gold or silver. For example large hoop earrings or a cuff bracelet. These pieces can also be used in the daytime should you want to accesorise your swimwear or casual outfits if your wanting a dressier look during the day!

Here are a few examples

Turquoise edit
Nautical navy edit
Neutrals edit
Pinks edit

You can then use these accessories to go from beach to bar, casual to smart in an instant … dressing up basics to make them look fabulous without having the extra cost of excess luggage!

If you have time, it helps to lay outfits with accesories when packing, that way you know how things will work together.

As always please do message me if you want ideas on how to put things together! Good luck with your packing and happy holidays.

I am often asked about what colour metal and jewels customers should wear .. Obviously it comes down to personal preference and I love to mix it up sometimes however ….
Matching your jewellery to your face and skin tone will ensure that you find pieces to suit you.

Here is a bit of a guide….

1] determine your skin tone by looking at your skin colour as well as your veins on the underside of your wrist.

If your veins are blue you have a cool skin tone. Your hair is probably blonde, dark brown or black and your eyes are likely to be light blue or brown. You also fit in to this category if you burn easily or have paler skin or your skin shows redness.

If your veins are greener you have a warm skin tone. Your hair is probably light blonde, red or brown and your eyes brown, green or hazel or bright blue. You can also tell you have a warm skin tone if you tan easily or if your skin tone is ebony or espresso coloured.

2] match your skin tone to the right metal and gem stone

Cool skin tones suit silver or white gold. Consider ruby, garnet, amethyst and sapphire, topaz and aquamarine. If your looking at pearls consider white pearls and rose tinted pearl

Warmer skin tones look better with yellow, orange and green. So consider gold or copper, citrine, zircon, imperial topaz and moonstone, emerald and jade. If your looking at pearls choose a silver tinted pearl or a white pearl.

Luckily diamonds look good with all skin tones!

You can see from these pictures how the golds make my skin tone seem warmer … I was colour coded a while ago and was told to wear silver .. however I love gold so mix it up a bit ….