Ankara style

Hello Fashionistas,

So it's been a while. Yes! I do apologise, but I am extremely busy it's mad. 

Anyway, I hope the week is going well for you so far. 

Here's an outfit, which I wore on Sunday. I did get a little tired of wearing jeans and pants so I wanted to try something different.

The good thing about Ankara prints is that they can be made into anything you want. Any styke that suits you. 

It's really practical in terms of styling and comes in different colours and patterns to suit you. So,mine was made into a jacket with buttons at the front and a wrapper, which I tied into a side knot to add a little bit of layers to the wrapper. 

I wanted to try this gorgeous african Ankara that was sent to me from Africa and it's been sitting in my wardrobe for a long time. I loveeee the colour and changed my hair just for this look. 

I spiced the look up with a bright red lipstick and orange-y- nude wedge heels from River Island; once again, no jewellery were added on purpose because I wanted the Ankara itself to be the statement piece. 

For more information on where to purchase your Ankara african print. Please contact me. 

I love you for reading. 

Love Elle xoxo

Purrrrple lipstick/like a girl jeans

Hello Fashionistasss, 

I hope you're well, 

Here's a quick update on my today's outfit. 

I am dressed very casual in a relaxed oversized tshirt and denim boyfriend jeans. Instead of wearing sneakers, I decided to pair it with a pair of wedges for more of a girly look.  

So all of my outfit from today is from River Island. I've literally owned these amazing pair of jeans for more than 2 years I think.

I hope you've had an amazing day and I wish you all an amazing week ahead!! 

I love you for reading

Love Elle xoxo

 

Finally!! Quality Pictures

Hello fashionistas,

So finally, I'm so happy and excited about the new picture quality. I enjoyed shooting today even though it was cold and my clothes kept on blowing everywhere. 

Anyway, white!! What's not to love about the colour eh? So here, I've paired my white top and jeans with a pastel pink blazer because I didn't just want to wear all white. I also decided to pair it with my beautiful Nine West leopard print shoes and my Miu Miu handbag which was purchased in 2008. 

     Blazer from River Island 

    Top from Primark 

    Jeans from Primark 

    Beaded Necklace from Primark 

   Handbag from Miu Miu at Harvey Nichols

    Shoes from Nine West at Kurt Geiger 

  Pictures by: Esperance K 

I hope you have a lovely weekend

 

    Love Elle xoxo

Being you, the pink jacket and the snakeskin shoes

Hello my beautiful fashionistas,

I hope you've had a great weekend... Let's finish today with a stylish pink textured jacket. I believe that I have previously mentioned it in my favourites blogpost and here it is. As I mentioned before, it's super warm and comfy to wear in this horrible weather. 

Anyway, this week has been probably the craziest week ever as I am always so busy and bombarded by everything, but I am a person who stands for what they believe in and I truly and honestly believe in appropriate dressing. 

I believe that simplicity is truly the real form of sophistication and modesty is the real form of sexiness. 

Recently I have been questioning myself about how today's generation perceive fashion and I can truly say, the majority of the people I asked said that fashion was corrupted why? Because we no longer know how to have self respect for ourselves, meaning the way we dress. Everybody wants to show the boob, the booty and the legs; we believe by doing so, we are being sexy?

We follow celebrities who dress inappropriately although we know what we are doing is wrong. 

This generation has lost touch with being ourselves, we all want to be or look like somebody else, but why? 

Why not be yourself? The beautiful unique self that you are? The best thing ever made, why not inspire to do you rather than to do others? Why not to dres s in the way that is appropriate and awesome rather than to look cheap? Why not be the healthy you rather than dieting to become a size zero? I am not here to critise anyone or to point fingers, but I believe that you are the best when you are. 

Girls, lets truly think about it. You are Gods beautiful creation and never let the pressure of fashion or the social media change you into something you're not. Do you! Simple. 

This is something that I have had in mind for so long so, I wanted to share it with the rest of you awesome people. 

So today was I decided to pair my black cropped skinny jeans with this amazing pink jacket and a wait top. I added some pointed snakeskin heels to add more to the look.

I'm so in love with this quilted bag that I got from my mums room a couple of weeks ago. It fits EVERYTHING inside and that's good for someone like me. Ahaha! 

    Jacket: river island, green jacket is still available at riverisland.com

   White top: primark 

    Jeans: F&F at Tesco, if you have a problem with finding jeans that fit properly I would advise that you look at F&F as they make super comfortable fit jeans that's fits very nicely. 

Shoes are from primark too 

Hope you enjoy!

Love Elle Xoxo

My new favourites picked for this season!!

Hello fashionistas, 

I hope you're all doing great and I hope you've all had a busy week. 

Well, I have had a tremendous week, I've had so much to do, plus studies on top and work, it has been crazy, but I am grateful. 

So I moved back to Cheshire on Sunday; I come to Manchester every weekend to visit my family because I get bored being alone and lonely! Ahahaha 

I really enjoy being on my own as it gives me the time to think and think really hard about what I am doing in life and how I am impacting the environment around me positively. 

Anyway, so tonight I wanted to show you guys what I recently bought. I always buy lots and lots of clothes and never end up wearing the majority of it, but I decided to pick out my favourites and to show you awesome people. 

So I recently spotted the light blue pastel pleated skirt and wanted to try it. As pointy shoes are in, i bought these gorgeous faux snake skin ones and they are so comfortable to walk in it's crazy! 

 

This embellished jacket from river island is so fashionable and cosy at the same time. It actually kept me warm when I first wore it 

I wanted to try these cigarette pants AKA smart pants because it's getting cold and obviously you will need to wear something that will keep you warm. So, I decided to buy the same pants, but two different colours. 

The full view of the river island embellished coat. ( still in stock, but in green) for more info check www.riverisland.com and click on the coats and blazer section 

The colour of this bag is so gorgeous, when I first saw it in my mothers room, I decided that it had to disappear from her and come into my hands, I remember buying a smaller version of this about a year ago from Zara and until today I love the bag.  

Pastel colours are still in... Make this winter fashionable by adding a colourful coat in your wardrobe. 

I hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Love Elle xoxo 

Black, white and blurrrrry pictures

Hey fashionistas, I hope you're all doing well... 

Here's a little something from yesterday.. I was not in the mood to dress up once again.. What better than black and white, it actually makes it look like I'm making an effort. Ahah!

I actually made some of the pictures darker in order to add to the style of the photo! Mmm... 

Glasses: DKNY/ Bag: My mum's 

Leather pants: river island 

Shoes: carvela 

And top: primark 

I hope you're all well! 

Love Elle xoxo

New hair style and traditional wedding

Hello fashionistas, 

So, I hope you've had a good week and here I am today on my way to my friends traditional wedding. 

If you have noticed that I have changed my hair.. Yes! The weather is getting cold and I wanted something to keep my scalp warm and to prevent my hair from breaking during autumn/winter, so I've decided to do these amazing twists!! 

So here I am dressed in a blue peplum top. As I have discovered, peplum tops are great for curvy girls and non- hourglass girls aswell as it slims you down the waist line. A white skirt and shoes just to avoid black. Ahah 

I hope you have a good weekend 

Love Elle xoxo

Top from New Look, skirt and shoes both from Primark

The midi skirt

Hello fashionistaaaaas, 

So, yesterday I got baptised and as I did not mention before, I am a born again Christian! Yessss! Anyways, here I am once again, I bought this black midi skirt a long time ago, but I was unsure what to pair it with as obviously looking at my body shape, I was unsure if it would look nice on me, but you know girls. We have this attitude of buying clothes and just leaving it in our wardrobe; at times we don't even wear it once. That's totally moi! 

Anyway so I had this lace top that I also bought a very long time ago and kind of forgot about and I thought mmm... This might work. So here we are. A Sunday outfit! I hope you like it 

Top from Zara, skirt from New look, wedges from Giambattista Valli and handbag from Tory Burch. 

I hope you'll have a wonderful day!! 

Love Elle xoxo 

The blue blazer

Hello fashionistas, 

I hope you're all doing fashimazing, 

Here's just a quick update on what I wore last week in church. 

At times, I don't feel the need to dress up, so when you don't feel like dressing up what do you do? You wear a pair jeans and a blazer; immediately it makes the outfit look fab!

That's exactly what i did! Since I didn't want to go for the usual black blazer, I decided to pair a blue one with a yellow top and a pair of shimmery skinny jeans. Luckily for me, I love blazers and I have almost every single colours. Literally!!!! (That's how much in love I am with blazers, Ahahaha! Just a yellow one missing.) I didn't feel like wearing heels that were too high so I pair it with this simple black and white mid heels, added a red lippy, a gold necklace and curled my hair and voila! Easy, but fab look. 

Blazer and Jeans both from River Island, vest top and shoes both from primark. 

Necklace was purchased about 2 years ago. 

I bought the bangle online and the lipstick is from superdrug 

Me and my momma earlier that day before going to church.

I hope you enjoy and see you next time. 

Love Elle xoxo

The mulberry bag

Hello fashionistas, 

I do apologise for my disappearance, but it had to be done as I had a lot of personally issues to sort out, but now here I am. 

As of the past weeks I've been sorting out myself and thinking about my past friendships, career, education and so on. So I needed a little time in order to rest. 

Along the way I've learnt that some friendships are only seasonal and it hurts so bad to lose the people you've invested so much in, but now I'm in a happy place and I'm very thankful. 

Anyway, I did not previously mention my love for designer handbagssss.....  Yes, authentic designer bags... 

I have a collection of different brands and if you stick around, you'll get to see them. 

 Today I wanted a simple classic look so, I paired my Zara black pants witha white top and a pastel green blazer. I also added these beautiful carvela heels and my Mulberry handbag, which was purchased in 2012. 

I wish you all a wonderful week. 

Here I added some bracelets, a gold necklace and some rings to glam up the look. 

Love Elle Xoxo