OOTW: Casual & Classy

Yup, I'm back to my hectic life again (sigh) college, work and modelling are all back at the forefront of my agenda again and things are going to be getting super busy. I thought I'd share a super comfortable summer suit look I've been wearing to my work meetings recently when its been warm, and I'm just totally loving everything about it!

White Long Sleeved Cardigan, Next - £16

White and Black Peter Pan Collar Top, Primark - £3

Black Pencil Skirt, Thrifted

White Cat Eye Sunlgasses, Bow and Crossbones - £8

White Hair Flower, Amazon - £4.20 (Pack of 10)

White Bow Wedges, Simply Be - £20

(Discontined)

Isn't this just adorably cute?! I love how figure hugging it is too, and shows off all my lovely curves!

Hair and make-up are super simple, seeing as I have to wear this to work - I just have a thin winged eyeliner with a dab of foundation and my Baby Lips lip balm in 'Pink Punch'. I've just pulled one side of my hair back with a white hair flower just for a little more cutesy look. I'm giving my hair a little break from styling just so it doesn't get too damaged with the curling and the setting every other day or so!

See you soon my petals!

Emma Victoria

xoxoxoxox

OOTW: Lindy Bop Lois Dress

Yet another lovely dress from my favourite budget dress company... I couldn't help to not buy this dress in Lindy Bop's 25% off sale at the end of January and I had been eyeing up the Lois dress for quite a while now!

Lois Secretary 40's dress, Lindy Bop - £29.99

Leopard Print Headband, New Look - £5

T-Bar Heels, eBay - £15

Recently I've really been getting into the whole 1940's style and preppy sort of style. Just feels so natural and lovely, and this dress is the for-front of my outfit list at the moment! 

Love

Emma Victoria

xoxoxox

Next 'Black Shiny Leggings' Review

Today I thought I would do a review on my absolute favourite pair of leggings! I bought these from next about 8 months ago, and these still feel like brand new - it goes from a size 8-10 up to 18-20 (bearing in mind they are super stretchy!)

I've taken a picture of the front view and back view. The material of these are fantastic, they are super stretchy and very thick - so easy to dress them up or dress them down! They are super inexpensive at £16 too!

When I first bought these I was a bit unsure on the material thinking that it would show all my lumps and bumps really badly, but if anything it pulls me in a little! I bought these in a size 14-16 by mistake but in fact they are too big for me! The only con I have with these are that the length of them are really long - I'm quite short at 5 foot 5 anyway, but I often just cuff the bottoms up and this problem is resolved. These are high waisted too, so they act as shape wear. I find these make my butt look absolutely fantastic too! These have also stayed true to the fact they are black - I find with leggings that after a couple of washes the black fades to brown, but these haven't and are still black!

These are super comfy and I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who's looking for a decent pair of leggings!

Buy here

Lots of Love

Emma Victoria

xoxox

Halloween OOTW; Dead Slutty Barbie Doll

I'm currently writing this in between the door knocking with children asking me for sweets! I'm currently dressed as a super quick dead 1940's housewife before I get into my final Halloween outfit for the year which is a dead Slutty Barbie Doll. I'm doing this costume as a joint effort with my friend Ricky who is dressing up as a dead Ken Doll to the all night party we are going to later (11.30pm to be precise  which means I have an hours turn over to change and turn into Barbie! I've basically done the majority of my make-up for Barbie apart from the under eyes! The wound is exactly the same which I'm using for the Barbie outfit! 

Make-Up Tutorial

Step 1 Eyes For the first part I just did my normal make-up routine with foundation and concealer and caking it on for that doll type effect. I then moved onto my eyes. I began with applying my Rimmel White Eye-shadow on my eyelid to just above the crease and then blended. I then moved onto my big eye-shadow palette and used a hot pink across my whole eye lid going above the crease, then applying a dark shimmery grey into my crease and blending. I then added a long winged eye-liner  and extended my hot pink eye-shadow to have a thick wing above the wing of my eye-liner. For the effect of bigger eyes I applied more eye-shadow primer to the bottom of my eyelid and used a white liner for the waterline of my eye. Then apply a thick coat of white eye-shadow and I decided not to blend this for a more effective white. Then apply a thin line of black eye-liner in a semi-circle shape to create the extension of the lower part of your eye. 

Step 2 Lips I used my Rimmel lip liner in deep plum red and I made a sharp triangle shape at the top of my cupids bow on both sides. On top of my lip liner I applied my new Kate Moss Lipstick in shade 107 which is a plum red sort of colour.

Step 3 The Wound  For the hole/wound on my face I basically just used toilet paper, liquid foundation, red and grey eye-shadow, left over false eyelash glue, Vaseline and pink food colouring. I began with just plastering on the false eye lash glue and then splitting toilet paper into tiny little pieces and sticking them on before the glue dries slowly layering up the toilet paper - then leave to dry. You then want to get a foundation brush or an old blush brush and pour out a little of the liquid foundation onto your hand, gently dab on the foundation and leave to dry again. Once dried make a small hole in the toilet paper and push it up to the sides as though the skin is coming away. Then begin layering up with a dark red eye shadow and grey eye-shadow until you get a dark red/grey effect like old blood. As a finishing touch to make it look as if the wound is real I added a little pink food colouring to Vaseline and applied it to the hole. And you are done!

Costume

Pink Glitter Bow, Beauxoxo - £5

St Michael Pink Polka Dot Playsuit, Charity Shop - £10

Ivory Pearls, Collectif  - £15

Wedges, Simply Be (4 years ago) - £25

I know this was a super quick post but this is the last of my Halloween posts for 2013! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! I did a youtube video today as well a little life one so keep an eye out for that too (hopefully sometime tomorrow!)

Lots of Creepy Love

Emma Victoria

xoxo

Guest Post - Anja from The Ramblings of an Honorary Rascal

Good day my lovelies! Today I have my lovely friend Anja doing a guest post for me! If you are interested in doing a guest post then drop me an email on anchorsawaybeauty@hotmail.com (P.S I have also updated my Summer To-Do List - I will be doing a post on some of the things I have done soon as well!)

xoxo

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Hello lovely people! So I am Anja from 'The Ramblings of an Honorary Rascal', a blog based on my love for all things historical and literary. But seeing as this is Emma's blog and it is a beauty blog, I thought I should try my hand at something 'beauty' for this guest post!

Now I know that a lot of girls want to wear a bit of make-up  as I do, to have a variety of effects, such as evening out your skin tone. But if you're also like me and on a beauty budget, it's hard to find products that give the same effects as 'professional' make-up brands that your favourite beauty gurus may use, without them costing you the earth. So, I thought I would share with you the products that I have found work the best, but on a budget. Each item costs less than £10 each, with the total products adding up to just under £30.

1. Boots Tea Tree and Witch Hazel Night Treatment Gel - £2.99 and Simple Replenishing Rich Moisturiser - £3.89

2. MUA Eyeshadow (Shade 19 Matte)- £1.00, Collection No Clumps Mascara (Black) - £2.99, Essence Eyeliner Pen (available online), and  MUA Eyeliner (Rich Brown) - £1.00

3. Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation (Shade 100 Ivory) - £6.99

4. MUA Lipstick (Shade 11)- £1.00

And these are just some photos to show you how versatile they are!

By far my favourite thing about me is my hair. I usually tend to wear it the way it naturally falls, like in the picture, but sometimes I like to make myself feel a bit more groomed and actually do something with my hair. But as I am the kind of person who takes forever to get out of bed, leaving no time for hair and makeup, I've found these kinds of hairstyles are super easy to do, and each of them take less than 20 minutes to perfect.

So, thank you for bearing with me and reading to the end of this post, if you have, and if you have, well done! If you think you'd like to hear more from me then feel free to check out my blog, or if you have any post requests or just want to say hello then drop me a comment or tweet me at @thenewestenemy. Thanks for reading! :)