Thursday, 31 July 2014

Kind of in love with....

This month I'm in love with:

1) this book, funny, truthful, the antidote to 50shades 


2) 60 seconds dry ! And in white, quick and on trend, also loving (rapid ruby) dark red. 


3) long sleeve crops, with high waisted trousers, the perfect combo for autumn.

Specially love this ribbed blue number form topshop 


4) these funky acetate glasses from Asos, am I brave enough to buy?!? 
Cat eye= bang on trend 


5) Paolo Nutini's new album "caustic love" 
On repeat: iron sky, love this track, great beat, great voice 

 
6) the sun !!! And just sitting in the garden. So maybe living in dorsets not so bad this time of year, I'll keep you posted though in the middle of December.

7) mixed berry beer, rather a nice touch... And it matches my nail varnish! 

 
Thanks for reading 
X




Tuesday, 29 July 2014

A little New Year's Eve experience

So Linda and Greg,
Another fine example of teen romance and promiscuity. 
New Years was, granted, a while back, however the very level of teenage awkwardness achieved in one encounter is endlessly impressive.

Again this is completely 'made up' and any attempt to draw parallels with reality are furtive.

The bases for the events boiled down to two factors: horniness (if that's counts as a word) and a little …well, let's call it herbal remedie... 

Both found themselves in this specific state and this the natural progression was obviously to find themselves a cupboard, what did or didn't happen is irrelevant... Even the fact that someone's else's name may or may not have been called out or that Linda remains to this day unsure whether her virginity remains intact and if so to what extent. 

Regardless the real mark of the teenager is this blind search for adult intimacy. We crave experience of all things whether they be "herbal" or sexual. 

In this blind pursuit not even an enquiring brother nor the fact that parents are resuding in the next room can quell that inherent need to savour the new to take one step closer to being all 'grown up'. 

Apologies to readers, my first two posts have been relating to sexual encounters, this is not a trend so much as an engrained and, to my mind, fascinating and telling part of adolescence. 

Thanks Linda and Greg....  

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Late for Wimbeldon

So today I had a sewing bee with my Mary, the cool kids that we are.
Of course we managed to find time for a quick photo shoot.

We so far made a skirt and destroyed a couple of metre of floral fabric which started off as a dress, then was morphed into a jumpsuit and ended up as "a pyjama onesie maybe ?"

Today's outfit is more city than country I feel, but the overcast weather made me feel less pretentious for insisting on black ankle boots in 23 degrees.

Colour combo is yellow, green and purple, reminiscent of Wimbledon with forest green and purple.

Attempting to incorporate various trends including below the knee length skirt, crop top and granny bag, enjoy the posing 


And then another.... Just cause I can 


Top- topshop
Skirt- home sewn
Boots- vagabond
Bag- thrifted (dents)
Cardigan- toast 
Glasses- Monki (at ASOS) 
Green bar ring- gift 
Lippy- mac in "rebel"

Anecdote on Wednesday, next OTTD next Sunday 
Thanks for reading
X

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

CYMT

So I'm part of this theatre group, the drama is supposed to be fictional and remain on the stage, alas, as you might imagine from a group of mid pubescent drama queens, this is not the case.

The following 'stories' are of course completely 'fictional'. And none of the people within relate to real people. 

So let's start with Cameron, he's a little enigma. His arrival at CYMT was the main factor in the chaos that insued.

The problem is that we are all bitches. We adore the thrill and contrast of being your best friend one moment and turning into your mortal enemy by the next, it's our fuel, it's what we live for. That and talking about it afterwards. Candice's party was a prime example. 

Each floor of her terraced house related to each separate defined state of intoxication.

The ground floor was that of feel good tipsyness, the ballroom drunks in their element. The basement was home to the weeping drunks, the "it's just my life's a mess" drunks. Next comes the first floor : sprawling limbs tangled between floral duvets. And finally when the bile has escaped the body by way of the toilet, only then can one graduate to the attic and begin the long journey to regaining ones sense and inhibitions. 

That's of course the terrible moment you realise your predatory behaviour the night before was a tad embarrassing. 

But that's enough about me, let's discuss Cameron, bit of back story during the previous week (show week) Cameron had systematically been flirting with Louise and Candice alternatively. Oh yeah not to mention the.... 'Incident' with Ivy the week before (neither participant claims to know what actually occurred- it was inevitably if a sexual nature, this much is sure) Anyway, the details are of a level of ridiculousness only paralelled with hollyoaks. 

Story short, he chose Louise, Candice was pissed (in both senses) and Ivy cried.

Now the story of Storm and Ken, again there's back stories but honestly I don't have that sort of patience. Ken's also a bit of a, for want of a more sophisticated word, twat.

Muffled mumblings escaped from the desk barricaded bedroom.
"And you said you were inexperienced"
"Show me what your working with"
Falling onto the ears of many a cringe faced listener. 
This is teenage 'romance' at it's very finest, I thank you both for your contribution, allowing us to better understand the pubescent mind.

Thrown into the mix were also a couple of gays, would be gays and femme fatales. Here's Liam ranting about his antics with a nameless male lover, Chantelle acting as water carrier, delivering water to the needy, and Storm making her way around to both Alfie and Brad. 

The best part of the party undoubtedly was the morning after, soothed by the embrace of a cooked breakfast we discussed in turn each event of the evening. 

I did not ask any of the 'fictional' people retold in the above, whether I could do so,  because what links us all together is a common in spoken belief that in the words of Oscar Wilde "there is only one thing  worse in this world than being talked about, and that's not being talked about" 

Various proof readers have suggested that I should include more detailed back stories. 

If I can be bothered I might at a later date

Thanks x

Monday, 21 July 2014

Semi-fro care

Beauty tip for the month, 

For my hair (mixed race) it's best not to shampoo and I only wash it twice a week at most. 
Use a cleansing conditioner like 'Palmers Olive Oil co-wash'
Brush through hair whilst in the shower sand towel dry gently.
I reccomend any oil based treatment, or hair lotions.
About once a week treat it with pure oil (savers tip: don't buy it as hair product, just buy the pure oil off amazon or something) good ones include: coconut oil, mustard seed oil (doesn't smell don't worry) or even olive oil.

That's my routine anyway :) 
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Only £2.49 at a superstore 



Sunday, 20 July 2014

The bright lights

So living in dorsets a ball, really it is, the
 smell of pig shit, the annual county shows, the dazzling high street, but every once in a while it's nice to get away.

This little tale relates to the day me and Brooks went to Londiniam together, after two and a half hours on the train we arrived in the big city. As ever I felt that warm glow which I have come to associate with the presence of racialdiversity a foreign concept within the small confines of dorset. We took the tube (feeling ever so urban) to oxford circus and begun out gruelling slog around expanses of topshop. Brooks,  in her blood boiling way, was hopelessly indecisive about whether to buy a frankly rather ordinary grey blazer, upon asking the cashier for advice, the following conversation insued:

Cashier: well you can always return it to your local topshop
Brooks: we don't really have one, we live outside London
Cashier: well then the topshop in the next town
Brooks: the closest ones about 2 hours away 
Cashier: 2 hours!!!! TWO HOURS!!! but.... But 
Brooks: yeah I know 
Cashier: (verging on almost tearful pity) well that must be difficult.

That's right folks- article 231 of the Geneva convention of human rights: every human has the right to a topshop within a 20 mile radius. 
TWO HOURS, I mean what sort of world are we living in!

Leister square
My highstreet at 7 o'clock on a Saturday evening 

Navy browsing

So here's my outfit of the day, gallery opening today in somerset- the excitement is never ending

Sporting the colour combo of the month, canary, coral and navy ;)
the breakdown:
Navy combo with the on trend geometric square designs, paired with a semisheer top and white crop tee.
this look is bought to a more playful feel with the addition of my yellow "sweedish hasbeens" clog and a dash of matching coral toes and lippy. The Dreamcatcher style earrings tie up the yellow and white nicely.





Top- Hobbs
Trousers- Whistles
Crop tee-home sewn
Shoes- Swedish Hasbeens (online)
Lipstick- Mac stores in 'So Chaud'
Earrings- Topshop

A little intro to me

so hi,
im not going to use my real name for two reasons,
A) i dont want it to become the number one most popular baby name when I become world renown
B) i am planning to talk about my life and my friends, at times in a brutally honest manner and i wish not to incriminate myself

this leads me to my second point, all names have been changed for this very reason, shame if you know me though, my lack of imagination will allow you to quickly draw parallels between my "fictional" tellings and reality, no matter. 

so hi,
this blog is about my life as a teenager in the middle of dorset, its about my style: both life and fashion. and its about how i see this weird little world of ours

a little about me then; i am sixteen (until october), I own 57 pairs of coloured tights and i have no idea what im going to be. i consider myself stylish to the point i was tempted to call this blog "southcoast style guru" but then again i didn't want to step on anyone's toes

i will follow up with an amusing anecdote then i plan to blog every Sunday, hope you enjoy