Autumn Weekend Look

How I’ll be leaving the house at weekends this autumn…

My new double pom-pom beanie hat from Topshop (around £14) + Illamasqua lipstick in Kontrol (around £15).

Sale Jewellery Summer 2011

Q: Hmm, what’s to be found in my two newest shopping bags?



A: A big pile of costume jewellery (mostly) picked up at half price in the summer sales.  Scroll down for my close-ups!

woodland creatures stud earrings, £3.99 full price, H&M. I actually picked these up full price in Feb this year but I thought they were so cute I’d post some pics.  My favourites are the hares and stags.  The hares are even both different – you can see that one has a bent ear.

lime-threaded dangle earrings, £6.25 half price, Topshop

ballerina & rose stud earrings, £2.50 at half price, Topshop

turquoise robot necklace, £4.25 at half-price, Topshop
I actually had the same pendant in a different colour and length before which I bought several months ago.  I can’t resist a piece of cute robot paraphernalia though so I went ahead and bought this second one too.

top: orange & metal earrings, £3.25 at half-price, Topshop bottom: raven claw & turquoise earrings, £2.50 at half-price, Topshop

stag head necklace, £5 at half-price, Topshop

clockwise from left:
cube necklace, £8.50 at half-price, East
freshwater pearl earrings, £3 at half-price, East
blue wooden earrings, £3 at half-price, East
East is a great place to check out at sale time if you like jewellery made from natural materials such as wood, shell, stone and pearl.  They have a great selection marked down to half-price.

Some Topshop Make Up and Robot Earrings

Topshop are offering a 20% student discount this week so I thought I’d take advantage of the extra discount to pick up a couple of pieces from their make-up range which I hadn't tried before.  I bought an eye crayon (they are jumbo eye pencils shot through with glitter) in a glittery turquoise shade called Sea, not because I particularly need yet another glittery blue eye pencil (!) but because it was reduced from £5 to £1 so with my student discount I only ended up paying 80p for it – bargain!  I also chose a lipstick pencil in a bright pale coral called Coy.

The colours are quite impressive and I hope you can get an idea of their intensity from the shots below.

The eye crayon is very soft, glides onto the skin and is easy to blend.  It’s packed full of glitter, which also blends out nicely, so they’re definitely worth checking out if you’re a glitter bug – but best avoided if not.  As the crayon is very soft I would recommend using a primer underneath or powder on top to set it for longer lasting wear.

I like the idea of lipstick in a pencil format because you literally draw your lips on so I think you can apply colour more accurately than from a conventional lipstick bullet.  I like the fact that although it’s a pale shade “Coy” is very opaque so the colour that you see in the pencil is the colour that you get on the lips.  It can apply a bit unevenly so well moisturised lips are a must, but on the plus side even though it’s a matte lipstick it has a creamy consistency that doesn’t dry out the lips.  I also love this colour itself which I think is quite unusual and lovely for the summer.  The full price of this product is £7.

I also bought these robot earrings because I love robot motifs on clothes and jewellery and these little guys were just too cute to resist.  Their heads, arms and legs are jointed so they wiggle when you move, which I think is a nice detail.  These cost £7.50 full price.

Payday treats from Topshop + Miss Selfridge

Friday was payday, hooray!  This also coincided with an email I got from Topshop telling me about a flash sale they were having (I’m not really sure what a flash sale is, but it had the word sale in it and that was all I needed to hear to pique my interest) so I hot-footed it down to Topshop on Oxford Street after work on Friday to have a browse.

The sale was OK; I grabbed about six or seven items to try on and although there were plenty of “nice” things I was quite restrained and managed to convince myself that I really have enough “nice” things in my wardrobe already and I don’t need any more, so if I was going to buy anything I might as well make it something a bit interesting.  In the end I bought just one thing which was a pair of fluffy shorts reduced from £50 to £25.  They don’t really look like shorts at all and reminded me of a ballet tutu, or perhaps an ostrich’s fluffy bum!  OK so that description perhaps doesn’t make them sound so appealing but really I just liked them because they were good fun.

	Do you think I described them well??  He he.  I wore them today with a fitted blazer and light pink tights which were my nod to the ballet trend.

I also popped into Miss Selfridge today where they were also having a mid-season sale and I picked up some accessories.  I really don’t need any more accessories but they are quite inexpensive in the sale and again they’re good fun so I just bought a couple.  I really need to devise a new storage system for all my accessories though as I have so many that I never get round to wearing as I’ve got them squirreled away all over my room and I never think to dig them out.

A giant pompom to wear on my head!  (Around £3.50)

It reminded me of Scandinavian knits, of which I’m a big fan.  It’s also just a fun way to lighten up any outfit.  The band is quite easy to cover with my hair too.  (Oh yes and I do wear braces in case you noticed that my teeth look a bit funny above!  I actually love them though as they have straightened my teeth soooo much since I got them fitted just over a year ago).

Teddy bear cut-out leopard print earrings.	So kitsch I just had to buy them!  (Around £3.50)