Hope you all are doing fine with fasting and your Ibadah this month :) . Today might be the last day of Ramadan T-T . I bet you all think Ramadan went in a blink of an eye! Reminds me of that Hadith which mentions...

As sad as We are for Ramadan we're a little excited for Eid cuz we get to put henna! *YAY!* . This time our friends decided, since we live so close to each other, we should get together the night before Eid aka Chandraat (Moon night) in Urdu and put the "little we know" designs on each other's hand just to revive the idea of Chandraat ^_^. Living away from our motherland we don't get to enjoy the fun of Chandraat as it's done back home. Even though we're few in numbers when girls meet up it's always fun!

Anyways back to the blog post! Today we're gonna blog a request & we know it's pretty late but I think it's right in time for Eid season. We're pretty sure everyone is done their Eid shopping by now.

A friend and a reader of our requested us to blog about Modest maxi dresses easily available here in Bahrain :) so here we go.

Now, you can find maxi dresses almost everywhere over here, but nobody wants to wear under sleeves or blazers over their sleeveless maxi in this heat! & luckily, *Alhamdulillah* we found a few shops that sell pretty outfits perfect for Eid or even casual wear.

Since it was Ramadan and we couldn't window shop a lot of of outlets we chose a few shops in Bahrain City Centre to give you an idea of what you can find where!

Here's the shops we dropped by-

1-BHS

2- RIVA

3- Choice 

4-Dorothy Perkins 

5-Max 

If you think these prices are a little over your budget then you can always wait for Sales^_^. But try to keep an eye on the last four shops we listed since they frequently update their wardrobe according to seasons and occasions! 

That's it for today. Hope this blog post helps you for your next shopping spree maybe or just window shopping :D

Assalamualaikum Sisters!

It's been a while since we blogged a henna related post, so here's a special one! 

Some really close family friends returned from Karachi, Pakistan recently and these amazing people got us a henna cone all the way from our homeland! Isn't that the sweetest thing? :)

Now why are we making sucha fuss, well then let me tell you henna from Karachi (not sure about whole Pakistan) are the best ones we've tried. The stain is perfect , not too dark and not too light. Just the perfect maroon color. Beside that, the consistency of the henna is just right. No need to chop of the end to get that right circle for the right amount of henna to flow out (this might sound alien language to you if you're not familiar with using a cone, hehe)

 So,for the past few weeks we've been trying out henna designs on our palms and the back of our hands at quite late hours of the night or shall I say early morning? :P We like to put henna in a relaxed atmosphere, after completing all chores and when there is no one a around to interrupt us. Unfortunately that only happens when we're about to go to bed :( and we're such slow pokes since we're not pro's therefore it takes us hours to get done with one hand, yeah you must be thinking "we?, for one hand?" Yes, we share lol. When one of us gets too nervous to apply a particular design we're not used to or the one we mess up usually, the other one volunteers to help out ! ^_^

Here are a few experiments with the That henna cone ... which we applied a night before an Indian wedding we had to attend. A few of them are inspirations from other pro henna designers and few are a result to brain storming.

Assalamualaikum sisters!

Asalamualaikum!Yes! Finally got some time to blog about our Fave stuff <3 we're so sorry for keeping you guys waiting!

baked some croissants too!

This Eid we had a lot of fun since we had the Qurbani done here, normally we have it done back in Karachi. & our relatives came over from Dammam for a short visit, so that was just wonderful, oh and the house hopping sessions were the usual, except less tiring^_^ Alhamdoullilah!

Eid without cake?...impossible^_^

And Omaimah got an unexpected cold that resulted in her sounding like a guy the whole 3 days of Eid, LOL! We're really excited to share Henna we did this Eid, since both of us experimented Arabic henna for the first time on our neighbors hands ^_^

Tried out flower knots this time!(http://thesyedasisters.blogspot.com/2013/07/tuesday-tutorial-soft-buns.html)

Its going to be almost a month since Eid-ul-Adha got over, so this blog-post was really pending on our to-do list.
Since we usually skip to the images when we Google henna posts by other, I, (Omaimah) bet everyone else probably does the same, so enough with the chit chat and Enjoy!
If you to get a darker color, faster..here's a tip : http://thesyedasisters.blogspot.com/2013/08/eid-ul-fitr-2013-henna.html

lil Ms.neighbor requested this design to be done on her hand by Omaimah

omaimah trying to brain storm again (-_-) on poor lil Ms.Neighbors hand

are fav design, a.k.a"tippa" done by Areesha

Arabic design experiment by Areesha

and this hand was done by Omaimah

With did the same design on both hands, we had no clue whether or not we could pull it of when she showed this design to us, we were just staring at each other for a few seconds and smiling before we started, so now tell us who did it better?

areesha trying out the butterfly design

Done By Areesha (Omaimah's not so good editing skills)

So guys, hope you liked our henna designs and we'll keep updating our blog more frequently from now In Sha Allah!
till then, Remember us in your Dua's
Love,
The Syeda Sisters!

Assalamualaikum!

YES ,you read it right !

 The one and only Nouman Ali Khan will be speaking live in Bahrain on 10th and 11th September 2013. 

Its the most talked about event right now in the kingdom and hundreds have already registered to attend this once in a lifetime event.

We are so excited that the moment we heard about this we made our minds to volunteer at this event. 

We will be blogging about the event after its finishes so those out of Bahrain stay tuned!

He'll be attending the Youth Care Conference 2013 hosted by the Say One Care organisation and stopping by the Kingdom of Bahrain on his world tour.

If you wont make it to the event you can watch the live streaming of the event on http://new.livestream.com/accounts/5327811/events/2383955 😊

Just in case you do not know who he is, Nouman Ali Khan is the head of Bayinnah, an Arabic and Quran studies institute, a well known Orator from The United States of America, his lectures are heard from people all over the world from different backgrounds most often on Youtube and he is looked upon as an Inspiration by millions of youngsters. 

The entrance is free of charge but you do have to register online on this website.

http://www.sayonecare.org/#!nak/ce9z

The Event will start from 8 pm In Sha Allah, and he'll be talking about "True Friends" on Tuesday 10 Sept and "Responsibility" on Wednesday 11 Sept at Al Fateh Masjid aka The Grand Mosque. ^_^

 So hope to see you there ! In Sha Allah.

Love,
The Syeda Sisters.

Asalamualaikum!

Parcel all the way from Karachi

A few days before Eid-ul-Fitr we received a DHL parcel with our Eid clothes in it on our doorsteps from Pakistan from our mom's awesome siblings ^_^
 Oh the excitement, you should have seen us, Areesha was ready to leave her office but she delayed just to see the clothes, she even said if the package arrives after she goes to work we all would have to wait till she returns home in the evening to open it -_- so Alhamdulillah for that!
Omaimah although half asleep, couldn't handle the excitement and hurried to try on her dress as soon as we opened the parcel and after she wore it she kept on staring in front of the mirror adoring her dress!
We immediately emailed our aunts on how wonderful the clothes are ^_^
Honestly we are one blessed family to have such amazing people on our side!
 we don't know what we would've done without them!

Omaimah Outfit on Eid-ul-Fitr by Nishat Linen

We've been planning to blog about a OOTD since we started this blog but we just didn't get the time to take pictures we'd always be in a hurry to get to our destination that taking pictures was not an option xD 
We think its the amount of time we take to dress up lol.

 Areesha insisted to take pictures of her outfit after we returned from the house hoping session that's why our clothes might look a little creased in the pictures and ignore our photo editing skills we know they're aren't so awesome!
 lets face it we don't own a DSLR pro camera like the other fashion bloggers in Bahrain neither do we know our way around Adobe photoshop xD

The embroidery on the back(left) and pocket(right)

The neck ^_^

Embroidery on the back and notice the turtle neck bulging

the Over all look from the back!

terrible editing skills, I hope you can see what my palazzo pants looks like

Eid shoes of the day ^_^

Asalamualaikum

A lil something during a visit at a family friends place for the first time