Hitting Problems!

So other than the weather this week, as it has been absolutely gorgeous in the UK, which Im sure won't last very long, there have been a few let downs!

First of all, which I feel is the most annoying, is the fact that my hair has began to fade...already!! My hair was oringinally blonde (bleached not natural) and I was getting a bit bored with it and felt like it was bleaching out my face at the same time, so deicded to put a honey blonde colour on it. It has made it so much softer for my features and gives me a bit more of a healthy glow, but unfortunately the bleach has over powered, and after one cover was it is beginning to fade...no one can beat the bleach. And now it looks like a dirty dishwasher colour! So that was failure number one....

Thirdly is to do with the amazing daisy lace shorts that I bought on budget the other week in Matalan. It turns out im not a size 8 anymore around my bum (as this is where all of my extra weight ends up)! I suppose it was my own stupid fault for not trying them on in the first place, but this now means I have to travel all the way back and replace them with a bigger size...without a reciept either which should make it more fun!

Second of all, absolutely ridiculous tan lines. I naturally have quite an olive skin tone, which I know is very lucky and I am really greatful for (thanks ancestors) but this does mean that I catch the sun very very easily without burning. Me and the boyf went out for the day yesterday and the weather was a-mazing. However I stupidly wore a tshirt that has sleeves so now I have a real man tan on my arms! It is not a great look at all. Damn.  

Anyway I just wanted to share these problems with you just to make you all aware of the silly mistakes we all make in life! So dont forget to keep your receipts or even easier try things on before you buy, where decent clothing in the sun and also let a hairdresser do your hair, they are bound to do a better job than we ever will!!

Just a little life post for you...Im now off to the garden to sort out these tan lines! :)

And a picture to keep you entertained.....

Beautiful day yesterday :)

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A Touch of Sparkle

Recently I have been seeing this new nail trend (well its not so new) but Ive recently started loving it! Im sure everyone is aware of the 'colour your ring finger a different colour from the rest of your nails' look but before hand Ive only ever seen it in block colours. However I came across this picture on my Pinterest and absolutely fell in love with it....

I absolutely love the candy-floss pink nail colour and the sparkling silver just completely tops it off! These colours look so great together! Before I saw this I only really saved my sparkle nail colours for Christmas and New Year time, but I love the fact that I can now wear them all year round!!

Heres my version....

I have chosen to go for a glossy light colour as for the majority of my fingers just because I think its quite sophisticated and subtle yet very pretty, and for my little bit of ring finger glitter I've got for a mixture of silver, pinks and purples.....Perfect

'Devine Swine' from the Muppets OPI collection; 'Champagne' from Natural Collections

Uni work, contemplating and body confidence!

The last few weeks and Uni have been very very hard going, and I dont mean work load (well that is quite a large part) but more importantly due to the fact that I have been working on a self portrait project and analysing my own identity (ahhh).

I think that ANY girl will agree with me when I say this, but Ive always been very body concious (and any girl who says no, then they are little liars :)) Anyway. The idea for this project when I found myspelf spending hours and hours (no exaggeration) on Tumblr just blogging and reblogging pictures of all of these beautiful, stick thin, 6ft girls with their blonde flowing hair. Many of them were celebrities, but some literally just girls that I had never seen in my life before. I started to realise that it was beginning to make me really depressed and feel really shit about myself. I also found myself being so confused on my to style myself because I was being so influenced by these 'beautiful' people and wanting to look like them. I literally completely lost myself and who I was. It was actually really sad.

Therefore I decided to base my photography project on it and it actually has really helped. The most important thing that has changed is my view on what 'beutiful' actually is! There is SO much pressure on girls to become this stick thing, size 0 person with a perfectly simetrcal face. This is NOT going to happen, especially for me. Im just creeping up to 5ft, with the biggest, meatiest booty that Ive ever layed eyes on (I could give Kim Kardash a run for her money). But after realsing how much effort it was taking to meet other people's expectations and to always say 'no' to that slice of cake, Ive given up. Beautiful isnt being a girl in Vogue magazine, its completely being you, and no matter what size you are, its about embracing it! I now LOVE my curves, and Ive come to terms with the fact that its just how Ive been made.

So please, please, please take my advice...you ARE beautiful, you just need to realise it before you compare yourself to others :)