Back to School Fashion

Hi everyone! So something a little different form my usual nail posts today - I thought it would be nice to show you what I've been wearing on my first week back to school! I'm in my final year of sixth form (which means university next year :O ) so we don't have a uniform to wear although the policy is you shouldn't be able to see "up it, down it or through it"! Even if you have to wear a uniform I thought this still might give you some weekend outfit ideas!

Day 1

Top - New Look

Jeans - New Look

Boots - New Look

Oh a very New Look day! I really like the dark purple colour to wear especially in the winter months because it's just so pretty. Aside from the colour I also love the detailed Aztec print around the neckline as when the whole aztec pattern started to become popular I didn't really feel I could pull of wearing a whole top or dress patterned with the print so I found this to be a nice compromise. The jeans are actually high waisted  because I just prefer that style of jeans even if I'm not wearing them specifically to be high waisted. My boots (or rather my Mum's boots) will probably be what I wear for the next couple of months as the weather starts to get too cold for pumps :( 

Day 2

Top - H&M (It's got little Eiffel Towers all over it)
Jeans - New Look
Shoes - Primark
This top was a bit of an impulse buy in order to try and use up the remains of a gift card so I just picked up a size 12 and bought it... it wasn't until I got home I realised that it was actually a size 16 that had been put on a size 12 hanger! Although it's not as bad as I thought it would be as getting a larger size does mean it's looser and floaty which is lovely however as great as that is on my stomach I quite often find it slipping down and revealing a little too much as unfortunately I don't quite have the boobs to fill a size 16. I'm really loving the style of the back and I've seen quite a few other tops with a similar bar on the back. It does mean that when wearing this top I have to wear a strapless bra which isn't as comfy but it does look cute! The shoes are really more summery but I needed a pair of blue pumps as I only had some sort of half pumps half converses. Sadly, they are a size 7 (my feet are 5 1/2 or 6) although they aren't overly huge I'm not sure I'll be wearing them on a day where a lot of walking is required!

Day 3

Top - Forever 21

Jeans - New Look

Shoes - Primark

So again same jeans! I tend to find myself always wearing jeans because I've yet to find a skirt that I'm really comfortable wearing... or one that I can match with my tops! I'll just say normally I will wear this top with a vest top or something underneath because it is quite see through but what annoys me about that is it kind of spoils the back again as it's kind of netted. At least now you can see the high waisted jeans for what they are! I noticed after this that the majority of my wardrobe consists of blues, purples or reds!

Day 4

Vest top - Forever 21

Jumper - Forever 21

Leggings - Forever 21

Boots - Debenhams

Necklace - Primark

I absolutely love Forever 21 and I really wish that we had more stores over in the UK as I think the nearest to me is in London. So when I was over in America this summer I made the most of it and got some new clothes. Now this jumper isn't something I'd usually wear and I pretty much never wear leggings outside the house because I feel for me it's just a bit too casual and I don't often feel I can pull that off! But I've really been loving this jumper because it's nice and over sized and it's quite long at the back so I feel a bit more comfortable pairing it with leggings. In order to look a bit more like I'd made an effort I decided to brave it and do my hair up which as you may have noticed in the previous pictures is something I never do except for work and the gym! I really like the mermaid/ fish tail braid and I've gotten pretty good at doing it quickly now although I've not fully mastered the way to make it look slightly messy. I also thought I would brave it with a dark red lip tint! I really want to start wearing lip tints more as over the summer they've become my new favourite thing but I'm finding it hard to get the right balance between looking autumnal with dark shades and looking like I'm dressing up for Halloween. I got these boots a couple of years ago now and they are without a doubt my favourite! I love the knee high look and the small heel gives me that extra boost in height, but the only issue I have is they've got no grip on them what so ever which is really annoying as it means I can't wear them in the rain or anything like that.

Day 5

Vest top - Forever 21
Top - New Look
Jeans - New Look
Pumps - New Look
I have so many of these style of tops because I just find them very flattering for me even without high waisted jeans. I'm not comfortable with showing my stomach though so I always wear a matching vest top underneath and for a while my friends thought it was all one top with two layers!  I love how they look with the jeans and I will without a doubt be wearing this look more often. I really like the style of my pumps too as it's something different and they are so comfy as originally I had bought them for working in Boots.

I hope you liked it and sorry I couldn't provide links to the items I wore as some of them I bought a couple of years ago or in the sales so aren't available online but I hope it gives you some inspiration so maybe like me you just like to have a nosey at what other people pair things with! What's your favourite item to wear as we head into Autumn? Thanks for reading!

New Year Resolutions!

Hi everyone! It's that time again where we pick out all the bad things with out lives and make a statement to try and change them. I've not had a great track record with my resolutions, I usually break them after a month or so. But this year will be different! I thought if I wrote a post about it it would motivate me more to keep to them so we'll see!

1. Be healthier - I joined a gym last year and was going like 3 times a week but once I got a job I found I didn't really have the time to go anymore so this year I want to make time to go to the gym and actually work out there because before I would go on the cross trainer but slow down at the first drop of sweat or when I could feel a burn! Also I want to eat healthier too like not just eat because I'm bored!

2. Pay more attention to this blog - I said in a post that I've put this down as my skill for DofE but I don't want to feel like this is a chore or like something I 'have' to do, I actually want to put more into this blog and enjoy it at the same time!

3. Read more - I used to read so many books but when I started my GCSEs I just didn't enjoy it because I felt like there was other stuff I should be doing. I just need to spend less time on Tumblr and more time reading again!

4. Don't get too stressed out about school - I know A Levels are a big thing and by this time next year I will have applied to university and may have heard back from a few which is really scary but I don't want to get too bogged down in it if I'm struggling or don't know what to do with my life!

5. Look after my skin - I really need to start to moisturise properly because my skin gets so fragile at times and I got plenty of body butters for Christmas so I really have no excuse!

What are your resolutions for the new year? Let me know! I hope you have a great 2014 and thanks for reading!

Where have you been???

Hi everyone! I am so so so sorry! I realised I haven't written a new post for about 3 months now and I'm so sorry I just kind of stopped! I did write a little post before saying that I might not be able to post every week because so much was going on in my life but I think I may have under estimated that massively! So I thought I would bring you up to date!

I am well into my As Levels now in sixth form. If you were interested I am doing them in Maths, Further Maths, Physics, History and DT Product Design! But doing 5 subjects has proved a lot harder than I originally anticipated and sometimes I do question if I have bitten off more than I can chew! But I am enjoying it so much and the freedom and respect you get in Sixth Form is great! So I know some of you might be in the middle of deciding what you are going to do next year and I would totally recommend going to sixth form or college if you can - although I wouldn't recommend taking on 5 subjects!

I have also been working 16 hours a week at Boots now and I absolutely love it! I'm not going to lie though - standing on the till for 8 hours or going in and out of the stock room re stacking the shelves is a lot of hard work but the people there are so nice and the working atmosphere there is great! When the tills are quite you can have a chat with anyone else who is on the tills with you and I've met so many nice people! The one problem working there is the trains! I live about a 10 minute train ride away but I work on a Saturday, Sunday and Monday and the trains aren't as frequent as I would like! So instead of spending 16 hours in Bath I'm actually spending about 25 hours over the week which just makes me even more tired than I would usually be - I've been using my frees at the moment to try and catch up with sleep which probably isn't the best use of the time but I need it!!!

Another thing I haven't been able to do is keep my room tidy so just ignore the mess!!!!!!

So with all this going on top of the things I already do in the week such as Rainbows, Brownies, Rangers, going to the gym, I just haven't been able to justify spending the few hours I have writing blog posts which I know sounds incredibly rude but I don't mean it like that and I know you will understand!

BUT I HAVE GOOD NEWS! I am currently working towards my Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award which is an award you can get by completing lots of different sections and at the end you go to Buckingham Palace to get your certificate!!! That is a pretty poor description but you can either Google it or I'll probably write a post about it at some point! One of the sections is a skills section and guess what?! I can put blogging down in that section! This means that I'll have a legitimate reason to devote my time to making this blog better so expect a lot more posts in the new year (and hopefully a couple before)!

So was just supposed to be a quick update and to let you know I'll be back soon but it ended up turning into a bit of a ramble - sorry! Thanks for reading!

GCSE Results

Hi everyone! So I picked up my GCSE results yesterday and they were a lot better than I expected! I achieved A*'s in English Literature, Maths, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry & ICT. A's in History, Spanish, English Language, Physics & ICT and a B in Art! This means I have all the grades I needed to get into my schools sixth form where I want to study Maths, Further Maths, History, DT Product Design and Physics (although I might swap it for a different Science?)

So basically it means that I now have loads of prep work for those subjects to do before I go back in September. And when I do go back I know I'm going to have so much work to do as so many people have told me the gap between GCSEs and A levels is huge (yay!).

On top of all my school work I also now have a job! I'll be working at Boots as a Christmas Sales Assistant from the end of September until January and then they will review it in January as to whether they will offer me a permanent job there! I'm super excited to start working there as they all seemed so nice when I went for an interview and my Mums first job was actually working in Boots too!

You are probably wondering how all this will effect you and my blog? Well with 25 hours of lessons in Sixth form plus god knows how many hours at home doing extra work and 16 hours working a week I won't have as much free time as I've had the past three months on holiday so there is just no way I can post every other day/ more than once a week as I've been trying to do!

I will still be posting once a week and I will of course try to do some extra ones but I obviously can't guarantee anything! But stick around because I have loads more things to write about and it will just grow!

So thanks for reading and if you've just got any results let me know what you're doing next!