Holiday Shopping & Extras

Hey everyone,

This is one of the posts I've been most excited to write, just because I love everything in it. So you can prepare yourself for lots of my excitement.

So I'm going on holiday soon and I've been shopping for clothes and things, not everything in this post was bought for my holiday but I just wanted to share them anyway.
I'll leave the shops and/or the link for things at the end.

First of all is the cutest top you've ever seen. Asdfghjkl I just love this so much, I saw this and said "I think I need this" and of course, the little voice in my head agreed and it came home with me. I regret nothing. This is a cropped vest top with wide arms and a watermelon on the front, and I love it very much.

I saw these too and omg, how was I supposed to leave them? When I saw these I said "They're gonna be coming home with me" and they did....

These are banana print flip flops with black straps. Basically, if something is fruit print or has fruit on it, I may need to own it.

I also picked up these hexagonal gold rings. As you can see in the first picture, there are a variety of sizes so can be worn in different places on your hand which I think is very convenient.

I love daisies and so of course when I saw them, I bought daisy print shorts. They're black, wide and swishy with small white and yellow daisies printed all over.

This is a cropped yellow boxy top with wide bat-winged sleeves.

I saw a fashion blogger wearing one of these t-shirts in white and decided I wanted to go and get one. Unfortunately, they are strange colours (Yellow, Orange, White & Grey) but I decided I liked this one to go with the daisy shorts. 

This is a pastel, mint greeny-blue colour vest. It's very thin and swingy but the neck is not too low and I think this would be nice for holiday because it's light and would keep you cool.

This next one is a blue tie die swing dress. 

I just thought this would be really easy to wear and would need a lot of effort which sometimes I can't be bothered with on holiday.

These last two things are watches. Anyone who knows me, knows how bad I am for watches, I just love them so much.

I absolutely love this watch. It has Roman numerals on the face, a gold rim and black strap. I love that it is unusual and it makes me look more sophisticated than I actually am.

This one is a Casio style watch. 

I've wanted one of these type of watches for a while and I always put it off because the straps never fit around my wrist, once I discovered they were able to be adjusted, I bought it straight away and I'm glad I did.

I like that it's quite simple and casual and because it's silver, it goes with anything which is an added bonus.

Well, that is all, that's everything I want share with you today. I did want to put the blue jacket that I'm wearing in the above pictures, however, when I went to take the pictures, the lighting had changed and it wasn't very complimenting. It's a powder blue thin crepe jacket and it had drooped deep pockets. The front parts fold over and it folds over around the neck...sorry for that appalling description.

I hope you've enjoyed looking through this and it's given you some ideas for summer or for clothes if you're going on holiday. If you want to know how much or where anything is from I'm going to list them below. Some things I can't find links for and the Primark products don't have a link, other than that, I'll see you very soon.

Aoife

I'm wearing Barry M Gelly Hi Shine nail varnish in 'Blueberry' (featured in previous post)

Cropped watermelon vest top: H&M - £3.99

  http://www.hm.com/gb/product/29757?article=29757-B

Banana print flip flops: H&M - £3.99

  http://www.hm.com/gb/product/09701?article=09701-D#article=09701-D

Gold hexagonal ring set: H&M - £3.99

Black daisy print shorts: Primark - £5

Yellow cropped t-shirt: Primark - £3

Mint green swingy vest: Primark - £3

Blue tie die swing dress: Boohoo - £15

 http://www.boohoo.com/day-dresses/jasmine-tie-dye-swing-dress/invt/azz31747

Roman Numerals watch: Primark (Mens) - £4

Casio style watch: Primark (Mens) - £4

Barry M Gelly Nail Varnish & Glitter Notebook

Hello everybody,

I have a lovely little post for you today and I feel like it's been a long time coming to just post something. I had revision and all boring stuff so I'm not going to go into detail about all that stuff.

So, excitingly, I have some new nail varnish and a glitter notebook to show you which I bought on Friday and I just fell in love with them.

Side note: The second picture is probably the most accurate colour-wise if you want to know what they look like in the bottles. The others make them look a little darker than they are. Enjoy!

Look how pretty they look! There seems to be a bit of a colour theme...

These are the Gelly Hi Shine nail varnishes from Barry M. I've never seemed to bother with these before and I've never thought that I wanted to try them but I am going on holiday soon and I wanted my nails to look nice. I've never had it before but I considered shellac which would last me a longer period of time than nail varnish would but then I decided I couldn't commit to that because I'd want to change the colour.

I remembered that Barry M did these Gelly ones and so I went to town on Friday and got some, although the time it took me to choose 3 colours was unnecessary, I picked these three and I'm very happy with them.

This shade is called 'Green Berry' and to be honest, it's not quite the colour it looks on this picture. The second picture ^^ is probably the most accurate but it's a nice dark mint shade anyway.

This shade is 'Blueberry' and this is the one I was most excited for, I just loved the colour it looked in the bottle (see 2nd picture) and I am looking forward to wearing this.

There seems to be a bit of a name theme as well as a colour theme as this shade name is 'Huckleberry'. All the berries! This one is a nice one! I have worn this one this weekend and when I bought it I thought it would be a little bit too pale and hardly have any colour but it is a lovely pastel, powder blue. I am impressed with how this stayed on. Usually a nail varnish will only last me about two days if I don't put more than two coats of it on, then it will start to really chip and look awful because I become 20% more heavy handed when I have nail varnish on it would seem. I put this on on Friday and it's lasted me until today (Sunday) and I've just taken it off now.

Finally 'My Journal' from Paperchase it's so beautiful and I love it a lot. This has a bit of a story behind it so excuse the big paragraph. 

My friend, Sarah had a book similar to this kind last year. She wrote the date on every page and everyday she would bring it into school and draw something on the page of that day. I loved her book so much and we looked through it again the other day. I loved it that much it inspired me to do my own. We both decided we would do one or something similar to it this year BUT we had to leave it until after exams, so therefore this is our motivation. 

In September, I might be going to college and Sarah is staying at our school, although this saddens both of us, these books are going to be our way of keeping in touch with each other so we can still chat and arrange to see each other.

I'm going to bring this post to an end now and hopefully you have enjoyed reading it and my nail varnish might have given you some ideas for summer nail varnish and maybe my journal has inspired you to do one of your own.

I am very pleased with the Barry M Gelly Hi Shine nail varnish and I do recommend it with approx. two or three coats so it is thick and long lasting.

Thanks for reading and I apologise if each paragraph has been so lengthy.

See you soon

Aoife