Cyanide Kiss

Dress giveaway for website launch!

2013-08-15T15:43:00.001+01:00

To celebrate the launch of our new website (check us out at www.cyanidekiss.co.uk ) I'm currently running a little competion over at the facebook page here
Simply like the page and share the picture on our facebook page and share the picture which can be found on the timeline, or click here !!
You will instantly be included in the competion to win a custom fit dress in a fabric of your chosing from our current stock!! Good luck with the competion, and make sure you check out our lovely sparkly new website!!

Little Show of Horrors

2012-11-24T11:57:00.000+00:00

On the 2nd November, Cyanide Kiss took part in Petit Papillon De Nuit's Little Show of Horrors, a great evening of stalls, a catwalk, burlesque show, and bands, Cyanide Kiss had a stall and took part in the catwalk.

Here's some shots from the evening from Phil Vidamour Photography and Pooki Rae Photography (see individual credits on photos). I was lucky to have a great team of models on the catwalk, they all did a great job showing off some of our dresses!

Pooki Rae Photography

Pooki Rae Photography

Pooki Rae Photography

Pooki Rae Photography and Make up (Bethany Parker-far right- wears Cherry Pop Latex)

Pooki Rae Photography and Make up.

L to R-Harlie Jayne McCallister, Li Wong, Lauren Madican, (Bethany Parker-far right- wears Cherry Pop Latex)

Pooki Rae Photography

Model-SarahTonin

Phil Vidamour Photography

Model-Harlie Jayne McCallister

Phil Vidamour Photography

Model-Jacqui Rose

Phil Vidamour Photography

Model-Li Wong

Phil Vidamour Photography

Model-SarahTonin

Phil Vidamour Photography

Model-Jen Catterall (Bombshell)

Phil Vidamour Photography

Model-SarahTonin

Phil Vidamour Photography

Model-Jacqui Rose

Pooki Rae Photography

Pooki Rae Photography
Model-Lauren Madican

Pooki Rae Photography

Pooki Rae Photography
Model-Li Wong

Pooki Rae Photography

Pooki Rae Photography
Model-Jen Catterall

Pooki Rae Photography

Pooki Rae Photography
Model-SarahTonin

Pooki Rae Photography

Model-Li Wong

Pooki Rae Photography

Model-Lauren Madican

Credits:

Photography-Pooki_Rae-Photography

and

Phil Vidamour Photography

Models-Harlie Jayne McCallister

Li Wong (Helly Kitty dress)

SarahTonin (Day of th dead dress)

Lauren Madican (Supergirls dress

Jen 'Bombshell' Catterall (pink lolita dress)

Jacqui Rose (pinstripe dress)

Bethany Parker (for Cherry Pop Latex)

Cyanide Kiss Halloween!!

2012-10-26T14:06:00.001+01:00

Cyanide Kiss Halloween!!

Oo, so it's nearly Halloween, I've been busy creating some custom orders in spooky fabrics, with the best fabrics coming out at Halloween, I've stocked up on a few! If you're interested in having a dress custom made in the graveyard fabric (below) or Skeleton hands fabric get in touch! I make in pretty much most sizes and the dresses are custom made to your measurements!

Custom dress for hallowen-Graveyard print!

(Shown with petticoat)

I have this fabric in if anyone would like a dress made from it, get in touch !!

Mel's Halloween dress:

Without petticoat

With petticoat

Fabric close up!

Blondie's Twisted Tea Room adventures

2012-10-04T15:04:00.000+01:00

Cyanide Kiss collaborated with the fantastic Danniella Jaine on her recent photoshoot.

Taking place in the gorgeous setting of Blondies Twisted Tea Room's in sunny Stoke-On-Trent.

Danniella used the stunning backdrop to showcase Cyanide Kiss dresses alongside Roxie Sweetheart

jewellery, a brand that we've collaborated with a few times now on photoshoots!

Her gorgeously sweet jewellery just sits so well with our dresses!

Modelling for Danniella's shoot were Victoria Thomas (pink-haired lady!) and Tini Von Doom (red hair). The full shoot can be found over at our facebook page and all dresses can be found in our Etsy shop! And make sure you stop by the photographer, models and Roxie Sweetheart's page to check out more of their work!

Photographer-Dannielle-Jaine Photography

Modesl: Tini Von Doom + Victoria Thoma

Make Up: Victoria 'Bean' Thomas

Dresses: Cyanide Kiss

Jewellery/Accessories: Roxie Sweetheart

at Blondies Twisted Tea Room

Galaxy purses !

2012-09-23T14:58:00.002+01:00

Cosmic joy.

I've been meaning to try this for a while, and had the frames ready, but after making the Galaxy dress a while back for Beki, I had some bits of fabric left after cutting out the pattern, and thought these would make great purses! Really happy with the result, the print is captured so well in this format!

So, I made some nebula print purses ! The pictures below are the same purse, back and front views. Something I love about this fabric is the colours. The reds and blues and purples all swirling together to create this lovely print! It could be a great purse, or maybe a glasses case, pencil case!
The purse is for sale on my Etsy page here !

Here's a little snap of the inside with Cyanide Kiss label:

Whilst I was making the Galaxy purse, I also made a handbag and a mini purse from the extra fabric for a friend's birthday, much different to my usual style as it wasn't for Cyanide Kiss, but a present, but I think it will be her cup of tea!

Jo's mini purse:

The bag:

50's Pin up Party

2012-09-18T04:30:00.000+01:00

50's Pin up Party !

At the end of July, Cyanide Kiss took part in the Polka dots and Pearls Pin up party! The event was organised by the lovely Rebecca Ebbitt from Polka dots and Pearls (looking lovely here in a custom Cyanide Kiss dress!)

All ticket sales included a donation to UNICEF. There were sandwiches, home-made cakes and teas alongside stalls and an makeover booth provided by Bethany Jane Davies. Special guests included singer Bexi Owen, and rockabilly model Coco Fierce.

The venue and catwalk show

The venue was Ridgmont House in Horwich, which can be hired for weddings. Here's a picture of the venue with everyone tucking into their cakes and sandwiches:

Nom Nom Pix was on hand to capture the day, and took some great shots of the catwalk preperations and some model shots afterwards-

Cyanide Kiss took part in the catwalk show and afterwards, Nom Nom Pix caputured the models in their outfits, suitably sipping tea!

Alicia dress

Custom dress for Sammy (modelling)

Custom dress for Rebecca

Custom bridesmaids available in any colour of polka dots! Love this teamed with a cream petticoat!

Ladies are looking lovely in some of our floral printed dresses!

ahhh!!! Ahoy there sailor!

Alicia and cupcake cutie dress:

Catwalk shows, blog and magazine reviews!

2012-09-17T12:25:00.001+01:00

Cyanide Kiss news and reviews !!

Reviews!

Well, it's been busy over here, First up, we had a blog review over at Marry Me Ink which is a blog offering advice and inspiration for the tattooed bride.
The review of Cyanide Kiss can be found here- http://www.marrymeink.co.uk/2012/08/hell-babies-a-cyanide-kiss-shoot-uk-tattooed-bride-blog/
It's a great blog with some really cool inspiration, and we were really happy to be featured here!! The photography was by Danniella Jaine who did a series of stunning photographs for this set and a few others. Make sure you go look at her work on her facebook page

In other exciting news, well we've got a top secret magazine review coming up in October, keep checking back for updates on that one! It's a great, established alternative magazine...and that's all I'm saying for now, but watch this space ;-)!!

News!

And last (but definitely not least!) Cyanide Kiss will be taking part in the Little Show of Horrors over in Modo, in Liverpool's concert square on the 2nd November! Really excited to be part of this, it's set to be a great evening out.
The night is a launch for online blog turned alternative magazine Petit Papillon de Nuit (which, by the way, you should all check out) one of my fave blogs, which is about to re-launch as an alternative magazine !
The show features an alternative fashion catwalk , burlesque shows and loads of alternative stalls as well as a 'glitzy-horror' costume contest! Better get planning an outfit! Make sure you add their facebook page here, and get yourself along for a really fun day out! Hope to see you all there!!

If you'd like to come along, there is some ticketing info below:

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4337487542

VIP tickets here, and standard, there will be a few tickets available on the door but buy in advance as it will be £5 on the door, just £3 online!

Galaxy dress

2012-09-13T12:04:00.000+01:00

On of my fave commissioned, well half commissioned! I made this one for a friend for her birthday, love it so much!! The Galaxy dress!!! Made from a nebula print fabric, in my classic 50's halterneck shape!

A close up of the gorgeous fabric!

Unicorns, Kittys, and Ponies!

2012-09-07T10:53:00.000+01:00

Well, I took a little time out to get married, and swan off on honeymoon for a couple of weeks, but now I'm back with lots of fresh new ideas and styles ready to launch soon!!

But until then, here's a few shots from a great couple of shoots I did recently with the lovely ladies from Moda Alt management!

The shoot was split into two sections, with a studio shoot of the new Pony dress, and an outdoor shoot featuring the Hello Kitty dress and Unicorn dress! The team for both shoots consisted of:

Jas Stephenson- photographer

Amphetamin -modelling

Saph - retouching

With two great make up artists working with us to perfect the images .On the pony dress shoot (above and below) we had the fantasticly talented Daneka Dunne who also did an amazing job of my bridal make up, you should all check out her page if you're looking for a make up artist! We've worked together on a few shoots now always with gorgeous results!

And for the outdoor shots, Ailsa Caldwell did a great job..check out those eyes! (below)
Great to work with Ailsa for the first time.

If you're wondering where to find the fantastic bow and crown we used on the next few shots, be sure to check out Janine Basil's etsy shop here

Retro Wedding Fair- Manchester

2012-03-11T23:27:00.000+00:00

Just a quick post from the Retro Wedding Fair held yesterday in G Casino, Manchester, which I took part in with a few of my bridesmaids dresses. A couple new designs in lilac and blue polka dots! The fair was organised by Polkadots and Pearls. Doves by cherished memories dove release and cupcakes by sweet but sinful

More photos on my facebook page-Cyanide Kiss

Beta Fashion scarf design competition-Power Pastels

2012-02-17T12:21:00.002+00:00

Well it's been a while since my last post! But here's a little something I've been working on recently.

Anyone that knows me, will probably know of my love for Betafashion . It's a print design website which invites amateur and professional print or textile designers to upload their work to be entered into competitions.

Their current competition was right up my street, and asked entrants to submit a scarf design based on the idea of 'Power Pastels'. You can probably guess from my previous posts that I'm loving the Spring/Summer 2012 trend on the catwalks for pastels, mints, baby blue, lilacs and dolly pinks.. So very pretty...Now if only I weren't a redhead and they were a little easier to find shades to wear ;-) Anyway, I digress. So here was the competition brief and a little information about my entry!! Enjoy and why not stop by my entry here and leave a comment and vote! And make sure you take time to check out the other fantastic entries for this contest!

POWER PASTELS

You don't have to look very far right now to see that one of the major trends for S/S12 is the wonderful world of pastels. Candy Floss and Ice Cream are just some of the words bouncing around every fashion magazine and blog and already the stores are full of outfits befitting of such descriptions. The challenge for this project therefore is to either create scarf designs in shades of pastels, or designs that will perfectly compliment a pastel outfit. The topic of your designs is entirely up to you.

4 winners will be selected for use on our range of Silk and Wool scarves. Winners will receive £300 and see their designs produced and sold in our online store, Topshop and more.

My entry- 'Ysmite Argate'.

My entry was inspired by minerals and the beautiful colours that they produce when cut into slices. Naturallly, they don't often come in the pastel colours which the competition asks for, so of course I made them fit with the brief by adding my own colouring. I used Photoshop for this design (quite heavily!!) by layering up and colouring mineral slices. I used a lot of different filters to create the effect that you can see where the mineral slices blend into one another to create something that is quite unrecognisable as an end result. I also layered up 3 key colours- pastel pink, mint and yellow to bring through the pastel theme even more strongly, whilst introducing some other more vibrant colours to keep the design from been too saccharine and sickly sweet.

A bit of detail below:

Photoshoot

2011-11-24T19:11:00.002+00:00

Just a quick post. I received the results from a recent photoshoot with a fantastic team: Annelise Hilton photography, Models Cerise Glitter Derriere and Tanya Townley along with make up artist Lisa (see credits and contact for details below the pictures).

Some of the garments are on sale on my Etsy (click the names above the pictures for more details) and others will be soon. All the pictures will go on my website www.cyanidekiss.co.uk which will be up and running in the new year!! Exciting times!!

Anastasia dress

Alicia dress

Sailor Sue dress

Annie dress

Anya dress.

Cupcake Cutie dress

Annie dress

Amelia dress

Arabella dressArabella Dress

Alyson dress

Credits and contacts:

Annelise Hilton photography- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002142483557

Cerise Glitter Derriere: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002506779284

Tanya Townley: http://www.modelmayhem.com/869257

Kelly- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=678892945

New designs at Cyanide Kiss!!

2011-09-25T18:18:00.001+01:00

Well, I've just put these up for sale on Etsy, so I thought I should post them here too!! You can now see the results from the photoshoot with nom nom photography and model Kara Sharpe along with polka dots and pearls event planner!

Really happy with the results and loving the coloured backgrounds =)

You can see them up for sale here on Etsy -click the word to be magically transported there ;-)!

Cupcake Cutie dress:

Alicia dress:

Amy dress

Annie dress

Cupcake Cutie dress

(I couldn't resist another picture love them both too much to pick just one!)

Ice cream dream

2011-09-19T18:01:00.001+01:00

Loving the pastels on the London catwalks...

PPQ

House of Holland

Honor (New York)

Mulberry

New York fashion week SS2012

2011-09-16T17:52:00.004+01:00

A few highlights from New York fashion week. Usually not a lot catches my eye from New York, but there were some cute things from a few favourites, and some nice new prints,especially from Preen! But I'll make that another post when I have a bit more time!

Here's a few of my favourite collections in brief.

Jeremy Scott:

Anna Sui

Betsy Johnson

Karen Walker

Blog love

2011-09-16T17:02:00.002+01:00

We got a mention on today's blog at http://totusmelswunderkammer.blogspot.com/ check out her blog for other tasty Etsy finds!!
x

Hello shiny new blog!

2011-09-14T20:13:00.002+01:00

Why hello shiny new blog =)

I'll be using this for updates on Cyanide Kiss, a new venture, a clothing company inspired by retro, 50's and lolita styles! Well, here goes my first post!!

We've been pretty busy here at Cyanide Kiss getting together our first collection, and finally gotten round to starting to promote it recently on .facebook , twitter and etsy !! Get us bookmarked/liked for updates!! So, what's been happening at Cyanide Kiss??

Last week, I was contacted by the lovely Rebecca, owner of events planning company Polka Dots and Pearls a company set up by newly wed with a love for all things retro! She was planning a pin up and rock the frock style photoshoot and asked it Cyanide Kiss would like to be involved. I loved the sounds of the shoot, and we met up with Nomnom photography to shoot some dresses. Starting out with her own wedding dress and a bridesmaid dress, and finishing with some of my designs.

Here's one of her bridesmaids dresses:

And a gorgeous shot of a fifties style wedding dress:

Polka Dots and Pearls is a really great concept, they can arrange anything from VW camper vans to vintage cakes, everything to give your wedding that vintage inspired theme! She also offers pin up style photoshoots, engagement shoots and 'trash/rock the dress' shoots, candy buffets, photobooth prop hire and vintage style tea parties!! What more could any vintage style wedding need! =)

With vintage style weddings are getting ever more popular with blogs such as rock n roll bride and offbeat bride providing some real interesting alternatives to the traditional meringue dress and church wedding, what better time to check out what she has to offer for your own wedding.

I really enjoyed the shoot, and we got some really great results. It was nice to get some shots of the dresses and to meet Polka Dots and Pearls and NomNom photography !

And finally, to finish the post, here's one of the shots of my dresses taken in NomNom's studio, which you can see up for sale on Cyanide Kiss's Etsy page.