I'm planning to go (window) shopping with my mum tomorrow so thought i'd googled '2010 must haves' and ended up on www.style.com and so I'd thought I'd give my view on style.com's picks:
1. A Digital Print
Me no likey. I think prints date clothes, and also truthfully I am the plainest, most boring dresser ever so digital prints really don't rock my boat. (is that the right saying?)
2. Something Sporty
Haha sporty? I can't utilise my Davina exercise DVD cos i don't have trainers or sports clothes so sport fashion is just a no.
3. A Touch of Military
This is a look I would be interested to play with. A do-able colour palette (I'm thinking khaki, caramels, slate greys) is great. However, a big no for me is too structured (wrong body shape, too much flab) so I would be rocking this look with lux fabrics, so silks(ish) and soft wools, drapey cottons. Or I could rock like most of East London's 'yoof' and carry a big gun.
4. Spring Leather
This thought process is based on me being able to afford leathers in the first place ok? I would definitely not do leather t shirts. I couldn't even do last seasons silk t shirts. And even a leather skirt throws up bad bad images. I'm not sure if this counts towards the trend but I'd really want a soft leather jacket, the type all saints churn out season after season.
5. Innerwear as Outerwear
Despite the aforementioned flab I'm really looking forward to this trend. This was around a few years ago and I really embraced it (my mum wasn't impressed though). And with the right pieces I can wear it to the office too, but generally speaking I'd wear innerwear as outerwear casually, so maybe a silk and lace cami with a boyfriend cardigan over the top with skinny jeans and then a pair of chunky army boots (there you go! - a touch of military mixed in there!).
6. Makeup Colors
I've heard this for ages and I am ready (even GMTV go on about it) - if you don't know what make up colours mean, it means nudes and pastels, the golden globes had a lot great examples (I loved emily blunt and drew barrymore's dresses).
I've got an array of nudey shoes waiting for a ray of sunshine. The latest is primark nude ballet pumps studded with gold. Tres good, i bought 6 pairs.
7. Something Wild
I was actually thinking about this today. Loooooooads of people in the office are wearing various prints. I would really like to have maybe a print cardi, but not sure if it works with my lard arse? I think an animal print will be my focus on tomorrows shopping trip.
8. A Scuba Look
Basically this seasons version on bodycon. Erm, NO.
9. Denim
I never realised denim was out! I will be sticking to skinny jeans. My focus will be to get a denim dress shirt or denim/linen mix oversized shirt (just realised I already have one but the colour is odd......denim is too blue for me). I remember when I was younger I always wanted a denim jacket but i was chunky and nothing was ever right. Then one day I found one that (i thought) was right, and it had a sequin union jack sewn on the waist bit and i was so happy. And I loved it and wore it with everything. I cringe looking back. But i cringe a lot when i think about my clothes. Gosh, i'm cringing about what i wore to work today!
10. Clogs
NO!! (Edit: I've changed my mind....I'm ready to embrace clogs and that will be on my shopping list tomorrow too....the reason why i've changed my mind is cos i am in love with the clunky shoe at the moment and it really works with my tree trunk legs so i think clogs will be good).
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
like a tree
I am pining. Really really bad. I feel like I am 15. I wish I was 15 again but with my current brain. But then I'd always be living in regret and always trying to right myself which would be a waste of my life. ARGH So i'm stuck frigging pining.
*deep breath*
Tomorrow I am annual leave, my mum's birthday. I got her a card but no present....I'm planning to just get her whatever she wants tomorrow (thanks credit card/I hope she doesnt pick anything over £5!!!!!).
The money situation with the parents is hard. They know I'm poor but they don't realise how much of a pickle I am in, I don't want them to worry (even more then they do) and I don't want money from them (free groceries is a gift, that's fine!), i want to do it on my own. I don't see them much so they don't see how bare my fridge is. The other day I saw my dad for a bit and he said I was shrinking, and i wanted to say "DUH I'm starving!!!!!" but I just said that I must be missing his cooking. Isn't it weird how we treat our parents with kiddie gloves? And vice versa. Honesty and openess is overrated. Trumped by respect and a tiny bit of pride.
So....like a tree I am strong and I stand alone. But too much wind, rain and crap can break me down. So take it easy on me please!
*deep breath*
Tomorrow I am annual leave, my mum's birthday. I got her a card but no present....I'm planning to just get her whatever she wants tomorrow (thanks credit card/I hope she doesnt pick anything over £5!!!!!).
The money situation with the parents is hard. They know I'm poor but they don't realise how much of a pickle I am in, I don't want them to worry (even more then they do) and I don't want money from them (free groceries is a gift, that's fine!), i want to do it on my own. I don't see them much so they don't see how bare my fridge is. The other day I saw my dad for a bit and he said I was shrinking, and i wanted to say "DUH I'm starving!!!!!" but I just said that I must be missing his cooking. Isn't it weird how we treat our parents with kiddie gloves? And vice versa. Honesty and openess is overrated. Trumped by respect and a tiny bit of pride.
So....like a tree I am strong and I stand alone. But too much wind, rain and crap can break me down. So take it easy on me please!
Sunday, 17 January 2010
One more blog!
I know so far my entries have been mainly beauty/fashion related but I want this blog to be just everything but unfortunately my life of late has been shockingly lame so all i can talk about is lipstick....but i'm trying my best. Please subscribe, read, comment etc.
Saying that, here's one more listy thing:
Hot Hang-outs
I'm not a hot hang-out sort of person. I don't really go anywhere let alone anywhere 'hot' so I'll just interpret this as 'fav place'. This is lame but I love hanging out in my flat. Even if I'm cleaning the bathroom floor I feel like I am on holiday. It's a dream. Otherwise, er, I like hanging out in Nando's!!! There's nothing better then that refill drink machine. LOVE!
Guilty Pleasures
Cheeseeeeeese. It's a guilty pleasure cos I'm lactose intolerant and it makes me sick but it is truly a taste sensationthat is worth the agony.
My other guilty pleasure is stalking people on facebook lmao come on, we all do it!!!
I never really understood the lure before but I have become a youtube addict. I love watching beauty vloggers (Lollipop26, Gossmakeupartist, hollymae20, xteeener, whatstyleistonickle, andreaschoice), funny people (spricket24/karenalloy, kevjumba, happyslip, communitychannel) and people singing (lunazian, and i watched esmee denters prior to the fame which is amazing).
Ipod playlist
Lord, this is going to be even more embaraasing then 'hot hang-outs' if I'm honest. The songs on my ipod are laaaaaame. Really really lame. I love Ne-Yo's 'Get Down Like That' - sloppy but I can play it loud without being ashamed what I'm listening to (unlike when I'm listening to the backstreet boys *blushes*). Alicia Keys 'Wreckless Love' - I've had it for ages but never listened to it till a few months ago cos I was only listening to the obvious 'No one' and 'Like you'll never see me again' - yeah I am a lame lemming. But now WL is my fav and i can warble along. Beyonce 'Sweet Dreams; yay wake me up song. Ok that's enough.
Top TV
Come Dine with Me. Fav ever. I enjoy the food aspect, and mega love the bitching. And I love getting to see their homes. I find it soooo fascinating.
I love Gilmore Girls which was a 7 season American programme but i only know one other person who knows about it (though they recently were showing it on e4).
Gossip Girl - I fancy the girls and the guys. I would say that I am most like Blair: I love alice bands and am a queen bitch. I find it a bit sad that she gets a bit more human each season, i feel let down. Saying that, i hate jenny and it's nothing to do with her being a right cow. She is just plain annoying.
Heroes - Mainly cos I love Milo Ventimiglia (Peter).
Tour-bus reading
I'm not good at picking books for journeys, not because I don't read, but because I love reading and can read a normal size novel in just under 4 hours in average, which means if I spent a whole day reading taking toilet and food breaks I can read 4 books. Which means if i am book packing for a plane journey, or for an actual holiday I would need to take at least 50 books for a 2 week trip which sucks if you need to pack underwear and stuff. But basically, i will read anything. Hi brow, low brow, bible, cereal packet. Not fussy at all.
Film
Hairspray, the Rikki Lake version. If they ever need a Thai Tracy Turnbald I would be the one!!!!
City of God, I was baffled for a bit but then BAM best film ever.
Once a time in american. i think it took me a week to watch this but it is intense and well done.
Film section is short cos frankly i have an attention span of a goldfish, so watching films is quite a torture qnd a bore for me.
Shopping Destination
MBK Thailand pre-makeover. Cheesy crap. Glitzy crap. General crap. I love crap!
Primark - same reason as why i love MBK lol
Oxford Street, London, cos I am a londoner and it would be awful if i didn't say it. Long live Oxford Street, may internet shopping never be the death of you.
Ciao!!
I know so far my entries have been mainly beauty/fashion related but I want this blog to be just everything but unfortunately my life of late has been shockingly lame so all i can talk about is lipstick....but i'm trying my best. Please subscribe, read, comment etc.
Saying that, here's one more listy thing:
Hot Hang-outs
I'm not a hot hang-out sort of person. I don't really go anywhere let alone anywhere 'hot' so I'll just interpret this as 'fav place'. This is lame but I love hanging out in my flat. Even if I'm cleaning the bathroom floor I feel like I am on holiday. It's a dream. Otherwise, er, I like hanging out in Nando's!!! There's nothing better then that refill drink machine. LOVE!
Guilty Pleasures
Cheeseeeeeese. It's a guilty pleasure cos I'm lactose intolerant and it makes me sick but it is truly a taste sensationthat is worth the agony.
My other guilty pleasure is stalking people on facebook lmao come on, we all do it!!!
I never really understood the lure before but I have become a youtube addict. I love watching beauty vloggers (Lollipop26, Gossmakeupartist, hollymae20, xteeener, whatstyleistonickle, andreaschoice), funny people (spricket24/karenalloy, kevjumba, happyslip, communitychannel) and people singing (lunazian, and i watched esmee denters prior to the fame which is amazing).
Ipod playlist
Lord, this is going to be even more embaraasing then 'hot hang-outs' if I'm honest. The songs on my ipod are laaaaaame. Really really lame. I love Ne-Yo's 'Get Down Like That' - sloppy but I can play it loud without being ashamed what I'm listening to (unlike when I'm listening to the backstreet boys *blushes*). Alicia Keys 'Wreckless Love' - I've had it for ages but never listened to it till a few months ago cos I was only listening to the obvious 'No one' and 'Like you'll never see me again' - yeah I am a lame lemming. But now WL is my fav and i can warble along. Beyonce 'Sweet Dreams; yay wake me up song. Ok that's enough.
Top TV
Come Dine with Me. Fav ever. I enjoy the food aspect, and mega love the bitching. And I love getting to see their homes. I find it soooo fascinating.
I love Gilmore Girls which was a 7 season American programme but i only know one other person who knows about it (though they recently were showing it on e4).
Gossip Girl - I fancy the girls and the guys. I would say that I am most like Blair: I love alice bands and am a queen bitch. I find it a bit sad that she gets a bit more human each season, i feel let down. Saying that, i hate jenny and it's nothing to do with her being a right cow. She is just plain annoying.
Heroes - Mainly cos I love Milo Ventimiglia (Peter).
Tour-bus reading
I'm not good at picking books for journeys, not because I don't read, but because I love reading and can read a normal size novel in just under 4 hours in average, which means if I spent a whole day reading taking toilet and food breaks I can read 4 books. Which means if i am book packing for a plane journey, or for an actual holiday I would need to take at least 50 books for a 2 week trip which sucks if you need to pack underwear and stuff. But basically, i will read anything. Hi brow, low brow, bible, cereal packet. Not fussy at all.
Film
Hairspray, the Rikki Lake version. If they ever need a Thai Tracy Turnbald I would be the one!!!!
City of God, I was baffled for a bit but then BAM best film ever.
Once a time in american. i think it took me a week to watch this but it is intense and well done.
Film section is short cos frankly i have an attention span of a goldfish, so watching films is quite a torture qnd a bore for me.
Shopping Destination
MBK Thailand pre-makeover. Cheesy crap. Glitzy crap. General crap. I love crap!
Primark - same reason as why i love MBK lol
Oxford Street, London, cos I am a londoner and it would be awful if i didn't say it. Long live Oxford Street, may internet shopping never be the death of you.
Ciao!!
I heart petroleum jelly
I'm gonna just bang out more lists of what I love in the format of "Affordable Treat, Luxury Spree, Latest Buy and Can't Live Without and I Want Want Want", and I'll do 1) beauty 2) fashion....let's go:
Affordable Treat
1) Cheapy lipsticks. A pretty pink or nude for under £6 is such a nice treat. Rimmel, GOSH or Barry M are def my pick me up cheap treat. And if it's cheap enough red, hot pink or even orangey (pinky corals to be fair!!) lipsticks have been know to be hiding in my make up drawer.
2) Alice bands. I like wearing an aliceband, reminds me of when I was a little girl and had a million hairbands complete with ribbon, bells, little satin pillows and the like. Nowadays my alice bands are much more modest but still get that happy feeling. And I usually stock up at Primark or Claire's so thats only a few quid to put a smile on my face.
Luxury Spree
1) Toss up between Origins Mega Mushroom face serum (£50 a bottle, stinks, but is fantastic) or my beloved MAC kabuki brush which was $51 but I use it every single day.
2) Louis Vuitton. I know it is such a chavvy brand now but I've been rocking this forever. I even carried an LV at primary school (for a few weeks til my mum threw a fit - my dad use to walk us to and from school and never noticed). I would rather buy a bag then spend that money on a holiday. A holiday might be a week or 10 months but an LV bag lasts for life and can be passed on (as my lovely mother did for me). If I've only got a few hundred to totally spare (which i sadly can't imagine having for the next few years!) then I'd buy a purse. Giant zip around is my favourite kind, and I have the epi, canvas and a red vernis (which is tacky beyond belief actually but i love it).
Latest Buy
1)Er..I got some tea tree facewash for 98p in Wilkinsons on Friday. But 'proper' beauty wise I haven't bought anything since Xmas, and that was only a Collection 2000 volumising mascara and 'blush' rimmel lipstick. Boring :(
2) Yesterday I bought a stripy cream and navy cotton cardi, no idea what i am going to wear it with, saving it for the spring. I got a dark navy silk mix shawl neck cardi, wanted it in grey but my friend Cara got the last big size, gutted, but loving the navy too. I got a dress....I can't even say what colour it is.....I guess simply it is a light silvery blue/denimy colour...it is smart, high round neck, gathered waist, cutest big pockets. If i was a bit more tech savvy I'd post a pic. Maybe one day! Erm, I also got 2 light grey merino cardis (I told you i love cardigans!!!!!!), one in a normal fitting and one is a mens, so it's jsut big and baggy and great. So those are my latest fashion buys. (courtesty of credit card btw!)
Can't Live Without
1) Vaseline!!!!!!!!!! My lips love it. So do my eyebrows. So do my dry eyelids. Great for static hair. A lifesaver if you've not got any handcream. I've even been known to eat a bit when i'm really hungry (true fact!)
2) Cardigans. I can't live without my cardigans, especially my Gap merino cardigans. One of the best things about living by myself is that my mum no longer shrinks my cardigans in the wash!!! Many tears and tantrums.
I want want want
(Golly gosh i want so much I could name 139144 things!)
1) I want the whole MAC make up brush collection. And I want one of those little apron/rolly things to keep them in. And then I want all the bronzer/blusher thingys from Benefit (Hula etc).
2)I want a Miu Miu Vitello leather tote in any colour (£750 for the medium, wouldn't mind the large either for £795 if you are feeling generous lol), the Chloe Paraty Pylon (£1895) in either black or tan (or both!!) and the Alexa Mulberry (don't know how much, probably more then the £5 I can afford). I'll stop there otherwise we'll be here forever!!!! Ooooh actually, one more slightly more realistic want - a pair of Hunters wellies, any colour.
Affordable Treat
1) Cheapy lipsticks. A pretty pink or nude for under £6 is such a nice treat. Rimmel, GOSH or Barry M are def my pick me up cheap treat. And if it's cheap enough red, hot pink or even orangey (pinky corals to be fair!!) lipsticks have been know to be hiding in my make up drawer.
2) Alice bands. I like wearing an aliceband, reminds me of when I was a little girl and had a million hairbands complete with ribbon, bells, little satin pillows and the like. Nowadays my alice bands are much more modest but still get that happy feeling. And I usually stock up at Primark or Claire's so thats only a few quid to put a smile on my face.
Luxury Spree
1) Toss up between Origins Mega Mushroom face serum (£50 a bottle, stinks, but is fantastic) or my beloved MAC kabuki brush which was $51 but I use it every single day.
2) Louis Vuitton. I know it is such a chavvy brand now but I've been rocking this forever. I even carried an LV at primary school (for a few weeks til my mum threw a fit - my dad use to walk us to and from school and never noticed). I would rather buy a bag then spend that money on a holiday. A holiday might be a week or 10 months but an LV bag lasts for life and can be passed on (as my lovely mother did for me). If I've only got a few hundred to totally spare (which i sadly can't imagine having for the next few years!) then I'd buy a purse. Giant zip around is my favourite kind, and I have the epi, canvas and a red vernis (which is tacky beyond belief actually but i love it).
Latest Buy
1)Er..I got some tea tree facewash for 98p in Wilkinsons on Friday. But 'proper' beauty wise I haven't bought anything since Xmas, and that was only a Collection 2000 volumising mascara and 'blush' rimmel lipstick. Boring :(
2) Yesterday I bought a stripy cream and navy cotton cardi, no idea what i am going to wear it with, saving it for the spring. I got a dark navy silk mix shawl neck cardi, wanted it in grey but my friend Cara got the last big size, gutted, but loving the navy too. I got a dress....I can't even say what colour it is.....I guess simply it is a light silvery blue/denimy colour...it is smart, high round neck, gathered waist, cutest big pockets. If i was a bit more tech savvy I'd post a pic. Maybe one day! Erm, I also got 2 light grey merino cardis (I told you i love cardigans!!!!!!), one in a normal fitting and one is a mens, so it's jsut big and baggy and great. So those are my latest fashion buys. (courtesty of credit card btw!)
Can't Live Without
1) Vaseline!!!!!!!!!! My lips love it. So do my eyebrows. So do my dry eyelids. Great for static hair. A lifesaver if you've not got any handcream. I've even been known to eat a bit when i'm really hungry (true fact!)
2) Cardigans. I can't live without my cardigans, especially my Gap merino cardigans. One of the best things about living by myself is that my mum no longer shrinks my cardigans in the wash!!! Many tears and tantrums.
I want want want
(Golly gosh i want so much I could name 139144 things!)
1) I want the whole MAC make up brush collection. And I want one of those little apron/rolly things to keep them in. And then I want all the bronzer/blusher thingys from Benefit (Hula etc).
2)I want a Miu Miu Vitello leather tote in any colour (£750 for the medium, wouldn't mind the large either for £795 if you are feeling generous lol), the Chloe Paraty Pylon (£1895) in either black or tan (or both!!) and the Alexa Mulberry (don't know how much, probably more then the £5 I can afford). I'll stop there otherwise we'll be here forever!!!! Ooooh actually, one more slightly more realistic want - a pair of Hunters wellies, any colour.
i wanna shag eva mendes and the guy from the twingo advert
Hello!
Sorry for being m.i.a.....just too lazy to log onto my laptop and unfortunately i can't type on blogger.com on my penny pod (very odd actually).
Hope everyone (a.k.a Stephen!) is having a very happy 2010 so far :)
My 2010 is good. Well, to be honest it's just the same as always with the addition of snow. The main difference is that I've suddenly become piss poor. Since buying my flat obviously I have been much shorter of cash then usual, but I've never been this bloody broke!!! On Friday my freezer housed 2 ice trays and a tub of ice cream (chocolate) and my fridge had cans of diet coke and 7-up, a opened bottle of lambrini (yeah i am a skank), a lemon, strawberry jelly and soya butter. And i still refused to go grocery shopping, i was poooooooor :( and i was friggin hungry. and that was my fridge/freezer for over 3 weeks!!!!!!!! I wa sliving off spam, tuna and pasta. Thinking about tuna pasta makes me wanna hurl. The other day i went to bed at 7pm cos what was the point of staying up?! Luckily, i met my dad on friday after work and he took me to morrisons, paid for some groceries and helped me take it home :) Thank you Daddy x (The only thing was...my dad is a bit of a food snob. What I really wanted was a freezer full of fish fingers and bernard matthew stuff but he doesn't 'beleive' in that stuff so I have ended up with pears, grapes, tomatoes, salad, potatoes, a million oranges and the only freezer thing i got was a bag of frozen country vegetables and i begged and begged for a bag of frozen chips (it's a veg kinda!!!!), yay!!!)
My aim with this blog is to update at least once a week. I would say every day but I'm trying not to become addicted to the net so need to stay away.
So, hopefully it won't be so long between blogs, til next time, Byeeeeeeeee!
Sorry for being m.i.a.....just too lazy to log onto my laptop and unfortunately i can't type on blogger.com on my penny pod (very odd actually).
Hope everyone (a.k.a Stephen!) is having a very happy 2010 so far :)
My 2010 is good. Well, to be honest it's just the same as always with the addition of snow. The main difference is that I've suddenly become piss poor. Since buying my flat obviously I have been much shorter of cash then usual, but I've never been this bloody broke!!! On Friday my freezer housed 2 ice trays and a tub of ice cream (chocolate) and my fridge had cans of diet coke and 7-up, a opened bottle of lambrini (yeah i am a skank), a lemon, strawberry jelly and soya butter. And i still refused to go grocery shopping, i was poooooooor :( and i was friggin hungry. and that was my fridge/freezer for over 3 weeks!!!!!!!! I wa sliving off spam, tuna and pasta. Thinking about tuna pasta makes me wanna hurl. The other day i went to bed at 7pm cos what was the point of staying up?! Luckily, i met my dad on friday after work and he took me to morrisons, paid for some groceries and helped me take it home :) Thank you Daddy x (The only thing was...my dad is a bit of a food snob. What I really wanted was a freezer full of fish fingers and bernard matthew stuff but he doesn't 'beleive' in that stuff so I have ended up with pears, grapes, tomatoes, salad, potatoes, a million oranges and the only freezer thing i got was a bag of frozen country vegetables and i begged and begged for a bag of frozen chips (it's a veg kinda!!!!), yay!!!)
My aim with this blog is to update at least once a week. I would say every day but I'm trying not to become addicted to the net so need to stay away.
So, hopefully it won't be so long between blogs, til next time, Byeeeeeeeee!
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