Time for the second outfit post in Blogmas, this one's less Christmassy themed but still a nice outfit if you're spending a Winter day in with family and maybe want to be slighty more dressed up than just pyjamas. I also wanted to show you some of the really lovely stuff Primark had in at the moment without waiting until after Blogmas when they'd be out of stock. 

The cardigan you will all have seen before because I love it. The top is just a plain black strap top which I always have and always will repurchase from Primark. They're amazing for essentials. However, that's all I used to see them as thinking you could only get really quality pieces from other shops and Primark was just the place for cheap filler items. My mind was changed but the cardigan and this skirt! It's a nice thick material, perfect for Winter and a nice dark grey with black flecks through it. The cat tights are really fun in my opinion but if you don't like them then of course you could wear plain tights. As for the pumps they're another essential you could pick up there. Plain and black and will go with anything. 

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Bowler Hat OOTD:

Hat - H&M

Strap Top  - Primark

Cardigan - Primark

Jeans - Topshop

Ring - River Island

Nails - Barry M Blue Moon

Shoes - Office

It's been a long time since I did an outfit post, mainly because I have to wait until my sister (aka. photographer in chief) and I are in the same room and in daylight. When the time finally came around I thought I'd make the most of it and make not one but TWO outfit posts for you! (next post up later in Blogmas) I hope you like this little outfit. I have to say I've been wearing it a hell of a lot lately, in fact pretty much as often as I can without people thinking I only have one set of clothes. 

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Student Loan Made Me Do It! My New Best Friend:

I seem to be developing quite a thing for handbags don't I? Considering I never used to be interested I feel like I'm becoming a proper woman now!

This Topshop beauty (which I'm sorry but I can't find online anywhere) is my new favourite handbag. I still really like the River Island one I bought not long ago but this one is the style I needed at this moment in time. I've been taking it to University with me which is why I like the size and fairly firm structure of it because I can keep all my notebooks and folders in there. (That's how I'm justifying it ok?!) It's a black textured leather style material with some subtle gold detailing. It looks like it should last a long time too as I would expect with Topshop prices. This was supposed to be around £36 pounds I believe but thanks to my new best friend student discount it was just over £20!

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The Phase: Autumn Clothing:

This is going to be my first "The Phase" post (which if you don't know what that means then check out this post for an explanation). Lately I've been obsessing over Autumn clothing whenever I walk around shops or have an on line browse it's the Autumn clothing I'm looking at. 

I love the Autumn as a season but the clothes make me even happier. I'm a huge fan of cold weather (I don't know if that's weird or not) and the warm cosy clothes. With all the layers and fluffy hoods. The Autumn colours are my favourite too, as well as this the knits in Autumn colours are my favourite, hence the jumper and tights I've pictured. 

If you've been enjoying Autumn and Winter fashions then let me know what kind of things you've been looking at. Especially since it's University time and I'm getting more and more into saving up for a treat every now and again and getting real pieces into my wardrobe as opposed to lots of cheap little things.

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GRWM: Boyfriend's Birthday Meal:

 This is going to be my first ever Get Ready With Me, so I hope you enjoy it and let me know if you'd like to see more.

The first thing I do in the morning is workout, this isn't something I ever used to do. I don't go crazy with it but I find that it's made changes to my body already and makes me so much more confident. I then go downstairs and eat my breakfast whilst watching Keeping Up With The Kardashian's. I just love that show, my non-guilty pleasure.

I then had a bath, in the bath lately I've been using Head & Shoulders Smooth & Silky shampoo and conditioner, because I've been suffering from dandruff lately so this makes a nice difference. 

As for my body I've been using Soap & Glory's Sugar Crush set.

Out of the shower I first put on my deodorant, currently Right Guard Extreme Dry. The I applied a face mask (Soap & Glory's No Clogs Allowed) since my skin just doesn't seen to know what to do with itself lately. After washing off I used my Botanics Rose Water Toning Spritz, which I let sink in then applied my vitamin E day cream from The Body Shop and Puffy Eye Attack eye cream from Soap & Glory. 

For my body I continued along the Sugar Crush road finishing off with their moisturiser. Then applied yet another Soap & Glory product, this time their foot cream Heel Genius. As for the hands I used Vaseline's Healthy Hands and Stronger Nails cream, Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter from LUSH and painted my nails, using Max Factor's Glossfinity in Forever Glam.

I actually used heat on my hair for once! To protect it and help the curls straighten I applied John Frieda's 3 Day Straight. This has it's own day by day review, if you'd be interested in reading it then click here.

I didn't do much to the face I went very minimalist with very light products since, as I've said, my skin is pretty much in meltdown. My dress was from GAP, but sadly last year so I doubt very much you'd be able to track it down now. My shoes we're from Primark, but again sadly last year.

I hope you enjoyed this post if you would like to see more Get Ready With Me type posts then please do let me know.

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Bringing Scrunchies Back:

Nineties fashion has undeniably been coming back lately, the tartan skirts, the jelly shoes, and the denim. One thing that seemed to come back then jump straight out again was scrunchies. I personally love them and want to bring them back. They're really quick and easy and add a nice summery touch to your look, as well as being something different than just a bobble. As well as this they're much less damaging to your hair and much less likely to break your hair than a bobble.  

So what do you think of scrunchies? Love or leave? let me know in the comments because I'd love to know how many people like me would like to see scrunchies back for good! 

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River Island Light Green Mini Satchel Bag:

Meet my latest obsession, I bought this bag in Brighton and since then I cannot stop using it or just simply looking at it. It's a just beautiful bag and is perfect Summer what with the light mint colour and light gold detailing.

I like the fact it's a cross the body bag too which is much safer to carry around with you because it's harder for someone to pull off your body.

But, you also have the option of tucking in the straps and carrying it around by the handle on the top too. Which I do really like the look of. 

I love the look of satchels, always have but none has ever jumped out at me as much as this one. If you're interested in buying it then it can be purchased here. Just incase you're wondering this is not a sponsored post, I just really love this bag.

This is the first post I've ever dedicated to a single accessory. Would you like to see more like this perhaps with jewellery or an item of clothing? Let me know in the comments.

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Summer Lookbook 2014:

-Necklace - New Look

-Dress - Discount Store in Leicester

-Shoes - Grey Nike Blazers

- Top & Skirt - Primark 

- Strappy Ruffled Top - Borrowed from my Mum

- Floral Trousers - House of Fraser

- Sandals - New Look

- Scalloped Crop Top & Dungarees - Topshop

- Sandals - Primark

- Scalloped Crop Top - Topshop 

- Skirt (Actually Neon Yellow) - H&M

 - Sandals - Primark 

 - Crop Top & High Waisted Midi Skirt - Discount Store in Leicester

- Sandals - Primark

Baggy Floral Crop Top - H&M

Brown Undertop - Primark

Striped Denim Shorts - Select

Shoes - Converse

That's all for my look book, I hope you enjoyed it, sorry the sun bleached out some of the colours and had me squinting but if you'd like to see more lookbook's or outfits then please let me know in the comments.

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His & Her's Holiday Haul (Brighton Edition):

As you know if you saw my birthday post my boyfriend Myles took me to Brighton for a week as a present, and boy did we shop...A LOT!

I'll start by showing you the stuff Myles bought for himself:

He got himself some nice smart looking suede shoes, from Front London. They're a nice bluey grey colour (as a side note you may be thinking this a very zoomed in picture, but no he has huge size 13 feet).

On the very first day we got him some sunglasses from a brand called Tinc, they're a really nice matte black and a good shape too. For a tenner they look good and strong too.

He also fell in love with this Timex watch, and picked it up for 60 pounds. It is absolutely beautiful with light brown straps.

I bought him these beats headphones, in the red colour he wanted, but he's not allowed to have them until his birthday in August, which he's not too pleased about.

Having lost so much weight lately Myles has been in need of a whole new wardrobe which he's started putting together now. As well as a big travel bag for University, he picked up from Jack Wills a white T-shirt, with the logo on, and a navy blue one with a much smaller more subtle logo and a pair of light blue summer shorts.

He also picked up a big pack of Calvin Klein socks.

As well as this he picked up 2 DVD's (Meet the Parent's and You, Me and Dupree). The last thing he was extremely happy about. He bought himself a PS4 which came with the game Killzone Shadow Fall, and he picked up Fifa14.

Now for the good stuff! Prepare yourself...

First stop, Soap & Glory (which I love). Most of the stuff I bought was skincare because I'm on a real skincare hype right now, I picked up No Clogs Allowed self heating mask, the Face Soap & Clarity face wash, Puffy Eye Attack eyecream, Heel Genius foot cream (which I believe is my third repurchase) as well as the full Sugar Crush range, body wash, scrub and butter.

More skincare, this time from The Body Shop, I picked up the Vitamin E moisture serum, as well as the night cream. Also the Seaweed Mattifyng day cream. Along with that I got the Honey Bronzer in shade 3, since everyone and they're Mum seems to swear by it, to tick a box from my wishlist I got the Aloe Body Butter, and free with all of this I got Peppermint Cooling Foot Spray.

To use in the hotel, we picked up the Pantene ProV Smooth & Sleek shampoo and conditioner which will definitely be coming home with me because they really do work.

From River Island I got this absolutely stunning bag, it's much smaller than all the rest of my bags which is a big reason I bought it because since I'm not at school any more I don't need to drag around half the stuff I used to. Also It's a beautiful mint green colour, can be worn with or without the strap, and has some pretty gold detailing (usually I'm not a fan of gold but I think it really works with this bag). Basically, I'm completely in love with it.

This is my first ever Cath Kidston purchase, which I'm most pleased about, I wanted a pretty thermos flask to take tea and hot chocolate around with me, especially for University and this one is just gorgeous! a lovely faded looking  floral pattern, with a light pastel blue case and lid, it's almost as if I designed it myself!

I didn't pick up much clothes stuff, but I did get some gorgeous winter boots (as you do on your Summer holidays) which have thick knitted socks built in and a good tread to stop me slipping around, this was from a brand called Salt & Pepper which I've never heard of before, but if they stock more shoes like this I'm definitely going to have a look for more. I also went to T.K.Maxx and got a pair of tight pair of black stretchy trousers with elasticated sides, I thought they'd look much classier and last much better than just putting legging on with everything as well as being that much warmer too. Lastly, I picked up some Jack Wills jogging bottoms for round the house which are ridiculously comfortable! It's nice to have some new ones too because as much as you shouldn't worry about what your round the house clothes mine were getting ridiculous. 

This make up bag was from a cute little shop in the Lanes, it's a good size compared to my old one and is a strong hessian material so it should last me ages. The new makeup to go in my bag is three Barry M nail paints, in Blue Moon, a Gelly HiShine in Grapefruit and Limited Edition one in Carousel. I ticked another product off my wish list in the VO5 Miracle Concentrate Elixir in Argan Oil, as well as a M.A.C lipstick in Girl About Town. I repurchased the Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation and Maybelline The Falsies mascara and picked up the Bourjois Java Rice Loose Powder to use as a highlight.

From Lush I picked up the Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter Catastrophe Cosmetic face mask and got a little charity pot moisturiser. 

From the Boots Botanics range I got Organic Rosewater Toning Spritz, and the All Bright Purifying Facial Scrub.

Sorry this has been a long post, but I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless, I'd just like to point out this post was in no way bragging, and I also wouldn't dream of spending this much money in a week usually but I'd been saving up a long time and it was a birthday treat. A lot of these products were either free or on sale too. I'll have a post about the holiday itself and what we got up too soon, so I'll see you then.
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