Current Trends I'm Loving

Today I thought I would post a few of the current trends that I am loving.

One of the current trends I am loving includes leggings-as-pants which is obvious is you've seen any of my OOTD posts. I wear leggings everywhere and my Lululemon leggings feel like a dream to wear. They are so comfy. I didn't think they deserved their own picture, however I own quite a few pairs.

The next trend I am loving is faux leather in general, and faux leather accents. This is my winter jacket which I bought at Garage. It is my baby. It's called the Whistler coat and has faux fur in the hood and throughout the jacket itself. It keeps me super warm and is super stylish. And the faux leather detailing on the arms and the shoulders as well as the pockets make this jacket super edgy and super chic. They are no longer selling this coat as I bought it at the beginning of the winter season, however, if you check out their other outwear they do have other coats with leather detailing as well that are equally as cute!

The next trend I've been loving is crop tops! Here are four of the many crop tops that I own. The first second and fourth are from Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters had so many cute crop tops on sale during their college sale (50% off sale items with a valid student card, yesss) so I took advantage of that. The first looks super cute with the Zara skater skirt I will be showing later, and the 2nd and fourth look cute with the American Apparel maxi skirt I will be showing later. The third I got second hand, and I'm not sure where it's from, but the tag says 'Jerry Hall', and looks cute with a pair of high-waisted leggings or even just a pair of skinny jeans (or high-waisted skinny jeans!).

Another trend I'm loving is skater skirts, and I especially love this cute little red number from Zara. It has gold buttons on the side, and it can be dressed up or worn casually. I wish I had more!

Another trendy skirt I'm loving is maxi skirts. I especially love this one from American Apparel. You can purchase it and the same skirt in many other cute colours here.

This is part of the outfit I am wearing today, and that's destroyed jeans. My shape doesn't allow me to wear boyfriend jeans at the moment but destroyed boyfriend jeans just have this cute, chic edge to them that I love. These are my light wash destroyed skinny jeans from American Eagle.

I am also loving scrunchies. I remember growing up and always hating when all the 'cool' girls were wearing the small elastic hair ties and I was stuck wearing ugly scrunchies, but now I LOVE them. I think they're so cute! I got these ones from American Apparel.

These photos represent two of my current favourite trends, and that is comfy grandpa sweaters/any sort of warm knit sweater, and unexpected studding detail. Firstly, it is FREEZING outside right now, and so warm sweaters are a MUST and they are perfect and often quite cute. And this particularly studding really surprised me, but gives a comfy casual sweater an edge. You'd never expect to find wool and studs together, and that's what I love about it! This particular sweater is from Topshop.

I am also IN LOVE with sheer blouses. This is one of the many that I have, and this particular one is from H&M. They're really dressy and can be dressed up, but certain ones can also make a hot & scandalous clubbing outfit.

The last trend I'm loving is statement necklaces but unfortunately I don't own any yet! I found this image with a Google search. I really especially love the ones like number two and number eight in the photo. Triangles are such a hip and trendy shape right now, and I'm all on board!

Anyways, that's all for today, and I hope you enjoyed this post! Talk to you tomorrow.

xoxox

The Bling Ring Book Review + OOTD

Hello everyone! So, as promised I will be doing a review of the book I just finished called The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales. If I were to give it a number of stars out if 5, I'd give it 3.5/5. I personally really liked it, but it's not for everyone. It's a true story about a crime ring called "The Bling Ring" who robbed celebrities clothes, jewelry, money, etc. It was based off of Sales article in Vanity Fair called "The Suspects Wear Louboutins". It includes interviews with the suspects themselves, the police, and really just portrays how obsessed we are with celebrities and 'celebrity'. How we'd even go so far as to walk right into celebrities homes and take their property. I would definitely recommend this book.

This is the cover of the book, which includes the actors from the movie "The Bling Ring" starring Emma Watson as one of the main characters, "Nikky" in the movie, "Alexis" in the book. The movie was also based off of Sales article.

Here we have all of the suspects in the case. Seeing their pictures and putting a face to all the characters in the story really made this book much better. Especially with Nick. I found his picture to reveal a different person than I had imagined while reading before I discovered their pictures.

It also has pictures throughout of the various celebrities and suspects. This was a picture of Alexis and was in Sales' article.

It's split into 3 parts, and some of the chapters are only 3 or so paragraphs in length, which I found made it a perfect before bed book, because I could always wait until the chapter is over to fall asleep which I often can't do with books that have really long chapters.

All in all, I really enjoyed it, and I'm glad to have picked this up.

I also wanted to include my outfit of the day. I wore my Lulu leggings, a long sleeved tee from Urban Outfitters and a comfy studded shoulder sweater from Topshop. I also wore my American Eagle watch as always, and a pink and gold flower ring from H&M. I also wore my Baby Lips lip balm from Maybelline. When I first got it, I found it acted as more of a gloss and never really hydrated my lips. But I put it on for kicks this morning and my attitude has completely changed. Definitely a great lip balm. It kind of mirrors the effects of Vaseline on your lips.

 

 

 

Anyways, that's all for today, talk to you tomorrow!

xoxox

 

Room Tour + Makeup of the Day + Outfit of the Day

Hello everyone. So, as promised, here is my new room as well as my makeup of the day, and my outfit of the day. So, here we go. My new room.

This is my desk area. Nothing too exciting other than my kitty :)

This is some of my shelving (the rest is in my closet) with all my sticky note reminders and the books I have yet to read and my DVD collection. Plus obligatory boxes for my kitty.

Candles + Kinder Surprise Disney princesses ;) Excited to give Jane Austen a read, never have before.

My DVD collections! A few of my favourites: Date Night, ALL of my Audrey Hepburn collection movies, Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason, PS I Love You, both Sex and The City's, The Devil Wears Prada.

The outside of my closet (the boring part).

 The inside of my closet!

Clothes :)

And some shoes and shelving :)

My Makeup/Beauty Station. Still in the works.

Lauren Conrad, Sephora, How to Be Interesting, Whitney Port..... Just a few essential books. My lovely Urban Outfitters Journal, some rings and bracelets.

My daily essentials, including my Julep sea salt spray, my John Frieda anti-frizz serum, my Hydraluron face cream, and my go to scent at the moment: the vanilla body spray from Bath & Body Works.

Assorted makeup things.

Audrey and Marilyn ^.^

My couch covered with a pink blanket to prevent my kitty from thinking it's a scratching post + The Bling Ring which I am almost finished and my snuggy!

Queen sized bed for the first time in my life. The best.

My makeup! I took a few more shots on my cell phone later in better lighting which I will include now.

Products I used: Rimmel London Stay Matte pressed powder (005 Silky Beige), Annabelle Biggy Bronzer, Annabelle blush (48), Rimmel London Wake Me Up Foundation (100 Ivory), Rimmel London Wake Me Up concealer in the lightest colour, Revlon Colour Stay Liquid liner pen (black), Maybelline The Rocket Xpress mascara (blackest black), and my Urban Deay Naked 2 palette.

I used Verve all over my lid and Pistol in the corner of my eye and my crease.

And here is my outfit of the day! Sweater from H&M, Leggings from Lululemon, tank from Garage. Also, you can see my pink phone case which I bought over the holidays, and am in LOVE with :)

My necklace today. From Urban Outfitters.

Second hand ring and American Eagle watch.

And that's all for today! Not sure what I will post yet tomorrow, but I'll talk to you tomorrow!

xoxox