Fabulous New Fashion chat - Dressed up or Down - Everyone Welcome!!

daisybella

I'm curious about threading but there isn't anywhere in my town that does it, and to get it done in Bristol would cost me twice as much because of travel costs, so sticking with wax for now, haha. It's my little £5 indulgence.

rainbow81

medsdemon wrote: »

Morning ladies:).
Snowing again here and off out to lunch with a friend so looking fairly presentable if slightly boring. Managed to put an outfit picture on my blog, please no laughing!
Today am wearing:
Black "Hammer" pants- RI sale
Grey batwing Jumper- RI sale
chunky black beady necklace -Warehouse sale
Bead bracelet -handmade gift
Black bootees lace-up with buckles- bargain £2 from carboot
i will probably sling on my big forest green long cardi with huge buttons in lieu of a coat and take my patchwork bag from Accessorize to brighten myself up when i go out.

oooh Rainbow- your outfit sounds nice- do you have lots of spec frames??

Hi, how is that a boring outfit?? Sounds really exciting to me!

I just have 2 frames, you know, bogof on designer frames... I really want some new ones but I will wait for my free eye test (mainly because I've lost my prescription - doh!). I've only been wearing glasses for just over a year, I really need (yes need!) some cool frames.

piratefairy

I did the first stage of mine at the weekend as i felt they were getting too thick, but i don't like to do the whole lot at once..so have left it a few days and will thin them a little more this evening, i like them thinnner than they are naturally, but it's one of those things i forget to do, like trimming my hair to get rid of the split ends..

and yeah, i guess you're right..they're not overly glam or anything, and certainly not the tarty types who would try to keep their makeup on the whole day, and i know we will enjoy it, but i will feel conscious..i know there's nothing really wrong with my size, but i don't like my legs, i think they're too chunky, as a result of way too much exercise bike in younger gym sessions..and being in a swinsuit in public is something i tend to try to avoid..

piratefairy

yes, the schuh discount hting is great..they give you a month to use the code usually..
ooh, which means my last review code will have run out - grr!

moggylover

lostinrates wrote: »

PF, I was that slim when I met DH, he says he longed to feed me from the moment he saw me. He said I looked like a beautiful but very ill and unloved person. for many, many, many women 6 is far too small. Lollipops, tadpoles...look at them objectively.

You are not whale like. Now, stop talking yourself into a bad day.

I went to spa last year with DH, and I'm a whale...bigger than you ATM, and there were people bigger than me there. I wore, on advice from you lot, a pink swimsuit and took a sarong for confidence, but wore the robe between rooms and at lunch. My advice? enjoy it. Stick conditioner in your hair in the steam rooms and don't worry what you look like while there. Take something efortless glam to leave in, I wore a mazi dress and flats and a cardi, and a wrap and HUGE sunnies...in summer I'd have gone diamante flip flops.

the people tryin to keep their makeup on and with jewelery on looked like they were having less fun than DH and I....(we did handstands in the pool like kids when it was just us. )

You know LIR - many, many years ago I used to go to the gym a lot and used the sauna there regularly. I was young and everything was firm and I used to look around (not too obviously) at the other ladies there, especially the older ones, and the most glaringingly obvious thing was that the incredibly thin ones aged far, far worse than those of average or even slightly over, weight! They simply had no flesh to stay plump or firm and the wrinkles were in places I definitely never want to have wrinkles:D

For almost anyone over 5' in height a 6 or an 8 is far too thin and they will pay for it as they get older. Slim is one thing: the fashion for skin and bone is neither healthy, nor attractive imo. I find painfully thin women who diet to stay that way as sad and worrying as those that are truly obese:o

goanmad

Morning (just about), lovelies!

Threadings ace...I have it done in India for 50 rupees (about 60p), such a neat result and lasts ages, too.

PirateFairy - there's a stand in the main shopping centre in Shrewsbury which does it. The same company have one in my home town, they're excellent as long as you don't mind being watched by passers-by.

Just attempting to catch up with the latest news and gossip. I'm off to a jumble this afternoon (whoppee!) so I'm hoping the torrential rain continues, it'll put off any potential fair-weather rivals.

Today's outfit (up on blog):

Vintage green and white floral shift (Jumble)
Turquoise opaques (Ex-Urban Outfitters, Car boot)
Tod's python boots (Car Boot)
Vintage green wool beret (Chazza shop)
Green elasticated belt with gold leaf clasp (Car boot)
Green armwarmers (TopShop)
Green and blue enamel earrings (TopShop)
Silver rings (India)

Right, off to see what you're all looking at, lusting over and chatting about.

Alexnikov

I realised last night at the swimming baths that I don't care who sees me in my swimming costume. This probably has much to do with being half blind without my glasses - I can't see anyone properly so I don't think they can see me properly :rotfl:

rainbow81

piratefairy wrote: »

sound perfectly put together to me, alex..

bad dreams are awful, i sometimes find it difficult to believe how badly they can affect, when you know they are a dream..that sounds dumb, but i think i got the point across :S

I dreamed i was 19 last night so they have the opposite effect too!

I do tend to remain in a bad mood with someone who has been terrible to me in my dreams, it is ridiculous but your brain doesn't know that a dream isn't real does it? The feelings are real.

tara747

LIR and moggylover, what lovely posts! Going to a spa is fun, just relax and enjoy it. PF, I'm sure your friends have hangups of their own and don't notice anyone else's little imperfections!!!

I plucked my brows this morning in preparation for hols, would love to have them threaded though.

Today's outfit (I don't often do this as my stuff is quite repetitive!):

Black linen skirt - Gap via CS £2
Green cami - Topshop £5
Green cardi - Primark £5
FAB green/blue/red T necklace - Accessorize sale £4
Lime green stone drop earrings - Oxfam £1
Green beaded bracelet - eBay £5
Green ring (part of set £5)
Black Mary Janes
Black tights

I feel very stylish and put together today for a change!!!

p.s. my eBay cream earrings are on eBay again (think seller has more than one pair for sale), want me to post the link??

piratefairy

Thanks, goan, i may check it out at lunch..See, having my eyebrows threaded wouldn't be somehting that I'd be bothered about ppl seeing me do!

And retro, the feelings are totally real!! I hate it when I wake up terrified about something that hppened in a dream, which more often than not I can't even rkemeber but that feeling of terror is totally real!