Dressing up for Eid

I had actually been waiting to wear this saree for about a year now! I found it last year when I was in Green St doing what was supposed to be “window shopping” but I somehow managed to go home with what is now one of the most beautiful sarees I own at the time I felt like matching jewellery to the embroidery would be incredibly difficult as it was embellished in Rainbow Diamantes (ab stones) and an emerald green border/piping. Finding jewellery in emerald green or with ab stones alone was hard but ended up with a saree with a combination of both! I was originally thinking to go for a full on emerald green piece of jewellery but then when I walked into lotus I found something way beyond my expectations. It was a handmade necklace with AB stones just like my saree border. The only problem was that it was silver plating and I needed it in gold. Unfortunately at that time I couldn’t leave a deposit to have it ordered for me in the right plating which then actually turned out to work out in my favour. When Bhavisha showed me this set I loved it was perfect or it was going to be... she told me she could order it with AB stones AND incorporate the emerald green into it! 

Jewellery by The Lotus London

And as promised, she delivered. Pictures does no justice to it AT ALL! The shining of the stones makes this piece incredibly eye-catching and glamorous. I just loved it. There was however one change I needed to make to it. Below are the images of before and after of the change. Lucky for me I have a set of jewellery pliers :D

I was actually expecting to be also spending on bangles but luckily my large collections of bangles finally paid off. YAY! I tried all sorts of combinations until I found the one. The only thing I had missing was the correct shade of blue, which most likely isn’t apparent on pictures, but it is a pale shade of blue slightly on the grey side. Anyways...I decided to use a substitute till I could fill in the real shade to give me a better idea of what it would look like.

Once I found a combinationation Iwas happy with I was able to figure exactly how many singles I  would need, I ended up spending only £3 on 12 singles...and heres the end result:

After going through all that effort just for my jewellery and bangles I opted for the easier option on the clutch bag and pulled out what was already in my drawer. I thought I could get away with the teal one on the right, but unfortunately it stood out too much next to all that emerald so I settled for the other one which I think was still a good enough match. Both of which by the way I bought a few years back from Dune. I couldn't decide which I liked more so I bought both :)

The makeup look I went for was inspired by Zaiba Khan.

The only change I made too it was I opted for matte lips rather than glossy. I'm not a huge fan of lip glosses to be honest.


And yes I DID do the whole matchy matchy thing with my husband! Which wasn't easy but we got there in the end. Finding a double cuffed shirt was tougher than expected so we got the holes tailored into it. After searching and searching I managed to find an emerald green tie WITH gold print. I would've gone for brocade tie but the squares worked in my favour since the border on my saree carried a similar trait. And to be honest we had no other choice..

Saree: Seema Sarees
Jewellery: The Lotus London
Clutch Bags: Dune
Shirt: Next
Tie: Etsy
Cufflinks: Ebay