A Smile & A Ribbon

Dress - H&M / Hairbow - Astrid & Miyu / Necklace - Gogo Philip / Ring - Primark / Bracelet - Topshop

I was planning to wear this for Chloe's birthday but that was the one day that everything was covered in snow. So both our pretty dresses were substituted for jumpers & leggings. Its a bit warmer today so I figured I would just wear it today instead. I've seen this dress from H&M doing the rounds on loads of blogs but its with good reason because its so flattering. I couldn't resist buying the black version as well. H&M is definitely my shop of choice at the moment. I ended up buying two pairs of shorts from there because all I could find in Topshop were high waisted hotpants. I know they're 'on trend' but they really aren't the most flattering shape for my hips. Plus the H&M ones were half the price of the ones in Topshop!

My hair is still nicely pinkified, mainly because I remembered to add a bit of dye to my conditioner again. I dyed my hair lilac last summer but it only lasted one wash so this time round I'm gonna get an empty bottle and fill it with premixed dye & conditioner to keep my hair looking vibrant. Since I dyed it pink I've been wearing lots more hair accessories. Today I'm wearing this absolutely gorgeous satin hairbow that I was sent by Astrid & Miyu. I don't think I've seen a girlier or prettier bow out there, this one is so perfect. I love how it matches my hair colour too.

I'm just about to pop out to Asda now for some food shopping. I saw that they've reduced their Cadbury's chocolate eggs to 50p! But I will be avoiding them like the plague. I've decided that I now hate Easter because people just keeping throwing chocolate at you from left, right & centre. Its started to make my teeth hurt so I binned half the stuff we had in the cupboards. Its a sad day when chocolate no longer makes you happy!

Animalistic

Top - New Look / Skirt - American Apparel / Necklace - Gogo Philip / Ring - ASOS
Gotta say I'm loving a bit of leopard at the moment. I know dalmation print is supposedly "the cool new thing" but I'd rather stick with a classic. I know if I were to buy something dalmation print I'll probably want rid of it a few months later. I got this top from New Look a few weeks ago and I'm tempted to buy some more leopard based items. I'd love to get this shirt from Topshop which is basically a long sleeve version of the one I'm wearing. New Look do a similar version but the Topshop one looks loads nicer to me. Don't know about anyone else but it kinda reminds me of something Richard O'Brien would've worn on The Crystal Maze, which totes makes me want it more haha. Today I saw the most amazing faux fur leopard print coat in New Look, its not on the website yet but its basically my dream winter coat. I'll probably end up buying both of these when I next go shopping. I know its such a cliche thing for girls to say but right now I feel like I have nothing to wear. I think its because its getting colder and my past winter wardrobe mainly consists of things that really aren't my style anymore. I've decided I hate pretty much everything in my wardrobe and its time to sell it all. I'll be setting up a blogshop shortly for you all to peruse. One question: is selling old shoes disgusting/weird? I have so many heels that I've never worn so thats not too gross in my opinion but I'm not sure if its a done thing.

Standing In The Dark

Dress - Reko / Cardigan - American Apparel / Belt - Primark / Necklace - Gogo Philip
Things just got really exciting... my blog has been shortlisted for the Cosmopolitan Blog Awards 2011! First things first, I want to say a mahoosive thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate me. I never asked for a single nomination so the fact that some of you like my blog enough to do so really does mean the world to me. It was a complete shock when people started tweeting me the other night to congratulate me & it makes me so happy to know that people enjoy my inane ramblings! I must say that I feel completely out of place in the Established Beauty Blog category. I think I'm only in that category due to the amount of time I've had this blog. Some of the people I'm up against inspired me to start a blog in the first place. Plus my blog is fairly different to a lot of beauty blogs out there in that I post about a variety of topics, not just swatches & reviews of new products. So I'm most definitely not expecting to win but it would be wonderful if I got to finally meet some bloggers out of this! If you would like to vote for me please click here & enter your email address to see the full list of nominees.

I've been to a few birthday parties this week which is probs why my face is looking larger than normal (if thats even possible). I've eaten tons of cake & buffet food. It was my boyfriends birthday on Sunday so we went to Da Sandro's Italian restaurant. I didn't think much of the food really but these gorgeous profiteroles finished the meal off nicely. Andy had a steak which cost £20, not good when I'm paying the bill! Anyways this is what I wore for our meal out. I got this dress a few years ago from the muchly missed Superette shop near Brick Lane. I loved the Reko dresses they stocked so much that I bought 3 of them. Wowza, just checked their website as I'm writing this and they have some gorgeous new ones in for A/W 2011, how on earth did I forget that they exist?! I'm thinking I need to buy a new cardigan more than anything though because I do pretty much wear this American Apparel one every day of the week.

23

Dress - Missguided / Tights - Primark / Boots - Topshop
Necklace - Gogo Philip / Rings - Me & Zena
This is what I wore to celebrate my 23rd birthday on the 16th. I got this dress from Missguided. It is indecently short, quite possibly the shortest dress I own. Also its quite tight considering its M/L, so if you're ordering from their website always size up! I decided to get the orange one in an attempt to imitate my number one style icon/fave actress/girl crush Chloe Sevigny. This outfit is pretty different to her normal style but its always stuck in my head as one of her best looks. I wore my pair of Topshop Allegras with the dress. I bought these last week in Leeds before I had my hair done. They were the last pair of size 5s they had so I was ridiculously happy to get them. The girl who served me did that annoying thing of trying to get me to take out one of the Topshop cards to get the 15% discount. I asked her how much I would save so she worked it out on the till then after umming & ahhing about it I decided not the take the card but she left the discount on. Gotta love a sales assistant who just doesn't care haha.

I wasn't expecting to do anything on my birthday, infact I'd planned to just take Chloe to Eureka, the children's museum in Halifax. On my 21st I ended up walking around the railway museum in York so I figured I would carry on the tradition of going to shit museums on my birthday. Luckily I didn't have to. On Tuesday Andy bought me the ingredients to make a birthday fry up. I had to make it myself which was a bit of a pain but it was nice nonetheless. He also decided that a tub of Carte D'or was a satisfactory alternative to a birthday cake (wtf). He made up for it by taking me to Leeds to buy me a pressie. I chose a 100ml bottle of Flowerbomb which is something I'd asked for every birthday, Christmas, anniversary etc. since we've been together. Then he treated me to a meal at Yo Sushi. Japanese food is my fave so he did good, especially since they had some chocolate mochi on the belt. On Wednesday my mum and sister came up from London for the day. They brought me some more presents then we went for a meal at Eric's in Lindley. It was really good, I went for the rump steak sandwich and the best onion rings I've ever tasted. Not the most exciting birthday anyones ever had but it was nice anyway.

Chevy Thunder

Dress - H&M
Leggings - H&M
Belt - H&M
Necklace - Gogo Philip
Bracelet - Urban Outfitters
Ring - Me & Zena
This is what I wore yesterday for a trip to the pub and today for a baby group. I bought this dress from H&M in Sheffield on Saturday. I love the shape of it more than anything, very flattering even though its a bit short! I decided to get the train over there because the Tramlines festival was on. Its basically a weekend of free music in pretty much every venue around the city. There were quite a few well known acts such as Los Campesinos, Ash, Pixie Lott & Olly Murs so not bad for free. I stayed at the Nando's New Music stage as thats where all the indie bands I like were playing. It was during the day so I had to take Chloe with me but she had fun dancing about to the bands with me haha. It was during Tramlines two years ago that I found out I was pregnant with her. I remember being disappointed I didn't get to see KASMs or Preston (megalolz) and just rather scared & in shock that I was gonna be a mum!

Tomorrow I'm off to the park as they're turning it into some kind of faux beach for the week. Looking forward to building some sandcastles and eating some whippys. Hopefully the weather will be a bit more Summer-like so I can actually pretend I'm on holiday.

Triangle

Top - American Apparel
Skirt - Zara
Jewellery - Gogo Philip
Hiya babes! I got back from London on Wednesday night and I'm really missing it already. I feel like I did more last week than I normally do in a month! On Friday I went shopping round Oxford Street and spent a ridiculous amount in Topshop, American Apparel, MAC & Illamasqua before having a huge pulled pork sandwich in my beloved Bodean's & a papaya bubble tea in my fave dim sum cafe in China Town. Then on Saturday I went with my mum & Chloe on a day trip to Brighton. I'd never been before so I was really excited to go. We had cupcakes from Angel Food Bakery in the Lanes and then went to the pier for some fish & chips. Chloe loved the wind in her hair, eating mushy peas & she got to meet her hero Igglepiggle haha. Sunday was spent chillaxing before another day trip to Oxford. That place is ridiculously touristy! I'd never been there before either but I won't be going back in a hurry. We had lunch in Jamie's Italian where I had a lovely burger with some polenta chips. My hayfever really ruined that day for me, I sneezed literally every minute we were there. People must've thought I was diseased!

On Tuesday I finally got to go to Westfield! We ate in Wahaca which is my 2nd fave restaurant ever (Bodean's being the first!). Gotta love a good taco. Reading back this entry its no wonder I've put on a few pounds! We saw Nick Hewer filming for the Junior Apprentice. I think they were running a flower stall but I only found that out after we left, gutted we didn't buy any when the girl tried to sell them to us. Should be interesting to watch, hopefully my face won't appear in the background! Then we walked around the shops. Finally managed to buy a MAC Ever Hip lipstick after going to 3 different stores in London searching for it. The girl there said they had loads left so if you're looking for one, head to Westfield sharpish. I also got a nail polish from Inglot. Actually in total I bought 6 nail polishes last week, I must be mental. I bought this pink skirt from Zara which was only £7 in the sale and all this awesome gold triangular jewellery from Gogo Philip as all their stock was half price. Anyone whos been to Westfield, did you go in a shop called Gilly Hicks? I'd never heard of it before but it was so weird, like an Australian Hollister on crack. I hate shops like these, how are you supposed to see any of the bloody clothes? As we were leaving I swear the girl at the front said 'Have a super awesome day you guys!'. Dear god...