Coat and Jacket Haul.

Happy New Year everyone, I hope you have all been blessed with a good start to 2012 :)

I just wanted to post about a coat and jacket I have bought in the last week.

The first one is a coat I bought in Topshop on sale, it's a waxed coat something I've been after for some time :)

Since I live in the Welsh countryside with lots of sheep, mud and crappy weather I thought it was time I bought something country style'ish, I need wellington boots next. 

 

I thought it was a good price down to £40 from £85, and it was the last in my size :)

So here is a pic of me wearing it and some solo shots.

I love that this coat feels that you can wear it out in the country having a little stroll or you can wear it shopping without looking scruffy.

The fur collar can be taken off which is a bonus, as I know I can wear it during the rainy spring months but at the moment I like wearing it with the fur collar so I can feel a little glamorous and warm.

The belt also gives it a nice structured, put together feel which I found other waxed coats/jackets did not have.

The jacket I bought was quite different for me, I don't really wear many blazer type jackets (I use to, but not so much lately) however it was more of the colour that was alien to my jacket wardrobe.

A pink blazer :)

I didn't intend on buying one, it was more of an impulse thing and I'm glad it happened :)

Waiting in the queue in H&M there was a pile of pink jackets on the table all laid out, and they caught my eye and I thought to myself 'they're cute'. Then I saw that they were just £14.99 and I grabbed one and took it to the checkout without thinking.

It's quite a striking pink, but I love it I think it will look really nice during the spring summer months.

I think I'll probably pair it with something studded to harden it up a bit.

What I also love is the spotty lining inside, so cute.

Speaking of Welsh weather I thought I'd just pop some phone shots in that I took over a week ago, so you'd get the idea,lol.

 Thank you for reading and I wish you all the best for 2012 :)

Nice day out with friends casual OOTD :)

 Hi I just thought I'd do an outfit of the day as I haven't done one in a very long time.

Today I went out for a meal and coffees with my close friends. There was a lot of messing around and laughs and it really made my week :)

It's been snowing a little in Wales so a cosy knitted dress from H&M was very apt as keeping warm was of importance, I hate being cold. Brrr...

I teamed it with thick tights, a warm parka and furry snood and boots (kinda sounds like puss in boots).

Anyway here are some pics.

 What I'm wearing:

H&M knitted dress (I think it's gone into since since buying).

Tights from Dorothy Perkins

Boots by Head Over Heels for Dune (last season)

Snood furry thing by Warehouse

Coat from Topshop (last season also).

What also made me happy was buying Benefit's Hoola Bronzer :)

During the summer I bought Dandelion and it has been my HG blush since, however I'm looking a tad more ghostly pale than usual (if possible) so I thought I need a little bronzing.

I will try to review soon, but here are some quick pictures I've just taken :)

I bought mine at Debenhams

 

Hope you all had a lovely weekend :)

Take care x

Topshop Nail Varnish - Geography Teacher

Hi all, I just thought I'd just make another mentally late post.

I thought I'd show you all one of my favourite nail varnishes of the moment.

Which as you can tell by the post title is Topshop's makeup brand nail varnish in Geography Teacher.

It's a lovely creamy caramel/camel colour, which is very on trend.

I'm actually quite surprised at how good Topshops nail varnish is, I was expecting some cheap nasty polish, but this is as good as any high end polish in my opinion.

With me it usually chips after 3-4days, which I think is good going.

They also have quite an impressive array of colours in their nail varnish collection, a few others have caught my eye and at £5 a go they're pretty cheap for the quality.

A few random accessories haul :) and NOTD

 

I popped to town today to buy some Christmas things, and while I did get one or two pressies I also picked these little accessories up :)

I know it's naughty buying things for myself so close to Christmas, but they were cheap (that's my excuse anyway :p ).

So first of all I bought some little pieces of cheap jewelery from Miss Selfridge. I'm not really a big jewelery wearer. Usually I only wear a plain silver ring or my silver and amber one, and I always wear my cross and St.Christopher necklaces, but lately I've been feeling a bit boring so thought I'd get some things on the sales.

I don't really like buying cheap novelty jewelery full price as I know I'll just be wasting money because I usually only wear them a few times, so that's why sales are great :)

I bought a little stack of gold Love rings for £2 :D and a gold heart bracelet for £3.

Yes I'm having a gold and red fetish it seems, hehe.

Look how cute they are :)

  

At the end of this week the weather people forecast snow for the UK, and I'm a bit of a beret lover so it was an excuse to buy a new one.

I get a really cold head so I always wear a hat through winter, I like being all snuggley and warm.

For the last few winters I have been a redhead, so I've had hats to compliment the red hair, but lately I've started going back to my roots and slowly started going blonde again (the blondeness doesn't show up very well in the picture below though).

And so the old hats I have now don't compliment the blonde hair. I think red goes nicely with blonde hair, sort of like red riding hood stylie ;)

The hat is from Topshop and was £8. It's nice and soft and contain mostly wool and angora :)

 

Also I thought I'd post an NOTD as I wore the 17 High Gloss Nail Polish in Risky Red by itself today without the Barry M Red Glitter polish (as was shown in a previous post).

I am actually still surprised by how smoothly this nail varnish goes on.

Sometimes I find some nail varnishes very thick and gloopy (even when new) to apply, but this sort of just slides on.

In the picture below I only used one coat, and it gave a good even finish and high shine.

Online Shopping Haul!

A few things I ordered off the net came today :D I've had a damn flu, and to cheer myself up and get some winter things ready, I got some stuff off the internet.

I have a thing about over-sized men type shirts at the moment :S it will faze out in a week or two, but right now I love them,lol. I want MORE!
I also bought a jumper dress to wear with tight or leggings, with ankle boots for comfy days at college that don't include painting.
I also bought a crazy hat,lol, I love these styles. I think they're hunter hats (even though I hate hunting and am well against it).

I am really excited about these shoes, I've wanted Brogues for Aaggges!!! These ones have some cool little studs, I love them. I also find Topshop shoes comfy :)



This is really naughty, but I have some Body Shop stuff too.
I've read so many nice things about this perfume, and because it has vanilla I had to have it.
I love warm vanilla scents for winter. I had a sample in Cosmo magazine a few weeks back too, and it smelt gorgeous.
I bought the body wash too, so I can be surrounded by the lovely scent in the Bath too.
I also have the Brazil Nut body scrub too, as I love the body shop scrubs, they always make skin feel so smooth and moisturised, like new skin.
And because I'm a lip balm freak I got the Tantalising lip butter, it's so smooth and moisturising.
So that's it for now :)
Hope you've had a lovely evening :)