Velvet, velvet, velvet!

Hey everyone! 

Sorry, once again I am behind on my blog posts... I hope you've all had a lovely day/week!

You don't have to know me well to know I have a bit of an obsession with velvet... Velvet dresses, shorts, crop tops, hair bands, chokers! I love how it feels and how it can be dressed up and down so easily. It also has that quite expensive look to it, even though you can get so many velvet items for not a lot of money at all! To be honest I would be pretty content with an entire velvet wardrobe if it ever came to it.

Today I've pieced together a few of my current velvet pieces- this isn't all of them, as I have rather a lot of it- including my blue velvet playsuit, Topshop grey velvet dress, my vintage velvet maxi dress and crushed velvet hot pants.

 Blue velvet playsuit with cut-out back- Boohoo

Black crochet kimono- New Look

Pattern mock-suspender tights- Ebay

Grey velvet and lace bustier dress- Topshop

Velvet choker- New Look

Black vintage velvet maxi dress- bought at a car boot sale.

Blue crushed velvet hot pants- Boohoo

Rose embroidered turtle neck- Primark

MUA Luxe velvet lip lacquer (Reckless)

Thank you for reading! Look out for a post at the weekend! X

I'll give you one more time, we'll give you one more fight// OOTD & unusual eye make-up

Hey Everyone! I hope you've had a good week so far, I think I may have finally got back into the swing of things, so my blog posts should become more regular again (Thursdays and Saturdays). 

Today I thought I would put on my new turtle neck swing dress because it's so comfy and I just really love anything with a high neck or turtle neck at the moment! I've also recently had a bit of an obsession with over the knee and patterned tights, so I paired the dress with these over-knee ribbed ones that I found on eBay. I have discovered eBay is the best place to buy tights as you can get them really cheap and they only took about 2 days to arrive!

I've recently been experimenting with unusual coloured eye shadows and blushes, and today I created this red/pink/orange smoky eye, which I actually really like with just a bit of mascara. It also looks really nice with an eye liner flick. 

 

 What I'm wearing:

Turtle neck swing dress- New Look

Over the knee ribbed tights-eBay

Velvet choker- New Look

Eye Make-up:

Maybelline Colour tattoo 24hr cream eye-shadow (70 Metallic pomegranate)

2true Eye-shadow dazzler (11)

Sleek blush (Flushed)

Maybelline 'the falsies' mascara

Thank you for reading & have a lovely rest of the week! X

Here's to a year of self-love, equality & vintage clothes

Hey Everyone...

This post is absurdly late and I guess the only reason for this was because I felt I needed a bit of time to think about what I was going write in regards to the New Year and all that sha-bang.

I would firstly like to thank the very few people who have been reading my blog over the last year, because as strange as it may sound, it has helped me an awful lot . It doesn't bother me that I don't have thousands of readers because primarily, I do this for myself. 

New Years' has become such a massive thing in society and there is so much pressure put on going all out on New Years Eve and then waking up the next morning with a resolution that will improve your life in some way this year, whilst in the back of your mind you know it will last at the most, a week... On returning to college last week I found myself surrounding by various people talking about going on detox diets, cutting out practically all the food groups, starting the gym, quitting smoking and so many more. I fully appreciate people setting themselves positive goals, but drinking green tea for a month isn't going to make you healthy or get you the body you want, in fact it would probably make you unwell, exhausted and moody.

I myself have never been one to make New Years resolution, because I feel it's a silly to wait until then, if you want to change your lifestyle, your health or general well-being it will only succeed when you are ready. 

So, I would like to dedicate this year to letting go of the people, the things, the places that cause you distress and that keep you stuck in the same place you've been for a while. I want to dedicate it to equality; learning that 'feminism' isn't a dirty word and that peoples race, sexuality and beliefs don't define who they are or make them a better or worse person. Here's to a year of self-love and care and realising it's okay to be proud of yourself and take pride in your appearance. And most importantly, here's to another year of vintage shopping, purple lipstick and looking damn

 amazing.

Thank you so much for reading & Happy New Year Xxxxxxx