Grey marl with leather sleeves and Chelsea boots .

 Say hey to my tightless pale legs, yes they've made me think about actually not uploading this post but its getting kind of close to summer so who cares! Today I was just having a very casual day which included filming my first youtube video for my new channel, wow exciting stuff I know. Anyways it was my birthday on the 12th of june and my mumma brought me this wonderful dress which I believe is from a brand inside new look. Firstly its a skater dress which is similar to the ones in topshop and secondly it has leather sleeves so that just makes the entire dress fabulous and any other positive adjectives you could think of to describe it. Oh my gosh Ive only just realised after taking these photos that ive broken the blog law of putting your hands on your hips with taking a photo, sorry for that poopy mistake but i feel so awkward just standing infront of my camera not knowing where to put my hands. The end of this blog post has turned into a little bit of a ramble yet again but ayyy everyone rambles on abit at times. Oh yes forgot to mention that i painted my nails in this lovely nail varnish by Sinful colours, why is this not the same price as Essie nail varnish?? Its got the exact same quality that Essie has but for only £1.99 which doesn't make sense!

Nail varnish- Sinful colours "why not"

Summer is upon us.

I think everyones gathered by now that im really bad at keeping up with my blog, but just recently my ideas for blog posts have been increasing vastly. This post is non fashion or beauty related so sorry if thats what you read my blog for, If you live in england you will know that on Bank Holiday Monday we had amazing weather. So me and my friend Phoebe took this opportunity to go on a very long walk to this really posh village called " Woodhall Spa". After slow walking for around two hours we eventually got there!!  I did try and take some outfit photographs but they're not very good quality and if you dont know already im a little bit of a perfectionist. I dont know if you've noticed the photos on my blog have to be perfect?? Ive been feeling rather crappy and low for a couple of weeks and the stress of exams isnt helping much. I thought a change of scenery for a few hours would relax me and it actually did, many of my friends say i dont come out my "cave" aka my room so i thought going on a long country walk would make me feel better. Even though today im in bed ill and current want to vommit, help me! 

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Out of every single photograph i took my favourite pictures are: 6,4,3 and 1. I think its how vintage they look and I abit of an obsession with anything vintage! Now that the weathers getting slightly warmer im going to be doing ootd post and also some reviews of clothing thats got sent to me, im just trying to figure out how to work my camera.. So if anyone is any good with technical things then comment and help me please, haha im useless! Anyway hope you had a lovely Bank Holiday and also i hope you enjoyed this slightly different post.

My favourite nail polishes.

  Starting this blog post on a little tiny apology, yes again I forgot to blog! I'm terrible at remembering to do things and then I run out of ideas. A few days ago I sorted all my nail polishes out throwing some old ones away and trying to find a good way to store them. Unfortunately I still have no idea how to store then and currently they're stacked all messy in my leopard print train case from ebay, and i dont like how they look:-(! I think its fair to say I have a bit of an obsession with nail polish as I currently own 108 ( thats with throwing a few away as well). Its not only me that thinks ive got an obsession but my mum,brother and even my brothers girlfriend.    

My favourite spring nail varnishes.

How gorgeous are these two Rimmel London nail varnishes?! Last summer/spring all that was ever on my nails where these, the one on the left is such a pretty and perfect lilac colour and is from the lyrca professional range. Meaning that its super glossy and just lovely, the shade of it is 312 Ultra Violet ( is it just me who got the song in there head from that name?!) Secondly the other nail varnish is very similar to Essie Mint Candy Apple but a fraction of the price, the Rimmel London colour is called 045 Misty Jade.

 My favourite Reds.

Aw the classical red nail polish, made to made any nails look sophisticated ( well in my opinion haha). The gorgeous Nails Inc colour on the left I actually got free out of a magazine but previously to buying the magazine I had my eye on it, Its in the shade St James and the application of it is just WOAH! The next nail polish personally I think should be hyped up about more in the blogging world because of its beautiful colour with just a hint of sparkles. Who doesn't love sparkles and glitter? It makes me feel all girly when I wear it..

My favourite darks. 

Yet again another Essie Nail varnish but Essie is just brilliant and well worth the quite expensive price. The shade is called Bordeaux and Im not sure if they sell this in Boots or Superdrug because I got it for Christmas but if you can get your hands on it defiantly buy it. Normally I really don't like the number 17 nail varnishes but the formula of the certain one called Amaretto is just amazballs! And for under £4 it just gets better.

My favourite Drugstore nail varnishes.

Was it just me that used to be obsessed with miss sporty when they were younger?? These two nail polishes one of my favourite youtubers ever called Becca mentioned them in a haul and I just needed to have them. They're one of them nail polishes that you buy just to look at the pretty colour in the bottle but may never wear more than once.

My favourite Light blues.

 Out of every single nail polish mentioned in this post Topshops Celestial is by far my all time favourite, im even wearing it now. At the time when i brought it i was ummming and arring about whether to buy it or not but im so glad i eventually did. I wear it all year round even in winter and Im defiantly going to re purchase it!  The other nail polish was my first ever nail polish by maybelline and I mainly wear it in summer, because it just looks super with an amazing tan!

My favourite glitter top coats.

As you may be able to tell sadly my Revlon glitter top coat is nearly running out and i cant find it in stores **crying** so im trying not to use it as much. Its in the colour belle and Is so easy to remove unlike the majority of glitter top coats. OKAY BARGAIN TIME!! The miss sporty glitter top coat which has no name or colour number is such a beautiful colour, it reminds me of some of the Models Owns glitter top coats and its only around £3.

HELP I'M STRESSED.

Is it just me who is stressed to the max about exams?! I have a German and a maths exam when I go back to school and I cant stop stressing, my minds all over the place so I cant concentrate :-(! Also I have to attention span of a fly, which doesn't help at all. Even though being stressed is a pretty bad thing it gave me the idea of writing a blog about "being stressed and how to deal with stress". One thing that I have being doing lately to deal with my stress is reading, I don't normally read ( I know your meant to but I just find the majority of books boring ) however for Easter instead of getting chocolate my mum allowed me to make a Whsmiths order. I purchased "Lauren Conrad's Beauty book" and also "Wreck this journal" even though one of them is actually a book I've been really enjoying them. Also for some reason I've been reading my old company magazines while burning candles for mood lighting ( to calm me down and relax me ). One thing I've noticed that de-stresses me a lot is music. Especially radio one and Lana Del Rey, If you didn't know radio one has been hosting a revision hour and I actually do more work in that hour then I do throughout the whole day.  Music actually makes me so relaxed and I never realised this before the Easter holidays. 

Ever since watching Zoella's pampering video I have tried to do as much skin care as possible, starting from face masks to actually sticking to a CTM routine. My skin feels a lot fresher which is making me feel good about myself and this may sound silly and stupid but im so proud that the other day I went to town with no make up on. Whereas before I wouldn't leave my room without it.. I suppose you could say I have been getting more and more into beauty and fashion this year. And one of the reasons why could actually be due to blogging! 

music played whilst doing this blog post- Tom Odell Hold Me/ Mumford and sons Home/ Daughter Smother/ Ellie Goulding Guns and Horses/ Bastille Flaws.

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B is for "bird on a wire"

 *pre-warning you may fall in love with this shop like I have*

So yet again I ran out of ideas for blog posts! If you can't tell I'm not very creative, but I was just casually browsing on the asos market place at the different boutiques when I stumbled across one called "bird on a wire". I instantly thought perfect, I can use this for my " B is for.." and this little boutique oh my! I LOVE IT ALREADY!! Who doesn't love reasonable prices and vintage clothing? nobody doesn't! or if you don't then thats okay I suppose.. This boutique includes some amazing clothing thats on trend and looks very similar to some of the clothing from london fashion week. Unfortunately I didn't go to london fashion week but since then my spare time has consisted in watching videos of Cara Delevingne and Jordan Dunn there. What an amazing life I have ;-)! Even though the image quality of the clothes aren't that great the pricing and the 98% feedback rating makes up for that. It's coming up to my birthday soon and I am defiantly tempted to buy a few items from this clothing brand.

Although my style is quite laid back and casual but sometimes dressy, I really do like how original this shop is and also how beautiful are the models? Personally I think any shape or size would be able to pull their clothing off for such a nice price.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and got plenty of Easter eggs, is it just me who thinks the chocolate on Easter eggs tastes so much better than ordinary chocolate? That might be just me.. My next blog post should hopefully be containing two of the things i got for Easter that aren't chocolate, however I'm just waiting of the delivery:-(! 

ciao beautiful people reading my blog, I love you all lots and hope you have an amazing week. 

x

Soup, Coffee and Birthdays.

I actually didn't know what to blog about tonight, so this post may be a little bit random as its non fashion or beauty related. However last night it was my dads birthday and we went out for a family meal, the night was amazing and I took some quite impressive photographs of the food. Well quite impressive for me, im not photographer..

My starter was absolutely amazing and recently I have really been loving soup,mhmm tomato and basil soup.

After around half an hour of choosing what to have for my main course, I finally settled on chicken enchiladas. YUM! Even though I make these myself at home these were delicious, and as a bonus I love Mexican food! 

I know this photo isn't the best because it's out of focus at the bottom but just look at the detail on the top of my Latte. By the end of the night I got that addicted to these that I actually had around 3/4, oops!

After I've finished this blog post I'm actually going to plan out some other blog posts to do. Also I think I may be going to the Nottingham vintage fair so if any other bloggers who read my blog are going just tweet me and if I am going I could meet you! I love going to little craft fairs and charity events but I've never actually been to a vintage clothing/jewelry/cake fair. I've spent my whole night just slobbed in my room doing school work, listening to music and now blogging, Im coming to face the fact I have no social life. Also before I say goodbye to all you lovely people I would just like to appologise for not having a set time table for when I'm going to make a blog post. Some days I never have anything actually interesting to blog about and I don't want to bore you all with my life. I hope you enjoyed this different styled blog post, because come on who doesn't like blogs and food? put them together = perfect! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DAD.

music played while doing this blog- Born to die Lana Del Rey/ Don't save me Haim/ Step Vampire Weekend/ King and the Lionheart Of Monsters and Men.

    

A is for Ashley Madekwe.

Recently I've a tiny bit stuck for post ideas ( I have no imagination *sighs*) so all day I've been sat in my room trying to think. Eventually I came up with the idea of an A-Z is for posts seen as I'll be able to blog about this 26 times. The hardest part of this post was figuring out who to do for the letter "A" I first had ideas of Ashley Benson, Azealia Banks or Arctic Monkeys, it has taken me about two hours to think of this beautiful women. And if you don't know who she is, have you been hiding in a cave your whole life? Ashley Madekwe starred in the amazing tv series called Revenge, her style is so casual yet so gorgeous. You wouldn't of guessed that shes actually 31 years old (she looks early 20's gosh) and her figure is to die for.  She pulls off any outfit and out of every single one of her outfits on google/pinterest the four above are defiantly my favourite! I just want to be her haha, I think i may be developing a girl crush on her.. Also Ashley is feature in this months company magazine! Tell me in the comments what you think about this blog post, and whether or not i should continue to do these? I dont think I will be daily these posts daily but I might carry it on throughout the whole year to make it more interesting. Hope you enjoyed this post, much love shannon x

music played while doing this blog post- don't save me haim/ whispers in the dark mumford and sons/ lover of the light mumford and sons/ just be paloma faith.