fashion and style: October 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Floral Blouse

Blouse Paprika Fashion / Skirt H&M / Jewellery Accessorize & Temporary:Secretary / Nails Rimmel

I've not heard of Paprika Fashion until recently and it is nice to have another fashion website to shop at besides the usual ones that I've bookmarked. They are an affordable brand who promises to provide stylish designs at an affordable price. You may have spotted Paprika's designs on ASOS or New Look. Recently, I received £100 voucher (via Look Magazine) to shop at Paprika and this floral blouse was one of the items I chose. Paprika's customer service were extremely friendly and you receive a response so quickly and efficiently! I wanted to treat you all to something too so I purchased a few extra things for a giveaway. I got so many awesome prizes sent to me recently, I feel greedy for keeping *everything* and I really wanted to spend some of it on you guys! Ideally, I'd love to buy something for each of my readers but since that isn't possible, I bought some clothes in a few different sizes and I'll have a big giveaway at the end of the year.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Jewelry fashion

Jewelry

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Fedora and Leather Jacket

In the last post, I said I would post some photos of the black Warehouse dress styled with leather jacket and a hat. Now, I am not a hat person at all. I buy berets and floppy hats but I won't ever wear them! So I have given up buying hats because it's a waste of money if it just ends up at the bottom of my wardrobe! Accessorize sent me this feather trim fedora hat (LOOK Prize) and I had to find a way to pull it off so that I could picture them and blog about it for them. I really like it but I don't have the confidence to wear it out! I got some questions in the post before asking where I got this leather jacket. It is from ASOS but I bought it 3 years ago. I like that it's cropped and there's lots of details. A classic wardrobe staple!

Monday, October 24, 2011

Men hair style

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Sheer Black Dress

Nail Polish Rimmel. Earrings Accessorize. Rings Temporary:Secretary

Warehouse generously asked me to choose a dress from their website (LOOK Mag prize), and I chose this black midi dress with gold buttons, and it came with the fuscia pink belt. When I received the Warehouse dress through the post, it didn't come with the undergarment as shown on the site. I've just double checked their website right now and it appears I should have got the underskirt. Anyway, at the time I didn't think twice about it, I was over-excited to try it on. I improvised with a black leotard and a bodycon skirt, and that is what I am wearing underneath the dress. I've styled the dress up with a leather jacket and a hat that Accessorize sent me. I will put the photos up of this in my next post.

Thank you for the lovely comments on my new necklace in the previous post. RubyGold very kindly featured my blog on their website after seeing that post, you can read their article here. I am just so pleased that they like it, it's nice to be able to communicate with brands and hear what they think of blogging!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Spanish Fashion

Fashion Style

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Blue Lace Bodycon

It was announced last week that I won this year's Look Mag blogging competition and Lara at Look Magazine informed me of the prizes I was receiving. I know she has worked really hard to arrange the best winner's prize package and I am going to blog about them the best that I can throughout the next few weeks. I don't want to bore you with "show and tell" product posts, so I've photograph them in interesting ways (most likely to be in form of an outfit post). I also want to show how appreciative I am to the brands who have been so generous by blogging about the prizes they sent me. It's only right that I put in 110% effort in to blogging about them as a way of saying thank you.

Here's the first of the "prizes" blog post; River Island sent me a gorgeous blue lace bodycon dress. I love it! This is the sort of thing I would buy, I love these sort of dresses and I actually wear these during the day with a blazer or cardigan, really thick black tights and a pair of flat ballet pumps. A little bit like this outfit. Of course, this dress is also perfect for nights out. In the photos above, I have teamed it up with some black wedges that I purchased from New Look a few days ago. All the jewellery (apart from the Cherry Ring which is an old one I made for myself) were part of the prize package too. It is really nice to have some new pieces to add to my jewellery box. One of my favourites prize is necklace is £150.00 from RubyGold, from Award winning designer, Henriette Loftsrom's Golden Symmetry Collection. The gorgeous olive green feather earrings and statement black ring are from Accessorize. Thank you Lara, River Island, RubyGold and Accessorize! x

Disclaimer: There will be more prizes to blog about so I will be labelling/tagging these blog posts as Look Magazine Prizes (as seen below) during the next 4 weeks, you will know what was gifted to me and what purchases I have made with my own money.