STRIPES

Outfit details:

Lipstick: MAC 'Ruby Woo'

Tshirt: Zara present from Laura (check out her blog!)

Jacket: Jaeger

Jeans: ASOS

Wellies: Hunter

I wore this outfit when myself and my mum went on a long walk along the beach last week, I haven't been on a long walk like that in ages and I forgot how much I enjoy going on them! I got her to test out my new camera shoulder mount which I recently bought and you can see how well it works in the outfit video below! Please let me know what you think!

CO-ORD WISHLIST

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Despite sometimes verging on looking like a pair of pjs which you forgot to get changed from when leaving the house, I do really like the co-ord trend - especially for summer! They have been all over the magazines and top fashion blogs all summer and I don't think I can scroll down my Instagram news feed without seeing an outfit snap of someone wearing one! ARK Clothing have a wide selection of co-ords and these are my favourite five which I have picked out to show you (click on the links above to take you to the individual items). Depending on the pattern, I think they look great with either summery sandals, heels or boots and you can easily dress them up with a chunky statement necklace if you wanted to wear it out in the evening for a few drinks or to go for dinner. 

Check out ARK Clothing for their wide selection of  affordable co-ords

* I received compensation from ARK for this blog post, however all words are my own

a year in outfits

Pretty much, seeing as everyone else and their mum seems to be doing this sort of post- I thought I'd write a blog post looking back at some of my favourite outfit posts from 2013. You can click on all the links to be taken directly to the post and information as to where I got the items from will be on there! Alternatively all of these posts along with quite a few more are all under the OOTD tag so you can easily read through them all!

Stripey top and skater skirt
Winter floral dress
Light wash jeans and floral kimmono
Skater skirt with a fluffy cardigan and tartan scarf
Black paisley dress

Floral playsuit
Mint green dress with cream lace blazer
Grey skater skirt with polkadot top
Lemon yellow lace dress
Levi shorts and burgundy shirt

Floral jumper and jeans
Pencil skirt and tartan scarf
Jeans and burgundy top
Skater skirt and Celine top
Celene top and patterned cardigan

So that's a years worth of my outfit posts from here on islaay.com and I hope you liked this post! I think I remeber last year making a resolution that I wanted to do more outfit posts in 2013 and I think I achieved it! Can we all take a moment to look how long my hair used to be, I didn't realise it was ever that long and I want it back- waaa!

I made a short fifteen second video looking back at some of my instagram photos which you can see below! My username is @islaay if you wanted to give my account a follow!

Also, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and you have good New Years plans! I will be putting up a Christmas haul on my YouTube channel islaayx in the next few days so subscribe so you'll see it when I upload it!

Which outfit from 2013 is your favourite? Don't forget to check out the links!

you need to change direction

blouse: H&M
treggings: Topshop
shoes: Converse
lipstick: Mac 'hang up'
gold chain necklace: eBay
bandeau: New Look

There's no real reason that I'm sat down in both of these photos. I thought I'd do some sat on the banch as a bit of a change buuuut then I forgot to do some normal ones too- oops! The LOVELY Laura from Style and Sushi gave me this lovely lovely (can I say 'lovely' any more in one sentence?!) H&M blouse as a birthday present after I fell in love with one she bought similar to it last winter. I think the polkadots add something a bit extra to it instead of it being plain black and I can't wait to wear it more over winter, thanks Lauraaaaaa! 

'cos I'm a good girl and you know it

Dress: Motel Rocks Gabby iridescent green sequin dress*
Heels: Kurt Geiger
Nails: using Essie 'mint candy apple, Barry M 'aqua glitter' and Milani 'teal'
Ring: Pandora
Lipstick: Mac 'hang up'

First off I think this dress is the most sparkliest, glitteriest thing I have ever seen/worn- it couldn't be more glittery if it tried and is a perfect Christmas party dress! It's a sort of bodycon style which really isn't something I normally go for but I think the shape of this Motel Rocks one is actually quite flattering because of the long sleeves. It retails for £58 but you can save 20% with Ellie's discount code 'ELLIESFT' making it £46.40 with free delivery! They have around ten different colours/patterns of it so there's something for everyone.

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Please excuse my literally white legs in these photos- I wasn't going to take these photos today but it finally stopped raining (welcome to England) so I thought I would take them while I had the chance to and wasn't able to fake tan before! I wanted to paint my nail like I did in my mermaid nail art post but as i just mentioned I didn't get a chance so I just kept them as this blue glitter ombre which I still like and I think they match all the glitter well!

Islay has new shoes!

this is just a bit of a random post which I thought I would do to show you my new shoes! I got them about a week ago in Primark for £20 (bit steep for Primark but oh well) They fit my feet really well and are quite comfortable as long as you aren't wearing them for too long! (I wore them when I went out last week and ended up having to take them off after four hours as my feet were killing but I guess they're quite high!

I really like the gold zip and I think it looks a lot better than it would if the zip was black! They will also go with anything which is perfect- I'm not planning on wearing them every day because I will probably end up like a crippled old lady with weird feet but they're nice for going out!
Oh and they make me taller than my dad which is hillarioussss

have  you bought any new shoes recently?

BINTM Live

Hi everyone,

Yesterday me and a few of my friends went to London to the ExCel center to go to Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model live show, for mine and my friends birthday.
I'd seen it advertised a few times on the television when I was watching the T.V. series and thought it looked really good, and one of my friends went last year and really enjoyed it! 
I didn't really know what to expect but it was even better than I thought it would be. There were some celebrities there, including Amy Childs, and Harry from TOWIE, Grace Woodward and Charlie Speed who were judges on the programme,  and all of the girls from series 7.
I didn't take that many photos but here are some of the ones that I took.

Grace Woodward and one of the dancers



The winner- Jade



Imogen

Bluey and Jade



Amy Childs

Harry!



Haul!



There were lots of freebies and things to buy at discounted prices. Because Cosmo and Company magazines were sponsoring it they were doing a years subscription for only £12 and you got a free L'Oreal hair gift worth £35, because that was a real steal I bought that as well!
Overall I thought it was a really good girly day out, and I cant wait until next year because I really want to go again!

Thankyou for reading this and have a lovely day ♥