Hula Nails.

Over a month and a half ago, I visited Hula Nails, just right by Old Street station, London. Initially, I'd discovered them through Instagram (although I can't remember how specifically).

I knew as soon as I took a look at their website, I fell in love and had to book an appointment. 

The decor of the shop is absolutely perfect and a pin up lovers dream, right down to every little detail. 

The ladies there are friendly and super helpful. 

This was my first time having my nails done. I went for the "Heart Tips" Acrylic Gel Extensions Full Set, so overall, this set me back around £60. Although this sounds pricey for nails, the quality was incredible. I believe in paying more for a service where the staff are helpful and know exactly what they are doing, so it's always well worth the money to me. You're also paying for the vintage tiki style experience!

The finished piece of art! How incredible are they?! I went away on holiday feeling like a total princess. 

I've taken these off now as it's been a few weeks and I want to be able to try and grow my own nails. 

I can't wait to book my next appointment.

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October wishlist: Voodoo Vixen!

If I had the money, I would a 1000% buy the entire contents of this website, in my size, and wear nothing else ever again (okay and Collectif Clothing too).

My mind has been pre-occupied with staring at the clothes on the Collectif website really, that I'd forgotten about other vintage reproduction sites.

The first items that made me internally scream "I must have this now, right now" are the Isabella and Marietta cardigans.

They're so pretty and would make an amazing addition to a lovely flowing skirt. 

Keeping on the theme of red and black, this Connie dress is so beautiful and I don't have anything like this at all in my wardrobe. I am so in love with the kitsch glasses design, and I love a dress that covers the shoulders as I'm not a fan of mine at all. Essentially, I'm all about dresses that you can nip in at the waist with a lovely little black belt.

Finally, the final item on this wishlist is the prettiest and summery (alright I know it's October but it still feels like summer outside) Finley dress. The colours are incredible, yellow and purple work so well together. I feel like I don't own enough clothes with colour - this is starting to change - as I mostly feel more comfortable with navy, black, light blues and so on...this dress would be perfect for bringing me out of my comfort zone.

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Outfits.

The Friday just gone, I went to see The Front Bottoms in London with my boyfriend. I wore this beautiful and super sweet dress from Collectif Clothing. I felt like a real little princess, and I got a nice comment from some girls on the train on the way there! It's the first item that I've ever bought from Collectif Clothing and I only have good words to say about them. The dress itself feels so well made and put together as well as just being beautiful to look at. 

I also had a delivery from Glamour Bunny Clothing - the Jenny Red Pin Up dress. I was so excited for this one because I bloody love a good tight dress, I love my curves! Also, I have the most ABSOLUTE gorgeous shoes to match, as you can see in the photo. It's like they were made for each other. I'm going to have this dress taken up a bit as I feel it's far too long for my body. However, apart from that it's perfect; it perfectly clings to my body and sucks in my lumps and bumps so I feel so sexy! 

I'm now tucking these two dresses away in my wardrobe for my Mexican jaunt next month. 

Now for a sort of different look!

I bought myself a little cute nylon headscarf from eBay; it's so sweet and it's such a perfect accessorie. Please excuse how tired I look...I've been up at 3am all this week for work.

Now...the lipstick. I've been intrigued by black lipstick for a while now, so I bought one for the bargain price of £1 from MUA - a brilliant low budget make up company. 

I've been slated for this lipstick but I love it!! 

I think I'm calling this look "goth princess" hehehe

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My Tara Starlet shop :-)

So my very first purchase from Tara Starlet arrived today and I only noticed the package just before I was leaving for work; however, I couldnt wait to try the sets on so I could take some very rushed selfies, hehe. 

Both sets are absolutely wonderful; they feel so perfect and they are such good quality so they are very much worth the money. 

I feel I should have ordered up on the floral set as the shorts were a tight fit, but I think thats more on my end as I probably don't realise how much weight I've put on recently. However, I won't change them as I'm in the process of losing weight. Again, the bralet on the second set, I should have ordered the smaller size as it was probably intended for women with a much larger chest than mine and as I'm only teeny tiny in the chest department, I probably could have gotten away with a smaller size. 

Both sets make me feel like an absolute queen, though! It's such a pleasure to be able to start buying from beautiful brands such as Tara Starlet, it's doing wonders for my self confidence as I feel beautiful!

I've tucked these both away in the wardrobe now as I won't want to wear them until Mexico!

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Well.

Firstly, I thought a lot before I decided the create this blog. I mean, I'm aware I don't look like a pin up girl so I wasn't sure what to do as I've seen so many absolutely incredible ladies who blog who I could never ever compare myself to! Alas, I am doing what I want. 

So my love for 50s and vintage fashion has been lying pretty dormant for years. I have always had low self esteem and have struggled, and still am struggling, to come to terms with the fact that I am not and have never been a stick thin girl. So, I've never really had the confidence to dress like pin up girl out of fear of not looking right, or looking ridiculous. I suffer from general anxiety disorder so...you see where I'm coming from. 

More recently, I've been coming into my own shell when it comes to vintage fashion. I've been experimenting with clothes that fit my figure and show off my curves. I'm coming to terms with the fact that vintage fashion accentuates girls with figures like mine, shows off the curves! I'm in love with the pin up world as it doesn't make me feel bad for not being stick thin, it makes me feel beautiful and sexy! 

Over the next coming months, I'm kind of hoping my look becomes more transformed. I've bought new clothes and shoes and I'm really coming into my own with it. I'm going to get my hair cut next month and I'm actually going to be daring to get bettie bangs and dye my hair ginger (I'm going to mexico in October though so the hair dying will have to wait until after then). I'm going to experiment with curls and try and perfect my victory rolls and different hairstyles. 

I guess I'm just really happy as I know who I am and for once, I am taking care of myself and my happiness and who I want to be! 

This will be a sort of documentation of my journey and progress and experimentations!