Pay Day Wish List

When I started this post I didn't mean for it to be wholly made up of items from River Island, but they are really nailing it this month! Oh, and incase your wondering, no, it is not a sponsored post. Now to the nitty gritty. I absolutely adore the pink faux fur jacket and currently it's the best I have seen on the high-street that isn't ridiculously priced and the monster bag is ahhmazing. I think I will have to take a trip to store and check out the size before I purchase because I pretty much carry everything and the kitchen sink in my bag, so size in this case, does matter. The jumper is a close version of the Bella freud knitwear and the skirt reminds me of The kooples, infact, I think all the items I have listed come to less then what you would pay for a Kooples skirt. If thats not an excuse to buy it all then I don't know what is!

Hollie x

1) River Island light pink faux fur coat- £90.00

2) River Island Grey Monster face tote handbag - £50.00

3) River Island Black Leather- look whipstich pelmet skirt £35.00

4) River Island Black Knitted love intarsia  Jumper- £30.00

5) River Island Brown leopard print block heel boots £65.00

The Chop and Crop

The chop and crop... My title sounds more like a back of the paper ad for circumcision. Let me ensure any male readers now sitting crossed legged or females readers heading for the nearest Esc button that I am not, talking about circumcision. I am talking about my apparent new love of all things shorter... well, hair and jumpers at least. That's right, I decided to 'chop' 4 inches off my hair. Although I love my new hair cut if I had the balls I would have maybe gone an inch shorter (baby steps guys). I don't know about you but when I get my hair cut I always seem to get a sudden feeling of panic like 'oh god what have I done' and I immediately look to the hairdressers floor and think  'will anybody be able tell if I glued my hair back on?'. And then, just as I am about to grab my lost lengths, in swoops the Saturday girl with a her sweeping brush, and after months/years of love maintenance its gone, 'puff', in the bin. I think she did me a favour really. I like my hairdresser, but I feel rolling around on the floor covered in your old hair would sort of put the brakes on me returning again. I suppose it didn't help that I had just taken outfit pictures on Friday morning, and so I had a constant reminder while I uploaded the pictures to my blog and wrote a post. I did contemplate dedicating Fridays post to my hair, but its always been dead 'ba dum tish'. I know, terrible joke... Sorry, I am mourning, humour helps me cope. I suppose when it comes to hair 'the grass is always greener' or shorter in this case. Contrary to my above babbling I am really happy with my hair, and for the crop part of my post, well, I bought this lovely cropped jumper in the sale from Zara. I have a bit of a thing for cropped at the moment. 
Now the brave part... what is your opinion of my hair?
Hollie x

Trench coat- Vintage 

Cropped Jumper- Zara

Skirt- H&M

Boots-Topshop

Anything to add?

 

   

I think everything you could probably write about black has already been written, but that's not going stop me writing something else about the colour. For a colour that is so simple to wear it seems to get a bad rep sometimes, almost as if its simplicity is something we should frown upon. Lately I have been drawn to a lot of black clothing and it is usually when I am extremely busy. It's just so easy to get it right when you are wearing all black. Should I be punished for what some might call a lack of imagination? Believe me, I do this myself sometimes when I find myself in a full black outfit. I feel like I have failed to make an effort, but after saying this, when you think about it, it is in fact the effortlessness of the colour that makes the outfit chic. Take, for example, Marc Jacobs final show for Louis Vuitton in Paris. Nearly the entire collection was made up of black and I defy anyone not to find at least one piece they would not wear, and why is that? Well, apart from the amazing design, it has to be the colour, it really is the colour everyone can wear. For me, when I wear a full black outfit I try to add contrast through texture. Which is what I did today, by adding a thick knit roll neck Jumper from H&M with one of their faux alligator style leather skirts. What do you think to the colour black? Does it bore you, or ignite your imagination when you get dressed?
Hollies x

Jumper- H&M

Skirt- H&M

Shoes- River Island

Long live the...

 

  

Always a staple, always easy to style and always great for every budget... Long live the leather skirt.

Skirt-H&M

Top-ASOS

Boots-Primark