Outfit of the Snow Day!

Greetings, bloggers!
Yesterday, it snowed. A lot. All the more reason to waltz around town with my newly acquired driver's license and hound's tooth snow/rain boots! Because I really liked my outfit and the Blair Waldorf vibe it gave off, I decided to film a quick outfit of the day!

The greatest time of year!

No, no, bloggers, it's not Christmas time. It's MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK. Along with Award season, and London and Paris fashion weeks right around the corner, how can you now be absolutely enchanted with the love of Fall Fashion strutting down the runway?

Kenneth Cole has to be the most impressive so far. The models coming down the runway taking pictures of atendees on cell phones during the finale? Can you say GENIUS?!

But then there's BCBGMaxAzria. And who doesn't love a good beanie? The cutout leather boots were a hit amongst the crowd and although I'm not a fan of slits you just cannot go wrong with that duo.

My favorite clothing item(s) were Tadashi Shoji's gowns. Especially the high-neck black and silver masterpiece. If I could get my hands on that floral creation. UGH.

Oh! and who could forget the best holiday of the year?!
VALENTINE'S DAY.
Most of the single population hate the holiday that glorifies being in love but not me! With my room decorated and the heart-shaped cupcakes already laid out, I'm already in heaven and I haven't even gotten out the heart studded tights.

xx-H

Fresh Fallen Snow Makes Winter A Little More Bearable.

Headband: Forever 21(Avery Fiftal's)
Oxford: Old Navy
Crewneck: The Shops at Yale
Sweater: H&M (Also belongs to Avery)
Jeans: American Eagle Outfitters
Oxfords: Restricted (Purchased at DSW)
Necklace: Macy's
Watch: Urban Outfitters

All photo credit to Avert Fiftal photography!

Fashion Haul

After Christmas means only one thing: SALES. Having a compulsive sale-shopping problem I scored some sweet deals these past few weeks! Here's what I snatched up:

 



This Peacoat is navy blue with gold buttons. It's from Forever 21 and I got it on sale a few days before Christmas because I needed a navy coat to go with all my pink and blue striped winter accessories from Jack Wills. Because It was so cheap it's not terrible warn but does fit nicely and can be buttoned up to the neck. It also fits true to size.

Lilly Pulitzer

Lilly Pulitzer was also having a sale and this skirt was about 55% off so I immediately bought it. It's very summery with white buttons at the top and a cinched elestic band at the back for an easy fit. This skirt also runs true to your Lilly size and it is in the print Summer Classics.

Left, Middle, Right,

Socks on Socks on Tights. All from Forever 21. The pair to the far left are a shiny mint pair, but once you put them on they are very sheer and I would suggest getting the medium/large pair if you have longer legs.

The middle and right pairs are both over the knee socks in Cream and Black. They are the same pair, although the Cream pair go up higher on the leg than the Black ones.



Jack Wills

 

The Hollingworth Chinos from Jack Wills are to die for! They run very small so I suggest going up a size or even two because I got them a size up and I'm still hiding my lovehandles from the world. These are in Navy.

 

The top is from Forever 21 and is a beautiful Tiffany blue color with a peplum bottom. (You may recognize this as the shirt I wore on New Years Eve with Jamie). The necklace is from Charming Charlie and is royal blue with a gold chain.

 

 

I'M SO IN LOVE WITH THIS HAT. Granted, I don't know where I'm going to wear it and no matter how many selfies I take none of them can capture the glorious look of this hat, but it is my favorite thing I've bought in a while. It was also from Charming Charlie and was 50% off!

 



And finally this necklace (the link and picture are in the previous post) is from Charming Charlie and is a dupe for the one from Bauble Bar that SarahBelle93x talks about constantly and now I see why because it's so major. It's called the Bubble and Bauble necklace. This one is the medium sized one and is in the color Sea Foam Green. (also, excuse the incredible quality of that picture, it was taken on SHS's school laptops...)

 

 

 

 

Hope you guys hit some amazing sales out there and if you haven't: MOVE YOUR BUTT!

What did you guys score?

 

xx-Hadley



Haul Time!

Good morning lovelies! I hope all of you are enjoying this beautiful Wednesday morning (and if you're anywhere around New England, I hope you're enjoying this glorious snow!). As mentioned below Jameson and I are starting a youtube channel and Jamie's hopped on to give you more information about that because I filmed a video and of course the microphone on my webcam does not work. SO for now, I'll be doing more blogging through here while Jamie posts videos pertaining to pretty much the same thing.

Currently, I'm in English class supposed to be typing an essay BUT, Lord knows you can't put a computer in front of me and expect me to work. There are so many things I have to do before anything gets typed at all. So here I am blogging.

Recently I've collected enough random objects to throw together a haul post. I'll be posting two different posts:

First is a collective fashion haul that will presume below and the other will be later in the week/beginning of next week will be beauty.

Stay Tuned Readers! and let us know what you think of our youtube channel by commenting!!

XOXox-Hadley

Bubbles & Baubles necklace from Charming Charlie

We're expanding!

Hello everyone! So due to major lack of posting in the past couple of months, Hadley and I decided that creating a Youtube channel might be the solution. This way we can film quick videos to keep all of you updated. All of our videos will be posted to this channel, and don't worry; we'll still be posting pictures on here!

XOXO- J

Happy 2013 my loves!

From your one and onlys

Oh my goodness guys in so sorry I haven't been blogging at all. What with school and the holidays it's been about a month since I last posted but I promise once Christmas is over things will pick up again. I'm thinking about starting to make some videos too because I'm obsessed with YouTube channels. Anyways thanks for hanging in and I promise ill be better as 2013 rolls in!!!

Xoxo-H

Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving bloggers! Today and everyday I'm thankful for vein blessed with every opportunity I have. Friends, family, faith, cheerleading, work, my health, and my other half J make me who I am. Even those who have come and gone: friends who are now acquaintances, boyfriends who are now strangers, those who we have lost are still within our hearts and I am thankful for those people too.
Thanksgiving is super stressful because forty odd people show up to my little baby house and expect us to feed many Irish mouths. But today is the last day it's appropriate to wear orange, brown, and gold together as fall is "officially" over. Today is also the perfect day to sport my new Nars Cream lipstick in Honolulu Honey.
Hope you and your family have a great holiday as well!!

Let your body move to the music

More new music readers!

1. If You Wanna- The Vaccines (yes, I did find this on the Jack Wills website. Guilty as charged)
2. Little Things-One Direction (I know, not everyone is obsessed like me but this song makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Can I just marry Harry Styles yet or...?)
3. THROWBACK: Jesse McCartney's whole Departure album. (My very first concert!)
4. -All Too Well
    -State of Grace (acoustic)
    -Stay Stay Stay
    and the rest of the Red album (but the deluxe edition from Target. Go big or go home. Or go to Target...)



PS: Have you guys checked out SarahBelle's new blog?! It's adorable just like her. I'm thinking of starting to post videos. I figure if anyone out there reads this blog that doesn't know what I look like or how I act this should be real interesting. Warning: I'm super awkward, heads up ;)

SarahBelle93x's blog! One day I aspire to have this blog look as professional as this!!

Mini Lush Haul!

Today I went to Lush (again) for the first time in what feels like forever. I set a limit of $20 and surprisingly I spent only 16! I purchased a hunk of the "Honey I Washed the Kids" soap, the Fresh Farmacy face cleanser, and the Golden Wonders Bath bomb. I'll review all of them soon enough but my mind is twirling with glitter and wonderful scents!

We are invincible, we are who we are

The other day something mind blowing happened to Jameson and me. I was bored on the computer and going on random websites like foodgawk.com and taylorswift.com (crazy, right?) ANYWAY, so I went onto FUN.'s website and scrolled down to find they had come out with a music video for their song Carry On. I watched the first few seconds and once it flashed to a crowd (if was half a second) MY HEART STOPPED. I knew right then and there exactly what was about to happen.

SIDE NOTE: Back in June Jamie and I attended FUN.'s concert at Terminal 5 in New York City. It was their last show of the tour and when they came back for their encore they had camera men filming all over. So naturally I turned into even more of a fangirl than I already am and I went wild.

SO: after calling Jamie and watching it with her second by second, crying involved (of course), I knew my life had purpose. Jamie and I are in that video. I am jumping like a freaking nutcase but who cares because I can specifically pick out my body at 2:13.

This is stuff we will tell our grandchildren. Here you go, marvel in how magnificently perfect Nate Ruess

Carry One, readers ♥

Arm candy

From left to right:
Antique
Alex and Ani
Kiel James Patrick
Pandora with forever heart charm, sweet 16 charm, and holy bible charm
Fundraiser for education in Kenya
Alex and Ani vintage sixty-six

The Sun will come out tomorrow

Hey readers. A friend of mine is betting severe brain cancer right now and my town is trying to get all the support we can. Scituate is such a tiny community so we need you to spread the word by tweeting #PrayforAli or #PrayersfortheMinkfamily please. It would mean the world to have all your positive energy, thoughts, and prayers sent this way. Thank you so much.
God loves you and so do I.

Tricks and Treats

Happy Halloween Readers! Today is one of my favorite holidays because I love little kids in costumes and the warm food. Today I hopped in the kitchen and made two meals! Below are my annual Trick or Treat cheeseburger pies and Ree Drummond's corn chowder. The Pioneer Woman is one of the reasons I started this blog and this recipe was A HIT!!! Ill post it below for all you soup lovers like me!


Corn Chowder Recipe

Soup is my favorite season

Jack-O-Lantern faces make them almost too good to eat

Happy Halloween Kiddos!

It's that time of year again kiddos! When fall starts to fall into place and you can feel the holiday season rapidly approaching. Tons of celebration! Yay! What better way to get in the spirit than a Halloween party! That's right: costumes, bonfires, and good times! Below I've included some cool pics from this past weekend's festivities. I dressed up as a classic Audrey Hepburn, although no one at the party recognized my Breakfast at Tiffany's iconic look or even had any idea who Audrey was! It's really a shame. It's like I spent an hour on my hair for nothing! I got a ton of compliments though, and if people ask me if I'm a super model I'm not going to complain about it!
On another note, sorry for the lack of posts. Things have been super crazy with transitioning into junior year and cheerleading and all. I barely have time to breathe anymore! But I promise that this blog will be getting a lot more love from Hadley and I from now on. 
Xoxoxoxoxox, Jamie

My future NFL player of a husband!

The Birthday Boy!

Living the LUSH life

So I've been wanting to do this FOREVER and I decided to do it now before the holidays because Then ill be buying these products in bulk.
SO Lush Cosmetics is something you could say I have an obsession with. I fell in love the minute I stepped through the door of the Providence Place Mall store. So here's a review of pretty much all the things, good and bad, I've tried from LUSH.

1. Catastrophe Face Mask:
This is the first face mask I tried and I got about halfway through the pot before I realized I was using it all wrong. I liked this but it didn't do much for my skin. I have very sensitive skin with not-so-acne-prone skin and this just didn't do much. (Funny story: I asked my dad to grab my fave mask, the one in the black pot out of the fridge [yes, you're supposed to keep them refrigerated] and he brought it to me with an inquisitive look on his face. He then said "oh that stuff tastes awful. I put it on my toast yesterday." Welcome to my Life, readers, my dad ate my face mask.)

2. Cupcake Face Mask:
This has Rhassoul mud in it which is not good for sensitive skin but I decided to try it instead because my skin was getting bad from stress. Safe to say once again it did nothing for my breakouts (which it was said to do) so I nixed this one and moved onto the next.However, this smelled like chocolate and took a lot of will power not to eat it..

3. The Sacred Truth face mask
This time around I thoroughly talked to the salespeople (I love them, they're my favorite people in the world) and they suggested this one. And boy were they right! This made my skin incredible soft and cleared my breakouts slightly. If I had any advice it'd be to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS and TALK TO THE SALESPEOPLE. They know their stuff

4. Marilyn Hair Moisturizing Mask
I got this in New York after the hair dying disaster of 2011 in hopes to get my natural color back (I died my hair darker, it came out black. Contrary to the 26 washes limit, it lasted nine months...). Although it didn't give me the results I wanted it made my hair SUPER soft and brought out my buried under natural highlights. WARNING: This stuff smells awful and is gross to apply to your hair. Messy, but I recommend it for blondes!

5. WOOSH Shower Jelly
two words: IN LOVE. I started using this back in the spring during the lacrosse season and the weird heat wave back in march. The smell is sweet and tart and its gelatinous which is AWESOME. I put mine in the freezer so when I was hot and sticky after practice this was my savior. Woke me up with the smell and the ice cold feeling. Go and buy this. Now.

6. Sea Vegetable Soap
This was the first soap I bought and it was quite dense so it was a little pricey but well worth it. It had a citrusy smell with a seaweed top that made my skin really soft (which is impressive because I have bumpy skin)

7. Sandstone Soap:
I originally bought this to get rid of my spray tan which was coming off in specks and I looked like I was a leper. It did the job alright! It's incredibly abrasive but the lemon scent makes the pain bearable. Definitely recommended for exfoliating.

8. Karma soap:
For some reason I didn't like this scent at first but I kept smelling it every time I went in there and now I love it!! What I love most about this soap is that is lingers on your skin so you have a slight halo of patchouli encircling you all. day. long. SO SCRUMPTIOUS. As you can tell, because there's barely any left. (This is my 'fall' soap).

9. Buffy Moisturizing Bar:
I have these bumps on my arms that are annoying a hell and this helped a lot. It has pieces of almonds/almond shells in it to exfoliate the crap out of anything. The smell is very nutty and creamy and I kinda like it. Wasn't my favorite but it wasn't the worst. After use it leaves a film over your skin so it locks in all the moisture and then spreads to let more in and out (that's me paraphrasing the women who sold it to me). I would buy this again but I'm going to try the other moisture bars first to see if I like any others better.

 

BATH BOMB TIME!

10. Big Blue Bath Bomb and Sunny Side Bubble Bar:
My first and favorite bath bomb. I used it with the Sunny Side bubble bar to make the Mermaid bath cocktail and it was FLAWLESS. There was tons of seaweed in the middle if Big Blue which was kind of a bitch to get out of the tub but it turned the bath a teal color with shimmering waves throughout because of the bubble bar. If I didn't have a rule about trying all the bath bombs I would grab this one again in a heartbeat! WARNING: although the Sunny Side bubble bar is heaven in a package it is very difficult to cleanup. i was cleaning glitter off my tub for a while after. I still highly recommend it, just fair warning.

These two are not my pictures!

11. Dragons Egg Bath bomb:

If you couldn't tell by now, in a sucker for anything with glitter. So naturally I had to try this one. The smell was ehh, reminded me of old people (no offense, just very grandma-like) but the show was magnificent.

not my photo

12. Pink Pink Pink bath bomb:
I loved this one a lot! It had a special surprise inside which was so fun to soak in and the smell was like being enveloped in bubble gum kisses and candy wishes!!

Courtesy of Instagram, Pomegranate Arizona and my fave songs of the late summer

13. Dorothy bubble bar:
This one turned the bath mostly blue but the bubbles weren't too frothy. I wish it produced more bubbles but I did love the scent if this one. More on the sweet\floral-y side of things.

This is not my personal photo

14. Spacegirl Bath Bomb
I wasn't impressed with this one too much. I liked the smell. It was sweet like candy with a grapefruit-y scent to it. I tried to use it to relax before I had my first big commercial shoot and the scents weren't too relaxing but Michael Buble certainly was! I don't know it it lost it's fizziness due to me keeping it out too long in humid weather or what but id was a pretty sad bath. It didn't event urn my tiny little bath tub purple...

So as long as that was, its only going to get worse with the TONS of products they came out with for the holidays. Stay tuned for the next LUSH goodies review around mid November/December

Right there where we stood was Holy Ground

Before this crazy storm hits RI I'm headed to church to say a million prayers!

Tank top: Charlotte Russe
Sweater: Hollister
Jacket: Forever 21
Pants: Hollister
Shoes: Aldo

Painting the town RED

Today is finally the day and to celebrateI red-ed myself out (ootd picture to come) I left school to pick up my pot of gold. I haven't been this happy in months!

Spirit Week days 3, 4, and Homecoming

Sorry I'm a little late! The end if the week is the busiest of the year for me. OK so Thursday was class color day and as a Junior our colors are red and black. Then! Friday is school color day, us Spartans are blue and white. Saturday morning was Homecoming court day. And then my dress from Asos London came in just in time for an awesome night of dancing!
Court outfit:
Dress: Francesca's collection.
Tights and necklace: Forever 21
Shoes: Aldo

Homecoming Dance:
Jamie and My dress: Asos
My shoes: Merona from Target
Jamie's shoes: Steve Madden