Lulu Guinness Wish List

I am currently studying Lulu Guinness as part of my PR project, and it has made me fall in love with so many of her designs. I already own a few pieces of hers including a purple make-up bag from Tk Maxx, a pillow case bought in the sale with a heart tattoo style print. My favourite Lulu Guinness possession are my slippers that were a christmas present from my brother with hearts on them and came in a lovely stripy box. 

But after spending hours on her website I have found so many items I want to own.

I adore this Black Flocked Lips bag that would be perfect for a beach bag at £135 it is unfortunately out of my price range.

This Birdcage umbrella is prefect for me, I love bird cages and bird embellished clothes, jewellery and accessories. It also reminds me of the 60s when girls carried large clear bubble umbrellas.

 

 Staying away from the obvious choice of the lip clutches (even though they are amazing) I think these Black Jewelled Glasses Doll Face handbag are equally gorgeous to the iconic Lip clutch. Also it is much more useable as the black colour will go with anything and it's large enough to carry all your daily essentials in, as for £275 you will want to get a lot of use out of it. 

Topshop Glittery Sale Skirt

In the last of the sale items, when there is only the unwanted items left I found this glittery tight long skirt for only £10 in Topshop. I have tried on so many maxi style skirts but the floaty gypsy like style didn't suit my style or body shape. So I was very pleased to find this skirt that finished a little bit above the ankles so doesn't swamp me.

You can dress this skirt up or down. Wearing black tights underneath, boots with a t-shirt and cropped cardigan to go to the pub or cinema dates. Or with a crop top and heels for night. Normally I would be slightly scared to purchase this skirt as it isn't something I would normally wear, but the sale price tags encouraged me and I am so pleased I bought it. My boyfriend told me it made me look like a mermaid. Since mermaid underwater styles featured on the catwalk for Versace and Giles I decided to take it as a compliment...

Half Price Holiday Essentials? Yes Please!

I was lucky enough to book a holiday to Florida this April with my boyfriend and his family. Naturally my first thought after I booked it was that I of course need lots of lovely new summery clothes to take with me. So in holiday excitement I rushed to the high street sales to get what I needed. I managed to get a leopard print jumpsuit for £10 from Topshop that would make a great bikini cover up, and a "You and Me" thin vest from Miss Selfridge for £7. Lipsy which I originally never thought of to go for clothes that aren't tight party dressed, actually had a great selection of cute items. I got a pair of grey and pink pyjamas and a pair of floaty shorts with a lipstick kiss print.

Obviously I still have a quite a while till I actually go on holiday, so still have lots of time to buy more things. On my wish list is the St Tropez gradual tanning spray, the perfect bikini, denim shorts and a book by Danny Wallace.

Sales Shopping In Knightsbridge

I wanted to only purchase one or two nice items in the sales, and not in a frantic haze end up with silly numerous items of garments that I don't need and aren't even that nice. So I headed to Harvey Nichols, Harrods and The Kings Road. Even though I had under £100 to spend which won't go a long way in such expensive shops, I was still determined to come back with something. However there were many disappointments along the way. I went to Harrods on the first day of it's sale. I was expecting it to be busy, but I was not prepared for queue's that went all round the building and even inside. I could barley move. I love shopping and see it as something enjoyable to do, and this was not my idea of fun. I decided that it was not worth the hassle so left the store. Taking at least half an hour to get my way through the crowds and avoiding being elbowed in the face. If I had more money to spend I would of stayed as with more money I would of been able to purchase something incredible. But with my budget I could only stretch to the posh make-up counter.

I had more luck at the stress free sale at Harvey Nicks, I had to take back a Christmas present that my brother bought me. A lovely set of black and gold See by Chloe bangles but that were unfortunately too big. Luckily I exchanged them for a See by Chloe purse. I also fell in love with a pair of  hot pink shorts by Phillip Lim 2:1. The sale price which was scribbled on the tag in biro, made the price slightly in clear however I read it as £59 so rushed to the catch out to buy them for it to discovered that the five was actually an eight and therefore out of my price range. I was seriously gutted. To cheer myself up I got the beautiful fashion fairy tale book by Christian Lacroix which was half price in Waterstones on the Kings Road for £7.99.