A take on a classic

I haven't done a post involving fashion or a outfit for what feels like forever, so I thought it was about I did one.

The other day after a successful job interview I read my emails to find toyshop had a sale. Immediately my eyes lit up and I ran. Literally.

 I've been pretty good lately at buying clothing from other stores that aren't toyshop. If you read my blog when I first started you will have seen that everything I wore or talked about was all and everything topshop. Now as you will see in upcoming blogposts I am a changed women but I do also love the occasional spend in there. Especially when theres a sale, of course.

To be honest I wasn't that impressed but I did find the most adorable shoes which just couldn't not come home with me. They remind me of a take on the doc martins 1461 classic matte flat shoes but were only £25. mmmmm yes please?!

Doc martins are on my christmas list but for now these are a perfect dupe and I am in love. I said to one of my flat mates when I bought them I might not wear them that much but now I have them, they haven't left my feet and makes me even more exited to get my first pair of docs. 

Hope you enjoyed
Plain Jayne x

And relax..

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Recently i've heard a lot of people talking about adult colouring books. A colouring book is normally meant for a child of course but now colouring is seen as a very theraputic and relaxing thing to do for a adult. Now when you go into stores and book shops you can always see and find one from many different authors.

When I was home for the weekend I took a trip to asda because I don't have one near where I live anymore and it can be a lot cheaper sometimes. I went into the book section to see if there was any nice cook books but came across the Johanna Basford 'Enchanted Forest' book and it was only £6, which is the cheapest i've seen it in any store as there normally retailed for about £10, so I grab it while I had the chance. 

I've seen many books that are meant to help with the relief of stress and anxiety as they are so relaxing and I have to say after having this book, I totally agree. I love just sitting on a night colouring in, especially if am not feeling my best, as it just makes me so chilled and relaxed. I have felt the benefit and now totally understand the hype around what i thought was a joke of a 'adult colouring book'.

I would recommend these to anyone who is feeling stressed, anxious, a little run down and just need to relax (It also makes you quite sleepy as well which is a bonus). I will probably just be sitting in my own little world colouring alway like a child again. 

Have you got bought into the trend of these adult colouring books?

Plain Jayne x

Weekend at home

This weekend I decided to come home for the weekend. A few of my flatmates were going home and others had friends and family coming up so I decided to come home for the first time (Although its only been two weeks).

I was pretty nervous about going home. How different would it feel. Would I love it being back, would it maybe make me not want to come back or even then, hating it back in cumbria. I have to say its been a bit of both. I still love my home but its made me love university even more and where I live. 

When I was at home I kept on referring to nottingham as my home rather then Cumbria (which I did get some funny looks for I won't lie) 

I've always known cumbria wasn't the most exiting of places but once you experience that new exiting city I swear it becomes even worse. I loved seeing my friends and family of course but the place did nothing for me anymore. 

When I say I am from cumbria people always say 'awww you must love it there, so much to do' but my answer is normally more not really. If your a person who loves adventure then yeah sure but for me I love different cultures, fashion, beauty and a city life style, which you just don't get in a place like cumbria. Not at my age anyways.

I am now back in the city Nottingham. Back into my lectures (Today we were working on Pinterest and creating professional boards, how cool!)

Hope you enjoyed
Plain Jayne x

Adjusting

Adjusting to university life is a something else that you'll have never experience before and never again. Moving out and away from your home. Moving to totally new city. New places to explore. New People and new friends. Missing home but moving on to.

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I thought I'd find moving away from my little home town really hard. I'd never been to the city before (ooppss). Never done anything to do with fashion apart from my blog. I have 'adjusted' though and its safe to say I love it.

It is something very new for me and very different but I love it. I mean what girl wouldn't love having ever shop and amazing food places on her doorstop, including amazing vintage shops, great flatmates and and a perfect city just waiting to be explored. ohh and obviously a great course to go along side it, one of my first lectures was all about Pinterest (yes please). 

I won't lie I have been a little home sick at times. Missing my friends and family back home but if you keep in contact with them all the time its not so bad and Nottingham is now becoming my very loved home. 

Are you are university? 

Plain Jayne x 

Pre arrival activity FCP.

So as some of you many know I recently moved to university. Left my little home in Cumbria and moved my life away to Nottingham to start as a fashion communication and promotion student.

Before moving to university and starting my course we were asked to do a prearrival activity. As you can imagine, I was terrified and didn't know what the hell I was doing. I have to admit I did put off doing it but once I got my head around it and I went to my first FCP lecture I realised that it was all just your own interpretations on the topics and it was nothing to worry about. 

Our task was; 

To identify examples of what you feel are some of the best fashion communication and promotion at the moment or that has been. 

Find three examples of -

Digital examples - Blogs, Websites, twitter feeds, online marketing.

Printed examples - Magazines, brochures, look books and flyers. 

Retail examples - shop windows, visual merchandising, shop interior. 

My examples: 

Digital examples; 

Wonderful you, Beautycrush; Asos instagram

Retail examples:

Kate spade; H&m; Topshop 

Printed examples: 

Vogue, Look, Asos magazine

These were my examples and what I came up with. Everyone in the class interpreted the task differently. Some people just brought images and explained them, Some placed them on there blogs, some on paper written, others on the computer. There was no right or wrong answer and I loved seeing what other people had created and came up with. 

Hope you enjoyed 

Plain Jayne x 

Walk of shame

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I could literally stare at Charlotte Tilbury make up forever. Of course the make up is designed by the goddess of all things make up, Charlotte Tilbury herself, so you know the product is going to be amazing but the packaging is beautiful as you can see. 

I've picked up a few of the Charlotte Tilbury make up products over the last year or so but for me it is definitely a luxury buy and a real treat. I've only ever bought the eye products before like the palettes and colour chameleons. Apart from the film star glow palette, which I am yet to get my hands on, I always see people talking about the matte revolution lipsticks and they were on my next to buy list. 

As the name tells you, these are a matte lipstick which is perfect since we are now in autumn and coming up to winter. These lipsticks aren't a drying matte though, they are still very comfortable on the lips. The shape of the lipstick is very different compared to any other I have but I love it as it makes it so easy to apply. 

The colour is a gorgeous berry toned rose, which are some of my favourite kind of shades. I am in love with the name too, Walk of shame, even though in other terms could maybe be seen as a bad thing haha

Hope you enjoyed

Have you tired any of the matte revolution lipsticks? 

Plain Jayne x

I can't sleep

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When its 5am and I can't sleep, bringing the laptop out and writing blog posts seems the be the way forward. I suppose it doesn't matter what time they get written at as long as they aren't terrible. I might even find my writing is better when my brain should actually be sleeping haha.

I was frustrating myself not being able to get to sleep this morning as I felt so exhausted and was having one of them 'why body? just why' kinda moments. Once I realised there was no hope in getting back to sleep I took to the internet and looked at reasons for not being able to sleep, as it seems to be happening at lot recently. 

I first thing that came up and kept being repeated was stress. Are you under a lot of stress? are you worrying about anything? do you have any anxiety feelings? which sort of rung alarm bells when I thought about it and plus nothing else made a lot of sense. There are other reasons though like a medication you are taking could keep you up; Traumatic experience; Health problems; the environment your sleeping in and may other things.

Although I haven't felt to stressed recently or felt my anxiety being to bad or not had to much to be worried about, it is something that is always in the back of my mind and maybe has been there I just haven't felt it as much. I am a very anxious person and I seem to worry about everything and nothing at all. 

I suppose there has been worry and stress over sorting everything out to go to university (which am still no where near sorted for), my mum has been away leaving me on my own which always makes me slightly anxious. Work worry. Anxious about leaving home and even the though of 'is university even right for me? am I ready? this that where I wanna be, a million miles away from home?' and then probably even stupid teenager worriers that I don't even know what they are haha. 

None the less they are more subconscious worries but there then and when asleep they are brought to the surface and my brain seems to go into over drive thinking and then over thinking about everything and anything. It has just started to rain though (Typical Cumbria) and I can hear the rain shower on the roof top, as my room is in the attic, which Is one of my favourite sounds and I could listen to all day. 

I suppose its a blessing and curse not being able to sleep but sometimes its good to think and theres something about the silence, knowing that everyone is asleep, very peaceful especially with the sound of rain drops. 

Are you having difficulty sleeping to?

Plain Jayne x