Month: March 2018

Collaborations, Fashion Finds

My Collaboration with “Wondrous Blue Clothing”

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Hey, beauts and welcome to my channel! I am so glad you guys decided to pop by and say hi! I always enjoy having your company and love sharing new brands that I managed to find on Instagram. I literally spend half of my days sometimes just searching new clothing brands and lines on Instagram and love reaching out to companies. The companies that I reach out to are the ones that catch my eye on their Instagram page. I literally don’t look at how many followers the company has, I look at how attractive their page is, their clothing line and the message they present.  Honestly, a company that has 100 followers may even be better than a company who has 1000 followers in my opinion, you never know. I was searching on Instagram one day and came across a wonderful company called, ” Wondrous Blue Clothing“. I decided to reach out to the company and ask if they were interested in a collaboration with me.  I was happy when they agreed right away to collaborating! Wondrous Blue Clothing brand launched in June 2017, bringing in a twist of culture from the New England Area. The company states, “I have always been a man of action; someone that was not worried about taking a risk because everything in life is worth taking a chance for. Even when I thought I was starting too many businesses at once, it was the adrenaline and thought of success that kept me going to make sure every business had a chance to succeed.

Every day I would get congratulatory messages about how everyone was proud of me for doing what I’m doing. It was an amazing feeling. Even getting calls and messages asking, “how can I start a business?”, “how can I make shirts?”, “what do I need?”, “let’s meet up to talk about how you got started and what I should do.” I was extremely happy to hear that people wanted to hear from me and see what they could do to progress to the state that I was in. It was a great feeling knowing people wanted my help even though I was still learning how to do things correctly myself – it’s what made me persistent and focused. I was always excited to teach them what I had learned and share my knowledge. Especially when I would hear it come from life-long friends that I haven’t seen in a while – it gave me that extra oomph to just blab all I learned to get them started.

My life-long family friend, my brother, Lucas Salem, was one of those people. He wanted to start a t-shirt business and since I had an established t-shirt printing company, with my good friend Joe Castro, he came to me. It was great to hear that he wanted to meet up and talk about how he should get started and what he should do but we always kept putting it off. Unfortunately, I never got that chance to meet up with Lucas. He passed away due to a tragic car accident before we ever got a chance to talk about the t-shirt company that he wanted to build. I wish every day that I never pushed that date back to meet up because tomorrow is never promised and that is something that we always take for granted. That is how Wondrous Blue was born! People say that in life you die twice; once when we leave this earth and then again when we are forgotten. I will not let that happen! Lucas Salem was a man of the sea, a fisherman, a great and honest person, and a great friend! His memory lives on with Wondrous Blue!”  I absolutely love this story and pay great respect for this company as this is a beautiful story. As soon as I  had read a bit about the company that’s when I decided to reach out to them and inquire about a collaboration. I love companies with a powerful message and love seeing what different companies are all about.

While looking on their website, I was amazed at how beautiful the clothing line was.  There are three categories of shirts to choose from such as; short sleeve, long sleeve and little anchors. I am especially drawn to long sleeve shirts as I am always cold all the time, and just love the look of these shirts in general. I especially loved the pocket style t-shirts! There are so many different colours to choose from which is amazing, but since I am a very plain girl I really enjoy either black or white shirts in general. I really liked the “Long Sleeve Ship Graphic Pocket T-Shirt” in white which retails for, $34.99.  I decided to get mine in a size medium which fits absolutely perfectly and I am so happy for that! I could not wait for my shirt to come in and was super excited when I received it in the mail! The material is super comfortable, stylish and is something I would for sure wear.

I was also amazed at how friendly and down to earth the company was, they were a pleasure to talk to! Again, absolutely love companies that are super engaging with their clients, and are super friendly to speak to. I would for sure order more clothing from this site by far, I absolutely love the style, the company in general and love everything they have going for them. Again, loving the pocket tee style!

“… the t-shirt company he would’ve started”

I want to personally take the time to thank Wondrous Blue Clothing for allowing me to collaborate with their company! You guys are such wonderful people. Be sure to come spread some love over on their page at “@wondrousblueclothing”. Also be sure to follow my other social media accounts located on my home page for future blogs! Take care and much love xo.

Collaborations, Fashion Finds

My Collaboration with “ I Am Who I Am Apparel”

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Hey beauts, welcome to my channel, I am so glad you chose to pop in and say hi! I hope you beauts have been doing well. I have been busy blogging lately and have been babysitting my mom’s dog for the week while they are on vacation for March break! Lucky Bum’s! I don’t mind being with baby winnie though, we are bonding and having a great time together! I have recently been collaborating with a clothing brand called, “I am who I am Apparel”, and let me just say this, they are a newer company but are amazing so far and their clothing is inspirational as well. As you beauts know I am all about positive vibes and love anything that has to do with inspiration and empowering vibes. I am who I am is a Canadian Clothing company that stands for showing the world who you are; quirks, flaws, and all! I absolutely love this! Also, they emphasize the quote, “be proud of everything you are”. On their Instagram page, I love how it says in their bio, “peace and self-love”. I am all about self-love, practising self-love and expressing it as much as possible.  I was so ecstatic when the company agreed to collaborate with me on a blog post, I love working with different companies and was thrilled to see this was a Canadian company which was awesome. There are so many different t shirts and hoodies to choose from which was great! I chose two specific t-shirts that caught my eye right away. The first is called the  “Probably Late Tee”, which retails in store for $22.00. I got my shirt in the royal blue colour which was absolutely stunning. I feel like you can pair these shirts with a lot of different outfits which is great. I simply paired mine with a pair of ripped jeans, combat boots, and a baseball hat.

(Clearly couldn’t just decide on one picture because I liked them all as you can tell !) I just absolutely love and adore this shirt! It completely suits me because I am usually always late to things, I like to take my sweet ass time getting ready!

The next shirt that I received in the mail is absolutely adorable as well and I am in love! It suits me to a T. This shirt is called the , “Seriously Sassy Tee”, and it retails in store for $22.00. I love this shirt as well I think it is absolutely adorable and looks so cute on. I got mine in the colour black and it literally goes with anything which I love! I do feel extremely sassy in this t shirt which is awesome. Of course had to wear this with my sunnies!

Collaborations, Fashion Finds

My Collaboration with “Gmyle Phone Cases”

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Hey there beauts, and welcome to my channel if you are new! My names Alyssa, and I appreciate you beautiful souls stopping by. I have been super busy lately with a new blogging opportunity that came my way recently! I will be discussing this more in detail when it comes to my next blog post down the road so stay tuned! I am still doing collaborations with companies which I absolutely love, and I know you beauts look forward to seeing which company I am going to work with next! I came across an amazing company on Instagram called “Gmyle” that sells accessories and gadgets. I absolutely loved their page it completely caught my eye. I was extremely interested in the phone cases as I absolutely am hooked on cool and intriguing phone cases lately! Their brand is proud to design good gadgets to make your life easier. The company is dedicated to enhancing your style and life with their cases, covers, gadgets and so forth. While browsing and looking on their website, there is so much to offer and look at! Straight away I went to the phone cases for my iPhone 7 and did my browsing. I then reached out to the company asking if they were interested in a collaboration.  They were more than happy to do a collaboration with me and send me a phone case which was awesome! Let the browsing begin! I wanted something unique and different, something I didn’t have before. I came across this one phone case which I absolutely loved and it was called, “Snap Case Dual (Bones Pattern) for Apple iPhone 7/8″, in my case my iPhone 7.  There were about 3-4 different bones patterns to choose from and I really liked this one skull with flowers on the head. I do not own anything like this before, and wanted something unique and different, with a “badass” kind of vibe to it!

I absolutely love the look of this case, it is see-through which I love, and I love the design on the cover as well! If you are wanting to be stylish, and have a bad ass vibe, I highly recommend checking out this case for your phone! This retails for $19.98 in store.  So this was the case that I picked out for my phone, thank you so much Gmyle for the lovely case! I also noticed on the website there are so many other categories of cases to choose from and there are even beautiful colours for your Macbooks if you have one! (aka, I need to purchase one for myself one day for sure).

Gmyle was also super generous and sent me another phone case as a surprise gift which was amazing of them. I received this beautiful marble design phone case which I had my eye on as well. It’s like they knew exactly what I would like and want! Amazing!  This case is called, “Snap Case Light (Marble Pattern) for iPhone 7″ which retails for $19.98 in store.  I think this case looks super chic and is super stylish as well. It is hard to choose which case I love the most because I absolutely adore both cases!

I want to take the time to personally thank Gmyle for allowing me to collaborate and work with their company, you beauts are amazing! Come check out their amazing collection of gadgets, cases and covers… was so hard to choose which one I wanted to model for you guys! Be sure to come spread some love on their page as well at “gmyle_us”, and come check out my other social media sites located on my homepage for more blogs to come in the near future! Take care and have a beautiful day, much love xo.

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