OOTN and Christmas Meal 7/12/12

On friday night me, my flatmates and our friend Honor went out for a Christmas meal together. It was really lovely to dress up and all go out together for a really nice meal, and with 2 for 1 cocktails we took advantage! I'd been shopping all day so I had plenty of things to choose from to wear that evening! This is what I finally decided on..

Scarf, belt, necklace, tights, silver bracelet and bag - Primark

Top - H&M

Skirt and bangles - Topshop

Shoes - New Look

I went with a smart casual look with the scarf, but this is an outfit I'd definetley wear out to the clubs too. I'd wanted a skater skirt for ages, but I thought the black ones just look like school skirts, and I have a lot of black tops too, so I went with this really lovely marl grey one. I think I'll get alot of wear out of it, it's a really lovely shape and I can dress it up or down.

I am a huge fan as scarves as you may have gathered, and pretty much wear one everyday! I already have a black and white skull one, but I thought this pastel grey/blue one (for only £3 in primark!) was a really good twist on the original, and I had to have it! The necklace I grabbed too - with crosses not fading from the fashion scene, this delicate necklace adds a bit of extra pazazz without being too in your face.

I really love this bag, it was only £6 and looks identical to ones being sold in Topshop for over £30. Studs always add an extra element to your outfit too. 

We went to Turtle Bay in Southampton, which is a caribbean restaurant with a cocktail bar. I'd been there before a couple of times for some meals with my boyfriend, but it was great to have some drinks with the girls!

I had spicy sweet corn fritters to start (which were almost too spicy to eat but so delicious!) and half a jerk chicken with sweet potato fries. By the time we'd finished our cocktails and meals we all felt sick! Turtle Bay is such a lovely restaurant the setting is really lovely with candles and fairy lights. Would definetley reccomend it.

OOTD 7/12/12

Hi guys! Just wanted to share a couple of outfit posts from yesterday, and outfit of the day, and outfit of the night which will follow. Yesterday I hit the shops with my friend Caroline, and accidently on purpose bought more then I had planned.. In Urban Outfitter's changing rooms they had amazing mirrors, which I thought I would take advantage of to quickly snap my outfit!

Top, bag, coat and tights - Primark

Shorts - H&M

Scarf - Vintage (My mum's from years ago!)

This is a casual outfit for me, I went to uni before heading into town. I'm wearing alot of black this winter, I'm getting a bit grungey! The scarf I really love, as it's originally my mum's, and I remember her wearing it when I was little! I'd seen similar ones in H&M and remembered my mum owned this checkered green one and she's given it to me to wear this season. It's so strange how things come back in fashion over a number of decades, they were so similar to the ones being sold in UO too for over £8! Don't you love a bit of fashion recycling?

I tried on quite a few things in Urban Outfitters, it was strange because I usually think it's too expensive for me and usually just browse all the pretty things, but I actually found a jumper which I fell in love with (photo to follow!), which was actually too pricey for me, but I could NOT have left it in the shop, I needed to own it! It was another vintage piece, and I can imagine had a nice life, but I can't wait to give it a new home, I know it's something I will want to wear everyday.

It's really long, big, and oversized (the angle of the photo isn't great!). It's a lovely dark grey and gold thread which makes it looks glittery and very Christmassy! It was £35 but around £31 with my student discount. I wouldn't usually spend so much on  a jumper, but I just wanted it so badly after I'd tried it on, and decent jumpers are usually over the £25 mark anyway. It's a perfect fit for me, so I can wear it neat on the shoulders or slouchy off, and roll up the sleeves if I want. It's so long I could easily wear it with leggings or even tights, and I can't wait to style it up. I think it's even nice enough to wear as smart casual because of the gold in it. Even though it's vintage it looks quite modern, but I know nobody else will have one exactly like it! It's a shame there aren't many decent charity shops in Southampton high street, because I do love looking for one off things!

OOTD 2/12/12

Top, Scarf, Wet look leggings (on bottom half) and Necklace - Primark

Bangles - Topshop

This is a quick outfit (top half!) post from last week that I forgot to upload! I've just noticed that this entire outfit is pretty much from Primark! 

The spotty top I'm wearing I must have bought about a year and a half ago, and it's so versitle and goes with so many different things! It's long enough to wear with leggings (wet looks ones as I'm loving them recently!) which you can't see that are on my legs! 

This has to be one of my favourite scarves, I've had it for literally about 5 years! Again, it goes with so many colours and outfits.

 I'd been looking for a statement necklace for quite  a while, when a quick search in Primark I found this one, a bargain at £4, I've been wearing it with quite a lot of things, and is great for day or dressing up at night.

 I'm a Primark junkie, I love having a root around in there, especially as the Southampton store is so big! My friends are always shocked when I say something is from Primark as I usually wear it so it looks more expensive, I have a good skill of picking out the good stuff and ignoring all the rubbish that's in there sometimes! Especially being a student, I love buying cheaper items and styling them up, you wouldn't even know.

How do you rate Primark?!

Laine Blogger Award

Hi everyone, Jessie from her blog http://jesssellen.blogspot.co.uk/ has nominated me for the Laine Blogger Award - Thank you! I think you should all go check out her blog! :D

 Rules:

(1) Tag the blogger who awarded you.

(2) Answer the five questions below.

(3) Award 5 more bloggers the Laine blogger award.

Questions and Answers:

(1) What is your current beauty obsession?

Glitter nail varnish - I can't get enough! The only problem is it chips off so easily :(

 

(2) Which is one beauty item you wished you owned?

Clinique mascara, my auntie gave me a miniture sample some time ago and it's the best thing I've ever used! Can't really afford it mind..

 

(3) What is your favorite post to read or write about?

I love to read about most things, mainly fashion and outfit posts, I love to see what other people are buying, and how they're styling their clothing. I'm going to try and get some more outfit posts up here! 

 

(4) What inspired you to become a blogger?

As a fashion student, we're encouraged to start our own blogs, to show employees and people that we are interested in fashion and social networking, and that we can hold down other things as well as our own work :) After we've built up a number of posts and I've left uni, it's clear you can see how passionate you are about it, which may help me in a job some day! I've always loved looking at fashion blogs though, I love to gain inspiration from other people's posts and their clothing ideas.

 

(5) Which nail polish are you wearing now?

My black essie one. I'm currently loving black nails, I've had this one on for 2 weeks now!



5 Tagged Bloggers

Foxtrot Inkblot

Lazy 2 Lovely

Open my wardrobe doors

La Foi

Daisies and Doc Martins

I will shortly be letting these bloggers know to do it too! :)

Sports Luxe Shoot

A post or two back I said about a styling project we currently have (with the hand in next friday ahh!) where we have to produce a magazine style feature for i-D magazine, and showed what my friend Caroline had done for hers. I did mine a few days after, and I've only just got round to editing them properly! My beautiful friend Lorren agreed to model for me, for my 'plus size' feature with neon sportswear, they still need tweeking and editing a bit more, but they look pretty decent so far so I'm rather happy! Take a look at her blog too - Life of Lorren (LOL).

I'm a bit annoyed as I took them at home, and used a make-shift white backdrop, which had many marks on, so I've had to edit them quite a bit, but so far so good! I know some of the backgrounds are a bit dodgy but with a few more hours work I will make them look perfect I hope! I now need to put these into a layout and do a two page written feature, so lots to do still! What do you think?! :)

All I want for Christmas..

...is a hideous Christmas jumper! I bought a coral jumper with metallic gold threading from H&M a few weeks ago, and I absolutley love it! It is literally one of the only jumpers I have and I'm really wanting to buy another one or five.. I can't believe it's already december, and in a couple of weeks it'll be the big day. It's getting freezing cold now, and I want something I can snuggle into! Whilst googling 'Christmas Jumper' yesterday I got many weird and wonderful results. My friend Caroline and I saw the most hidiousley lovely vintage Christmas jumpers in Urban Outfitters the other day, they actually looked like they'd been taken from 90 year olds and put into the shop. They were so ugly you almost wanted to wrap it round you and give it a good home.. 

So what is the line between trendy fair isle knit jumper and a jumper that is just plain ugly!? Here are my few top picks of knitwear I've seen online that border on 'so wrong it's right'.

Boohoo.com - £20

River Island - £35

(This is so cute - I'm actually considering buying this one!)

Lavish Alive - £21

New Look - £16.99

Now.. this piece of knitwear is bordering on down right awful. 

Topshop - £75 (! paha)

I'm definetley going to be purchasing some sort of jumper with reindeers on soon to wear on Christmas day! What do you think of this season's knitwear?!

An i-D shoot

As part of our fashion promotion course, were currently doing a fashion styling unit, which is one of my favourite areas, although the current project we are doing has been a bit of a nightmare! The theme is 'diversity', and we have to use models who are unique/different in some way, and not like ordinary models. For instance, some people are using models with loads of freckles, some are using black models, and some are using heavily tattooed models. We have to create a magazine style article for i-D magazine, with a 2 page written piece. The problem with this is that we all have to actually find unique looking models that are genuine, and can't use just anyone! For my photo shoot I am doing tomorrow, I am using a 'plus size' model with a neon, sports luxe theme (photos will be on here!), using my friend Lorren who kindly (reluctantly!) agreed to model! My friend Caroline did hers yesterday, with her 'goth/emo' theme. She found two models who were happy to model their gothic style for her, but one of her models dropped out last minute, so our friend becky agreed to be gothed up for the photos! I went along to help her out with the styling. 

None of them were professional models but they looked amazing! She bought all the clothing and accessories, and the styling looked really amazing. The feather neck corset cost £30 alone from ASOS marketplace! She did it in front of a new build Sea City centre in Southampton, as the graphic lines of the building contrasted well against the gothic style. It was absolutley freezing cold and everyone froze, but she got some great shots! Fingers crossed my shoot goes as well! :)