Wishful wednesday

1. RIVER ISLAND £30 | 2 MISS SELFRIDGE £52 | 3. ASOS £28 | 4. TOPSHOP £38 | 5. BADPASSION.CO.UK £11 | 6. MISS SELFRIDGE £42 | 

7. ASOS £20

Wishful wednesday is definitely full of wishing as I am forbidding myself from spending anything at the moment as I am doing so well with saving up and I will be disappointed if I ruin it!  I even went into town for a bit today and looked around Topshop, River Island, New Look and Superdrug, and bought nothing.  I thought I'd at least end up buying a few jewellery pieces in Topshop, but nope!  Yes, I was practically quickly running round each shop with my hands covering my eyes, but that's not the point... Mexican wave in celebration of me...?  I've really been wanting a clutch recently since I saw this blog post but can't seem to find one like that anywhere, however I do like this snake print one for the time being!  Bad Passion is a site which I came across the other day and there's loads of great stuff on there, the first thing I saw was these earrings and I knew I liked the site already.  The maxi dress is probably not appropiate for going to college in, is it?  But I love it anyway with the cut-out detail, with my trusty Converse I can adapt it to daytime wearing, right..?  I've also been searching high and low for some casual, everyday heels and I adore these ones, but at over fifty quid they probably just belong on this list at the moment...

Red ruffles

DRESS: ASOS | BELT: UNKNOWN | SHOES: CONVERSE

I bought this dress at least a year ago, or something like that, because I loved it when it was £87 (it was by either ASOS Black or ASOS White, hence the price) so when it got reduced to £27 I snapped it up straight away.  It is quite a statement piece so I don't really accessorize apart from this simple belt, although I have no idea where it came from and have never really worn it before today, but I like how it gives a little shape to the dress because I feel like I look a little lost in it otherwise!  The dress is a lovely colour too, I originally wanted it in nude but I liked it in this too, and burgundy has been huge this season so I can't complain.  I love how it really makes my nail varnish pop too, it doesn't go with the dress at all but that isn't a bad thing, I don't think.  I love the effect.
I had my English Language & Literature exam yesterday and am so hoping I did okay amazingly, it's the subject which I need my highest mark in and thus an A is probably the minimum grade I expect of myself!  I have a Chemistry exam tomorrow and then that's it for exams until summer.  I love the feeling of not having to do any hardcore revision for a while because it means that I can start doing all the things I've had to stop for the past few weeks, i.e. reading magazines/books (I'm on the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books at the moment, obsessed!) and catching up with other blogs - I think I currently have two hundred and something unread posts on my bloglovin at the moment - so three o' clock tomorrow afternoon couldn't come much quicker really.  So that's my plan for the night - revision, but I will make sure to pop up a 'Wishful Wednesday' post later.

Pastel palette

1: MISSGUIDED £19.99 | 2. RIVER ISLAND £30 | 3. TOPSHOP £60 | 4. ASOS £30 | 5. £12 BOOHOO | 6. TOPSHOP £38 | 7. BEFRASSY.COM 

Pastels are going to be huge this summer and I don't need to explain why really, with their connotations of ice cream and what not, mmm... I haven't really bought any yet as the weather here is definitely not ready for it, despite that fact that retail stores are now stocked with bikinis, but I will definitely be purchasing some items in lilac, and aqua blue too.  Coloured denim is appearing everywhere in all kinds of pastel shades at the moment, so they'd probably be the easiest thing to inject a bit of this trend into your wardrobe.
I've started my exams this week so my college timetable is a bit all over the place but if the weather works out okay then I should have one up tomorrow, yippeee.

tattoo inspiration

Getting a tattoo has always been something I've wanted to do as you can see on my list, and since it's coming up to my eighteenth birthday I've been putting quite a lot of thought into what to get and where to get it.  I think the first place where I would get one is on my back, as then it's easily hidden just in case but you can show it if you want to. I especially take inspiration from Rihanna and Freja Beha's tattoos (who is pictured twice above), who have quite a few ones but they're relatively subtle.  I like the idea of having one word, but I'm not sure which word I would get... And the picture of the tattoo down the spine bone, I cannot get out of my head, the back is probably my favourite place on a person's body, there's something so delicate yet attractive about it, I think.
Do you have a tattoo?  What would you get?

Little red dress

DRESS & SNOOD: TOPSHOP | COAT: ASOS | SHOES: CONVERSE

Before I bought this dress I realised I had nothing red in my wardobe, and yet studies have shown that men would spend more money on a woman in red, compared with the same woman wearing a blue shirt, so I thought: 'Why the hell is my wardrobe not full of this colour?!'.  I thought this dress would be the perfect thing to introduce it to my every-colour-but-red filled wardrobe.  It's quite a casual item of clothing so it is easy for me to wear to college, and I thought I could wear it in the summer too, avec a denim jacket, so I couldn't say no really could I?  Still waiting for the day when a man comes up to me and gives me a wad of cash, though... 
In other news, it was my last day at my job yesterday which is a shame, I doubt I'll get another one now until I go to university.  Hopefully things will work out for the best. 
I hope you're all having a nice relaxing Sunday.   I, on the other hand, will be studying Hamlet...