BY THE SEA

Dress: Poppy Lux Emmaline Fit and Flare Daisy Dress
Boots: Russell and Bromley
Lipstick: MAC 'Please Me'

First off, Mum wanted a shoutout for taking these photos for me, so thanks Mum for being my camera lady!

I was sent this dress from Poppy Lux a couple of days ago, and naturally I put it on as soon as it arrived at my house - and so when mum said she was popping out into the village to do some errands I thought I would take the chance to get some outfit photos, hence the change of scenery! I always seem to forget that I live in such a pretty area, despite the sea being a ten minute walk away. I'm going to try and take some more photos in my local area, instead of having them in front of a boring brick wall in my garden!

* I was sent the Emmaline Fit and Flare Dress from Poppy Lux,

however I am not being paid for this post, and all opinions are my own

AUTUMNAL BURGUNDY OUTFIT

Dress: Zara
Coat: Zara
Boots: Russell and Bromley
Hat: Primark
Lipstick: MAC 'Darkside'

I would have to say this is probably one of my favourite autumnal outfits, I love how all the colours are matched with each other and I just love autumn clothes in general - especially burgundy, there is something about that colour that I just cannot get enough of at this time of year!

I have surprised myself as I have actually worn this floppy hat quite a few times now - I just bought a cheap one from Primark as I thought it would just end up sitting in my bedroom collecting dust, but I really feel it pulls a whole outfit together! A quick tip if you have one and it always flies off in the wind, use the clips you use for hair extensions (I bought mine on eBay for 1p!!) and sew a couple to the ribbon on the inside of the hat. My sister gave me the idea and I'm so glad she did as it works so well! I'm not sure if Primark do any other colours of this hat, I bought mine in the Cardiff shop and I only saw the burgundy ones in there. It is actually pretty good quality, and it is 100% wool so it's extra warm - plus I always seem to get a lot of compliments from people when I wear it too!

OUTFIT WISHLIST

OUTFIT WISHLIST

I used Polyvore to create this outfit wishlist for some pieces I would love to own (especially the earrings, but costing £1,600 I'm not sure that's likely!) I'm really liking simple monochrome outfits recently, and if I could revamp my wardrobe to include a lot of staple chic pieces like the ones I have included above then I definitely would.

LUSH CHRISTMAS EVENT AND PRODUCT LAUNCH

Last week I went along to the LUSH Portsmouth bloggers event with Carissa for the launch of the new Christmas range, which is always the most exciting collection that they bring out! It sees the return of the ever so popular Snow Fairy scent, along with lots of other favourites such as Golden Wonder, Cinders and The Melting Snowman! There was also lots of new bath bombs, shower gels, bubble bars and soaps for this year in so many different scents - aswell as really pretty knew knot wraps which I'm wearing in one of the photos below!

We had a preview of the new collection and then had demonstrations of most of the new bath bombs, got to make our own Comforter bubble bar and made our own snowman out of the limited edition Snowman Fun!

Thank you LUSH Portsmouth for hosting event, and for the products that we got to take home to try (my bathroom now smells amazing because it is all in there!) Don't forget to check out the new collection in your local LUSH shop or on their website!