Transitioning to cold weather: one dress, six ways.

As promised, an outfit post! Even though its nearing the end of Autumn in Australia and it has gone progressively colder, the past week has been quite warm. Normally, it starts getting quite cold by now, but this year has just been unusually warm, not that I'm complaining.

So here's the dress I'll be dressing up/down today. Here's an idea of how I would wear it in summer.

Dress: Ally Fashion, Shoes: Rivers

Now for cooler weather:

The jacket.

Jacket: Hand-me-down, Shoes: Tony Bianco

 I've been yearning for more form fitting denim jacket for a while, but all the ones I've come across were just too expensive in my opinion, so I dug this jacket out from the back of my closet to soothe my longing. It's not really the same thing, but it'll have to do for now. For now.

The grunge.

Jacket: Jay Jays, Shoes: New Look

So I do have a denim jacket which I picked up for $25 on sale last year, but I deliberately got it oversized so some days, depending on the outfit, it just looks too big on me. The acid wash also makes it quite grungey and most days, I don't feel like being too grungey because it's not really my style. I also feel like if I do dress too grungey, I feel like a poser since I'm not really a 'true grunge' or possess those values; I just admire their style.

The blazer.

Blazer: Mum's, Shoes: Asos Spring Break heels

The dressy option. I thought I'd spruce it up with some heels, but this look can easily be kept casual if you swapped the heels for some boots/flats/oxfords/loafers/the list goes on.

The sweatshirt.

Top: Bought it overseas, Shoes: New Look

It's simple, grab any loose long sleeved shirt that's long enough to be knotted around the waist and you're done!

The sweater.

Sweater: Hand-me-down, Shoes: New Look

This way is as simple as the previous method, just find yourself a sweater. Here, I just used an ordinary sweater, but cropped sweaters would look even better.

The flannel.
Unfortunately, as I was getting the photos off my SD card, I accidentally deleted this photo :(, but its just the same old dress, with a flannel thrown over the top for warmth as a sort of jacket.


Hope you enjoyed this post! I'm trying to film more OOTDs, particularly when I'm heading off to uni, but  I'm normally always rushing out the door and don't have to time to set up my camera and a tripod/stack boxes on a chair. :o)

May Bellabox

Hello there! It is Bellabox time and this month I'm pretty impressed. Yes, I skipped last months one because I was too lazy to write about it, there was nothing really that great about it other than the Burt's Bees cuticle cream. So now for this months products:

(Sorry about the lighting in these photos, normally I take photos during the day, but I'm always busy doing something during the day, so I never actually have the time to take pictures)

 

 

This month, I thought I'd show you a few closeups of the products.

This soap smells very strongly of lemon myrtle, not really my type of scent, but I'm willing to give it a try.

 This tin was sent to me in this dodgy state, and its just a small empty tin, I don't really know what to do with it.

 I was really excited to see this product as I'm a follower of Annalee and Jesse on Youtube and Anna's always talking about Wen products.

 I haven't used Chapstick for years now; I, like everyone else, owned the strawberry Chapstick that had a weird taste to it. Currently, I use the Cherry Culture lip balm I got for free with my order and that works quite well.

 I don't know if you guys recall, but I got a mask from this company in a Bellabox a few months ago, and it was really nice and actually cleared up most of my acne for a week. I don't know if its this mask or just masks in general though, since I don't normally use face masks at all. The mask I got in the past was a different type of mask though, sea minerals instead of orchid extract, but the effect should be similiar.

This is a matte nail polish that contains tiny, miniscule beads that give the polish a textured effect that kind of feels like sandpaper. I wish I got a different colour though, I usually avoid black polish (its a bit too intense for me) and instead opt for very dark blues or purples, but the concept is so interesting maybe I will give it a try.

And that's a wrap! I'm currently trying to organize more outfit posts, which should be up in a couple of days. Also I dyed my hair brown, which you guys will see soon enough :)

Adventure 4 - ARCTIC MONKEYS

So the Arctic Monkeys concert happened.
AND IT WAS AMAZING.

First of all, I found out quite late that Arctic Monkeys tickets were on sale, for some reason I had accepted that they weren't going to come to Australia anytime soon even though they had just released a new album. It also took me a week to find someone to go with me, so bye bye moshpit and nice seats and I ending sitting near the back :(.

Their supporting act was a psychedelic rock band called Pond, which shares some of its members with Tame Impala which is pretty cool. They were pretty good, but the vocals were a bit hard to hear. Also, we got there a bit late cause we took too long mucking around, having dinner, walking back to my friends house, playing with my friends dog and deciding if I should get merchandise, so we only caught the second half of their performance.

wow such a good photo

Then Arctic Monkeys came out, yay! They were amazeballs. I was just gushing the whole time. They started off with Do I Wanna Know and played mostly songs from AM, but they had some classics like Brianstorm, Fluorescent Adolescent and I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR. They ended with R U Mine, in which the sound cut out near the end of the song, so with a "Let's try that again", they played it again.  I think my favourite line was Alex saying, "It's time for a fucking nap," before they began No. 1 Party Anthem. The line summed up my life really.
Cue blurry pictures.

My attempt to get a discernible picture of the band by zooming in as much as my camera would allow.

 I actually took few more photos than this, but they were all blurry since I didn't bother checking the quality of them when I could've been watching the band. These were the clearest ones of the bunch. It was such an amazing experience, I hope I'll be able to see them live in the UK when I visit the UK in the future. 

Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water Review

Hello my wonderful little cherubs - my philosophy lecturer called us that the other day and I found it quaint. I'm here to gush about the Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water. I've never tried Bioderma, or even considered buying it since its so overpriced; A 250ml bottle of Bioderma at Priceline is $30. I've just used waterproof makeup remover in the past, namely the L'oreal and Garnier ones which have worked pretty well, and occasionally grapeseed oil which I bought on a whim after hearing it removed waterproof mascara instantly. Grapeseed oil did remove waterproof mascara more easily, but still not as easily as I had wanted, plus the oil did get in my eye a bit which wasn't pleasant.

The Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water does what the grapeseed oil does minus the irritation. It doesn't irritate to my eyes at all. It removes makeup with one swipe, waterproof mascara takes a bit longer, but it's a few less swipes than the waterproof makeup removers I've used in the past.

It's on offer at Priceline at the moment, if you haven't tried it already, go get some :)