i wish..

I'm sorry, but I just had to put up one of the most beautiful people.

Leonardo Dicaprio!

on my way..

On the way to school,

This is me on the way to my old school a year ago- there was no uniform so everyday I would like to dress up and not just into a pair of shorts and a top.

What I am wearing-

Headscarf- a hand me down from my grandma

Violet coloured, flower patterned shirt- From a secondhand shop

Patchy Jeans- Cheap Mondays (Lots of people ask me if I put the patches on myself but that is how I bought them)- €50 from Paris but you can buy them from any Cheap Mondays store over the world.

Shoes- I know you can't really see them but they are tan brogue type shoes from an Australian chain store called 'Sportsgirl'. $40 from Australia.

Bag- Vegan leather (you can hardly see it) Also from Sportsgirl. $30

eyeliner

Eyeliner

The difficulty that I have with makeup is when it comes to putting on my eyeliner. My hand is not steady at all so my hands are either slipping everywhere or I quickly go to blink and forget to take my liquid liner off my eyelid. I end up messing it up multiple times and getting so angry that I have to scream into my pillow. I'm sure everyone has had that horrible experience! So here are some tips to have the perfect eye makeup.

1. So that you can see what you are doing, in front of the mirror tilt your head back and look down into the mirror. 

2. Don't draw a thick line, it looks very heavy and doesn't look too good! Do a nice thin line.

3. As everybody should know, liquid liners should only be used on your top eyelid.

4. Whilst using liquid liner it requires a steady hand. (I guess I should be using an eye pencil instead!)

The top eyelid eyeliner all began with the Egyptians.

Cleopatra and King Tutankhamun are the definition of eyelid liner!

But it of course went out of fashion and finally came back in the 1900's. All the ladies looked amazing with it and then of course it went back out of fashion again.

Now, finally, it's come back in again and my sister told me the other week that it is all because of the model, Kate Moss.

THANK YOU KATE MOSS!

inspiration

This is inspiration for my form of style.

I have always been a fan of the 1940-60 dress style.They are difficult to find these days unless you rave through all the secondhand shops you can find! I really hope that this style of dress comes back into fashion very soon. The tied up t-shirt has already come back in with some of the younger girls (girls like me!)- they are excuses to show off our stomachs! 

This is me,

(Photos taken by a Nikon D700)
Me on one of my grungy days, except it doesn't really show what I'm wearing!

sophia unpacked

I have always had a liking for quirky fashion styles but seeing as I am only 13 years old I am not quite sure what I want to dress like for my adult years. Because of this I have tried many different styles such as the 1940's great gatsby look, grunge styles from the 1990's and I even dressed like a hippy for a while! I have always felt that I am different but I guess that's what everybody likes to think. I believe that my inspirations are Audrey Hepburn, Edie Sedgwick, Alice Dellal, Marilyn Monroe and my sister. You may be wondering why my blog name is Sophia's Suitcase- it is because I travel a lot and have recently moved from a hippy beach town in Australia, 'Byron Bay' to the famous English city, Oxford. I don't have a lot of clothes but I do think that you don't have to have lot's of money to have a good sense of style! Expect to hear back from me soon!

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” Coco Chanel