By Fara7: Arab Culture, Meet Fashion

Have any of you ever wondered what would happen if you morphed arab culture with modern day fashion? Enter By Fara7,  a local clothing line that was founded earlier in 2014 by Farah bint Khalid Al-Khalifa. Her line consists of t-shirts, dresses and skirts with prints like cultural jewelry, oud bottles, henna and traditional arab coffee cups emblazoned all over! The cool part is that the line also features bright, block colors as well as colorful confetti strewn all over to give the designs a modern, quirky touch. Talk about some fabulous history, right?

The wonderful team at Obai & Hill were kind enough to gift me a white By Fara7 t-shirt with a huge traditional bracelet vs. sparkly pink star confetti print - the only words I can think of to describe it would be different and super-girly.

By Fara7 T-shirt

Zara Jeans

Hazelnut Collar

Moschino Cover

As soon as I received the top, I thought to go all out with the theme that I wanted to style it with. I threw on acid pink jeans from Zara and a bedazzled collar from Hazelnut to bring out the colors in the white top and make the whole outfit pop (I'm starting to think that I'm a rap god). As for make-up, I added some false lashes and white eyeliner to play up the doll-like femininity of the outfit, and used confetti glitter as highlighter for the cheekbones to play up the confetti print on the t-shirt (I felt like a huge party popper, it was great LOL!).

If you're ever going for a daring "look at me" make-up idea, make sure that all your features complement each other and don't fight for the spotlight.  Keep it different but not overdone because the look will still be bold (and beautiful!) once you've finished.

You can shop By Fara7 and check out all the other cool designs from the collection at Green Diamond Boutique in Seef Mall (1st Floor) and Riffa. The line is also available at S*uce in Dubai.

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Zayn Al-Qahtani

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An Itty Bitty Introduction

You've got to be wondering what brought you here, right?

Well, let's tick off some of  the basics - My name is Zayn, I'm a seventeen year old girl from the little island of Bahrain, and I absolutely love writing about fashion, beauty and lifestyle. When I say lifestyle, it's just a generic term for the "everything else" pile - recipes, travel, events, and all the little things that dance in between.

I used to write another blog for about three years, and I'm pretty sure a large majority of you wonderful people are here because you found out that I had moved. Why? Because I feel like it has saturated, or reached its peak - at least for me. I didn't feel associated to the blog anymore - I felt like it was writing me.

I created Glamourologie to be a personal safe haven of my own style as well as lifestyle. I want it to be a representation of all the facets of my brain - from the most mysterious nooks and crannies of it to the exuberantly large chocolate fountain spewing out my daily thoughts and emotions unto the little people that live in brain-town, whom then deliver these little sweet concoctions unto my conscious being. 

I don't want to drag this out for longer than I need to (I finally stuck my chocolate fountain metaphor in there!) but I just want to conclude by extending out this invitation to you, lovely reader:

Until the next blog post!