Runaway with my socks

It's no surprise that during winter I want to keep my feet nice and warm, and normally I'll be putting on my usual black socks. But this year I have decided to spice it up a little with my new obsession for patterned socks!

My love started off because of a pair with my favourite food on, strawberries. This escalated to animals including my favourite animal, Koalas (which meant picking up every colour possible.)

Other patterns I have are Aztec, pandas, racoons, bikes, polar bears, foxes, bows, New York, etc.

Whether your just hanging around the house or want to make a statement, this is a must have for my winter essentials. My favourite place to wear these socks is during a duvet day or a night in at a friends where I can some these bad boys off.

What's your favourite winter essential?

Aurora x

OOTD (Outfit Of The Day) #6

To get myself in the festive mood I have started pulling out the christmas jumpers. My brother and I have been looking for christmas jumpers for the past 4 years and have had no luck, even turing to my nan for a hand knitted one. We had no luck until this year when I found a couple. One of which I wore today.

I found this jumper in Forever 21 for around £24, one unique part of this jumper is it's off the shoulder, and the christmas pattern is not too loud and wearable.

Trousers are also from Forever 21 for £21 which are high waisted and turned up around the ankles.

Aurora x

Early Christmas Present

So every year I get myself along with family and friends a Christmas present. Yes I have been told this is stupid but my thought is everyone should love themselves and love who they are, so what better way to show that than buying yourself a present.

My present can early this year as in the end of November. While shopping with my friends and wondering round the German market which I have to say is the biggest one outside Germany with 196 stalls, yes crazy! We headed over the the lovely piercing parlour we have where we had a piercing party. Something about piercings intrigues me so I was persuaded (very easily) to get my nose pierced.

Have such an obvious piercing I was a bit nervous about everyones reaction, especially at work due to the old fashion values everyone carries. It's been about a week since I have had it and after most people in my everyday life seeing it, it's finally been accepted.

Week in photos

Green With Envy

Over the past two months I have been making the hard decisions about my uni course, i.e. if I want to move to another course, do I start the year again, what happens if I can't move courses, etc. With this stress and the pressure from my family to "do the right thing by them", I have been trying to focus myself away from this subject onto little projects which shouldn't be my main focus right now. One for example is dying part of my hair green, yes green. Although this does sound crazy, stupid, and drastic, its not as bad as you think. Though this may not be liked by everyone, for example my dad, or my boss, but this was just something I could use to take my mind off my problems and stop myself from going into stress mode, which believe me isn't pretty or healthy.

I have been rocking this look for around three weeks now and have only had to reapply it once. I used Stargazers Turquoise dye and it did the job pretty well. The only problem I had with it was the mess it makes, if you are going to use the stargazer dyes for any dying I would say be ready for my walls, bath, and sink were stained after quite badly.

I knew straight after I dyed my hair that I would want to redo it again,in order for me to do this I purchased a dye brush so I could look a little more professional instead of using my fingers. I also purchased of Ebay 100 pairs of gloves to make sure them fingers of mine don't get stained.

Another part of me which made me want to do this was the fact I knew when I graduate uni (whenever that may be) I won't be able to have the freedom I havenow with the way I look. This is one part of the career zone which really grinds my gears. For example tattoos, as long as they aren't offending anyone I personally feel you should be able to make the choice for yourself if you want a tattoo and where the placement will be, but that is a whole debate which I'm not going to go into now.

By having the freedom now at uni to look how I wanna look I thought green hair was the most suitable for me. I've had a couple of comments now from having my green hair, but personally that doesn't bother me. I haven't dyed my whole head which I would have to accept people will comment but this is just another way for me to express myself through my looks and still feel comfortable and confident with myself.

Lipstick - Barry M in 121