Birds of Paradise: Plumes of feathers in fashion

Today I visited the Bowes Museum to see the Birds of Paradise exhibition as I am currently looking at Birds for my final major project at college. I've never actually visited the Bowes before and wow the building is absolutely amazing, so much bigger in person than in photographs. The exhibition is on the second floor in the Fashion and Textiles gallery. The exhibition addresses aspects such as refinement, luxury, freedom, modernism, femininity, lightness but also themes like lost innocence and black romance.

Benefit Roller lash mascara review

I ordered this lovely product as one of my valentines presents and it finally came yesterday. Its not out in stores till 26th Feb, I think but its available online on the benefit website. It is £19.50 and £4.00 packaging. The most I normally spend on mascara is around £10-£12, I normally use Rimmel London Retro Glam but lately my eye lashes have been a nightmare. They cross in front of each other, they're in my eye line and I kind of have this thing with my hands, if i'm bored and have nothing to do i'll sit and pick my mascara off and go and re-apply over and over again, weird I know. I literally love my eyelashes, they're fabulously long and i've never had to wear false eyelashes, i'm just hoping i've finally found the perfect mascara. It wasn't till late last night I realised my Roller Lash had arrived so I couldn't wait to use it this morning.

Rattled rib cage

I've wanted a tattoo for absolutely ages which means I've had quite a while to think of the design. I love quotes, some just make perfect sense to whats happening in your life right at that very moment, others are just very inspirational.

Ladies of last year

Okay so I'm kind of meant to be doing some college work right now but I can't help but want to post about some iconic ladies of 2014. Ones that I think have had a successful year. 

Ella Henderson