A Twist on Tartan

Excuse the odd socks and my unflattering legs but I love these leggings, I am wearing them as we speak. They are from Matalan and were on the 2 for £12 section but I think they were £8 each. They're just comfy! Well, there's not much I can natter on about leggings so I'll leave it at that!

Hannah x

Dying my hair?

 Pretty crazy edits right? Yeah, I know they're terrible, my 'ribbit' skills don't develop very far...Basically, I really  want to dye my hair a crazy colour as I am bored witless of my dark hair. I've spent the past year ish trying to dye my hair lighter. Last summer my hair was a mahogany purpley colour, which only stayed in for around a month. But before that, my hair was almost black. A couple of weeks ago, I tried again and dyed it 'chocolate brown' in the hope that it would make my hair lighter...it made it darker still. I have recently been dying (get it? I'm punny) to ombre my hair. Eventhough I know that bleaching it would kill my ends, I think it would make my hair look like something rather than ordinary. My friend may be buying me a BLEACH Salon dip dye kit (here) for my birthday in order to persuade my mum to let me do it (good ol' teamwork). But I really like the idea of having pastel pink hair (this colour), I want mine like ohabioh on instagram (her youtube is here). Oh well, the school won't let me anyway.

Any help?!

Hannah x

Matte Red Nails

Gotta love iphone quality pictures right? I've had a sudden burst if excitement with matte nails again, I'm in love with them! I think they look so much more classy and finished. The red polish is Topshops War Paint with H&M matte top coat ontop.

Do you like matte nails?

Hannah x

Cutepolish Halloween Nails

I felt like I hadn't done any nail art for absolutely ages so I decided to crack out my stripers and dotters once again. Since Halloween is coming next week, I raided youtube for some simple Halloween tutorials. I stumbled across Cutepolish's trusty page and found this design in one of her videos (click here to watch the video). The design was actually really easy to reproduce judging by the fact that I haven't done any nail art in absolutely ages.

 I only needed about 8 polishes to do this design. I used : Topshop Peaches and Cream, Venus Fly Trap and War Paint, Rimmel Ultraviolet, Sinful Colours Snow me White and Black on Black. I also used my dotting tools (similar here) and nail art brushes (here) which I got from amazon, I also used a black striper that I got from 99p store a while back.

To be fair, I'm pretty happy with how my results turned out. Let me know if you try out this design by putting it on instagram and tagging me in the description (hannahtoughx).

Have a good week!

Hannah x

River Island Chunky Boots

River Island Boots £45 (here)

I have been dying to get my hands on these boots for absolutely ages and after 2 weeks of saving pay checks, I got them. On saturday, I zipped straight from work to the city and literally ran through the shopping centre to River Island. I had a horrible vision that the last pair would be bought just as I got there...so I was running...pretty quick too. I got there and found the last pair in the shop, and they fit perfectly! These boots are the best, and most expensive, item of clothing I own and I love them to pieces! I seriously think that they go with any outfit. I have worn them with a black skater skirt and striped blouse, but they also look good with skinny, light, turned up jeans. Admittedly, a day of wearing these while traipsing round the city did give me a blister, so have plasters handy and a spare pair of socks.

As most of you know, I'm going to Clothes Show in 2 months for my birthday. I think I'm going to wear these boots with a skater dress teamed with my leather jacket. Sound good to you? Seriously need help with my outfit!!! 

What do you think?

Hannah x

My Music Taste

I hope you guys don't mind, but I want to change this blog up a bit so it isn't just fashion, I want to include some other cultural factors. Due to work experience opportunities, I want to keep my blog as broad as I possibly can, therefore I'm incorporating my music taste into this post.

My music taste is so varied it's unbelievable but my eyes have been opened to the world of NME recently (thank heavens for that). This guy at my school asked me to go see Peace with him, I had no idea who they were but I wanted to go none the less! After a quick google, spotify and download later, I fell in love with Peace (pictured central). Think Arctic Monkeys and Two Door Cinema Club mashed together, ah perfect. I've now got a ticket and I'm seeing them on December 10th!

Another girl on Instagram (who goes to my school) posts a lot about Swim Deep (pictured bottom), so I thought 'd check them out too...wow. Who would have thought that Instagram was such a musical hub?! Their music videos are seriously to die for, beautiful stuff.

Lastly, another band called Palma Violets (pictured top...I'm doing this in the worst order aren't I) are touring at Norwich next month and I'm eager to go to that one too! I'm a bit gig crazy at the moment...it is gig season anyway! But I have actually only heard one of Palma Violet's songs, but I have downloaded their debut album (180) to gear up my lyrical know-how.

I'm interested to know if any of you guys have got a similar music taste to me. I reaaally want someone to talk to who I can swap songs with! I think it would be really sweet to talk to you guys and help each other out.

Sorry again if you don't want me to change my blog straight away, but there will still be fashion posts I promise! It's just that I'm contacting companies such as Sound and Vision to help me boost my creative writing goals. Also, I am hopefully basing my next BTEC Media project around my blog, this will also help me achieve my grades and improve this blog on the whole! Pleaaase give me feedback in the comments if you like/absolutely hated this post and where my blog is now going.

Thanks for the support,
Hannah x

Sorry!

I've been such a bad blogger recently oh dear. Sorry to my followers who keep reading to check if there's something new. I have been caught up so much in exam revision (I had my English Language mock on friday and it went well I think...to anyone who may have been interested. I just thought I'd take this opportunity to apologise and I will hopefully be updating more often now...well after my proper English Language GCSE exams in November anyway!

Also, my friend Cesca from school runs a nail-art blog and I personally think it's really good so I think you guys should check it out! Click here to see her blog and please try some of the designs from her background, they're all her own genius work!

Hopefully check back soon, sorry again guys!

Hannah x