Nudity always tends to be controversial.

They're back girls.

Yes, you heard me right. The flesh coloured lips are back. However we've long passed the days of using conclealer as lipstick. We're also now seeing a little colour in these nude lips, which, i know, is a tad contradictive but the best trends are. Some are calling these lips 'muted' but nude made for a much better title, dont you think? This all sparked when Pat McGrath sent CK models down the catwalk donning a very au natural look.

Marina does them best though.

Stuck for ideas? Check Barry M

Marshmellow

Palest Lavender

Peachy Pink

Pink Suede

Opinions?

Love V xx

PHOTOS: Models and Marina from Google Search & Lipsticks from Barry M

Time Warp

I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS POST!

My weekly subscription to LOOK magazine arrived today (on time for once!) and in it is an

a-maz-ing editorial featuring Diana Vickers. They did a shoot consisting of 7 photos all styled with different decade in mind. Jodie Nellist, the stylist, dressed her from the '30s to the '90s, ready to have John Adams snap this gorgeous timeline. This is by far (like a million zillion miles ahead) the BEST photo shoot LOOK have done, and I've seen a lot of them! ♥

I'm going to apologise for the quality of these images right now as, and i don't mean to be melodramatic, but ALL TECHNOLOGY HATES ME RIGHT NOW! ;) I'll spare you the details because I will end up taking the focus from this time warp editorial with a teenage grump.

SO ENJOY!

'30s

'40s

'50s

'60s

'70s

'80s

'90s (This scan-in was particularly bad!)

My favourites are the '60s and '70s. I love the clothes in every single shot, but in these two the make-up add a little something extra.


Your Favourites?

Love V xx

PHOTOS: LOOK MAGAZINE - ALL RIGHTS/CREDIT TO THEM.

BEHIND THE SCENES: HERE

5 Favourites - 27th September 2010

Hello, :) This weeks five favourites are as follows...

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1. £9. It's Autumn and there seems to have been a sudden change in temperature, no? So this cute little pendant means you'll always have an umbrella on you, this one might not be as effective as a real umbrella, but still.

2. £25. I have ALWAYS wanted a lantern like this, which pretty much concludes the reasoning for placing it in my 'five favourites' this week.

3. £5. Release your inner 'glamourpuss' with this gorgeous feather fan. Add a little mystery maybe?

4. £8. Simply because i feel i should include something panda-related every week now. Ha! Jokes aside, this not-so-little statement ring stands out for all the right reasons!

5. £9. Just got off of a ten hour flight, not looking your best. Whack out this beauty and you'll be the most stylish traveller there!

Love V xx

ALL FROM ACCESSORIZE

you got a friend in me

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell

Good afternoon, :)

So i've had a busy weekend, in my opinion anyway.

Saturday we took the brother to uni, it took for ever, traffic, traffic and a little bit more traffic. We amused ourselves however. We created an ingenious game of screaming 'WAHAAAY!' everytime we saw another car that was full to bursting with uni supplies. Simple pleasures 'ey.

Then the same night, i stayed over at a friends house with 3 others, and it was SO much fun. We were all care free and just having a laugh and some fun, which seems also non-existent recently. Yes we lived up to the stereotype; we did eachothers make up and hair, which has concluded in me convinced i need two new foundations, one mousse and one powder (I intend to buy these asap!). We ate pizza, drank coke and watched high school musical 3.. because you are never too old.

Left quite early, on a severe lack of sleep, to go and watch/support my dad while he did a run for Cancer Research UK :) It was freezing, i was in four layers and my mum in 5 but all the runners did so well and raised a lot of money for a good cause.

As you can see from the first part of this post, i chose to focus it on friendship, because I loved the 'sleepover' (sounds so childing, ha!) and i love my friends. It was a good time, and they have been rare due to friendships drifting, which is sad but it's bound to happen. So yeah, it was good to feel part of a secure little friendship group again :)

Hope you've had a good weekend ♥

Love V xx

PHOTOS FROM WEHEARTIT.COM

TGIF ;)

Happy friday!

I'm so unbelievably glad this weekend is here.


Today has had a couple of accomplishments on my part, the first being I found my eyeliner pencil! This may not seem like an accomplishment to the 'average joe' but to me? It's up there with the best. I've been looking for it for ages, don't get me wrong, my room isn't so messy that i lost it under a pile of clothes that had casually been chucked in a corner, no. Instead my little eye liner pencil, which now stands at just about over an inch, was tucked away in my old make-up bag, underneath foundations and eye shadows that I no longer use. I am not entirely sure how or why it was there, but it was and now it's safe in my current make-up bag. It's like a kind of security. I just re-read that, i completely bipassed the reason as to why i have branded the discovery of my eyeliner as an accomplishment. Basically, It's autumn an in autumn I like my make up thicker than usual. Not so thick so I look like a panda (if you consider that a bad thing) but substantially thicker than I wear it in summer. Now, with the loss of my beloved eyeliner pencil, i have had to use my liquid eye liner, on my top and bottom lids. This is a nice, light look. A look suitable for summer, but not Autumn. Welcome back, my beautiul eye liner. ♥

From Here.

I'm not going to ramble on about my second accomplishment of the day, so i'll sum it up. I finished ALL my coursework for english. I mean, it was the year 10 coursework which was supposed to be finished several weeks ago (I'm now in year 11) but never the less, it's done.

Weekend Plans?

Love, V xx

It's all in the effects

I want this. It's cute and edgy. Those two words pretty much sum up Barry M make up completely.. oh and maybe colourful.

Watch the tutorial video here. It explains it all really.

:)

V xx

From the Barry M website.

it was acceptable in the 80's..

Hello lovelies! Last night the 15th episode (Don't you forget me) of season 7 aired in the UK last night and they took us on a little trip back to the 80's. The girls did so much better than the boys with their outfits and hair, but the boys had a good go and i suppose it's easier to crimp long hair! As I was watching it last night, I knew that I would have to do a post to show off these beauts!

Austin Nichols as Julian

Mitch Ryan (Alexander) & Sophia Bush (Brooke)

Sasha Jackson (Kylie) & Lee Norris (Mouth)

Jana Kramer (Alex)

Shantel Vansanten (Quinn) & Bethany Joy Galeotti (Hayley)

Did you see it, what did you think?

Apologies if your in America and this has already aired :)

V xx

♥

PHOTOS: CREDIT HERE

AND TO THE CW

5 Favourites

Hello All,

So today I am starting a feature. Each week on Monday I will find my 5 Favourite things (hence the name) from either one website or several websites but the same item (e.g. 5 necklaces) and show you them. As you can see, this week I have chosen 5 items from River Island.

So, here goes...

P.S. Sorry about the picture quality, I'll work on it for next week.

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1. £59.99: I love the duffel coat and the toggles that seem to be everywhere this year. We saw them a little bit last year but it seems people weren't so sure back then, but one year on and they're back, bigger and better than ever! Also I love navy and the red toggles give it a nautical look.

2. £29.99: Picture this with some thick black leggings or jeans tucked into brown/tan leather boots with a thick knit scarf wrapped round you. Autumn Chic.

3. £39.99: Cute, patterned, Peter Pan collar, long sleeved and a beautiful colour. Whats not to love?

4. £9.99: The layered ring look is big right now. So you could either cram several ill fitting, miss matching rings on or you could choose this little gem. And for just under a tenner.

5. £32.99: Because who wouldn't want a scarf that could turn them into a pander at the flick of a hood? Honestly, If i could be any animal for a day, it would definitely be a panda.

I couldn't afford any of these, except maybe the ring, but that does not and will not stop me loving them!

Love V xx

♥

a couple snaps.

I got a little bit bored earlier and found my mums camera, so what else could I do but whiz round the house and take a few snaps? ;) There's only four but it's better than nothing, right?

My Favourite One (Above)

Hope your warmer on your weekend than I am on mine :)

V xx

♥

Beth Ditto's clothes line for Evans launched today. There are 23 piece in the line and the sizes range from 14 to 32. I almost screamed with joy when i saw Beth was launching a line for Evans. Beths always in the magazines for her amazing confidence and her striking looks so why not bring a bit o' beth to the highstreet? The collection photos are below, enjoy! :)

See the range here.

V xx

♥

PHOTOS FROM HERE.

Colour Me Pretty!

If you haven't already guessed from the photos above, this post is about nail varnish. Sorry for the quality of the photos but i do not currently own a camera (so so gutted) and so i have had to settle for my 2mp camera on my phone, which by the way is also slowly falling to pieces.

I love nail varnishes. I own quite a few to say the least (you saw a snippet of them) but not enough colours, i own too much pink. I buy one practically every time i go shopping, and spend an age deciding on which one i should go for, much to the annoyance of my friends! But nail varnish is important, it can potentially make or break an outfit and besides it makes me feel pretty! This post is basically a way to show my love and devotion and to overall feed my addiction to nail varnish as i can't wear it for ages and ages because it's against school rules!

I just want to go out and buy every single new autumn colour.

So basically, I MISS NAIL VARNISH! ;'(

BIG ♥ FOR NAIL VARNISH!

are you a nail varnish addict?

Hope your having a good week so far, V xx

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair - Susan Polis Shutz

Good evening sweeeties! So, i'm five days into year 11 and it's gonna be a longggggg year and a very difficult year, but thats no reason for it not to be an AMAZING year. Im sat on my bed, watching big brother and i have been since 7:30pm. To be fair it is the final ;( very sad times, every time Davina wells up, it brings a tear to my eye. I l-l-love Davina, she's just lovely (her big send off has just started :D ) and to be honest, she makes Big Brother, doesn't she. I'm so glad she wore red. She looks gorgeous in anything and we all know she can pull off black better than any human being, ever, but I always think that when it's the mile-stone episodes (e.g. the finals) that she should wear colour and she has! I'm going to miss her presence on my friday nights. Big love for the queen of TV :) .. I could honestly talk about Big Brother for ever and ever.

I need neeed neeeeeeeed a haircut! BUT i'm beginning to annoy myself, because I am incredibly indecisive. So i'll decide i want a haircut in a certain style, i'll be fixed on it for a few days then doubt starts to ruin my lovely dream hair :( I start to worry about it not looking nice and i start to imagine people will take the mic. I know you shouldnt worry about what people are going to think, but your bound to right? I've never really had any drastic style changes. Im 15 and I've never had a big drastic change, how sad that makes me feel :( I suppose the closest I've come to is either my mother putting a block fringe on me (which was so straight it looked as though they had used a spirit level to put it in) or when i cut my hair short-ish. I say short-ish because it wasn't actually short in reality, but compared to what it was before i cut it! It was long, very long. And to be honest, I didn't care what my hair looked like then, or my appearance come to think of it. Those were the days when i would happily leave the house in cropped grey, faded jeans with Adidas trainers wearing a little pink tee with a glittery monkey on it. Yes, there is photographic evidence of this, which will never work its way onto here! Anyway, yet again i feel i have digressed. So my hair right now? Blonde-ish, I'm in denial, I dont want to call it mouse-y brown...

Its layerd, but they don't last very long, at all. I have no fringe, i've never wanted to go back from the block fringe days of my terrible twos - 5's! I've toyed with dying my bland boring locks brunette recently but now i want to go blonde blonde blonde!!

I think i might go for choppy choppy layers and maybe a bit of a side fringe? Wonder how long this idea will last :)

Celeb hair style crush: BLAKE LIVELY!

Image from here


Look how I've babbled on... and sadly not about anything too exciting.

Have a good weekend, get inspired? :)

V xx

FIRST 2 PHOTOS FROM HERE.

GQ awards

I'm feeling a little bit stinted, fashion wise. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but i'll take an eductated guess. So we're back at school and as per usual its all about uniform, uniform, uniform. I know a lot of schools have strict rules about uniform/appearence but I dont understand how much difference nail varnish or a hair braid can make to our education? I havent worn a hair braid since i was about 6, but i'd like to have the option, you know. Anyway, a couple of days ago GQ magazine along with Dunhill held Men Of the Year 2010 awards. As i'm not up for talking too much today (no idea why), I'll let the pictures do the talking...

Daisy Lowe in Gareth Pugh

Gemma Arterton in Viktor And Rolf

Lily Allen in Vintage with Chanel Jewels


Alexa Chung in Valentino


I suppose as it was the Men of the Year awards, so we should include them a little bit ey?



Aaron Johnson with finace Sam

JLS in Armarni

Ed Westwick (Yum) with Lily Allen

Dizzee Rascal in Dior

David Gandy in Dolce and Gabanna

Oh Mark...


Your opinions, best and worst?

Love V xx

PHOTOS: GQ magazine website