Wardrobe Weekly

Monday

The festive season really is upon us, and my outfit choices are totally based around Christmas time. It's all about lush fabrics and sparkles for me right now.

 It is tricky to get pictures that show the totally awesome sparkle on this skirt, even with a flash (clearly!)

 I always wanted this skirt from Asos Curve, but for some reason I never ordered it. I got it in a size 24 from ebay recently. To be honest I could have done with a 26 cause the skirt is very full, but the waistband is small and not at all stretchy. It's uncomfortably tight so I will probably wear it a little undone the next time I wear it. I hate tight non-stretch waistbands... how am I supposed to sit comfortably? Where is my fat supposed to go?!

 

Cardi 20 - Primark

Skirt 24 - Asos Curve

Tights XL - Primark 100 den

Shoes - New Look

Tuesday

 Velvet please. Crushed velvet! I kept this outfit simple, and just added my new custom made necklace from Black Heart Creatives

Dress 20 - Vintage via ebay

Leggings 20 & boots - Primark

Necklace - Black Heart Creatives custom

 I've never paid a huge amount of attention to Black heart creatives because generally speaking I don't like any slogans on my clothing, but particularly swear words.... it's odd isn't it?! I love swearing (as I'm sure my readers have noticed), but I guess I'm acutely aware of how many people I see on a daily basis who may find swearing offensive? I think that if I wouldn't be prepared to wear something in front of my gran I shouldn't wear it at all (doesn't apply to underwear.... that would just be weird!). Anyway, as I had only really seen bloggers wearing their slogan necklaces I just thought they were not for me..... WRONG! After the BHC talk at plus London I had a chat with Charlotte about the possibility of getting some custom pieces. I won't go into it but Armour has played a pretty massive role in my life for the last 8 years and I have always wanted to have a mirrored Helmet brooch or necklace. I sent pictures and they made me exactly what I wanted. Ahhh man I so LOVE this necklace, it's perfect. They did such a good job for such a bargain price. My colleagues were loving it too! I'll show you the earrings when I wear them.

 Reflective fun. JOY! Thank you Black Heart Creatives, you've made me a very happy bunny!

 I made my first cheesecake on Tuesday night. Bloody delicious and so easy to make. Dunno why I've never done one before.... what a numpty!

Wednesday

 I just thought I'd take this out for a spin as it was chilly. To be honest it's a bit too big for me, but I sort of like it... I think?! I felt a bit braveheart in this get-up but hey, whatever!

Dress 24 - Samya via new look

Boots - Simply Be

Thursday

 I'm sure my followers also follow Mrs Bebe, and will therefore have seen this dress before, but when I saw her in it I had to have it. It's from Topsy Curvy and is described as 'lightweight velvet'. I wouldn't call it velvet, because it really doesn't have the look of velvet, but it does feel amazing. The girls in my office had a stroke and said it had that delicious feel of kid leather or even wet Chamois (shammy) leather. I'd say that was pretty accurate. Very strokeable, whatever it is! They didn't have my normal size (22/24) but this size 20 is fine. It's bodycon, but not in a super-tight way!

 Dress 20 - Topsy Curvy

Tights XL - Primark 100 den

Shoes - Charity shop

Friday

 This is one of my all time favorite dresses. I got it maybe 4 years ago in Primark, back when I was not sure if I could get away with bodycon dresses. This was my first..... I queued for ages to try it on (along with the other version that had snowflakes on it) and I fell hard for this one. I MASSIVELY regret not getting the other version too, but I was trying to be sensible (damnation!). Anyway, It comes out every Christmas, and I don't care that it's tight, and my belly looks big, I think it's really flattering and it's SO COMFY! It's also nice and warm. Isn't it one of the best dresses you've ever seen?! I think it was £15. They've never done dresses like this since, but they really should, because this was a year or so before Christmas jumpers became fashionable again.... can you imagine how fast these would fly off the shelves now?!

 Dress 18 - Primark

Leggings 20 - Primark

Boots - Primark

Saturday

Didn't get dressed!

Sunday

 Day out!

 Ping Pong

 Christmas puddings! (Primark tee / Domino Dollhouse skirt / George cardi)

 Man powered snow globe!

 Lush day. I adore London at Christmas time!

Gatsby

I feel like I've been going on about this forever, but I wanted a roaring 20's style dress to wear to my friends wedding next year, and having accepted that the short a-line flapper style dresses don't fit or suit me very well I've been on the look out for something suitable. You wouldn't think it would be so tricky, but I refuse to wear black to a wedding and the majority of the nice Gatsby-esque dresses available are black. Black is for funerals in my book (it's my book... you guys can obviously do whatever you want!), I like something a little less sombre for weddings personally!

Whilst choosing frocks for my Christmas party post I looked at Marisota and saw a dress called Gatsby.... on sale, and as I'd never ordered anything from them before I also got an extra 20% off and free next day delivery so I figured it was worth trying, it would be rude not to!

 Ooooohhhhh I proper feel like I'm in an episode of House of Elliott! I went for a size 24 as there's no stretch and it's heavily beaded. I'm not wearing any shaping undies here (which I will on the day) and I've got a fantastic deco head band (not the one I'm wearing above fyi!). Not decided on the shoes, but I think this dress is so lovely. I like the length and the beading is really beautiful!

 Totally plain on the back so not much to say about it!

What do you think?! With some heels and maybe a side bun?! The dress is available here, and I've been very impressed with the service from Marisota - hope it will be as good when I'm not a 'new customer'!. I would say I could have fitted into a 22 on top, but it would certainly have been too tight on my big bottom, so go for your normal size if your top heavy, size up if your bottom heavy!

More Christmas frocks!

Oh my lord, since my mammoth Christmas dress post so many new and exciting dresses have been released! I'm not allowed to buy anything new until next year after my recent splurges but I thought I'd just show you guys some more dresses that I'm loving at the moment!

First up is this STUNNER from my favourite designer Anna Scholz. Bless her cotton socks, she has just release this limited edition party dress for £95..... her crepe corseted dresses are normally in the region of £190 so it's a special purchase. I really want one of these, but after spending £260 at her sample sale I think I might have to curb my Scholz habit until next year :(

If this sparkly dress from new look wasn't a mini I'd have had it..... lush!

This New Look inspire dress is so incredibly girly that I wouldn't normally look twice at it, but it's just so very pretty that I want to try it on and flounce about in it!

Sticking with New look, and the girly theme, I love the lace on this dress and it's such a bargain for £26.99!

Yours clothing have some mega cute dresses at the moment, I love the gold on this one!

There are few thing in life I would like... to have a bosom like the model above is one of them, for this dress to be longer is another! If you're more of a mini skirt fan than me then this sexy sequin dress from Yours clothing would be amazing for Christmas!

She wore blllluuuuuuuueeeeee velvet! Nuff said! Yours clothing velvet skater dress.

I think Simply Be have hit the nail on the head with this deco inspired beaded dress. Want this very badly, although I'm not sure this flapper shape works on me!

I do tend to forget about Marisota, mainly because SImply be sell so much of the same stuff, but occasionally I'll notice a batch of dresses that I really like and this Grace dress is one of them. So pretty, lace with sparkle in a shape that would flatter most figures!

I was trying to get my colleague to buy this in the standard ASOS range last week, so I was so happy to see it in curve! HOLOGRAPHIC SEQUINS!

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!