Cerise Bun : Bunched up vest alternative.

I put together in less than 5 minutes the other day and I personally am impressed. I am not going to pretend I am an outfit godess, I do usually spend a good amount of time in front of my wardrobe deliberating what to put with what. which is why when I manage to russle something together simply and easily and be as happy as I was with this little ensemble, thats where celebration is due!

ARE YOU SICK OF LAYERING DISASTERS?
DO YOUR VESTS BUNCH UP AND LEAVE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE? WELL LOOK NO FURTHER FOR YOUR SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE ;D

Yes it is that simple... a sports bra! give it a go seriously! and then let me know what you think.

Stolen magazines and broken down trains : Little life update.



Hello! I have decided that I haven’t done a general update post in a while, and because of my super busy schedule at the moment I haven’t been able to post, or plan a proper post to do now, therefore this is going to be a little catch up, just what I’ve been up to recently, some of which I would say is quite exciting!

So I was recently helping at the Northumbria open day, I loved this experience because this is how I chose the course I am now on, it wasn’t until I saw the work at Northumbria and spoke to the tutors and past students that I realized it was the perfect course for me. Therefore I wanted to be there showing my support for the UNI and my course and letting other really know what it’s about, I feel like I totally managed to do this and I got countless free cups to tea so that is always a bonus! I worked the two days but karma came around and bit me in the ass when I left the main hall and someone came and stole my 35th anniversary ID out of my bag.... BEFORE ID EVEN READ IT. I mean common guys that was my reading material for the train home! So I went home in my bright orange STUDENT WORKER t-shirt feeling might sour, well I exaggerate after about 10 mins I was able to get over the anger.. plus its all replaced and read through now so what’s the point in holding on to bad feeling ey?
 


 




















So the summer was a time where we were meant to be getting the most out of internships and work placements. The fashion communication course at Northumbria isn’t a sandwich course ( a 4 year course with a year’s placement) now this puts many people off as they think they wont gain experience within the industry.. However like I was discussing with countless potential students, although sandwich years are great.. They are not essential. What a lot of people don’t know when they think of a sandwich year is that you only have to work a minimum of 8 weeks in that year..... lots of people can’t even find a placement which will have them longer than 8 weeks, that’s 44 weeks you are at times left doing not a lot towards your career. This is why on the Fashion Com course we are advised to find placements through the two summers so that we are out into the industry a year earlier with a good few placements tucked nicely under our belts. This is a lot easier said than done and since I’ve been off Uni since May it’s taken me two months to finally feel like I’m getting somewhere and achieving something that is going to help me gain experience within the fashion industry.
Because I don’t know what I would like my future career to be (apart from I know I would like to write and take photographs) it is difficult at times to know where to search for work experience. I am now happy to say I potentially have 3 exciting opportunities on my horizon. I am thrilled to be accepted as a contributing writer for a new online counter culture magazine due to launch in September. They are called WILDABOUT and you must go follow them on instagram! 
https://instagram.com/WILDABOUTMAGAZINE/ I feel that some very interesting content is going to be discussed and shared when the magazine launches and you’d be crazy to miss out. I have also managed to bag myself some experience working with a photographer for a local newspaper in the North East which I am so excited to start as I still don’t understand the camera fully and would love to get its full potential out of it!



Last but not least I am as nervous as I am happy about an interview for a PR company in Northumberland called Play the field, April who runs the business is a former Northumbria graduate who has gone on to set up her own business and is looking for PR interns. I was supposed to be meeting with her on Wednesday but due to all signals cutting out in Sunderland station we were forced to rearrange for a date next week. So that’s my busy lifestyle! What have you guys been up to over the last week, id like to hear about someone else’s routine and perhaps get a slight break from mine haha, Have a wonderful weekend everyone TGIF!

LGTB



On the 26th of June 2015 history was made yet again as the US Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution guarantees the right for same-sex couples to marry in all 50 US states. That’s right equality for all and as a fellow gay I couldn’t be more supportive! We believe that love is love and it doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, male or female and we aren’t the only ones. There has been a massive outburst of support and celebration worldwide, and don’t fret you don’t even have to be gay to join in!


  

Celebrities and those of status have been known to use their fame to back up their believes, Vivienne Westwood rarely brings out a collection without an obvious political message at the forefront,  Russell Brand isn’t one for keeping quiet on his road to radical change and the celebrity support shown for the LGBT community hasn’t been quiet either. From Ellen DeGeneres and Kylie Jenner to J.K. Rowling and Cara Delavigne, Hollywood and the UK are illuminated at the news that same-sex marriage is finally legal, no matter where you live in a great majority of the world.  Like we believe ‘Love is love’ and Hundreds of celebrities took to social networking sites to share their elation and at times, emotional reactions.
J.K. Rowling ✔ @jk_rowling
Wow. Another historic day for !
e their elation and at times emotional reactions to the news that so many had waited far too long to hear.
Ellen DeGeneres ✔ @TheEllenShow
Love won.
 Ava DuVernay ✔ @AVAETC
"In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were. It is so ordered." xoxo
 President Obama ✔ @POTUS
Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else.

As the first black president turned the Whitehouse rainbow, realistically we’re sure many are furious, thousands from all across the globe came together to show their happiness, their support and their pride. It was monumental for the LGBT community to be proud of a country that allowed its religious extremism and suppression of minorities to overrule for so long. For years people have been afraid to show their true colours, yearning for their chance, and for their love to be completely legal! And now that time is here! The legalisation of same sex couples to marry in all states of America is a pivotal landmark in history, a day that everyone will remember for centuries to come and best of all we get to be a part of it! In the last month over 4,500 videos have been posted and shared, on YouTube, of same sex marriage proposals. That means there were over 4,500 couples who were waiting for the day they could be liberated and celebrated for who they are, and it isn’t just young couples who are benefitting from the new law. Jack Evans, 85, and George Harris, 82  having been together for 54 years and waiting over half a century, on the 26th of June,  they were able to say the most important words to one another ‘I do.’  And if the question is ‘do you love it?’ then we do too!


 

Despite the elation and the celebration however, we know to be realistic and its already been seen that prejudice isn’t going to be wiped away by a passing of a law, it is however going to be harder when people of faith apply their religion in ways that conflict with the new right to same-sex marriage. How do we stay quiet when a religious college provides married student housing only to opposite-sex married couples, or a religious adoption agency declines to place children with same-sex married couples. Maybe that’s just it? We don’t stay quiet..It’s clear that marriage equality is an issue strongly supported not just in Hollywood but all around the world because it stands for so much more than what it is. Could it be that in ten years time we will be writing to a public who are entirely equal in all aspects of life? Where the unimaginable is imagined daily? In reality we don’t know, but what we do know is that it’s our dream along with thousands of others and we will support it every step of the way! Just remember to love and life will be worth living.

Rose.





Clinique Even Better Foundation Review

I never know how to start my blog posts, there’s always that horrible moment when you wonder who will even be reading it? And does it make me a crazy woman to be writing posts to a potentially nonexistent audience? But then I suppose there would be no worry as to how a post even started out... so with that in mind I’ll jump straight in.

With it having been my birthday in June, I have received a few treats which I am going to be reviewing over the next month or so, having a best friend who works for Clinique meant super treats this year! So I am going to be reviewing the Clinique Even Better foundation, which I was given in the 03 Ivory shade.

The Even better foundation is a dermatologist-developed liquid foundation, that  claims to work for all skin types, immediately brightening and evening out the skin tone with naturally luminous minerals.  The foundation not only works whilst on the face, but Clinique also claim that the skin will look ‘even better’ without makeup, and of course the question is, is this truth?  The blend of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide (and of course the spf sunscreen agent) are definite positives when it comes to the ingredients within the silky foundation as these are all agents which are proven to help even out and improve your skin offering it a reliable spectrum of protection.
What I have found when using this foundation is that although I have the 03 in Ivory ( a pale colour as it is) my skins tone is just a little pale for this shade. This is not a big deal for me as I tend to, especially around summer, wear or naturally gain (but mostly wear) a tan. This means that I have still been able to use the foundation and will continue to get use out of it depending on how golden I am that day.

The application of the foundation is smooth and reliable each time, something which I often cant find in a foundation, you know when you try it on the first time and its the greatest thing you've ever known yet the second and third aren’t so great and by the 10th application your wondering why you ever bought the dam thing? Yeah me too, but not with this foundation.

I have a very pinkie undertone to my skin and like to avoid any foundation that may enhance that, what I have found with Clinique is their lighter foundations tend to have a more yellow undertone . This may not be good news if your prone to have a yellowy skin tone, which I know some people do, however for skin like my own the blend of colours seems to even out the tone on my face as a whole. Colours to avoid due to the pink and rose overtones would be Porcelain Beige, Cream Caramel, Neutral, Honey and Beige.

I hope my review has helped anyone who may be considering the foundation, my best piece of advice however is to go into a shop and make sure you get your foundation tested before you buy, if you match a perfect tone to the benefits of this foundation you will have the perfect coupling for a great foundation.
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