I know I'm in my own world... it's okay, they know me here

Every time I go to the hairdressers down south I tell them the same thing - that the biggest problem with my hair is volume. I have super-fine hair, and it has no body to it really - I have to use two different products to give it any bounce, which I happily do myself. So I say that I want them to blow-dry it as big as it will go (since most of that will fall out anyway) instead of flat to my head, and not to worry about it being sleek.

And EVERY DAMN TIME, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO ANYWAY. It's not like I'm not clear about what I want! WHY IS IT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND.

In Liverpool they always do my hair right but I don't live there any more TT-TT Only two hairdressers down here have actually done what I've asked them to. The cuts are always fine but I always, ALWAYS end up going home, re-wetting it and drying it again myself. NOT REALLY THE POINT.

So today I went to Camden with zoeiona, krazykipper and audrey1nd, ostensibly to buy corsets but also for a general wandering around and sploshing ineffectually through puddles.

It was the first time I've been to Camden and we went to several weird and wonderful shops selling all sorts of beautiful things. I'll definitely have to go back there for an even longer ramble sometime (though preferably when it's not raining!)

Anyway, we went to this lovely little shop called Burleska in the Stables Market, where I, zoeiona and audrey1nd all bought some lovely corsets.

My favourite corset-related comment came from zoeiona, who told me "I know you're pale, but with all that pale skin, you look sort of vampiric." It is true, I am very pale. I am a pale English Rose! With thorns for fangs

Mine is a very simple black underbust corset that looks awesome with my long white shirt and a black chiffon skirt I inherited from my mother. And what kind of fashion-geek would I be without photographs?






(I would like it done tighter, but it is hard to lace up your own corset, yo.)

One of these days I will work out how to set up a proper camera to take outfit pictures with instead of using my mirror. That day is not today.

(Matalan, mine were £10)

My lovely clogs! I'm really liking the unbleached linen material and rough edges on them, makes them perfect for a natural-fabrics summer look. They're relatively high even for me, but the platform makes the heel quite stable, and they're nice and grippy on the soles. There are a lot of clogs coming out this year, especially with the big 60s-retro look that's coming on strong for s/s, and it makes me wish I still had this lovely linen shift dress I owned when I was about 14 to wear with them. I'll just have to make do with a big floppy hat and, if I can persuade myself to cough up for the prescription lenses, a big lazy-looking pair of sunglasses.



(ASOS, £5.50)

And I ordered the crap out of this awesome bangle thingy. (I ordered one. One is a crapload. OF AWESOME.) I'm totally loving the patina-effect on the shiny silver and gold, and the way they're linked together means a) I won't find a bangle in my armpit later when undressing and b) they're really interesting and a cool statement piece for bare-armed luxe on hot July evenings. I find it really hard to wear chunky bracelets because they tend to make my arm and hand merge into the wrist-equivalent of a cankle (I have really solid wrists. Good for... wearing watches? I guess?) but this bangle, though long, is kind-of-but-not-quite chunky. Gotta love accessories.



(Matalan, £16, wrong colour but similar idea)

I might, maybe, have bought another pair of wide-leg trousers. With a huge floral pattern in a floaty silky chiffon fabric. However, since their picture does not apparently exist in the right colour on the Matalan website, CLEARLY the trousers also do not exist, and therefore my wide-leg crazy does not exist. So there. Any immensely cool and floaty pink-rosed trousers you may see me swanning around in, arching my knee so as to give the full effect of the humoungous sweep of fabric, are just a figment of your imagination.



(ASOS, £15)

Also, I found an honest-to-God real-live chest harness such as my MC wears as part of her uniform in my novel project. Those of you who do not believe I have already acquired this item and may or may not be wearing it around the house clearly do not know me very well.




Aaaaaaand I saw this double rainbow from my window last weekend while watching Eurovision. SO INTENSE!


What do you like to wear at the moment, darlings? And would it fit me?

Oh. OH. I want these. I don't care that they cost a million bazillion shiny pennies. I WANT THEM.

In other news, Daddy fixed my wobbly coffee table, so now I don't need to tell visitors not to put any weight on it! Hurrah!