Fashion | Things I would buy if I wasn't so poor #2

Here we have the second in my series of 'things I would buy if I wasn't so poor'. I feel like these are going to become quite a regular thing on here because I am still spectacularly poor and will be for the foreseeable future! This time I didn't have any sort of budget in mind because after all, if I wasn't so poor I would buy these things! Here we have some of my ultimate dream items and well the bracelet is just because I love a bit of studs! 

Leather Satchel - Proenza Schouler - £1245

Leather Jacket - All Saints - £345

Spiked Bracelet - Humblechic - £17

Beauty | Shellac nails

Very much like with my hair I have had a lifelong battle with getting my nails to do what I want them to do! They are dry, flaky and peel off in little bits and just generally look awful. I am one of those people who hide their nails on the tube for fear of a random stranger seeing them and thinking something unsavoury about them, sad I know. Any nail varnish I put on, no matter how high end would chip and flake away literally within a day so I had been looking for a more permanent nail solution for a while now.

I stumbled upon a little beauty salon around the corner from my house the other day whilst I was looking for quite embarrassingly, a chip shop. This place does shellac manicures for twenty pounds and so I thought why not? I had heard really good things about shellac and how it doesn't chip, so I figured it was worth a go.

To cut a very long story short, I absolutely LOVE them! As you can see I chose a bright red colour called 'hollywood', thats one of the only downsides to shellac, that you only have quite a restricted colour range but the colours that they do have are really lovely and I think that there would be something there to suit everyones tastes. The whole process took around fourty five minutes but I did have a full manicure and not just the paint. In the place that I had mine done, to only get your nails painted with the shellac is cheaper as well. 

Shellac is basically a uv gel nail polish and so you apply it just as you would a nail polish and then put your hand under a uv light to set the polish. Its quick, its easy and the results are incredible!

I had these done on wednesday last week and as you can see there are no chips whatsoever and they are still just as shiny as when I got them done. They are supposed to last for about two weeks but really they last for as long as you can stand the growth of your nail showing at the bottom! My nails grow really slow so these should last me a pretty long time!

Have you ever had shellac nails done? Would you consider them?

Beauty | October GlossyBox

I've been subscribed to glossy box for over a year now and I always have mixed feelings about whether to keep my subscription or to cancel it. This month was another one of those months.

This month I received four items as apposed to the usual five or six. My items were an Anatomicals body scrub, a Dermalogica skin care three step kit, a Skinetica anti blemish solution and a Yves Rocher lipstick.

Lets start with the scrub, which retails for around the four pound mark. I'm a big fan of the Anatomicals brand having bought some of their stuff before off of ASOS. Its a brand I trust to be good quality so I was pleased to get this in my box and this scrub is pink grapefruit flavour which appears to be my new obsession! Anything pink grapefruit or mandarin I am all over lately, its something about fresh zingy scents when the weather gets more gloomy.

The next thing I was not so happy with; the Dermalogica set. Its not that I don’t like the product, which includes a cleanser, toner and moisturiser and is targeted at spot prone skin. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Dermalogica and I trust their products, its just that I had this exact same set in a glossy box that I got a few months back and I still haven’t finished this set from the last time I got it! Still the set retails for £12 and so thats my moneys worth for the box right there.

The Skinetica blemish solution I am excited to try. I almost want my skin to go through a bad patch so that I can test this out! I haven’t heard of the brand before either and I'm always up for trying out a new brand. This retails for £7 and says that you will see results in two to three days, further testing to follow...

The last product I'm sure some people will really like but its just not my cup of tea, I'm not a big lipstick wearer, I much prefer lip stains because lets face it I'm not the most ladylike or graceful person and so lipstick will inevitably end up on my nose or halfway down my chin, basically anywhere that it isn’t supposed to be. This is a beautiful shade of red and if I was partial to a lipstick then I would wear it but I'm just not!

Overall I do think I was pleased with this box but I sort of forget that I pay for them every month. When I think that these four things have cost me around thirteen pounds then maybe I'm not so happy... ah well perhaps next month will excite me more. Are you subscribed to glossy box? Would you have been happy with this months box?

Life | What's been going on?

Hello, hello, hello what do we have here then? Well the truth is we have a very sheepish me who has not posted for a very long time. The truth is is that these past two months have been an absolute whirlwind for me! I'll catch you up on it all right now.

I finally moved in to my new apartment and it was everything I dreamed and more! I don’t know if I said before but my move in day was the first time I had actually seen my new home so it was safe to say I was a bit nervous as to whether I was going to like it or not. It is stunning. Oh my God it is stunning. So moving in took up a lot of my time and so blogging and my tumblr and my twitter and whatnot just flew out of my mind; slap me on the wrist for being a bad blogger! Also we didn't have internet at that point so it was always going to be tricky getting posts up but thats no excuse now is it?

A few weeks after I moved in to my new apartment I started my new university course. I could finally officially say that I am a student at the London College of Fashion! I am loving it! Literally loving it! I think that having the university experience that I did last year (see this post if you don’t know what I'm on about) has really made me appreciate how good my new university is and how good my course is and how nice the people are. The only problem is how bloody expensive the whole thing is! I mean don’t get me wrong I get that its an investment for my (hopeful) future career in the footwear industry but Jesus! I'm already paying nine grand in fees per year and then on top of that I have to fork out hundreds of pounds that I don’t have for tools. But hey ho thats just how the cookie crumbles and I'm not complaining one bit!

Also this month I embarked on a desperate search for employment after realising how depressingly poor I am. So I only managed to get myself a job in Selfridges would you believe?! I literally am still in shock! It is my dream place to work in London! I haven’t started yet but I am so looking forward to it! I realise now that this is becoming more of an online diary than a blog...

There has been some more things that have gone on but that will do for now before this gets to be an essay!