27/01/12; Curls.

Dress: Romwe.
I'm having a love/hate relationship with my fringe at the moment. A part of me wants to grow it out and a part of me feels naked without it… I suppose I get the best of both with my hair like this but it's a bit of a bitch to keep in place! I decided to rag curl my hair last night (After watching We'll Take Manhattan and wanting to cut my hair short and wear vintage clothes forever...) but I would never cut my hair so rag curls it was! They make my hair shorter and give it loads of volume and the curls are amazing from something so simple. The only downside is they drop out so fast. Sad face.
I would write a bit more but I'm at my Nanna's house and the internet keeps dropping so I better just keep it short today!

25/01/12; Jumper.

Jumper: Vintage. Jeans: Cheap Monday.
Can I wear these jeans everyday...? I think they're perfect. This is a pretty boring outfit but it's something I wear a lot because the jumper is so comfortable! I haven't really done much today apart from job applications and taking parcels to the post office... pretty sure the guy that works there hates me for sending so many parcels, haha.

I haven't painted my nails properly for ages so I decided to try the whole aztec pattern on them! Would have been a lot easier to do if my Models Own nail pen's brush hadn't fell off in the middle of painting them... trying to draw straight lines with a tiny nib with your wrong hand= hard. I think they came out okay anyway!

18/01/12; The Halo Plait.

I'm usually hesitant when companies email me asking to post their pictures, videos etc on my blog. In fact I've never done it. It just seems a little impersonal to me! This one felt different though... The lovely people at John Frieda asked me to post and try out one of their new 'Style on Demand' videos which show you how to recreate different hairstyles yourself.  I've always love the halo plait or milkmaid braid or whatever you want to call it; I used to try it a lot a few years ago, but my hair was too short and it never worked! I thought I'd give it another go now with the help of the John Frieda video and much longer hair...

There's no way my fringe was going into this plait. I look ridiculous with it pulled off my face...
  Well this picture was a bit of a challenge. I found the front the hardest and most fiddly because I was trying to avoid plaiting my fringe into it all! This resulted in me missing a bit near my ear, oops. :-( 
  Almost finished... 
  Then after I pinned the bottom of the plait around my head it was done! 
  Ta-da!

I found a little flowery headband that fit perfectly on top of the plait and it kept it in place quite well too...

This took three attempts, the plait was the easiest part, it was the hair at the front that kept messing it up! The first and second time the plait came out perfect but I'd left too much or too little hair out at the front. The third time the plait messed up at the front (you can see in the first and last few pictures!) but it sat perfectly and my fringe looked okay so that one was the one that stayed. I'll give it another go soon; practice makes perfect! Now here's the video so you can try it yourselves, enjoy!


x

10/01/12; Centre.

Shirt: Romwe. Jeans: Love Clothing. Smudged and chipped nail polish (whoops): Models Own Magenta Pearl.

Slightly different hair today! I must have slept on it funny last night or something because my fringe just wouldn't go right today. Probably because it really needs cutting... It feels really weird having a centre parting because I've had a fringe (or a good old myspace side fringe) since I was about 14! I'm sure after a quick trim my huge forehead will be once more covered with hair!

I got instagram today! (@bekahdalee) Well I got it a couple of weeks ago, but my iphone (can I still call it a phone if the whole "phone" part doesn't work?) is normally left in the bottom of my bag for weeks on end because well, it doesn't really work. Decided to start using it again for angry birds and photo taking purposes and because I realised my blackberry is nothing compared to my beloved, broken iphone... x

09/01/12; Buckles.

Shoes: Jeffery Campbell c/o Zalando. 
Well! There was a full length outfit picture but flickr wont show it full sized, so it doesn't fit right on this blog post. Grr! I've uploaded it to lookbook so see it here.

Had a walk around the local park yesterday evening with Robbie, we took loads of photos but when I got home and looked through most of them were blurry! It was pretty much dark while we were there so at least some worked out. I need to learn how to use my cameras manual setting... I love the park but it always makes me sad that I don't live in the beautiful houses opposite, maybe one day! (I wish.)

Zalando very kindly sent me these lovely shoes a few weeks ago. I've wanted a pair like this for ages (Remember these Vivienne Westwood beauties?) so when these arrived I was chuffed! They're so comfy and I can't wait till summer so I can wear them with a nice dress and bare legs.

Was going to spend my day being productive but I've been sat in bed with a headache all day, weep! It'll have to be done tomorrow instead. :-( Hope you all had a good weekend! x

Christmas Presents!

1. Cat ring holders (!), 2. Liz Earle Skin Essentials, 3. Liz Earle Body Try-Me kit, 4. Friends box Set, 5. A book by Noel Fielding, 6. Models Own Sterling Silver and Magenta Pearl.
1. How adorable are the cat ring holders, they have little bells and everything! Now I just need more rings to fill them up...
2&3. After hearing nothing but good things about Liz Earle's Cleanse and polish I decided to see what it would do to my terrible skin. I ordered a little try-me kit and my skin actually ended up better by the time they had ran out. Eeep! This was the only thing I could think of that I wanted for Christmas so my Mum got me the full sized ones and they came with a little body try-me kit too! I wasn't too fussed about the body things but after using the body scrub and body cream (Haven't tried the others yet!) I am sold. I was so skeptical about the body cream; I have awfully dry skin and bits of eczema that are so hard to get rid of so I didn't want to use anything but my trusty cocoa butter. I tried this on a whim a couple of nights ago and a bit of eczema I've been trying to clear for months has virtually gone...amazing! This is starting to look reasonable...
4. I'm sure most of the UK was gutted when E4 stopped showing friends every weekday...I used to watch it every night without fail after I got home from school when I was younger! I've always wanted this box set but never got round to buying it because it was always on TV. I was so excited when I opened this I actually broke the box... (Sorry Robbie!) Plus it's amazing how much they cut out for daytime(ish) TV, I've missed so much!
5. I used to be one of those weird obsessive Mighty Boosh fans when I was 14/15 so this Noel Fielding book is right up my street, haha. I've only flicked through this so I need to go through it properly tonight! Also, the cover is really... cushion-y. Weird! Anyone with this will probably see what I mean, haha.
6. Got these with a Boots voucher Robbie's Mum got me! I posted a picture with the silver one yesterday, I can't wait to try the Magenta Pearl one next!

Wow, probably the most I've ever wrote on here, I hope I didn't bore you all! I really didn't mean to write so much about the Liz Earle things because you've all probably heard it before but I couldn't help myself, haha. Going to go and end the fun of Christmas now by taking down the Christmas tree, sob! x

03/01/12; Collar.

Dress: Romwe. Nails: Models Own 'Sterling Silver'. Lookbook: Here.
A little bit in love with this dress. It's perfect. I have it in cream too so expect to see it a lot! A bit in love with my nail polish too; So shiny! Robbie's Mum got me a boots voucher for Christmas and I couldn't resist...

Sorry for not posting over Christmas, I stay at my Nanna's over Christmas and I just haven't had a chance to post! I'll do a post on my presents if you would like to see them? I didn't get a lot but I love the things I got. :-) I have a few New Years resolutions and one of them is to care more about my blog! I've been slacking a bit lately but I still really enjoy blogging. This time last year my blog was at it's 'peak' and I had double the page views etc I do now, so I want to get things back on track.
Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year! x