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Sunday, 28 July 2013

Festival LookBook

Hello everyone, 

So as you are aware if you read my previous post, I had a festival themed party with my friends. Because we had a theme, out outfits were a big part of preparation so we looked like we were dressed for a festival. I thought this was the perfect opportunity to do a Festival LookBook, this is the first one I have ever attempted and this is a bit different from normal lookbooks because I just took pictures of outfits without my friends being on the pictures. Before I start, I just want to thank everyone for agreeing to do this for me so I could write this post.



This is a cute, blue themed festival outfit made up of a skirt pinafore and patterned t-shirt. The t-shirt is black, white & pale blue, the pinafore a light denim paired with yellow nails (not pictured).


This is a lovely simple idea for a festival outfit. Plain, short sleeved, block coloured red top with pale denim-grey shorts.

Paired with simple black and white converse and a pretty daisy anklet with (below) a long, black feather necklace, a range of blue bracelets and pale blue nail varnish. Effortless festival 


Another effortless pretty outift, blue and denim. Simple, thin top with simplistic pattern, teamed with light denim high-waisted shorts.

A few bracelets to accessorize and impressive ombre pink nails. I think this pink shade is complimented well by the slight olive skin tone.



This outfit is a lovely summery aztec print dress. Only being quite light, this dress is a good choice for festival type events or days in the sun. I love the colours in this and I like how the aztec is horizontal on the top and vertical on the lower skirt half.

Very well teamed with a turqouise/dark mint vintage necklace and simple dark pink nails and some simple jewellery.  


I think this is a very summery, girly festival outfit. I like that it is simplistic and seems effortlessly fashionable. A plain white floral lace top with some ripped shorts and a brown belt, and brown/tan shoes.


Topped off with a delicate white flower headband in contrast to dark hair.

I'm sure everyone would agree with me that best dressed has to go to this outfit - nothing says festival more than this. A white shirt and denim skirt with red wellies (below) with jewellery and accessories to make it look even better.


This proves that accessories can make an outfit look a whole lot different. A few rings, two two-finger rings, a small top-of-the-finger ring and a thumb ring. The bracelets bring a lot of colour and I like the range of colourful beaded bracelets on one wrist and some other bracelets tied to the other.

What a trendy way to wear sunglasses and bandana if not on your head. This gave it a unique look and a festival vibe. 

This 'World Peace' mixed necklace with a small coloured globe helped the shirt to stand out and give it a bit of colour and excitement.

To finish it all off, a big, dark leopard print hat which was perfect with dark hair and a dark skin tone.

Another cute festival outfit, simple top and shorts with black hunter wellies.


Again, some added jewellery to add to the look and give it some colour and draw more attention to the top.

Another lovely summer coloured outfit, bright floral shorts paired with a good choice of plain top to prevent a pattern clash and keep the attention draw to the shorts. Very simple but summery.

Navy converse, again, to keep it simple and (below) blue nails to match the colour of the shorts with very little jewellery so the wrists aren't bare. Also (below) a beige, neutral hat with brown band to make the top half of this outfit more lively.



Another cute and plain outfit, white shirt with lace around the collar and dark denim shorts. An outfit like this is good because you are able to go for any colours to brighten it up - whether that be nail varnish colour or jewellery and bracelets.

As you can see, pink converse and blue nail varnish have been chosen with some multi-coloured rubber bracelets and a petite ring with a small diamond. Additionally, the super cute little daisy flower crown has made a difference to the outfit in helping to look more appealing and festival themed.



This final outfit is my own. I have chosen a washed denim jumpsuit, again, with denim you can go for any colour theme to brighten it up. I chose black and white checkered slip-on vans and a black and white striped bow which I made for my hair.



My nails are all blue - Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours 'Pop Fiction' which I have featured in posts before - all except one nail with is grey - MUA 'Koala Bear' topped with clear glitter nail varnish - Rimmel London 'Disco Ball'. This was a nightmare to get off (as glitter nail varnish always is) but I must point out that the 'Koala Bear' shade from MUA goes on really thin, I had to apply about 3-4 coats to get a proper colour but it depends how you like it, you made need more, you may need less.


I do hope you have enjoyed reading it and you deserve some sort of prize for reading this far down, this may have been the longest post I have ever written and it did become tiring but I love writing these posts for you so I will continue, hopefully the content didn't become too boring and you liked looking at the different looks you could go for for a festival or a party.
I'm not sure what is going to come next so I can't give you an idea because I don't know myself but all I know is I will speak to you all soon.

Aoife




Festival Party

Hey everyone,

I know I said I would have lots more posts coming now that I'm off for six weeks and you may be confused as to why you haven't seen any, well, that's because the ones I knew I had planned happened on Friday.
Myself and 9 friends had a festival themed party at Kayleigh's house in her garden. Myself and Kayleigh made festival decorations and tried to brighten the garden up.



We made bunting with vibrant paints, hand prints and aztec stencils. We made them so they alternated between black and white, punched two holes at the top of each one and threaded string through them to hang up.  

We also decorated the fence with cut out wellies that we dipped in bright paint. On the back of each one of these we wrote Thank You's for each of our friends that came to the festival and put the date on them for everyone to remember the day.

To brighten the other side of the garden we made multi-coloured paper chains and spread them across the garden. Also, we made big daisy chains - the chain out of pale green paper and the daisies from white card and pink and yellow watercolours  (below).


This is a Photo Booth with a Polaroid Picture Frame that we also made for us to take pictures with our friends in and it turned out to be quite popular and people enjoyed that. You can see above the frame the Photo Booth sign we made again with hand prints and a camera that we cut out.



We also had a lot of fun with bubbles and despite being 'too old' for bubbles, I had more fun than I should have. I believe you're never too old for bubbles.

As you can see in this picture and the one below, I was fascinated by the colours they turned when you looked up at them in the sky, I had to resist the temptation to run after them and pop them for these pictures, although it is quite nice to watch them fly away together. 


These two pictures were taken after Kayleigh decided to put her hands in blue paint and put hand prints on her legs. Below, she is wearing Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours 'Popcorn' - recommended by yours truly - which seems to go very well with blue hands.


I made a campfire out of a disposable barbecue and a burning log for us all to sit around and I am quite pleased with this picture because I didn't think it would turn out very well without the flash (which ruined the effect of it being dark).


Marshmallows around the campfire, how stereotypical of us. It was fun though until they burned but I managed to take mine out before it burned.

After this we sat and talked for a bit and listened to music without waking the neighbours and then we all got into the tent I had previously prepared for us and we talked for a bit  in the there and then went to sleep.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this and looking through the pictures that I have shared. Speak to you very soon.

Aoife







Sunday, 21 July 2013

Ooops, I did it again...

Hi everyone,

Guess what I have gone and done again...Nail Varnish shopping. I know I shouldn't but I love it too much and I just loved the colours I bought last weekend. I bought a colour I would not usually go for but I thought it looked amazing so I couldn't leave it on it's shelf.

All prices will be at the end, and if you want to try some new colours with cheap prices, you've come to the right place. Enjoy...





Here's the first one, now yellow is a colour I do really like but I always feel that it's not my colour but I couldn't resist this. I wouldn't usually go for a yellow Nail Varnish but I thought "Why Not?". This is "Popcorn" from Miss Sporty's Clubbing Colours. As you may have previously read in a post not too long ago, my royal blue "Pop Fiction" was from this Miss Sporty range and I love them so I had to bring this home with me. I love that this is a pastel yellow, I love pastel colours and you'll find most of the nail varnishes I bought are pastels.

This one is "Pistachio Ice Cream" from the MUA nail varnish collection. I love that these nail varnishes are really cheap and they do some interesting colours that I enjoy trying. Again, this is a really cute pastel/mint green colour, I wanted a shade that was a pastel green, the one I have is more of a pale baby blue shade and I wanted something with more of a green tone. This ticked the boxes for me.

Another colour from the MUA collection. This one is "Bold Blue" bit of a boring name but oh well, I like it when nail varnishes have good colour names. This one I bought as a gift and I am really tempted to keep it because I love the colour - but I wouldn't do that - this can be my excuse to go nail varnish shopping again and buy myself one of these if my friend says it was nice. I would say this shade it a little bit darker than a pastel but it is a light blue colour and in the bottle it looks quite a creamy blue. I hope this is a nice colour because that will make it a good gift.

This final one is also a gift. This is "Spring Tulip" from "NYC New York Color" range - a lovely name which I think suits the shade of pink. I never buy pinks or reds in nail varnish for myself, personally, I hate red nail varnish, I don't really have a reason why but I just really don't like it. I bought this as part of my friend's birthday gift, another one of my friends told me her favourite colours were pinks or greens and I thought this was a nice colour. I was recently reading FleurDeForce's blog post on a blue nail varnish she had bought from this collection and she seemed to like it and gave it a pretty good review so I decided to go for this one. I'll link Fleur's post below if you want to check that out, she blogs about beauty and fashion and also makes videos and vlogs on YouTube so you can go and check all that out over on her blog.

I hope you've enjoyed this post, I always enjoy writing nail varnish posts and I hope you enjoy reading them too. I also hope that my friend doesn't read this post yet because depending on when it's up, I mightn't have given her them yet. I am writing another post this weekend which is the other half of the birthday gift so look out for that. 

That's all I think, I don't really have much more to say than be expecting a "Birthday Gift for:...." this week. I have 6 weeks off now so I want to upload some more but also have a break so I'm just going to do some enjoyable posts  when I feel like, and I do enjoy it so this is no excuse for lack of posts.


Aoife



Popcorn from Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours - £1.99
Pistachio Ice Cream from MUA - £1.00
Bold Blue from MUA -£1.00
Spring Tulip from NYC New York Colors - £1.79