GIG Spotlight: What’s your fashion statement?

Hey Guys and Dolls!

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I wrote an entry for GIG spotlight, well  it’s time for another one! GIG is the girls inspired group, a really fab online community for bloggers. Check out their blog here.

The lovely ladies who run the group have come up with a great idea called ‘GIG spotlight’ basically the idea is that every two weeks they will establish a topic and then everyone in the group can write a blog post on that topic. Then the most creative entry will be chosen as their featured blogger. Pretty cool right?

This time around the topic is ‘What’s your fashion statement?’. The idea of this topic is that bloggers will showcase their personal style through specific items that they consider ‘must-haves’.

I recently read a wonderful interview with Anna Wintour in which she spoke about seeing a woman on an airplane wearing a classic channel suit with pearls and pairing it with some outrageous yellow nail art. Wintour  felt that this was the true meaning of style, someone who knows the fashion rules and then breaks them. I agree with Ms Wintour 100%. For me I think that style isn’t about putting yourself into one category and sticking with it. I think real style comes from not being afraid to break the rules and mix things up a bit. For me style is about having the courage to try something new and to make mistakes. I love to make a fashion statement but I could never define that statement as just one thing. I couldn’t label myself as just preppy, chic, boho, gothic, girly etc… My fashion statement is one that is always evolving and ever changing.

I’ve put together a ‘fashion statement’ outfit with some of my current must haves.

Badass accessories

I love to wear quirky and unique accessories. here are some of my faves

Crazy hair colour.

I think my hair is really a big part of my fashion statement. I love crazy colours!

Something Indie

I like to wear stuff from independent labels and designers. It’s nice to know you are wearing something that is unique, hand made and not mass produced.

Bright colours

Brights and neons make life more exciting! 🙂

Bold prints

I like big bold prints. I also like to wear more than one print together, I guess that’s an example of breaking a fashion rule.

Killer shoes

I’m only tiny so I never ever wear flat shoes. I love shoes, I have over 70 pairs. I think I’m an addict!

So that’s my fashion statement. Hope you guys liked it! Don’t forget to check out GIG, they really are fab girls. xx

What I want in my bag for 2013

 

Hey Guys and Dolls!

This post is for the GIG spotlight. GIG is the girls inspired group, a really fab online community for bloggers. Check out their blog here. 

The lovely ladies who run the group have come up with a great idea called ‘GIG spotlight’ basically the idea is that every two weeks they will come up with a topic and then everyone in the group can write a blog post on that topic. Then the most creative entry will be chosen as their featured blogger. Pretty cool right? This weeks topic is ‘What I want in my bag – 2013!’ essentially a list of your top 5 beauty products. So this is my list, but before I get started I just want to give a massive apology for the state of the photos. I’m having some major camera issues right now, but I still get points for trying right? *bats eyelashes and hopes for sympathy* 🙂

What I want in my bag 2013

This is the bag I will be using to carry my beauty essentials around in. I love it so much and I’m wearing it with everything right now.

Beauty essential number 1: Bourjois volume glamour max mascara

I love this mascara so much! Last year My boyfriend and I decided to be a little more careful with money and so had an overhaul of our monthly budget. We both made sacrifices and I had to give up my monthly trips to the salon to have eyelash extensions put in. I thought that I could get by with falsies but I just couldn’t get the hang of applying them, more often than not they would end up glued to my fingertips. So I switched to mascara. In the past I have always hated mascara. I hated it when it left clumps or flaked off or ran in the rain. I though mascara was just yuck! However, haveing no other choice I set about to find the perfect mascara. I think I must have tried every single mascara in boots, I just couldn’t find one I liked. They would all look amazing on the adverts, promising me extra lenght and a ‘false lash effect’ but in the end it was always the same story, crushing dissapointment. Maybe I’m just really fussy when it comes to mascara but in the end I gave up trying to find ‘The one’ and just settled for an average clumpy mascara. Then I recieved the bourjois mascara as gift when I renewed my subscription to Elle magazine. I think it spent a month in a drawer until I finally got round to trying it out. It changed my life! I love it so much! It never goes clumpy, it lasts all day and it really does look like false lashes as you can see:

Now that I have found it I’m never looking back. That is why it is my first beauty essential to be popped into my bag.

Beauty essential number 2: Assortment of random lipsticks

I’ve always been a lipstick girl, I don’t think I have ever really been into gloss or lip tints. Recently I was on a night out with one of my girlfriends. When I whipped out my lipstick for a touch up she laughed and proclaimed that I was “Oh so retro!” Apparently according to my friend nobody uses lipstick anymore. That can’t be true can it? Nevertheless I always have about 5 lipsticks rattling around in my bag, ranging in colours from red to berry to shocking pink. One of my fave lipsticks is one I picked up in Bangkok, It looks green in the tube but when applied it is a gorgeous bright pink and it glows florescent in UV light! Ha ha! Obviously it’s not an everyday look but it’s always in my bag. You know, just in case I spontaneously get the urge to go to a rave 😉

Beauty essential number3: Animal friendly hair dye

If you read my blog often you may have noticed I have a penchant for dyeing my hair. I’ve always tried to stick to animal friendly brands but lately I have been naughty and let myself get tempted by the bright colours of those nasty brands that still insist on animal testing. My guilty conscience has been running riot and I have had one to many arguments with my cat: “OK you caught me, that is a bottle of L’Oreal in the bathroom. I’m sorry! Stop looking at me like that!” This is very selfish of me and MUST STOP! In 2013 I will only be using animal friendly hair products.

Beauty essential number 4: Barry M nail polish

I love Barry M. It is my fave brand of nail polishes, I adore their amazing range of colours. My motto is always the brighter the better 🙂 And since nail art is still a huge trend I will be using my Barry M polishes to make more fab designs like these

Beauty essential number 5: My Ipad

“Wait! That’s not a beauty essential!” I hear you cry. Oh but it is! My Ipad is my ultimate beauty essential. If I want to learn how to do a certain makeup style or how to french braid my hair I find the tutorial on Youtube. If I need some inspiration for my next hair colour I head straight to Pinterest. And if I need a product review I will read all the fabulous beauty blogs out there. I think the internet is a great tool for discovering new beauty looks or products and Hey the Ipad also doubles up as a great mirror for emergencies! 🙂

So those are the top 5 beauty essentials that will be in my bag this year. Hope you all enjoyed this post. I had great fun writing it 🙂