Floral Culottes and Band Tee.

Top: Kaiser Chiefs Tour. Belt: Asos Curve. Culottes: Dorothy Perkins. 

Blazer: Gemma Collins c/o Simply Be.

 I was on twitter a few days ago (but lets get real, I'm ALWAYS on it ...) and the lovely Olivia from Wait Until The Sunset had posted an outfit involving one of her many loved Band Tee's and was wondering whether her look with them was too 'tough' and how could she make it more feminine. I suggested teaming it with florals as this is what I do with the majority of my cool band tee's. Now I'm sure you all know by now I'm a lover of in some opinions rubbish pop music meaning I have a large number of tee's from pop concerts so instead of showing you my Jonas Brothers and One Direction numbers (these are strictly pj tops and are never seen in public!) or even my number of McFly ones which have actually in the past happily been worn in public, granted most recently while I was on the way to one of there gigs. I thought I'd show you one of my all time favourite band tee's and how I tend to style it.

This is a Kaiser Chiefs Tee from the tour for the second album "Yours Truly Angry Mob". It is very much loved so has probably seen better days, I've actually had this since I was 13, so that's six years not bad going for a top! In the last few years I always tend to pair my tour shirts with these cute floral culottes, I know their not technically a skirt, but they look like one! I can dress these up or down and have surprisingly been a very versatile piece in my wardrobe. The belt has now been featured on here a number of times as I just love pairing it with everything specially florals as it keeps that rocky edge and also finished the look off without being too much. Now the blazer is to die for, in fact it will be getting a post of its own for a review very soon but lets just say I'm so in love with it, perfect beyond words! For my make up I was actually getting ready to go out, so I had a sparkly lid with some smudged black liner along my upper lash line for some definition with lashing of mascara and some colour on my lips to compliment the flowers on the culottes.

As it's winter here and dark by 4pm the majority of my pictures seem to be getting taken at night (if I get chance at all lately!) But I actually quite like how the pictures turn out, I hope you don't mind! Also if you haven't checked out Olivia's blog then it's a must she is one of my fave bloggers and her pictures always make me smile because she has such a lovely smile! She's also from Australia, how amazing is it that we get to chat like old friends yet we're basically on the other side of the world to each other, sometimes you just gotta love the Internet!

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Wild Ombre.

Okay first things first, I AM FULLY CLOTHED IN ALL THESE PICTURES. It's just I took my vest straps down so bleach didn't get on them! But yeah last week I got my hair cut which meant basically all my ombre ends from before were cut out. I'd decided not to do it again and have my hair natural for awhile.. but I'm not a fan of my natural hair colour I find it a little boring, so while I was snooping around boots (a place I have spent a silly amount of money in for myself lately) I saw the Wild Ombre's collection by Loreal I thought I would give it a go as I often find lightening my hair can be a right ball ache and I knew I loved having my hair in this colour style.

the instructions in the box are easy to follow with clear directions on the reverse side they also show how the colour looks on different hair lengths which is a good idea, unfortunately I feel I miss judged "from the ear down" as the top of my ear so there's more blonde than I would of initially liked but never mind. Over all I do think this is a clever product but I don't feel it worked well for me! The brush to put the solution through your hair evenly isn't strong or thick enough to actually get through my hair so after a few attempts I ended up getting it onto my hands to put through my hair. After doing this I brushed over the top layers I was highlighting to try and stop the blocked step that can sometimes happen when dip dying your hair. I would say that this product lightens your hair really quickly as normally when I do my ends it can often takes hours but this took just about 40 or so minutes to develop to the colour above.

The main downside for me was how horrid my hair felt after it as that there wasn't actually a deep conditioner in the box there was just a conditioning shampoo that didn't do a while lot to my parched ends! I have another packet of this in the shade lighter option that I may give a go eventually but I'm still not happy with my hair really its just the condition its left in. I know bleach ruins hair but mine had never felt that dry specially considerings I've lightened it a few times before! I don't know if I'd happily buy this again or not lets just see how I feel. To be quite honest I don't think I've ever been overly impressed with a Loreal hair colour product, I used a brown last summer on my light auburn hair and it didn't change the colour at all! I did complain but they wanted to phone me and I was so bad on the phone at the time I chickened out!

And finally apologies for the very tired eyes, I did my hair at 11.30pm on Christmas Eve!

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Currently Coveting.

I am so in love with this bracelet from Cheap Thrills! It's a little quirky and different but ultimately still so beautiful! There are so many adorable vintage esque styled pieces which are all individual but would work beautifully piled on together as well on this site! I've been a fan for what seems like years but I'm yet to actually order anything from the site as I'm never one to have at all pricey jewellery and I tend to get it tangled or broken in no time at all... but I just LOVE this so much it may be the time to invest. This is something I'm hopefully going to purchase in the New Year when I've got a little more money to spare! I'm really interested in specific times of history and this is just so cool! You all know I adore vintage from all different era's but I also love all things historical within reason. Also lets not forget Henry was a bit of a gooer and probably had a fair few children he didn't know about floating around his castle at the time! Totally makes this more bad ass!

I can't believe how close it is to Christmas Day now its crazy! I know I've been a little behind with outfit posts lately but I have a few reviews to get up as well as some super cute outfits to show you but the god awful weather has stopped me getting pictures! Trying to take photographs in the rain is near impossible and you always look a mess too! Once it's stopped raining for more than ten minutes I'll get on it!

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