Mambo Italiano..

HI everyone!

Another short and sweet post because I am super busy trying to get my life together ahhhh the eternal struggle...

I just got back from a romantic trip to Milan with my pal Charley where we spent most of the time eating chocolate fondue and sitting in jacuzzis. I know, in Valentine's week too... anyway, we arranged months ago to visit QC Terme Milano in Italy - a spa that we accidentally stumbled across while interrailing two years ago. And let me tell you, it is SOMETHING ELSE. We literally planned this trip around the spa (I'm not a middle aged housewife I promise).

First of all, it's ridiculously cheap for a super luxurious experience - £30 for 5.30pm entry until it closes at 10.30pm, and fancier than any spas I've ever visited in the UK. Once you're in, you have your choice of about 10 different types of jacuzzis and underground water rooms including rain tables and foot scrubs. Then upstairs you have themed relaxation rooms and the 'theatre of wonders' which is basically a super relaxing big dark room with giant beanbags and nests and a fire and ahhhh. Let's not forget the UNLIMITED buffet, which before 7pm consists of fruit, vegetables, croissants, cereal, yoghurts and light snacks, and after 7pm is full of savoury canapes, unlimited prosecco, and of course chocolate and fruit fondue. I can't stop talking/thinking/dreaming about this place. For reals.
Sorry for the bad quality of the spa pics, I wasn't actually allowed to take photos so had to be sly on my phone. Oops.

The rest of the two-day trip was basically spent inside Sephora (where dreams come true, and back accounts weep) and right on top of the Duomo Cathedral trying not to collapse out of fear. We also got to experience one of the most amazing meals I've ever had; we visited an Argentinian restaurant that greeted us with Sangria and soup, and served up one of the best fillets of steak I've ever consumed. Oh happy days.

And of course, I couldn't miss the opportunity to take a few outfit photos around such beautiful scenery, wearing my colourful printed Zara coat and wrapped up to keep from freezing in the Italian breeze...

I'll be doing a review and some photos of my Sephora goodies some time very soon!
Hope you like the pics, sorry but I have to daaaassshhh love to all xxx

Larry Clark X Supreme

Hello pumpkins!

I'm so happy to FINALLY have another outfit post to show you. I've been lacking fashion inspiration lately, but as soon as the sun poked its head out for our brief sunny spell in North London, I was up and rearing to go. 

T-Shirt - Supreme X Larry Clark

Skirt - H&M

Personalised Bangle - Whistle + Bango

Ring/Bracelet - Primark

Cardigan - Primark

Sunglasses - Primark

Today's outfit, is a special outfit. Special because it features one of my favourite ever ever ever garments, simply because it's so unusual and also important to me. The t-shirt is from the collaboration between skater clothing brand Supreme and filmmaker Larry Clark, who has created some of the most controversial (but some of my favourite) movies around. The collection was actually released quite a few months ago, I'm late to the game in posting about it soz. However, I was thrilled when I first found out that I would actually be able to buy a piece of clothing which had creative input from such a talented man, and featured stills from one of my all-time favourite films of his - 'Kids'. I'm not gonna lie, it's definitely a 'love it or hate it' type of film, but it's gained a huge cult following and is such a beautiful, thought-provoking creation. I set my 6am alarms for the launch of the collection online, and I swear to god I would never spend £40 on a t-shirt from anywhere else but THIS WAS SO TOTALLY WORTH IT. My one regret is choosing one with a slightly more risque image - a pair of girls legs with a mans hand between them - as much as I love the cinematography of the shot, it does mean that I can't really wear the t-shirt out and about in the middle of the day. People are easily offended, in my opinion...

ANYWAY, that's probably enough about the t-shirt (except you should all totally go and watch 'Kids' and also 'Ken Park'). I don't normally wear graphic t-shirts or boy-cut clothing (yes, this is a mens t-shirt), so of course had to pair it with an extremely girly skirt to restore the natural balance of my style. Ha. I love a good maxi skirt and for some reason only during the Spring/Summer, maybe because of how relaxed and chilled they make me feel. Which is a really weird way to describe a type of clothing, I know. 

To set off the accidental sort of hippy-boho vibe I had created, I paired the look with some much needed sunnies (from Primark, I believe), a ring-bracelet piece (also Primark, ofc), and my recent personalised bangle gift from the wonderful Whistle + Bango. As you might know I normally love to experiment with bright colours so the muted tones of this look was quite different for me - but I definitely felt like it made an equally bold statement. Oh and the cardigan...well....it was just cold. It's only now that I'm realising quite a large percentage of this look is from Primark...and I love it.

Also want to say a huge MASSIVE SOPPY THANKS to my poor boyfriend/photographer Charlie, who I drag out in arctic conditions every week to just basically take loads of photos of me. He is a real trooper <3

That's all for today, I'm off to Milan next week (oohlala) for a wee romantic weekend break with one of my best pals. Sephora here we come, lord have mercy on my bank account... Keep tuned for an Italy post very soon :) Ciao for now! xxx

Technicolour

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the lack of posts recently - it's been a bit of a tricky time for me figuring out my liiiife etc. (woe is me, woe is me, break out the tiny violins) so I've been keeping distracted the best ways I know how. And it turns out that last week, the best way I knew how was by painting my face like a rainbow unicorn. I was feeling experimental, and honestly don't have much to say about this except that I actually really enjoyed doing it (that's why I got so carried away) so I'm going to try some similar looks soon, and hopefully some of them will be a little more wearable!

For this look I used a range of different palettes, but found the most effective to be my Morphe 350 and 35W palettes - the pigment on these just can't be beaten, you can see the orange on my outer eye has come out the strongest of all the colours, as well as the bronze near my hairline - both shades from the 250. For the brighter colours I used Make Up Revolution's 200 shade palette (such a dream) and although I loved the bright shades, the pigment of the matte shades didn't really come out as strong as I'd have liked it too.

For my lips I used two of my FAVOURITE new liquid lipsticks - Gerard Cosmetics in Rising Mercury (a beautiful orange-red) and Lime Crime in RAVE (electric lilac) - these two are the best I've tried so far, they have incredible staying power as well as being gorgeous in colour, and moisturising too. The third shade I wanted to be equally as bright, so I used an old Maybelline lipstick (I don't know the shade sorry!) and painted on the colour using a small lip brush, blending with my little finger.

I hope you liked this slightly more creative beauty post, keep tuned for more this week and next when I'll be in Bella Italiaaaaa!

Till next time! xx

Yves Klein

Hello you lovely lot, a very quick post today because I'm busy preparing for a little trip to Brighton tomorrow (eee!) so here is the photo-series I was working on, tadaaaa hope you like it <3 As mentioned it's just experimental and me playing around for now, so please don't be too brutal!