I Wish

Sometimes the heart just wants what it wants, and this week my heart really wants a leather dress. A small while ago if anybody had suggested a leather dress I think people would have though “Oh my Christ, what the hell is she wearing”. However, since the likes of TOPSHOP and River Island have decided that its cool and made them into something that is decent to wear it’s now become perfectly acceptable to roam the streets in such a garment and not be considered a lady of the night... and I would really like one, so there.

So in keeping with this I have found some lovely examples of the dress I would like to have, enjoy:

1: River Island, £25.00 (sale)

2: Oasis, £28.00 (sale)

3: Oasis, £140.00

4: Warehouse, £35.00

Cheerio,

Wild Thing

“Wild thing...you make my heart sing...
You make everything Groovy...”

This post’s TUNE comes from none other than The Troggs! Now you may or may not have heard about his band, but if nothing else I really recommend listening to this song here. Yes they may be quite old now, but you can’t deny that this is a hell of a tune, I guess it’s most definitely ‘retro’!

See I knew you’d love it! Groovy baby!

You can visit their website here.


Now, on to more pressing matters....

Skirt: H&M (old)
Belt: H&M (old)
Blouse: Primark (£5.00)
Tights: Primark (£2.00)
Boots: New Look (£19.99)
Satchel: Christmas Prezzy, Cambridge Satchel (old)
Coat: New Look (old)

I haven’t done an outfit post in what feels like forever, hell, I haven’t really done any kind of post, so I thought I’d get off to a good start and hopefully continue well too! I wore this outfit before Christmas on a trip up to London for the day, so I figured I would dig it out, stick it on, take some photos and then put them on here for your viewing pleasure. Let me know what you think!

For Christmas I had a brand new shiny camera, an actual SLR one, I’ve never had one before so I apologise if the photos are a bit ropey for the next few weeks, I’m trying to work out exactly how to use it and having a potch about with all the different settings.

Anywho, hope you’ve all had a lovely holiday, unfortunately it’s back to work for me now, boooo!

Toodle Pip,

New Years Resolutions

Ok, so as some of you may have noticed (or not as the case may be), I haven't posted in quite some time, the plan was to have a little break to finish off my house and sort out Christmas stuff but that little break turned into over a month! Naughty Helen!

But it's all good, I'm back, my house is now finished, sort of, and Christmas has been and gone for another year.  Anywho, now that Christmas is over with we have the next big event New Year!  Now, I'm not going to pretend that I am going to get up to anything exciting on new years, but I will however be joining in the spirit by writing my new years resolutions!

This year my new years resolution is to do/try something new every month!  It's so easy to slip back into routine of just pretty much going from day to the next without anything different going on but this year I plan to change that.  Without trying to sound to deep here, I feel like I'm pretty much just going through the motions at the moment, bed to work and all that so I really want to make sure that I do things that are actually memorable, and I will make sure I share these with you!

I also have a few others, try be more healthy and such but that one is definitely the main one!

Whats your new years resolutions?  And what do you think of mine?

Bye bye 2012, hello 2013!

Peace,

New Year, new look blog!

It's all ok, don't worry, you haven't accidentally clicked a different blog, the same good old Frgaile Bird is here but with a bit of a revamped look!

A few months ago I set up my blog and experimented with a few different looks and settled on the last one, which looked all very pretty and I was happy with it... for a while!  So I like to change my mind a fair bit but I promise that I won't be changing from this one!

This is what my blog used to look like:

So as pretty as the last one was it was a little bit too girly for me, and if you know me you'll know that's definitely not me!  I've always loved the whole 50's thing and  especially pin up girls, so naturally I decided this is the way my blog should look...
 
and voila, here it is!!

So let me know what you think, I hope you like it!

Peace and Love Little Ones,

212

“Hey, I can be the answer...”


This post’s TUNE comes from Azelia Banks. Now I know I ain’t “Gangster”, and as just a geeky little white girl to even attempt to rap along to these lyrics (yes, that’s right, I have a go), will not help me be cool no matter how hard I try, but I will say that I absolutely love this song!!! What a tune, I mean, how can a song still be this good even when half of the lyrics are beeped out (I had to be very careful with my selection of lyric, so I figured I would just go for the first line as this appeared to be the safest option).

So yup, I really do love this song, it’s amazing! You can watch the video here (but only if you’re not easily offended by the colourful lyrics), and you can visit her website here.

Right, lets crack on...

Blazer: River Island (old)

Shirt: River Island (sale, £15.00)

Jeans: Primark (old)

Shoes: Matalan (£6.00)

Bag: Primark (old)

Bowler Hat: H&M (£12.99)

I bought this shirt the other day when I was having a little browse at the River Island sale online and I am so glad I found it!  Who doesn't love Tartan?!?! (people who don't love tartan thats who), but luckily enough I blinkin' love it, that's why I bought it duh!  Anywho, I knew that this shirt would go lovely with my recently purchased bargain shoes in Matalan, they only cost me six whole pounds! That's six pounds!!  God bless you Matalan you lovely lovely people!!  Add my over used old blazer, slip myself into a pair of extremely snug fitting Primark jeans and stick a bowler hat on top and bish bash bosh job done!

Stay sexy,

The Nail Files Part One

So I’ve decided to start a new feature called the nail files.  The reason why I’ve done this is because currently me and Gary are doing our house out so we spend most of our time covered in dust and paint and as a result my nails are taking something of a battering.  Poor poor nails :( 

So I decided that the best thing to do was to make sure that every now and again they had a little treat and were covered in some nice nail polish, so they get to feel pretty.  Even nails should get to feel pretty.

This is my first attempt at cheering my poor nails up, I’ve decided to call it Coffee Spotty as the colour is Cappuccino by Barry M (£2.99), and the spots and Sorbet by Tesco (99p!).

This is the theory of what my nail should look like:

And this is what they actually look like:

Peace and Love,

Jeepers Creepers Where'd You Get Those Peepers?

Jeepers Creepers, where’d you get those eyes?

Well actually I had them from Firmoo! So anyway, a week or two back I was contacted by the good people at Firmoo about writing a review about a pair of their glasses. Well it couldn’t have come at a better time as I was on the lookout for a new pair of specs as mine are starting to look like they have seen better days, mainly because they have met the floor more times than I care to remember, ooops!!

Anywho, I was asked to choose a nice new pair of glasses and I chose these bad boys:

Oh yes, aren’t they just lovely! I’m quite picky when it comes to glasses as I can’t wear the colours which I’d like to such as black and instead tend to stick to browns and reds as these suit me better, so I was over the moon when I spotted these glasses. You can browse the little beauties here.

I’ve been really impressed with Firmoo as, when asked for me to place my order I had the glasses in just over a week, so within a very short space of time I was looking spexy ;) They are so comfy, I just love them, normally my glasses like to dig little holes in the side of my nose, which is nice of them, but these just fit like a glove!

If I’m being brutally honest, and I could change just one thing I would have liked the frames to be a bit smaller, but that’s no reflection on the quality of the glasses, just my abnormally small head :)

It’s very easy to be sceptical about an online opticians but as they have a first pair free program (you can find out about this here), and you can try on the glasses by just paying for shipping, if you don’t like them or they don’t fit then you can send them back and get a refund or exchange, not bad ey!

Also just to reduce the risk of you not falling completely head over heels for you new glasses, you can use their virtual try on program, just upload a picture and Bobs your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt!

So get yourself onto Firmoo and get shopping for some sexy specs, you can even get them non prescription, so even if your not blind as a bat like I am (check out ASOS’ guide to looking good with spectacular style here), you can still look good! Oh and they also do Sunglasses, yes, I know it’s winter, but we ladies should always think ahead!

Oh and just to add, I now edit all my pics in Pic Monkey, I don't have Photoshop, so this lovely website is one heck of a good alternative :)  Just incase you needed something similar and didn't know where to go, we're here to help ;)

Stay Spexy,