Beauty: Christmas Present Haul

Hello All,

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas getting Merry and stuffing yourself with Turkey to your heart's content.
I want to apologize for neglecting this blog for the past couple of months, and I am hoping to have more time in the new year to focus on blogging more regularly and giving it a bit of an uplift.

In the meantime I wanted to share with you some of the goodies I received for Christmas. This is focused on all the "smelly's" I was gifted, as I'm sure like many of you, I just love getting a good pamper gift set for Christmas and I was not disappointed this year.












Soap & Glory The Soapremes:
Soap and Glory is my all time favourite brands for pampering goods and this huge gift set is perfect. There's everything you would ever need in the set, from hand and foot creams to shower gels and scrubs. I absolutely adore the smell of soap and glory products and am super happy with this set as know I will use all of it.

Body Shop Gift Set:
The essential shower kit which smells good enough to eat. One of my favourite smells is strawberries so to be able to smell like them all day makes me a super excited. As I said this is a great shower kit with the shower gel and body scrub and of course the post shower essential: body butter to keep your skin nice and moisturised.

Ted Baker Gift Set:
This was one of my favourite gifts purely for the packaging. I love the cute little box it comes in (which I will be keeping, another bonus to getting gift sets), the French bulldog tissue paper and the peachy orange colour of the bottles and pots. Again like the other two it smells amazing and this is the perfect miniature set to take on holidays.

Thanks for reading, did you get any gift sets for Christmas? Let me know which ones you love

Josie xo

Trend Inspiration: Swinging Sixties

       Sheridan Smith as Cilla

 

In Honour of the highly anticipated Cilla starting on ITV this week I thought I would dedicate this blog post all to the swinging sixties.

If you missed the first episode of Cilla from Monday, catch up with it on ITV player here in time for the new episode tomorrow, it really is a must see. Sheridan Smith as you would of guessed was amazing at playing the renouned Cilla Black. The show is also really great for getting some style inspiration for the autumn/winter 2014 trend.
Every season has its signunture decade, and this time it is the sixties, as seen at Louis Vuitton and Valetino's a/w 2014 shows. The Sixties I believe was really a revolution for the fashion world, with hem lines getting shorter and hair and make up getting bigger, it was one of the first time women and even men could have fun with fashion.

 Louis Vuitton                                                    Valetino

 

 

Like I said with hair and make up in the 60s it was very much bigger it better. Make up was focused on the eyes, cat flick eyeliner, smokey eyeshadow and clumly mascara were a must, while keeping the rest of your face very natural and neutral. Think nude lips and a light tint of blusher.

The hair saw the start of the beehive, which consists of a hell of a lot of back combing and hairspray.

 

When it comes to the Sixties there are 2 celebrities that spring to mind to really changeling this trend with a contemporary vibe, and that is pixie Lott and Ariana Grande. Both of them have the perfect legs to pull off a mini skirt and love a big hair do. To get some inspiration from the two see below..

                                 

 To shop the trend check out some of the pieces I have picked out below. I hope you all got a little bit inspiration to rock the sixties trend yourselves.

Thanks for reading

Josie xo

 

 

Boots, Jumper, Pink Coat, Shift Dress, Lip Print Skirt, Check Print Dress, Heels, Black Top, Silver Skirt, Grey Coat, Blue Loafers, Collar Top.

Style Icon: Paloma Faith

At Burberry Prorsum SS15 show 

Today is all about my Women Crush Wednesday, Paloma Faith.
After hearing Sigma's new song "changing" featuring Paloma Faith a couple of weeks ago at the Bournemouth air festival I got straight on my iTunes and pre-order that baby.
This week I finally got the tune on my phone and have been blasting it out my car singing along erratically on the way to work ever since.
Her voice is so beautiful with a real old soulful sound to it, this is such a great song to end the summer. If you haven't heard it (where have you been?) listen to it and watch the video below.

 

The reason this fabulous lady is my woman crush Wednesday and a influential style icon in her own right is because she is so daring and isn't afraid to hold back or care what people think. She has a retro and eccentric look that nobody else that could pull off and I believe always gets it right, to colour clashing with her bright orange hair to getting the prefect silhouette, taking inspiration from the 50's with wiggle dresses and full skirts which compliment her figure excellently. Every outfit you see her wear you cant help but love, even if it is ever so slightly quirky and I always think to myself I wish I could pull that off.

So let's just take a minute to admire some of her best outfits (in my opinion) I have chosen slightly more of her toned down looks from her as these are personally my favourites.

 

 

 

What do you think of Paloma Faith? Do you love her style?  

Thanks for reading :)

 

Josie xo

Rocking flamingos

Hi all, happy Sunday hope you are having a lovely day. 

Sorry I haven't posted for ages, no excuses I have just been rusbish. 

So today I wanted to share with you this new co-ord set from cloclothes http://cloclothes.bigcartel.com 

This set was hand made by the lovely Chloe at cloclothes, they have a huge range of lovely bits from co-ords to kimonos and Chloe is so helpful, brilliant customer service, I could not recommend better. I fell in love with this set as soon as I saw it on the site the print is so vibrant and fun I just had to have it. Unfortunately it was all sold out, but the lovely Chloe came to my rescue and agreed to make me one which I am so grateful for. She also added some goodies for me with a matching scrunchie and clutch bag, how cute are they? 

So on to how I styled it, with it now approaching autumn I thought I would give this a more transitional look by pairing it with my trusty leather jacket from new look and my lovely new cut out block heel boots for primark which I just love so much. 

Hope you all like how I've styled it, I just think this a great way to take a summer outfit and make it wearable for autumn. 

Thanks for reading

Ps. Sorry for the pasty white legs, I just couldn't be bothered to fake tan. 

Josie xo 

VMAS 2014 - BEST DRESSED

Last night the VMA'S were back and the celebs certainly did not disappoint on the red carpet. Like always the VMA'S give celebs a great platform to really take risks and I love how daring they make their outfits. from daring hemlines, bold patterns and a whole lot of skin the VMA'S red carpet is definitely an interesting one you cant keep your eyes off.

Below is just a few of my favourite outfits from the night

Miley Cyrus, I salute you. I normally do not like Miley or anything she wears she always so busy trying to make headlines that she just gets it so wrong. But this outfit is just spot on, I love the leather trousers and she is showing just enough skin that she's still kept it classy. I really hope we see a lot more of these outfits from Miley as she looks beautiful in my opinion.

 



seriously who doesn't love Jenifer Lopez's body? I really hope I look that good in my 40's and this dress is just everything I need in  a dress. skin aplenty, silver and glittery, what more does a girl want. Finished off with a simple silver clutch and silver glittery court shoes. perfection.

 

The Scarlett Women. who wore it best? I truly can not decide. Red, boobs and thigh, they both tick all of the boxes. I love Demi Lovato's take on the red dress, keeping it classic and demure. Rita Ora silky number screams Jessica Rabbit, completely sexy.

 

A few more of my favourites

 

Beyoncé

Iggy Azalea

Jessie J

Solange Knowles

Gwen Stefani

 

And Last but not Least, the one and only Kardashian/Jenner Clan

 



 

Kylie and Kendal kill it every time with their red carpet looks and I just adore both of these effortlessly chic black ensembles both of them are wearing. Then there is Kim, this dress is so wrong its right, of course it is extremely

low cut showing off her best assets but I just love the cape like affect of the top half and the pattern is lovely.

I will leave you with Usher, who I think perfectly sums up Kim's Look. hehe.



 

Thanks for reading, who was your best dressed for the 2014 VMA'S?

 

Josie Xo