On Your Bike

top: H&M  |  jeans: Topshop  |  shoes: New Look  |  bangle: Accessorize  |  ring: Wonsuponatime  |  nails: Barry M

Ok so be shocked - my hair is up! I never ever have photos taken of me when my hair is up. I'm just not comfortable with it and I think it makes my face look rather round eek. However, I thought I'd be a brave girl with this post and I'm not too displeased with the results - yay! I do usually have a side fringe, however it's grown rather long lately so it's usually sweeped up!

So a really simple outfit today. These are my amazing high waist jeans. I got them for my birthday last November and they have fallen off my radar slightly, but I found them on my bathroom floor the other day and it was one of those "o I forgot I had you!" moments! They are really flattering, really comfy and just really great.

I've teamed it with a new blouse from H&M. I've been looking for one like this for yonks! It's actually quite long and I've been wearing with with leggins and a vest underneath. I love the lace detailing on this - as you all know I'm a lover of all things lace so I was always going to fall in love with this!

Now onto my gorgeous lovely ring. I won this beauty in a Twitter competiton from Wonsuponatime. They haven't yet launched so I'm super lucky to have an item of theirs! They launch at the end of August so keep an eye out, you won't be disappointed. Give them a follow on twitter here :) I love her vintage a lot of their pieces look and this one in particular looks like an antique! It's also very apt with the Olympics at the moment!

I think this is a perfect evening with the girls for dinner outfit, I love it and the shoes give it that extra pop of glamour!

How would you wear your high waist jeans? 

The Review | 17 Mirror Shine On Lipstick

17 Mirror Shine On Lipstick in Belle

I have a serious lipstick problem. It's getting a tad out of hand. I went and bought ANOTHER one. Opps. Luckily this is on the cheaper side, a bargain at under £5. I saw this product on Kat's blog a little while a go and I've been thinking about giving it go.
I decided to give Belle a go - mainly just because I love the name, but also because I fell in love with the colour. It's a natural deep pink and looks so natural when it's applied on my lips.
It has the normal lipstick feel to it and it glides on so easily. I'm more than comfortable popping it on without a mirror which is handy and my lips feel moisturized when it's on.
It's not the longest lasting lipstick. About 45 minutes and the feeling has gone, about 2 hours in and so has the colour.
It's a perfect everyday drugstore lipstick. I would recommend and am looking forward to picking up another shade. I think I have a new addiction.

I would like to apologize about my awful complexion in this photo. I did think about a little airbrushing but I think it's so important for your readers to see you exactly as you are. So here you go you lucky things you.

This lipstick is available from Boots for a lovely £4.59

Have you tried 17 lipsticks? Any shades you'd recommend?

Any Size: Coloured Jeans

Coloured jeans seem to be feared by many! In this weeks Any Size post, my fab bloggers show you how it's done!

Size 8: Kate from The Style Department
A fab red shade! A very bold and gorgeous colour, showing off her lovely pins! Teamed perfectly with a natural tee and jacket.

Size 10: Laura from Lauraxamy
Love this shade of pink of Laura teamed with this gorgeous blouse. Perfect combination for her teeny frame, can be dressed up or down!

Size 12: Me
Darker colours suit my elephant thighs better, and these 'aubergine' ones are perfect. Great for autumn, summer and teams with gold. (I know I'm usually in the 10, but these jeans are a 12 so no cheating from me!)

Size 14: Rachel from Lots: An English Girl in America
This colour looks perfect on Rachel, really flattering and teams with a patterned, neutral top is the perfect way to compliment these beauties!

As you can see, I've changed up the format of this weeks Any Size. I'm still playing with different layouts to see what works and what doesn't so feel free to throw suggestions at me! I like the pic above, I just wish I could make it a tab bigger!

Next week's Any Size will be dressing Yellow! It'll be the first one I don't feature in which is quite exciting, you won't have to see my mug! Hope you like the new style of this post as well :) if you're interested in getting involved with Any Size at all in the future just give get in touch via twitter or email!

How do you style your coloured jeans?

Life Through a Lens #3 Olympic Special

This weeks Life Through a Lens is an Olympic Special! I was lucky enough to go to the Olympics on Saturday with my parents and little brother (big brother was unfortunately working and was missed!). Because of this I thought I'd do two sets of life photos - the first specifically my day at the park and secondly life from the past week :)

stadium at night  |  with parents in front of the stadium  |  Phelps coming out  |  desert

me & mum at the aquatics centre  |  lunch  |  all of us in front of stadium  |  aquatics centre

phelps last race  |  orbit  |  team GB  |  aquatics sign

hiding the lil bro  |  champagne  |  with mum  |  stadium

new lipstick  |  last ever picture of Stan  |  flags  |  treat

Dougal  |  best pudding ever  |  new dress  |  bathroom redesign

fishtail plait  |  blogging  |  yum yum   |  tickets

best ring ever  |  another treat  |  soggy puppy  |  olympic pjs!

This week has been a bit of a mixed bag for me. As you all probably know we had a loss in our family, which I'm still struggling with, but I had such an incredible weekend as well. So definitely a mix. 

Nothing really interesting happened during the week last week if I'm honest - just the usual stuff! I got very excited when Lisa from BINTM tweeted me, she is my favourite atm but I think I'm slightly biased seeing as we share a name... We have had the plumbers and bathroom fitters in doing our main bathroom. We now have a spa bath which is nice! Will show you a pic when it's all done. Thing is both me and my parents have en suites, and neither of my brothers live at home anymore who shared the bathroom, so will stay very clean and new I think!

Arthur went swimming for the first time! Well, when Mum took him down he ran away from the waves - they are very scary after all! But Dad took him in at the weekend and made him swim with his harness, he didn't seem to mind too much I think!

On Saturday we went to the Olympics to see the last evening of the swimming and Michael Phelps LAST EVER olympic race - was incredible! Was such a lovely family day out and a great experience. Want to go back again! 

This week I'm a tad busy! I have a Body Shop party tonight, and then I am off to Brighton on Saturday for dog racing with the boy and his parents, and Sunday I'm off to a charity dog walk! Fun fun!

How was your week? Have any of you been lucky enough to go to the Olympics as well?

Purple Haze

top: H&M  |  jeans: topshop  |  shoes: accessorize  |  bangle: accessorize  |  GB band: Links of London

Bit of a different style of pictures for me. Well, kinda. Usual outside photo shots, but all landscape for today. I've become a bit meh about my blog lately. Not so much the content, but just the general look and feel. But I've been the same with my wardrobe lately as well so maybe it's just me.

These are my newest Topshop Leigh jeans in a gorgeous deep plum colour. I love Leigh jeans. They hug everything so nicely and yet are so comfortable. A tab pricey at £38 each but I've given myself permission to buy one pair per payday. These are a tad long but they don't tend to them them shorter for my waist which is a pain.

This top is also a newbie, this time from H&M. I spotted in their catalogue and loved it, so when I went up to Cardiff I sent Hanah and myself a mission for finding it. Find it we did, and purchase it I did. I like it cause it's different for me in terms of colour and style. I'm not a huge sequin fan so I took a chance. I like that it's baggy, however both me and the boy have complained of its scratchiness! I think it could be dressed up as well as down. I've already worn it to work with a pair of black trousers and blazer and dressed down like this as well.

I like this little outfit. It's a nice little weekend/shopping outfit and I can't wait for my next pair of Leigh jeans!

What colour Leigh jeans do you have? Which would you recommend?