Re:So Bloggers Event!

When I saw this event in my inbox I was very excited to go along to see what this event was all about. Recently Southampton Solent University have opened their own temporary store in Southampton’s city centre. They have collaborated with their students to give those with their own product creations a chance to sell and promote their unique items in Re:So. With a variety of items sold in store the shop gives off the feel of a beautiful fashion and lifestyle vintage boutique rather than a normal high street store. The layout is really pretty and the entire store holds a vintage, individual feel to it with only key one off pieces being sold. I had been into Re:So once previously to this event and straight away fell in love with the store, it is run by university students but has a total professional feel in store with sales of genuine pieces made creatively and to a perfect standard.

I went along with my friend Emily from Fashion-Fruit to the event, where we were welcomed with finger foods, cup cakes and cute little packets of sweets, they also had bottles of fizzy drinks and plastic cups which I thought was quite cute as there wasn’t really any need to go over the top, it kind of fitted with the feel to the shop, drinking basic fizzy pop from plastic cups in their vintage store. The evening consisted of an insightful talk from blogger Brent Meheux who is also one of Solent’s tutors. He spoke about blogging do’s and don’ts and gave us an insight into some of the blogs he maintains and blogs in which interest him also. Brent makes a living from some of his blogs throughout the year, especially during times when he is not tutoring at university. The talk was very insightful and it was an overall great evening being amongst other bloggers from the Southampton area who aim to create successful blogs. Blogging is something I’ve really taken an interest in recently and I love having a blog now, the only thing I regret is not starting it sooner! However, everyone needs to start somewhere and my advice to people who want to start a blog but don’t know how or when to start would be just go for it, the longer you leave it the more you’ll think about not doing it, everyone was in your position at one stage but if you’re passionate about a specific subject, whether its fashion, beauty or art then blog about it!

You can find Re:So’s blog here to find out the latest of what’s happening at Re:So!

 

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DIY: A Little Black Dress

I’ve had this black Topshop dress in my wardrobe for way over a year now! I picked it up purely because it was in the sale for something ridiculously cheap (I think about £10). I haven’t ever worn it, just because when it’s on I feel like it’s really nothing special and it’s really boring and black and when worn with black tights (which is basically a must with this dress) they make it look even more boring! So, time to re-invent this boring old black dress! 

I’ve had these little studs left over from previous DIY’s I’ve done and thought I would put them to good use, I wanted to go for more of a neat collar design as some I’ve seen that are scattered all over the place don’t really appeal to me as much. The only part of this dress I could really add studs to was the collar to jazz it up a little. First off, I plotted where the line of 3 studs would go and began to push in the studs and used scissors to close them down tight at the back of the collar. I continued to lay them out line by line as precise as I could row after row and 21 studs later… the first collar was done! It didn’t really take too long and I found it quite soothing just sitting there putting studs onto a dress, maybe that’s weird! I love finding little things that allows me to be creative though! The next part is making sure the opposite collar is even, it’s a guessing game really but it isn’t too difficult to work out… another 21 studs later, and the dress was complete, ta-dah!

I decided to wear this with a thin knitted jumper chucked over the top because the shaping of the dress at the top isn’t too flattering, there’s a weird line separating the top section but not on the waist line, it’s just under the chest, not flattering at all for me! So, this jumper hides that well, and breaks up a full black outfit! 

Coat- Topshop £48 | Dress- Topshop (sale) £10 | Tights- Topshop (old) | Shoes- Urban Outfitters £55 | Knitted Jumper- Topshop £24 | Bag- Mulberry | Nail Varnish- Barry M (294) £2.99 | Ring- Topshop

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OOTD | Skater skirts & Bowler hats!

The past week at Uni I’ve been extremely busy and actually haven’t managed to blog too much. I’ve had 3 deadlines come around at once and all right before Christmas so it’s all a bit rush, rush, rush and of course me being a major last minute person anyway doesn’t help! Last week I handed in a management and marketing report, 51 pages and 12,000 words later! Yes, 12,000 I managed to get it in on time… one down, 2 to go…! For one of my other Uni projects, I had to set up and plan a photo shoot around a diversity issue to suit iD magazine! So I decided to wear this outfit on the day of shooting, something easy and comfortable to be prepared to do a lot of moving about in, what with moving the lights around and making sure everything was correct on my model… it ended up being quite fun and exciting, I have been planning each of the shots for a couple of weeks now so I knew exactly how I wanted it which made everything easier. 

After we finished shooting me and my friend Emily took advantage of the studio space and white backgrounds and decided to get in some quick blog photos- marvellous! I wanted to go for a very black and white look so matched this black skater skirt with this basic men’s t-shirt I picked up from Primark, I rolled the sleeves up and ironed them into position, added tights and my spiked shoes and was good to go!

Here's an image of me in action on the photoshoot- styling away!

T-shirt- Primark men’s £2.50 | Skirt- H&M £12.99 | Hat- EBay | Shoes- Urban Outfitters £55