Rose tinted spectacles 01

primark sandal lust; new £9 asos 'jesus' sandals; belly bars from miss selfridge

me with taylor swift hair (LOL); coppers (prize for whoever guesses how much); asos sale purchase

joliebox goodies from essie button; cheeky dominoes; pretty gift

strawberry & blueberry smoothie; fathers day card; topshop meadham kirchoff event sweets

Had a pretty eventful week since finishing my exams on Thursday, it was followed by our Leavers Ball, a birthday barbeque and the obligatory 'i-have-no-holiday-clothes' panic. Just finished packing for Cyprus tomorrow, where 53 members of my year group are accompanying me for a week. Yes, 53.

Having a luggage panic, looks like I'm wearing 2 pairs of shoes to the airport tomorrow. And trying to work out what to do with my millions of liquids. Happy holidays everyone! Have a safe trip, see y'all in a week! x

ahh too many liquids; the BIG asos box; I'm on a mug!

Plus thank you so much for the fake tan tips - everything worked out splendidly with exfoliation, mits and moisturiser!

nb: this is actually my second fake instagram post. I started on 00. huh.

"Seriously good haul this year! Blimey, I think I'll come of age next year too!"

 

AWESOME gifts from my friends & boyfriend. One of the small pleasures of coming of age. 

1: berry shower gel, soap & glory goodies, 

maybelline gel eyeliner, no7 beautiful skin bb cream normal/oily, 

max factor 24hr mascara and smoky eye stick, 

17 berry crush lip tint, spiced instant chai latte 

2: miss selfridge ring

3: lush catastrophe cosmetic face mask & mint julips lip scrub,

 gosh nail polish in purple heart

4: jane norman wedge flatforms

5: pretty ring standy thing 

 6: h&m coral pink shirt dress

Also got some misc gifts like silvery goblets, a fancy cake, 'G' letter mug, Chewits, mint liquor. Who doesn't love the random stuff friends comes up with? I've been doing that thing where you collect all your presents together and keep them there, even though this is mildly inconvenient... Makes me smile :) Very grateful to everyone!

 Post title: Ronald Bilius Weasley, the Half Blood Prince

Standard ebay shop spam: got a lovely Topshop jumper, a sheer contrast cardigan and a vintage tartan cape thingimajobby which is, in my opinion, pretty awesome.

And yes, I did wear these shoes below before I "hauled" them. Broke an unwritten blogging/youtube law...

Flatform Uniform

strappy black jane norman flatforms £35 £11, h&m "riding pants" £14.99 £9.99, forever 21 cut sleeve sheer blouse via Izzy, ebay satchel £3, miss selfridge silver collar £7 £3.25, revlon super lustrous lipstick in black cherry

• Hellloooo and WELCOME! Oh dear, it has been long. Its a shame when something that you love doing has to take a backseat, ohh the pains of ~real life~.

• Since my last post I've turned 18! A real lady! I even voted in the London elections! I've also spent way too much time on Pottermore*, claim 2 free bottles of Prosecco at Pizza Express and just generally work revise work shop internet internet. Hmm. Well I'll be back with a belated birthday "haul" next post, so be ready.

• So this is what I wore to a party this Saturday, except with fuchsia lipstick - this one was lurking under my wardrobe at the time.

• SHOUT out to le boyfriend, who bought me these shoes. He even let me culture him at the V&A yesterday.

• I will be back, and thank you to my followers for bearing with this prolonged absence. Finally, check out my eBay stuff, ending tomorrrrrrow!

*I don't even want to talk about where I was sorted.

Warning: I've already returned one pair of these leggings after a split-seam-at-crotch mishap. ohhhh dear

Hot Chocolate & Sprinkles

pleather leather leggings £15, asos owl ring, charity shop black faux fur coat £10 & satchel & scarf, vintage jumper via ebay £3, ebay necklace £1.15 from here

Photos from a walk in the snow slush last weekend with my boyfriend. Since then I've been very cold and therefore very ill and very bed-ridden. Which kind of explains my poor blogging, I'm still suffering from headaches today but luckily I found these! Can you believe this necklace was basically one pound? And it hasn't even broken yet!


*OMG FIRST MAC PURCHASE EVER* It's the lipstick Angel, how boring. Think it'll look pinker with a tan. Also am I the only one who doesn't like the ricepaper/vanilla scent of MAC lippies? No? Fine. Anyway all the MAC people looked like they were drag queens. Juss sayin'


Hope you've all had a lovely Valentines day and shared love with loved ones. I certainly haven't (despite having a boyfriend...le sigh) but this managed to cheer me up :) It's Jenna Marbles doing the cinnamon challenge dressed as drake. Enough said.

Just found H&M are restocking these two-tone leggings! May stock up for, you know, ~emergencies~

Black Cherry Cross

velvet charity shop leggings £3.50, asos jersey top £9, topman cross necklace £10 £3, topshop ring, river island blouse £25 £12, revlon super lustrous lipstick in black cherry

Happy belated New Year! Went to the O2 arena for NYE, saw Chase & Status, Zane Lowe and Kasabian with the boyfriend. Needless to say, it was amazing. My favourite part was when we counted down twice because they forgot to release the confetti and balloons the first time...

Didn't do a "gift" post despite my curious nature tending to enjoy them, but I did receive the ring and lipstick for Christmas. And Revlon Colorstay foundation, which I will highly recommend to anyone. This is also an "Xmas sales" post, went to Oxford Street (not Boxing Day or Christmas Eve, already made both those mistakes) but had to look at man shops all day. Sigh.

Now please someone help me prioritise, I have an exam on Friday the 13th and I've managed to watch 3 seasons of Scrubs in a week (I realised what I'd been missing out on).

See y'all, check out the shop

The Orange Paper Hat

cutout shoulder red dress vero moda @ asos £24 £16.50, topshop ring, fashionistA magnetic nail polish in frankie
Merry Boxing day Boxing day!* I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that you've awoken from various food comas. My parents banned me from eating my 4th mini Christmas dinner today. It was sad. Anyway, instead of listing gifts (both the nail polish- which chips like crazy -and ring were gifts though) I'll list what we ate. So I can relive the deliciousness which is Christmas food.
Starter: Gravlax - cold cured salmon (which I cured myself!) with a creamy horseradish sauce and capersMain: Roast turkey, pigs in a blanket, stuffing, sage & onion sausage meat, almond & marzipan sausage meat, brussel sprouts, slightly charred parsnips, roast potatoes all smothered in gravy and served with bread sauce & cranberry jelly. MmmmDessert: White chocolate cheese cake, Christmas pudding
Yes Christmas lunch is quite the (delayed) occasion at my house. Looking forward to turkey soup & sandwiches. Anyway, I've got to go and drain my cinnamon & gingerbread syrup. Originally meant to be gingerbread, but got a bit excited with the cinnamon sticks... I'll leave you with my favourite Christmas tree decoration, this adorable owl.

*For Americans, that's the British name for the day after Christmas when you give presents to your servants, post men etc. This year my servants (aka my three brothers) got their presents on the day. Lucky beggars

Indian Summer

leopard h&m wedges £8, ebay shorts £1, asos top £6, charity shop bag £1, asos necklace £3, vintage sunglasses

So today was the final day of the temporary "indian summer", barely scraping that at 21C. What's new? Had an all day English lecture and now by mind is riddled with pastoral idylls and other awful concepts. Off to clear my head of such nonsense with some TOWIE and Made in Chelsea. Ohhhh structured reality shows, you entertain me so with your awkward pauses, awful acting and magically disappearing drinks. Here's a photo of a nice passionflower from the garden. Stunning right?

Some lovely Topshop suede shorts to be found...

Sitting pretty on the flowers

topshop playsuit RRP £45 charity shop £7, cath kidston bag giveaway win from style crusader, asos snake necklace £3, asos owl soverign ring £2, free nail polish misguided

So this was my Harry Potter at Leceister Square outfit. Naturally I kept in theme with the owl ring and snake necklace - asos sale jewellery is the best, I've also got a snake ring on the way. KOS IS SO SOON! Am so excited, but freaking out about my lack of bikini's... Seriously, I may just use a wetsuit or be naked, not decided yet.

I ♥ this playsuit. WHAT a find. A bit of a disjointed post, non?

And I feel so bohemian like you

How beautifully wonderful is this necklace? I've never seen silver, gold and grey forced together so harmoniously... Hence it was perfect on bringing together the gold buttoned skirt and grey top. I received it from Sarah at Lushae nearly a month ago, but I knew I had to wait for the perfect summer's day to bring it out. I had to pick from all the designs there, and there were some fantastic rings (this one, appeared on that girl lucys blog), so it took me a long long time to choose, sorry! But definitely worth the wait, don't you think?

 

primark sunglasses, Lushae necklace, vintage satchel, charity shop sandals, ebay skirt, topshop grey racerback

So these are my slightly cat-eye sunglasses. They're not the pointed ones I wanted, but I still love them, and for £1.. Well, enough said. I bought two. Because I break things. I don't normally wear my hair up, (I look like a boy) but it was verging on 30 degrees, so rules had to be broken. Hopefully I'll have tanned a bit..

And maybe you can't tell, maybe you can, but these are phone photos, hence the dodgy editing. But I like yellow, it means summer.

OH YEAH, exams are over!

Bring on work experience.

And "Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols" is a great summer track.

hi to my gorgeous friend, who shall not be named. enjoy my ex v-sista

Fool's Gold

Just occurred to me that I have never ever ever done a jewellery post. Which is strange, because I'm proud of my jewellery collection. And below, we have a selections of my short chain necklaces and pendant charms, mainly gold, with a selection of silver...

Top, left to right: accessorize; accessorize; topshop; accessorize; claire's

Bottom, left to right: primark; turkey; turkey; unknown; unknown; turkey; vintage; france

I have a tendency to break the chains they come with, so I have a lot of loose charms I pick and choose.

This is, of course, only part 1. Expect colour and florals in part 2: coming soon.

On a bad note, in my Spanish oral exam, I told the examiner that to help the environment, I always shut the door.

Good day to you x

Ok, I officially give up trying to align these photos. I click centre, and the photo decides to reposition itself to the bottom of the page. WHY? I'm going to lose it soon.