Fashion Hot Shot No. 2

so today i went shopping with my friend and realised that i want a maxi dress - despite living in england, the land of shitty summer weather.

then i realised that since i'm a short girl, i'd have to either get a maxi dress from a store that has a petite section (the more expensive option) or buy a regular length one and get it hemmed..

i am officially on a maxi dress mission!

as for my desired wet look leggings, i ended up ordering a pair from boohoo.com but when they came i was seriously disappointed. i expected that they'd be quite form fitting, so i'd ordered a size bigger than i'd normally get but they were way too big and didn't even look like proper wet look leggings :(

Fashion Hot Shot #2

So we all know times are hard, and if you're all like me you wont wanna spend unnecessary money on clothing.. So ima let you onto a little trick of mine.

I attended a mixed school and learnt the hard way that in summer if you don't wear shorts under your skirts, you're leaving yourself open to unexpected skirt lifting/underwear pulling!

So instead of buying yourself a brand new shorts for those summery days or nights out in a flowy skirt, simply cut the legs off of an old pair of leggings or tights (ones you dont wear anymore of course) and proceed to wear underneath a skirt or dress.

Unwanted leggings and tights can also be used to make a headband, headwrap or hair tie, and some people fill them with pot pourri and put it in their underwear drawers to make things smell fresh and flowery.

The weird shit people do

So i was in stratford station this afternoon and saw one of the weirdest things... There was this fresh african guy wearing the tightest adidas tracksuit bottoms i have ever seen! And to top it off he had big feet so he was wearing some bulky ass trainers. I seriously had to fight the temptation to laugh as i watched him run through the station with his bow-legged, bulky-shoed self. He needs turn his swag on fuh real homie!

It gets worse....

I have these weird brazilian housemates (triz and tatti as i like to call them) and they're just hella peculiar! They constantly move things around in the kitchen, they have the cheek to complain about mess but they make the most of it. They pull up the blinds at all times of day as if the world and its mistress needs to see into our flat. They'll be in their rooms sounding like their having the rio carnival in their rooms but its just them and their loud ass friends talking. I am counting down the days til their deported,

HAIR UPDATE - take the heat

so basically, i'm a black girl with extremely dry hair. i perm, i weave, and i braid which all aren't so great attributes of healthy hair, so along with my use of straighteners and blow dryers, my hair is very weak.

i decided to start documenting my hair experiments, something i've been meaning to do but i only really began over the last three/four months.

as i mentioned before, my hair is really dry so i know try to focus on using conditioners as my sister once said to me "every time you wet your hair, you should use a conditioner." she obviously doesn't mean like rain kinda wet, but like after or during a wash.

i'm still trying things out from various brands/ranges, but as of now, i have found that 'take the heat: 3 minute miracle' by the Aussie brand works 'miracles' with my afro hair.

it is obviously designed for caucasian type hair, but i think it still does pretty much the same job. it made my hair a lot more softer, and lighter (but not in a bad way) and made my hair absorb grease a lot better, so i had to moisturise my hair less often.. i've only used it twice but its had the same effect both times.. in
terms of hair growth, i don't think i've noticed anything major but hey, like i said i'm still seeing how it works for me.

Fashion Hot Shot #1

Over the last few years, I've been really getting into fashion and i am currently desiring a pair of wet look leggings. I dunno what it is but i really really want a pair and theyre not too girly so so they're perfect for me.ive never really been a girly girl so i always try to ease myself into these wardrobe changes.

Randomness

IT'S a sunday afternoon, i'm just sitting at home.... just finished trascrbing my interview with jade avia from choice fm and now i'm bored... so i thought i'd blog

Student Life : September 2011 Edition

I’ve recently begun university in London, and although I didn’t attend my uni’s freshers’ week, my flatmates and I created our own fun.

Our version of freshers’ week was filled with and consisted of: late night games of ‘hide and seek’ with the house in complete darkness; our own variation of the cad gme ‘bullshit’ where if a person was found to be bullshitting they had to take a shot of the alcoholic drinks we had in the house (malibu, lambrini and sidekick), as well as various shopping trips to asda, and the new westfield in stratford city.

On our first night together in the house,us girls ended up taking a night walk in our pyjamasa, to ‘explore’ the area. We ended up at a local petrol station, where we bought overpriced snacks…

Another night, we took another late night pyjama walk, this time accompanied by one of our flatmates and one of my girls’ ‘boyfriend’

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This week we begun our lctures, which for me have been so far, so good. In a couple of weeks, I will come back and update upon any more nights of debauchery my flatmates and I end up getting into