The Silver Fox...

Some random pictures documenting mine and Holly's weekend in Manchester- celebrating a special fag's birthday- he knows who he is



The North/South divide of fog, The Silver Fox himself Phillip, Krispy Kremes (glazed and raspberry glazed), words of wisdom I should follow, Chanel dummys in the boutique (I want a tweed jacket), Creepy white statues which terrifed the pair of us, shoe display in Selfridges (I love the displays there), Gay Bar Grease, the worlds most rancid cocktail ever (still drank it though), Canal Street, if JEM had her own gay bar it would be called REM, and the morning after Nandos. 

A weekend to remember alright xxx

Two black toes later...

Well Manchester was BRILLIANT!! Hope you enjoyed the guest blogging while I was aware (big thank you to JEM, Lea and Steph). I have some pictures on my camera to share with you, however sods law that my camera battery dies 3 photos into the night. Typical.

Anyway I thought I would share with you my purchases, or should I say lack of them. I love Manchester shopping probably cause they have AA, Urban Outfitters and then the holy grail of shops my personal fav- Selfridges. No Chanel bag for me- very disapointed with the selection they had. Tried on the Hermes cuff however they had no baby blue ones- more money saved there.

What is the matter with me haha.

First up, I bought this cute pussybow blouse in Primark for £10- how cute are the horseshoes. The blouse is more of a light pink colour- it doesn't show up that well on my camera. Already had lots of compliments about this.

I've had my eye on this tee since Feb however the £55 price tag had put me off, however Saturday must have been my lucky day as it was reduced down to £9.99 in Urban Outfitters. I bought it in a large so its quite baggy on me, and I'll be taking the scissors to it as I want it to be a vest.

I adore ghetto (yellow) gold and as soon as I saw this vintage esq watch I had to have it. Only £16. Again from UO.

 

Final purchases was on the MAC counter. Now I'm going to York Shopping Outlet in early December as they have a Cosmetic Discount Store which sells Mac- the aim is to buy the eyeshadow pallette and fill it up with the shadows from the outlet and stock up on blush and lipsticks then. However I have had my eye on these for a while and wasn't prepared to wait until December.

 

Satin Taupe and Print and swatches (print is on the top). I am in love with Print, makes a really dark smokey eye.

Finally I was after another nude lipstick and I know many of you highly recommend Myth and Hue. So I ended up buying Hue.

I tried to do a swatch but my Blackberry couldn't pick the colour up properly. Although as you probably will have seen it on other blogs, I don't need to do a swatch.

So that is my Manchester goodies (oh not forgetting Krispy Kremes)- spending wise I was quite good even if I say so myself xxxx

Masquerade Ball Dilema

So the lovely Ray has been asking for peeps to be a guest blogger for the weekend whilst she swans off to the City of Manchester for a good knees up. She asked me on Twitter and pondering over it I’ve decided to give it a go….

But the thing is what do you write about on someone else’s blog?

At the moment I am currently “researching” into a fancy dress night out for my cousins’ birthday, which will take place in….Manchester. It’s a good night out if you haven’t been before and got to admit I love a bit of dressing up too.

The theme is ‘Masquerade’ and the eye mask is compulsory!

Here is the eye mask I have been looking at:

It is about £13 on eBay, but I think it’s a bit expensive for just one night, so hoping to buy a separate mask and customise it myself so it will be unique too.

The other thing I’m struggling on is the rest of the outfit, make up etc. So I’m calling out to Ray’s followers to see if you can help with my problem. Do I go dark, mysterious and gothic or romantic and dreamy style? Never done masquerade so I haven’t got a clue!

I know my face will be hidden with a mask, but would still like make up tips for when I take the mask off, we are having a meal first at the Hard Rock Café – anyone been? – so am thinking I won’t be wearing the mask then!

Please help and I will thank you forever…well not forever, a couple of times maybe, but you know what I mean.

Also I think you will join me in saying we all hope Ray has a great night out and hoping for some pictures from the night maybe? Don’t about you but I’m jealous!

Love Steph xx

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Shhhhhh its a Chanel secret

Do you want to know a secret?? Keep this hush hush but on Saturday I am going to buy a new Chanel bag (sneaky sneaky).

I love that episode of Sex and The City when Charlotte and Anthony go shopping to Chanel and when the guards on the door say "good morning Chanel" he responds with "Chanello". Everytime I pass a Chanel counter I secretly say that to myself.

I am lucky enough to own two Chanel bags- these are my treats for having a proper "grown up" job.

Anyway check out my babies

XL Jumbo Caviar Flap with GHW and Medium Caviar Flap with SHW.

Double flap inside- can be a pain when your phone is ringing, and you have your hands full. The XL Jumbos and Maxi flaps are also going to be getting double flaps very soon. Not happy about that.

Not much room inside- this is normally used as a going out bag. Can fit quite a lot in here.

It actually looks small on here for some reason- its bigger when you see it in person (honest).

This is normally my shopping bag- never use it for work. Although depending on the outfit I will take it out with me on a night out.

Its quite roomy inside. Also this is the only flap bag which the chains are next to each other. In the other bags they are vertical. The Jumbo and Maxi as roomy as this will soon be no more, with the stupid double flap being put in. If you want a Chanel bag like this, I would recommend getting one now before they introduce the double flap.

Finally one of them standing up- there is quite a diffence in size. Love how my Jumbo is the new less rigid caviar and its more of a ghetto gold.

So those are my babies- hope you like them xxx

P.S- just a quick note, if anyone steals these pictures of my bags I will hunt you down and beat you with a stick..

Its what I go to work for.....

... PAYDAY... woop woop.

Can you tell that I am ever so excited that its my payday today?? haha. Shopping mission to Newcastle on Saturday to abuse the MAC counter in Fenwicks... I say I won't be buying any clothes.... but we all know I'll end up buying anything.

A friend said to me today that when I pick something up I like, I need to ask myself- "Do I really need this??"... whats the point of this when the answer is always going to be "YES, YES, YES".

Anyway I'm off to Manchester later on in the month for a friends birthday who lives down there, and I'm secretly glad I get to do a spot of shopping in Selfridges....

I want a Hermes cuff. Here are my personal favs...

First three pics are all from Hermes.com and the last one is a vintage piece I found on ebay. I have a similar belt to the vintage cuff from Primark- random fact there for you.

Love how these cuffs can add a bit of rock to the simpliest of outfits and how they can be dressed up or down. Prices start from £300.

Better get saving then I suppose xxx

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Addicted to Chanel!!!

Hello, my name is Ray and I am a Chanel-aholic *waves hand*.

I'm not afraid to admit that I have an obsession, addiction, need, want, for Chanel. I honestly can't get enough. What I want a get.... within reason lol.

I am blessed to have two Chanel bags in my collection- a black medium caviar flap with shw, and a black xl jumbo caviar flap with ghw (that involved a mission to London- will tell you all about that another time). Many people say I am mad to part with £1500+ on a single handbag, but I have always said since I was 18 that I wanted a Chanel bag, and last year I purchased my Medium flap in Manchester.

Now at the time, I said that would be it... NO MORE CHANEL...

A week after getting it, I wanted another one.. typical or what. So in June I travelled to London with JEM and purchased my Jumbo. Yet again I thought this would be the last bag, after spending most of my mortgage deposit on it - however there was a major price increase on the 1st July (thats my excuse for it).

However.... my need for Chanel is taking over me once again... I now would like a wallet on a chain or WOC to me and you, and as I am off to Manchester next month, it would be rude not to stop into Chanel.

This is what I want....

How pretty!!!

A massive thank you to Jenita143 @ tPF for letting me use her picture of her WOC xxx