How To: Dress up in MOD style (Girl’s Guide to MOD)

MOD style inspired from the British street style from the 60’s as their celebration of the modernism and youth and rapidly becoming a style that define the entire 60's not only in England but across the Globe.

 

The keywords for MOD style are:

 “Sexy, Young, and Futuristic”

  

 If you want to inject the MOD atmosphere to your personal style, here are the things that you need to pay attention to: 

• MOD is the opposite of the ultra feminine, old Hollywood style so; Choose Bold Pattern, Unisex Style, Strong silhouettes, and well tailored-form fitting clothes  
  
  

• Your Colors and Patterns: MOD focused on color blocking, with Black and white as the dominant color and supplementary color such as Bright Yellow, Pink, Orange, Royal Blue, and pastels. As for pattern, focused on bold and geometric pattern like stripes, polka dots, and union jack

•       Hair Do:  Short Pixie cut, Fringe, and Beehive

Pixie Cut

Pixie Cut

Fringe

Beehive

•        Make-up:   

•  Dramatic eye make-up, bold eyeliner, bold lashes, and Nude Lips

MOD Make-up

MOD Make-up

•            Clothing: 
• Short Skirts, A-Line Dress, Fitted Capri Pants, Sleeveless Tops, Big Sweaters, Pea-coat and Trench Coat  
•  Bold Jewelry, Scarves, Headbands, and huge Sunglasses (all inspired by modern art)  
•   Chunky Shoes, Ankle Boots, and Loafers

 

MOD Style

MOD Style

MOD Style

MOD Style

MOD Style

 

I'm in the MOD for Love

Twiggy - MOD style

Being popularized by tons of fashion icon from Twiggy, to The Beatles, and more recently Victoria Beckham, mod is the style to people who desires to look sharp, dandy, and well groomed while still want to add the playfulness to their look.

Lately I’ve been feeling the mod vibe, perhaps the movies I watched and my recent haircut are to blame for the recent style change.. I replace my leather jacket, ripped jeans, and sleeveless to something more polished, and put together like a turtleneck sweater, black framed glasses and chino pants… but I found a little hard to let go the steel rings and bits of metal from my style.. 

Honestly, this style makes me feel like an Ivy League boy gone artsy, and I don’t hate it, because People start to take me seriously and pay attention when I’m talking…. Well, not that they haven’t, but most of the time the capacity of their ears were not as optimal as their eyes.

Well, there are blurred lines between mod and other similar style such as preppy, but isn’t dressing up is about making you feel good in the inside without constraint your chances to wear what you want?, so give it a touch of your personality to literally make the heads turn when you walk through the door. You only need the artsy MOD touch and your confidence to show who you are without opening your mouth.

Twiggy - Harper's Baazar

Victoria Beckham - MOD Style

Victoria Beckham - MOD Style

Diana Agron - MOD Style - Nylon

MOD Style

How to: Get Gisele Bundchen Beachy Hair

"Beachy Waves in your hair without actually hitting the sand"

Forget the messy and dirty looking bedroom hair, now it’s time for you too look like you just got out from the beach and your hair look effortlessly chic.

This hairstyle definitely look great on Gisele who have naturally wavy hair and got her golden locks layered to perfection. But don’t worry ladies (and Gentlemen) who have coal colored hair like me and want this beachy look, you can achieve this look with few tricks.

Things you need:

• Your Hair (you need a layered cut to make this style work)
• Spray Bottle
•  Salt
•  Conditioner

Trick 1:

When you about to go to bed, rinse your hair with the mixture of sea salt and water, when your hair about 80% dry, just braid your hair to the size of waves you want,  set your blow dry in cool mode, dry it and leave the braid overnight. You’ll wake up with beachy hair without actually hitting the sand.

Trick 2:

This method using salt spray to enhance the natural waves of your hair, fill 75% of the spray bottle with water, add several teaspoons of salt, (the more you use, the more textured your hair) but, add few drops of conditioner to add the shine of your wave, shake well until all the mixture blended and voila!! Now you have a bottle of salt spray..

You should experiment, on how much salt spray work best for your hair, so spray start from a small dosage (especially the ones with thick hair), spray your hair till damp, twist and wrap your hair into two buns on the top of your head, let it dry naturally, after your hair is dry, undo the bun and brush through your hair with your finger… voila you got the beachy waves.

Gisele Bundchen - Beachy Hair

Gisele Bundchen - Beachy Hair

Gisele Bundchen - Beachy Hair

Gisele Bundchen - Beachy Hair

Viva La Gisele!!!

Gisele Bundchen - I.D magazine

 She stand as statuesque as 5’11(180cm), her measurements? 35B-23-35 (89-59-89), behold; she is the embodiment of Fashion Industry’s female Perfection, The Supermodel!! The Gisele!! 

Gisele is known for selling the fantasy, how it would be like to look perfect. But, in the sea of gorgeous glamazon models, what makes her so special?  The mile long legs? Check!, the impossible body? Check!,  The goddess face? Check!, the shimmering sun-kissed skin? Check!, The cascading hair? Check!, and there are two more reasons that make her known as “The Boobs from Brazil” (Check!! And double Check!!). But, above all of it, is her brilliance as a businesswoman, she was known for going from high fashion to mass market and back to high fashion in a blink! Plus she is one of the few girls who can sell covers like Ice cream in the middle of summer day.

Before her rise to fame, before Mario Testino, before being catapulted as the new era of supermodel, she was criticizes a lot. Her boobs was too big, her face too masculine, her nose was too distracting, her waist… etc… but, after appeared in vogue cover, all the fashion people start to praise her look. This case prove a point, where the subjectivity in fashion waver as the trend come and go… now Gisele is the unstoppable force in fashion… and it will be a long period before a new model can surpass her success in nabbing anything like her 25 million dollar Victoria’s Secret mega-contract that put her existence on supermodel map.    

Well, because I currently obsessed with her, I’ll try to post as many tips that correlate with how to get “the Gisele” look later.. XD

More Gisele!! 

Gisele Bundchen - Victoria's Secret

Gisele Bundchen - Vogue Paris

Gisele Bundchen - Vogue Korea

Gisele Bundchen - Harper's Bazaar

Gisele Bundchen - Vogue Nippon

Gisele Bundchen

Gisele Bundchen - Harper's Bazaar Brazil

Gisele Bundchen

Gisele Bundchen