Bright Young Twins Bewilder Berlin: Take 2

Heidi-ho,

So today I'm bringing you the second lot of the Berlin photos. I'm gonna call it 'Take 2' as its a mix of week 2 and 3. In week 3/4 Erika came and we all got a bit camera happy. Seriously, I've spent two hours uploading photos from four different outputs and that means that the posts aren't completely stylistically coherent. 

I'm gonna start off with these pictures that Harriett took of me on a night out, I think we ended up at Neu Bar this night. 

Lady H snapped and edited all of these. I really love them. 

Free Pussy Riot 

These are my fabulous Office shoes which didn't make it back home with me. I almost cried when they went missing from my suitcase. I'm also wearing a 60s dress from Beyond retro, tights (which I like to call fashionable leprosy tights) from Primark and socks from H&M.   

A few days after this we got taken on a picnic with some Danish boys that we met at 8mm. They took us hiking up a mountain in South Berlin where you can see the whole of the city. 

Emil and Magnus

Goofy picnic smile. 

Gorgeous picnic Harriett

The whole of Berlin.

In Kreuzburg, theres a vegetarian/vegan place called 'Yellow Sunshine' which Harriett took me to. It was so amazing.





Otherwise known as paradise.

Here's what I look like with my hair set with a fringe and a miserable face. 

We also went to the Berlinische gallerie to get inspired by art and shit. 

We managed to blag ourselves a press pass, we were very smug. Harriett's wearing a fabulous silk blouse she bought in Maurpark.





Really amazing work by Ellen Gallagher in 1965 who reconstructed advertisements aimed at black women in order to demonstrate how they play on racial insecurities.




Blouse from Maurpark, hat from Lewes, various silk flowers, silk slip from Beyond Retro and victorian style boots from Rokit.





Ulrich Baehr





























The light was beautiful on this day. Harriett wore silks and chiffons with amazing edwardian style vintage snake skin boots that she bought at a flea market.





What the....





PUT A BIRD ON IT 





PUT A HARRIETT ON IT

Then Erika got here....and there were three SLRs and instagram. SCHWOPS (the German word for whoops). 

Join us soon for take 3! 

Dame Aimee and Lady Harriett the third. 

xx

P.s. Me and Harriett are missing Berlin a lot, we're currently looking for cheap German lessons incase we'll end up living there for longer. If anyone has any ideas how we could learn, get in touch, maybe you're German and want to learn how to speak English better. As always email brightyoungtwins@hotmail.co.uk .

I wear bikinis but rarely swim.

Hey followers, 

We're still in Berlin. The lovely people at Simply Beach sent us some gorgeous swimwear. Harriett's feeling a little under the weather today so hers is still to come. The last thing I wanted to do today was to run around in a bikini as I had a serious wobble yesterday. I went to Weekday and tried on a million pairs of high waisted skinny jeans which looked appalling on me! I do not have a jeans figure. I'm sure glad I took these as I'm feeling normal and body confident again. 

Anywho, theres nothing like a high waisted bikini to make you feel a little nineteen-sixties San Tropez. I picked this gorgeous bikini by Seafolly which you can find here. I've also been wearing the top on sunny days with palazzos. I dragged Erika to Mauerpark to take these photos as its a gorgeous day today.   

(I may look comfortable but there are ants biting me!)

Tomorrow we're returning home (CRIES). Looking forward to sharing the rest of the holiday snaps. 

Thanks again to Simply Beach you guys are FABULOUS.

If you'd like to sponsor this blog, advertise, send us stuff that you think we'd like or generally keep us running contact brightyoungtwins@hotmail.co.uk and we'll talk! 

Love Aimee  

xxxxx

Portraits by Katie Holt

Whats up followers?! We're still in Berlin, having a ball and drinking too much prosecco (Harriett ate prosecco ice cream today, we may have a problem). Anywho we thought we'd share these portraits by Katie today. For our individual portraits, Katie was inspired to use our contrasting light and dark hair colours to her advantage. This is how they turned out.    

Victorian hat - Brighton

Makeup by me

I'm wearing a 20s dress which you can't see and Harriett's 20s piece of lace. 

Makeup by me

We were really pleased with these portraits and would like to thank Katie again for her hard work. You can contact Katie and see more of her work here. Tomorrow, Erika (a reoccurring character on our blog/life) comes to stay with us and then in a week we'll fly home. 

Speak soon KITTENS! 

Aimee (and Harriett who is in the bath right now)

xx 

Bright Young Twins Bewilder Berlin: Week 1

Hello Ladies and Gentleman, as I am sure a few of our readers are aware, we

are currently one week into our month long stay in the glorious city of Berlin!

We've decided to bring you updates of our trip in 3 instalments to prevent from

barraging you all like an irritating auntie with our holiday photos. 

Today we bring to you a round up of images from our first week, it involves

booze, boating and billiards. Oh and vintage, I promise you there is vintage. 

On our first day we decided to go out  for some lunch, I lost the silk flower 

I am pinning on an hour after I bought it : ( what a dum dum. 

Aimee does her best Nicole Richie Impersonation. 

We ate a Vegan Tempeh Sandwich from Majas Deli

Later we drunk delicious ice green tea and mint drink made for us by our 

beautiful host Julia

This was taken when we went to visit the old apartment of our dear friends Anna 

and Beau, the gracious hosts of our previous Berlin trips before they sadly returned

 to their home land, Canada.

Aimee experienced a brief breakdown, it was all too much.

I bought this 40s photograph and 20s note paper from a local junk

 shop for around 2 euro.

This mural of Marlene Dietrich is by a local U-bahn station, we use it as a

meeting point when out gallivanting after dark with friends. 

On Saturday we visited our favourite spot in Berlin, the boating lake in 

Tiergarten, if you have been with us for a while you might remember it

from our trip last June. The weather and lighting was so beautiful we took a few 

snaps of our outfits.

Palazzo Pants & Ballet Pumps - Primark

Edwardian Camisole - Flee Market

Edwardian Table Cloth (worn as shawl) - Lewes 

1920s Boater Hat - Lewes 

Broach and Ribbon - Charity Shops 

1940s House Dress - Beyond Retro

Necklace - Gift from Ex Boyfriend

Vintage Lace Scarf (worn as belt) - Ebay

Mixed Bakelite Bangles - Charity Shops 

Silk Flowers - Gift from Harriett

I found a pretty purple flower to press and send to someone I admire.

Then I made Aimee do some posing on a bridge. 

This is a building which looks like a big boob. 

Now as you can imagine we have spent a fair amount of this trip completely

pickled on prosecco. Darling Julia lent me her rather snazzy flash for my slr 

camera, allowing me to live out my fantasy as a cutting edge VICE style 

photographer, check out that contrast... SO EDGY!

This is our friend Jesua, he has amazing socks. 

Aimee bought this dress from a little junk store that does house clearances  

for around 7.50 euros, it has adorable little heart shaped pockets at the waist. 

In the evening we went to a billiards hall in Prenzlauer berg to play pool. 

Aimee turned out to be quite the hustler. I was completely hopeless.

We shall leave you with some nice shots of us after dark by the 

Marlene mural. I've been interested in getting back into photography

for a while and Aimee has been acting gracefully as my model and 

muse throughout this trip!

As I am sure you can tell we have been having the most wonderful time,

do check back in a week for the next round, I can promise you flea markets, 

photo booths, spa trips, swimming and plenty of outfit posts to keep you 

guys inspired.

All our love

Harriett & Aimee xx