For Your Eye, Asian Beauties!

Indonesians are Asians but not all Indonesians have Oriental eyes. People always relate Asian eyes with "single lid" or "no-crease" eyes. Prejudice aside, this statement is true in most cases. Since we are all uniquely created, there are numerous types of Asian eyes out there. We're talking about Lucy Liu's sultry cat eyes, Gong Li's out-of-the-bed dark eyes, and even our own Sandra Dewi's round and innocent looking ones. Rest assured, there's a make up style out there that will suit your beautiful Asian eyes.

In general, most Asian women prefer dark make up for their eyes -- dark shadow, dark mascara, and don't forget the unfailing dark liners. Dark colored tools do make an illusion of bigger eyes and that's why Asian women love it. Some prefer just to play with the liners; thick or thin as long as it makes them eyes POP! My ultimate tip though, always line the inside of your upper eye with a kohl black pencil liner, just below the lashes. This looks great for eyes with smaller lids but also those with a more distinct crease just to create more definition. For a variety, you could always try other dark liners like the ones offered by Chanel. 1QL loves Chanel's Stylo Yeux Waterproof - Long lasting eyeliner. Not only it offers a long-lasting effect all day, it also comes with the dark colors that are very suitable for Asian eyes. Try out Gris, Espresso, or Violine. L-O-V-E.

Eye shadows are just as equally important for any eye make up. For daytime look, apply a shadow that is just a bit darker than your skin tone. Something shimmery, not glittery, like gold or bronze is always welcomed. Christian Dior's 5 Color Eyeshadow in "New Misty Mauve" is a must have. Buy it now, like seriously. Although some might say that it's a bit pricey, but hey, you got 5 shadows that look good if combined together. Asian women could take advantage of this by applying the darker shade of shadow in the crease or if you don't have a defined crease, shyly apply 0.5 cm near to your eyes. Then blend with a lighter shadow. Use the lightest color under your brow line and just a bit in the inside corner of your eyes. Now, if you want, apply the dark colored shadow on your lower lash, a third in from you outside corner. Pair it up with black mascara (the well known pink and green Maybelline Great Lash) and black liner (Bobbi Brown's Long Wear Gel Eyeliner) and you're ready to go. This soft look is also good for brides. A useful shadow tip for Asian eyes, find a soft brown colored shadow, a few shade darker than your skin tone and make a smudged line to create a crease illusion starting from the outside corner of your eyes.

You could find good make up books out there and if it's more convenient for you, go find some make-up tutorials in YouTube. They are GREAT!

Our last word of advice, please avoid ice pink, ice blue, ice green, or anything icy. Pastel colored eye make up will make your Asian eyes look smaller and so 80s. Asian women should always go for medium to dark colors.

*We'll post some pictures later related to this post*

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Carolina Herrera - Resort 2010

We are not shy about our fascination to wonderful fashion. And excellent fashion means only one name, Carolina Herrera. Enjoy her collection in Resort 2010 below, and hopefully it may serve you as inspiration for wedding party fashion!

Sneak peek of her fall 2010 coming up soon!

Image taken from style.com

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Inspiration Board - Charcoal besties Pink

As many of you all know, pink is practically synonymous with weddings. Come on bride, we know it's your day, but can't you give a lil bit of space for the groom too? (sorry groom...weddings are girls rule--earth rulings)

To strengthen the softness of the pink, we add grey charcoal. This color match beautifully to counteract the femininity of the blush pink/ magenta. From the bark of an old tree, collection of vintage diamonds, to the font in the invitations...pink and charcoal are like match made in heavens just like the bride and groom (supposedly--finger crossed).

Groom, no need to thank us...this one is a yayersss

image taken from stylemepretty, junebugswedding

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Inspiration Board - Blue & Orange

Calling all unorthodox brides that shy away from traditional woes!!!!
Classic brides - beware, this blog entry might not be for you.

Blue + Orange inspiration board!!!! This is my first time doing an inspiration board and man, is it hard! Hats off to the usual inspiration board creator of 1QL ;)
For this inspiration board, I was actually inspired by a friend who is planning her wedding and while choosing her color palette, came across the idea of blue and orange. While some people (okay, maybe a lot of people, including a partner of 1QL) would think that these two colors are too vibrant to be together, I think it can be very unique and fresh! However, this inspiration board comes with an exception - only use it if you plan to have a modern/contemporary style wedding. This color palette is not for the faint of heart! The trick is to also combine them with another neutral color like beige or white. This way, the blue and orange colors will pop up more subtly.

We sincerely hope this entry makes you want to try to combine unique colors as your wedding color palette!

{images taken from The Knot and Style Me Pretty}

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You've Got Nail!

Beauty preparation before a wedding is always fun, well at least for some. We're gonna talk about the massages, the waxing, the skin care, the hair, the makeup, and any other beauty tips on future posts. On this post though, we would like to focus on nailpolish colors that suit your skin tone and of course your wedding day.

Since we are devout O.P.I fans, all reference to a nailpolish color can be found in O.P.I website.
One Queen's Lane suggestions are as follows:
1. Go Nude - To have a soft and natural color is simply beautiful. These neutral colors will give you the illusion of longer fingers. Try "At First Sight" / "Over the Taupe"
2. Go Pink - You could never go wrong with pink. Look at "Dulce de Leche" / "Dusk Over Cairo" / "Royal Flush Blush"; so sweet!
3. Go Red - Classic reds reign supreme. "An Affair in Red Square" definitely pops.
4. Go Whatever Colors You Like - any color of your choice or maybe those that match with the theme of your wedding are also welcomed. Or maybe something Blue - "Blue My Mind"?

You gotta check out the site, they have this virtual try-outs where you can "try on" the nail polish by adjusting your nail length and skin tone.

But of course, do try the colors out on your nearby nail salons.

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Remember the Ring Bearers?

The ring bearers are often forgotten in a wedding but you must admit that they are a cute addition to that special day of yours. This is another one of the many moments when all your guests can go, "Aaaaaaawwwwww" at the same time. Well, if we may give you suggestions, you could always start with a traditional look for the ring bearer. A black tuxedo is always a win-win choice (shown here in this picture below, looking adorable with the flower girl)
Or, match the groom's suit with this little guy's. Hey, or is it the other way around?
You know how kids have tons of energy, where they like to run around endlessly. You can empathize by giving them this number below from J.Crew kids. Short pants, more air.
But my favorite one of all, the bohemian look for them babies.
Now everybody say "Aaaaaaawwwwww"... Thank you!

Doesn't matter if you're using the best man, the tiny little man, or even your dog. You must always remember your ring bearer.

Pictures are taken from J.Crew and these wedding blogs below:
-Big Mouth Bride
-Elizabeth Anne Designs
-Wedding Bee

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Simple Wedding Dresses - with intricate details

Aahhh...the epitome of a wedding - the wedding gown. Here in Indonesia, wedding gowns are usually extravagant. Too extravagant in fact that sometimes, some wedding dresses, literally hurt my eyes. What with the lace, and 3 foot long-3 tiered veils, gloves on your arms (by the way, wedding ring put over the gloves? not a good look ladies), swarovski crystals, flower petals,.....and yes, I've seen all of those elements done in one dress.
I understand that brides have to be the center of attention, if not, why have a wedding at all, right? But you don't have to wear such an over-the-top-verging-on-grotesque wedding dress to grab attention.

Whattttt....simple wedding dresses can't have great details - you say???? Well, ladies, take a look at the wedding dresses below. All of the gowns below are very simple dresses, but with such great, intricate details. I am sure that these dresses will make you the center of attention, and in a good way ;)

Lela Rose - The Garden

Jim Hjelm - Style 8052

Priscilla of Boston - Style 4507

Amsale - Coco

These wedding dresses maybe very simple, but if paired up with the right body type and worn with confidence, will make everybody's heads turn in awe! So maybe, don't listen to your mom/mother in law/much older cousin of yours and go with a simpler wedding dress that accentuates your body. After all, it is YOUR wedding...

{images taken from The Knot}

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Featured Wedding Photographer - Our Labor of Love

Ok, it's probably pretty obvious by now that we love GOOD, and only GOOD wedding photography here at 1QL. Though we are trying to promote local wedding photographers in our blog but I just have to share with you all one wedding photographer that blows our mind with their images. Our Labor of Love is a husband and wife team of wedding photographers based in Atlanta, GA, USA. I was originally introduced to their work by my sister who was looking for a photographer to capture her wedding day pics back in 2008. I was blown away by their amazing work and have been following their blog ever since.

OLOL captures real emotions in their photographs, as a result their pictures turn out AMAZING.


On top of that, I don't know what camera/lens/filters they use but just look at the colors in their pictures. Pure awesomeness!!!! It's vintage, modern, romantic, the whole nine yards!


If you are a fan of good wedding photography, then you have to check them out .....just don't do it during office hours 'coz you might spend the whole day looking at wedding pictures from OLOL.

{all images taken from OLOL's blog}

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Inspiration board - Color Candy

Here at 1QL we had alot of personalities intertwined into one blog. I made this inspiration board thinking of people who are near and dear to my heart; my bestfriends aka 1QL partners and biggest supporters! They have the most colorful personality ever and with their comic and candid way, we can talk and laugh for hours! I guess...all you need in life is just good friends with a lot of love and laugh, yes? So for all of you brides with colorful personality out there, this one is especially for you :)

image taken from oncewed, stylemepretty and junebugweddings

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J Crew Casual Wedding Dresses

We reckon that most of Indonesian brides wear extravagant wedding dresses when the couple is going for international reception. While most of them are nice and elegant (the likes of Eddy Betty, Adrian Gan, Biyan, Sebastian Gunawan and Didi Budiardjo), we are longing for something new, fresh, simple and quite unique for the brides.

By now, you readers are pretty well aware of our fascination of J.Crew. This line brings ordinary fashion to life and with its affordable chic, its suitable for our pocket! They just redo their bridal line with the new exclusive wedding boutique in Manhattan. While some of the bridal gowns are too simple for Indonesians, we think it would be super nice for a prewed session photography! So forget the lace, forget the beadings, forget the swarovski crystal for once in a while. Play around with these wonderful and elegant but yet simple wedding ideas from J.Crew :)

image taken from jcrew.com

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Invitations

Dresses, Decor, Music, Mother, Mother-in-law, Food, Make-up, yada yada yada...would the list ever stop for planning a wedding? We note your exhaustion and try to address the problem, one step at a time. In this post, we are going to discuss and give you some cool inspirations on wedding invitation. I noticed how some of my friends' invitations

are so cool and light, representing the modern outlook, but yet keep the traditions alive with the use of ikat prints in some of the embossing on the invitations.

We at 1QL like things that inspires us. Speaking of invitations, this website is truly inspiring! Check out weddingpaperdivas.com for more, but below we append our personal favorites:

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Jakarta Wedding Festival 2010 findings

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
It was a very exciting weekend here in Jakarta as the Jakarta Wedding Festival was held and of course, 1QL attended this event.

This event was sponsored by top jeweler Frank Duet and organized by the infamous weddingku website.

The overall experience that we had from visiting this event was satisfactory. It featured a lot of wedding vendors from venue, bridals, photography, videography, honeymoon ideas, entertainment, wedding organizers, caterings and more. Every wedding need catered!
I must say, for such a big event, it was fairly organized. Congratulations weddingku!

Out of all of the vendors, we feel that the event featured a lot of fresh and new wedding photographers and videographers.

Below is a list of photographers featured at JWF 2010 that is 1QL approved (read on to see why)! We thought we would share with you to help you with your wedding choices. Enjoy!

1. Mottomo Photography - LOVE them. Perfect for those who like vintage style. Their booth was so cute with a sort of vintage feel to it. We found out that it was only their first time participating in a Wedding Festival but the way they set up their booth was sooo professional. Kudos to that!
Their photography style is candid journalism and they are very good at finding new angles to shoot from which will make your wedding pictures so unique.
They had the cutest vintage albums available to immortalize your pictures in and scrapbooks (yes, handmade) are also an option for a fairly reasonable additional price. Personally, I thought the scrapbook idea is brilliant - awesome idea Mottomo! love love love love love

taken from Mottomo's fb page
This is a picture of an Indonesian traditional wedding rituals captured brilliantly by Mottomo.

2. Leonardi Portraiture & Lifestyle Photography - If your style is classic, glamour, elegant or falls somewhere along those lines, these two vendors (falls under the management of: KING Foto) could be the answer to your wedding photography needs.
Leonardi Portraiture is only available for Pre-Wedding/Engagement Pictures, while Lifestyle Photography is available for Pre-Wedding and Wedding Day photography & videography. Looking at their pictures, you can't help but to be in awe of all the beauty that they can capture in one single frame.

taken from www.leonardi-portraiture.com

3. Didiet Tham Photography - This vendor can be described as modern, fun, cool and fashionable. I don't know why but when I look at their pictures, the word "fashion" comes to mind, even though it is a wedding day picture! You'll just have to check them out yourself to understand what I mean. One of the most unique things about them is that they offer a free domain and website design for your wedding website as a part of their wedding package services. A wedding website is not that common here in Indonesia, so it was really cool of Didiet Tham to introduce this to the future brides and grooms.

taken from http://didiettham.com

With all their different styles, one word can still be described for all three - AWESOME.
Check them out!!!

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