Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Escape The Fate Gig- 16th February 2016

Ok so waaaaayyyyyyyyyy back in February, I went to see FVK support Escape The Fate on their UK tour in London. I promised I would get you this post, despite being over 3 months late, so here it is.

I'll always be honest here on my blog and I will admit, my main intentions were to go see FVK rather than the main headline themselves since as the FVK boys missed out London on their Bruises tour and I was dying to see them perform the new killer tracks off their latest mini album.
However, I was still pleasantly entertained by all the acts I saw that evening, including Like A Storm, New Years Day and of course main headline, Escape The Fate. These are all great bands and I recommend you check them out if your into the more gothy side of rock music, or if not, you may be pleasantly surprised.

The venue for this gig was the Electric Ballroom up in Camden, literally just by the tube station which was handy as it didn't take long to get there and back at the end of the gig.
I had never been to this venue before which always puts me a lil on edge, but its actually a really lovely venue and its quite spacious inside too.
Being in Camden, theres so much to do while waiting for doors to open. My friend and I went for lunch at Wetherspoons next to the canal and then explored the quirky markets and shops.

As it was February, the weather was bitter and my muscles were all seized up for the next week as I was shivering so much. Remember to take care of yourself while queuing and be sensible. I'm thinking about writing a post on how to survive gig queuing so let me know if you would like that.

The first support act was Like A Storm from the land down under. I  had heard their song 'Love The Way You Hate Me' before on a free CD I got with a Rock Sound Magazine a while ago and I was really fond of it so it was great to hear it live. They were the perfect band to start off the show as they had so much energy and a real connection with the crowd which always earns a big thumbs up from me. I also loved how with some songs they had the Didgeridoo out and I've never seen a band do that before, it was really cool to see and hear.
Next up was New Years Day. I was really fond of their 'Epidemic' EP and it was really cool to hear some of those tracks live. They put on a really good performance, although a little eerie at times when the band completely froze for about 2 minutes which I won't lie, was down right creepy.
Unfortunately all my pictures I got from their set are terrible so there's no point showing them but overall, it was a great set and I really enjoyed it.

Time for FVK, it has been soo long since I last saw them and I was so pumped for their performance. It was an amazing set, playing favourite new and old tracks. Although I was sad about how short their set was, they were here to support ETF and it wasn't their own show so I can understand that but I do wish it had of been a tiny bit longer so we could of got to here even more of their new mini-album, I guess we'll have to see what they have in store for their Reading set (which I am buzzing for to the point where I made my self sick with excitement when they got announced but that's another story).

I'll admit, I didn't know any ETF songs so I gave up my space and chilled at the back, as nice as it is partying at the front, sometimes its just nice to relax and really watch and enjoy the show from the back in your own space. Escape The Fate set was really enjoyable despite the technical issues, they didnt let them stop them from putting on an amazing show for their fans!

I was lucky enough to catch up with Shane and Kier after the gig which was lovely. I love how much they appreciate their fans and encourage them to come up for a chat, whereas some bands see that as a hassle. I've got a lot of time and respect for bands like that and its these types who I believe will be more successful and good karma will come to them.


So that pretty much sums up my time at the ETF gig! I had a killer time and it was also great to hang out with my friend Kim at the same time.

I was originally planning for a festival lookbook to be up first but these take a while to make and the weather really isn't coorporating right now, but then I guess bad weather is part of that festival look?!
Since I haven't been able to make this yet, I didn't want to leave you hanging which is why I finally got round to posting this.
My Slam Dunk 2016 blog post will also be up shortly so hang around for that.
Be sure to follow my social media to be told when exactly I upload another post so you don't miss out. I am thinking about making a facebook page so when I have I will edit this post and add a link in but for now follow my twitter and instagram below. Speak soon!

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Alice x

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

BACK IN BUSINESS!

Greetings earthlings! I am home!

After a very long time stuck on planet a-level, I am done and am back ready to take over earth. 

Enough with the alien shit now, I am soooo excited to be back you have no idea, I feel so invincible right now madly typing to "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence. For the whole time I was away, I have been missing blogging immesnly and I am buzzing with ideas. As of right now I have 24 blog post ideas for you, I can't wait to get started!

As I'm writing this I have one exam left which is a-level geography unit 4a exam………such fun (oh the sarcasm), geography I have found these past 2 years is definitely not for me. If your taking this exam wednesday too, I wish you the best of luck, it shouldn't be too bad… I hope.

Anyway, I just wanted to fill you in with a quick update before I jump right back into blogging.
As of yet, I do not have a schedule planned but definitely expect at least a post a week. Post wise, look forward to an extremely over-due Escape The Fate gig chit chat and also a Slam Dunk festival 2016 get down. As for fashion, I have some pieces I've been dying to show you so stay tuned for that. I also have many ideas for lifestyle/advice type posts and have tonnes of ideas which you'll hopefully dig.

Right, I'm now off to get started on a new post for you all! Not quite sure where to start, THERES SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT!

Ooohh also before I go, you may of noticed I have changed the background of my blog. Expect a lot of changes as I'm currently experimenting with new looks as I want to re-vamp my blog and make it new and fresh. Also possibly expect a change of blog name completely. ok NOW I'm off, gonna get started and jam to Tina Turner, keep rolling on that river friends,

Peace out

Alice x

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

30 Facts About Me!

Hello Everyone!

Today I am going to share with you 30 facts about me.
I love these types of posts and its great to get to know the person a little bit better!

1.) So let's start off with the basics…
My name is Alice and I am 18 and from Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom.

2.) My main blogging interests are Fashion, Music and Photography.

3.) My favourite style era is the 90's. I am obsessed with the 90's grunge style and am always trying to perfect space buns.

4.) I have a Chihuahua X Chinese Crested Pomeranian called Ralph who I love extremely. My family and I like to nickname him Woofie.

5.) My favourite fashion retailers are H&M and Boohoo.

6.) My all time favourite band is Don Broco who I have been a fan of since 2013. I remember my friend playing 'You Wanna Know' to me while we walked our dogs down an alley way in our village which is now known to us as Don Broco alley. I have seen them 6 times so far and have 3 more shows booked for August.
Let me know if your going to any shows and maybe I'll see you round Bedford or London!

7.) I love meeting new people and making new friends. I was (and still can be sometimes) a very shy person and this caused me to not have many friends and a miserable school life while growing up so as I've grown older and more confident, I like to push myself and talk to more people instead of shying away.

8.) I am also a huge fan of FVK, Neck Deep, Young Guns, Lower Than Atlantis, Fall Out Boy, Pvris, Bring Me The Horizon, Beartooth, Bury Tomorrow, While She Sleeps and Room 94.

9.) I often don't leave the house unless I have winged eyeliner.

10.) I am a cheerleader and have been for about 7 years now. I first got into Cheerleading when I went along with my friend after school as I was going to hers after to get ready for a birthday party we had both been invited to and I have been a Cheerleader ever since. I have been in 3 teams in my Cheer lifetime. From the age of 11 to 13, I was in my middle school team Eagles. We often did displays and Best Competition which was held at my future upper school against other middle schools in the area. I always loved Best Competition and its an awesome atmosphere. I always make sure I go to watch Best Comp even though I am no longer competing in that team to support them although last year it was cancelled which I was super gutted about.
When I left middle school, I joined my upper school team Sabres. I went to my first big competition with this team and we traveled up to Nottingham to the Capital FM Arena for the ICC International cheer competition. Sadly, we lost although it was a great experience I will never forget, performing in front of a whole arena full of people.
We also competed at Crystal Palace which I believe we came second in?! Which was also great fun!
Last year, I joined my current team Falcons. At the moment, we are just a recreational team and have a display coming up but we hope to be able to be doing competitions by the December.

Phew… that was a hefty fact

11.) My birthday is the 11th February.

12.) I absolutely love festivals! Last year I went to my first festival which was Slam Dunk and I had the best day! I met so many awesome bands including Donny B (of course), set it off, Mike Duce from Lower Than Atlantis, Room 94 and so many more. We got to watch loads of bands and it really was a perfect day. I will be returning to Slam Dunk again this year which I am super excited about.
Let me know if you're going to the South date and maybe I'll see you there.
I am also doing a whole weekend of Reading Festival this year which I'm buzzing for.
I hope one day to be able to do a weekend at Download and 2000 Trees, the line-up this year is fab!

13.) I hate the number 13. For me, its very unlucky. I also believe Thursday the 12th is unlucky as one year I suffered from multiple injuries on one foot on one day so this day is now known as Unlucky Foot Day to my family and I. I know, we're crazy!

14.) I am obsessed with coconut scented products! I particually love the smell of Malibu's sun cream and Tresememe's Coconut Shampoo and Conditioner. This probably explains why Malibu is also my favourite alcoholic drink since its Coconut flavoured.
So yeah, If you ever loose me in Superdrug, you'll know where I'll be!

15.) My highest GCSE was in Psychology where I got an A. To this day I still don't know how I managed it.

16.) My lowest GCSE was in Drama which I actually failed on purpose because I hated it that much.

17.) My favourite Bloggers/Youtubers are Bubzbeauty, Zoe London, Amy Valentine, Leanne Woodfull, Kayla Hadlington, Helen Anderson, Vintageena, Sprinkle Of Glitter, Amazing Phil and Danisnotonfire.
Check them out if you haven't already.

18.) As a child, I was obsessed with 101 Dalmations so much that we have been through various copies of the video due to me watching them so much they broke.

19.) I'm in a music video! Being quite the big Broco fan I am, I am seen in the crowd many a time in Don Broco's live at Brixton video for Nerve. The video actually ends on my friends and I.

20.) Last year I shaved the side of my head hoping to look like Ellie Goulding. I loved it to begin with until my mum re-shaved the side but forgot to put the guard on and I was literally bald on that one side. It looked proper nasty and I wore a beanie to cover it even though it was the summer. I've been growing it out since late November.

21.) I have a terrible phobia of E.T. To this day I will still cry at the sight of him and it can be extremely embarrassing for me. Sometime I will be scrolling social media and he will appear causing me to drop my phone and avoid the app for the rest of the day. However my most embarrassing encounter was when I was working at HMV over christmas, a customer handed me a huge pile of DVD's which I was happily scanning through until I saw him…. not the best experience I'll admit. I had to get a colleague to take over while I tried to bring my breathing back to normal. Luckily, the customer was super understanding and revealed to me he had an extreme phobia of spiders.
I can get frustrated sometimes as I believe everything has a reason but I cannot find the reason for this phobia. I've even studied phobias in Psychology but I couldn't apply it to myself.
Although I do have some funny memories which go with this! One of my best friends actually has the same phobia and in Lower school, it was Golden Time (if you don't have this where you come from, the last hour of Lower school on a friday was known as Golden Time where you were free to play), we were both sat in the reading corner on our bean bags reading books and we decided to pick up the informative alien book (don't know why this was on a children's book shelf tbf) and whilst looking through this book, we found a whole 2 page spread dedicated to E.T. From here we both screamed and literally threw the book to the other side of the classroom and hysterically cried. Our teacher then picked us out a nice Unicorn book to read for us to calm down.
Thinking back on this now makes me laugh, but if I was to look at that book now, my reaction would most likely be the same.

22.) Lets keep the last 8 facts short and snappy since I appeared to of rambled so much already!
I have my ears pierced, just your basic lobe.

23.) My first ever concert was McFly. They played Birmingham but I can't remember what tour. I actually fell asleep in there, I was only young!

24.) I don't have any tonsils and they were taken out when I was 2.

25.) My favourite shoe brand is Dr.Martens.

26.) As I'm writing this, I have Save It For The Bedroom by You Me At Six stuck in my head.

27.) My favourite Holiday destination is Malta.

28.) I am 3/4 British and 1/4 Italian.

29.) My dream car is a Mini Cooper.

30.) I have 2 scars. One is a chicken pox scar under my left eyebrow and the other is on my right knee from where I fell of a zip wire as a child.

So these are my 30 facts about me!
I hope enjoyed learning a little bit more about me, if we have anything in common, I would love to know in the comments!

Ciao for now!

Alice


Monday, 9 May 2016

A Quick Lil Update...

Hey Everyone!

I just wanted to give you a quick lil update on where I have been for the past few months.
I began the year feeling pretty confident that I would be able to manage my blog at the same time as studying for my A-Levels this May/June, however as time went on I found this was not the case.

As much as I love blogging, I had to let it sit on the back burner while I have been revising. I am not defiantly not the most academically smart person there is, so I need all the revision I can get!
However, exams are extremely close now, my first one being the 16th May, so it won't be long until I will be back to blogging again.

I hope to start shortly after study leave on the 27th. I have had so much gone on that I'm dying to tell you all about and loads of great ideas since I last posted way back in January.
I went to see FVK support Escape The Fate back in Feb and Slam Dunk festival is mega close and I'm so excited for it!
I've also been collecting lots of style pictures for future outfit posts which I am also very excited for and I hope you are to.

When I first made the decision to put my blog aside until I finished school, I later came to the decision I would blog as much as I could at half and the end of term. But unfortunately my laptop was not co-operating. It was almost like it was de-evolving itself!
I first noticed problems when the battery life would get shorter and shorter until it would no longer turn on unless it was plugged in. I knew it was getting old so I accepted it until the next issue arose. I turned it on one day to get my daily fix of Sims 4 to find it would no longer connect to the internet. We tried literally everything to try and get it to connect but it was having none of it. We even had one of our friends up who works with tech and even he couldn't solve the problem. So this has also contributed to my reason of absence as I would of been blogging in the school breaks.

As much as I was gutted about this, I'm glad I wasn't able to blog as I'm super excited to fill you in on whats been going on using my new laptop that arrived today. I can't wait for exams to be over so I can blog to my hearts content xD

Anyway, I should probably get back to (attempt) revision, not long to go now! Just wanted to quickly fill you in on where I've been and to let you know I will be back late May/early June, so stay tuned for that! I can't wait to get started!

See you soon,

Alice x

Monday, 18 January 2016

London Lumiere Festival

Hey Everybody! Yesterday I went to the Lumiere Festival in London! It was a great evening full of spectacular and colourful lights despite the bitter cold and even a little snowfall.
 
Recently, my camera broke and it had me a little sad, as I could no longer take any decent pictures. But my knights in shining armour, Mum and Sister treated me to an early birthday present which was a new camera! (thank you so so mucchhh xxxx)
 
The camera they got me is a Canon PowerShot SX400IS and I feel like the quality of my photos have stepped up massively compared to the Samsung WB100. I'm so over the moon with this new camera, I love it!




The first lights we saw that evening were these beautiful birdcages. They were so simple looking but so calming to be around. They even had speakers hidden around them so you could hear birds tweeting which I loved. Waking up in the summer to the noise of birds tweeting is my favourite!



Next we came across a park which had been set up with a few light displays. I can't remember what the first was called but I feel like it may of been Sun Chime or something like that. It was very hypnotising to watch as the colours rippled across the screen. It also played a very calming yoga type music which again is another one of my favourite sounds so I very much liked that one.
The one directly above was called Brothers and Sisters. I love the photo I got of this one. It just goes to show how much better my new camera is because if I had tried to photograph that on my old one, the colours just would of been a blur. Really happy with how it came out.
 


 
 




 
Now, no trip is complete for me anymore without visiting my most favourite place in London, Carnaby Street.
Admittedly, Carnaby was nowhere near as beautiful as it was last time I came when all the Christmas displays were still up but it still had a great atmosphere none the less.
 
We had to at least look in the window of Irregular Choice because come 'on, its a crime not too! Same for the Doc Martens store, fav shoes ever!


After Carnaby, we made our way to Piccadilly Circus, this is another photo I was proud of quality wise but when you think about it, its just a load of ads. Although I do like how I got a shot of it just as 'Choose Happiness' was up there.
 






I'm not quite sure where we were when I took these but it was heaving with people. These pictures I took are a little out of focus but like I said, the place was bustling. I'm not actually quite sure what these lights were supposed to be. Some said they were elephants, whereas I thought they looked like dragons but the people I was with thought they looked like sperms. I'm still trying to get a really good shot of the moon. I find the moon very mysterious and fascinating and I could never get a good shot on my old camera and it came out as just a white blur. Again the picture is still blurry but its a lot better thanks to the new camera.



I really had to crane my neck looking at these next few as they were on top of buildings. If the people I was with didn't spot them, I never would of done. Although the first one made me feel kinda sick, imagining diving off a building.
 




These next few, I took while we made our way back to Kings Cross. By then we were very cold and a few snow flakes began to fall. We stopped by Trafalgar Square which was nice because I hadn't been here in years. The fountain was part of the Lumiere Festival with all the bottles lighting up but to be honest with you, it literally looks like rubbish that's been dumped in the fountain. So even though it not the prettiest of light displays, I still think the picture came through really nice.

I didn't really get my camera out much after this as it started to snow/sleet and I didn't want to get it wet. But we had a lovely time at the Lumiere Festival and I would recommend it to everyone, just make sure you wear lots of layers!
 
Alice
 
All own photos.
Camera used: Canon PowerShot SX400IS
Twitter: @partyhardbroco
Instagram: @alicimo1102

Sunday, 3 January 2016

Top 10 Band Discoveries Of 2015

Hi everyone! I hope your having a good 2016 so far.
It might not come as a surprise but as I'm sure you know by now, that I love music and today I wanted to talk about my top 10 band discoveries of 2015.

Please note that these are not bands that started in 2015, these are the bands that I discovered last year and have been loving.

It was a tough decision as I discovered so many the past year but I managed to narrow it down to my top 10. So lets get into it....

10.) Myth City
How I discovered them?
I first discovered Myth City when they were announced to support Fearless Vampire Killers on their Unbreakable Hearts tour last May. I did my research and listened to a few of their songs on spotify. I was a bit on the fence about them until I saw them live for the first time and they blew me away.
I saw the band again in August when they were part of the line-up for Havoc festival which was created by FVK.

Songs you should check out...
Fracture
The Vendetta
Mandown

Myself, my friend and Maz (lead singer of Myth City) at Havoc Fest

9.) Set It Off
How I discovered them?
I discovered Set It Off when my friend lent me their Duality album early in 2015. I really enjoyed their album and was super excited to see them live when they got announced for Slam Dunk Festival 2015. They were the first band we saw that day and were amazing. They did a signing shortly after their set at the Kerrang Tent and I went to go meet them. They're a lovely bunch!

Songs you should check out...
Why Worry
Forever Stuck In Our Youth
Problem (Arianna Grande cover)
The Haunting
Ancient History
Set It Off selfies from Slam Dunk Festival 2015
8.) We Are The In Crowd
How I discovered them?
I had never heard of WATIC until Don Broco announced them as part of the line-up for the Kerrang Tour 2015 which was last February. I listened to them on Spotify and fell in love with their music. Their set on the Kerrang Tour was mind blowing. I hope the come back to the UK soon!

Songs you should check out...
Manners
The Best Thing (That Never Happened)
Long Live The Kids
Dreaming Out Loud

7.) Coasts
How I discovered them?
I've spoken about Coasts very recently on my blog as they supported Don Broco at Brixton Academy in  early December. If you've read that post, you will know how much I love them.
I loved seeing Coasts live and I hope I'll see them again this 2016. They are very different to what I usually listen to but I think because its so different that's why I loved it. They had a great stage presence too which is something that really makes a band for me.

Songs you should check out...
Oceans
Modern Love
A Rush Of Blood

6.) Bury Tomorrow
How I discovered them?
I also discovered Bury Tomorrow from being announced as part of the line-up for Kerrang Tour 2015. Their set was awesome, they really know how to get a crowd going!
I admire this band a lot, for being musically talented but also for their morals. Danny is a strong supporter of free meet and greets along with his #fuckpaidmeetandgreets on Twitter. I am a strong supporter of this too. He made sure he and the other band members went out to meet those in the queue who wanted to and then after the set went out into the crowd to meet even more people. It's a shame more people aren't like Danny Winter-Bates! This band have the upmost respect from me!

Songs you should check out...
Earthbound
Man On Fire
Lionheart
Of Glory

Selfies with the Winter-Bates brothers at Kerrang Tour 2015
5.) Lower Than Atlantis
How I discovered them?
If I'm honest I can't remember how I first discovered LTA. But I do remember listening to them a lot early in 2015. I was super excited to see them perform at Slam Dunk and their set definitely disappoint. I unfortunately missed their show at the Roundhouse in December so I hope I can see them again soon!

Songs you should check out...
Get Over It
Here We Go
Criminal
English Kids In America
Emily
Words Don't Come So Easily

Picture with Mike Duce (lead singer of LTA)
4.) Beartooth
How I discovered them?
So this may or may not come as a surprise to you but Beartooth were also part of the line-up for Kerrang Tour 2015. I thank the Kerrang Tour a lot for allowing me to discover so many great bands this past year. I do love Beartooths music and they were great to see them live. I recently purchased their most recent album, Digusting, and its all I've been listening to!

Songs you should check out...
Beaten In Lips
Inbetween
The Lines
I Have A Problem
Body Bag
One More
Keep Your American Dream

3.) Neck Deep
How I discovered them?
Neck Deep are another band I discovered thanks to Slam Dunk festival. I had never heard any of their music before until that moment but the crowd had so much energy as the band did and it was great to see that. Gotta love an amazing stage presence. I saw them again at Reading festival in August, however we missed half the set due to arriving late. Although what I saw of the set was awesome! I brought their latest album, Life's Not Out To Get You, late November and its been another album I've been non stop listening to. I hope I can see them at one of their own shows in 2016!

Songs you should check out...
Gold Steps
A Part Of Me
Can't Kick Up The Roots
Lime St.
Citizens Of Earth

2.) Bring Me The Horizon
How I discovered them?
It was hard to miss out on this one, literally everyone is talking about BMTH. If you've never heard of them, where have you been?
I brought their album, Sempiternal, early in 2015 and I loved it! Then they began releasing new songs up until their latest album, That's The Spirit, was released. Its not often I find an album where I love every song, every track of That's The Spirit is pure gold! I can't stop listening to it, along with many others across the world. They really hit big time this year and they totally deserve it.
I'm excited to see what they announce tour wise, I'm yet to see them live. From what I've heard BMTH shows are incredible!

Songs you should check out...
(lists every bmth ever made... I will try sum it up to my absolute favourites, or we may be here a while)
Drown
Shadow Moses
Doomed
Throne
Happy Song
Follow You
True Friends
Avalanche
Sleepwalking

1.) Young Guns
How I discovered them?
Once again, I thank the Kerrang Tour for the brilliant discovery of Young Guns. Their set was truly incredible but sadly only 15 minutes long! I got to see a full set of theirs at Warped UK in October and it was the best performance out of all the bands I saw that day. I can't wait for them to announce more shows the London way this 2016! I got their most recent album Ones And Zeros shortly after it came out and omg, if you haven't listened to it, give it a listen ASAP, you won't regret it!
Sadly, my local HMV didn't have their other album, Bones, and I was sick of having to turn to spotify or youtube if I wanted to listen to it. On my trip to London recently, we popped into the HMV in Oxford Street and I was over the moon when I found it in there. I've listened to it twice already today! XD

Songs you should check out...
(Again I'll stick to my absolute favourites or I'll end up listing every YG song ever made xD)
Bones
Towers (On My Way)
I want Out
Infinity
Speaking In Tongues
Daylight
Rising Up

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And so, those were my top 10 band discoveries of 2015!
Did you agree with my choices? Who were your top 10 band discoveries of 2015? Let me know in the comments!

 Alice x
 
All own words.
Edited and written by me.

Saturday, 2 January 2016

Cutesy Grunge London Outing

Hey everyone! Its been too long since I last did a fashion post!
As you will know from my previous post, I recently went down to London to look at the Christmas lights.
Since I received some great new pieces for Christmas, I really wanted to share this cute but grungy outfit I wore to London with you all.
 


I adore this outfit. Although my legs did get a lil chilly. My coat, jumper, bag and necklaces are all new additions to my wardrobe from Christmas and I love every single piece I got.
What I love most about the pug jumper, is that it reminds me of the pug T-shirt Fearless Vampire Killers have on their merch store. But just made a little more me with the use of sequins, beads and glitter. Who doesn't love a bit of that?!
The coat is one of my favourite new additions to my wardrobe. I looks feminine but with an edgy grunge look to it. I'm not a fan of your average girly clothing so this was perfect for me! Another thing I love about it is that it kept me warm and cosy while out and about in the cold London streets. I'm definitely going to be one of my staple pieces this January.

As for the necklaces, I was quite late to jump on my band waggon. When the tattoo style chokers first starting becoming popular again, I wasn't keen on them as they reminded me of the school discos we used to have in my lower school where they used to sell them and for some reason it was cool to wear them and suck it at the same time. So I guess I just associated it with spit and the sugariness of school discos. Not great...
I also hated how the girls at my school used to wear them with their school uniforms which just looked trashy.
But again, I was taught by Pinterest how pretty they could actually look and really edge up an outfit. Especially when paired with others.

Frilly socks have been huge this past year and its a trend I've been absolutely loving! For me, they are the perfect way to add cuteness to any outfit. They looked adorable paired with my docs creating a cute but grungy look which is what I love most about this outfit!

What did you think of this outfit? Leave your comments below!

Tartan Coat- H&M, £30 in the sale http://www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.0307214003.html
Pug Jumper- H&M
Shorts- H&M, £7.99 in summer collection
Doc Martens- USC, £79.99 in the sale
Frilly Socks- Primark, price unknown
Necklaces
Crystal necklace- Warren James, £18 in the sale
Chokers- Claires, £3.99 each

Twitter: @partyhardbroco
Instagram: @alicmio1102

Pictures taken by my sister (@abipage23 on instagram)
All photos taken on my ipod touch 5.

Apologies for such low quality pictures, my camera has unfortunately broken :(

Friday, 1 January 2016

Magical London Lights

London is a truly magical place to be around Christmas time. So on Tuesday, we took a spontaneous trip down to London to see the Christmas lights.
 
In all my life, I had never really seen the beauty of London at Christmas time and I was really excited for this new experience!
As soon as we arrived at Kings Cross we took the tube down to Marble Arch (another thing I had never seen before) and walked up to Oxford Street.
 
We arrived around 3 so it wasn't quite dark enough yet for the lights so we just took a leisurely walk up Oxford Street, peeping at all the sales and festive window displays.
 
I particularly liked the solar system display in the window of Selfridges. Its one of those things you just cant help but watch, then 10 minutes later you realise your still standing there and the people you're with have been long gone and probably half way up the street. Because that's not what happened to me at all! ;)
 
Since it still wasn't dark enough, we popped into M&S and went to the Café. I had your average Latte and a mini chocolate fudge cake thing which was mega tasty. It even had little edible stars on top! How festive xD
 
 
By the time we had done coffee and mooched around M&S looking at the sales, it was dark and the lights were in their full brightness.
What was a busy street in daylight was transformed into a magical, glittering lane of beauty. I couldn't help but gaze endlessly at all the spectacular decorations. I dunno how I managed not to walk into everybody.




My personal highlight of the evening was stumbling across Carnaby Street....on accident. I follow a lot of other bloggers and I had seen from blog posts or even vlogs on youtube, how spectacular Carnaby is at Christmas and for the past year its been a place I've been dying to go to.
Our friends planned the route for the evening and I didn't want to mess it up as I automatically assumed Carnaby was the other side of London for some reason so I remember thinking to myself, oh well maybe next year.
So it just so happened we turned the corner and I saw the huge pink glittery sign of Carnaby Christmas Party. Lets just say I was a bit over excited and was jumping up and down like OMG CAN WE GO? PLLEEAASSEEE?! like some sort of 5 year old xD but it was defiantly worth embarrassing myself for... it was magnificent!
We had a bit of a nosey in the shops (how could we not of?). We had a peep in the Doc Marten shop, they have a great sale on, although there was none of the ones I wanted in my size. Sad times.
Although I was soon happy again when we popped into Irregular Choice. That shop is truly something else! It looks like a unicorn threw up in there, but in the best possible way!
Everything in there was just beautiful. I particularly loved the unicorn loafers and bunny heels. May have to venture back here soon for prom shoes!
If your a big shoe lover like I am and find yourself near Carnaby Street, you'd be silly not to visit!



I had a great time in London! One of my new years resolutions is to go on more little trips to London. Even though I live so close, there's still much I haven't seen of it and I hope 2016 bring much more adventures to this beautiful city!
What are your new year resolutions for 2016? I would love to here from you in the comments!

Alice

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Taken on my ipod touch 5.