BEAUTY

So what is beauty? Can anyone really and truthfully give me a difention what is beauty, I can show someone and say this is pure beauty this is what everyone should look like, but I am wrong if I do this because everyone in their own right is beauty.

So I had originally been working on something else to put on the blog today so please bare with me, yesterday someone made the statement that I am ugly. I am not angry at the fact the person called me it, I am more angry that as an adult they don’t know the consequences of such words. I believe it was last month I said we need to take a greater reasonability to show the youth of today that beauty comes in all different shapes, sizes, and looks that we can not leave it for the media to do.

It’s a fact that some individuals self harm, try and commit suicide, commit suicide, turn to drugs and alcohol because they don’t think they are pretty enough. They’ve been told by their friends, peers, society and family that their body images is not good enough when this going to stop when are we going to wake and say Enough?

Nigel Barker “Defining  beauty has been a holy grail for countless cultures throughout time, each putting their own spin on the notion of beauty, often with dreadful consequences”

So I beg the question is it really worth this constant battle to have someone tell you are beautiful? I just feel it needs to come from within we need to have the confidence in our own body images to not give a damn to be frank of what people think, we waste to much time and energy on trying to be accepted by peers, society, friends and family.

The word ugly is such a powerful word, when said to someone. The word ugly is often used as a weapon to hurt, be little a person, the term ugly is also used to describe a unpleasant situation.

“1. Unpleasant or repulsive, esp. in appearance: "she thought she was ugly and fat".

2. (of a situation or mood) Involving or likely to involve violence or other unpleasantness: "the mood in the room turned ugly".  

So this begs the question what gives one person the right to call another person ugly?

Because she called me ugly does this mean I have to question myself? NO call me ugly as for me ugly means  I am different from everyone, so I thank her, she can’t use such a powerful word on me because I just don’t care what she thinks.

I am not here to tell you what to say to people, what to call people I just really what you to think what if someone said it to and you was the type of person that had low self esteem, a lack of the fundamental confidence how would you feel?

When I gave a talk to Hackney Quest I said to them there is a difference saying something in you and saying something out a loud. When you say something aloud you have the intention to hurt, to be little to make that person question them self what gives us the right to so this to someone.

It frustrates me that many young women don’t have the self confidence and the self believe in them self. I wish if I could I will build this within them and get them to the point of realising their own beauty.

I feel that I am going on a bit and losing my point. I am going to leave you with this beauty is happiness, its going a full day without receiving a single compliment and being a 100% confident you look amazing only when you tell your self that your beautiful would somebody’s words not matter not count. That saying of they will fall on deaf ears you can’t hear something that can’t affect you.

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Sale Sale Sale Sale

Ladies their are massive sales going on at the moment most shops offering a 50% sale.
Just at a quick glance i have seen 2 dresses i want to get from new look.

This floaty flower dress is £14 was £34.99 i love it because its different because its not the normal type of dress i would wear. This is defo a must have for my holiday.

This pink bow dress i been watching it for awhile i like it but don't love it and never thought it was worth £26.99 but know the sale price is £10, is defo going to be one of my great buys.












On monday i will be posting all my great summer buys.

Model 1

Model 1 is on the look out for plus sizes models if you ladies are interested please take a look at this link. http://www.models1blog.com/2011/05/bigger-is-beautiful.html I would do it my self just not got the confidence to be in front of people taking pictures weird coming from me as I love the camera. I do feel that it’s a fantastic opportunity wish you all luck xxxx

Quick note

Hi all so I thought I just let you know that you can know contact me via email, so if you any question about any of the outfits feel free to contact me. If you need ideas as well you can contact me via email. xxx

H&M part 1

I am loving H&M this summer they have really up their game in the fashion trend, I remember years ago plus sizes had a little section in stores and they was mostly selected stores.  So I am going to show you some pieces I found on the H&M website.

Flared flower dress, I absolutely love this dress at the moment I am getting into design on clothing with more colours. H&M has this dress in sizes 8-24 and is priced at £7.99. I am going to be buying this dress for my holiday in July; I am going to be wearing it with gold flat sandals, with gold accessorises.

This blue wide fitted jersey is another holiday buy; I recently ordered it online for my holiday. I bought it because its light and practical. The dress is currently on sale for £2.99 and they have sizes up to 24. They also stock the dress in a coral colour.

I am personally going wear it with flip flops, and have a big oversized beach bag.

Love, love, love these mini skirts from H&M I personally own them in black, grey, navy, and black and white stripe. You just can’t go wrong with them, priced at £3.99. I wear them with a vest top and a cardigan black thick tights and a pair of pumps.  Also looks great with a vest top, blazer jacket and heels big chunky jewellery completes the outfit.

I love maxi dresses but I am really fussy with them, if they are fitted maxi dress like this one I tend not to buy bright a colour in them because I feel it concentrates on my stomach area. This blue maxi dress is again a great buy at the moment it’s on sale for £7.49 and they have sizes up to 24. It’s a great everyday comfy dress I love wearing maxi dress to work. I wear them wear flat sandals or pumps and have thin cardigan with it. But in the winter this is also a great wear, just throw an oversize jumper top. Or if you have a boyfriend shirt just use the middle button and it will give you a different look to see you through the winter.

This figure fitted pink dress this is one of my like but don’t love it but would buy it. Yes I am crazy lol. I am just finding it hard to think what I would wear it with to tell you the truth.  Because the dress is pink and gold I think I would go for a nude colour platform peep toes shoe or a very pale gold ones, but with this dress I would have to have it in my hand when buying shoes for it just to get the perfect match.

The reason I have chosen this dress is because I think its just stunning like there is not one thing that I can personally find a negative with it. The only downfall is that the biggest size H&M have is a size 16. I am going to be looking at other retailers that have this style of dress in various different sizes. It’s got my wow, wow, wow, and love, love, love it. Simple dresses like this is what I like nothing to fussy but its going to be how I do my hair what accessorise and shoes that will make the outfit

five winning going out outfits from ASOS

I really love this maxi dress i feel that its such a simple dress but can be worn to any event that you are attending. The dress is £24 from ASOS online it’s under their curve range, they stock up to size 26. If I was wearing this dress to work or a BBQ for example I will team it with simple flat gold sandals and big statement accessorises. If I was going out to a meal I would team it with a pair of heels or still keep the flat sandals on.

Below his example of the type of shoes that I feel would complement the dress.

These Nude Corsage Platform heels are from Dorothy Perkins, price of them are £42 sizes 3-8.  What I love about them is the details in the shoes. Not saying I would be able to wear them for a long period of time. My biggest dream is have a room just for shoes.  I have an addiction for shoes.

Total cost for the cost for the outfit with the heels £66 if wearing with the gold flat sandals total cost for outfit £30. Sandels from New look £5.99

For strapless maxi dress I would recommend taking a look in your local retail store. I went to Primark yesterday and bought a pink strapless maxi dress and its fits lovely and was only £9 I will be putting a picture of it soon.

This dress is called a slash black dress from Asos Curve range they stock up to a size 26 in this dress. I absolutely love it and will be ordering one soon.

What I love about the dress is that it’s not just a simple black dress that you first think it would be, I love the three slashes at the back of the dress.  I would wear this when I am doing what I call a rock chick look. The dress will defo need big chunky jewellery gold will make it stand out more.

For me this is a party dress or a birthday meal dress.

I found these lovely pair of black floral heels from Dorothy Perkins size 3-8 price £45. I always recommend when wearing a plain black dress to dress it up because you  don’t wont to get lost in the outfit and you want that Wow factor.

This Curve Ruched waist shift dress from the ASOS curve range I like this dress but don’t love it, why I am showing this dress is because it is a nice simple dress and a great work dress but their nothing special I cannot say its got a wow factor to it for me, but you may love it this a prime example of what I like you may not and its not for me to say the dress is not for everyone. I would team it with black heels. Price of the dress is £35

I have really got into clog/wide fitted trousers at the moment, i think I love the looseness of them they just look comfy. These trousers are from the ASOS Curve range sizes up to size 26 and priced at £35. Again Primark had an lovely peach one for a fraction of price but the biggest size I saw yesterday was 18 so I am giving you another option. I would team it with a simple black vest top and a black cardigan but I would wear either wedges of platform heels if going out, but if just wearing to work a nice pair of sandals or flats would look good to.

I found these heels on the Dorothy Perkins website and thought wow wow wow love them.  These black raffia platform shoes are £35 sizes 3-9. why I choose these is the design on the platform and heel, I feel they will go lovely with a pair of wide fitted trouser.

These peg leg trousers are also from ASOS curve range I love these trouser but would not wear them like the model in the picture. First of all something about that blouse with those trousers just is not working for me, also I am not really a fan of the bow belt with the trouser or the shoes.

This is what I would do take the bow belt off and put a brown belt on see picture below. Then I would change the blouse to a bow blouse please see picture below and wear it with peep toe wedge shows like the picture below. The reason why I am showing this outfit is I wanted you to see that you can take a outfit you see in magazines and internet and change it and make it your own.

Personal note

Hey all

So firstly I have to apologies for my lack of posting in the last month or so. I have currently been working on something new, which I am going to share with you all.

As I mentioned before fashion for me is more then the clothes we wear, wearing the clothing is easy but what about when you take off the extra skin are we still as fashionable as our clothing shows us to be?

This is why I feel that there are two types of fashion internal and exterior, as women I feel that it’s vital and important that we address our internal fashion because without this we will still be fighting the same battles. Internal fashion deals with confidence, self esteem, dieting, age, social and cultural influences, body images and much more.

I was recently given the opportunity to go to Hackney Quest a youth group to discuss this word we call fashion, I am not sure what it is but I keep on going back to this that we need to be the role models that young female look up to, we need to stand up and say love your self and your body.

I feel that there is so much pressure put onto young people to look and dress a certain why that they are losing their individuality, I mean more then all wearing the same clothing but we are losing our own personality which is so sad to see. We are seeing young girls trying to starve themselves to be a certain weight because this is what they believe is perfection, we see kids as young as 10 wanting to have plastic surgery because they believe they are not pretty enough. We as a society need to open our eyes and see how we are portraying women should look like is wrong, there are so many different body types and images, who are am I to say that you must look like this to have the perfect image.

I am still trying to figure out where I am going with this because I feel this is such an important area that I need to look more into, that we as society need to look more into.

So this is what I been looking into for the last month and so.