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!

A cosy winters night in

Although Christmas is now well and truly over, it's still winter time and its nice to have a nice cosy night in every once in a while so I thought I'd do a post showing you what I enjoy doing on my nights in. After having a nice long bath (preferably with a Lush bath bomb or bubble bar) I pop a face mask on, change into my pjs and get into bed. A hot chocolate is the perfect drink to have whilst reading blogs, tweeting and watching YouTube videos and is a good treat to have every once in a while! My favourite 'chill out' music is probably London Grammar- their album If You Wait is very relaxing so I usually have that playing quietly in the background.

I'm wearing my floral pyjama bottoms which I was recently sent from Surfdome. They are floral and if you know anything about me then you'll know that anything with a floral pattern on is my favourite! Surfdome have lots of Joules clothing on their website and I think I'm eyeing up a pair of slippers to match the pj bottoms next!

What do you like to do on a cosy winters night in?

My body tells me no

Jumper: Choies*
Skirt: ASOS
Brogues: Russell and Bromley
Necklace: eBay
Earrings: Pia pearl earrings
Nails: Penguin nail art (click the link for my blog post on them)
Lipstick: Chanel 327

I feel sort of sailory in this top- I'm not really sure if it's a top or a jumper actually. It's too thick to be a top but too thin to be a jumper, hmmm! I like how it's cropped though as you don't need to tuck it in when you're wearing it with something high waisted like this ASOS skater skirt. I'm wearing my favourite Russell and Bromley brogues as per usual and my chavvy eBay chain necklace which I honestly wear on a daily basis! I've got on my new Chanel lipstick in these photos, it's so fancy and I love the shade of it!

Christmas penguin nail art

I haven't done a nail art post in so long (probably because I literally can't remember I did something interesting on my nails!) I did them late last night so I didn't take step by step photos because of the lighing but I thought I would post them on my blog anyway! I decided to do penguin nails because they don't take too long to do and they look quite cute- I got lots of compliments on them from customers at work today too!

What do you think of my Christmassy penguin nail art?

 

Walking in a winter wonderland

Surprise, surprise I'm with Carissa again in these photos! We were off buying a Chirstmas tree for her house last week and I happened to have my camera on me so we got her dad to kindly take a few outfit photos for us. The place we went to get the tree from had some really cute decorations up and they had mince pies and mulled wine too which was really nice and festive!

Also I reached a quarter of a million page views yesterday, that may not seem loads to some people but to me that seems crazy- thank you everyone!

Our outfits are both really plain and boring but here's where a couple of the bits are from

Me: 

Coat: Zara

Boots: Clarks

Lipstick: Mac 'hang-up'

Carissa:

Boots: River Island

Coat: Zara