Tranquility in those shades

Hello fashionistas, 

So recently, I've been wearing my DKNY shades so much.( you know when you have something in your wardrobe, you forget about it then find it and start loving it again? So you wear it like you've got nothing else?) well, that's the relationship I currently have with my DKNY sunglasses. It's about a year old, I believe. 

 

As you all know, I've never been so big on accessories, but recently I've been trying to accessorise more. This includes exploring sunglasses too and actually considering getting into the hype of Ray-Ban. (One of these days I will do something so silly and just splash cash on a pair.) 

On this particular day,  I wore all black and a stripy blue and white shirt. I added black heels with gold studs. I must admit that the shoes were super uncomfortable at first, but now it's easing up a bit. 

Ps, the Zara city croc bag is back in stores and online. It retails at £89.99 ( grab one whilst stock lasts). 

Anyway, I hope you've had a wonderful Easter and as always, 

Thank you for reading. 

Love Elle Xoxo 

The Dashiki Dress

Hello Fashionistas, 

I hope all is well with you. 

Long time! I know, I'm trying to get back to the blogging game. Hopefully soon I will have the time to concentrate on my blog!!! 

I'd really like to improve on this! 

Anyway, today I have brought  you a summer look. Lately the weather has been really nice in the north west of England and it rarely ever is. Every time this happens, it's a major opportunity to take the big fur coat off and to just wear something relaxing. 

On this particular day, I chose to wear my dashiki print dress which was given to me as a gift from one of my aunts. 

I love the fact that it has got many different colours on it meaning that I can play around with the accessories, the colour of my shoes and the bag, and I did. 

I decided to pair this with my burgundy heels, which also kinda resembles a dark purple and my black city croc chain Zara bag. I love this bag. It's small, but fits quite a lot in it. 

I did soft make up and added a purple matte lip lacquer from M.U.A in kooky. The colour is super nice and tied my hair in a bun. This was the most comfortable outfit ever even with my heels as they are also comfortable. 

I wish you all a lovely spring break ( for those who have it) and as always! 

Thank you for reading. 

Love Elle Xoxo

Orange Flavour

Hello Fashionistas, 

It's been a while and I AM BACK!!! Yas! 2016 is treating me well and I hope it's doing the same for you. 

Was just passing by to say hello with my orange pussybow dress and my 14inch Bob.

Wishing you a great weekend. 

Dress: ASOS

Sandals: Missguided 

I am now a year older and enjoying life. 

Here I am wearing a long Orange pussybow dress and white barely there sandals. I avoided black and wanted bright colours only to make the outfit look clean. 

As always, 

Thank you for passing by and reading. 

Lots of love 

Elle Xoxo 

Happy New Year

Hello Fashionistas, 

Happy belated New Year to you guys. 

I hope the year has started well for you all. I know that 2016 will be a great fashionable year and a great year all way round. 

Stick around for what I have preparered for you. 

As always thank you for reading. 

Lots of love 

Elle xoxo 

 

White on blue

Hello fashionistas, 

Just a quick update on my outfit of today. 

I recently mentioned my Michael Kors bag which I purchased in Orange, finally you get the chance to see it. 

I haven't previously shown you guys anything I'm wearing today so everything is new to you although the blazer is pretty old. 

I hope you like the outfit. Although if you live in the north west like I do, it's really cold, but we are getting on with life. It's not a reason to not dress up. 

Ps, I look moody on one of my pictures why? Because my mum likes to scream at me every time she's taking my pictures.. Can anyone else relate? So annoying.. So she captured whilst I was doing a weird face, however, it's one of the good pictures that she took. 

Blazer: New look 

Blouse: Primark 

Jeans: H&M 

Shoes: Ego shoes 

Bag: Michael Kors

I hope you have a wonderful week and as always, 

Thank you for reading xoxo 

DKNY Saffiano Tote Bag

Hello Fashionistas, 

It's been a hot minute. So recently, I've purchased too many stuff to show you guys, however, I am not finding the time to do it properly. 

Anyway, last week I purchased my new DKNY Saffiano tote bag in cream and i absolutely love it. It arrived on Saturday after purchasing it early on Friday morning. I had to wear it on Sunday as I was so excited, along with it, I also got a new michael Kors bag in Orange and will show you guys on separate post when I do a review on it. 

Anyway, so about the bag, 

As some of you may not be aware, DKNY is celebrating its anniversary this year, so they've included key chains on every single one of their bags as a present to their customers. Usually, you'll have to purchase them separately. 

The bag itself is very nice and medium sized, it looks a bit small, but fits a lot of things inside and is well organised into 2 compartments inside with pockets. What I love about it aswell, it's the fact that it has got a zip on top for protection. The leather aswell is water proof so it's good for people like me who live where rains likes to manifest itself always. The downside of this bag is obviously I picked it up in cream. That's the only one they had in the store that I bought it in. Cream gets dirty quite quick and it's worrying me. I'm still to find something to clean it with as my heart is not at peace. So any suggestions, drop below, I will appreciate it much. 

The bag itself retails at £199-£250 depending on the colour or the offer of the day, as places such as House of Fraser do a lot of offers. 

I paired it with a white and black wrap top, black jeans and yellow lace up heels. I also wore my New M.A.C lipstick in ravishing. 

I hope you're having a good start to your weekend. 

As always, 

Thank you for reading, 

Love Elle xoxo

Preparation for winter/Beauty Buys

Hello Fashionistas, 

I hope you're all well, it's been a while, I know. After my graduation, I have been travelling all over the place, that's why I haven't been around much. It's been fun and now I am much settled into one place although I'm still getting used to it. 

Today, I wanted to share my favourite beauty products for winter that I have been testing out. So far, it has been working great on my skin. Some of these products I have been using for a while and some are totally new. 

I too understand that winter is that time of the year where our skin gets dried and break outs. It's also difficult because you have to try and keep your face warm too. So it's a tricky one. If you haven't already noticed that I love my red lipsticks, this season, I will be doing a lot of nudes and darks. 

So here we are 

I have recently purchased a 120 eyeshadow pallet in nudes and dark colours. I own a couple more, but I wanted to do something different with my eyeshadow for winter. So I'm keeping it simple. I am also in love with the All fired up Retro Matte lipstick by M.A.C and the Sin Matte lipstick also by M.A.C, it keeps my lips warm as the cold weather has started and lasts long too. 

My favourite fragrances for this season are CK Shock for her by Calvin Klein and Lanvin Me. I'm not too big on fragrances and I love something that smells light, but good too. So I decided to go for these two and try something different. 

In the picture above I also have the M.U.A LUXE velvet lip lacquer in Kookie, Maybelline New York Master Khol eyeliner ( this is by far the best eyeliner I've tried), Fashionista Double Collection mascara, which comes in two parts, step 1, which is the ultra lengthening base coat and step 2, the intense colour coverage and volume, I am also using P.I.A waterproof Kohl eye pencil. 

I had to do this one separately because this is the best micellar water I have ever used. It's by B.Pure and available in Superdrug stores  across the UK ( currently on offer for £4.99 buy one get one free). It's like a cleanser that dissolves impurities and it works well for all skin types. This is also great as a make up remover as it leaves no make up whatsoever. 

I hope you've enjoyed the post. 

As always thank you for reading, 

Love Elle Xoxo 

Dashiki love

Hello Fashionistas, 

I hope you're well.. 

I just wanted to pass by and show you guys what I wore yesterday to church. 

I had previously mentioned that I bought two dashiki print shirts and a dress that I was going to blog. 

This is the first one and this is how I choose to style it. 

I've seen a lot people wearing the shirts with denim jeans, but the dashiki shirts have so many colours and prints on them meaning that one can actually colour block if they wish to. As I like looking different, I did not go for the simple blue denim rather I paired my red Dashiki shirt with cream jeans from River Island and wedges from Next. I also added my favourite Miu Miu bag purchased in 2008.

The dashiki shirt is the most comfortable shirt I have ever worn and the fact that it looks good on too is just a bonus. 

I hope you enjoy this look.

I'm wishing you all a wonderful start to the week. 

Thank you so much as always

I love you for reading 

Love Elle Xoxo

 

A Little Break Away

Hello fashionistas, 

I hope you're okay, 

So, after my graduation party I have been treated to a little break away without the family. I'm having so much fun and today I explored the beach for the first time. It was so exciting, I can't wait to go back. I loved splashing water and playing in it. 

It's so hot where I am, I packed a little bit of everything just in case as there are many adventures and activities to take part in such as; rock climbing, parades, all sorts of rides, sea world and many more. Today is my second day as yesterday I went on the rides so we did something different for the day. 

As it is so hot, I decided to wear my long orange dress. I bought this dress I believe two or three years ago, wore it onc and never touched it again, I couldn't find the use of it and actually considered throwing it away one time, but it was a great use  for today as I wanted to look calm, cool and relaxed. 

I've come to a point where I'm in total peace with myself and much happier that it is making me so adventurous. Before I wouldn't have had the courage to do half of the things which I am doing now and exploring places as this has always been the desire of my heart. 

The best thing about the whole adventure is being in total peace with my weight and the way I look because this was a big problem that I have always had to overcome in so many situations. Finding that inner peace is making life so much more exciting and fun. 

I hope you're all having a great holiday too. 

Love Elle Xoxo 

My graduation and the party

Hello fashionistas, 

I hope you're all well, 

The past week was one of the most cherished moment of my life as I graduated from The Manchester Metropolitan University with a 2:1 ( for those who know how the grading system works) in Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Drama ( BA (Hons) Drama). 

It's been a tough 3 years with tears along the way and thinking that I was not capable of completing my degree, but I have to thank the almighty God for allowing me to come this far. Family and friends were there too of course. 

Finally fashionistas this was the thing that was keeping me away from blogging as third year was extremely difficult. 

For the ceremony this is what I wore as I didn't want something over the top. I wanted something simple yet sophisticated. 

For my love of Blazers, I wore a blazer dress from Missguided, paired it with my snake print shoes from Nine West, a blue clutch bag from river island and wore tights underneath as the dress was a quite short. 

  With my pastor

Throwing the hat In the air, it felt like a relief

The clutch 

Make up was done by me and the lipstick I wore here was Ruby Woo by M.A.C 

So afterwards, 

I had an after party which was organised for me by the church that I attend. Here I wore a long purple dress, which I bought from tkmaxx and the same heels as I wore the day before. 

Although I don't have a full picture of the dress I have it, but you can get an idea of how it looked like. 

I also wore lipstick by M.A.C here in Heroine

With my brothers who played in the live band 

With my other brother who is our choir drummer 

With my big sister, her husband and 5 kids and my little brother in all black. 

Now that this step is over, I would like to relax for a while before going into my next adventure. 

As always thank you for passing by

I love you for reading

Love Elle XoXo