Training Heels.

I need to apologise for the, what I think is, screwed up homework. it goes wrong sometimes, what can you do?

and again. 

Prom is five months away. Five months seems like a reasonable length of time to prepare right? Apparently not, everyone is freaking out about transportation, dresses, food and blah blah blah. I'm not too worried about all of that, I know we'll get it sorted (positive mental attitude!) but there is one thing that's had me a little worried of late. The shoes. I'm not worried about the colour/size/style/shoe-dress coordination, more the actual walking in them. 

I'm fifteen and can't walk in heels. I'll admit it, nothing to be ashamed of! I've never had any real need to wear heels. My friends houses and school don't really call for such attire, prom however does. So, I decided it was about time to settle the nerves and get practising. After all, they say practice makes perfect, and I'm not even after perfect, just adequate as to avoid any falls. Enter shopping. 

My mother and I found the beauties you see in the photos above in BHS on an after school shopping trip this week. I wouldn't normally think to look in BHS but I'm glad my mum suggested it. She's always right! I love the colour and because of the nude shade they will go with almost anything! They were in the sale too, which is extra bonus points! 

So from now on, I'll be lounging around the house in these heels to try and ensure my being at a constant vertical during prom. I'm focusing on walking, not even attempting stairs for fear of breaking something and have concluded that they're going to come off during the dancing! 

My recent step into the world of heels has made me wonder about a few things. What age do you begin wearing heels? Of course there is no age you should wear heels, to suggest such a thing would be silly in my eyes, but when is a common age, if there is one? I know people younger than me that have got heels down and then again I know some people older than me that stick to flats. I suppose it's down to the individual to choose whenever (if ever) they want to. 

How is your heels experience?

Love Victoria xo 

white white wedding.

here.

Oscar De La Renta is probably my all time favourite designers and through no fault of my own I ended up on the website. This is a wedding dress and it is out of the 'prom dress budget' by a zillion punds but I love it. It's beautiful!

Love Victoria xo 

I'd like to be a bee keeper if at all possible, please.

here.

Because he's hot.

I had a career meeting thing today. When she was writing up my action plan and things, the lady told me to have a read through this book which had information on a load of careers (it was massive!). I genuinely saw a page for bee keeping. I wanted to stop her and say 'actually I've changed my mind, I'll be going into bee keeping'. How cool is that!? 

Love Victoria xo  

yeah, I surf.

Firstly, I would just like to mention a lovely blogger who goes by the name Agent 0017 for her blog donewithconformity.blogspot.com. She took the time to write a little bit about each of her followers, it was such a lovely surprise when I clicked on her post to see it, it made my day! It was so sweet and thoughtful and just shows how much her followers mean to her. Check out her blog if you haven't already, it's always a good read!

VO5 SurfStyle texturising sea salt spray

I bought VO5 Surf Style yesterday. It's a repeat purchase because it's just so freakin' amazing! A lot of these products that are supposed to give you that 'just-got-off-my-surfboard' look don't work but in my opinion, this one does! I mean It doesn't create perfect beachy waves just by spraying it in your hair but it does wave it a little bit because of the sea salt (i think) and then if you scrunch your hair etc. it seems to give quite a good effect. Especially for my hair as it has a very slight natural wave. I put it in my hair this morning and I might as well have used my 2.5" curling iron. It probably looked nicer using the spray. This might not happen everyday, we know what hair can be like, but I was happy today. It also adds volume and that tousled look we're all after. The product doesn't claim to keeping a 'perfect hold' of this style throughout the day so I suggest hairspray (mine was useless, I swear its water?). This spray is only something like £3.50 so it's worth a try at least to see if it works for you. Even if your not interested in it for the styling aspect, buy it for the smell! It was a big factor in my choice to repurchase. Seriously, it is like the seaside in a bottle. I wish I could spray it on the screen and it would transfer to yours, just so you could smell it! yum. 

Babyliss Waving Wand

I was flicking through the Argos catalogue, as you do, when I came across this beaut. The Babyliss Curling Wand.  I'm tempted but it retails at around £27-£30ish so that puts me off a little. I might wait to see if it comes down in price. Does any one have it already, is it any good? 

Enough wave talk. 

Have a good week! 

Love Victoria xo 

tv and hair, it all interlinks.

As you have probably noticed by the mass of adverts smothering our E4/Channel 4 etc. channels. Skins is back. Soon. Thursday 27th January at 10pm on E4 to be mildly precise. Everyone always says 'it wont be as good as the last series'. But we said that in reference to the second cast and to be honest, that series was so good! I don't think I could choose between which cast I preferred because they were different, obvs. I'm not overly excited for this new cast, don't know why, an explanation wouldn't be very interesting anyway. I love the drama, it's so unlike my life. ha. I remember Simon Bird (plays Will in The Inbetweeners) saying something like 'Skins is what you wish your school life was like and The Inbetweeners is the harsh reality'. Makes me laugh everytime. Appropriate to you or not, it's funny. I loved Chris (first cast) and Cook (second cast) so I included photos. I, of course, loved Freddie too but these pictures jumped out at me on weheartit so there you go.

Via here. 

Via here. 

The topic of Skins brings me nicely on to my next point. Hair. Unless you haven't already seen the picture below/haven't seen Skins then I understand this might not seem like things that link directly to one another. But alas,  I shall explain.

The picture below shows Kat Prescott, she played Emily Fitch in the 3rd and 4th series' of Skins. I want her hair. It's that simple. Pure want. If I wasn't so damn indecisive and thought it might actually look half decent I'd dye my hair that colour tomorrow! I'm pale, she is pale (in the photo at least) so it gives me a little bit more confidence in this colour. hmm. Do you think this colour looks good on pale/fair skin tones?

via here.

A more subtle colour might be a better idea. A lovely Anne Hathaway brown, maybe. But subtle seems a little boring right now. 

Via here. 

Neither change would be subtle seeing as I'm blonde-ish.  I also have natural highlights and  I've been warned by a zillion people who have dyed their hair at some point that 'you'll never get your natural colour back, not even with a wash in wash out'. Is this true!? It's a scary thought. Someone reassure me?

There you have my skins opinions/lusts and my hair colour dilema/wants. I rambled on for much longer than I intended to, oh well. 

Hope you are having a wonderful week!

Love Victoria xo 

tweeze in style.

I just quickly wanted to show you these really cute tweezers I got for Christmas from my parents. I think they're so adorable! My pair is meant to be Victoria Beckham (love!) which is also appropriate being as it's my name too. My mum was really excited because she chose these ones because she liked them the best and looked at the name and viola! 

I remember seeing them in a magazine and my mum told me they are called 'tweezers with attitude' or something, so I googled and found them here for £3.10. 

I love them! You can get Victoria Beckham (obvs), Sienna Miller, Cheryl Cole and a few others.

You like?

Really quick post, have to go out for a netball training session thing at half five, cutting it close! 

Hope you all had a wonderful day. 

Love Victoria xo 

science & faith.

The Script - Science and Faith 

"You wont find faith or hope down a telescope

you wont find heart and soul in the stars 

you can break everything down to chemicals 

but you can't explain a love like ours"

Love Victoria xo 

we're the kids in America

I know I blogged about the American style trend we're seeing everywhere like last week and all but this is a little different and shorter. The style that I featured in that post was more the' American girl' kinda thing, this is more varsity. Anyway, I wanted to show these because I also thought it might be a slightly cheaper alternative to the asos.com 'look' they are featuring. The following items are from a 'preppy American' look they have on boohoo.com. 

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These were my favourite pieces. They're quite casual, if I could I'd buy all of these and then all of the clothes I showed in the asos American style post I did too. 

Sorry if you feel like I'm repeating myself. 

You like? 

Love Victoria xo

telephone necklace anyone?

 I'm not a massive jewellery fan. There was a stage when I was apparently in competition with myself to wear as many bracelets on one arm as possible, but I'm over that now. However, I always stop to have a look in Accessorize. I usually um and ah about jewellery, thinking will I wear it enough to get my moneys worth, (I must be so annoying to shop with) and usually end up leaving it, convincing myself I don't need/want it enough and to be honest I probably don't. *cutting to the point*. I was having a look on their website and found a few pieces I liked which I thought I'd share.  

£9.00

£12.00

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A phone on a necklace! LOVE.

Also, I have a major want for a big inconvenient ring. The bigger the better! I adore this River Island one and the bird one below from Accessorize. Amazing.  I mean it would probably snag some of your clothes, but who cares. Look at it! Sheer brilliance in my mind. 

£12.00

Contrary to the above choices, I don't usually like gold jewellery, much more a silver girl. Oh well. 

How do you like your jewellery? Big, dainty, silver, gold?  

Love Victoria xo 

listennnnnn.

Yesterday was a little bit rubbish to be honest. Nothing really happened to make it rubbish, which makes me feel a little bit guilty because of lack of perspective, but some days just aren't great. I didn't sleep well, school was blah and the weather was blah, which I'm sure you all noticed. So, I went to Tesco with the mother and bought myself Look and Vogue to cheer myself up. Yes, I did only buy Vogue because I wanted to read the VB interview.   

Lighting is horrible, but it's dark outside and they're shiny. ha. 

Jokes aside though, I really did enjoy her interview. So many people don't like her because she never smiles or comes across moody or whatever. And to be honest, I used to think that, simply because everyone else did. Then when I started to be a little bit more interested in things other than Polly Pocket and Blue and started reading magazines and seeing interviews or snippets on television that VB was in, my own opinion began to form. The interview is quite straight talking, she's doesn't deny that she doesn't draw and that instead she hangs things on her and see's what works. She speaks quite down to earth, in my opinion anyway. 

Also, we share the same name and my birthday is the same as David Beckhams (2nd May ;] ) , so how could I not buy it, right? 

Also, I'm about to start reading Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts. It's the fourth and final instalment in a set called the Bride Quartet.  It follows four childhood friends who have formed a wedding planning service, through each of the books you see one more of them find love. I'm not going to lie, they are fairly predictable in the baseline of the story but each is different in its own way. And to be fair, they have all been so beautifully romantic and whimsical that is hasn't mattered and I can't see it being a problem with the fourth. I love them,  I've read them, my mum has read them and so has my grandma and her friend! 

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Also, Glee was back on in the UK last night. I am a little aprehensive about this season because I'm worried it's going to be all about getting the celebrities in and using new current songs. Don't get me wrong, a bit of that sounds good but I want to make sure they include some older songs because last season was so good and helped me discover some new music. But I enjoyed last nights, so hopefully I will the rest of the season too. Below is Charice who played Sunshine singing 'Listen' from Dreamgirls, my favourite song from the episode.
Did you see it? 

Hope you are all well?
Love Victoria xo 

Weekly Playlist.

found on weheartit from here

So I've kind of lacked in my 'listening to this week' posts over the Christmas/NY/going back to school period. Buttttttt, I don't like the title, so I'm changing it. simples ;). Anddddd, I think I'm going to just list and link the songs instead of putting youtube videos for them on here, because this means I can list more songs without having to fiddle around with the videos and all that plusss I need to do some homework. I'll probs change it back to the old way next week, knowing me. I got half way through two pieces last night but stopped because I couldn't do them. Good attitude ey, so back to them I go. 

Anyway, look how I ramble. 

Playlist

Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole

Candle in the Wind - the Rebecca Ferguson version  

(seriously can't stop listening to it!) 

High School Never Ends - Bowling for soup 

(just discovered this band this weekend! exciting stufffffff) 

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 

Coming Home - Pixie Lott ft. Jason Derulo 

(I got her cd for Christmas, and have had this on replay!) 

Invincible - Tinie Tempah ft Kelly Rowland  

So there it is! I put Fight For This Love in because I kept hearing it last week, it was really weird. haha. 

I think it's a kind of (modern) eclectic list this week, but I just put down the main ones that I've been listening to a lot this week. 

Hope you're all well

Love Victoria xo 

Blake Lively for Chanel

Via here.

Blake Lively has been announced as the new face of Chanel Mademoisell handbags.

Blake was seen in a lot of Chanel last year and has also become good friends with Karl Lagerfield so I think we were all expecting something like this soon. 

I love Blake Lively, (seriously don't get me started on her hair ♥) so I'm very happy she has been chosen for it. 

She said 'A dream come true is an understatement'.

 I can believe that! 

Her campaign is due out around March. 

Read a more detailed (and better written) article here.

Opinions, opinions, opinions? 

Love Victoria xo 

American Style?

I was snooping around some clothes store websites. The usual ones for me; new look, river island, topshop, occasionally asos and some others.

To be honest, not many things had caught my eye so this look around was rather swift, until I reached asos. There was a little feature showing/advertising a new 'look' called 'All - American girl". The clothes the model was wearing were really nice, short-ish floral long sleeve and check skirt. I like the stereotypical (?) American style we've seen working it's way into stores all over the country, most commonly through the varsity jackets (love!), but now it seems to be a little less obvious but I love it all the same, possibly more. Anyway, I decided to take a look. I'm glad I did.

Here are some (a lot) of my favourite pieces/styles from the look.

View the whole range here.

asos. 

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asos

The top three and the fifth are particular favourites but I do have a slightly strange love for tops like the one in the penultimate image. You know the whole different colour collar and sleeves thing, I think the love stemmed from watching so much one tree hill.

Overall though, I love the contrast between some of the looks. Being that some are incredibly girlie (not a look I usually go for) and some just aren't. The colours in some are a lot darker and the actual style is different but it still represents the overall style of all-American girl, if you follow? I would completely understand, given the last bit of that sentence.

What are your thoughts and opinions on this style?

Love Victoria xo

all photos from: asos.com

bag love.

Finally, I have something fashion related to share with you! I got this bag for Christmas from my Grandparents (a lot of love and thanks for this!) and I love it so much! 

I knew I was getting it, but I was still so excited when I opened it. I saw it when I was shopping with my dad one day, but we didn't have time to have present negotiations so we left it. But I loved it so much, I kept talking about it and describing it to my mum. It sounds like I was hinting, but I'd already asked for it for Christmas as soon as we got home. I seemed to just need my mother to understand how beautiful this bag was and apparently this meant I would describe it to her several times a week (I'm glad she can put up with me)! Ha, bad case of bag love.

I think it was around £30 which is the most a bag has ever cost me that I've considered buying. Even though I didn't actually buy it, but you know what I mean. It was from Next, but I think it was one of their stores that stocks the last season stuff and we bought it in November. 

I've had a look on their website and found a page which shows all the tan bags. There's a few satchel type ones, some a lot more expensive than this one though! 

It's kind of like my substitute for the Mullberry Alexa bag, seen below. 

Mullberry Oversized Alexa bag.
Image via Here.

Normally, I buy either small bags for when I'm just out and only need the bare essentials or big-ish bags that will do for school. But this one, this is different. This will definitely not be used for school. My school bags have a tendency of getting a little bit ruined, by no fault of their own usually. This one is too precious for me to use it for school! When my over protectiveness wares off, I'll start whacking it out a bit more. 

Are you a bag person?

Love Victoria xo 

Yesterday was so last year ;).

(totally saw the title as a facebook group! ha )

From here. 

I hope you all had a good start to 2011, however you chose to spend it. I've always been more of a Christmas person than a NYE one. I like Christmas because, for me, it's more family orientated. But everyone's different, and I'm only fifteen so maybe when I'm older NYE might become more appealing. 

I've been thinking about what I can write that hasn't already been covered by a lot of people today, and to be completely honest with you, I can't think of anything. Today is a day, that more than any other in the year, people are thinking about what they're going to do next, what they want to achieve and what they are aiming for. I kind of like that idea, that a bit of hope is renewed in the people that lost it this last year. I like that. Because today, you know you can start something. You can start something at any point in the year but today people seem to be a little more inspired to get that ball rolling. And so, this is what people have been writing about. I love reading about what people are aiming for this year. I mean, the reason we have these blogs is to share our thoughts and passions on various things. So currently, I don't think it's a bad thing that a lot of the posts seem to carry similar themes, because sharing your dreams and aspirations is a good thing. It helps you realise what they are, maybe even which ones you prioritise and it keeps the rest of us interested. :) 

However, because I've already covered some of my basic goals here (pretty standard ones to be honest) I thought I'd do a little bit about the year ahead, minus the goal talk. 

2011 could, potentially, be quite a big year for me because: 

- I turn 16

- I get my mock GCSE results back (either a reassurance or shock kick start for the end of the school year) 

- Finish my GCSE's 

- Get my GCSE results

- Prom 

- Finish the compulsory part of school 

- I will be starting sixth form this year 

Looking at them now, they are quite heavily school related. I mean if I mess up my GCSE's then my results wont be good and It would damage my chances of getting in to sixth form. but no pressure. 

It's going to be a busy year, I have exams spread throughout the year. January 14th is my first two (french) and I supposedly (date not finalised) get my mock results back. *nerves nerves nerves* 

So those are the things I'm expecting this year. They are mostly near the may-sept months though so I wonder if anything exciting will happen before then. I looking forward to some surprises this year, good surprises preferably. 

Love and Lots of New Year Wishes!

Victoria xo