#ZOMGBloggersBash

Last night I went along to the #ZOMGBloggersBash in Barbican with the Push PR team! As it was a bloggers event, I felt compelled to blog about it ! The event was to launch the new Limited Edition Rock a Lily Lipstick ZOMG! in collaboration with LondonLipGloss

The event was lovely and I’m glad I got to go! A lovely pub filled with London’s finest fashion and beauty bloggers, vintage beauties, alcohol, blogger bingo, and cupcakes! The event was heaving, we could barely move and it was hard to find a space in order to stand still for 5 minutes – so in all a great turn out for the launch I’d say!

There was lots to get involved in aside from boozing! There was a vintage corner with dress up wigs from Wonderland Wigs and hats  by Little Miss B and a professional photographer to capture your new style! Obvs us Push PR girls got involved!

The photos were taken by Tigz Rice Studios a leading London photographic studio for Burlesque and Cabaret performers! You can some more pics of the night on their blog.

There was also a cupcake bar, yep that’s right! You got to design your own cupcake with  Temptations Creations using icing, glitter, chocolate, skittles, pretty much anything your sweet tooth desired!

Here was my delicious creation that I scoffed down in less than 2 minutes!

I went for Vanilla icing with chocolate drops and stars and finished with pink glitter. NOM! Unfortunately we didn’t get to stay too long at the event and missed out on the Burlesque performance and getting our hair styled in a truly vintage fashion! Maybe next time!

Thanks for inviting us along, it was a great night and I’m sure a huge success! 🙂

(Soz for crap photos, I only had my iphone and unfortunately I don’t possess the iphone 4 which = crap quality pictures wahh!)

Happy London Fashion Week!

So London Fashion Week all kicked off yesterday, very exciting! My day at work was pretty hectic, watching all the live streamed shows and being ON TOP of IT when it comes to tweeting about all the collections what’s in and what’s out! Very manic but exciting and FUN day woo! I was tweeting from the PushPRLondon account, if anyone wants to see what gibberish I was saying!

Tomorrow I get to go to Somerset House on behalf of Push PR and I’m going to be style spotting for their blog post next week, so if you see some loony girl running around with a camera annoying random people whilst trying not to trip over her skirt and look equally as stylish as those being papped…it’s probably going to be me.

So in aid of my trip to the most stylish place in the world at the moment, I HAD to get a new outfit! I ventured out in the what was sunny London and went to The East End Thrift Store as it’s only a 5 minute walk from me (very handy yet dangerous for my bank account) This place is my favourite vintage store in London. It has the most amazing stuff and it’s by far the cheapest! next weekend they are having a jumble sale something about fill a bag for a tenner? Not too sure on the details, either way I’ll be there with my tenner and bag!

Whilst I was there I purchased this absolute beauty! Which was only £10 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!

I was very chuffed with the find because a few of the collections going down the run way at the moment seem to be Victorian inspired, it could definitely be seen in Corrie Nielsen and Felicity Brown’s collections at least and this definitely resembles that. (Ahead of the game for SS12, get in)

I then of course made my way to Brick Lane for a little looky. Towards the bottom of Brick Lane there is this bizarre shop, it has lots of old vintage furniture and basically looks like someones attic/garage. Today there was a young chap playing blues music on a vintage piano and singing away it was very impressive! He sounded a bit like Paolo Nutini, which is always good in my book! i’m not sure if he’s a weekly occurrence or just felt like busking today either way definitely look for him!

I’m going to finish this post with a thought from Angel tube station’s ‘travel updates’ board, because, quite frankly, that board is hilarious.

 

‘If you mated a Pitbull and a Shih Tzu, what would you call it?’

Wish list

I was at Arcadia Group just off Oxford Street this morning and whilst I was sat in reception watching homes under the hammer, a woman walked past me with the most gorgeous pair of Acne boots, that I wanted to steal them from her feet!

Sitting on the 4th floor reception of Arcadia is probably, aside from flicking through Vogue, the best way to see what is on trend at the moment. Every man and woman in that building is stylish they just have to be!

So whilst I was sat admiring I was also compiling the list of purchases my credit card will be making once I’ve paid the balance off of it in order to be able to use it again…

First up those Acne boots:

I really like these ones at the moment, I like the long tassle hanging over the zip gives it a little something different, a flash of colour if you will. However I am growing partial to the wedge option, below:

A tad gothic-esque perhaps but I know these will look buff with black leggings or some knee high socks and shorts. They are gorge.

Next up, the winter must have that is the Barbour Jacket. Now my body is utterly bizarre and I feel the cold even when I’m in the Dominican and the Barbour is suppose to be stupendously warm! So really that justifies my reason for NEEDING one in my life. Warmth purposes.

Those 2 possibly 3 items alone will be an entire months pay packet so I may have to budget myself for one a month.

I also want an oversized vintage denim jacket such as below:

I can pick one of those up down Brick Lane for 50 quid though, so if I get employed this week I may treat myself this weekend, because I totally deserve it after that job hunting and interviewing I’ve been doing, right?

Vintage love

Since moving to east London I have accumalted a growing selection of vintage items due to living 10 minutes from Brick Lane. Although my bank account wouldn’t agree, this is amazing!

As we all know Brick Lane is renowned for it’s vintage shops but my two absolute favourite’s have to be Absolute Vintage which is on Hanbury Street, just off Brick lane about half way down and The Vintage Store at the bottom.

I’m currently sat here wearing in my black Levi high waisted classic shorts that I purchased from The Vintage Store yesterday. Vintage stores just prove what a rip off Topshop can be. My purchase yesterday was £20, I bought a dark blue pair from Glastonbury festival from Oxfam for a tenner, but my light blue pair, purchased from Topshop…£35. Definitely shed a tear over that when I purchased my Glasto bargain!

Anyway, here is a picture of the BEAUTIFUL victorian laced shirt I also purchased from The Vintage Store yesterday, of course in hipstamatic mode for full vintage effect..

I don’t think the picture does it justice.

In summary, go to this shop, it’s amazing and the sales assistants are lovely!