Faded Spring

    How To Look After Your Car Tyres In The Summer

    How To Look After Your Car Tyres In The Summer  Picture the scene; it's a blissful summer's day where the glorious golden sun bathes you in it's golden light and the sea breeze cascades mischievously through your hair. It's the holiday that you have been dreaming of all summer, a chance to escape from normality and enter a realm of endless possibilities. You plan a road trip, loved ones by your side, as you drive on the open road and feel the wind on your face. Vibrant laughter ensues and the smell of honeysuckle intermingles with the scent of cars racing down the motorway. It should have been the perfect getaway, the holiday of your dreams, except despite your meticulous planning, there ... read more

    How To Protect Yourself Against STDs

    How to Protect Yourself Against Soaring STD Rates: STDS It goes without saying that anyone who is sexually active can get an STD; from Chlamydia to Gonorrhoea, STDs do not discriminate. Regardless of what your gender, ethnicity, religion or background is, anyone who is actively having sex can catch STDs. While it is true that people aged between 16-24 are more at risk of getting an STI, that does not mean that other age groups are not susceptible to STDs such as Genital Warts, Syphilis and Hepatitis B , with some STDs like Gonorrhoea having long term health issues such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can lead to infertility, long-term pelvic and abdominal pain or an ectopic ... read more

    5 Reasons Why You Should Study In Bristol

    Known as the biggest city in the south-west of England, Bristol is one of the most exciting and multicultural places in the country. Not only has Bristol been named as the top vegan city in the UK for 2019, with Google Trends data declaring that the interest level for all things vegan was highest in Bristol. This is unsurprising given that three out of four Bristol MP's saying that they are vegan or vegetarian, showing why you should study in Bristol if you are following a plant based diet. Bristol is also the birthplace of street art legend Banksy whose notable work can be found in Stokes Croft. With its finger firmly on the pulse Bristol is bubbling with dynamism, a creative city that ... read more

    Lunchtime Shennigans at Enoteca Rosso Kensington

    The scent of summer was blissfully on the horizon, honeysuckle and dew intermingling with raucous children laughing. Ice cream trucks saw queues of graceful customers, and adults drank ciders in the open park spaces. For it was a glorious spring day where summer had reared its head oh so unexpectedly, as the girl in the red dress, impractically dressed as always clonked heels on flowered pavements, and the children kept on laughing. It would be filled with eating and joy, a brunch at Enoteca Rosso, bubbles overflowing, a blogger hangout at Chelsea Creperie, a date night brimming with passion. But for now the lady in red strode over to Rosso, with hunger in her belly, ready to make new ... read more

    How To Store Your Wine At Home The Right Way

    For millennia, cultures the world over have enjoyed a wide array of alcoholic beverages. Arguably one of the first beverages to appear throughout the world, wine still captures the love and attention of countless people in a variety of ways. From those who enjoy it in a connoisseur-like setting to those who sample a glass after each meal, there are many methods for tasting and enjoying fine wine. But how did our humble wine friend enter our lives so lovingly, wrapping us in a heated blanket of seduction, debauchery and mystique? Wine as we know it now, was first made by people of the Shulaveri-Shomu culture, which while might be a surprise to those who view wine as originating in Italy or ... read more

    Why Heavy Periods Have Made Me Period Positive

    My Period Story: What It Was Like Growing Up With Heavy Periods Growing up I was always the odd one out, a small slim girl with non-existent breasts, who according to my peers, entered the world of puberty 'freakishly late'. I was surrounded by friends with buxom chests and curvaceous butts, who would brandish their tampons around like it was a lipstick, cementing the fact that aged 14, I had still never had a period. And then it hit me like a tonne of bricks; first came the breasts, small dots on my chest, that I have come to grow to love with age, and a little butt that wiggled when I walked. But it was my little red visitor that surprised me the most, flummoxed by the sharp pain in my ... read more

    A Vegetarian’s Guide To Vivi’s Bar And Restaurant

    She rode into the sunset on a horse made from unicorn dreams, the scent of bubblegum pop wafting through the chilled air. There were sparkles in the sky raining down upon her like confetti streamers, as she shook the droplets out of her hair with gilded ease. The clock was ticking, but she kept on striding forward with purpose, until the neon lights of VIVI's beckoned her into their welcoming home, where pastel pink plush sofas danced on the merry go round of food deliveries, that plied hungry customers mouths oh so greedily. Coat stowed away, she sunk gratefully into the chair beneath her with a wistful sigh, smiling at the people before her who had come to join her at tonight's gastronomic ... read more

    Faded Spring’s Guide To Dating Dos And Dont’s

    Faded Spring's  101 Guide To Dating Dos And Dont's Once upon a time there was a moment when gentlemen existed, where the concept of a F**kboy driving around in his fuckboy mobile, was as alien as the concept of a pig and a cat having babies together, and the world didn't revolve around tube goers with glazed eyes, swiping left and right on what they would be having for 'Friday Dinner'. And by dinner I mean a genitalia all you can eat buffet served with a sprinkling of oral. Once the cat has finished toying with the sausage, they both awkwardly clamber out of bed, avoiding eye contact, as they shake hands before departing the world's most awkward one night stand. And don't even get me ... read more

    10 Fun First Date Ideas To Try This Year

    By their very nature, first dates are fiddly and fractious affairs. Food can be fraught, drinks can be disastrous, and just what on earth do you talk about? Travel? Hobbies? Sports? Current events? Politics? Religion? Probably not those last two topics, but when there’s a lull in the discussion, just where do you go from there? After all, I know from personal experience just how awkward first dates can be, especially when MR 'Boring' comes to mind, which while sounds harsh, is very much indicative of how lackluster our first date was. Or what about 'MR Call Me Daddy' who still has the ability to make me cringe today, as I recall just how A. disturbing the first date was looking back and B. ... read more

    Why I Stopped Posting On Instagram

    It has been a while since I published an Instagram post on Faded Spring, nearly two months in fact,the time has almost passed me by. I could blame it on being busy but the truth is I needed a social media blackout, something which I have turned to many times in recent months for the sake of my emotional and physical wellbeing, in the aftermath of dealing with depression, anxiety and trauma. I struggle with mental health issues on a daily basis and while its true that I have posted Instagram Stories, interacted with people's content and blogged regularly, my decision to not post on Instagram was because I needed time away from something which no longer gave me joy or filled my heart with ... read more