Browsing for a new look

Hey!

So, I mentioned in my previous post that I'd bought an eyebrow pencil and was gearing up to invest some time (not too mention pain and money in waxing!) in getting my eyebrows back to human-like proportions and looking less like some creepy Star Trek character! Whilst I do not relish the thought of growing my brows back in and being seen in public quite possibly sporting a monobrow, I do want nice face-shaping brows so I'm gonna suck it up and be brave, hopefully it'll be worth it! Also, it means I have created a "beauty" category on the blog, which is pretty cool. You guys have any questions for Sea and I, about our make-up or anything else blog-related? You probably don't see much of my face since I tend to cut it off kind of accidentally-on-purpose when taking early morning shots!

According to Style.com, eyebrow pencils were used at the 3.1 Phillip Lim Fall '09 show to create "strong eyebrows straight out of the eighties", not too sure that they're really that '80s but I guess I wasn't born till '87 so I'm no expert! It also says that the make-up artist drew them in one by one, you will not see me doing that! I have very little patience where daily make-up is concearned (though for special occasions I do love a good set of fake eyelashes!). I'm thinking these may not translate from runway to real-life, however;

But imagine these bad boys, but kinda neater looking, pretty much without the individually drawn on strays. Nice, no?

ps the mouse is back, and this time he's not under my bed but is mingling with my shoes under the wardrobe. My flatmate and I have decided to call in the professionals.

Char x

LFW

I LOVE London Fashion Week! Above is an outfit from the PPQ collection. (Credit to MSN/Rex Features!). I'd love to own anything from this brand, lovelovelove PPQ! One day, I shall attend a show of theirs, haha!

Current happenings, as Char said, we went to see The Mighty Boosh live on their tour, opening night in Edinburgh woop! I'm afraid I did not get an outfit picture but I did wear my black lace dress, black patent flats, cream cardi from H&M and my Chanel bag (don't quote me on the authenticity however, although it is awesome! I got it from Absolute Vintage in London, fab shop).

I have just stumbled upon this rather striking photograph of Mary-Kate Olsen (I'm unsure whether I like it or not), by Terry Richardson;

(credit to terryrichardson.com)!

Sea .x.x.

Up north

Hey!

I want to start by thanking everyone who left birthday wishes for me on my last post, thanks! You guys are so sweet and I really appreciate the comments you leave us! Me and my mum are just back from our overnight stay in a hotel in the Highlands (part of my birthday present, I am spolied!). We had fun roaming round the hotel grounds, eating too much and getting beauty treatments. I got my nails done (fire engine red), my make-up done and an eye-brow wax! My mum got some massage thing and a facial. I also managed to convince my mum to buy me some of the products they used (Clarins stuff is nice - I had never used it before) so I am now in possesion of a new mascara and an eyebrow pencil. I've wanted an eyebrow pencil for a while now as years of over-plucking have left my eyebrows in a bit of a mess! They're too thin and small and kind of weirdly sparse even though they're very dark and thick. Basically, I'm not going anywhere near them with tweezers for a considerable amount of time until they fill back in and then I shall seek professional help to get a nice shape, a bit more runway-like I suppose, as I think the tiny eyebrow look is probably a bit dead now.

I didn't get very good outfit posts while I was away, put I shall post the mediocre ones anway! This was taken in the hotel's "Victorian Garden", you can probably tell I used the timer!

This is the Zara dress I bought a couple of weeks ago when my mum and I went through to Glasgow for the day, it isn't the most exciting dress ever but I can see it going with almost everything! The vintage shoes were an etsy purchase and a bad choice for climbing up and down muddy slopes all day, velvet heels in the countryside, what was I thinking? Oh and the same vintage pearls and pearl studs I got from work as I was rocking on my birthday night out.

I mentioned before that I had my make-up done at the hotel spa, it looked really cool, with big smoky eyes and dewy runway-esque skin, but I am unfortunatly rubbish at taking photos of my own face, which seems to seize up at the sight of a camera and so this is the only photo I have of my make-over!

An uber-blurry shot of today's outfit, taken in the hotel mirror!
Not that you can really see at all, but I'm wearing; the same vintage heels, grey tightsplease tights and knee-highs which I think were from H&M! The skirt is Primark, the grey tee is H&M and the cardigan is Zara, from the same Glasgow trip as the black dress!

The town where the hotel is (I've been going there since I was a kid so it was a very nostalgic trip, probably appropriate for a 21st!) is in a town called Crieff. The town has lots of cool shops which we explored today after a huge hotel breakfast! We bought sugar mice and soor plooms in the cutest sweet shop which had a man making fudge in the back and in the window was this clock made of sweets, I wanted to lick it! I've wikipedia-ed some stuff in case you have no idea what soor plooms are ie you are not Scottish!

The town also had a strange goth shop with all kinds of crazy outfits as well the usual fingerless gloves and fishnets. I got this studded cuff, which is something I've been after for a while! It was only £3.50, which is good since all the ones I had admired on etsy were about ten times that! I think it'll toughen up some of my uber-girly outfits...

I was also chuffed when my mum said we could stop in Dunfermline on the way home and visit Primark. I actually bought things in the sale at Primark, am I thrifty or just low? I got some good basics, tights and underwear and a grey boobtube like the black one I have and freaked my mum out when she asked "Is that a top or a skirt?" and I exclaimed "It's both!". She was doubting my sanity and rolling her eyes, but she's been doing that for nearly 21 years now! I also got a black version of the sheer tee I'm wearing here. It seems unlikely that I've only worn the white one once, but I bought the black one bigger for slouchiness (love!). I also got this cute floral top, I have no idea what I'm gonna wear it with but I really like the long sleeves and how it looks, as my mum pointed out, "like a nighty". Man, she was on a roll today!
Char x

Happy birthday to me

Hey!

Last night was my birthday party! I had possibly the funnest night ever and got some amazing presents (I shall share the presents later as I won't get most of them until Wednesday, my actual birthday!). We started with drinks at my favourite bar/pub - it's cheap but classy and has hot barmen and random decor; bee wallpaper, mexican wrestling masks and an animal head in 3D glasses...I'll be back there soon enough and maybe I'll get photos of the decor! We headed to a club afterwards which turned out to be awesome too, which is good! You may have to excuse the outfit pictures, Sea and I took them in the bathroom after having had a few drinks!

My vintage shoes were from ebay, 100 denier tights from H&M, Topshop dress and vintage pearls. The hairband is from Topshop too! Traditional toilet shot, mandatory on all nights out:
The fashionsqueah myspace picture, it's really just Sea's fringe and my eyelids!
Shoooes! Mine are the black ones, of course!
Taken in the club by some girl who was drunk enough to point the camera the wrong way but it actually turned out pretty good!
I wanted to show you guys my fur, me and F thrifted them (hers is on the left) yesterday, don't hate but I totally love that thing!
Token crazy drunk photo. I actually wasn't that drunk, even though I had drinks bought for me all night, the magical thing about birthdays!

Thought I'd share that randomness with you!

Char x

Come with us now on a journey through time and space...

Hey!

Oh my god, last night was so fun! We saw The Mighty Boosh live and it was the first show of the tour, it was awesome! If you haven't seen the Boosh, please do so immediatly! The only thing that ruined my night was waiting in the merchandise queue for ages for a cute bag, only for the last one to be sold to the girl right in front of me! I got a mug instead though so it's all good! There were not as many people dressed up as I thought either, don't worry I didn't dress up! I was tempted though...I didn't take outfit photos but I basically repeated this outfit; checked dress, big yellow bow, tights...Oh, and we hung around the stage door afterwards to see them come out. In the words of my friend M, "You were like 10 cms from Noel? That's like 1cm from his awesome hair!". Amen.

This was my outfit from during the day, my friend F and I went thrifting but I didn't buy anything 'cause I am poor! F got me an awesome bracelet though as part of my birthday present! It has pearls, I hope she brings it tonight so I can wear it to my party tonight! My party is tonight even though my birthday's not till Wednesday, I'm making my birthday a week-long event this year, apparently!

I love ankle boots but they are so not flattering! Thunda thighs! So these are my new thrifted boots, my usual tightsplease tights, H&M dress which I wore like two days ago and H&M tee. I think the headband is H&M too but it is truly ancient, pre-Gossip Girl! My new flatmate arrives on Sunday, eep! My mum freaked me out by putting the idea into my head that her Mum would like check every nook for dirt so I'm off to clean the fridge! Very glamourous on the day of my big party!

Char x

Paris; the aftermath.

Bonsoir!
Oh.my.goodness. Paris was amazing! SUCH a beautiful city and I'd go back in an instant. I'm pretty sure I did not see one badly dressed person! I'll give a little summary of our trip;

* Much laughs on the plane, especially when we landed as the flight company played a FANFARE haha!
* Wandering around Bastille for about an hour and a half trying to find the hotel.
* Finding all the good vintage shops on our last night *sob*.
* Using the French Metro.
*Getting a DEAD RAT thrown at us by these uber homeless punks at Bastille Opera House.
* Visitng Notre Dam, the Louvre, the River Sienne and of course, the Eifel Tower.
* No Disneyland however *sob again*.
* Paris getting a smoking ban!
* Taking too many photogrpahs.
* Too much alcohol.
* Too many Euros spent!
* Going to Cafe Oz, Australian club/bar - awesome!!

And here are the pictures to accomodate;

OHMY GOODNESS haha! This was right before I dropped my camera and it had a little accident, its fine now though! This is the result of me and kroenenberg (above!).

I was too scared to go to the top, luckily there was a huge queue of about 1,000 people waiting to get in so we just left it *yay

Arriving on the river sienne boat tour. With my new leggings YAY!

This was our "MySpace" pose haha! Oh my.

This is what vdoka does to me; makes me dance in my leggings and a vest top LOL.

So, overall, a fantastic trip! Sorry about the huge amount of photos but I thought Id share :D
Apologies for not getting many outfit shots, we were always on the go and it just really wasnt possible!

Sea x.x.

Traps

Hey!

Somewhat bored today, hence the slightly dull outfit. I thought I'd post it anyway, in the interests of daily updates. I'm saving all my energy for tomorrow, The Mighty Boosh live tour, and the day after - my birthday party! I am aware that these photos create the illusion that I have no waist, but I promise you I do...it's under all the layers!

I got this brown hoodie thing, it's wool-ish material but kinda thin, in Zara a couple of years ago but never really liked it because I didn't think it flattered my *cough* chest area. I still don't think it does actually. The tee is from primark and the dress is from ebay, I have my battered New Look wedges on the feet.
Oh! And the mouse came back yesterday evening for round two of the freak out. I was watching Gossip Girl on the laptop, facing the door of course and he poked his head under. I screamed and he retreated. Major cleaning was done, a pet cat was considered, tears were shed, traps were set and the numbers of several 24-hour pest control companies duely noted. Whilst I find the idea of a dead animal equally disgusting and unclean as a live one, I hope he goes for the traps because it freaks me out that he's living so close to my tights and underwear. My mum suggested I go home last night but I decided to stay and guard the clothes, aren't I brave?

Char x