Tiny Leopard Steps

Shoe RUSH!!!!!

Hey dolls, so today we are totally having a Leopard Shoe Rush!

OMG just look at all of the beautiful Leopard print shoes that this world has blessed us all with, from...

Heels

Platforms

Flats

Trainers

Dolly

Spiky

Multi-coloured

Kicks

...Whatever your style is, you can most definitely find a lush Leopard Shoe to wear to suit any occasion!

So anyway...inspired by the shoooooeees!....We all have dreams and goals for week, month, year and beyond.  Therefore remember dolls...take Tiny Leopard Steps to get to where you are going as you will definitely get there whilst strutting at a steady pace.....hare and tortoise ring a bell?

Love you all,

dearLeopard

xoxox

Disclaimer - Photos do not belong to dear leopard, if they are yours, let us know and we will give you your deserved credit :)

RIP Etta James

Sadly, today the world has lost a much loved Soul Sister, Etta James (Jamesetta Hawkins).  Unfortunately Etta lost her battle with Leukaemia.  However, we are sure she has gone to a better place where she cane rest in peace.

Etta's hit song At Last was sung by Beyonce to President Obama!  If that alone does not show how great Etta is, nothing will.  She has achieved a lot of success in her life and she will not be forgotten.

dearLeopard is thinking of all you guys and dolls who are battling any sort of Illness, stay strong!

x x x

Just because...I'm Beautiful!

Leopard can be:

Sexy

Sultry

Sensual

Remember, You're all Beautiful!

The Royal Leopard Showdown =)

So the beginning of this week was the Duchess of Cambridge's birthday, so we thought that we had to do something to celebrate Kate's Catherine's 30th Birthday!!

So we thought we'd find some lovely picture of the Royal's Rocking Leopard print.

Above we have on the left...Pippa Middleton's casual day out where she looks chic in a Leopard shirt and Jeans.  Then we have Kate in the middle and on the right.  Kate has Leoparized her dress with that gorgeous clutch and rock black and white in a STYLISH royal kind of way =)

Here is a pic of Queen Elizabeth II in a Leopard coat, probably watching the horse's haha, I bet that's something you didn't think you'd ever see...well we were surprised anyway.

But saying that, we're proud as punch because our Queen secretly has style LOL!  And it's so nice to see her smiling...no stiff upper lip here.

AND Finally, we've saved the best till last.  Enjoy the pics of our most beloved and very much missed the Princess of Wales...

Princess Diana

No Royal showdown would be complete without the nation's favourite Princess...

That's Leopard Hot...

Sit back, relax and take in the ABSOLUTELY beautiful pics we've found of gorgeous Leopard garments and shoes!

Isn't that pose of the woman in the Maxi-Dress sooo high fashion??!!! Actually that's not a question its a statement lol.  Uh huh =) Tyra has taught us so much!  And as for RnB's current Princess, Rihanna looks absolutely HOT to Trot in that fresh white suit, leopard top, gold accessories and RED lips!...so that's what we'd be wearing to P.Diddy's "All White Party"!.....just waiting for the invitation to drop!

Here's some S.W.A.G....

Those shoes are just to die, We LOVE Leopard teamed with Hot Pink! & a 'dash' of GOLD!!

And of course, we have to have our #KickBackSwagDay with those baby pink leopard pumps!

So we saved the best till last....

CIARA looks absolutely FABULOUS in that bikini! Just look at those abs!  If that is not motivation, well, we don't know what is!

Oh and don't you just love the background foliage in the pic?  Gosh it's so....animalistic!  It's right up our street.

Go Rih Rih! Go Ci Ci!

HAHA ;)

Love you all,

dear Leopard

XoXoX










Disclaimer - Photos do not belong to dear leopard, if they are yours, let us know and we will give you your deserved credit :)

Welcome Baby Blue-Ivy!

Our QUEEN of R&B and KING of HipHop have given birth to their 1st baby yesterday 7th January 2012!

@dearLeopard want to Welcome Baby Blue-Ivy to the world!

Congratulations Beyonce and Shawn (Jay-Z) and their families on their new arrival.

We wish them all the best and hope you enjoy the pics of the beautiful Diva Beyonce perfectly modelling Leopard Print before and throughout her pregnancy.

P.s. be assured that we will be looking out for what Beyonce dresses Blue-Ivy in and we're sure Leopard Print will feature...fingers crossed!  

Love you 

x x x

Controversial - My Leopard Tattoo!

Well we think its controversial anyway!  You only have to scour the web for the publics opinion's on Leopard print tattoo's and you will find some for it and some against it.  Some people even have one or are wishing for one.

So we hear you ask, Where does dearLeopard stand on this controversy?

Well you know we love Leopard otherwise this blog absolutely would not exist!  But do you know what, we value our body a whole lot more.  Some may say having a Leopard print tat would add to that value, but for us......hmmmm we're WAY to scared of needles, injections, or anything that physically hurts LoL!

So some of you are probably saying "what hypocrites, claiming to be the biggest lovers of leopard and they are turning their back on a Leopard print tattoo"  Well in our defence, some people love certain foods in the way that we love leopard but they would not eat and eat and eat until they are physically sick because they know when ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

OK OK most people know when enough is enough but I'm sure you get our point?  So at this time dearLeopard do not advocate for Leopard tattoo's and that may have something to do with the pain from the process more than anything else but there it is.

However, don't get us wrong, if you have a leopard print tattoo or are getting one, GO You!!! And we'd love to see it!  But we'll be sticking to garments and accessories to demonstrate our leopard L.O.V.E!
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Double BUT.......if we had no choice and had to have one.... it would be this (but a tad smaller) because it is kinda cute:

dearLeopard's Final Standing Point..."we will Never say Never, because who knows?"


Disclaimer - Photos do not belong to dear leopard, if they are yours, let us know and we will give you your deserved credit :)

Kickback Swag Day

Don't you just sometimes find yourself wanting a day where you just want to rock a certain look?  However when your no longer a kid and tend to dress a certain way which marks your own personal style and independence, you might find it hard to Kick that habit and have a more "R3LAX3D" day (without people looking at you like you've gone CRAY! CRAY! or like you've regressed into the child you once were LOL!

So we don't know about you, but we, not very often but often enough find ourselves yearning to wear "trainers, kicks, sneakers" or whatever you call them in your part of the world.  AND believe us, we are not the "trainers" type girls!!!  Actually, to share a secret with you all.... apart from my gym running shoes, personally I don't even own shoes like that!

SHOCK HORROR!!  or not?

Well anyway, we find that we tend to dress the way we feel, for example work clothes are different to weekend clothes which are different to P.A.R.T.Y clothes and we're sure it's the same for you?

Angela & Vanessa Simmons - www.lovepastry.com

So inspired by Angela & Vanessa Simmons' Pastry brand dearLeopard are making it OK for you to have your Kickback Swag Day whenever it suits you!

The Simmons girls have come up with a HOT new High top straight from the Pastry oven called Strata Leopard!


And do you know what? You even get a cute pink leopard scarf with it!  Having just checked their site it says that only 150 pairs are available!  So if your going to get in there...you better be quick as sweet things like that never stick around for long!

www.lovepastry.com

So to begin our Kickback Swag Day shoe collection, we would absolutely start with this:

Its right up our street as we L.O.V.E Leopard, L.O.V.E shiny things and patent is one of them! & we absolutely L.O.V.E the colour PURPLE (and pink is a lighter shade of purple so that's cool)

Btw, just in case you are wondering, we absolutely have no connection to any brands or things that we recommend and that goes for Pastry and other things that we have blogged about in the past too and the minute we do have a connection or receive any payments from these brands, you will be the first to know LOL!

So anyway, make sure you have your Kickback Swag Day someday soon and tweet us a pic @dearLeopard when you do =)

As Angela says....Live.Love.Life ;)

Disclaimer - Photos do not belong to dear leopard, if they are yours, let us know and we will give you your deserved credit :)

dearLeopard's Vision Board 2012

Here it is dolls! 


This is our Very Important Vision Board for 2012!


It includes what we feel are POWERFUL images of what we want to achieve this year.


Most things are simple but we feel that we need to be reminded of them everyday in order to ensure that we complete the goals we have set ourselves, such as:

• Achieving fitness;
• Strengthening our faith;
• Eating healthily
• Spending time with loved ones
• Enjoying current friendships and making new friendships
• Travelling etc.....

So to keep these images firmly in our minds, we want to be able to see it every single day, therefore it will have a home somewhere over there --->  

for the whole of this year

Why don't you create one too?  Then throughout the year we can share with each other our visualised achievements come true!

Make your dreams become a reality this year and visualise with us...

Love always,

dearLeopard

XoXoX

Exercise right in Leopard! =)

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Glam out your workout with Equilibrium Activewear.  We have managed to hunt and find the above stylish sportswear which of course has the Lush Leopard print designs incorporated

With the new year already in swing, everybody knows that the majority of us have pledged to keep fit, loose weight, attend the gym and get healthier this year (like we didn't do the same thing last year).  But you know what, that's OK because this year we will keep our promise and hopefully you will too.

Equilibrium's activewear is odour, wind and water resistant & also offers the ultimate comfort with Lycra too.

We will tell you now, we cant wait to get into our gym clothes if they are going to look and behave so well.  All we need is an Ipod to listen to and a personal trainer treadmill to run on.  Tried and tested the personal trainer thing last year and we wont lie, he was really good but he very nearly killed us lol.  So it's our opinion that we should all go it alone this year and save that extra bit of money too lol.

In fact, talking about Ipod's, we want to customise ours with sparkly crystals and I suppose we could use that extra money we saved up there to do it.  I mean it would be nice to have it done complimentary but we'll settle for reasonably priced too because dearLeopard loves sparkly things!

So anyway, if we have not done anything else today, we hope we have inspired you to work out in style and stay working out in style this year as we know how hard that is to do!

We've also found some accessories to #Leoparize with too...a water bottle from Amazon, some Leopard sweatbands from SlashNBurn and a pink Leopard sports bra from DWDShoes.

Isn't that sports bra just to die with that lace at the back?

Well here's to staying fit and health in 2012, but most of all, to staying stylish!

Love dearLeopard

XoXoX

P.S. If you can see a White square in the top left corner of this page, it appears to be a fault with crappy Internet explorer so treat yourself early this year and download google chrome or safari or another alternative to Internet explorer x

Disclaimer - Some photos do not belong to dearLeopard, if they are yours, kindly let us know and we will give you your deserved credit for them :)

Black & Gold from 2011 to 2012

So above is the outfit I wore at the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.  Yes it was my NYE 2011 outfit =)

I bought some new earrings to go with my cuff and multiple chain necklace I already had from around a year ago, so I was all glammed out and glistening in gold.

My dress was obviously black and my shoes were suede black with a leopard print wedge.  The belt on my dress is gold in the pic but I changed it to a thicker black belt with a coiled gold swirly pattern at the front.

My make-up was a simple smokey eye created with a medium brown eyeshadow and black eyeliner.  My lips were slightly shimmered with a Loreal gloss of which I will get the name for you later Glam Shine Golden Tattoo.  I also had body gems in the shape of a heart on the side of my face by my eye and my eyelashes were to die as they had crystal gems across the base of them.

My scent was GucciGuilty by Gucci - that's soooo nice!

I celebrated at a house party with family and friends until around 3am.  Then I left the after party at around 5.30am and here I am....tired as hell but happy and ready to take on 2012.

I hope you all had a lovely NYE and wish you all health, happiness and positive growth in 2012!

Love you all,

dearLeopard

XoXoX