As Punk as You Can Be Whilst Surrounded By Soap

Punk pals: my flatmate Tom, and my friend Ariana who works at LUSH.

As someone who enjoys baths and likes to buy good quality products that are cruelty free, I've always turned to LUSH for cosmetics and gifts. To celebrate the launch of Vivienne Westwood's line of eco-friendly scarves made in conjunction with the brand, the Regent Street branch threw a Punk Day. Or, as I'd like to call it, As-Punk-As-You-Can-Be-Whilst-Surrounded-By-Soap-Day.

Very squishy shower jellies!

I want everything in my life to smell like Snow Fairy.

These deformed penguins are bath bombs! Felt sorry for the one in the pic by itself, he had no beak and looked sad.

I dunno who this guy was, apparently he was in some indie band in the mid-naughties. Definitely wasn't punk but seemed nice enough, he gave me a mince pie. Unsure whether I like mince pies.

From the picture above, you can sort of make out a couple of the Vivienne Westwood scarves on the right of the guitar-man. The guitar-man, as you can tell, is not punk at all. In fact, the only punk thing about the day was the Sex Pistols poster behind him that had the word 'bollocks' censored, which in itself is a not very punk thing to do.  Despite this, I had a good couple of hours of fun and the shop smelt really tasty. 

Some of the goodies I took home with me, notice I adopted the sad penguin.

Also we got given goodie bags so expect some product reviews in the near future. 

Bleached Brows

Bleached brow babes

On Saturday morning I sleepily walked into into CNG Derby thinking I was going to get my roots done and my fringe trimmed. Two coffees later I convinced my hair colourist and friend Emma that bleaching my eyebrows would be a good idea, so we went for it. 

Bleach and toner, defs think foil-brows should be a thing...

Probably wouldn't try this by myself at home just in case I dripped bleach into my eye and blinded myself. 

Before and after on CNG's isntagram

Alien princess looks 2k13

I really like how it's turned out and I'm super excited to try out crazy eyebrow colours but will probably dye them back dark when they start to grow out. 

Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop

Today the new Meadham Kirchhoff collection for Topshop was released! The collection is based on an imaginary four piece girl band, The Cherrys, who each have their own signature style. Obviously each item is cutesy and kitsch, because Meadham Kirchhoff, and a lot of the stuff draws inspiration from the 1970's. It's as though the designers watched The Runaways and then were left to their own devices.

Of course the item I wanted most (the red heart pinafore on the left) was sold out by the time I checked the website this morning, not that I could afford it anyway, but I decided to mock up what I'd like most from the collection and how I'd style them if every item of clothing I'd ever wanted was suddenly at my fingertips.

Left: 

• Shoes, headband and pendant from the Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop collection
• Pink latex skater dress from Syren, £150

Right:

• Pinafore from the Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop collection, sold out.
• Lace ankle socks from Topshop, £3.50
• Eye print silk blouse by Kenzo, £255
• Black clompers by Vivienne Westwood, £715

Booth Babery at Warped UK

We had to test the camera was working, obviously.

We had to test it more than once,  obviously.

Last weekend at Warped Tour, rapper Watsky stupidly stage-dived off some light rigging hurting both himself and some of the crowd. The day before this, me and Sophie were there running the photo booth. Highlights from the day include taking many selfies, having Zoe LDN come over to have photos taken whilst filming for Big Deal Clothing, some girls in our booth with The Maine and possibly making their life and going making use of our staff pass and having free unlimited jägerbombs backstage amongst bands we haven't even heard of.

Sophie and the photo booth

Our view of the merch room before kickoff

Me (right) and my hair twin Zoe LDN

Zoe's photos and the Honour Over Glory foam hand

                       

By the end of the day I'd probably tried every single prop on