100 Followers + Film Inspiration

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I couldn't seem to get any good photos today *sigh*. I think it's the jeans, I swear they look more flattering in real life, or I think they do anyway...! I wanted to try out the 70s thing with flares and the new camel cardie seemed to work with that, so I thought these slightly flared jeans might work. They are annoyingly slightly too big on my hips, we have here a case of vanity sizing again. I bought them in 2009 in America, and according to sizing charts I should be a US 6, but having tried those on, and them falling round my ankles (and I was a bit bigger then than I am now) I tried on a 4. I bought those because I seriously didn't think I could wear a size 2 because that's the apparent equivalent of a UK 6, and I was definitely a 10 then. Crazy.

Camel Cardigan: Primark (£6)

Floral and Lace Top: TK Maxx

Jeans: American Eagle

Heeled Sandals: Jeffrey Campbell 'Splendid'

Anyway, enough with the rambling, I wanted to do something a little different today. Firstly I want to say THANK YOU so much to all my followers! I've finally reached the milestone of 100 followers (plus 13 on Bloglovin') and I'm so happy about it =D And secondly, since I don't have any good photos today and I'm having a really really bad day with my Costochondritis (seriously feels like a car hit my chest) I decided to do an inspiration post with a twist, films! I've been getting a lot of inspiration from films recently, so I'm going to do a few posts with film inspiration, starting with this one.

Lolita (1997)
I read this book a few years ago, and despite the disturbing subject matter (middle aged man falls in love with a 12 year old girl), it is so well written, every word seems to have been thought about meticulously, and it's so poetic and beautiful. So I reread just recently, and decided I should watch the film (there is also a 1962 version I'm yet to see). I've been massively inspired by the vintage, summery outfits Dolores wears in it, especially the red lips, heart shaped sunglasses and gypsy style crop tops, and also the braided hair styles, so here's my pick of them:

I've been thinking about how to recreate that sort of carefree, vintage style without looking too 'child-trying-to-impersonate-adult-ish' (if that makes sense!) and I've come across a couple of awesome things like this bikini by Marc Jacobs (oh how I wish I could afford it!) and this photo from Tumblr which I think is a playsuit, but not sure. If it is a playsuit, it reminds me of the pale blue one from the film which sort of looks like that at the back.

I actually bought some vintagey style red sunglasses the other day which I'm sure you will see a lot of when it warms up! And there's the halter-neck playsuit I got at the Vintage Fair the other week, so I really excited about wearing these =)

Well, I'll be back soon with more, I hope you enjoyed having something different to read and whatnot, let me know if you did or not!
Love,

No Make Up Monday #1

 

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New feature! Let's have a little explanation of it: I always try for at least one day a week not to wear make up. It usually turns out though that it's 2 or 3 days, which is I think is pretty amazing haha! I often don't wear it at the weekends when I don't see many people except family and Ben unless I go out somewhere, but I've been trying recently to have one weekday off every week not wearing make up, and it usually ends up being a Monday for some reason. I have three lectures on a Monday, so I see a lot of people.

So what's the reason I try to do this? Well, firstly it's got to be good for your skin, because when you think about it, all that foundation, powder, concealer etc is clogging up your pores, all day long every day. Your skin needs time to breathe and be out in the open air. Also, it can make your eyes sore, and dry out your lips and skin wearing make up all the time. Secondly, I think it helps me prove to myself how far I have come in accepting and loving myself as I am. It helps to raise my confidence in myself because I still get complimented even when I'm not wearing make up, and even if I'm not complimented, at least I'm not being insulted!!

So I've decided I'm going to try and make this a weekly feature, so it'll basically just be outfit photos but I won't be wearing any make up.

Anyway, I absolutely love this skirt! I think I got it last summer, well about this time last year actually after seeing it in shops for ages and finally deciding that I did want it, and I'm so glad I did get it in the end. 

And finally, I did something I shouldn't have today...went shopping... I did need a new cardigan though, and I got one from Primark, and some sunglasses from Accessorize which I need for Spain. Then there was this amazing maxi skirt in Primark I had to have, and a dress in H&M which I thought I could wear as a top with the skirt and it was cute by itself, so it's all justified haha!

Black Leotard: Topshop

Waist Belt: Primark

Floral Skirt: H&M

Green Tights: Primark

Floral Shoes: Peacocks

 

 

Love,

Daisy Daisy

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My new favourite summer outfit =D I felt so prettiful and summery in this dress and yellow cardigan! And also I love the way that yellow works with the lighter bits of my hair, yes, alright I'm obsessed with the ginger parts of my hair haha, I'm SO glad I did the ombre thing =) If you're deliberating about it, seriously, just do it!

Not having such a good day so far today =( I had another bad night. Not sure if I've talked about it before but since I was a baby I've always had trouble sleeping, it was the bane of my parents' lives all my life!! I've never needed much sleep, and so I'll go to bed at normal time, like 10pm to 11pm but I usually don't sleep until around 2-3am. But recently it's got a lot worse, to the point where I can't sleep until 5 or 6am, and now occasionally I don't sleep at all. Last night was one of those. No sleep whatsoever, so I got out of bed with Ben at 7am. The annoying thing is that when I don't sleep, he doesn't sleep well either so we're both grumpy at each other *sigh*.

Anyway, I absolutely love this dress. It's the one I bought for New Years to be Audrey Hepburn, but when I bought it I thought it would be a lovely summer dress too, and...it is! I got complimented by 3 people on it that day, including my Greek teacher. And also a comment off a random stranger that was either "Watch your skirt" because it was a bit windy, or "Gorgeous skirt". I like to think the latter but considering he was about 17 and smirking when he said it, I'm thinking it was the first. But don't worry because it has an underskirt with netting so even if the top layer blows, you'd only see the underlayer!

(Pretty daffodillies in the church yard =D)

Mustard Cardigan: Wool Overs

Daisy Print Dress: New Look

White Ankle Socks: Topshop

Floral Shoes: Peacocks

Love,

The Vintage Fair

Just a quick post here about the Vintage Fair in The Hopsitium at York I went to on Sunday. I really wanted to get more photos, but it was really difficult!! Firstly with the outfit photo, I tried to get Ben to take them, but he got embarrassed by my posing (haha!) because a lot of people were walking past, but the one I did get was alright actually =) Just wish I had some more though. I love how well the ombre-ness of my hair comes out in it, and the brick wall was actually a pretty good setting, but nevermind!

 Snood: Republic

Striped Crop Top: New Look

Brown Satchel: c/o Matalan

Green Dress (as a skirt): Primark

Then it was really difficult to get photos inside because it was soooo busy, and I wasn't really sure if I was supposed to be taking photos haha!! But I managed to snap a quick one of a rail of awesome floral/patterned/polka dot dresses. I was considering one on this rail actually, but I didn't buy it in the end because I couldn't afford any more things! 

I'll be back later with an outfit post =) So see you soon =D
Love,

Why yes, that girl with no tights was me!

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Yay yay yay yay yay!! No tights!! Since Friday, I've only had one day of wearing tights =D These photos are from Friday, granted yes I was a bit chilly when the sun went in, but still, I wasn't cold as such!! And today is apparently the warmest day yet this year, I've heard it's 17 degrees at home!! I want to go home so I can sit in the garden, the closest I can get here is sitting on the sofa with the sun shining on me haha, better than nothing at least.

I love doing my photos outside in the sun, it just makes me so happy! (Plus it shows my ombre-ness!!) I swear I have that seasonal depression thing because whenever I wake up to a grey cloudy day I just feel so horrid and grumpy all day, I don't want to go outside or anything. But if there's a bit of sun and blue sky I'm just so happy and smiley and I want to frolic in the sun haha =D So I'm pretty much just in an awesome mood at the moment =)

 

I'm loving this striped crop top too that I bought a couple of weeks ago with my sister in New Look. It was £6.99 I believe, so not too bad really =) I've already worn it loads! Actually, the first time I did, the hem came down all along the bottom, so I took it back and they swapped it immediately (despite the fact that I'd already got curry on it, having only worn it about 3 hours haha!!) I can't wait to wear in Spain with denim shorts, yay yay yay!!

Sorry for the photo heaviness in this post! I just wanted to show off the fact that I don't have to wear tights at the moment! Although it's supposed to get cooler towards the weekend, and possibly rainy =( Oh well, I'm enjoying it while I can!
Oh, I'm also really happy today because I finally got my mark from my essay on Human Dissection in Antiquity from last semester. I worked so hard on it, and I was worried I might not have done well because it's quite complicated, but I got 73 so I'm really happy! I just wanted to get over 65 really, and over 70 means it's a First =)

 Navy Cardigan: Primark

Striped Crop Top: New Look

Floral Skirt: Vintage

Sheer Socks: H&M

Floral Print Shoes: Peacocks

And that's all! I'd better be getting on with some work now, I might go outside even though I'll look really silly just sat out there haha, never mind, I might do it still!

Love,

Playsuit

I've got some more late photos for you here, I think these are from about a week ago now. So this is my new playsuit from Primark that I bought along with the green sail boat dress a couple of weeks ago. I really like it too! I've never owned a playsuit before, actually I lie, I have a black velvet one from the New Look January sales but I haven't worn it yet! So this is the first playsuit I've worn haha =D There were loads of them in Primark, but I liked this one best, and it's not bad for £9 =)

Haha this is so random, but there's a man cleaning the windows of the flat above me, and I know he's coming to my window next so I'll be looking right at him...awkward! I'm going into uni soon so hopefully I'll be gone by the time he reaches our windows =D

Grey Roll Neck: Zara

Floral Playsuit: Primark

Mustard Tights: Primark

The red eye wouldn't work on some of these pictures so I look a bit funny and evil in some of them!! Well, I'd better be going anyway, got to get to uni and I want a chocolate biscuit first hee hee =) And the window cleaners coming aaaahhh!!

Love,