Honeymania, from The Body Shop

I recently bought the new Honeymania lip balm from The Body Shop, and I can honestly say it’s the best lip balm I have ever used! With the weather getting a lot colder, a lot quicker, my lips are getting dryer than ever. Forget Vaseline, this is the one to buy for sure. My lips feel so smooth and so plump. At only £4 as well, I think it’s worth every single penny.

 

 

I also bought the gift pack of Honeymania shower gel, soap, body butter and scrub for a Christmas present, so we’ll see how my mum likes it too! (I’ll be secretly using it too obviously!)

 

 

 

I’m working at The Clothes Show Live, in the NEC, Birmingham tomorrow, which should be fun! If anyone’s there, come visit the Birmingham City University stall for all the information you need on future courses, including Fashion Design, Textiles, Photography and more!






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To be alone, On my own

I like to be alone

To listen to my thoughts
To watch my surroundings
                Watch people
                Be aware

                Listen to everything

                See everything

I feel free,

                        A little intimidated,

                        But free

Away from everything and everyone

               To make my own choices,

                        My own decisions

Just to be alone

               To breathe my own air

               To see my own space

               Working out other’s stories

On my own

  

Fashion Head

Part of fashion design is drawing (can you believe it har har). But anyway, I drew a head for my designs. It’s basically a modified drawing of a photo of Cara Delevingne, as I needed a slightly narrower mouth for the scale that I needed the head to be at.

Let me know what you think!

Motivate me..

http://elitedaily.com/life/motivation/this-video-uses-jelly-beans-show-you-how-much-youre-wasting-your-life-video/

The small video above is worth a watch. It actually motivated me get on and do something today, rather than trying to put off uni work. It makes you think, how many minutes, hours, days are you wasting by just sitting around waiting for something to happen? It all adds up in the end. I need to make changes in my life, and this video has proved that. I don’t want to look back on my late teens/early twenties and think I could have done something better, something worthwhile. I need to work for what I want and there’s only one way that that is going happen, by doing it myself, and only myself. Life is too short to worry about what could happen and what happens if… Just do it!

Quoting lord Drake, YOLO!

Waiste Clothing

I found, through instagram again, a new range of clothes called Waiste Clothing. I think the designs and styles and quite boho-chic, but theyre wearable and they’re sooo reasonable at pricing!

Visit www.waiste.co.uk for the clothing and jewellery. Username on instagram is WAISTE_CLOTHING

Their website features the Waiste blog too, which is definitely worth looking at. I am actually in love with a crushed velvet boho jacket. It’s sold out at the moment, but for £25, I am definitely waiting!

 

Print SS14

I love Company Magazine. I follow them on instagram (my username is ‘jemmleigh’ if anyone is interested) and today I saw a couple of posts about the label Mint Velvet. They have their own website here,

http://www.mintvelvet.co.uk/

I think the designs are very contemporary casual. They’re simplistic, but comfy. And if I’m honest, for a label like Mint Velvet, with the range of designs and the quality of their clothing, I don’t think the pricing is too much. Definitely have a look, it is well worth it!

Back to Company’s instagram, I saw some really interesting print on a bomber jacket, peg leg trousers and miniskirts, and I assume its press day for SS14, because I couldn’t find any print like that anywhere on their website. Definitely will be keeping an eye on their site, and my bank balance as a student if I want to buy some of their clothing!

Fabrics

I thought this would be fashion related; found some cool sites for fabric today, five free samples and then a charge for each sample after.

www.myfabric.co.uk

 

I found some AMAZING faux fur that would work so well in my current project at uni (I’m basing a concept on Robert Scott’s Antarctic exhibition). But seriously, check these guys out.

 Also found this site, based in London.

http://www.thesilksociety.com

You can’t order online, but the range of fabrics looks sooooo good! Plus the fabrics been used in the film Snow White and the Huntsman. I reckon that’s well worth a trip to the capital!