Back from Wales

We spent a long weekend in Wales, mostly in the peninsula of Gower. We visited Cardiff, Swansea, Mumbles and Rossili. We were quite unlucky weather wise when in Rhossili, it was so cold and raining all the time, but still quite beautiful and peaceful. I never want to return to messy, dirty and busy London after visiting the countryside...

But the reality is that we are on our way home right now. I'm still laptop-less so I won't be able to share any nice pics, just these few I took with the iPhone.

Riots.

As some of you might know, England has been the target of several riots for the past week. It's truly sad and maddening that we came to this situation. This is just a reflexion of the education and background of these youths. The fear they've been provoking among innocent hard working people is unforgivable.

I don't want to specify where exactly in London I live, but let's just say it is 10min away from one of the zones attacked. Although I didn't suffer physically any harm, I had to watch one of the big rubbish bins in front of my house burn out after being hit by a Molotov cocktail, making me so scared that something worse might happen for the rest of the week.

Everything is just so surreal. Last week I saw so many police patrolling the streets, more than I will ever see in my whole life, I think. And so many shops with wooden boards covering the smashed windows. This was pure evil, rioting for the pure purpose of destruction! rebels without a cause, kids as young as 10 years old! It's all very very upsetting. What as this world become??

I was so affected by these happenings that I've been all out of the blog world. And now my laptop seems to be broken, who knows why, so I'll have to blog from my iPhone from now on...

To safer days!!

Vivi September scans

There's so much more I could post from this September Vivi, but I had to settle with these ones. Please buy the magazine for much more goodness.

Denim vests, long skirts, loads of creepers with ankle socks, oversized check jackets, loose babydoll dresses, etc... so much love!! This is exactly what I like at the moment. The 90s revival! It's like, wow, finally I found a magazine that is up to date with my style, haha. And I had never expect it to be Vivi, of all magazines. I'm so in love. I will read it over and over again.

I didn't know Ellie Rose is a model for Vivi now, but that is definitely a plus, cuz I really like her.

saturday lunch

(Underground creepers / japanese socks / everything else is vintage)

Saturday we decided to go for a Japanese lunch, which we don't do very often really. I mean, with me working in a Japanese restaurant and all, I rarely feel like going for that type of food on my days off, haha. One of my fav dishes is chirashi sushi, which is what I got on the pic. So delicious and healthy, I love ikura <3

I got a couple of vintage dresses from ebay, I forgot to blog about. I have mentioned how I'm all into 90s recently and well, here's the proof. I think I need to get a better hat though. Maybe a small black beanie.

Anyways, I got the September issue of Vivi magazine and OMG! I NEVER get Vivi, never, this time I don't know why but I decided to pick it up and give it a try. I FRIGGIN' LOVE IT!! it will be my Autumn bible, seriously. I don't have a scanner, but I got the scans from a LJ comm and will post some later, because just look at my outfit today and then look at those scans and its like magic happening! hahaha

Window View for Exit S/S 2011

So stunning, beautiful, sexy.
I think all sexyness goes to her eyes, lips and hair, rather than her nude breasts.

starry-eyed lipstick

Got this new lipstick from Rimmel called 'starry eyed'. I was looking for some dark cherry one, but this was the best I could find at boots, haha. The shape of the lispstick makes it difficult to apply, so next time I will use a lip brush instead. It is quite creamy and confortable, for the price. I'm loving dark lipsticks at the moment, and although this one is quite alright and cheap, I will still keep searching for my dream color. Please forgive my silly mouth faces...

Downtown Girl for Vogue US

I know I always say the same thing about all the editorials I post, but how perfect is this one?
Of course if I didn't love the editorials I wouldn't have chosen to post them in the first place, so that is a given, lol

But I really do want to own EVERYTHING in this one. Which it isn't that hard since I live like 10 minutes away from Bricklane, full of vintage shops. But I am too lazy to try to find something nice in that kind of places, cuz you really have to check carefully for the potential pieces... Ebay is so much easier =P

JJ September

I am a JJ girl, no big news there, haha. These are my fav pages of the September issue. I already posted the Emoda scans in a separate entry. I really like the colors, very beige (and rusty?). Everything still very retro looking for this autumn :) Love those BIG jackets, I have a couple but they are not oversized, so wouldn't really work on this look. But I think I will definitely be on the look out for one, it looks so cute and vintage!

None of the scans belong to me, just got them from a LJ comm.