I don't speak German, but I can if you like

Looking through my blog lately I see there's a lot of ME ME ME going on... I'm guessing you all are getting a bit sick of my face at this point. I like blogs that are more on the personal side, but I like a good mix of personal style, street style, runway, and just other bits and bobs that don't necessarily have to do with fashion. That's what I want my blog to be: a mix of everything... with an emphasis on personal style and DIY. I like that my posts don't follow any particular format, even though it means starting from scratch when formulating and writing each one... it keeps things interesting! Maybe as readers you don't really notice, but a lot of blogs seem to follow the same structure post after post. DON'T GET ME WRONG I'm not saying this is a bad thing! I just like the fact that my blog always keeps me on my toes.
Ok I don't know if I'm making any sense, nor do I know why I'm rambing like this. CARRYING ON! No pictures of me in this post, as part of this new goal to mix it up a bit more. Here are a few pictures I've had saved in my "hair" folder. I never thought I would be one of those people who change their hair every week (you know the type!), always showing up with a different colour or style. But since I made the leap to (half) bleached hair, I feel like I still want to experiment with some other colours. I've had violet (as you may remember), but now I'm REALLY into the idea of a washed out green, as well as mermaid blue and maybe even bright yellow. I know, I know, some of you are thinking "eww green??!" but I don't care, I think it looks effing amazing and I'm more than tempted to get this manic panic shade and mix it with a white toner to wash it out a bit.

(sources clockwise: unknown, Facehunter, Drop Tokyo, I Love Fake magazine, Drop Tokyo)

As much as I want to get dying, I want to wait while my hair grows out a bit. See, I got my hair rebleached about 2 weeks ago and I'm so not happy with it... the front has only about 3 inches of brown, the blonde is so far up and it just doesn't look blended all over... it looks like the bleach was painted on, just really choppy. Idk... I've mostly been parting it on the side or clipping back the front parts (see my hair in the previous post) to make it look a bit better, but I guess there's not much else to do than for it to grow out and blend itself.
Oh wow, that was long and boring... did I mention I'm going to England next month? No? Oh, well I am! I'm going during my reading week, for about 12 days total. One of my best friends has been going to school in Plymouth for the past year so I'm going with a friend to visit her. While we're over there, my friend and I decided we want to visit somewhere in Europe for two days or so (we ain't sitting in Plymouth for 12 whole days, that's for sure!) and we've agreed on Sweden. Monki, Weekday, here I come!! ... no really, I've barely spent a penny on clothes in the last 2 months because it's all going to go to Sweden shopping. We're prob hitting up Gothenburg, so if you've been or you are Swedish, then feel free to leave some tips for places to go/see/show in the comments!

Don't take no mess from nobody

Guess who finally got a flannel



The most perfect flannel in all of Camden. I basically live and sleep in it now. Found the same day as the blogger yard sale which you can read about here on Style Bubble (I'm lurking in the crowd in the first pic) and here on I Want You to Know, because I can't be bothered to type up my lesser quality recolection of the day. I bought a crap load of Susie's stuff, will show them over time rather than a "here's everything I bought" kind of post. Still gushing about how cool/funny/real Susie is in person, and the same goes for all the other bloggers there. Was fun times.

It doesn't kick like a pill anymore

Good news guys, I haven't bought anything new since the last post! Although the Topshop ban isn't going too well, I had another wander just the next day. HA! What can I say, a sale is a sale. Actually I went in there the other day just before I met up with a London blogger named Corinne, who runs a fab blog called Used and Abused Vintage with her bff Mia. No doubt Corinne will become my official London thrifting tour guide, pointing me in the direction of any and all charity shops and vintage stores around town, maybe even a few carboot sales. We met up in front of Topshop and had a quick peek at Beyond Retro. I really want to go back there as the prices aren't too bad and they had some really amazing things. There was one dress, URG, so gorgeous. I didn't try it on because I knew I wouldn't buy it because I knew that I was broke. Will go back and try it on as soon as I have a source of income.
A few of you were curious to see what the asymmetrical top from the last post looked like on. Well, WAIT NO LONGER!!

(omg guys my skin matches my top, PALE VICTORY!!)
Well that was anti-climactic. Obviously this isn't the most exciting top but 1) it was on sale, and 2) I liked how dramatically it dipped to one side. I feel like I'm wearing a toga or something when it's on... it's sweet! My younger brother stopped into London the other day on his way to Germany, and when I met him at the train station he took a step back, looked at me up and down, and said "now I know why you like it here so much. Everyone dresses so wierd". Ahaha baby bro, wait till you actually leave the station and THEN tell me what wierd is.
Corinne was looking very granny-chic in her [flipping amazing!] 90's dress and witchy boots. Btw the dress is thrifted and I'm in love with it. The length, the floral print, errrrthang.

I'm going to buy some toner for my hair to get it as white as hers, it's the most PERFECT shade. White, but not too white it looks scary, if you know what I mean. I'm excited!
Oh and yesterday I moved into my permanent room in the flat. Loving it so far. Fancy a tour?







The very best part of my room is on the back of my door.

BAHAHA! My friend gave me this RPatz calander for Christmas, I just had to bring it with me to England. Tracy, you know me and my schoolgirl obsessions all to well.

I am just another piece of an island

So guess what I did the other day? Here's a clue:

What would involve five girls and cupcakes? ...A fashion blogger meet-up, of course!

Superstar blogger Rebecca, aka The Clothes Horse, was in London for a few days so of course surrounding bloggers flocked to meet her, haha! This eclectic group included myself (duh), Selina of Flying Saucer, Winnie of Diamond Canopy, Kristabel of I Want You To Know, and of course Rebecca from The Clothes Horse.
The four of them were already settled in at The Hummingbird Bakery, starting on their cupcakes when I turned up (always late, sowwy!). I don't think I missed much though because we sat there for another two hours just chatting about blogging stuff like comment etiquette, doing promotions for companies, and of course the big "should bloggers get paid" debate.
After the gossip fest we headed over to the Victoria and Albert museum close by to check out a few exhibits. But first... outfit shots, of course!
Everyone was being all coy and hesitant to start posing, so I'm like "someone take a picture of me standing on the fence!! Or the bench!". They all convinced me the bench was less deadly.

Btw, I call this look "The Goth Stephanie Tanner".

As you can tell, this summer I've made it my goal to NOT tan... at all. Eff people making me feel bad that I'm no Paris Hilton. I like my fair skin, OKAY?? Moving on...

Kristabel! Obvi I'm mad jealous of her thin legs (see sidebar). AND HER SHOEEEES! I mean:

Next is Selina. Ahhh, Selina. Flying Saucer was probably the second blog I ever fell in love with... this was well over two years ago and only now do I FINALLY get to meet her. All expectations were met, she is amazing and sweet and wonderful in every way. Mabes I should stop gushing and get to her outfit....

Selina is upping her jewelry and nail game BIG TIME. Amazing.

Selina and Winnie are both Birminham bloggers, which means I really need to check out Birmingham now... they churn out some pretty amazing girls over there! Winnie was so sweet and has the best smile ever. It's infectious! Loving her floaty polka dot top as well.

And because I'm dumb and tend to get caught up in the moment, I forgot to get a solo shot of Rebecca's perfect outfit (see: matching shoes and nail polish!). In my defense, I was using her camera to take outfit shots for her. I'm sure a lot of you read The Clothes Horse anyways, so just head over there to see her outfit!



There was a courtyard within the museum with some gorgeous flowers against a brick wall, so we decided to take a group shot there. Since it was only the five of us we had nobody to take the picture, and didn't really see anyone trustworthy looking to hande our babies (cameras), this can only mean one thing... self timer shots!! I told you, this was a true fashion blogger convention! Self timer shots also mean "blogger pose": pigeon toed, looking down, hand in hair.

Oh well, at least we amuse ourselves.

If looks could kill then we all would be doomed

You may or may not be wondering who the other super special person was that I got to see in Toronto. If you are following me on twitter then you know that it was the one and only Isabel of Hipster Musings!

Isabel with a hot dog. What?
Okay so with Isabel skipping off to have adventures in NYC, we had just enough time to cross paths for one afternoon of, well, what else but a lot of vintage shopping. After we met at the bus station where her coach just arrived, we dropped off her bags at my hotel just down the street and then set off walking towards Kensington Market. You guys, I can't beleive I lasted the whole day walking EVERYWHERE. It wasn't especially hot out that day, but the air was so moist I could have drank it with a straw. Anyways, Isabel got off the bus looking fabulous while I only walked down the street and already am a sweaty mess. MOVING ON
I don't know the names of any of the shops we went in, so just enjoy the pictures. I'm pretty clueless around Toronto, so Isabel practically had to hold my hand to show me where to go.

Sifting through her beloved drug rugs.

Groping the sequins. We both have a penchant for shiny things. Obviously.

Street style shots! How do you guys like this idea of me being a photographer, haha!

Isabel looked wicked though, loved her outfit top to bottom.


These printed docs were just calling out for Isabel. Unfortunately they were a tad too small

Andrew would have had a hay day with all the overalls I saw, haha. The other day he declared overalls as "his new thing"



I really took a shine to this metal bra. Seriously, I was so close to buying it! It reminded me of the metal bra that Topshop will be releasing this fall (see here from Flying Saucer, and here in a press shot). Looooove. Will wait to buy the Topshop one though... it has spikes :)

Ignore the sweaty t-shirt, and look at the teensy tiny bit of purple left in my hair!

I had such a good time with Isabel, she is actually one of the sweetest girls I've ever met. I felt like I kind of already knew her, so when we hung out it was as if we had been friends for ages (hopefully she feels the same, haha!). We also both bought these lacey bloomers, and were going to take a picture of us both wearing them afterwards but sadly we ran out of time. It's wierd, I just noticed we didn't actually get any pictures together, haha! Well, there's blogger pictures for ya.
Oh and lastly, a dress shop we passed had this big Lady Gaga display. Kind of a perfect end to a perfect day.

When I get older, I will be stronger

I'll tell you right off the bat, this post is not much more than a photo dump. This is what happens when you make two friends with really good cameras: dozens of pictures of me in every pose imaginable (which happens to be not a whole hell of a lot in my case).
I'm assuming most of you have seen the pool pictures on Cheap Thrills of Raez and myself. God, this girl can WERQ TO NO END. It was like BAM BAM BAM, pose pose pose, in true Top Model style. Some of the shots not posted on Cheap Thrills:

Probably the simplest outfit imaginable, yet effective nevertheless: oversized men's polo as a dress - thrifted, striped tights - Topshop, Creepers - secondhand.




Foxy blogger lounging in my backyard. No bigz.
And these are from yesterday in Andrew's backyard, taken whilst being eaten alive by mosquitoes. Look closely at my legs if you don't beleive me. I'd also like to say that I love how pale, or "fair skinned" as I like to call it, I look in all of these. Screw tanning, I'm a vampire.

Why yes, I am standing on a rooftop: top - DIY, shorts - thrifted and cut, shoes - London Underground

First time this braided shoulder piece top has seen the outside of my closet. I kept on "saving it for a special occasion", but then thought "screw it, I'm wearing it to Value Village".

These shoes I will wear FOREVER so I only break them out on occasion. This occasion happened to be prancing around on a rooftop. I also might add that they have absolutely no grip on the bottom. I could have died, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF BLOGGING.

And one of me in Andrew's amish hat, for good measure.

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OH! And I keep forgetting to remind everyone to go check out my shop: Modernity. Help a broke sistah out and buy something, please. I won't be selling this stuff for long, obviously I'm not brining it all with me when I go to England! That means you have untill July 24th (ish) to get yr shop on!