Cartia Mallan is an Australian blogger who’s main social presence is on Instagram and Youtube. Her main focus is on fashion, beauty, and promoting self-love and body positivity. Her posts are always accompanied with beautiful images or inspiring quotes and I like her positive attitude. I love her style and find inspiration from her outfits all the time, especially as she is influenced by vintage fashion and buys a lot of her clothes from vintage stores. She has also designed a clothing collection for Australian fashion brand Princess Polly.
What I like about Cartia is her mind set and inspiring writing. She often writes about mental health and is open about her struggles with her weight and anxiety. She is also a very spiritual person and sometimes writes about her journey with spirituality. I like that het style is unpredictable and she is always creating new looks and experimenting with her outfits. The fact she buys a lot of her clothes from vintage and second-hand stores is also promoting an ethical way to shop, and means her looks are unique and don’t follow current fashion trends.
What Cartia could do better is being more involved in promoting ethical fashion. While she does shop in vintage and second-hand stores, she also wears a lot of clothes from fast-fashion brands and her collection with Princess Polly is not explicitly ethical. More could be done on her part to spread the message of the importance of ethical shopping and her influence could encourage more people to change the way they shop.
I like her images as they are a reflection of her personal style and every photo fits her overall aesthetic – with vintage influences and off-beat style. Her images are often romantic, with flowers and soft-lighting featuring regularly. I would say the main focus of her images are her outfits, with posts detailing what she did that day. Her posts vary in length, from short captions consisting of a couple of sentences, to detailed paragraphs. She sometimes shares her own poetry and other creative writing, but her main writing focus is centred around self-care and personal growth.
Lauren Rees 