MIA

Where have we been ?!

Okay so we feel really bad for being MIA but Deana and I have had just so much going on.  I know that we both wish that we had more time to dedicate to Illest ʇhread and to this blog.

Lately, our schedules have just not been working out with our model Tara and then school got in the way and every college student knows how crazy it gets around finals!


I wish that there were more hours in the day.  When I say this I feel like my mother who says this all the time but its so true.  A lot of days I feel like I do not have enough time to fit in the things that I need to get done and the things that I want to do.

This summer Deana and I are looking for models.  If you are interested in modeling for Illest ʇhread please send us and email : illest.thread@gmail.com.
 
I hope for all the college students out there you had a great semester! If you are a college student we would love your feedback on this blog and Instagram. Email us with your feedback.  We especially want to hear from college students because that is our target audience.


Anyway, enough of my small rant.  Today we posted on Illest ʇhread for the first time since Easter (sad to say that it has been that long) about a new Berlin brand named I LIKE PAPER.  On Illest ʇhread we featured their PAPPWATCH which is made from water-proof and tear-resistant cardboard.  The two watches that we featured are from the series 'Justice'.  I think I may have to go and buy myself one of these watches... if you didn't know I have a thing about watches.  I feel I need one of these watches to add to my near ending collection.  We found out about these watches through iheartfake.com. Which is one of my favorite magazines...if you're not familiar with the magazine you should definitely check it out!

Until next time,
T&D from Illest  ʇhread

Cobalt Blue

Okay so I am going to be honest. In my head when I styled this outfit I thought it was going to look amazing.  Everything about it was perfect in my head.  It was the perfect balance of girly yet still fashionable and trendy.  When it was actually time to shoot the look I hated it.  It had nothing to do with Tara obviously.  She is an amazing model and all the clothes we tell her to wear for the shoots look great on her but this was a major mess up on my part.  Now that I look back on it I wish I hadn't picked a crop top to go with this look and I also wish I wouldn't have paired the black buckle boots with bright cobalt jeans.   Each piece of clothing individually is great but they just did not come together right in this outfit.  I think Deana agreed.  Later she told me that this wasn't her favorite look either.  Regardless of this however, the make-up was incredible.  Deana did such an great job.  I believe she will be writing a blog post just on the make up and it will also include close up pictures so you will really be able to see how amazing the make up was for this shoot.

P.S.

I hope it's okay that we include unedited pictures on this blog.  We both want this blog to be real. Which means we will include unedited pictures and write down our actual feelings about how our photos from a certain shoot came out or just the process of trying to become a successful fashion Instagram. 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Okay so I know it is not Valentine's Day anymore but I decided I should upload these pictures of our Valentine's Day look anyway.  It is my favorite look like I have already stated numerous times on the other posts.  Tara (our model) looks AMAZ and the outfit couldn't have come out any better in the pictures.  For our Valentine's Day look we wanted to go for something chic and young while still looking elegant.  We were imagining an outfit like is for a nice dinner date with your significant other.  I think we achieved that.  What do you think ?

The shoot overall was fun.  Tara however might say otherwise.  We made her squeeze into shoes that were 2 sizes to small for her and by the end of the shoot  Deana had to carry her back inside.  As soon as we got inside the first thing Tara asked was "Can you please take these shoes off of me ?"  She was a total trooper threw the whole thing. She didn't even complain once about being out in the freezing cold with only a field jacket on and very thin tights.  We owe you Tara!  Make sure you check out our Instagram @ILLESTTHREAD!

1. STRIPPED CROP TOP

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   AMERICAN APPAREL

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   AMERICAN APPAREL

   , in AMERICAN APPAREL SHIRTS

2. COBALT JEANS

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   GAP

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   GAP

   , in GAP DENIM JEANS

3. BLACK BUCKLE BOOTS

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   SHOE CULT

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   NASTY GAL

   , in BOOTS

4. FLORAL STATEMENT NECKLACE

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   J. CREW

   ,
   

   J.CREW

   , in J. CREW JEWELRY

Bee Mine

AHH! Nobody informed us of how hard it would be to keep up with a daily blog along with having a social life and keeping up with school work.  Then again, why would we ever assume that it would be easy.  I guess we just figure that all we would have to do is upload pictures from the shoots.   But, for some reason I always feel the need to supply a little bit of text with every picture that we upload.  Major props to the daily bloggers out there... your job takes a lot of dedication!  This look we named Bee Mine.  This is our casual going to school Valentine's Day look.   Can't wait until we post our final Valentine's Day look which is my absolute favorite!  Our model Tara looks so fierce and really does an amazing job at modeling the look.  Make sure you check out @illestthread on Instagram!

1. HIGH WAISTED JEANS

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   AMERICAN APPAREL

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   AMERICAN APPAREL

   , in AMERICAN APPAREL DENIM PANTS

2. PINK INFINITY SCARF

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   TARGET

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   TARGET

   , in TARGET SCARVES

3. TURNLOCK SMALL KATIE BRACELET

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   MARC BY MARC JACOBS

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   NORDSTROM

   , in MARC BY MARC JACOBS JEWELRY

4. WRAP BRACELET

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   STELLA & DOT

   , in JEWELRY

I LOVE YOU A LATTE

Here is our second Valentine's Day look!  We decided to name the look 'I LOVE YOU A LATTE' inspired by a cute little meme that our model Tara and I were looking at right before we uploaded these pictures to our lookbook.  Personally, I think this is my favorite look we have for our 4 days of Valentines.   Make sure you check out @illestthread on Instagram! 

1. PETER PAN COLLAR TEE

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   J. CREW

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   J.CREW

   , in J. CREW TOPS

2. FLORAL SKIRT

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   COOPERATIVE

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   URBAN OUTFITTERS

   , in SKIRTS

3. ENAMEL CRITTER CHARM NECKLACE

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   J.CREW

   , 

   J. CREW

   , inJEWELRY

4. BLACK DOC MARTENS

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   DR. MARTENS

   , in DR. MARTENS BOOTS 

Makeup by Deana @thefashionofthechrist on Instagram

Styled by theresa @imtheresa_n on Instagram

MOdel @Tara_hibbet on Instagram

Sweet Tart

This is our first post on ILLEST ʇHREAD and we are super excited about the potential and exciting things to come on this blog.  Our main blog is really our Instagram which is @illestthread!  We would really appreciate it if you checked it out and followed us. When I talk about 'we' I mean my partner Deana and I (Theresa).  We are both college students and are double majors in business and communications.  We both  have a really love for fashion and figured why not try to launch a fashion blog and see where it takes us.  So we asked our wonderful and very beautiful friend Tara if she was willing to be our model and she agreed and now here we are writing about and uploading our first photoshoot picture to our new blog. 

We want this blog to be about our journey of launching our fashion Instagram.  We will write about the struggles but also the hopefully great rewards that come from starting a fashion Instagram.  So without further ado I introduce our first week of pictures which are all themed around Valentine's Day.  We both hope that you really enjoy our blog and become a follower of ILLEST ʇHREAD on Instagram.  We would really like to have an open correspondence with our readers.  So please feel free to email us at illest.thread@gmail.com or leave us a comment on here.  Can't wait to write again! 

With lots of love, 

D & T from ILLEST ʇHREAD




IN THIS PHOTO:

• Salmon colored cropped top by MINKPINK for Nasty Gal 
• Black pixi pants by J.Crew
• Gold Chain from Claire's 

MAKE-UP by Deana                                      MODEL Tara 

    Instagram:  @thefashionofthechrist                         Instagram:  @Tara_hibbet 

STYLED by Theresa 

   Instagram:  @imtheresa_n