Dancing Queen

I can't believe it has taken this long for me to see this!

I did it!

So yesterday I blogged about a hair style that I totally fell in love with (see it here) and here's my attempt! It's pretty messy at the back but after some practise I'm sure it will be really easy. Thank you Kelly from Hair Advice and All Things Nice for encouraging me to give it a go!

Hair Crush

You may have seen me tweeting about this last night, but I love it so much that I thought I'd stick it on here and get some advice. I adore this hair, it's so utterly perfect but it is a wig? Help me decide? What do you think, am I striving for the impossible here?

Wedding Excitement

I've not done a very good job at hiding my excitement for the Royal Wedding on Friday. I love the Royal Family and I did an awful lot of gushing and squealing when I read that William and Kate were getting married (yes I blogged the squealing here), I even love the cheesy engagement portrait of them. So even though I will be working on the day (yes I'm very upset about this) I will be making the most of the wedding day and having a wedding party in the evening. In preparation for a day in the office, I have bought this, sorry everyone I work with that don't like the Royal Family, but I don't care that much... 

I've also acquired an obscene amount of union jacks somehow...

I am currently finding it VERY hard to resist some of these beauties too:

For all my cupcake needs

Cute bunting

Love this bundle of goodies

Sweet mug

I'm pretty sure that I'll have purchased a few of these by the end of the week - sorry savings! I also promise to tweet some photos of my party too. Are you having a Royal Wedding party, or playing the Royal Wedding drinking game? Or maybe avoiding it (sad times) I'd love to hear what you've got planned too. Adiós for now!

Pink Sunday

Now it's not secret that I'm a huge fan of Gem Fatale's blog, so when a friend at work pointed out her tutorial on super spotty nails I just had to give it a go.



I was convinced that it wouldn't be as easy as she made it out to be but I was wrong, the trick with a hair pin is so easy that I could even do it with my left hand!




So a massive thank you to Gem Fatale for showing me howmto make perfect spots! Read her tutorial here.

Me & You

So this is a very self involved post, sorry if it's boring but it's something I need to write. Recently, I've become aware of just how grateful I am to have my friends. I feel very lucky that I've had the opportunity to move around the country and meet so many wonderful people. I grew up in a country town in Somerset where I was surrounded by the kindest people ever, and we looked like this, yeh we were so cool...

Then when I left school, my dad needed to move to London, (well, Uxbridge really) and you would have thought he was telling me that we were moving to the moon! I hated the idea. Until I built a bridge and made some more friends I was so grateful to my parents for moving me! Although, looking back, this was a really weird time for me but I came out of it with one or two people I couldn't live without. Moving swiftly on to the best three years of my life (art school really is, if you get the chance GO!!), where I found beautiful people who would pull silly poses with me:

Dress like animals with me (I'm obviously the pink panther!):

And to stay up all night working, drink cider with breakfast and pull funny faces with:

And now I'm an English girl in Glasgow, where again, I seem to have met yet more wonderful people. People who are teaching me to understand Scots, that's right, it's a whole other language. They also have a soft spot for dressing up and being ridiculous:

If you've gotten this far down this very indulgent post then then thank you very much for reading it all. I felt I needed to write this post just to remind myself how lucky I am to be surrounded by beautiful and important people that feel like extended family. This extends out to all the lovelies on twitter too, I have lost count of the times I've had a bad day and consequently been swapped with happy tweets!

So lastly I just want to say a massive

thank you

to all of you beautiful friends, whether you are my best friends who have been by my side mentally and physically, or brand new friends. I love you all.

<3

Curly Top

Anyone who reads my blog will probably know by now that I'm obsessed with hair (see previous hair posts here). And as I was flicking through Pinterest as usual and I stumbled on this tutorial for curly hair and like the excitable girl I couldn't wait to try it. A way to get curly hair without tongs, surely it's all lies? Well, here's what I did last night, I washed, spritzed my hair with John Frieda's Luxurious Volume Blow Dry Lotion (which my thin, flat hair would be nothing without) and blow dried it. Then I followed this tutorial, and went to bed. When I woke up this morning, all blurry eyed, I was convinced my hair would be all over the place but no, it was still all perfectly tucked in and when I took it all out I had perfect curls! After some taming of the curls I popped in a bow and achieved the style in this picture. This is my new favourite style, as my hair grows it's only going to get better, yes!! Has anyone else tried curling like this?