OOTN: Grandparents Ruby Wedding Anniversary

Friday night me and my family visited Matteo's for a meal. My grandparents have been married for 40 years so we decided to celebrate at one of our favourite resteraunts. Matteo's is an Italian restaurant based on the sea front in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool. It's only tiny but that's definitely a good thing in my opinion. Every time we go I always eat carbonara but for a change I had a parmo, not very Italian I know. For those who don't know what a parmo is they were apparently founded in Middlesborough, if you also don't know where that is, it's in the North East not worth visiting really. For dessert I had a hot chocolate fudge cake, it was devine.

Sorry for the non-existing Instagram style food pictures, I was extremely hungry. But a photograph that I did manage to take was my outfit of the night. Sorry it's not too clear.

       

     Black turtle neck- Primark £8

Suede look knee length skirt- Primark £12

Green gilet- Matalan £20

Green leather boots- River Island, limited edition £50

Clutch- River Island, previous sale £10

Necklace- Vivienne Westwood £80

Other jewellery Tiffany&Co, Pandora and Cassio.

I'm so into the 70's style right now. Textures are my favourite.

I need help to find the perfect brown top, preferably ribbed but I'm open to anything.

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Happy Anniversary G&G, love you!

LooseC x

Beauty Blender Update: Primark vs Real Techniques

After my recent Beauty Blender purchase I realised it was time to step up and spend some more money for a new one as quality is everything and quality is what you get for something with a higher price tag. So my recent blender I bought from Ebay for £1.40 and although it done what it said on the packet it wasn't as successful as I wanted it to be. So whilst on a shopping trip with my new uni friends (we have a three hour gap on a Monday and we shop every time) I spotted a Beauty Blender in Primark. There were a couple of different shapes and sizes so I thought I'd try a different shape blender to see if it made any difference. So this is the blender that I bought and It was either £1.50 or £2, I can't quite remember off the top of my head as I purchased it a while back. 

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.