Holly’s Latest Pick Up

It was round about last month that I was on the hunt for my pair of ‘Summer kicks”. The sun finally turned out for pretty much all of us in the UK, guaranteed thoughts turned to our wardrobe! My eyes were peeled all over the place, then I suddenly had thoughts of my last TRUSTY pair of AM90′s that I’d sold after literally living in them the whole of summer 2012. All these memories just rushing back! Decision made, 90′s Summer crepes need to be got!

Next day I see this posted by Wellgosh

Telling all the ladies they’ve got size 3-6, so I had to share that on the Big Eyes Facebook page.

The colourways on these are just silly jazzy, all three elidgable for a purchase. Now, I am incredibly lucky with my shoe size UK 6 – the most average plain sailing, level pegging, loving life sized feet you’re going to meet. I can get most releases if I want. Unfortunately being a pauper art student, I can’t strictly afford all the crepes I’d love to, as it’s usually spent on hundreds of rolls of film, sketchbooks and all that malarkey.

About a week later, I visited Selfridges in the Bullring, had a little meander round, of course  going to the Offspring concession (Birmingham being my home town). They had the 90′s of choice in. I had to buy them straight away, no hesitation! Do they fit me? Yes, thank you here’s my money, and a student discount? Thank you very much!

The speckeled base on the toe box and around the ankle and the camo colours really fit in well with other colour schemes I wear.  They had both the ice blue and the metallic silver, but I HAD to go with the camo ones. Both available at Wellgosh still, from sizes 3-6 (links above).

Here they are in action, at my studio space! Infamous furniture in there also!

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Peaceeee
Holly

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Bee’s Latest Pick-ups

I popped into Footlocker recently to have a mooch at what goodies they had to offer for my Little Soles. To my delight, not one, not two, but three pairs of Nike Air Max 1 GS were staring me in the face.

I had a dilemma… I wanted them all. After soon realising that actually, this wasn’t such a huge dilemma, I got them all.

I had a spare pair of Reebok x Alife laces, which I think look great teamed with the subtle black-on-black safari print of these summer essentials. The blue accents and outsole of the toe area are a nice bright touch.

I’m not usually a fan of gold, or silver for that matter, on sneakers, but I’ve now figured out that this is because usually they’re metallic. The matte gold swoosh alongside the red accents have made these treats one of my favourite pairs in my collection.

The team orange accents and outsole around the toe area of these beasts made me fall in love with them instantly. Again, the use of a subtle grey-on-grey safari print is present, this time just on the swoosh, giving an extra little pop to an already-great colourway.

Have you copped any new kicks lately?! Use #BigEyesLittleSoles and send us your snaps on Instagram @BigEyesLittleSoles, Twitter @BigEyesLilSoles or Facebook Big Eyes, Little Soles.

Whilst you’re here, cop a free download of this to put in your ears:

Toodle pip!
Bee x

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WIN WITH size? & BELS

I said we’d have some amazing news coming up for you… And here’s the first installment!

We’ve teamed up with size? to give one of you lucky, lucky people a fresh pair of these Nike Air Max Light – Perf Pack – size? Exclusive‘s!

So, HOW DO I ENTER?!, I hear you ask.. Simply repost the pic below on your Instagram, post your UK shoe size, #sizebigeyes and @bigeyeslittlesoles @sizeofficial in the comments and we will pick a winner from there! (You must be following both Instagram accounts to be in with a chance of winning).

You’ve got 7 days from….. NOW, to enter and we’ll pick a winner at random, on Friday 22nd March at midnight.

We’ll announce the winner here, on Instagram and on our Facebook page!

Good luck!

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#AIRWEBREATHE

On Tuesday, I headed down to Covent Garden to help celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Nike Air Max. Over the years, that iconic little air bubble has been nested in the heel of some of the most innovative and beautiful trainers ever created – plus the Air Max 90 is the sneaker of choice on our Big Eyes banner! The event was a showcase of these very shoes, with the most famous silhouettes and colourways lining the hallway of the venue as you entered and UV lights enhancing the fresh white kicks on the podiums as well as on the feet of the guests.. Running with the slogan #AIRWEBREATHE, the decor included hospital breathing apparatus and mannequins with their vital organs replaced by Nikes and shoe laces. I was also given a Fuel Band, and I’m already addicted to it, running up and down the stairs at the end of the day if I haven’t made my target! Check out some photos of the night..

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What’s your favourite Air Max incarnation? We want to know, so upload pictures to Instagram of your best Nikes with the hashtags #bigeyeslittlesoles and #AIRWEBREATHE and we’ll repost the best!

Big Eyes x Sneeky Fox x Digmas

Yo!

Last Sunday Holly (me) and Bee were repping Big Eyes at one of the coolest little places in Brum town. Sneeky Fox Presents.. Digmas (Digbeth/ Christmas) at Mr Birds Emporium at the Custard Factory.

Coming by small kicks can be quite a task in Birmingham, so we set up our stall in aid of spreading style to the Little Soles out there and educating all on the best female sneaker blog going!





Me and Bee were safari buddys for the day.

Graff artists from Brum showed up left right and centre. (Above) work from the amazing Ouch.
Work from The Bench 504
Piece in progress from The Hores

Digmas was full of seasonal quirk and we TOTALLY loved it!

The kicks we spotted, were absolute gems, check them out!











Images taken on the Pentax ME Super by myself & digitally by Bee on the Canon 450D

Find more images by myself, on my Flickr, HERE

Get snapping your kicks and tagging them #BigEyesLittleSoles. We’ll be at another event with Sneeky Fox Presents in March, keep your eyes peeled for details!

Peace & Christmas Love,

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Sheffield Crepe Hunt

YO! It’s Holly here, first Big Eyes post.

I’m going to focus on the little trip I went on recently, to visit a friend in Sheffield. We were both feeling some new pick ups.

The skate culture in Sheff is huge, theres so many little independent skate shops, we just had to see what they were offering!

The camera of course came along. (olympus trip35 for the camera geeks!)

My kicks for the day.
My friends kicks for the day.




Addidas zx 8000, originally released in 1998. Those colours!

We want to know where you pick up your best kicks, and see you wearing them!

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Big up DRS on winning- Best MC at the Drum&Bass Arena Awards 2012. His Album ‘I don’t usually like mc’s but..’ kept me going on the train journeys.

Catch you later guysssss!

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What We Wore On Wednesday #33

The girls have been rocking some right beauties this week… check them out!

Yani

Bee

Holly

Tash

Lemon

Ugly Mely

Leimai

Izzy

We want to see the heat on your feet for our weekly #BigEyesLittleSoles post! Send your photos on Instagram @BigEyesLittleSoles, Twitter @BigEyesLilSoles or Facebook Big Eyes Little Soles.

Peace out homeslices…
Bee x

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What We Wore On Wednesday #32

Check out the girl’s crepes from yesterday…

Bee

Yani

Holly

Chloe C

Amara

Ugly Mely

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Tu-ra!
Bee x

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