A style icon...really?

I'm pretty sure that Colleen Rooney once graced the pages of Vogue for being a style icon?

It's because of this that I feel the need to rant. Colleen has spent the last four days laying out in the front garden, aka a Barbadian beach, of her newly built £5million home. It must be a much needed break from her hardworking 9-5 lifestyle. (Yes I am jealous!)

Each day, the so called style icon has worn bikini's which look as if they have been chosen from the rails at Primark. I wouldn't mind, but the dull bikini's come with a rather vibrant price tag.


This 'gem' of a bikini is £335 from Pucci. I absolutely dread to think how much she wasted on that tacky pink loepard print sun-dress.



Absolutely no imagination what so ever.

The white floral bikini on the left is a £135 Zimmerman design. Let's pretend she picked out the other two while shopping in Asda, two for nine pounds.

While I do think that Colleen is a good role model to young girls, my opinion differs when it comes to her style icon status.

The moral of the story - if you want to steal Colleen Rooney's current style, just nip to your local primark. I'm sure you'll find something similar, just for 2% of the price.



*All photo's were found on the Daily Mail website.

What Lauren wore...

Photo - Zimbio.com: Lauren Conrad paparazzi shot (February 20th 2010)- Hollywood.


When Lauren Conrad went out to eat last saturday night, she dressed how I believe, a 40 year old should. Considering Lauren is only 24, I think this outfit is a bit too mature for her. A blazer with a pencil skirt screams a day at the office, even if it is charcoal against black. And although I can't get a close up of that neclace, it reminds me of something I would wear to meet the Queen. Take that how you wish.

But who knows, maybe it was a business dinner? It was certainly a posh one, with starter options of Dinosaur Egg and Garlic Chilli Hawaiian Walu, served with garlic chilli sauce and Eggplant CAVIAR. Mmmmm.....no thanks!

The decor looks great though...


Photo taken from the East Restaurant and Lounge website. (Hollywood)

Mixing Prints.

Sometimes it's fun to make a statement with your outift, and so on a night out yesterday, I decided to lose my print mixing virginity. I teamed up this cropped, stripey Tee (Topshop) with this Royal blue and cream bow print skirt (primark). Allow me to blow my own trumpet and say "I think it worked quite nicely". Usually I would wear the cropped tee with a pair of skinnys, and the skirt I would probably wear with tights, a simple vest and then throw a blazer on top. Certain prints obviously work better together but the belt and flash of skin divide the prints enough to avoid any drastic clash. All in all, a successful print mixing experiment. This outfit is fun and original, nobody likes a Topshop sheep. (Private joke in reference to something my friend Stacey Bartlett once said :P)






Whitney Port is a big fan of print mixing.....



In this first outfit she mixes polka dot with lace. The key here is to clash prints, but not colours. It's important to keep the rest of the look simple.



Next, floral and stripes. A good combination to try and definitely on the spring 2010 trend list. I really like Whitney's outfit here, but i'm not sure it would have achieved the same look if the stripe print was used as a skirt. There's a fine line between mix-match and miss-matched. The coat stands alone as one piece away from the dress, but the two together create that statement.



And finally, a delightful clash of stripes and checks. It's a simple casual look that is really easy to piece together, both prints could be replaced with polka dots too. This is a good place to start for daytime wear if you're not feeling brave enough.

The Alexa Mulberry bag - Highstreet version.

If only I had the funds to mix highstreet and high end pieces. Well the reality is, I don't. The Mulberry Alexa bag is now available to buy online, great! but it's £695. So for now, as a student, all I can do is dream and pretend my high street knock-offs are the real thing. I said the same thing about the Topshop Version of the Chanel clogs Alexa is wearing on the cover of this months Vogue. This time i'm teaching you how to steal her bag!


The genuine Alexa Mulberry bag.


Alexa wearing her own.




In London this weekend I found a GREAT bag copying the Alexa Mulberry bag. Tan, check. Cross between the iconics Bayswater and a classic suitcase, check.





Price tag = Nine whole British Pounds. Where? = Primark, Oxford Street.

I couldn't believe people weren't dragging them off the shelves. I guess the Alexa bag hasn't hit Look Magazine yet?!

My own vintage.

Every now and then I root through the boxes of accessories I have at the back of my wardrobe. I am big on accessories, so I have quite a lot of old bags and scarfs hanging around, but it's always my favourites of the past few month which surface at the top and those beneath just become a distant memory. So, I love that time when I decide to get the boxes out, It's kind of like shopping and my birthday combined, it's free. I rummage through, and always find something that I didn't know I had, once took for granted but now love again. This time I found 2 Primark pieces, even better. They were dirt cheap, but because their time on the shop shelf is long over, nobody knows but me. They are ready for a re-birth. I found a mustard yellow pleather (fake leather)shoulder bag, which was a gift I hated. A perfect size for all my uni books. And a silk, floral print scarf, perfect for hanging around the neck over a boring boyfriend blazer. The moral of the story - don't throw away an accessory you're bored with, store it, and come back to it.

Spring/Summer 2010 Trend Alert - Clogs.

Clogs are starting to look like a spring must have. I kind of have a love/hate relationship with them. They remind me of children, playing dress up, abit too clunky. But that clunkiness is a statement, and you've got to love statement heels.




The only REAL person I have seen pulling them off (opposed to a headless leg) is Alexa Chung. She wore them at a Chanel Couture show in Paris last month. She teamed them up with grey wool tights and a Nude lace dress. On paper, that outfit should have been on the 'fashion disaster' pages, but it worked... The style icon didn't have a bag named after her for nothing.



They clearly get the fashion Bible's stamp of approval, she is also gracing the cover of the march 2010 issue of Vogue in a Chanel pair - £470. They are actually the cheapest piece in her outfit WOW!



£65

We can always rely on Topshop to help us out though. These LOTTIE clog mules are £65, and at a quick glance, who can tell the difference?


Kurt Geiger Clogs



Same thing, just a little different...? These Kurt Geiger designs are like clogs with a difference.



£160


£110

Lauren Conrad must have read my blog...

Or maybe she read Vogue? Vogue said that Orange is in this season, but at the same time I declared my new love of floral. Let's call it a joint effort :-)

Lauren wore this floral print dress at her new book signing at Barnes and Noble in New York yesterday. I think I could have found a nicer one for her personally. It's not very slimming and I think it would have looked nicer without the tights.


She also wore this deep red bodycon dress at her birthday party in Vegas on monday.

Botox in a bottle.

Today, The Daily Mail website published an article about the release of Rodial's Glamoxy Snake Serum, dubbed as "botox in a bottle". This moisturiser costs £125 a bottle and is apparently used by Cheryl Cole, Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham.






Trials have proved that the magical cream will make wrinkles 52% less visible in 28 days, and results are noticeable in just 90 seconds.

In a broke down non-scientific way, the serum contains a protein from the South East-Asian Temple Viper's venom (snake poison), which is used to paralyse its victim. Effectively to freeze our facial muscles.

Rodial's Glamoxy Snake Serum hits all the posh shops such as Harrods and Harvey Nics next week and UK pre-orders have already reached above 100,000.

Is it crazy that I have just turned 22, and already worry about wrinkles?

In this society, I guess not. I have actually heard of girls as young as 16 having botox injections. Crazy, yet not at all surprising when the flaws of this generations style icons are constantly being plastered all over magazines and the Internet.





Lauren conrad's 'crows feet' are always pointed out and criticised by some of the worlds most famous websites. On Lauren's 23rd birthday last year, Perez Hilton cruelly said: "judging by the look of her face and the wrinkles around her eyes, we'd guess she was turning 33."

The most disturbing thing about this is the complex it is giving to young women. I mean God Bless Lauren, but at least she has the money to invest in some botox in a bottle if she wants to.


So as I always feel obligated to do, I went on a hunt for the 'normal girl' equivalent and found this.




Don't worry, you don't inject it!!

Lacura wrinkle stop is just a cream. It's oil free and like Rodial's Glamoxy Snake Serum, it contains Syn-Ake - the protein found in the Temple Viper snake.

You can get it in ALDI for £6.99. It is proven to help reduce the visibility of forehead wrinkles by 53% and crow's feet by 24% after 28 days of use. It also won 2 awards last year. So don't book yourself in for botox just yet.



Source and Photo: The Daily Mail Website found here!

Lady Gaga - Grammy Awards 2010

Armani Prive gown

Without a doubt the queen of crazy outfits. This is one of my favourite Gaga disasters though. The colour's quite cute.