Trap Me With A Trapper...

Sorry guys! Its been nearly a week since either of us last posted (I know....slacking), but I'm back!

And since it suddenly decided to get freezing cold over the weekend, I thought I should do a post on how I kept warm to and from work today. It was all about the Trapper hat. So for those that don't know, a Trapper hat is basically a fur or fur lined hat with ear flaps like so...

I bought this hat ages ago from the Men's department in H&M and it was only something like £5 at the most. I've been wanting to wear it for ages but had to wait until I got my weave back, because wearing a Trapper hat with no hair coming out from underneath looks kind of weird in my opinion. Unless you have the face to pull it off...which I basically don't. Trapper hats are guaranteed to keep you warm and are the comfiest things ever. Just make sure that when you wear it you dress it up, rather than wearing it with a hoodie and tracksuit bottoms :/ 

My make up look was pretty simple since I was at work today. I used:

• MAC Mineralise Foundation in NC50
• Sleek eyebrow pencil in dark brown
• Beauty UK black liquid eyeliner
• CoverGirl Blusher in Iced Plum 
• Sleek Lipstick in Pearl Wine.

I've also spotted some nice Trappers and other faux fur creations on the high street...

Topshop...£22

River Island...£20

Spirithoods...£99. For the adventurous ones.

Outfit Of The Day...

My first OOTD! (outfit of the day)

About time really? Hahahaa

So this is a casual outfit I wore to work today, which I have accessorized with chunky gold jewellery.

First of all is my white tie up top with the black zigzag’s going down the bottom, from New Look, it was £19.99 (I think!). I love this top, I can wear it with any colour and it looks great (including with my crazy red hair :D). Then I have my high waist tube skirt from Forever 21, which I got free from New Look’s press sample sale BARGAIN. This is my fav tube skirt it fits perfectly and even sucks you in the right places ;) this is something I suggest you girls invest in! Then I have my long denim shirt also from New Look, which from what I remember was about £24.99, I don’t usually wear denim tops because I just don’t feel it suits me :/ but this is the one and only I own :D. The denim helps break the black and white which is all in the centre of the outfit. Again my tights are from New Look, £7.99 and are amazing and funky with cute stars! It’s a shame I got a ladder in them today while dressing a retarded mannequin L so they’re in the bin now waaaaaaaaaa!

Now onto my jewellery, yes I like to go a bit ott with my accessorising sometimes J . I have my chunky gold chain form Primark which was £6, along with that I have my panther chain I got in last years  (’10) xmas sale (can’t remember where from) . My chunky gold bracelet is a lovely gift from the one and only Jadey Baby from America J and I wanted to be a bit extra and add the black and white gold bracelets with it too! J.  I have my two fav rings on J my cutest owl ring from HnM which was about £4 it’s so adorable! And on the other hand I have my bicycle ring which is uber uber cute! That I got from New Looks concession brand AX Paris for £4.

Don’t mind my tired face L I wake up at stupid o’clock for work and don’t get back home till stupid o’clock! I style for a living, people need me! << that’s what I keep telling myself to get by everyday LOL

Oh and if you guys noticed I have got a colourful set of leopard print nails that I whipped up myself ;)

Watch out for the next OOTD guys!

That’s all for now, so long :D



Because I'm sick to death of Nando's...

Am I allowed to say that? Is it some kind of food blasphemy? Anyway...

I love Nando's as much as the next girl. Its cheap, cheerful and actually has flavour. It kept me happy while I was at University and missing my mum's chicken, red beans and rice. There was a point in my life when I ended up in a Nando's once every two weeks. HOWEVER, as soon as new Nando's restaurants began springing up literally everywhere it began to lose its appeal to me. It became too normal; seeing one on every corner made it seem more like McDonald's than a treat. Also, I guess it didn't help that I ordered the same thing every time (Half chicken, coleslaw and chips).

So I decided to do something about it, and I've now decided to only visit less well known chains or independent restaurants. There are too many exciting thing to eat in London to keep repeating meals at the same place. 

Here are some of my latest discoveries/old favourites.

All Star Lanes

Today David introduced Mitra and I to All Star Lanes in Brick Lane which happens to be half restaurant half bowling alley. I was a bit sceptical at first and assumed that the menu would consist of items such as burger, hot dogs and onion rings. But it wasn't and you can check it out HERE. Some of the items on the menu that really tempted me were the: 'Seattle Fishcakes', 'Basket of Fried Buttermilk Chicken with Sweet Potato Fries' and the 'Rum and Raisin Alcoholic Milkshake'. YUMMY.

After deep thought I decided to get the 'Basket of Fried Buttermilk Chicken with Sweet Potato Fries' and a 'Mocha Milkshake since I'm a sucker for coffee. And let me tell you...it was bloody amazing.

We were speechless eating this. It was like heaven in my mouth...no exaggeration. It came up to £14.50 all together. It may be a little expensive but they give you loads and you probably won't even finish it. Plus your taste buds will most definitely be thanking you for treating them.

Next up is...your local Turkish Restaurant.

I have a not so secret obsession with Turkish food. At every chance I can get I try to visit my one of my favourite places in the world: CRYSTAL in Wood Green. As soon as you enter the staff are welcoming, you're seated, given a menu (where you can choose from Lahmacun, authentic kebabs, Turkish salads and so much more). If your table spends more than £10 then you are also treated to free Turkish bread with dips and Turkish tea and Baklava after you're through with your main meal. To say I love it is an understatement! The flavours are amazing and the prices are amazing to match. I never ever spend more than £10 in there and someone always has to roll me out because I've eaten so much. If you've never been to a Turkish restaurant before than just pick a local one, make sure its busy, ask them what's good to eat and tuck in! 

Bodean's

To be honest...all I can really say is that if you love your meat, you need to live here. Expect a plate packed full of 3 types of ribs, pulled pork, BBQ chicken, fries, coleslaw and a lot more. It's authentically smoky and delicious and basically I'm salivating just writing about it *wipes keyboard clean* LOL

Image taken from tomaskhanell.wordpress.com

MEAT. YUM.

I hope you've had as much fun reading as I have had writing this :)

Feel free to comment below with recommendations of some of your faves!

Lancôme: Free Trial!

While reading the Sunday Times Style Magazine...

I saw this advert and it caught my eye...mainly because I saw the words 'free' and 'Lancôme' on the same page lol. So it's basically advertising the launch of their new formula of liquid foundation which promises to be long-wearing and comfortable. 

If you go into any department store with a Lancôme counter, the sales assistant will match you to the nearest   shade and you'll be able to take a little vial of it home that looks like this...

This is shade 10. It was a bit hard for for the assistant to match to my exact skin tone since I was already wearing foundation but we chose this one because I had to have one with yellow undertones.  You can check out the shades HERE. Be warned, the shades do not look the same as they do online so make sure you check it in a bright light before you take home your sample. I think mine may be a bit too light though :/ We'll see...

Pick up your free trial and let me know if you like it or not!

Chris Brown.. Beautiful Person.

Obsessed isn't even the word. I and almost every girl on earth is head over heels about this young man...

He has it all. The looks. The moves. The body. And the SWAG! Can a girl ask for more? He's girl is lucky! BITCH 

When it comes to guys and fur, I'm a bit like :/ really? buttttt! holy SHYT mmmmmm

The mature smart look just makes him even more sexy! *dribbles*

What is it about him that is so captivating? I wish I could answer my own question, cause I would so fool myself so I would stop stalking him! Ha!

Chris brown as we all know loves his skater boy look (the sort of look every one is rocking these days) 

You've got the likes of Swiss Beats and even his current girlfriend Karrueche Tran rocking similar looks.

The skinny jeans, vans, whole body tatted look a couple years ago had a different crowd following it. Surprisingly it becomes a very common look for the young hip hop rappers/singers around America and the rest of the world. Slowly following the boys come the girls who made the sexy skater chik look. If a girl walked passed you with a half sleeve and swag like Chris Brown with a pretty face I'm sure we'd all be like SHE'S SEXY AND COOL! 

Anyway, before you know it the cost of vans go up almost by £15! Yes, I remember the days when I was in school my emo friends would be rolling around in vans and no body was feeling it...now its a different story! Fashion has its ways of making the things we'd think were weird then, cool now. The same goes for piercings and tattoos, It's suddenly a fashion trend to get a tattoo, the idea of having something meaningful just doesn't exist anymore, it's about who has the most and strange looking art on their body. I almost fell into that path! luckily I thought about what I'd be seeing on me for the rest of my life :/ it's not like my hair which I can change now is it? And as much as I love piercings (yes I did have my tongue and lower lip done) but its not the best of looks to cover your entire face in them? 

is it young lady? hmmmm

Anyways back to Breezzyyy :)

Love how he's rocking the Versace jacket yumyum

Now lets just drool over a few pics of him!

You're very welcome girls :) 

... As for you boys, take a few tips from this fella!

MEECH!

xXx

My Pride & Joy

So I never got round to blogging about this...but I thought it was finally time.

I was staying at my grandparents house over Christmas, so on boxing day my cousins and I decided to take a little trip down to Brent Cross to see if we could pick anything good up in the sales. And whilst most people seemed to be scouring every shop in the centre, I only had one shop in mind...River Island. 

And while I saw plenty of items worth having (like a red blazer for £25 and leggings galore), in the back of mind I didn't want sale items, I wanted THAT bag.

And here's the bag I'm talking about. Black suede and leather shopper. Gold studs. Enough said. Yeah it was £120 but I'd had enough of synthetic materials and wanted something real; something that felt soft in my hands. I've been teased so many times for spending this amount on a bag BUT who gives a damn. I work bloody hard and I deserve it. I think. 

So what do you guys think? Have I gone too far? lol

5 things I hate about Twitter...

Yeah it may seem a bit strange that I'm about to tell you some of things I hate about Twitter...when I happen to spend most of my time on it. Yes...I love Twitter and the positives far outweigh the negatives, but sometimes it all gets a bit much and I find myself running to hide in a dark corner somewhere.

Right...five things I hate about Twitter in no particular order:

1) Trending topics that exclude me.

I'm pretty sure that most people reading this took part in #InAnAfricanHouse a couple of weeks ago. And yes I'm sure it was hilarious...FOR YOU. However, I was deeply saddened that I couldn't join in because obviously I don't come from an African household. Some people tried to turn #InAJamaicanHouse into a thing but it never took off. It also mainly revolved around Jamaican children not knowing who their father is. I thought that joke died out in 2001. I hate feeling of being left out so I became bitter, signed out and went to bed in a strop. LOL 

2) Spam

Sometimes a girl just wants to tweet about her iPhone or about how I'm flopping at my latest diet without being spammed about 100 times by robots and their irrelevant questions.

3) The bashing of black girls.

Lately I've started following a few more black males on twitter...mainly because some of their tweets that I had seen retweeted onto my timeline had me in stitches. However, these jokes come with a dark side. My timeline now seems to be half filled with the love of 'lighties' to the detriment of black girls. Its ok to lust after a 'lighty' and long as you don't feel the need to express how ugly you think black girls are at the same time. Call me bitter, but seeing this everyday is giving me heart problems. If half of these guys had the chance to study slavery in depth, I think they may actually be disgusted with themselves. I would hope.

4) Thinking my tweets are about you.

Need I say anymore? But usually when you think someone is indirecting you in a tweet, it's because you recognise some of the bad behaviour being tweeted about in yourself.

5) The death of grammar. 

Maybe it's because I did half of my degree in literature. Maybe it's because I'm a bloody control freak but sometimes my blood boils when I notice people deciding to continuously rape the English language on Twitter. By all means write 'gonna' instead of 'going to'...I do this. Even use slang, no one's arguing against that. But why must you completely change the spelling of words which do not need to be shortened? Why say 'wah' instead of 'what'. I'm not saying everyone needs to be Spelling Bee champions but please...think before you tweet. We all went to school guys. 

Hope you enjoyed reading! 

SS12 trends...

Aloha!

The sun is shining, the birds are singing and everyone is just soooo happy! NAAAAAAT! hahaa jk yeah the sun is shining but we still freezing our booties off out there, BUT that doesn't stop us from being so excited about this seasons colored denim.  From what I've seen in magazines, shops and blogs it's all the pastel colors that we need to get a hold of! (skinny fit is what I recommend of course!)

EVERY BODIES DOING IT :D so should you!

I had a rummage through my closet and what do you know ey? I have pink, green, blue, red, purple and orange skinnies, but of course fashion being fashion you can't always wear what you wore the season before?! WHATTT, of course that aint true now is it?? it can cost to look good (as if we didn't know this
 (-_-)...great there goes my social life...) and keep up with the latest trends. BUTTTT do not fear my nearests and dearests! I have a little secret, here's a way my lil pumpkins, you can save yourselves some pocket money :P

Match the current bad boys with lighter colored tops and bobs your uncle! With accessories mix the two colors and no one will even realize, you'll look as trendy as the other lot who have a minus bank account hehe :)...

Now that we've come onto this subject, there's something else I love doing atm, some of you might think I'm a bit bonkers but, matching your bottoms with the same color top (but a few shades lighter) has such a 80's look to it! Make sure you add a touch of accessories preferably small and darker pieces, you don't want to look like an ice lolly now..( or do you o.O...)

Perfect example, and if your brave enough throw on a brighter color on top!

Come on girls! and boys of course! lets get bright and ready for the season oh yeahhhhh :)

Ciao Ciao for now Amigos 

pots of love 

Meech :)

Bundles Of Love For...Online Boutiques.

These days nearly everyone buys the majority of their clothes from the High Street. And yeah that's great because there's massive variety, decent prices and they're easy to get to. Because lets face it you're never more than a 10 minutes drive from a River Island. HOWEVER...as much as I'm still a whore for the High Street, I've started to stretch my reach when it comes to looking for new clothes and accessories. Online boutiques are where its at. 

The benefits are:

-You can shop from anywhere in the world as long as they ship to your country.

-Buy items that no one else will have. There'll be no more of those awkward "oh I saw your dress in Topshop! It's £34.99!" moments at a party. CRINGE.

-The clothing or accessories will usually always have a twist to them. For example, a simple white shirt might be updated with embellishments on the collar or exaggerated sleeves.

So I'm about to show you a few of the items I've spotted on a couple of online boutique stores that I think you might like!

First up is Romwe.com. Its an American site, they do free shipping and it only takes 3-5 days to get to the UK.

$85 or £55

$57 or £37

This is really weird but I love it. 

$74 or £48

$13 or £8

See the prices aren't that bad!

Next up is Married To The Mob. I'm obsessed with this online brand mainly because of this item. LUST. Yes, the t-shirt may be a bit explicit but as long as I don't wear it around my parents I should survive.

$32 or £20

Last but by no means least would have to be celebboutique.com. Yes, boutiques can also be slutty/trashy but still pretty damn amazing. Now I can't really afford to buy more than one of these dresses just yet but when I can I will basically live on this website. The majority of the dresses are bodycon and to be honest I just want one because I think they'll make my boobs look great lol. Here are three of my favourites.

$120 or £78

Same price as above.

Same price as above.

I have to be honest. This is complete and utter lust. I can only dream of the day I have the body to wear one of these dresses lol.

Hope you've enjoyed reading folks. Until next time :)