Self Love

This pair of PEG BELTED PANTS from Cloth Inc is currently my favorite one. It's high waisted, comfortable, and can be styled easily! Here I show you how I wore them in 2 different outfits.

The first one is a casual look where I wore it with a white cropped top and a jacket. 

• Cropped top from Forever New
• PEG BELTED PANTS c/o Cloth Inc
• Jacket from Stradivarius
• Heels from Jeffrey Campbell
• Mini Backpack from ZARA

The second one is a semi-formal look where I wore it with a statement top! 

• Statement top from Day & Night
• PEG BELTED PANTS c/o Cloth Inc
• Bag from Prada
• Heels from Saint Laurent

Which one is your favorite?

My previous blogpost was a bucket of the ultimate problem I'm dealing with myself. I never expect myself to be such an insecure person. Because 2 years ago, I clearly wasn't.

It's just that in 2016, things started to go out of my control and turned me into an insecure person, who saw herself as never being enough. 

I've realized the problem, but I never truly came out from that zone.

Today, I read a quote from Rita Mae Brown; "I think the reward of conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."

I immediately asked myself, "why do you hate yourself so much?".

If it were my insecure soul who answered, "I'm not skinny enough. I'm not pretty enough. I'm super selfish."

But then I took a deeper thought. "Why are looks so important to me? I don't need to have be insecure of how I look. It's totally irrelevant."

Yeap, #selflove is definitely important. Start from today, I promise to not to let my insecurities be the source of my unhappiness anymore. There are other problems that are more important than a stupid insecurity. There are so much things I have to be grateful for. I have amazing parents, amazing siblings, amazing friends who love me just the way I am and give so much care for me, and I couldn't have asked for more. 

I'm also thankful for your supportive comments on my previous post. I loveeee you!

A Wake Up Call

Tomorrow is Christmas day and I'm alwayss excited about it. I've been repeating Christmas songs on my Spotify and humming to them in the car. 

For my Christmas outfit, I picked a maroon dress from Cloth Inc's new collection. The dress came with a collared inner lace top, but this time I replaced it with my green plaid shirt to create a christmas look! Since this season's color palette is around maroon, green, and brown, I wore my mom's brown heels to complete the look. What do you think? :D

• Cookie Dress in Maroon c/o Cloth Inc
• Green plaid shirt
• Charles & Keith brown leather heels
• ZARA mini backpack 

Anyway, this month is definitely the most 'memorable' month of the year to me. I never expected that there would be sooo many things happened this month. First, I LOST my phone at Senayan City almost 2 weeks ago (sobs. It's #1 huge slap for me not to use a zipper-less bag to go shopping / always keep my sling bag in the front side). Second, I was hospitalized for 4 days 3 nights due to dengue fever. It's #2 huge slap for me not to overwork myself (I worked out 5-6 times a week). I have to admit that I feel really sad to lost the progress I'd worked so hard all this time and my feet are already itchy to walk back to the gym, but I have to constantly remind myself that I NEED to rest. It feels soooo weird doing nothing in the morning when usually I have my gym schedule T_T. OK. Stop it, Veren.. I promise to myself I'd be better in 2017 and I should appreciate myself more. I need to learn to accept myself as it is and give myself a break! I feel grateful to God for the reminders I got this month! 

Nevertheless, HAPPY HOLIDAY everyone! 

7 Days with KODZ

Hi, everyone! Today's post is about my 1 week Outfit Diary with KODZ. KODZ has been dominating my wardrobe lately with their collections. I love their clothes soo much as they suit my feminine style and the quality is also really good! I hope I can inspire you with the following outfits! 

MONDAY

I don't have classes on Mondays, so last Monday I went to BEAU cafe for coffee with my friend. The place is so beautiful and cozy, and I matched my outfit with their green decorations by wearing my army green knit top and white jacquard skirt from KODZ.

TUESDAY

I often take the bus because the traffic in Jakarta is so bad and makes me lazy to drive. I wore this trench coat from KODZ to prepare for the wet weather, and it matches perfectly with the blue skirt from KODZ. Thankfully I managed to take some outfit shots before I hopped on the bus!

WEDNESDAY

 

After school, my friends and I decided to go to PAUL to have a meeting for our final project as we love their pastries! I layered my striped top with the gray knitted tunic from KODZ, simple yet chic!

THURSDAY

As a fashion student, our lecturer often encourages us to visit Art Galleries to look for inspirations for our projects. My outfit for a day out to the Art Gallery is a sleeveless shirt and blue suede shorts from KODZ. The shorts are something I'd been looking for a long time as suede is the 'it' trend for Fall. To top off my ‘preppy student’ look, I wore socks to pair with my cute heels! Hahaha. 

FRIDAY

I needed some "me time" on Friday so I visited my favorite bookstore to pick up a new book that I'd pre-ordered. As I couldn't wait to read it, I spent some time reading it at the bookstore. To keep warm, I wore my cozy sweater and skirt from KODZ.

SATURDAY

When I’m not at the malls, I love to visit museums in Jakarta on weekends. This time I visited my favorite museum, National Museum of Indonesia. It's really big and no matter how many times I go there, I never get bored! It was quite chilly, and thus the most suitable outfit is my pink knit dress from KODZ. I styled it with a cute twilly that I wore as a scarf to give that 'artsy' touch to my look! 

SUNDAY

    

 

On Sunday, I went to Pacific Place with my brother after church. My maxi striped dress from KODZ was not only appropriate to be worn to church but also very chic as my outfit for a stroll through the mall! 

So from these 7 looks in 1 week, which one is your favorite? 
Tell me about it and you can win the look by participating in the Read and Win contest on Clozette HERE !

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Two Ways

Hellooo! This post will be about how to wear a red coat in two different styles! 

I just can't wait for December, so I picked up this beautiful red coat from Queue Inc. I got two ideas on how to wear this coat. The first one is the preppy - gossip girl style! I've always loved plaid & tartans!

• Green tartan headband from @ladiesshopsheneeds
• Red Camelia Coat c/o Queue Inc (Instagram: @queue_inc 
• Green tartan skirt from Stradivarius
• Socks from Topshop
• Heels from Aldo

For the second style, it's maturer than the first one, and also edgy rather than girly. I wish my face looked more grown up looking, tho. lol. I paired the coat with a white top, layered with a denim vest, and white ripped jeans, in case the weather would be colder than expected!

• Denim vest c/o Romwe
• White lace top from Zara
• Ripped jeans from The Ripping Chief
• Heels from Aldo

The coat is made from high quality materials, so it won't shrink even after being washed! The price is also affordable compared to high street brand like zara, stradivarius, bershka when they have similar quality! So, if you're looking for gorgeous clothes without making your wallet thin, Queue Inc is definitely the shop I'd recommend to you! :)

 So, which one is your favorite ? ;D