Hiatus

I do apologise for the lack of love shown on this blog by myself and Stephie (shes a busy bee!), but glad to know that people are still checking up, commenting and reading it! And that a few more followers have been added :-D.

I have no excuses for this but the fact that I have been, to put it in a blunt English term, waste! I have been doing nothing productive for the last few weeks, a few disruptions has interfered with my flow of life, and in all honesty, it has been a bit of a bumpy ride. Change is good right? Well I hope so, and I hope that things will start looking up very soon.

After University finished, I really did not know what to do with myself, and still don't. University finished, I quit my job, got a new one in a Nike store (yep, still in retail), changed a few things in my rather routine-life, chilled (maybe a bit too much), stopped writing on here, stopped trying to take outfit pictures for y'all, stopped replying to comments, stopped working on this blog - which I have been doing for the last couple of years...all that hard work to get the blog "out there", just for me to stop so suddenly (a waste of all my hard work spent on the Internet, I'd say). I had some money left over from student loans and decided to go on two holidays - Portugal and New York - and was this close (-----) to going on a third to Sweden for my birthday, but that is a no-go now, as those holidays have left my ass kind of broke. The lovely cities made me a bit too 'lax in life...ha ha, and made me generally lazy and feel that life will be better in these cities doing absolutely nothing but chilling on beaches, shopping, networking, soaking in the sun, sleeping on the beaches, eating ice creams, eating icies, and having fun. Yeah, that is not reality, London is my reality, and back to London I go. Changes happened, things effed-up, things are still effed-up...but it will all die down soon, hopefully. I deserve that much.

Anyway, I am just being all emo right about now. My ass is so lazy, if I'm not working, I just sit in bed letting my mind wander all over the place. One of my besties is moving to Nepal for 2 months -shes going to live in a mud house, and come back with plumbing skills ;-) - and I am going to miss her ass so much. Stephie is playing the journalism snakes and ladder game we mentioned right at the beginning of our blog: clicky here for a memory refresh, and shes on her way up, slowly but surely :-D. Whereas, my butt is getting snake-bitten. BUT, I am trying to get my flow back in motion. I am on team-productive, from this post forward! I give you permission to slap me up if I fail :-). This is just a random post, nothing interesting really, but have some patience, and bear with us, hopefully my game will be back on.

I am going to be 21 soon, in just over two weeks. The last of all my friends to hit the big 2-1.

Currently listening to J Cole - Lights Please:

Currently missing dressing up (NYC, July 4th 2009):

Currently missing eating Icies in New York:

Currently missing New York:

Currently missing doing muscle-man poses on beaches in Lisbon, Portugal:

Currently attempting to finish Breaking Dawn, the last in the Twilight saga. I have been so waste, that even my love for Twilight has not movitated my ass.

The end of an era and the start of a new one

And two days after Rachel graduated, I did too! (You can't see that well but I totally matched my dress to my hood)Please don't watch my white legs. People always say 'pale is beautiful and interesting' but it doesn't stop them fake tanning like there's no tommorow does it? Do you like my shoes? They are the highest I own and not easy to even stand in, so obviously I had to wear them to walk across a stage in front of thousands of people. But I didn't fall over, so score for me! Because I am a massive sap, I am already in mourning for the carefree days of university. Now I'm an....adult.

In good news, I have an actual real life paid job! It's at The Nod, which is a new fashion website where you can follow what celebrities like. For example; want to know where Vera Wang likes to eat? Go here. Or need to know who's been wearing the newest Balmain studded skirt? Go here! It's really interesting, and especially useful if you're writing about a product/person and need more info. Not that I'm promoting. Ok I am a bit.

I'm so lucky, one of only four people in my class to have a job so far. It's a bad, bad place for journalists right now. If you need proof, this was meant to be my last week at Catwalk Queen but on Friday the company behind it, Shiny Media, went into administration, and for now, Catwalk Queen is no more. It's weird that it's gone, I read it all the time before I worked there, and now it's not there anymore.

Also it's really strange to have nothing to do...not that I don't like it! But it is. Thankfully I have my books to be getting on with. You know how people always have their 'thing'? Like one of your friends will be the one you go to to borrow shoes, and another will be the one to ask about eyeliner, and another one will be the shopping companion (that's Rach), and another about cooking or famous unsolved murders (I'm not making that up, fashion blogger Holly is your girl)?

Well I always seem to be the one that gives advice, and I may seem a bit full of myself, but I swear if people did what I suggested, their lives would be so much easier! So I've resolved to write a series of self help books on different subjects, all with humourous undertones. I'd tell you more, but I think I'll copywright the titles first.

Things to Remember When Graduating

I decided on OUTFIT 1!!!

In the UK, most people graduate just once...unless you decide to do a Doctors Degree..or Masters Degree after University, in which case: I RATE YOU GUYS! I know all you Americans, and many others around the world, graduate from high school, college and grad school, which means you have plenty of gradu-practice to perfect it for the last, and final one. Us, on the other hand, do not get the chance to practice. We just have to kind of go with the flow, listen and rely on a bunch of undergraduates and 'helpers' who look about 16 to help us PUT ON OUR GOWNS and direct us to the right marquee/hall where the ceremony is held.

After just coming back from my graduation ceremony...I can officially say: it is a hell of a messy affair!

From attempting to leave your house with a family of six, with siblings who decide to get out of bed 30 minutes before you are about to leave the house, to squeezing into the family car which is forever shrinking as the familia is forever growing...all the way through to finding parking space...going backwards and forwards every hour to top-up the parking meter...then realising you ordered the rent-a-robe too big, which consequently results in the damn vampire cloak slipping of scrawny shoulders at every opportunity making one look like a messed-up hoochie, even though ones ensemble is smart and very presentable...but what does that matter when a giant cloak covers it all?!

And the worst part of the dramas? THE HAT! The stupid tasseled mortar board!!!!!!!!! Everyone will tell you I have a fairly large head, which I am proud of - I measured my head for the hat it was 59 cms. But this hat they presented to me..this cauldron they disguised as a graduation hat, was HUGE. IT WAS HUGE. And it kept slipping off my head. This hat would not sit on my head, and when I went up on stage it decided to slip once again, luckily it did not fall off entirely because that would have been an embarrassment.

Seen as I am the first of my friends to have my graduation ceremony, and to prevent a messy and stressful affair, I thought I would advise you to:

• Not wash hair the night before ceremony: Freshly washed hair = super soft = no chance of hat staying.
  
  
• Get the right size gown. It will swallow you. You will look like a vampire if rent-a-lobe is black.
  
  
• Paint your nails super bright, so when you are holding the scroll in the picture you can see them, you will look ghetto-fabulous...in the best way possible ;-). I opted for green and purple. Because that is just how I get down...
  
  
• BRING HAIR SLIDES - I failed: I had to ask lots of girls to borrow some. These will be usefull for the hat to stay on your head and not on the floor.
  
  
• BRING HAIRSPRAY - I failed hence why my hat would not sit on silky smooth hair ;-), but luckily my sisters found an elastic band to braid my hair, which allows for borrowed-hair slides to hold hat better.
  
  
• BRING SISTERS: if it wasn't for my sisters playing hairdresser/stylist, my robe would be knotted around my waist...and the hat would be a squashed piece of felt-covered-cardboard after being stamped on 100 times in a rage. There would be NO more tassel.
  
  
  
  
  
• Bring body spray: that robe is heavy and makes you super hot. Especially on a hot afternoon (like today).
  
  
• Bring a safety pin - the hood of the gown is huge, and it DOES NOT SIT.
  
  
• Bring make up - for photo touch ups :-D, you do not want to look a hot mess on that photo which will forever sit on the family mantle piece.
  
  
• Oh and if you are super OTT (like me)...and cannot do with wearing a hat that a hundred other students are wearing, you want that extra unique touch...BRING A HAT ACCESSORY!!! Don't do a Serena from Gossip Girls and wear the tassel in your hair, because it looks super-stupid. It could be anything! I brought this vintage pin from way back...I don't even know what it is used for...but its a fairly large gold pin, with an oriental pattern ball, diamante encrusted detailing with gold chains dangling between the pin and ball. I didn't intend on using it on my hat, I was supposed to use it to attach my robe hood to my top but it was too big! Anyway, I prefer it on my hat..because its gold and chained which means I still had my personal touch within my 'smart' look :-D

• And, finally, its bad, but must be done: LIE. Lie to family members to make sure you get to the ceremony on time, better still, lie to make sure you get to the ceremony early to allow for plenty of photo opportunities :-D

Happy, and stress free graduating to all Classes of 2009 around the world!

Graduation Outfits: 60-40

This post should really be called "My Attempt at Looking Remotely Smart...and Remotely Presentable...and Remotely Lady-like"

As you can tell, this is not my usual get up...no sir! BUT it is my graduation!!! Yes people, this chick is a soon to be graduate with a 2: 1 BA Honors! Oh yeaaaahhhh. That's me :-D.

In 10 hours, it will be my graduation ceremony and I am still torn 40% and 60% between outfits 1 and outfit 4! I got Stephie-Pie round mine today to help me choose and she too was torn! I am 60% going with the trouser set....But I do love the dress in number 4!! Decisions sucks guys. They suck!

These are the reasonings for why the outfits got a yay or a nay:

Outfit 1-Its smart...elegent...and I can walk in these shoes (unlike the other beauties I bought...which BTW I am still keeping..for future use...) No one else is as likely to wear trousers. Its grey and cream... so it will not blend in with the hideous black vampire gown/rented robe and hat.

Outfit 2- The structured, BE-YON-CEEEE hips on this skirt will not show under said vampire gown which totally defeats the purpose of this BE-YON-CCEEE hips style skirt (you can't really see the shape of the skirt too well in the picture though) It will just look like a simple high waisted skirt = blah!

Outfit 3- A tad "I Borrowed the same outfit my mum wore to graduation" (which i secretly love...) Stephie says: YOU'RE NOT WEARING MESH TO GRADUATION.

Outfit 4- I had to wear an extra skirt..because it is super short...like thigh skimming...and a hoochie going to graduation with lots of gold jewellery and patent heels to get her 2: 1 scroll thing is not a good look! But with the extra length..it looks sooo good!! I love the dress :-( its a shame that its black...it will get lost inside the vampire gown...I will look too Goth. But it is pretty....

I do know..I will be wearing my 80s, tribal-ish gold triangle necklace and earring set (NY flea market $20 oh yeaahhhh!) even though Stephie hates it, and also my aptly named "Coming to America" belt (NY market $10 oh yyyeaaahhhh!) which someone also told me it resembles something out of The Power Rangers...

Anyway, I'm torn between outfits. I shall sleep on it. Wish me luck...fingers cross I do not do something super cringey...like fall over....

Coppable

I got these Air Tech Challenge Hybrid's last month...


And these are apparently going to be released later this year...Just look at the sick sick sick colourway...MINT..MINT...MINT...which is one of my favourite shades of green and also one of my favourite ice-cream flavours. The Air Tech Challenge Hybrid Black and Green:

I don't really mess with pure black kicks. But these are most defiantly, highly coppable. Hopefully these WILL be released..and not a stupid rumour.

Oh, And by the way...HI GUYS ^_^