Charity Case

I'M ALIVE!
Sorry I've been completely M.I.A these last few weeks... well almost a month out really! I have been thinking of you all, and have occasionally had a little read, but I just havn't had the time or energy to post myself!

NB: These plimsoles actually have a cute floral print all over them, but came out like fluorescent white in the pics :-S hmm

To catch you up, I had a few big deadlines at uni, including a presentation, urgh, and a stupid logistics assignment which I really struggled with :-( That coupled with writing my weekly College Fashionista articles (have you been keeping up? sign up to site for free and comment on you're favourite outfits/articles *mine* haha) and generally just trying to keep up with life -  nothing particularly interesting to be honest!

eek should have put some more lippy on! Oh and my fringe is so long and crazy in my eyes now, as you can see its sitting very strange against my raybans! Have had to start wearing it sweeped to the side instead of full fringe :-(

Oh of course, major stress last week was my laptop dieing! My beautfiul HP, it served me well, but alas it is dead. I was in such a tizz because i had so much work to get done, thankfully after a frantic phone call to Oz my wonderful parents transferred the money for me to buy a whole new laptop :-) I just got the cheapest full sized one they had in the shop at the time (couldn't handle one of those crazy little notebook things *technophobe*)! Lucky I havn't lost any of my files, and I got all my work handed in on time!

Hat - Miss Selfridge, Sunnies - Ray Ban Wayfarers (Chrissie pressie from Oz only £30 from an outlet mall), Shirt - Charity Shop, Leather Jacket - Miss Selfrideg, Denim Cut-offs - Vintage Levi's, Belt - Primark, Plimsoles - Australia (5 dollars)

I went for a little wonder the other week to discover some new charity shops, the kind that are down little side roads and are tiny and a bit 'scummy' with rails crammed with crap, but in amongst it all you can find some truly wonderful things at bargain prices! You know, the best kind of charity shop. I hate ones like the Oxfams on the highstreet, all newly fitted out with colour coded rails of completely overpriced stuff... the moneys going to charity for goodness sake, just take what you can get for it, don't charge us a tenner for a 2 seasons old dress from Primark that probably only cost 8 quid to start with!! haha. Found the floral shirt pictured for £4, I love that it has poppers instead of buttons, and it's little breast pockets. Buttoned all the way to the top, naturally.

Also got this blouse, I have no idea whats going on with the print but I was immediately drawn to it. The little doodles remind me of the margins of an old maths book or something. The inner workings of someones random imagination. I'm not crazy about the colour, but I couldn't resist for £2!

Got the navy heels for £2 aswell, they're real leather, fit perfectly and are in great condition, there's like barely any wear on the soles apart from a few little scuffs. No idea when I'm ever gona wear them, but what the heck!

I was gona add another photo here of my favourite purchase of the last few weeks (not from the charity shops though so didnt fit really anyway) but I am literally so obsessed I wrote like 3 paragraphs and have now decided that their own post is well deserved.. so I'll schedule that now.. love to keep you hanging ;-) haha you'll probably think I'm crazy actually...



Anyway... I'd love to be able to tell you I'm back on form, and you'll be seeing a load of beautiful outfit posts in the next couple of weeks, but.. that'd be a lie. My 9,000 word dissertation is due in 3 weeks...and we have our two amazing bestest friends Michael and Francesca coming to stay for a few days next weekend (Hi guys, I'm literally so excited, eeeee!!!), so... we'll see what happens!

Love love, VW x

Ps. Look at my yummy FREE Graze nibble box... someone on my facebook had a code, to get you're first box free and a second box for £1.75, so naturally, student, free food, ordered. So exciting getting yummo, free food posted through your letterbox and bonus its all healthy too! I recommend the 'chanachur panch phoron' which is kind of like bombay mix with a rew raisins and goji berreis thrown in and was literally polished off in 2 mins!! So my favourite thing.

So my gift to you lovely readers, go to http://www.graze.com/ and sign up using my code - W8Z2TJ63 and you can get a free box too! You rate the things you like, and then they'll send you a 'balanced mix'.

Fruit Salad Hair

As promised here are, rather a lot of, photos of my new hair style. I absolutely LOVE it (which is why I have posted so many photos, I just couldn't choose!). As the title suggests I think the colour mix is kind of like those fruit salad sweets (if you know what I'm talking about?), I've got 4 colours in, 2 orangey/copper colours, a raspberry pink kind of thing and some lighter yellowy tones running through it, which is actually the colour of my hair once it was bleached!

The top picture was taken for me by one of the other models 'backstage' after the show, all the clothes were supplied by Asos, I did try on a multi-cloured pixel print dress with one shoulder, but everybody decided with such bright hair I was the best one to wear the plain black. You can't see in the picture but it had a cut out back, and was really cute with its little peter pan collar and pinafore style, I felt a bit like a crazy china doll  in it with my pink lips too!

My hair is from the 'Project 10' Collection 2010 which can be seen HERE.

My makeup was done by Mac professionals, I love how clear they made my complexion and my lip colour, it matched the pink in my hair pretty well and I kind of feel naked without such a bright colour to contrast with my hair now, I might pop to Superdrug tomorrow after uni and pick some up, any suggestions on brand etc? I want something moisturising as my lips are always so dry and cracked, but I don't have much experience in the cosmetics area. I literally always just grab which ever product is being promoted at the time, I feel like I can't make a conscientious decision and then end up with a crap product! I'm not a fan of the powdered out eyebrows though, I suppose making them lighter works with the hair colour, but I'm just so attached to my dark, thick eyebrows I can't let them go just yet...

Clothes the same in 'The Before' and 'The After' - Vintage Jumper and Dress, Wellies were a gift from a friend and obviously my hair is by Toni & Guy

Its funny how much difference a new haircut makes isn't it? I instantly love this whole outfit more with my new hair, and feel super confident. Like I said in my last post, I'd been putting off doing anything with my hair as I'd been under strict instructions to grow it out ready to be the perfect bridesmaid in April, but as much as I love my friend, and understand its her big day and wouldn't want to do anything to make her photos less than perfect etc, at the end of the day I'm me, and I can't change that. I have short hair, I like it short, I think its suits me, and I wasn't willing to spend the next four months growing my hair in that horrible shaggy, thick, non-style. I promise to get extentions or a hair piece or whatever when the time comes, I'll even wear a wig for the day if she's that desperate for me to have different hair, but for now I can stand tall and confident that my hair truely reflects my personal style! As for the colour, well that'll fade out soon enough anyway and I can dye over it any time, any colour.

You probably won't hear from me for a while now I'm afraid lovelys, I will be taking a blogging hiatus this week to get all my uni work done, one deadline on Monday, and a big one on Friday, eek, busy busy! I do have a few new little vintage pieces to show you though, so you can look forward to seeing those next week some time maybe...

VW x