My Style Inspiration.

My style often changes drastically and this is often because of celebrity influences.
I did a similar post to this at the start of the year ( http://anasadler97.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/celebrities-and-fashion.html ) and I know my style and inspiration has changed so much since I have posted it. I've actually timed this quite well as my first post was at the start of year and we're nearing the end so it's great to be able to compare what difference a year (or a little under) has made.

MY NEW CELEBRITY STYLE INSPIRATION:

NO. 1 on my celebrity style inspiration is Hannah Snowdon
(Just so you all know; none of these photos are mine or photos I've taken.)

Ok, so this is the first out of many pieces she wears. I often see her wearing chunky knit jumpers in photos which I totally love. She seems to be one for casual pieces and her outfits are always simple (IN A GOOD WAY!).
The knitted jumper she is wearing here is from The Ragged Priest. They have their own website: http://theraggedpriest.com/ or some of their items are sold on the Topshop website.







You will often see her wearing clothes from her boyfriends clothing line: http://www.dropdead.co/
The clothes are to die for although a bit pricey. I could honestly buy the whole shop!
The clothes have a grungy feel about them and are really original.








Hannah Snowdon also wears a lot of dresses which show of the amazing tattoos on her legs. I can't find any photos of the types of dresses she wears (gr) but a lot of the time they are black dresses and they are usual quite a loose fit. I don't know where she shops specifically but you can find similar things to what she wears anywhere.

I can't put in to words how much I love her style and how much I wish I could pull it off like she does. If all it took was to cut my hair into a bob with a full fringe and dye it darker I totally would.


I feel as if this blog post should have just been dedicated to Hannah Snowdon. Compared to Rita Ora and Cara Delevingne, Hannah Snowdon's style is very different and looking back now I don't really like what Ora and Delevingne wear. It's strange how much things can change in nearly a year. I think I'm going to be sticking to this style for a while because I'm loving it.

Short, sweet and simple post here so hopefully it's not too boring or poorly explained, I know my short post usually don't make sense because I try and cram so much into a few paragraphs and often I just write a load of rubbish.

I would love to know who your style inspiration is.

Simple Eyeshadow Look - Grunge, Cara Delevingne.

Eyeshadow is probably either one of or the most difficult pieces of makeup to apply without looking like you've been dragged through a bush, because of this most of us; including I, don't use eyeshadow making us not like it. But this is where it stops. This is where you're going to start loving eyeshadow again.

*Lets just clarify again. I do not think I'm good at makeup, I just do what works for me and others may do it a completely different way but this is how I like to do a simple eyeshadow look.*

Now that's out the way I hear you ask what do we need? 

Well...

You will need (or I use):

Either one or two fluffy brushes.

A stiffer brush for going under the eye with; or just a pinky finger will do.

A brown eyeshadow (preferably matte).

A brown or black khol pencil eyeliner. 

Black or Brown mascara.  

HERE GOES NOTHING:

Grab a brush and some brown eyeshadow 

This is the brown eyeshadow I'm using and it's from the MUA Undress Me Too palette. It is the shade Lavish and is a very muted brown colour.

Now, what you need to do to start off with is sweep the colour across the whole of the lid. Once you have done that all you do is start blending upwards towards the crease. If you go over the crease it's fine it will just create a more smokey look which is always great! Once you feel you have blended enough and got rid of the harsh lines you are done with the top of your lid. 

Now blending is difficult at first and does take some practice but as long as you don't apply too much product you can't go wrong. The best tip is to start off with small amounts of shadow and just keep applying until you get you desired look. 

Then taking your stiffer brush just run that same brown along your bottom lashes remembering to connect and blend in to meet with the eyeshadow at the top. 

Then taking your brown or black khol pencil eyeliner line your tightline and waterline, this just gives your lashes a fuller effect and makes the eye look more polished. I've used a Lancome khol eyeliner in the colour 02 Brun.

The last step is mascara. You can curl your lashes before if you want to but I generally don't. If you have quite dark lashes you may not want to apply mascara but if you're like me and have very fair, blonde eyelashes then a coat of either black or brown mascara will finish the look perfectly. Don't apply too much mascara thought, just put on enough to make the lashes look still a little natural because clumpy, lashes filled with mascara will ruin it! I use Benefit "They're Real" mascara as I son't own a brown mascara but brown is best if you want to achieve a more natural look.

And TA DAH it's done. 4 simple steps to follow and you're now an eyeshadow genius!

I would love it if any of you tried this out and told me how it turned out. Hope it helped for all you people that struggle with eyeshadow just like me! Sorry if this is hard to follow, it was something that came into my head out of the blue and thought it was probably better and much more interesting than pictures of my hot chocolate and me drinking my hot chocolate!

Anyway... Hope you enjoyed this and I would love to know how you guys got on with this small tutorial kind of post!

Yummy!

I haven't got much to post at the moment, I'm kind of stuck for ideas. But! I didn't want to just leave you guys.
This may be boring but at least I'm blogging hey.

The other day I went to a Christmas Fair. I was intending to take photos, but I gave my camera to my sister who thought it would be nice not to which I was annoyed about. Anyway, the only few pictures I did actually get were of a hot chocolate I had in the cafe bit there, so rather than nothing here is a picture (or 2) or my delicious hot chocolate.










I even managed to take a selfie of me drinking it!





Well hello there red face!





This was better than nothing but probably completely pointless and a waste of time..... STILL! Hope you enjoyed it!

Favourite Find

This is the second jewellery favourite find in only a couple of days, wow!

This shop followed me on Instagram and I had to check them out. The shop is called Idle Hands and their website is http://www.idlehandsjewellery.bigcartel.com/ they have some really unique pieces of jewellery and all for really good prices, they also make some really cute floral headbands which I adore. I'm loving all their jewelley and defiantly thinking of buying them as gifts for people (might want one or two myself).

I'll start of with the quite normal pieces of jewelley they have that I love.

First is their Elephant Necklace.
I literally love any jewellery that has Elephants on so this suited me perfectly! It's really cute and has a decorative head piece thing on which makes it even better. It's all silver which is great as I often think a lot of gold jewellery can look tacky. It's also only £12.00 which I think is really great for something this amazing.










The second piece of normalish jewellery from their website is the Demon Necklace.

I think this little guys face is so cool. The jewellery is so detailed and made to an amazing standard. Again he's silver which I love and his face isn't massive so won't weigh you down. This piece is also only £12.00 which is fabulous! I actually think I really need this little guy in my life.











Last from my normal pickings is the Silver Fox Neckalce.

I really love this one because it reminds me of the story Fantastic Mr Fox. It looks like a cute little cartoon fox and the fact that it's not perfect and symmetrical makes it look even better. I also need this in my life like everything else I am going to put in this post. It's only £12.00 again. And like the other two piece it comes on a 20" silver plated chain.










Moving onto the more unique pieces.

This is the Vintage Taxidermy Butterfly Pendant.
I am so in love with this. This piece of jewellery looks so delicate and precious I think I'd be a crazy lady and have to frame it (don't know how that would work.). It's £25.00 which I think is a reasonable price for what you're getting. I really don't know what to say about this because all that's going through my head is "I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT"








Next up is Message In a Bottle Pendant.
This is so, so, so cute! I think this would be something I would wear quite regularly because it's so amazing and I'd just have to show it off. It's £22.00 which I think especially for this piece is very good for what you're getting. You also choose the message that goes inside the bottle which is even cooler! Definitely a good present to someone with a cute message put inside or just for yourself even.









Finally the Moon Face Pendant.
I love the face on this. It's so quirky and reminds me of story books when you're younger and the sun or the moon always had a face and this is what that moon would look like. It's made from Ox bone so it's not any of that shabby plastic stuff. This is also £22.00 which is amazing as the ox bone is carved by hand!!










I also wanted to quickly show you the cute floral headbands they do. The prices range from £12.00 to £15.00 depending on the one you want.

Ivory Mini Rose Headband £12.00

Pale Pink Midi Floral Headband £15.00

Black Midi Floral Headband £12.00

So this is just a few of the ones from the shop but there's about 5 more others to choose from over on their website.
WOW, ok, I'm going to stop their with this shop because otherwise, I will put the whole shop up!
Remember to check out Idle Hands website ( http://www.idlehandsjewellery.bigcartel.com/ ) and see if you like anything as much as I do!

Perfect, Simple Everyday Makeup Look

Admittedly I am not at all good at makeup; actually I'm rubbish! So....sorry in advance.
This is really out of my comfort zone but sometimes that can be a good thing.

I used to wear a lot of makeup.... and by a lot I mean A LOT! But I've toned it down because it's just so much effort and takes so long in the morning when I need to catch the bus. I have considerably lessened my makeup. I thought, why not let you guys have a little look into what I wear and see if you like it. I'm bad at introductions so I'm just going to end it here and see where the blog takes me.

OH! Putting this out here now before I rush into it and you think I've missed a step. I do not wear foundation so it won't be included in this post. I think everyday it's pointless, it just causes you to get more spots and we don't want that do we! But this is my personal opinion and if you like wearing it go for it.

OK, lets get started.

First off I will moisturize, I haven't photographed my moisturizer but I use the brand Aveeno and I think it's a sensitive skin moisturizer.

Next I prime my eyes.
Now I'm not 100% sure whether this is an eye primer because it only says "primer" so I may be using it wrong but, it does the trick for me. This is by Maybelline and I can't remember how much it cost because I got it about six months ago. It leaves the perfect matte surface to keep all your eye makeup in place. I just apply this with my fingers.



Then I move onto concealer.
Now I know practically everyone on the planet has this concealer or talks about this concealer so I'll try and make this as short and as sweet as possible. This is the Collection or Collection 2000 concealer and I have it in the shade Fair 1. It is a high coverage great for covering blemishes and those black circles from staying up late doing coursework and essays (Not that I do that ;) ) I apply this with the applicator and then blend with my fingers.


Now is the exciting bit (well kind of)

For the eyes I go simple. I'll either wear nothing or I'll wear Maybelline Color Tattoo in Pink Gold which is a nice subtle colour with some glitter running through it. This stays on all day, although it does get less noticeable by the end of the day. I use my fingers to apply this and blend this in.





I then line my waterline and add a little to my lash line.
I use the Maybelline Lasting Drama Gel liner which \i have had for ages! I use it on my waterline to hide the roots of my lashes as I have blonde lashes and often mascara doesn't get them and the I line the lash line so it makes my eyelashes look a little thicker. This is so easy to use and I find it better than Liquid Liner as it's less messy and stays on a lot better. I use the brush this came with to apply it.



Last but not least for the eyes is the finishing touch.

Yes you've guessed it....MASCARA. Mascara just finishes a makeup look off. I use Benefit "They're Real" and I genuinely think they make my eyelashes look longer. There's not much I can say about mascara because it's obvious how to apply it. I only put it on my top lashes as often; even with waterproof mascara, it will smudge or run or something ridiculous.


Now, sometimes I will put a lipstick on sometimes I won't. I have a choice of two here, one is definitely suited for autumn and the other is a great everyday lipstick.

The first is the toned down natural lipstick.

This is MAC's Creme Cup. It is a light pink with a blue undertone. It stays on for about two hours and then you'd have to top it up. I really love this as a natural lipstick and it is probably my favourite natural lipstick I own. In the photo it looks a little coraly (is that a word....?) but it isn't at all in real life, I think this is down to the rubbish lighting in my room.



And finally the autumn lipstick.
I've mentioned this lipstick before in blog posts so you can probably guess which one it is... Yes! Topshop's Beguiled. I don't need to say much about this because if you've read my previous posts you'll know why I love it.





Well.... That is it for my first every makeup look post. I hope you liked it and could follow it, if not I'm extremely sorry. I've never done anything like this before so bear with me on this post.

This Happened.

(PS EXCUSE THE DIRTY/MUDDY BEDDING HE SEEMS TO THINK IT IS ALRIGHT TO COME ONTO MY WHITE (!!!!!!!!!) BEDDING WITH REALLY REALLY MUDDY FEET -THANKS TOM CAT-)

But how can you stay mad at his cute, little face and his ears that he still hasn't grown into.

Favourite Find!

I was scrolling through my instagram the other day and I see someone has liked this lovely piece of jewelry, so obviously I have to check it out! As soon as I saw the picture I fell in love with the necklace. I went and checked out all the other pieces and I can't lie.... I LOVED IT ALL. (I wish I could buy the whole shop)

Anyway, coming up to Christmas -ekkkk- I thought this was a great thing to show you guys because they're such great little pieces to give someone.

So..... the big reveal what is this wonderful shop?
The shop is called Empty Casket - http://emptycasket.bigcartel.com/ - all their pieces are so original and I couldn't find anything as great anywhere.


This is my favourite piece from the whole site. I'm definitely putting this on my Christmas list! This is the Inverted Pentagram Necklace and is only £13.00..... yes I did just say £13.00. I have so much to say about this and I could go on about how much I love it but rather than reading that you could just go and buy it.
It comes on a black cord which I personally think looks a lot better than a chain especially with this charm.

I'm also loving this bad boys. They are the Blood Stone Crystal Point which are £15.00.
I love how they are bound to a silver plate with a little pattern at the top, I think this just finishes them off. I also love how they have these colours running through them. The one on the left reminds me of the night sky and the one on the right reminds me of either space or even an oil spill.
Now I did say I preferred the black cord but here I must say the silver chain just goes perfectly as it adds light to the piece and is plain enough that it doesn't draw attention from the main focus which is the necklace.




I could go on and on about all the pieces on the website but that would take a lifetime. I struggled to find two products that I liked and that never usually happens with any jewelry.
If you're reading this go and check out the Empty Casket's website because you won't be let down and like me you might want everything for Christmas too!
Not all their pieces are dark and black, there's so much nice colourful pieces but this is just what I really loved from the site.

That's it for today's blog, sorry I haven't done one in ages, I've been so busy.
Hope you liked this and GO AND CHECK THEM OUT!!!