Beautiful photos

I've been doing lots of research over the past week, and came across these advertisement photos yesterday for Erin Fetherston.

hmm, pretty photos. I love Erin Fetherston's clothes, they remind me of fairy-like creations! And Zooey Deschanel makes a great model, the last photo is my favourite.

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Crazy make-up makes my face hurt!

So all around the music scene, female artists are getting a bit creative with their make-up.

Obviously, it started with Bat for Lashes's Natasha Khan, but then others followed, the most recently publicised being Lily Allen. And this all looked very good to me, so I tried it:

Now granted, I was going to a UV party which was the reason I drew blue stars on my face. I used eyeliner to do it, but guess what? It wouldn't come off my face, I was scrubbing for quite a while and a whole day after my face is still red where I rubbed it and I still have bits of blue on me.

So to the artists that wear this crazy make-up, I commend you for not looking like an idiot and your faces not reacting the way mine did!

(Maybe I just need better make-up remover)

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In need of some new faces

I bought this month's vogue a couple of days ago, and I wasn't surprised to see Sienna Miller on the front yet again. Vogue seems to use the same people for the front cover time and time again. Kate Moss has been on the cover of Vogue a grand total of 26 times, now whilst she is one of the most famous British models ever, there is a limit to the amount of times I want to see her on the front of a magazine. And I was thinking, doesn't she or the photographers/stylists/make-up artists get bored of doing a cover with the same model? And I don't think Sienna Miller has been on the cover nearly as much as Miss Moss, but again I don't want to see her time and time again on my magazine. I also learnt an interesting fact about her and Vogue whilst researching, they photoshopped her head onto a body of a model for a front cover of Vogue. I had a look at the picture, it does look a bit weird:

Why did they do this? Sienna Miller is an actress but does loads of modelling, so clearly other companies feel like she has a suitable body, so why photoshop someone elses body in there? It just confuses me!

I will continue to read Vogue every month because it is a useful resource for my fashion knowledge, but when I see the same people on the covers time and time again it makes me not want to buy them purely for that reason. If other people feel the same way and don't buy the magazine then surely they're losing readers each month. I have also started to buy American Vogue because they have much more interesting people on the front and other British magazines get great people too, I think Vogue needs to review their front covers.

Sorry, rant over, I just woke up and saw Sienna Miller staring at me and it annoyed me!

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Why I love Mark Fast

As I was on the bus on the way home from uni today (beginning of second year, arrgh!) I was reading the Metro. And in it was an article that made me very excited. Mark Fast, a knitwear designer, at London Fashion week used size 12 and 14 models. These curvier, healthy women caused much uproar with a stylist and casting director quitting.

But this was an amazing breakthrough to see a leading fashion designer refusing to use underweight models, I hope this continues into other fashion weeks.

How young is too young?

Recently as I was perusing my regular fashion blogs, i came across a photo of Taylor Momsen. Taylor Momsen is a 16-year old actress who is a regular in Gossip girl in case you didn't know. And this photo sparked a debate in my mind:

Should a girl of 16 be wearing this?!

Now while I'm not one to criticise Taylor Momsen as a person because I don't know what she's like, I have to ask what she was thinking. Either she was trying to play this rebellious teenager who was performing with her new rebellious band or she was trying to appeal to her audience. But by wearing something like this, the only people I think she could have possibly attracted is pervy men.

As a 19 year old girl, I have been on a few nights out and I know that even when I'm wearing a perfectly normal length dress and opaque tights, i still have pervy men trying to get close to me. So it begs the question why is Taylor Momsen trying to wear the least amount of clothes you can, does she really want the attention from these sorts of guys? I know for a fact that if my mum saw me wearing or even considering wearing something like this, she wouldn't let me out.

It continually confuses me as to why women and girls feel the need to wear tiny clothes in order to attract men. Taylor Momsen is pretty and could look great wearing a lot of things that actually were decent. So why is she parading around in pants and suspenders? It just worries me that young girls who are fans of Gossip Girl will see her wearing things like this when she's not on the show and think this is what they should wear, and this is a very scary thought indeed.

Sparkles galore

As I was shopping in Meadowhall the other day, I noticed a definite theme in womenswear for this Autumn: Sparkly clothes. Embellishments with sequins, beads and shiny material were on so many pieces of clothing, I was in my element. As a confessed magpie, I wanted to buy so many things: blue-sequinned jackets (although they did cost £50 which slightly put me off), leggings with matt silver decoration on the bottom (which I am likely to buy tomorrow!) and many many sequinned tops. I settled for a black tshirt dress with sparkly shoulder pads, which I thought was enough sparkle to be used for daywear or at nighttime. I can tell that I am going to have to restrain the amount of spending on clothes this winter if the sprakly items continue to fill the shelves in my most frequented high-street stores. Also, my very sparkly silver skirt that I bought last winter is going to come in useful this year too, I may have to wear it to see Florence and the Machine on monday!

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Fairytale lands

I've always had a thing for Juicy couture advertisements.

I thought I'd let the pictures do the talking.This is my favourite:

I love the variety of colours in this picture. I love all the exaggerated pieces, the variety of fabrics and colours. I sometimes wish I lived in a fairytale, life would be so much easier!

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Things I have learnt this week

1.Wellies are the most stylish footwear for wet weather and should be worn at even the hint of rain when in the Lake District.
2.If wellies are forgotten, Keds are surprisingly waterproof for a canvas shoe.
3.Leggings are the most stylish piece of clothing from the 90s to come back in fashion.
4.All waterproofs should be either colourful or patterned, or preferably both. It just makes everything far more cheery in rain.
5.Jeans are the most amazing invention ever.
6.Wearing jewellery and general sparkly things make me happy.
7.Love (a bi-annually fashion magazine) is very exciting to read.
8.I'm a bit OCD with my fashion magazines (no-one can read my magazine before I do, otherwise I get sad).
9.I should buy more socks. (I only own 7 pairs.)
10.Going to the lakes for a week when it's tipping down is not going to be when I'm most fashionable, but there's no harm in trying.

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