THE SYEDA SISTERS: Ideas

Pakistani Wedding Look Book -Winter

1/25/2014

Assalamualaikum

Is winter officially here?
Just when it becomes warmer here after the dreadful cold, it rains out of the blue and Voila its freezing again! -_-
So we recently found out that there's a Wedding happening in our extended family In Sha Allah in a few weeks.
Now the first thing that comes to our mind and what probably comes to every girls mind is "What are we going wear!?" .-.
Being Pakistani, we get our traditional outfits tailor made for most Weddings & also for Eid.
We keep modifying the typical Shalwar kameez on every occasion depending on what is trending locally,
but clearly seeing how much the temperature is falling these days, keeping yourself warm in those traditional wear and looking pretty is quite a task!

So basically today we'll be blogging about what could be worn this winter at weddings. So let's begin!

Mehndi day 1:

Designer: Adnan Pardesy

PFDC Sunsilk Fasion Week 2013

Designer: Nida Azwer

The PFDC Sunsilk fashion week

Designer: Tena Durrani

Fall 2013 collection

Shaadi (wedding) Day 2:

Designer: Feeha Jamshed

Model : Mahira Khan

2013

Designer: Tena Durrani

Bridal wear collection 2013

Designer : HSY

PFDC L'oreal Paris Bridal Fashion week

Valima (Reception) Day 3:

Designer: Tena Durrani

Collection: Formal wear 2013

Designer: Adnan Pardesy

PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week April

Designer: Tena Durrani

Collection: Bridal wear 2013

Designer: Adnan Pardesy

PFDC Sunsilk Fasion Week 2013

As you can see most of the outfits looks a lot like an evening gown.

They're paired with either a short or knee long coat that will do the task of keeping you warm! Whereas colors wise what's IN are Pastel colors that are paired up with brighter shades, =)

We love how the designers kept most of the dresses, Modest by not making the silhouettes obvious and keeping it long and flowy.
We hope this blog post gave you a little idea of what you should get tailored for upcoming winter wedding season.

till the next post,
Take Care
Love
The Syeda Sisters.

Areesha

Eid-ul-Adha Henna 2013.

12/13/2013

brain storming at morning of Eid

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!

Areesha

Eid-ul-Fitr 2013 Henna

8/10/2013

Asalamualaikum

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

First of all Eid Mubarak to all our followers!

we pray that Allah accepts all our fasts and make us pious, Ameen!

Done by Areesha on our neighbors hand

Since its Eid and you would have noticed in our previous post about henna, we mentioned how our Eid's incomplete without putting henna!

Today we'll be sharing pictures of our henna which we did this eid and what all we did on that day!
so we start off with putting henna on our wonderful neighbors, 3 sweet sisters, Two of them wanted henna on the back of their hands and one wanted henna on her o_O
Omaimah felt awful with the henna design she did on the youngest sister(see last pic)

they actually came at 2 am in the night or to be honest we invited them at 2 am ,
they didn't mind cuz their like us ..night people... we stay up all night...made it a habit in Ramadan,
anyways so we finish putting henna on their hand at around 4 am or was it 5?

Done by Omaimah with a lil help from areesha on neighbor's hand

The sky was starting to light up and we were freaking out cuz we started to feel sleepy and we still didn't have henna on our hands T_T

Rachna henna cones

so we finally got our henna done at around 11 am in the morning!
we both took shifts on putting henna on each other hands while the latter slept, but Areesha got the least sleep since she likes to take her time to put henna which ended up getting her only 2 hrs of sleep :(

Done by Omaimah on Areesha's Hand at 6 am -_-

so by 11 am we had to start getting ready for our house hoping sessions and so we needed to get our henna color to darken fast, even though the henna cone we used usually gives a very dark maroon color but the problem was the color shows up only a day later and we had a few hours left to leave the house.

Typical Pakistani design done by omaimah on her own hands.

Our mom did a trick that she's been doing since our childhood and we would like to tell you about this secret tip that can help get your henna darker!
What you'll need - A big pan , some cloves and some vicks (the balm that relieves headaches and stuffy nose)

First Apply vicks with a cotton bud on top of your henna( you have to do all this while you have the dried henna paste on your hands and not after your shake of the dried part!)

while you're doing that, heat the pan on your stove earlier and place the cloves on them.
after its heated hover your hands (henna side facing towards the pan,obviously!) on top of the pan!
please don't put your hand directly on the pan unless you want to burn yourselves! jk
It should be 4 to 5 inches or higher above the pan or until you can feel the heat on your palms
and you can remove them whenever your satisfied there's no time limit or perhaps 10 mins or less !

and voila you get a darker henna color in a jiffy!

Done by Areesha on her own hands 9 am in the morning lol.

So now that was done we got ready and surprisingly getting ready took us 2 hrs or shall I say our dad took his time getting ready!
We started our house hopping sessions and since we got late of out of our house we were arriving at our hosts place way out of the timings they invited us in!
pretty embarrassing you may think, But Alhamdoulillah there were guests still arriving after us!
so saved from the embarrassment and the stares we would get when we're the last one to arrive!
Oh and we noticed this Eid many girls mentioned how they grabbed a henna cone and did their henna themselves for the first time cuz no-one had the time or the money to visit the parlor and wait in line!
and to be honest their henna looked Amazing! ^_^ MashaAllah

Done by areesha on a sleeping Omaimah's hand -_-

so that's how our first day of Eid ended ,It sure ended pretty fast ! we came home tired and exhausted around 11 pm and of course the house was messed upside down, does this happen to everyone or is it just us?
Its like when you leave the house in the morning after searching for shoes and matching jewelry and throwing clothes here and there, and then you come back home to sight of the mess you made earlier!
yeah happens to us everyday!

done by omaimah on a 4 year old xD

we just clear up the clothes, didn't want them to get wrinkled and prayed Esha and crashed into our beds! and slept till 2 pm next morning missing our Fajr salah :(The best part of eid was meeting friends you haven't met for ages and also who can forget the food, Alhamdoulillah Eid is truly a blessing it makes you realize the importance of friends and family in your life!

the other hand of the 4 year old done by omaimah.

so guys thats it for today, we hope you liked todays blogpost!
stay tuned cuz we'll be featuring our first OOTD for eid in our next blogpost !
till then take care!

Love,
The Syeda Sisters.