Wardrobe weekly

I am having an episode while I write this.... I just heard an alarming noise and realised that my big dress wardrobe was breaking. I hope very much that I will be able to save it because seriously, I can't find anything similar that will fit the space and I will have to get rid of a shit load of stuff if it can't be salvaged! Man, why does this have to happen just after we bought a new bed and the day bed for the spare room is on its way?! Worst timing EVER! Trying not to stress about it but my beau is at a gig tonight and he is normally the one to reassure me that it's not the end of the word. Deep breaths!

Anyway, here are most of my ootd's.

Monday

I completely ignored my outfit on Monday because it was the Anna Scholz sample day and I was thinking of nothing else! I had on my Ruby Rocks flamenco dancer print dress (also a sample I believe!)

 

Dress 22 - Simply Be via ebay (think this is a sample, they produced this same print in a different style!)

Shoes - charity shop

 

Tuesday

 I had sort of forgotten this dress that I bought in the summer, it's a cute work dress, but my hair was behaving very badly and ruined my look I feel. I wanted to wear it up but my white sideburns prevented me doing so... never mind!

 Dress 24 - Anna Scholz black label

Tights XL - Primark 100 den

Shoes - New Look

Wednesday

 Getting sparkly now it's december!

Dress 24 - Lovedrobe

Tights XL - Primark (super cosy)

Shoes - New Look

 I wore some cute Primark earrings too, they have some lovely Christmas jewellery!

On a rather different note I got some of the much lauded Neal's Yard Remedies lengthening mascara (£16) because I wanted something a bit more natural that wasn't going to damage my lashes if I wear it everyday......

 It smells lovely (sort of vanilla coconut oil smell) and has a nice brush, so I tried it out.....

 No mascara & no curling (my lashes are so stumpy and shite :()

 After one coat....

 After two coats.....

 I'm not at all impressed with this mascara to be honest. The only good things about it is the smell and the fact that it doesn't irritate my eyes. It hardly sticks to my lashes at all. I tried so hard to get a layer of it onto the tips of my lashes, but to no avail! It doesn't really lengthen them. Applying two coats is almost impossible as the 2nd layer seems to dissolve the 1st layer. You'll have to trust me when I say that pretty much every other mascara I've ever had has been better at lengthening my lashes than this one. Shame. I'll probably use it now and again anyway just to give my eyes a break from the chemicals in my other mascaras (and because it cost £16 and I can't return it!) but it really isn't a good product and it is certainly not worth £16! Take my advice and get some max factor masterpiece mascara instead (the original one in the gold tube)!

Friday

 Love this dress, it's a classic!

 Dress 22 - M&S via ebay

Leggings 20 - Primark

Boots - Simply Be

Saturday

I wore my old pastel orange jeans and navy bird print jumper.... while cleaning the flat the jeans tore right from the crotch until nearly the whole leg was hanging off. Another pair bites the dust. That is why there are no pictures!

Sunday

 Had my boyfriends parents round so a pretty dress was 100% nessasary!

 Dress 24 - Anna Scholz white label

Tights XL - Primark 100 den

Cardi 18 - Dorothy Perkins

Shoes - clarks via ebay

My (faux) mother in law loved the dress, particularly the pattern and the polar bear!

Right I'm off to think about anything but my broken wardrobe!

If only....

..... I was going somewhere today.......

 I started the day in a little dress as the sun was shining. Had to change thanks to the sudden down pours and howling wind!

I actually do quite a bit of customisation to my clothing, which this outfit proves rather well....

Polka dot shirt - Vintage (removed from the skirt section as it was drop-waisted, which looks revolting on me, I actually put the skirt on when I got home yesterday as my legs were on fire in my jeans... 2 items for the price of one!!)

Trousers - Asos Curve (I wish they weren't so seethrough, never mind!)

Booties - K ankle boots from Clarks... well old! (I cut the top section off, and sewed the belt from my Ruby Rocks lotus print skater dress round the ankles to make them more interesting!)

Pin-up Diva

It's Friday! That means it's dress like a DIVA day. I decided today would be a pin-up style day.

 

Dress - Queen of Holloway

Cardi - Primark

Leggings - Primark

Shoes - Clarks

 

I'm not at works today, but I have worn this dress to work before (there are very few clothes I wear away from work that I wouldn't be happy to wear in the office - I'm not self concious!). Today I'm waiting for a guy from Ikea to come and look at my broken sofa and then I'm off to the post office for another mammoth ebay posting-fest. Doesn't mean I can't get overdressed! I would normally wear tights with this outfit but at home I'm a leggings girl!

I often wear pin-up style dresses with short cardies, or I tie them up like above.

 

This cherry print. They are a very pink shade of red, so my perfect accompaniment is this lippy....

I have 4 of these delicious glittery lip crayons. I'm a lip stain / crayon fan. I don't like dry or greasy lips (or sticky) so these provide intense colour and shine, with insane amounts of glitter but don't make my lips feel icky!. This is no.2.

See? Glossy lips without the sticky gloss. Yey!

xx