BiniChic | Mediterranean Lifestyle Blog

Summer is the time of palm trees, cool blue waters, and the no-makeup makeup look. When it comes to effortless summer beauty, a good eyebrow and a simple bag can make your look. At ONA VILLIER we have compiled a list of 7 incredible summer beauty and fragrance products and expertly paired them each with a matching bag.

Glossier Boy Brow VIBE: Structured

Matching bag: Bonet in Indigo—cool, yet expensive

The Glossier Boy Brow has quickly become a cult favorite since it was released, and it deserves its holy grail status because it’s truly a one stop shop for groomed (or messy) brows. Sweep this product across your brows in upward motions to fluff and sculpt.

Dior Lip Glow Reviver Balm VIBE: Ethereal

Matching bag: Pompeii crossbody—light and aery

The Lip Glow Reviver Balm from Dior is not only a hydrating balm, but it is formulated with color reviving technology, making the most dull lips look vibrant. This balm gives a sheer, pink glow to the lips giving your entire look an ethereal summer glow.

Diptyque Roses Room Spray VIBE: Romantic

Matching bag: Atlas Messenger—Romantic and deep

Diptyque describes their Roses Room Spray as smelling like a “tender, freshly picked bouquet” that “pays homage to the queen of flowers.” Roses can take on a new vibe during each season of the year, and summer is a particularly romantic time to use the intoxicating scent of rose.

Glockengasse No. 4711 VIBE: Enchanting

Matching bag: Gotica Tote—Enchanting and complex

4711 is a traditional German fragrance that people have been obsessing over for more than 200 years. The notes include orange oil, peach, lemon, jasmine and tahitian vetiver, making 4711 a perfect choice for a summer fragrance. Citrus gives it brightness, while the deeper bottom notes ground this complex and iconic scent.

Sephora Cheek Ink Gel

VIBE: Bright

Sarria bag—structured, clean, yet undone.

The Sephora Cheek Ink Gel is a long-lasting (and underrated) blush that goes on as a gel and acts like a stain on the cheeks. The shade Water Lily is a bright pink that keeps its depth even as you sheer it out onto your skin. The shade is also more of a cool tone which instantly brightens your face. Apply a tiny drop of product onto a dense buffing brush and apply in circular motions onto the cheeks, starting at the hairline and moving towards the apples.

Glossier Concealer

VIBE: Effortless

Matching bag: Alhambra Foldover—Effortlessly beautiful

The Glossier stretch concealer is a holy grail for coverage. According to Glossier this product contains healthy oils and microwaxes that move with your skin. This concealer truly has the ability to look just like skin, which makes it perfect for summer when you just need to cover a few blemishes or discoloration without putting a layer of foundation all over your face.

Check out these bags (and more!) on the ONA VILLIER website.

Our names, in part, are what make us who we are. As a child, I really wanted to have a more popular name — something like Sylvia or Jess — but as I grew older and no longer had the need to blend in or fit in, I started to appreciate the unique and simple name I was given.

As it turns out, Ona is not only my name, but also a word that has many meanings in different languages and cultures around the world. Here are some of them:

— In Catalan, which is my native tongue and the official language of Barcelona and the Balearic Islands, Ona means “wave”. Growing up on an island surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, I always thought that was very appropriate.

— In Euskera, the language spoken in Spain and France’s Basque Country, Ona means the “the good one” as used for a feminine pronoun. In Spanish, it would be “la buena”.

— My father, who is an artist and loves using the Japanese Sumi watercolor technique, once discovered in his research that “woman” in Japanese was pronounced “ohn-nah”, and that it has its own Kanji symbol. I thought that was so cool that when I was eighteen, and to my mother’s dismay, I had the Kanji symbol tattooed on the lower back.

— In Russian and serbo-croatian, Ona is the pronoun “she”. This makes for “Who’s on Next” type of conversations between my Croatian friends and their friends when referring to me.

— Ona was also the name of my great-great grandmother, born in Russia. We found this out after I had my name, so as my mother likes to say “it feels like this really WAS pre-ordained.”

I always love learning about the different meanings of my name, and I like to think that with each one I grow into its significance.

A BRAND IS BORN

Out of BINICHIC emerges the namesake brand “Ona Villier”

Some months ago, we met and instantly connected with New York-based Jodi Sandman of Crescala Fashion Development. We knew we shared the vision and the passion for creating beautiful, wearable quality objects, so we started on the path together to create “Ona Villier”.

At that time, our brand was BINICHIC, a handbag and accessories collection inspired by our Mediterranean Lifestyle. Bini represents the rustic, the natural the antique. Chic is how we mix it up with refined and designed things giving objects and space a new and inspired life.

As Jodi says: “We changed the name to Ona’s “namesake” because we thought her identifiably European and Romantic name was the perfect tagline for our beautifully European-made product. To us, the name infers a more refined and luxurious product.” BINICHIC will always be the Mediterranean Lifestyle —- the source of Ona Villier’s inspiration.

Moving forward, you will still see the subtle and unique screening of our original prints on the bags; and our beautifully crafted soft and supple leathers in modern and wearable silhouettes; and now we have introduced a few new trend driven silhouettes; more updated and elevated hardware, and some finishes that are new for us, that make the product even more special. All of our bags are still made in Menorca in their entirety by very talented artisans. In the near future, we hope to add some simple jewelry and other accessories.

Ona Villier: Luxury Handbags Made in Spain

As a graphic designer and the co-founder of the brand, creating the logo and the collateral was a dream job and also one of the hardest projects I have ever taken on. What would be the “perfect” way to represent the brand and also my own name? After many versions, feedback and quite a bit of reflection, I decided that what felt true to me was using a stylized version of my signature. I wanted it it to feel personal and with its own character.

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