OOTD | Maxi Skirt & Kimono Lovin'

Glasgow last week felt more like ( or at least I imagine it did) Spain than a city in Scotland. We had temperatures of 25 and above for more than a week. With Friday being 29 degrees (Celsius that is). I meant to get the next couple of outfit posts up while it was still hot, but y'know I wanted to take advantage of the sun and soak in it for as long as possible. I did take advantage of the sun - however by the colour of my skin you wouldn't have thought that I spend literally hours and hours sitting outside in the scorching heat. My mum and my brother tan so easily, and then I'm sat next to them, white as a ghost - well I'm more peach now (apparently). I don't tan easily nor burn. I do have tan lines but they are barely noticeable. Fair skinned problems. 
I saw this Kimono a couple of weeks ago in Primark and picked it up on a whim, I'm  glad I did. I'm a jumper addict, and obviously I couldn't get away with wearing one last week so this came in handy. My maxi skirt is also from Primark, I bought it last year and wore it once, I think it made me look slightly taller than usual. I'll take any help to look taller, being 5'2 ish kind of sucks. My top is just a little strappy thing from Topshop, its one of those ones thats always on 2 for £10. My dog, well she cme from Falkirk - she loves a wee cuddle, I think she was confused as to what I was doing as she kept looking at me in a weird way. (my dog makes lots of facial expressions, I'm not crazy - promise)
I really liked the way this outfit came together, apparently I do have some sense of style. 

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OOTD | Lunch With Friends

I barely leave my house these days, believe me when I say my social life is practically dead. Today though I did venture outside and it was a reasonably nice day outside - chilly wind but nice sunshine. I haven't seen a lot of my friends from school for quite awhile and it genuinely saddens me that we saw each other almost everyday last year and now we barely see each other. But anyhoo, we went to Wetherspoons and had a really lovely - and really cheap - lunch. Since I dressed up a little I thought I would share my outfit with y'all.

Jacket - Depop
Top - Oasis
Leggings - TopShop
Boots - Newlook
Sunglasses - Rayban

 I actually really love how this outfit looks. It looks fairly dressy despite it not being overly much - if that makes sense? I've hardly worn my red vest from Oasis so I thought it was time to bust it out. I also decided on wearing my lovely little Newlook booties since I forgot that I even had them, I also forgot how much they hurt my feet. My absolute favourite part of my wardrobe is my TopShop Treggings, I've pretty much wore them to death and am in dire need of a new pair.

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OOTD & FOTD - New Years Dinner

Every year, or almost every, I go to my Grans house for New Year. We eat lots of food, Steak Pie (the best and softest crust part), potatoes, carrots, apple pie with ice cream and left over Christmas cake. My Gran also brought out Jaffa Cakes when everyone was having coffee cause she knows how much I like them! My gran is to good to me. Any way - heres some pictures of what I wore!

My dress was from Urban Outfitters, I got it in the sale just recently. My jumper is also a sale purchase from UO, its so soft and cosy. I decided to put tights on since it was kind of cold and I think it looks slightly better with tights on. My shoes have a slight heel on them and are from Topshop. They have a sturdy sole, they are fairly comfortable but after a long time wearing them your feet can start to feel a bit sore. My little bracelet was a 18th birthday present and New Years was the first time I had worn it - the magnet that keeps it together has come off so I need to get glue and fix it. 

Make-up wise I didn't have much time to do much with my face before we had to leave. But anyhoo, my make-up is as follows: my foundation is benefits Hello Flawless, I applied my Soap and Glory One Heck Of A Blot powder, Lord and Berry Eyebrow pencil, L'Oreal's new Mascara Miss Manga and for the lips Maybelline's Moisture Renew in Dark Night Water-oops.

I'll just leave you with this picture of my mum, gran and me all with tea cosys on our heads - we were recreating a picture that was taken exactly like this 17 years ago.

Hope you all had a good New Year!

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Jacket: Topshop. Scarf: ASOS. Jumper: Urban Outfitters. Crop Top: Topshop. Jeans: Topshop. Shoes: H&M

I just thought I would do a really quick little outfit post, this is what I wore the other day to University. Its warm, comfy, reasonably stylish and I think it looks kind of nice. 

Would you like to see more outfit posts? 

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Birthday Haul

I thought it would be a better idea for me to do separate posts for my birthday. One for what I was given and another for things I went out and bought. I had convinced myself that all I wanted was make-up and other beauty things. That was until I realised I didn't actually need all the stuff I was wanting. I have a lot of self control. I did buy quite a few bits, but not an overly huge amount.
I made a couple of orders on ASOS and feel unique, also I picked up a couple of bits and bobs from Boots and of course eBay. With my birthday money I also got my blog designed, which is something I've been wanting to have done for quite awhile. Thank you Emily for doing it for me, I love it.

I made two separate orders to Feel Unique within days of each other, it didn't occur to me to do it at the same time. I had a £5 code, a birthday present from Feel Unique. I used that with my first order, I bought a Konjac sponge,  eye lash curlers and TIGI Split End Mender. I'd been eyeing up the Konjac for quite awhile and decided to just go ahead and buy it, same story with the TIGI Split End Mender. The eyelash curlers were bought since I didn't own any, and I don't think I actually have ever owned a pair of eyelash curlers. So I thought I would buy myself a pair and see how they worked for me.
The other Feel Unique order I made was for theBalm Mary Lou Manizer Luminize, this was another product I had been eyeing up for quite awhile. It was in the sale so I saved a few pounds on that, I would have bought it full price but getting it for a cheaper price is brilliant.

I also made 2 orders on ASOS. I bought a lot of stuff from ASOS, but most of it went back since it didn't fit or didn't look right. I only kept 2 things, a scarf and a dress. Since its getting colder and moving into Autumn I thought I should probably buy myself a scarf since I don't own one. I've been looking for a nice Tartan scarf for ages, I could never find one that was what I was looking for until now.  I adore it, its nice and cozy. Perfect for winter time. The dress is one that I had already bought but needed to replace since it unfortunately got a huge rip in it when I went out after my birthday.

I love Topshop, but always seem to talk myself out of buying things. I did that again, however I couldn't talk myself out of buying these shoes. I bought them with university in mind, I thought the heel was the perfect hight to walk about it. The sole seems quite sturdy and could maybe even be used when it starts to get a little icy since the sole looks like that of a walking boot. I had a pair really similar to this a couple of years ago, I loved them so much that the toes started to turn up and they got a little deformed. I'm glad I found these, since I've been after shoes like these for ages! There are a few more things that I'd like to buy from Topshop but for now that is all I've bought.

I wanted to buy myself quite a few Real Techniques brushes, but wanted to try and get them for a little cheaper. I found a site called iherb, and noticed they sold Real Techniques brushes for about half the price that you pay in the UK. I did a little research before buying anything from them, to make sure that they were legit. I found that a lot of people had trouble at customs, and they had to pay a lot of money to collect their parcel. I did find one site that told you How To Order From iHerb. She said to keep the order under £15, and I did. I bought the Eye Kit and the Fine Liner Brush, since those are the main ones I was wanting to buy. I didn't get charged any additional fees - which made me extremely happy! I'm going to place another order and get some more brushes later.

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I also went into MAC and bought my first ever lipstick from there. I got So Chaud, its such a lovely orangey red colour, I can understand why people have loads of these lipsticks. They last for such a long time on the lips, the £15 price tag might not even deter me in the future!

Another of my "high end" purchases was from Origins, I'd never bought anything from there before buy had always wanted to try some stuff out. I got a mini facial and decided for now that I would buy the facial wash. In hindsight I probably didn't need it, I do have a lot of facial washes, but now that I've got it and paid £18 for it I may as well use it - and try to enjoy it!

One of the things I bought off eBay was Bioderma, I got the Sebium  version since I have oily skin. I wanted to get a 500ml bottle but nowhere seemed to sell it. So I got two 250ml bottles for a total of £15.60 including postage.

Another of the things I got from eBay was Crest 3D Whitening strips, I have wanted to whiten my teeth for the longest time and figured this was a good place to start.

I didn't get much from Boots, I of course had to buy some Baby Lips. I also bought some Bourjois products, I had never bought anything by Bourjois before but had wanted to try some stuff for ages - its been getting huge amounts of hype recently, they seem to be bringing out products that everyone loves. I also got myself the Maybelline Fit Me Foundation Stick, I'd seem people in America talk about this and bought it as soon as I saw it in the shops. I'm not sure about it if I'm honest. It does control shine, but it doesn't give very good coverage, I would say the coverage is very light and not easily build-able.


          

I'm going to be doing posts on a lot of these products, but just in case I've not planed for one you'd like to see please let me know what you'd like to see a post on. 

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Nails of the day

I'm not one for ever doing anything fancy with my nails. It doesn't even need to be fancy, usually all I do is paint my nails with one colour. I thought since, for once, I've kept this on my nails for a fair while that I would share the results with you all. 

Apologies for the awful picture, but this was the best one I managed to take. 

I wasn't overly adventurous with my nails but I think it still looks pretty nice. Since I've gained a little bit of a tan I thought I would go for a colour I wouldn't normally - white - since it would look ridiculous on my normally pale skin. 

I jazzed it up with a glitter polish on my ring finger, since I figured all white would be too much.  Especially for a pale gal like me. 

I used a couple of coats of China Glaze White On White and for my ring fingers a few coats of Topshop's Razzmatazz (I used a few coats to get a really thick glitter). And of course before applying any polish I put a coat of OPI Nail Envy, I honestly love this to pieces this has changed my once brittle nails to being super strong. 

There will maybe be a few more NOTD posts over the next few weeks, since I am trying so hard not to neglect my precious polishes. 

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