Casual Tuesday

Pleather Jacket - Primark
Floral Top - New Look
Shorts - New Look
Plugs - Phoenix Rose Jewellery

Kick up a Storm ft Alice Takes a Trip

A casual preppy style outfit I put together.
The top is a lovely one I got from Alice Takes a Trip, had my eye on getting something from them for ages and happy I managed to get a cute little top which will fit nicely in my wardrobe and be a staple piece for all seasons.

Outfit:
Top: Kick up a Storm Basball Tee - Alice Take a Trip
Dungrees: New Look
Shoes: Dioon Lace up Boots - Vagabond(the colour I have isn't available but they have just a black or white colour on they're site)

(the dogs not available)

I got that Summertime, Summertime Saddness

A 50's style inspired look I wore to a wedding.

Dress: Hell Bunny Mini Dress
Cardi: New Look
Plugs: My Pinup Plugs (Custom Order)
Bows: Lulu in the Sky (Custom Order)
Nails: Primark

I really don't get this blogging thing....

So it has occured to me I havn't written a post in a very long time. I've been posting more on my youtube then here.

I can't really give a good reason for this other than I've started a new job so been getting in to the routine for that and I have also been working on a Festival Survival Guide series which I'm posting on my youtube.

Overall I suck at this writing thing.

Here's a picture of me to make up for it.

GRWM: GOING OUT

Just a small video to show you how I get ready to go out.

OOTD 02.02.2015

Been sorting out some Outfits of the Day recently because been meaning to show you lovely people some more of my outfits that I wear out and about. I've done some pictures but I have also filmed some video's that will be coming on my Youtube channel.

This outfit is one I wore the other day to a gig. For the winter months I do like wearing slightly loose denim shirts done all the way up. I think it flatters my figure in a different way to dresses and a loss t-shirt does.

The shirt is from New Look, I believe I got it last year so you can easily find something similar from any shop. This is a lighter blue then some shirts but the lighter colour goes well with my hair and the necklace.

The Necklace is also from the either the Summer or Autumn line in New Look and I don't think available any more but it is a nice soft coloured necklace that just adds a hint of extra colour to the outfit. It also goes with my hair. I would normally wear a more statement necklace but because of the earrings I felt a bolder necklace would clash with them.

The earrings are from an Etsy shop called I'm Your Present, I took a little risk with the earrings because I'm not a bold earrings kind of girl but now I've properly styled them with outfits they look amazing and add that little bit more to the outfit. Go check out the store because there are some lovely things there, I am going to do a blog post giving a proper review of I'm Your Present.

To finish off this look I'm just wearing some rose patterned grey tights and black shorts. Black short go best because you don't want them over powering the shirt. Tights though can be a bit more bold and interesting but the outfit still looks stunning with plain black tights.
If your not a shorts and tights girl like me, some pleather leggings, plain black leggings or jeans would look nice as well.

On the shoe front you have a few options. Dr martins would give a more grungy, casual feel. A pair of pretty ankle, black boots would give a smart feel, if nice enough weather a pair of flats. If your more of a heels girl, Jeffery Campbell black lita's would look stunning.

Hope you enjoy, much love xx

Phoenix Rose Jewellery Review

I've been doing a lot of Etsy shopping and have a long list of stuff in my basket that I have been slowly buying over the last few months. Since I have accumulated a fair amount I think its time to start writing some reviews on the products I have got from Etsy.

I'm going to start with Phoenix Rose Jewellery.

As the name suggests this shop does jewellery, mainly plugs but with some earrings, necklaces and bracelets. I found the store when searching plug shops in the UK. I purchased a set of 10mm Beauty and the Beast inspired plugs. They came in this lovely packaging:

Was so cute! ^.^

Inside was a few bits of paper for stopping breakages and the plugs were in a nice little pink bag.
The presentation was very good, neatly wrapped box and inside the box and this was before I got the product!

A cute little bag to keep them in.

So, on to the plugs. For starters, they looked like the picture, which already gives a good positive to this review!

They are a Rose picture set in a round frame with a bow dangling on each then a mirror and rose on the bottom.

The plugs are black with a screw fit at one end so I get can put it in my ear, I do like the screw ones because you can put them in to ears that might not be fully healed. I not talking about fresh - 1 week of stretching but before its fully healed. I'm a bit weary of double flared plugs so always stay in the safe zone. They are well placed on and don't feel loose at all so when wearing out they won't suddenly fall off.

On the store I could choose a size of plug I wanted, if I had odd ears I could get 2 different sizes and I could get them as earrings. Its good to have the choice and these are going to look wonderful with various dresses for when I go for a meal or night out. I'm very happy with the quality and they'll last and make a good statement but pretty addition to my outfits.

Store: Phoenix Rose Jewellery
Price: £15.50

December/Christmas Haul and Favourites 2014

12 good things about 2014.

First off, I'm sorry I've been a bit quiet on the writting front. Been busy over the festive period. I thought I'd do a little positive review of last year by giving 1 good thing that happened each month of last year.

So here goes...

January:

The month I decided to go blonde to go pastel colours. 

February:

I got my dog.

 March:

I went to my first ever Burlesque fair.

Glass Dildo anyone?

April:

My friends.

May:

I got my first Tattoo

June:

Download Festival.

July:

First time going 2000 Trees.

The one in Green in the bin...

August:

Mine and Adams first little break together in London to go see La Dispute and Touche Amore.

At the Worlds End.

Massive bed.

September:

I started my Youtube Channel

October:

Bristol to see new and old friends.

November:

Officially got a 2nd job.

December:

Me and Adam have been together 2 years! :D

Make up.

So the other week I realized I needed to get some more make up. Now I'm not a big make up person, I really only wear eye make up and very rarely wear foundation, blusher and all that.
Make up has never really been an important thing to me, only in the past year have I wanted to try it more and see what works but I still stick to eye make up.
My usual look was black/grey eye shadow, eye liner and mascara. I would wear blue, purple or silver eye shadow but only if it went with the outfit. I've been mainly inspired by various YouTuber's I've watched to try some other color's and techniques.
Since I was inspired I went to Superdrug and did some shopping. Like I've mentioned I'm not a make up person so I've no idea what are the best brands to try. For me I go for the best priced which isn't going to break the bank, I've found that Collections is good for me, affordable ( with most items being 2-5pounds) and got some nice color's and everything I want to try.
I loaded up on some of the products I've used before because I needed a refresh.

Mascara:

Accidentally got the brown.black but still looks fine.

Eye liner:

These I've found are best for me, The eye liner lasts and gives a good line (with practice!) and the mascara is a nice one for an everyday look plus the first coat on if your doing more than one layer.

The next ones I picked I had never tried before but thought they would be good to add to what I already had.

Clear Mascara:
The clear mascara I choose because I wanted something that would be good for an everyday look but not a colored mascara. I've used this once so far and works well. This was in the Little Minx collection of Collections. 

Glitter Eye Liner:
I think this is a must have in your make up collection, I've used this with many looks and turns a normal look in to a nice 'going out' look. Really gives my eyes that extra bit of wow. I'd recommend using it over a black or coloured eye liner, I did use it as my eye liner once but didn't really work as well.

Longer Lash Mascara:
I got this mascara to try. It does make a bit of difference but not majorly, mainly used this with other mascaras to help boost my eye lashes.

BB Cream:

I've never used a BB cream before and to be honest had no idea what it really was but I was wanting to try new things so got it. It has surprised me and I really like it. I find its a lot lighter than foundation I use and lot nicer on my skin. My skin feels to breath a bit more with it on and I've used a few times just for wearing in the day.

Blusher:

The blusher I was more unsure about. Did the back of hand test and thought I'd look ok and it has looked nice. I'm not very good at judging stuff to go with skin tone but it looked nice and gave my cheeks that subtle glow I like to have.

Eye Shadow:
I also was wanting to find some new eye shadow, more specifically the natural tones that I've seen people use a lot. I couldn't find any pallets in Collections section so had a look at other brands to see what I could find and what was affordable. I ended up looking at the Barry M range and found 2 really nice eye shadow pallets that suited me.

If you can't read upside down it says 'Smokin' Hot Palette, shadow and blush,'

You get a better look at the colour's in the second picture.

 It has a nice gradient from light to dark to do the gradient thing on eyes which I have done myself with the white, grey and shinny black. I looks really nice and blended very well. The brushes that came with it work fine for me. It also came with a blusher which I have tried but didn't look very nice with my skin tone. Was to bright and the colour just did not match! Was about 6-7 pounds which I thought was very good for a palette and blusher. This will last me a while and be a good everyday and evening make up.

Can read this better but it says 'Natural glow palette 2, shadow and primer'
I looked at both one's and prefered the colours in this one, it also comes with a primer.

 Can see the colour's again here.

I have used this palette once and it did look very nice. Need to work with a bit more to get the colors right but all nice. Will be a nice one to use for a more natural make up look. I also like the fact it comes with a primer which saves you buying an extra eye primer. This was also 6-7 pounds which again is great value for a eye shadow palette and primer.

I did also get some black and clear nail varnish, have also used it and it looked nice but did come off very quickly but that was because I didn't have time for it to dry properly.

Thanks for reading. please comment/share if you enjoyed :)
cya soon x

Day in the life 141014

First day in the life.
See what I got up to in video rather than my awful English.

Day in London 14.10.2014

Woke up.
Got ready.

Went to Cheltenham.
Met my mate.
Went to the train station.
Got the train.
Got to London.
That's the summary of the morning which isn't very exciting really.

I've not been to London for a couple months and before that I hadn't been in years, so I was pretty excited to be going to the capitol again.
The reason for going was to go see a band called Skillet. They are from America and I've liked them for about 7 years. This was their first headline tour in the UK and London was only date I could do.
Was worth it but we'll get to that later.

Back to my day; we had time to kill since doors weren't till 7 and we got in to London at half 2. Decided to go to the science museum since its free and probably something interesting to see.
Wasn't to bad, I wish there had been more interactive stuff to do but hey ho, can't get everything in life.
Here are some pictures I took:

After the museum we did some more tube traveling and went and met a friend of ours who's in London at the minute working. We walked up Islington since it was only about a 20 minutes walk and rush hour on the tube I've heard is not very nice.
Was nice to walk around to be honest, instead of being stuck in a crapped tube station.
Once we'd got to the Islington area, we went for some tea at Nando's. I then has the hardest decision of my life:
Chicken or chicken?

Was tough but I decided to go for chicken. More precisely, chicken wings, corn on the cob and garlic bread. Was very tasty, Also had a Sangrea to go with the meal.

With our belly's full we headed to the gig at the O2 Academy Islington. I've never been to this O2 was surprised it was in a shopping center and not very big. We went upstairs to the balcony floor because I'd rather be able to chill and see, than be stuck in a crowd.

The first band weren't on till about 8 and I think they were called LTNT but they never really made that clear. They were pretty average with there music but good performance.

Skillet came on at about 9 and opened with Whispers in the Dark from their comatose album. They had a violin and cello player with them which added a nice effect and had there own solo's at the beginning and end of the whole night.

Skillet.

 They came on with a lot of energy which was constant through the whole night.
They played a mix of songs from their album Collide (2003), Comatose (2006), Awake (2009) and Rise (2013).
I was very happy see them, I've not been this excited about a band in a long time. This was their third time coming to the UK; First was supporting Nickelback (which I would of gone to if I had known they were playing) and they played Download Festival this year on the second stage, Which I did go to.
Was an amazing night and wish I could relive the whole thing again and again and again...

After the show we headed to Victoria coach station to get our bus back to Cheltenham and have some well deserved sleep.

Overall, the day was amazing and need to go to a gig in London again sometime. It is a long way to travel but for the right band, its worth it.

I did films bits of the day and shall be making a video out of them which I'll do a post about soon.

Please give me feed back on my first longish writing piece, will help me improve on the next one I do.

OOTD 09/10/2014

My final look with the cat skirt.
Goes nicely with the pastel pink wig to create a pretty, casual/smart outfit.

OOTD 07.10.2014

New outfit of the day. Hype and give feed back please :)

Cat Skirt from Chicnova with outfit idea.

Before un-wrapping

 A few weeks ago I brought a new skirt from a site called Chicnova.
It is a cat skater style skirt, in white with purple tinted cats. Its a silky materiel and really soft to wear. Only bad thing is its a bit short on me but that's the problem with big bums and skirts. I will need to wear leggings or shorts underneath them to wear them out so I'm not showing off my bum to the world.

They also have good costumer service because I accidentally brought the skirt twice. My first transaction didn't go through properly so I did it again. I realized straight away what had happened and contacted them. A few hours later they had replied saying that I had paid for the item twice and that they would refund me the first item. The money then appeared in my bank a couple days later.

Outfit:

Here is an outfit idea I had for the skirt.

Black crop top from HnM

Pastel Purple Necklace from New Look

Black Bow belt from New Look

Cat tights from Ebay 

Studded Creepers from New Look

 Black is an easy colour to put with the skirt but I think it emphsises the skirt and the necklace more.

The whole thing flatters my figure nicely and will be a cute outfit to wear out.

Tattoo all booked.

 

Looking forward to this one. getting it on my calf. 

Will have to wait to see what its like though

September haul and favourites