Lilac Rose

Recently I was walking through the streets of Cambridge and I found this gorgeous little shop called 'Lilac Rose'. It sells cute little pieces of jewellery which I would happily buy all of, and some colourful items of clothing and accessories. My friend Angela and I decided that we would both buy a long chain key necklace as a form of a friendship jewellery, this was merely because we both loved it and felt that the simplicity of it would go perfectly with the majority of our clothes. These images have been on my computer for a while but I have been so busy with university work that I haven't had time to post them, or even look at other peoples blogs! But finally the time came to post them and nose around the blogosphere and I am so jealous of the time and effort that other bloggers are able to give. Hopefully I will get back to that soon!

Aussie from back over Christmas

Well this is a very late post, but I thought better late than never! As I live in student accommodation, over the Christmas holidays I was unable to pick up my Aussie deliveries.  Unfortunately, I missed the deadlines for the competition of twitter pictures, but I wanted to write about the products themselves anyway. These two bottles that I received are especially for dry and damaged hair under the 'Miracle Moist' range, made to protect the condition of the hair and keep it smooth and refreshed. As the bottles are larger than normal at 400ml for the conditioner and 500ml for the shampoo, they are bound to last me a long time so I have a long time to see how much my hair develops. As I have coloured hair, I do need a lot of protection, so I try to combine my washing routine with the 'Take The Heat Leave In Spray' when blow drying and straightening my hair. The smell of these two bottles are so delicious and sweet due to the new formula of Aloe Vera. You can smell it all day and its so gorgeous when you blow dry your hair. Every time I receive a new product from the lovely Aussie ladies, I am more and more pleasantly surprised! Love being an Aussie Angel.

Already Gone

Hey All, thought i'd let you know about some new make up that I have been using for a while. This little beaut is from the gorgeous brand MAC. You can buy it here online from their lovely website! Its £13.50, and I've got the colour NC20 as I'm pretty pale. I wear it over my foundation under my eyes to cover my bags and then around my nose so that I can cover any blemishes. According to the website you are meant to use it before your foundation or on its own, but I like to apply it after my foundation as I like to create more of a natural tan first; often I use tinted moisturers as these create a sun kissed glow. It lightens up dark areas on our faces and hides spots and problem areas with its light and liquid flow over your skin.
It comes in 11 colours, and although its a small tube, I definitely think its long wearing and lasts a long time in your makeup bag!  

Christmas

So this Christmas I got something a little special. An iPad 2! Now I understand in this economic time that this is an incredible gift to receive and I definitely feel the same! But fortunately my parents got these for my sister and I on a day when Apple was providing 15% off iPad purchases! Lucky or what! It is such an incredible device...combined with my gorgeous Canon SLR from last Christmas, it is the perfect gift for blogging! Well let's hope so as this is my first post on the gadget! Luckily my parents also bought my sister and I an awesome USB connector so we can upload our images to the iPad so all of my Christmas day photos are here! To edit them I had heard of a small editing program for iPhones called Instagram and turns out you can use it on iPad's too! Here are some images from the day, including our fantastic roast dinner where we went completely against tradition and had Lamb instead of Turkey! But it's safe to say that the whole family was very pleased with he day! Including the cats!

I never told you.

This was an outfit post I did a while ago near the end of summer but never posted about. I got this cute little dress from H&M and I love it; not only if it bright and colourful, perfect for summer but its a really great colour for Autumn as well matched with a brown belt put over the top of the waistband. I love my Warehouse denim jacket because it is perfect to wear the whole way through the year, rain or shine; it's great for the 'casual' look. I have paired these key items with some Primark brogues and a Miss Selfridge gold lead necklace which I got for £7 in the sale not long ago. How do you all feel about wearing summer items in winter?

 

But I never told you what I should have said, No, I never told you, I just held it in.

And now I miss everything about you, I cant believe it, I still want you.

And after all the things we've been through, I miss everything about you, without you.

Team

Recently, my blog has been transferred from a fashion and beauty blog to more of a fashion and lifestyle blog. This is because I have decided that I have a great love for food photography and the display and colouring of the meals we buy when we are dining out. These images are also from my trip to Edinburgh when I was visiting my sister and we had yet another amazing meal, were I wasn't concerned about the calorie in take or anything health related...I just wanted to have a lovely time, eating yummy food and laughing immaturely to silly things such as 'the connection between men's feet and willy sizes' with my favourite people; my sister and my mum.

Aussie Party

The beautiful Emily from Emily Divine and I ventured together up to Shaftesbury Avenue last Saturday for another gorgeous Aussie Hair Care Event. The evening was filled with Champagne on entrance, half naked waiters carrying scrumptious canape's of chicken and vegetables, glasses of wine, hair stylists, make up artists, ladies painting nails, goodie bags, photographers and finally lots of bloggers! I wore a DIY electric blue dress from New Look for £4, which I cut at the back to create a more waisted look. Then added a Topshop Sale necklace for £3.50 with a bright yellow stone in the middle which contrasted with the electric blue! I had my make up done with some lovely Maxfactor products, such as gold eye shadow, blusher and some lip tint. Then I had my hair curled by a great hair stylist who was on the hit TV show on Channel 4 'Great British Hairdresser' and I loved the look he created. Wish I could recreate this easily as it only took him 5 minutes! Emily and I definitely thought that the journey to London was worth it for such an fun and relaxing evening of socialising and pampering!

I have also added some images taken by the fantastic photographer Sam Witney from throughout the night.