I've had my hair cut!

 I'm a typical girl and can be over protective over my hair, due to this I haven't had it cut in a year... I decided it had just got far too long and had started looking unhealthy so I booked myself in for a hair appointment. I just went to my local salon Creations in Chichester which I usually go to (they do the best head massages around!). I asked for quite a bit off of the length (I think 5" was taken off), a few layers to be put in and for it to frame my face a bit more. As you can see above- this is what it ended up looking like! I really like it and I think it looks so much healthier than it did before, I just wish I could recreate the blow dry that the stylist did in my hair at home as I really like how it's sitting in the photo above which was taken just after I'd got back home from the salon.

Next time I promise I won't leave it as long in between cuts (you should of seen the look on the stylist's face when I said I hadn't had it done in a year...) but she said she was surprised how good the contition of it was. I've got moroccan oil and not using much heat on it to thank for that I think!

*this isn't a sponsored post, I just wanted to show you my hair!*

What do you think of my new hair? Is it an improvement?

this is my great escape

top: primark (current season)
jeans: american apparel easy jeans
shoes: river island (last year)
bag: kipling 'alvar shoulder bag'*
necklace: eBay (18" length)
scarf on bag: vintage from brick lane


last week I went up to London for the day with mum to have a look around Greenwich Uni (I'm thinking of doing a marketing/PR course if you were wondering!) and this is what I wore. I think jeans are the perfect thing for walking about in and this top is casual but smart at the same time. I bought it in primark last week so it's their current AW13 stock and should hopefully still be in there. I like the pattern on it, the tiny stars are so cute and it's a nice fabric too and isn't see through so gold stars all round for primark!
I was sent the Kipling Avlar shoulder bag from Bagable Bags. When I was around 13 I bought myself my own pink Kipling bag which was a similar shape to this but maybe a bit smaller and I wore it to death so I'm so happy to have another one. My grandma is also a massive fan of them too and I hate to think how many she has collected over the years! The Avlar is the perfect size to fit everything in (but not too big so that you're carrying around a load of junk which I'm always guilty of) and all the multiple zip pockets make it so easy to organise everything. The zips also make it nice and secure if you're going somewhere like London where you're likely to get your stuff stolen on the underground and in the busy streets. It's black so it's very versatile and goes with everything but Bagable have 23 different colours/patterns so there's something for everyone. Oh and I forgot to mention, it's currently 10% off of the RRP too bringing it down to £49.50, yay! I can speak from experience that these bags just last and last as they are made so well, my pink one put up with a couple of years of being used as a school bag which is pretty heavy duty in my books!
My outfit was looking a bit bland so I added this scarf which I bought in a little shop on brick lane around a year or so ago, it's pink and it has flowers on so it's perfect for me! I think it makes the outfit a bit more casual and summery.


ps I've totally copied Sophie's poses as she always does funny ones and I was getting a bit bored of the usual 'moody face' I pull so go check her out, her blog is super awesome and I know you'll all love it!






I was sent the Kipling Avlar shoulder bag to feature in a blog post, however this does not affect my opinion on it and it is 100% honest as always

an introduction to my YouTube channel islaayx

If you've either been living under a rock for ages or you're a new follower of my blog you might not know that I have a YouTube channel. I've been doing it for almost a year now (crazy) and I thought it was about time I should do an introductory video so you can see what sort of thing I have on my channel. I would love it if you could subscribe for me and let me know in a comment if you have so I can check out your blog/YouTube etc! 

Here is a direct link to my channel islaayx, I hope you like it as much as I enjoy making videos for you all to watch!

The video is literally only two minutes long so I hope you enjoy!

primark haul!

I haven't made a trip to primark to buy clothes in forever so when I had a day off yesterday and it was super sunny and I'd just been paid I thought I'd take the opportunity to visit my local Primark with my little sister. They had rubbish sizes in most things and quite a few pieces that I wanted (pretty patterend skater dresses and cami tops) they only had size 6/8 or 18 left so I had to leave them (boooo). I did however end up with quite a few things so I've put them into a haul for you, I hope you enjoy!

My YouTube channel is linked in the sidebar or you can click here, I'd love for you to subscribe

There's still time to enter my giveaway too!

easy polkadot, stripe and rose nail art

I feel like I haven't done a nail art post in forever! Anyway I'm sorry this isn't a tutorial or anything but I was painting them late at night (as always) so I didn't get any decent photos of them until the next morning. I do have a rose nail art tutorial post and polkadot nail art video tutorial and if you can do both of them then you'll be able to do these easily.

I first saw this nail art on Pinterest and I did these nails before a while back and I really liked them so I thought I would recreate them again. I like the simplicity of them with the plain designs and only the hint of colour in them. 

I used the Rio nail art pens and complete nail artist set* for the details which you can enter my giveaway to win here.