YSL exhibition @ The Bowes Museum

I've been wanting to go to this exhibition for months but I just never picked a date, so as soon as I heard that I was going with my fashion journo lot during freshers week, well the date was picked for me really. I felt bad because my mam really wanted to go but I made sure I took lots and lots of pics for her and to be honest I'd go again as the tickets aren't that much at all. The exhibition started on 11th July and was opened by Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurents life-long partner. The exhibition has gained lots of famous visits along the way from actor Daniel Craig to designer Roland Klein and many more. A lot of people were stunned to find that the 'Style is Eternal' exhibition was to be held at the Bowes Museum in County Durham rather than the V&A in London as it's one of the most popular venue's e.g. Alexander McQueen's Savage Beauty. The Bowes Museum was chosen for their love of French art work as YSL was French himself and also for the light and surroundings of the Museum. It really is such a beautiful place, did you know you can now get married there? It's on my list of venue's just for future reference, just incase.

Beauty Blender Review

Word on the street is that the Beauty Blender is the next best applicator. No more brushes. I first heard about the Beauty Blender through my friend when we were getting ready for a night out, I was really intrigued to find out more about the peculiar shaped sponge so I had a google. The Original Beauty Blender was created by Makeup artist Rea Ann Silver, which can be purchased here for $20 in a pink colour, other variations of the product include the Pure, Pro and Micro.Mini Beauty Blender. The Pure blender is a dye-free sponge for people with sensitive skin, the Pro is black in colour for darker-toned products and self tanners and the Micro.Mini is a smaller version of the Original blender for contouring, highlighting and concealing priced at just $18. Its obviously an American product but there has been lots of knockoff's of this product made, some better than others. As I just wanted to test the product I purchased my Beauty Blender from Ebay for just £1.40, here. It arrived pretty quickly and I used it the next day, I ordered purple but as the product was so cheap I just think the colour options where just what you preferred, they weren't for different purposes. 

Living at home for University: Perks & Preparation

Living at home perks

So as most of you know I will be studying at The University of Sunderland in just under a weeks time, to study Fashion Journalism. I'm super excited to see everyone again that I met at summer school and to finally experience freshers... I'm a year behind okay most people in my year went to uni last year, I just didn't have a clue what I wanted to study. Although I will be studying in Sunderland I am going to be living at home and travelling through. Sunderland is about a 20 minute train journey/30 minute drive so it really isn't that bad at all. I chose not to live in halls as I've already got everything here on my plate, speaking of plates I can't cook so I would probably starve or live on pot noodles and look like a whale, I also don't particularly know how to use a washing machine (even though I used the one at work today, shh don't tell my parents). I know University is good for learning all of that kind of stuff but I'm just not interested in that yet, I don't think I ever will be with cooking, maybe next year, plus your parents are the best people to learn from, right?

Interning with AX Paris ft Manqunian lifestyle

Hi everyone!

I'd say i've had a well deserved break from blogging possibly about 3 weeks but whilst i've been away I've been learning some valuable experience in the fashion industry before starting The University of Sunderland in September where I will be studying Fashion Journalism, 19 days till freshers, whose excited? 

After my work experience on Newcastle Fashion week I was eager to learn more about the fashion industry, but through the area that I will be studying in. I emailed around magazine's and online websites and eventually got a reply from the team at AX Paris who are based in Manchester. I originally only wanted to do a couple of days as I've never really been away from home on my own but 2 weeks was the minimum and there was no way I was turning an opportunity like that down. Fortunately, my dad's step sister recently moved to Manchester which is where I stayed for the 2 weeks and boy we had so much fun.

I arrived at Manchester Piccadilly on Monday 3rd August real early and I basically got straight to the busy, city working life, I made my own way to where I needed to be (without my precious car), I met the team at AX Paris and got straight into the Social Media side of the company. I looked for bloggers that they could work with, companies to collaborate with, I did work through Instagram and work on the website itself such as linking Celebrity style steals to the product on the website, linking bloggers and also working behind the scenes so that the new collection went live on time. I also got to write a piece for the AX Paris blog about Rosie Fortescue's style steal, you can view it at the very end of this post. I felt so privileged to be with the team at the time of AW15 launch, if you haven't already shopped the style go ahead here.