excitement.

I'm off to center Parcs today with my housemates! I'm well excited. I've probably packed way too much stuff seeing as we are only going for three days. But it should be good. I'll try and keep you updated. Here's what I'm wearing today :-)

we are young

Absolutely love this song. x ^_^ x

GFW

So I was at Graduate Fashion Week yesterday. Me and some others from Fashion Journalism were manning our stand and giving away our final years magazine called Segue. It was the S/S 2012 edition and contains a piece of work from every student from my course, it's a hefty magazine and looks awesome! I looked around many of the other stools and the other uni's displays were impressive.

Here are some photos I took...

The view when you walk in.

The UCA Epsom stand with my course friends Katie and Sammy organising the Segue magazines.

Our stand from the side displaying work.

I also went to a talk at the George stand with Gemma Cairney, Kate Walsh and Jo Elvin. They spoke mainly about Fashion Journalism and how they got into the business. The main point I gained from the talk was do as much work experience as you can!

I'm going to be updating everyday now, so keep checking back.

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Oh Hi

Hey! So I've finished my final major project and my last day of uni (ever) is on Monday so I'm going to come back to this blog. I'll try to update as much as I can, I have some everyday mineral samples to talk about and I can show you the beauty magazine that I made. I'm writing covering letters at the moment... fun.

Here have a mystery jets song that I can't get out of my head...

I'm going to see them at Brixton Academy tomorrow! I'll tell you all about it :)

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you blue my mind

I bought this H&M nail polish today.

It's called 'Blue my mind', I've never tried H&M polish before so this was a new experience. The bottle is a cool shape and it's easy to apply. The colour is really bright! I had to put two coats and a top coat though because it's quite thin. What do you want for £2.99 though?! Perfect.

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mystery jets

NEW SONG

Someone Purer off of the upcoming album Radlands, enjoy.

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Oh Hai :)

My hair is big today.

ok?

abraham's daughter

Arcade Fire's new song Abraham's Daughter for the soundtrack of 'The Hunger Games' has been released today, take a listen!

Also my mum handed me down this bracelet for my birthday and I've finally got round to adding charms to it:

My sister bought me the 21 charm, I found the ballerina one and I purchased the cat from ebay ^_^

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flo

So my Florence and The Machine tickets came through the post the other day and obviously I have started planning my outfit! I want an epic sequinned/feathery maxi dress...

I've been looking on ebay because my budget is tight so here is what I've found so far...

This is £5 atm!

and this is 99p ha

my search continues.

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so close, but yet so far.

As of this minute I have done 3118 words of my 5500 word dissertation. Only 2382 words to go and 4 days to do it in. O.O

Once all of this is over I will be back to blogging everday (maybe) again :)

13 Days till my birthday.

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count down.

4 days until loan.
15 days until dissertation hand in.
20 days until my 21st birthday.
23 days until Hamburg.
27 days until Uni starts again.

until then, I give up.

happy new year.

happy new year, I hope 2012 brings you all the happiness you deserve :)

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they heard me singing and they told me to stop

SPRAWL II VIDEO!

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do they know it's Christmas time?

10 Days Till Xmas :)

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Sonntag

I hope you're having a glorious Sunday :)

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200th POST

YAY this is my 200th post on my blog since I started it up again with posts of my University work. So for anybody who cares this is going to be a double post, including my first vlog and a little bit about some Bourjois make up I received.

Sorry about the poor quality it's recorded on my crappy webcam. 

So I received the Bourjois eyeshadows in the post today after talking to their representative at Handpicked Media Gets Social. I have actually never used any Bourjois products before, mainly because they are quite expensive but other than that I don't really know why I haven't! I got Intense numbers 02,05 and 08; gold, green and brown. I'm wearing the brown in the video above, although you can't really see it.

The colours are highly pigmented and because I have brown eyes I chose colours that would bring them out. I lined my eyes with black eyeliner then used a fine brush to add a line of brown. These little pots are so cute as well because they have a handy little mirror in them.

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Midweek blues

Seeing as it's Wednesday (and you all know I hate Wednesdays right?!) I thought I'd add a want list of things (if I had money) I would buy this week! Take a look...

Topshop Metallic Skirt by Boutique £70.00 

 How amazing is this? I have a skirt like this from Topshop that I bought a couple of years ago in black and I love it, want this gold one!

Topshop Glitter Bow Cross Body Bag £22.00 

This is so cute, but it is quite small so it would be good on a night out.

Cocoa Butter Body Butter £12.50 but 50% off today with code WINTER

I love Body Shop body butters and would own every scent if I could, this is a lovely wintery buy for dry skin.

Models Own Nail Polish - Scarlet Sparkle £5.00

Glittery nail varnish and Christmas go together so well and especially glittery red!

Sass and Belle Ditsy Owl Cushion £14.95

I really want this! Think this may be on my birthday list (:

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Matte Finish

This week my nails are matte black...

I used Barry M's no. 47 Black and Rimmel Pro Matte Finish Topcoat. This is the first time I have used the Matte finish and I really like it. I used two coats of my black nail varnish, waited for that to dry and then just applied one layer of the matte finish. I really like the effect and I think it would look really good on all solid colours.

I purchased mine from ASOS £4.50

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s u n d a y

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My body is your body

Received my free sample of Burberry's Body perfume today. If you are looking for a perfume to buy for somebody for Christmas Burberry are always a safe brand to choose and this year is no different. Body is a floral fragrance and has notes of rose and iris. It's also quite 'musky' with base notes of sandalwood, musk, amber and vanilla. It's good for all ages and can be found in many high street stores.

My free sample, with a beautiful image of Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley.

It is quite pricey but it is a luxury brand. 35ml, £45.00, Boots

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British Fashion Awards

On Monday night the fashion community was out in force for the 2011 British Fashion Awards. Here are some of the best dressed celebs of the night...

Alexa Chung wearing Christopher Kane S/S12

Hayley Altwell in a stunning Mulberry dress.

Tali Lennox also in Mulberry. love this!

The presenters Lauren Laverne (in Roksanda Illinic's exclusive Matches collection) and George Lamb.

images from Vogue.co.uk

And as the awards go; Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen won Designer of the Year

Sir Paul Smith won BFC Outstanding Achievement in Fashion

Alexa Chung won British Style Award 

and Victoria Beckham won Designer Brand

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I think I'm breaking down again

This is one of my favourite songs off of Florence and The Machine's new album 'Ceremonials'. Ah it's just so beautiful and so is she! I can't wait until 8th March 2012 when I get to see this live!

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Save it for Sunday

it's my party and I'll cry if I want to

Been looking for a cheap Christmas/Party dress for a while now and spotted this one online and have been looking in H&M stores for it for ages now and finally found it in Epsom yesterday, woop!

H and M Dress £7.99

It looks really cute on because it just nips you in at the waist and is just the right length, I find a lot of dresses are too short. It's also got velvet on, and I love a bit of velvet in the winter! It's part of H&M's Conscious collection, so get it whilst stocks last.

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Boux Avenue

Yesterday I grabbed the opportunity to go to a press preview and opening of the brand new Boux Avenue store in Guildford, Surrey. Theo Paphitis was there to open the 8th store and invited bloggers and press to have a look around. The concept of the store is for it to look like your own boudoir, with things in drawers, some products hanging and tables of perfume bottles and cosmetics. I met Theo and he said that this was his perfect store because it is a very good size. The products are quite reasonably priced and fit in with the industry and other high end lingerie stores.

This is the window with a big pink ribbon across it and there was a pink carpet outside aswell.

This was a circular display in the middle of the store with slippers, clutch bags and other cute little trinkets on.

This is some of their Christmas range, cute reindeer design.

Sexy red matching sets.

They do a wide range of pyjamas and these are floral printed.

First shot of Theo, he was very busy.

This is the drawer design that I liked. It stops there being too many products on display and it getting over cluttered.

 Till point.

I want these Giraffe pyjamas!

Cosmetics and home products.

Me and the lovely Theo Paphitis!

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