Monday, 17 December 2012

I remember my first burberry trench...

It was beautiful and I wore it to death; I still have it, but now I'm not really in a suitable job to wear it. I can't believe I used to wear it to school! (even if it was the poshest school, where our skirts were measured to make sure they were all the same length and we wore straw boaters in the summer haha ahh memories).
I was perusing the internet as usual when I came across the latest Burberry photoshoot by Mario Testino, starring none other than Romeo Beckham.
  
There's no denying that, even at 10 years old, you can see that young Romeo is probably going to be a bit of a heart breaker when he's older, he's got that cheeky grin going on already.
I'm usually a massive Testino fan, and a massive Christopher Bailey fan as well, but I'm just not sure of this choice. I like the Burberry campaigns with the up and coming beautiful 20-something actors/models who I can stare at until my eyes hurt, and aspire to look like even though I have no chance...not a 10 year old kid. Remember Eddie Redmayne and Cara Delevingne S/S12? Thats more what I'm talking about Burberry!
I guess I still have Charlie France, and rRomeo's cute in a little brother sort of way...

Whats your favorite fashion campaign? What do you think of this one?

x

Friday, 14 December 2012

I never get the chance to paint my nails, as I work with animals, but since it's christmas and I have a couple of weeks off I decided to go for it and be all festive!

I picked up these two nail varnishes from B&M (if you haven't heard of it its basically like a pound shop, everythings really cheap). They were £1.79 each which I think is very good for nail varnishes as usually you can end up spending around £5 per bottle! I've used W7 products before and have found they are actually pretty good; I think I've used a liquid eyeliner by them and and was quite impressed.

So, I used the white as a base and put the glitter on top...kind of snowy and sparkly. The white varnish needed 2 coats to get a good even coverage, but it dried within a minute so it was fairly easy and quick to do. I was really impressed with the glitter; I usually find with glitter nail varnishes you have to put about 5 layers on to get a good amount of glitter, but this only took one coat and the particles looked really good. Its easily removable aswell, (unlike other glitter varnishes!)
I'm not sure that I'll use the white very often, as it reminds me of when people used to pait their nails with tipex at school, but the glitter is great value and will look good over any colour, I'm going to try it with a dark colour next I think!

Does anyone else have special christmas nails?

xxx


Wednesday, 12 December 2012

I have an ongoing dislike of my hair; when I was a child it was so long I could sit on it. Then some girl at school got a hairbrush tangle in it and I had to have the chop. Age 15 I started experimenting, from blue, to red, to lego hair...eventually I decided to dye my naturally black hair blonde. After a couple of weeks I couldn't cope and shaved it all off; think This is england (but I was way ahead of my time).
Since then I've been growing and growing, 2012 will of been my 5th year of hair growing. I'm "blessed" with insanely thick, wavy hair. I have the equivalent of about 3 peoples hair on my head. It gets frizzy, it doesn't straighten, it gets knotty. I'm just too old for messing with my mane now!
So today, I went for the chop.
(sorry for the crap picture, I don't know how we're meant to tale good photos with the lighting at the moment!)

I've never had a bob before, and it's actually completely different to what I asked for (which was a long wavy bob a la alexa chung), but there's not much I can do now its cut. I don't know how manageable it is going to be either, I mean yes, it looks nice all straight and sleek, but I don't do hairdryers and straighteners, so as soon as I wash this I dread to think how it will turn out!
So yeah, unsure at the moment, but I'm hoping to grow into it. Even if I don't like it theres nothing that I can do anyway!

xxx