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London Edge Alternative Fashion Expo And UGLY Models Audition

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This weekend from the 25th-27th I will be attending the LondonEdge alternative fashion expo at Olympia in London where UGLY models agency will be auditioning alternative and unique people to win a contract with them.

LondonEdge 2013

In its 14th year, LondonEdge will showcase an incredible array of brands and some of the most creative and exciting ‘niches’ in fashion and accessories. Bringing everything from dramatic footwear and elaborate corsets to body piercing merchandise, vintage, retro, 40s, 50s, 60s, 80s, mod, fancy dress, hosiery, swimwear and more.

LondonEdge Alternative Lifestyle Expo

With a unique outlook on modelling, UGLY Models philosophy is simple, ‘any beauty can be airbrushed but we want our look to have true character’. With over 1,000 models on their books ranging from 18 -100 year olds, sizes 6 – 30, UGLY Models have the most individual, wacky and peculiar looks in the industry. As well as covering the extraordinary, niche market with UGLY Models, the sister company Rage focuses on more traditional looking models so with both agencies they are able to fit the right face to the right job.

LondonEdge Alt Style Expo

UGLY Models will be joining LondonEdge at Olympia to seek out and recruit a new model to win a 12-month contract and photo shoot. Helping them to hunt and take pictures is renowned professional photographer Matilda Temperley.

UGLY's Model, Lauren Parsons

Recruitment will go ahead on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th with traders and visitors and then will open to non traders on Sunday 27th.

UGLY Models, Greg Brown

To attend and audition on Sunday afternoon applicants must first pre-register by emailing Carole Hunter (carole.hunter@londonedge. com) with full contact details and a photo. A selection will then be shortlisted to join the event on Sunday and get one step closer to being on the UGLY Models books.

IMG_6125I am really looking forward to checking out what’s fresh in the alt fashion scene and meeting the people who make the threads.  If you’re in London you should come check it out!

Review: Lone Wolf Accents Warrior Goddess Head Chain

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Around the beginning of this year, I got an email from Molly behind the unique hand made jewelry company, Lone Wolf Accents, that read in part:

It was part of my mission when founding this company to empower women to feel great in their own skin. Part of that job includes finding and rewarding women who are beacons to communities of their own who share the same mission we do. I’m a long time reader of your blog and love your insight, your raw honesty and your own journey to empowerment. 

In thanks for the positivity, self-esteem, and reinvention of self-worth you are instilling in your thousands of readers, we want to recognize you as one of our power women.

Needless to say, I felt very flattered to receive such lovely praise from someone with the same goals in mind and when I had a look at their website, I fell in love immediately.

What I love about their jewelry is that it is unusual, they don’t focus on the usual necklaces and earings, but instead make head chains, hand chains and body chains as well as really sexy leg garters – something I had never seen before but am eager to wear during the summer.

In fact, Lone Wolf Accents jewelry makes me think about summer festivals and finding ways to set yourself apart in the crowd and attract attention with style and grace, all these things are easily accomplished with their elegant and unique designs.

The best part, is that they make body harness jewelry for men too, something you don’t often see and something I would definitely enjoy seeing in the summer time! ;)

The head chain that I picked out arrived within a week of Molly saying she had sent it out to me and came with two little LWA stickers which I will secretly stick somewhere publicly prominent! The chain itself is beautiful silver and made of many tiny rings joined together coming together at the diamond pieces in the front.

I was concerned it wouldn’t look so good over my fringe/bangs but I didn’t need to worry, in fact, I like the way the head chain dresses them up!

I’ve never been very good at wearing jewelry, I love jewelry, a lot, but I always seem to take it off and forget it somewhere.  The only earrings I can wear are the 12mm tunnels I have in my ear lobes because they never come out but something like this head chain I can get behind, because it’s unusual and sets me apart.  Slide a bobby pin discreetly onto it and I don’t have to worry about it slipping off as I go about my day.

Every time I wear something warrior goddess-like, I feel like I never want to take it off, this head chain is no exception.  I definitely feel like the warrior goddess I am when I wear it.

Next on my wishlist from Lone Wolf Accents is this beautiful Swarovski hand chain and this stunning ladder body chain.

LWA have given me an exclusive discount code that will earn you free shipping worldwide if you enter “TheDame” at checkout and if you want to do good while you shop, their Kazuri Collection, gives 100% of profits to a community of displaced refugees in Kenya.

What do you think? Would you like to wear a head chain or body harness jewelry?