#4 - New year, more lusting!

What better way to ring in the New Year than seeing this as you visit Mulberry’s website!

So it’s the start of 2012 and I couldn’t help but go sneaking previews of more things I’m going to be lusting over this year! These things usually consist of items I know I’m never going to able to afford! So I’ve decided to blog about a few of my favourites to start of a brand new year!

Starting off with one of my favourites from Christian Louboutin’s Autumn/Winter collection last year, these beauties. I think every girl would love to own a pair of Louboutin’s. The first time I saw these I thought they were adorable. I wasn’t keen on the material at first, and in all honesty I wouldn’t wear them very much, but they’re absolutely gorgeous. So cleverly designed.

Second of all we have my all time favourite from 2011, the Mulberry Tillie Tote. It’s so cute. It’s one of those bags that’s practical yet stylish at the same time. It’s not too big and not too small. It’s one of those ones you’d want to wear with everything! Very expensive, and not to everyone’s taste, but if you have the money then why not splash out on a gorgeous handbag?

You can never ever fault Alexander McQueen. This is just simply stunning. The colour, the style, the layers of chiffon, it’s just beautiful! It’s the perfect kind of top to tuck into a pair of shorts in the Spring/Summer. Or even just to wear with a pair of skinny jeans or leggings. I love it. No words to actually describe how beautiful it is.

Aaah. The Mulberry Harriet Clutch, part of Mulberry’s latest arrivals for 2012. Simple yet elegant. I love Mulberry, again, another fashion label I cannot fault. I love this though, especially in Khaki. They also do it in Cream but this colour is so fresh. I’d tend to use it more in Autumn/Winter rather than Summer. I think the Cream Clutch fits Summer, colour wise. I saw it and just fell in love. It’s so cute.

Another pair of beauties from Christian Louboutin. Perfect for all year round. I don’t think I’d ever want to take these off, I may actually sleep in them. They’re stunning. They’re the type of shoes you’d expect to wear if you were a Princess, like Cinderella. The Swarovski crystals complete them, especially the colour. They’d go with any type of outfit, casual, dressed up, dressed down. Gorge.

Another favourite from Mulberry’s new arrivals for 2012. I think this is so vintage. You can find similar, and for cheaper as well. But the style of this is just adorable. It’s just perfect for Spring/Summer and again, perfect for day/night wear. The shape/style of the dress itself is simply beautiful. It’s plain, yet chic.

Another favourite from McQueen. Lusted over one of these gorgeous scarves for such a long time! I especially love them in this colour though. I’d definitely wear it more in Spring/Summer, the colours are adorable and as much as you can find similar, the original is always going to be better.

Mulberry, Mulberry, Mulberry. Matching with the Harriet Clutch, this Satchel is so vintage. A lovely colour also! It would also look so cute with the Effie Dress, it doesn’t match too much as the colours are slightly different. Satchel’s are always a favourite of mine, Mulberry or not Mulberry I love them but this one just so happened to catch my eye. I love thin strapped Satchels, I think it makes the bag itself stand out more.

I love Reiss. And I especially love this. For Faux Fur I really like this. I don’t usually like the look of it but I really like this. It looks so cute with the outfit that the model is wearing in the photo! And it’s just a really cute, vintage addition to your wardrobe. This is actually currently in the sale on the Selfridges website - http://www.selfridges.com/en/Womenswear/Categories/Coats-jackets/Ivana-faux-fur-coat_952-10025-657007IVANA/ - simply beautiful.

As much as I’d love to keep going with what I’m loving from last year, and this year’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection already! I think I’ll leave it as that, as I think I’ll be here all night otherwise!

“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind … a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.” - Oleg Cassini.

#1 - Body Image.

I’ve been a member on Twitter since 2009. You meet lovely people, or you meet bitchy people.
I was browsing through my timeline the other day and noticed one of my followers was getting hate from a random Twitter account who (in my opinion) seemed to have only made the account to deliberately write nasty things to people who they didn’t seem to like or get along with. Bare in mind this account on Twitter had no picture, no followers, no bio etc and clearly had nothing nice to say to anybody.
So, I decided to scroll through this person’s tweets and found that they were sayings things to girls like “You’re fat. Go and eat some more cake.” “Have you seen the size of your legs? You call yourself a dancer.” “How can you even dance when you’re this fat?” – this poor girl getting all these nasty comments thrown at her had done absolutely nothing wrong to deserve that being slung at her. So me being me, I went on a  bit of a Twitter rant and I’m deciding to do the same thing again, but on my blog instead to just share with the world of blogging how I perceive ‘Body Image’.

There are so many girls out there that decide they want to be ‘skinny’ – don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with having that goal or even being skinny, and I think every girl in the world wants to look like the models in the magazines. So I did my research, started reading through articles, and various different blogs, and came across a huge amount of people saying that ‘The average size of a woman in the UK is a 14/16.’ – I’d also agree with this. I continued researching that night, and found another load of blogs/articles saying that ‘Being a Size Zero isn’t the ‘in thing’ anymore’  - so my question is, WHY when we should feel happy/comfortable in our own skin, do we want the bodies of supermodels and the skin of an airbrushed woman in a magazine?

My question to all you bloggers, is which of the above (figure wise) would you prefer to be and why? I’m not entirely sure of the sizes but if I was to guess I’d say: Girl #1 – a Size 4 or 6. Girl #2 – a size 8 or 10. Girl #3 – a 14 or 16. The way I see it, is that ALL of the above women in those pictures look healthy, happy and beautiful.

We should all be able to feel comfortable in our own skin, no matter what size we are.  In my personal opinion, I don’t think any size is wrong. If being ‘curvy’ wasn’t aloud or acceptable, there wouldn’t be clothing sizes out there ranging between a 14-22+! Same applies for girls out there who are sizes 0-10. When I saw this girl getting nasty abuse over Twitter, it made me think about all the people in the world who really struggle to gain or lose weight to save their lives. There are girls in the UK who are comfortable, healthy size 14′s or bigger who have no self-esteem issues at all, yet they get put down by people who I personally don’t think would like to receive that kind of insult in return? – So what is the big issue with picking on people and ridiculing them because of what they look like figure wise? Surely it’s what’s on the inside that counts?

People nowadays, especially girls, are judged WAY too quickly, even by other girls on what they look like, whether it’s weight wise, looks wise, what they wear, what their make-up looks like, how they dress, and the list goes on, and on, and on. When really, we don’t live our lives to please others? OR make other people happy for that matter. If we’re happy, comfortable and healthy we shouldn’t worry? If you’re not comfortable, healthy, or happy – you have the option to change that and become the complete opposite.

My #1 motto in life – “If these bullies have NO relevance or importance to you or your life. Don’t let their opinions or comments take control of you, and how you decide to live your life. The chances are, these people are either jealous, or so deeply saddened/unhappy with their own lives that they feel they need to get a kick out of making other people feel the same way.”

So to all you girls out there who have ever felt ridiculed by others because of the way you look – you’re beautiful.