Category: Fashion & Beauty

It’s definitely spring out there today. After an absurdly busy 2 weeks I slept for 10 hours last night and have woken up feeling a lot brighter, healthier and raring to go. I have no doubt that a day glued to my desk will knock that out of me pretty soon, but at the moment…

I think I’ve finally cracked the “what shoes to wear with that black mini skirt” dilemma.   This is not a dilemma that you really knew I was having, but it was always there, hovering in the back of my mind. I bought this mini skirt last year in a fit of optimism that I…

Or trousers, as we call them here in the UK. Pants just fitted better in the title, and after Friday’s “pockets in my pants” discussion the word is on my mind. I am in need of trousers for short legs. I have long-standing issues with trousers. I think they make me look odd. They are…

OMG I’m wearing trousers. I have genuinely never understood the obsession people have with jeans and trousers somehow being a “comfortable” option. I get that sometimes they are PRACTICAL. You know, if you need to be rolling around on the floor or climbing over fences for some reason, but I’ve never thought they were any…

My quest for a grown up skin care routine continues. I’ve never been bad at looking after my skin. I’ve (almost) always taken my make-up off before bed, used a moisturiser and my skin has remained pretty OK well into my 30s. My teenage obsession with following everything that fashion magazines told me to do…

There has been a definite change in the weather over the last week. Today there is rain predicted, but it is *warmer* rain, and on Monday it was positively balmy. The newspapers called it a heat wave, personally I wouldn’t go that far. I would say it’s not a heat wave unless I can go…

Do you think there’s a point where I’ll own enough clothing with Cocktails on? At the moment I’m thinking not. Especially when my latest piece of clothing with cocktails on also features cats and poodles. Novelty print skirts are not just for fancy wear, which I proved by wearing this one to walk into town…

Well, that’s Valentines Day done for another year. Valentines Day is the weirdest of “holidays”. I am a person who will scour the world for obscure things to celebrate. So far this year I have celebrated not only the boring old regular New Year, but also Russian New Year and Chinese New Year as well…

I remember buying my first pair of gold shoes. They were from Faith, and they were gold sandals with those stringy bits that wrap up round your ankles. They had the wooden stacked heels that seemed to be on everything at the time. Since then I’ve owned multiple pairs of gold shoes. They’ve been surprisingly…