'Tis the season to be frocked fantastic! Part Un

I have a Christmas gauge-o-meter, as in when I ought to get really excited, start X-mas gift shopping and thinking about party outfits and so forth. I only ever get seriously giddy with excitement once it's passed my b'day, so now that we're well and truly past that date I am ready to immerse myself in the fabulousness that is Christmas.

Here are 3 fun & flirty party looks I'm kinda loving at the moment from the Daily Mail; I love everything that's going on here, from make up, hair and the fun factor!

From left to right:
Outfit 1:
Dress by Olivia Rubin, £270, House of Fraser Gilet by Biba, £145, House of Fraser Belt by Topshop, £30 Silver Crystal Ring (right.hand), £82 Konplott Necklace, bangles and crystal ring on r.hand all from Dannijo, Net-a-Porter.com Round ring on left hand from Wallis, £12.50 Sandals by Guess, £135

Outfit 2:
Dress by Laura Ashley, £110 Headband by Cherry Chau, £125, Selfridges Belt by Twiggy, £49, Fenwick Necklace, £79, Fenwick Stackable rhinestone rings in gold, £99 black, £75 and silver, £125 all by Amanda Wakeley from Ernest Jones Socks, £19.95 by Max Mara, Fenwick. tights £6 by Marks and Spencer Shoes by Kurt Geiger, £90

Outfit 3:
Dress by Nocturne £320 Blue ring by Konplott, £167 Silver ring, £12.50 & grey silver bangles, £18 for two by Freedom, Topshop Chain and pearl bangle by Allusions, £18, BHS Bag at Russell & Bromley, £165 Tights by Pretty Polly, £4 Sandals by Kurt Geiger, £220

All these looks are very easy to create with a clever mix of accessorizing, layering and hair and make up. To get a messy bun look, see previous post here.
I thought I'd also throw in a 'how-to' video by one of my fave girls, Tanya Burr aka Pixi2woo! Seriously, this girl can do any look, but this is a fun one for going out. You can easily swap out the blue for any mix of colour for the sultry cat eye look or just stick with charcoal tones/black.

Tanya Burr's Blue/Black smoky eye look

Hope you enjoyed this!
I'll be sharing more party frocks with you this week, bringing you the best of high street through to designer!

Total Scarf Off! Cool ways to tie, knot & wear your scarf!

This week lovelies my current obsession lies with different ways to wear or tie a scarf. I'm not just talking about the chunky knitted variety, but the oh-so-chic chiffon silk variety too.

I had a major drooling session, whilst in Liberty's earlier last month and only recently learned that there is in fact an art to wearing scarves! I fell in love with so many beautiful scarves, from Aschön's feather print scarf, Christopher Kane's amazing inter galactic inspired print scarves to Ebony & Ivory's stunning leopard print scarves with a colourful twist. I just want to be draped in them big style.

There are so many different tying or knotting techniques, some basic and some highly intricate along with plenty of versatile ways of wearing a scarf besides around your neck! I love how one item can literally zsush up any outfit.

This weekend I wanted to share these amazing video tutorials (only around a minute or so long!) by Liberty with you. You're all going to fall in love with Lauranne's cute accent!









With some of these styles, you can try playing with different styles of scarves, one of my fave and quickest updates is using an pretty printed scarf and tying around a floppy hat or a printed square style folded up and tied around a trilby/fedora.

Below: The weave knot, this is quite similar to the one below, but the technique to achieving this look is completely different.

Below, the Pretzel knot as shown in the Youtube video but using a long Pashmina instead.

Below: I love this Lucy Jay abstract print scarf worn in the hair too!

Susie of Style Bubble just wears the most gorgeous scarves, her way! Love it!

Images, videos via Youtube, Style Bubble, Liberty, Lucy Jay

How will you wear yours?

Have a super duper fly weekend lovelies!
New readers, followers, thank you for stopping by!

Shoe flash: Get it now! Outnet.com best buys!

Ladies..., are you ready to spank the plastic yet? These are just some of the amazing buys on Outnet.com, which I have just spied! Be quick though, these beauties will go in a jiffy!

• Elizabeth & James - Star ribbed leather sandal at 198 euros
• David Wyatt - currently loving these Baby Satellite pumps at 156 euros
• Sadly I wasn't quick enough to get my mitts on these Michael Kors 'Webster' suede ankle boots, they only have a US size 8 available now. 124 euros

Ok, in Euros it looks super pricey, in Pounds, not so bad, in US dollars, even better - the Liz & James sandals are $118! Hurry ladies!!!