The obsession returns..

Yes, Gossip Girl is back on tv! My social life is going back into hibernation until the seasons over. I cannot express my excitement of being reunited with Chuck Bass!! This is all I have to say as its been uploaded online and I cannot resist watching it right now. XOXO

Just for the other Chuck Bass fans out there :)

All that glitters..

I've always stuck to saying that at this age, I will never spend too much on a pair of heels and I will just get drunk and ruin them, but these shoes are just sooo amazing I feel I may have to go against my beliefs?

A pinch of salt.. I mean leather

Before you click away thinking I’m about to bore with some old school news that people are wearing leather, I dare you to at least look at the photographs for some major style tips!

It’s true that there is nothing new about leather, it dates so far back and is rarely out of fashion. However, this winter it seems adding a small amount to your outfit is the way to go. The photograph of Apphia Michael (stolen from Graziadaily.co.uk) shows exactly how to wear leather.

Teamed up with a cutesy jumper, a pink shopper and patent brogues, this leather midi really does look amazing and definitely not too much. I don’t know about you but when I think of leather, I tend to think of a 50 year old woman with scraggly black hair extensions dressed head to toe in black. This has no doubt given me a new outlook on the material and how to wear it.
Another item that has caught my eye recently is the leather leggings that seem to be taking over Topshop recently. Although I hate being one of those people that wears the same as everyone else, and with the popularity of these leggings I can only imagine half the population own a pair, I can’t help but love them! One of my friends recently bought a pair and I won’t deny feeling a little envious.

I’ve said it once and I will say it again, twenty million times if I must, Lauren Conrad can do absolutely no wrong. This outfit is plain but classy, adding a little touch of rebellion with the leather leggings. If I could be one person, besides maybe Beyonce, I think it would have to be Lauren.

Along with the up-do’s (in the post before) if I ever decide to jump on board the leather train, I will be sure to post some photo’s. Grazia tells me the leather midi is from Topshop so I may just have to go in and try it on.

Nobody likes change.. Right?

I've always been one of those poeple who sticks to a basic hairstyle. For me, it doesn't get much better than a few waves and I think its become pretty known to the people around me that I rarely wear my hair up, unless of course if Im hungover, which doesn't count.
However, I've noticed that the beauty sections of every magazine lately seem to be giving tips on the perfect updo and I can't help but feel a little envious of how good they look.
I bought the September issue on InStyle the other week, this being the first time I have ever read this particular magazine and in it was Actress Tamsin Egerton (who admittedly would look amazing sporting any kind of hairstyle) modelling different updo's, and although having all my hair scraped back off my face probably wouldn't be my most flattering choice, hence always avoiding it, I am extremely tempted to give them a go.

If my desire ever over-rides my conscience and I do attempt one of the above, i'll keep you posted. I can only hope i'll look as elegant as Tamsin and not something that could of been created by Jedward.

Holiday Blues

I recently came back from a two week holiday in Spain (I say recently, actually 3am this morning) and am definitely feeling the full effects of the not so marvellous English weather. I arrived home to find the electricity had run out, a glass had smashed in my case and to top it off, I couldn't work out how to turn the heating on. So I dragged myself upstairs and collapsed into bed, thinking about the amazing lie in I had planned. Of course, I woke up at 9am and couldn't get back to sleep.
While on holiday, as sad as it sounds, I made a list of all the little things that needed doing when I got home so I decided to get up and get on with it. Why is that when youre on a roll, getting everything done, your fingers cannot resist typing Topshop.com into the search bar?
Oh what a disaster, I should of known they would have a million and one items that I would want to buy.
I cant help but love the black high-waisted cord shorts, picturing them with some Allsaints vests or a chunky cardi, its almost impossible to resist. And the variety makes you want one in every colour, from spots, stripes, velvet, leather, cord..

As every student will tell you, it always seems to be 'hard times' when it comes to money, so when looking for a birthday dress (which I know is supposed to be expensive), I was praying that I would find something a bit cheaper but still as affective. Searching through every fashion magazine I could find, I came across missguided.co.uk, a site I had never heard of before. Its fantastic!! Ok, like every cheap store it has its fair share of tack, but it really is the best place to go for some knock off Topshop and a decent price. What better time to treat yourself than during a spout of depression, although I have been lucky enough to spend two weeks in the sunshine, I am claiming this as a good enough reason to splash out.
Im sure one day ill be able to save up enough money to enjoy the finer things in life, by this i mean maybe a few Mulberry handbags and some Louboutins, but for now it will definitely do.


Apparently I'm one of those people who tend to procrastinate during tasks, guess its time to get back to sorting my life out.

Time to look in the Mirror.. (Pun intended)

Well I very much doubt that I need to explain to you what i'm talking about when I mention the phone hacking scandal. But just for those that arent quite up to date with whats going on in the world and quite possibly one of the biggest news stories at the moment, Ill give you a quick overview.
Basically, News of the World has been shut down for hacking into the answer phones of friends and relatives of murder victims to get exclusive stories that other newspapers wouldnt have. Its all a big hoo-ha with everybody blaming someone else and everyone involved using the famous 'no comment' when questioned.
But really who is to blame? Who is behind it all?

Yes okay, the obvious answer would be Rupert Murdoch (owner of NOTW) and a few of his employee's, but however wrong it was, can we really blame him for trying to out-do the other newspapers and boost his sales?
As the general public, we are the ones demanding more. We buy the newspapers and magazine that have the biggest story, the most outrageous and exclusive not some shoddy paper thats publishing last weeks news. Would it be wrong to suggest that we may possibly have played a part in this god awful scandal? As much as we want to claim that we buy the newspapers for the facts, isnt there a part in everyone that just wants the gossip? As a nation we have this huge craze of invading peoples privacy and wanting to know all the details and the demand for the newspapers to provide this is quite obviously becoming too much.

Now, in all honesty and as contradicting as it may sound, I am 100% against the phone hacking and think that it is completely disrespectful of the suffering families, but I find it very hard to believe that NOTW is the only newspaper that has some unethical way of getting stories. I read an article the other day saying that Murdochs chief executive or whatever she was, Rebecca Brookes had once sneaked into The Sunday Times dressed as a cleaner and stolen a copy of the newspaper so she could publish the exclusive story they had. How exactly do these tabloids, which I must add tend to be made up of total crap, get such exclusive stories when they arent stealing them from other papers? It makes you wonder.

If the demand for wanting that little bit extra from our newspapers wasnt there, would the phone hacking of even happened? I think its time to look at ourselves and they way we demand so much from the media. Since when did it become okay for peoples private lives to be meddled in without so much as an inch of respect for those involved?