PINK COORD OOTD PRIMARK

So what to do when you buy something because it's cheap and too big... I turn it into a halter neck top so it fits! This ootd was a large size 20 jumper from Primark with long sleeves and a matching skirt (size 12) and it just looked silly so big but for £1 I couldn't resist! 

I tried it on today because I thought it would be perfect to do a blog post with and I just looked lost in it! After a while I thought of all the things I'd made in the past year that would be easy to just turn it into and a halterneck being so on trend was the first thing I thought of! The secret to making halternecks is that vital triangle shape, as long as it looks mostly like a triangle it will be fine! 

After tieing it tightly around me it fit nice and snug! And I could wear it like any normal two piece! Paired with my new black bra top to give some back detail I thought it would be a nice cute little summer outfit for holiday! 

So if you're ever wanting to spice an old jumper or a top up, turning it into a tie back halterneck top will always work perfectly! 

Also I made the Pom Pom earrings which I'm majorly proud of! 

If any of you have any design tips and cheats that you've found feel free to comment and share them with the world if you would like any more information about the tie back halter I've made or any other questions feel free to contact me!

FLORAL 70's OOTD featuring FISHNET TIGHTS AND YRU

When I was raking out my wardrobe from the past 7 months at uni (the time I had my bad shopping obsession) I found this gem of a dress although it's officially the shortest dress in history! I also got a size about too thinking it would be longer! The dress is from Primark it only cost me £3 which is a bargain! and I didn't even know it had flared sleeves till I got it home! 

My fishnet tights are from eBay only a couple of quid as I wanted big holed ones and my YRU platforms like usual, the link is in one of my previous posts but some people are selling them on depop if anyones interested! I got my harness from eBay too and my necklace from tatty devine, see previous post for link and write up about my new necklace!

I do think this dress is a little short but I don't think getting larger sizes will help as they get wider rather than longer so don't be fooled! and also i'm only 5ft6 so it's not like I am terribly tall, it maybe worth wearing a pair of cycling shorts underneath or hot pants but everyones different! 

I am struggling with what hair colour to experiment with next as my colourants fade so quickly does anyone have any suggestions with what hair colour I can go next?

Thank you for reading!

PEACE!

TATTY DEVINE SELFRIDGES LONDON

How amazing is this necklace!? I am in love! 

After my poor Marc Jacobs bangle breaking I received a £45 gift card instead of a refund and online a few weeks later was on the Tatty Devine website and saw the most amazing necklace designs! I've always wanted a personalised necklace thats better than just my little cord name choker but didn't have the money to buy one online (how sad is life) but when I took the trip to London at the weekend I had the EUREKA moment at the fact there is a tatty devine stall in Selfridges Oxford Street. 

It took SO long deciding what colours and styles I wanted I bet the women working there were getting fed up of my indecisiveness! After the women being so helpful and showing me a million possible designs and sizes etc. I decided on simplicity goes a long way. I wanted something I could wear whenever wherever and because it was going to cost me £47.50 I didn't want it to be something that just goes out of fashion within the next 6 months because they're so adorable. So silver and black glitter won my vote in the Ladybug font.  I got the larger size as I wanted it to be the first thing people saw on my outfit because it's just so perfect! 

The fact I only had to pay £2.50 of my own money towards it which is such a pretend bargain of the year! You will be seeing it a lot in my future blog posts and probably all over my instagram so I thought I'd take a few photographs of my newbie for you all to lay eyes on! and also a little photo from my instagram (@annahodgson) 

I recommend these necklaces to anyone they're so worth the money I can't wait to share loads of memories with mine because I love it SO SO SO much! and hope if anyone buys one you do too!

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If anyone does have a tatty devine piece I'd love to know what other people have and the styles they chose so please comment below i'd love to be nosey into what other people have! 

Thank you for reading! 

FREE GOODIES!

WHO LOVES FREEBIES! I DO! 

Yesterday at Beautycon London I was given many freebies and I just thought i'd share them with you all in a quick post! 

Some goodies from Liz Earl which was a hot mask facial treatment with a muslin cloth! and may I add, the bag was SO cute! I loved it! I also got a mini version too! 

Some Eylure eyelashes 2 packets, lucky lucky me! I can flutter these wherever I go!

3 packets of metallic tattoos! i'm going to be a sparkling metallic star this summer with all these to test and try! 

A packet of pineapple stick on nails! how did they know that i love pineapples! <3<3<3

This is the GORGEOUS lilac NYX which looks amazing on may I say, I had to have a little swatch this morning! 

These may be the most weird mascaras i've ever seen but still SO amazing! made out of clay, excited to try them! and I got two! as if!

TWO benefit cosmetic roller lash mascaras! HOW PRETTY ARE MY EYES GONNA BE NOW! :o 

TWO purifying face masks so no excuses for bad skin anymore for me!

This uber cute coconut water for hear which by the way SMELLS amazing! by OGX

More benefit goodies to help remove that amazing mascara they gave me! 

How cute is this eye shadow palette by NYX!?

THIS IS A MIRROR WHAT!? so amazed by this benefit cosmetics mirror so I can make myself pretty in a morning!

 Some little goodies such as testers of foundation, a LIZ EARLE COOKIE!! and some iphone screen cleaners! which I don't know how to use yet!?

And finally some cute little beautycon treats so I could never forget them! 

 A little group photo of my extensive amount of goodies I got free yesterday a big thank you to all the makeup companies, beautycon London and also company magazine for letting me go there, it was an amazing day and if you want to hear more about the day then read they next post to see what I did and who I met! 

BEAUTYCON LONDON 2015

After winning tickets to Beautycon London 2015 from Company magazine, me and my friend Natt Hill couldn't resist in the 4 hour drive down to London to join the celebrations of bloggers both style and beauty! Baring in mind this is the first time i've driven out of Yorkshire, whilst also being the furthest i've ever driven I got up at 3:30AM. By 5 I was ready to go get Natt ready for the 4 hour drive.

After 4 hours, 2 wrong turns and going around the same roundabout 3 times because I couldn't fathom out which exit we needed to be to not get totally lost, we get to London fresh as daisies at 9:15AM (even though we had pro passes so we could get in at 9AM) and after another 10 minutes of wandering backwards and forwards to find a door we FINALLY got in the Olympia in Kensington and could finally get started with the day!

The first thing we did when we got there was obviously get our free goodie bag and t-shirt! So many goodies in there! (so many that they get their own blog post next..)

Our next move was straight to the NYX stall in which we had to take a selfie and tag them on Instagram to win a free piece of makeup HURRAY!

 I got a cute little lilac mascara which matches my lilac hair! Then we went to the photobooth.. and created this masterpiece #suckastrawberry such a lovely pair we are in these photographs! We're all about looking pro thats why this was created!

We then took a trip to the other stalls that were there such as Benefit Cosmetics, Stylondon, Liz Earle 

Stylondon was one of my favourite stalls because you got to create your own design or metallic tattoos with designs they had provided and once a lady had applied it for you if you took a photograph and tagged them you got a sheet of metallic tattoos! which is pretty cool really! I did a little boring one of a ram animal thing on my back.. but it got me a sheet of free tattoos and I love the design!

They also had some AMAZING nails on show I took a photo of a few to blog that were my favourite, I am definitely loving these designs and going to save up to get a few!

The black ones are my ultimate favourite, so sleek! its fair to say it was love at first sight! but they have a great range of nail beauty on their website and I've linked a bit further up so take a look at their items and the staff are great people! 

Towards the end I also met Amy Pham who is the most gorgeous human i've ever met and the loveliest (she said she loved my outfit) FAN GIRL ALERT! which was a great thing to do because the queues were SO long to meet other bloggers and I wanted to see and do as much as I could in London that day as I don't get to go down often.

And after we had exhausted all of the stalls and all the freebies we took a little trip into London which wasn't as easy as most people would think as two Hull girls in London on a tube not knowing which ways up or down and as tired as all hell, well I could write a book on our tube experience! 

PS WE ALSO MADE IT ONTO THE BEAUTYCON SNAPCHAT SO YOU MAY HAVE SEEN US :D  with this very NASTY filter! :( 

If anyone went I hope you had a smashing day and if you didn't then it's worth a view and everyones so lovely! thank you for reading and please comment with your experience of the day! I would LOVE to hear about it! 

BEAUTYCON TOMORROW

If you follow me on social media, you may have heard that I won two pro tickets too Beautycon London tomorrow. I have been raking out my wardrobe to find the perfect outfit and today my new Motel Rocks palm leaf unitard came! I LOVE IT, I know it's not online anymore but Motel has a depop account on which they sell one offs for discounted price and this unitard brand new with tags only cost me £12 including signed postage! Amazing right?

Paired with my Primark fishnet socks and platform sliders (also Primark only £6 OMG) I think it would be a cute for beautycon! but I am the most unsure right now! 

I am excited for tomorrow, setting off at 5AM from Hull to get to London and I'm driving (god help me) and it's going to be such a long day. I will be posting about it all day on my Instagram if you want to follow on what i'll be doing. I have pro tickets therefore I will be doing meets and greets and getting goodiebags so if you're interested i'll be sharing it with you all! I will also be writing a blog post about my day probably on Sunday so if you want to keep up with the days events as they go, follow me on Instagram @annahodgson 

I am also debating on whether to wear my new septum ring only £3.79 from ebay! would love to know your opinions in the comments!

Thank you for reading my blog post today and feel free to comment on what you think about my blog or if you have any questions. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram! @annahodgson

Peace!