Dixi || Collection Preview

    Once again I've had the honor of giving all you wonderful readers a preview of Dixi's latest collection. All products are uniquely made giving the buyer a one-off piece of jewellery or clothing, to ensure you stand out in the crowd. I'm extremely excited for the new collection as I've been eyeing up a few items to buy a.s.a.p! Without further ado, here's a selection of the new clothes/jewellery.

    Like you all know, I'm a sucker for silver hardware jewellery so quite a few of these pieces will end up being in my jewellery box sooner than later! The first clothing item that caught my eye was the black fishnet jumper, I've been after a versatile piece that can be built upon with layers and more layers. Now readers, you must remember this is only a collection preview as the items will only be available from 10am on Sunday 27th. I've also got a FREE shipping code for those of you in the UK who spend over £15 online from the 27th of January till the 3rd of February, with the code BLOGGERDISC

REVIEWED | Philosophy 'Christmas Cookie' Shower Gel

    I can't express how happy I was to purchase this in the build up to Christmas, not just because it's part of their Christmas collection but purely because I've never been able to get hold of Philosophy products ever. I was unaware that Boots in Manchester city center stocked Philosophy products, but now I know I will be returning on numerous occasions I can assure you.

    The years of wait I've endured to purchase this product can be easily forgotten as this product smells outstanding, looks aesthetically pleasing and is well worth the £19.00. The smell of this product and design are what attracted me to purchasing it out of their entire range. Securing a promising gingerbread scent, it's not too sickly and smells like fresh baking. Once you've showered with it, the smell lingers on your skin for around 3/4 hours in my experience.

     Another thing that interested me is the list of ingredients and instructions on the bottle, before buying a philosophy shower gel etc I always wanted to bake whatever they printed on their bottle. I'm undecided whether to or not now I own a bottle, maybe later on in the month and I could make a post and/or video of it for you all. If you've been apprehensive to purchase Philosophy, take my word that you won't regret it. The smells are prominent but not over powering and they feel lovely on the skin!

Philosophy Products via Boots - here

Favourite Items for SS13 (((So Far)))

    It's that time again to discuss my favourite products for the latest season, as always all of these items of clothes/shoes are from Topshop and links to each will be left under each photograph. If you've been looking through Topshop lately tell me your views on their latest SS13 picks!

'Peterpan Flower Flippy Dress' || £48.00

    This first clothing item is not actually featured in Topshop's SS13 collection for 'floral' wear, but the delicate, weightless flowers across the waist really caught my eye. The floral trend this year is extremely patterned  almost reminiscent of the jungle. I personally found the patterns too over powering, so this is the more subtle alternative which is still abiding by the floral trend. 

'Floral Jacquard Trousers' || £50.00

    Next up are another item in the 'floral' category and it's these Jacquard Trousers. With darker shades of oranges, reds and browns these trousers could be universally worn no matter what size you are. The colours and shape of the trousers make your hips appear smaller while elongating your legs, no matter how small or tall you are.

'Embroidered Tiger Sweater' || £32.00

    Bold print as you would of guessed from the floral trend are very big and in for SS13. This is my favourite piece out of them all, as it's vivid but due to the subtle green can be dressed up and down. The embroidery on the the chest is outstanding and you can tell you're paying for a good quality jumper. Piece this with a chunky gold chain and some indigo jeans and you've got an outstanding outfit for SS13.

'Cut Out Boots' || £85.00

    The last item are these bold white boots, these can defiantly be a statement piece to anybody's wardrobe. Whether you're going along with the new trends or not, you can't miss out on some killer white, cut out boots! The cut outs allow you to maybe show off some of your tan in the summer, or a tattoo that's always covered up in winter. Regardless these boots are a hot purchase and go perfectly with the 'white' trend!

INTERVIEWED || Luna Webster (((Singer/Songwriter)))

    If you're a follower of my blog then you know I interviewed the darling Luna Webster a couple of months ago. With news of Luna's EP being recorded, her horizons have been extremely broadened so I delved into the pool to get the latest news from the lady herself! Hope you enjoy this little interview, all social links for Luna will be listed below. Check her out, shes wonderful and I'm excited to hear the EP myself!

  

The Day I Let My Mum Take Photo's

     Being a reader of Company magazine I, like many others this month would of seen the Street Style competition in association with River Island. After reading it I was determined to enter to hopefully win, after taking my photographs I decided to read the terms and conditions on River Island's website. Mistakenly I found out each applicant must be 18 years and over, typically being 17 I was unable to apply. However I thought I would show you the best of my application photo's anyway as I really like them and think they aren't so bad. If you're applying tell me in the comment below I'd love to see your style!  

Weekend Collective Haul

Bed Head Urban Anti+Dotes Conditioner

Dry, Damaged Hair Level 2 Conditioner

Assorted Heart Earrings 

Thick Gold Chain Necklace 

Naked Antioxidant Juice (Apple, Pineapple & Kiwi)

UK Snow Day 2013

Re-boot for 2013!

    If you aren't already aware though Twitter, I've re-booted my Youtube channel and started completely fresh! My first video explains what content will be on my channel this time around, so I thought I'll leave the two videos I've done down below. So check them out and if you like to see more please subscribe, it'll make my week!

Instagram (09.01.13 - 13.01.13)

You Choose Movie Reviews(?)

    For the past two years I've been building up a movie collection the size of my dresser, while taking some photo in my white box I thought it would be a great idea, to ask what movies you would like me to review; instead of something that is not of your interest. I don't know how the reaction to this post will be, if there are no comments within the next two/three weeks, then I will proceed to review my favourite ones. 

    Now this is not my entire collection, only a few which people may be familiar with including live/comedy performances from my favourite comedians. There are also some films which I am yet to watch which I've not included on here. With 17 films on this list, I hope there's enough variety and something that you might be dying to watch so it's benefitical. Comment down below any of these you wish for me to review, as the first review will be up in three weeks!

REVIEWED || Viktor & Ralf - Spicebomb Eau De Toilette

Liebster Award #2

    
    Happy New Year lovelies! I hope you've brought the New Year in with optimistic views for 2013, I surely have. I'm proud and flattered to say I've been nominated for the Liebster Award for a second time since I've started my blog. During my blog move to wordpress, I was nominated by another blogger but never got around to posting about it. I made sure I wouldn't miss out this opportunity! So thank you to Holly from Fashion Realist, just click her name to be directed straight to her blog, it's outstanding much like herself! 

Rules:

• The award is for bloggers with under 300 followers only.
• Nominees must link bank to those who nominated them.
• Those nominated must state 11 random facts about themselves and answer the 11 questions given to them by the blogger who nominated you.
• Make up 11 new questions to be answered by another 11 bloggers chosen by you.

11 Random Facts About Me:

1. I curl my toes whenever I'm sat down which tends to freak some people out.
2. I met David Beckham while shopping when I was roughly 7/8 but I never knew it was actually him until I was older. Regret not getting a photo now.
3. Slight OCD when planning trips out with friends/family. I must know all the possible routes/transport systems home and timings of what were doing, I oftenly write it all out on paper beforehand. 
4. I don't want to settle for one job so I'd aspire to be a part time Jounalist/Artist/DJ.
5. I feel I've become the person I wanted to be from a young age in the way I dress, act and present myself to others.
6. Having children when I'm older is something I don't want to do.
7. I can't have hot baths as my body gets over-heated very quickly resulting in me resembling a lobster and having to take breaks out the bath between shampooing and conditioning.
8. Damien Hirst is in my eyes one of the best artists to grace the Earth.
9. Because I'm a die hard fan, I queue outside concert venues from 8AM till 7PM at night no matter how bad the weather is.
10. I'm a big cat person.
11. Buy me cranberry juice and fanta fruit twist and I'll be your best friend.

Holly's Questions:

1. What 3 things would you take with you if you were stuck on a Desert Island? 

-Assuming there was no wifi connection/signal it'd probably be 1) Sun lotion 2) 18 x 20 x 10 Shed 3) Thick Mattress

2. Who is your Celebrity Idol or Role Model?

- There's different people for different reasons but the main two are Alex Gaskarth as he's surpassed the death of his brother, moving countries and relationships with people and has still been on top form 24/7 with his band and fans. Noel Fielding as he's stood out of the crowd from his London hometown to creative such initiative and interesting art/comedy on his own two feet and never changed himself to better his fame.

3. What's your Party Trick?  

- I used to think I was cool because I could make my nostrils go into my nose for a few minutes which made me look like Michael Jackson after all his plastic surgery. But I can't do that any longer, so I haven't got a 'party trick.'

4. If you knew the world was going to end in 24 hours, how would you spend them?

- Blimey! That's a really hard question, who knows what I'd do. I'd probably see my family/friends then just get absolutely wasted. I wouldn't wanna be sat there waiting for the world to end, I'd wanna be distracted with booze and music ha.

5. Do you like your name?

- Yeah, I tend to go by my last name but I really like my first name (Melissa). It's unusual as I only known one other person over the seventeen years of my life with the same name, I quite like long flowing names. My full title (its long) is Melissa Rachel Claire Valentina Fagan.

6. What is your favourite place to shop? 

- Hands down Topshop! Next question.. haha.

7. Describe yourself in 5 words?

- Realist, Hot-Headed, Compassionate, Artistic, Thinker.

8. What type of Movie do you prefer?

- I'm a huge film buff, I have a crazy collection of DVD's even though I could watch half the things on TV/Online. I love a good romantic film but I'm also a fan of gore films (Saw, Hostel etc) anything really floats my boat, except war/fantasy films.

9. If you could change a law, which would you change, and what to?

- This is something that I feel England needs to combat crimes against sex trafficking, rape, mass murder, pedophilia etc and it's to bring back the death penalty. It's such a controversial punishment globally however it's not given out lightly. You would have to be a repeat offender to crimes like I stated above, once you're convicted three times then you would face the death penalty. Even though it exists in America, it has been sanitized from the electric chair which caused pain to the lethal injection which is painless. Which I think is out of order as they have hurt families etc so they should suffer as much pain as possible before death, but that's my extremely strong opinion.

10. If you could be stuck in an elevator with any Celebrity you like, who would you choose and why?

- From celebrities I've already met it would be Noel Fielding and Jack Barakat purely because they're so down to Earth and genuine people who make me laugh. However out of those who I haven't met it would either be Barack Obama, Lady Gaga or Felix Kjellberg (Pewdiepie) because they seem like people I would get along with and seem laid back.

11. Where is the first place you would go if you were given £1000?

- That's quite some money! Out of common sense, I'd visit the bank first to make sure all the money was safe but then I'd probably really treat myself and buy the Chanel classic flap bag in size large. They're a huge staple piece and I always admire Chanel for their leather goods, then if I had some money left over I'd get some Marc Jacobs perfume.

Nominees Questions:

1. If you could have any super power for 48 hours what would it be and why?
2. You get offered £10,000 to sign your blog over to some corporate company which you will have no say over anything that is written, it will still be under your name etc. Would you accept? Give reasons for your answer.
3. Which are better cats or dogs?
4. What do you expect to of achieved by the age of 34?
5. If you could be the leading role in a film of your choice who would you have directing and type of film would it be?
6. What's your guilty pleasure? (music, film, actor, food etc)
7. Do you have any fears?
8. Are there any strange habits or customs you do subconsciously?
9. Are you a fan of Lush products or is it just a big hype?
10. Describe your perfect day (no limits) from waking up to sleeping.
11.  What was your favourite trend of 2012?

Nominees:

1. Lois - http://lois-loves.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Megan - https://twitter.com/MeganJaneLillie
3. Courtney - http://courtney--xo.blogspot.co.uk/
4. Charissa - http://charissarae.blogspot.co.uk
5. Lucy - http://www.lulutrixabelle.com/
6. Ashleigh - http://www.ashllyd.com/
7. Cami - http://camigmakeup4u2c.blogspot.co.uk/
8. Allie - http://allie-michele.blogspot.co.uk/
9. Amy - http://marzipanstairway.blogspot.co.uk/
10. Olivia - http://www.whatoliviadid.com/
11. Meg - http://www.lipssofacto.com/

    Hope you enjoyed reading through my answers and definatly check out everybody I've left links for! I've also got some news coming up later this month regarding my Youtube channel, so keep your eyes peeled for that one!