The thought of going out, in public, barefaced has always scared me.
Global Babe
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Jumpsuit c/o / Global Babe
Necklace c/o / Vintage Styler
Shoes / Retro
Bracelet c/o / Black Tied
Ring c/o / Wanderlust
Lipstick "Centrifuchsia" c/o / LimeCrime
How amazing is this cobalt blue jumpsuit from Global Babe!
I was lucky enough to meet them at a recent Press Day and they ever so kindly gifted me this to style up on my blog! I chose this colour as it works so well with blonde or pink hair, and here I've got both!
I love how you can wear this item so many ways as the top half is made up of two very long pieces of fabric, which with a little imagination can be fashioned in a multitude of ways! Here I've shown three I came up with :) Also the fabric doesn't crease or need ironing, perfectly low maintenance!
It really can be dressed up to look rather fancy! I love how it looks like a dress too! Perfect holiday piece which you can transition from day to night.
If like me you may get stuck with ways to wear this, they have a helpful lookbook of styles they've fashioned here.
10% off their profits go to charity too!
£20 outfit challenge!
So I tried to £20 outfit challenge!
Before you watch the video, if you don't know already, try having a guess at how much my outfit came to for two tops, jeans and shoes!
This was so much fun to do! Why not try it for yourself? I found it much harder than I realised!
Do you think you could do this challenge?
Wanderlust
Dress c/o / Poppy Lux
Faux Leather Jacket / Topshop
Jeffrey Campbell Coltranes c/o / Loveclothing
Jewellery c/o / Wanderlust Jewellery
Lipstick c/o / Limecrime "Poisonberry"
So after seeing Bora Aksu's show at London Fashion week (read my blog post about that here) I was inspired to try a similar hair style as his models. Super easy to do! Just plait your hair as you would for pig tails, then pin the plaits across your head.
I love this outfit, it's girly yet edgy, the jacket and shoes help rock it up a little <3 The sun was in the perfect position to create some dreamy lens flare!
So in love with this jewels from Wanderlust! Read my blog post about them here.
Have you ever tried a Milk Maid braid? Would you know after hearing how easy it is to do?
I Heart Fall Tag!
Links:
See the Fedora in my outfit post
The Bag I designed is now available!
Q's:
1. Favorite Fall lip product?
2. Favorite Fall Nail Polish?
3. Favorite Fall Candle?
4. Favorite Fall Scent or Perfume?
5. Favorite Fall Drink?
6. Favorite Fall Scarf or accessory?
7. Favorite Fall Hair Style?
8. Favorite Fall Activity?
9. What is your Favorite thing about Fall?
10. Best Fall Memory?
11. Hottest Fall Trend?
I tag!
Kate from Ghostparties
Gabriella from Velvet Ghost
What I'm wearing:
Crop Top / Primark
Necklace / Empty Casket
Lipstick / Barry M "160"
Nail Varnish / Topshop "Moondance"
Current Favourites!
My favourites of last month (and still are my faves now uploaded a little later than usual so calling this post my current favourites) featuring fashion, jewellery, music and youtubers!
Mentioned in video
Jeffrey Campbell Shoe Unboxing video
Black Tied Jewellery post
What I'm wearing:
Jumper / Topshop
Lipstick / Mac "Russian Red" & Barry M "160"
Rings / Regal Rose
Items Mentioned:
1 - Dr Marten "Serena" Boots
2 - Game of Thrones Series 1 & 2
3 - PINK HAIR!
4 - Topshop Black Fluffy Jumper
5 - Clinique "Iced Lotus" Blusher
6 - Topshop Lipstick "Inhibition" & Barry M "160"
7 - Black Tied Necklace
8 - Regal Rose Rings
9 - Daughter "Landfill"
10 - Youtubers!
Ax Paris Dress + Blogger Party!
Hat / Zara
Dress / c/o Ax Paris
Shirt / Ebay
Knee High Socks / Asos
Necklace / c/o Lost at Sea
Unfortunately it was raining so I had to improvise and try and take these indoors. My room is teeny tiny so it's not possible to do a full length, I was just wearing black boots.
I adore the fit and print of this dress from Ax Paris! It's so so soft and hangs so well. It being a swing dress creates gorgeous movement when you walk around, the colours are so perfect for Autumn/Winter too! As it's chilly layering up with a shirt under a dress is one of my favourite things to do! There's definitely a western vibe going on with the collar tips and the hat. So in love with my new hat from Zara! Have been lusting over one for ages! Decided to go for a different colour to the usual black, but now I feel I need black as well. Oh the start of a collection I feel!
So on the 24th Of October I went to London with the beautiful Jacqueline and shopped around the usual haunts. In the evening we went to Proud Cabaret for the Ax Paris Blogger Party, see what we got up to below!
Outfit in Video
Dress / c/o Motel Rocks
Jeffrey Campbells / c/o Loveclothing
Jacket / Topshop
Necklace / H&M
Rings / Forever 21, c/o Black Tied & Topshop
A big hello to everyone I met that night, was so lovely meeting more new gorgeous bloggers!
Youtube / Facebook / Twitter / instagram@leannelimwalker / Website
We are the reckless, We are the wild youth
Beanie c/o P&Co
Crop Jumper / Topshop
Tartan trousers & Jeffrey Campbells c/o / Loveclothing
Barry M "160" Lipstick c/o / Missguided
Comfiest outfit ever! Perhaps a little out there, but I did actually wear this the other day ^_^
I just LOVE the mustard beanie with my pink hair! I'm now getting quite a collection of them! The next had I really want is a fedora <3
I thought I had broken in my coltranes finally as I wore them all day in London the other week! But the true test came when walking to work in them (30 mins walk), without the aid of plasters and in a hurry. Lets just say I'm back to wearing plasters again :(
Abandon Ship, Boys Don't Learn, Pink Hair!
Top / c/o Boys Don't Learn
Bikini Bottoms / c/o Triangl Swimwear
Vest / c/o Abandon Ship Apparel
Jewellery / c/o Black Tied
Shoes / Nelly
So you can tell these outfit pictures further down were from a little while ago as I now have pink hair! What do you think? I had pink hair last summer and loved it! This year as I sometimes wear extensions, I thought I would pink those up too so I could have mermaid hair ^_^
I love these tops from Abandon Ship and Boys Don't learn, they can be dressed up or down and are bit different to the usual printed top! Nice to wear some more Abandon Ship again, I own a few of their tees now and wanted to try out a vest. As their tops are unisex they fit over sized. I love how low the arm holes are for a subtle reveal.
How would you wear these tops?
Would you go a pastel hair colour?
DIY - Pink Ombre Hair Extensions
Today I decided to attempt a pink ombre on some cheap hair extensions I bought awhile ago off ebay, but never really wore. I never really wore them for two reasons. One; they were the shade "lightest blonde' meaning yellow, the kind of yellow you would be familiar with if you get your hair bleached. It's the lightest yellow you can go, the shade which is perfect to then tone to go platinum blonde. Two; as they were around £20 for a full head set, they are sooooo thin, especially at the ends! Most of the hair is a lot shorter, resulting in the thickest parts being from the top to the middle.
I don't have pictures of the extensions properly before I toned them, but here are some instagram pictures;
You can see on the left the colour didn't match my hair, and look how thin the extensions are!
Below are my ones from Foxylocks.com, they are amazing! And matched my hair colour without me needing to do anything, and they are an amazing length too!
Anyway, back to how I toned the cheap yellow ones!
I applied Directions "white toner" straight on to the extensions and left for 15 minutes. I left one weft for an experiment though. I did end up using a whole tub, and as these extensions aren't even thick, I would advise if you were going to do this, buy several tubs incase! It would be so annoying to run out!
For the weft I was experimenting with, I decided to see if I could tone it with just my silver shampoo. I filled up a sink with warm water and squirted in some of my silver shampoo, then mixed it around. I submerged the weft and swirled it around, leaving it for awhile, checking to see when it looked silvery, then rinsed.
This worked surprisingly well! So I rinsed the wefts that had the directions toner in the sink of diluted silver shampoo, leaving them in until they looked silvery, and rinsed.
Results look so similar, top weft is with just the shampoo, bottom one you can tell it is slightly silvery and has a touch of purple from the toner. But you can hardly really tell much difference between them, so it saves time just toning with just a silver shampoo!
I still had pink semi-permanent hair dye from last summer when I had pastel pink hair, so I just used the same one. I used Flamingo pink by Directions, I got a really strong pink so I could dilute it with lots of conditioner, meaning the pots would last ages! I had tried using Manic Panic's cotton candy pink before and diluting that a bit, but I used it up fast! This one has lasted SO LONG!
In a bowl I added lots and lots of white conditioner, just a Tresemme one, doesn't have to be a specific one, just needs to be white! I added a small amount of the dye as it is very pigmented, and mixed thoroughly. I laid the wefts on top of some tin foil on a table. Then just below where I wanted the colour to start, I applied the diluted colour on to the hair, all the way down to the ends.
Next I blended the starting line of colour with the brush, pulling the dye up so there wouldn't be a harsh line.
I added more dye to the diluted mixture, and brushed on half way between the start of the pink and the ends of their hair, applying all the way down. I repeated adding more dye, this time just applying on the ends.
I left this for around 20 minutes, then rinsed out the dye thoroughly.
I always hear you aren't meant to dry you extensions and usually I don't, I let them dry over night naturally, but I didn't really mind blow drying these ones as they were cheap and this was all an experiment, also I couldn't wait to see how they came out!
I think I got a pretty good gradient!
Here are all the wefts together, not thick at all!
And here's an instagram pic of them in my hair.
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Let me know your thoughts guys! Feel free to ask any questions in the comments.
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