Faded Spring

    Joy Review

    They say British labels are the quirkiest and they are completely right; meet Joy the fashion and lifestyle brand with a passion for challenging fashion norms. Renowned for their innovation of eccentric womenswear, menswear, accessories and gifts the self inscribed 'achingly cool' brand is the go to for quirky yet lovable products. Coinciding with its quirky nature the British label is committed to expressing liberal attitudes to individualism and it is a refreshing ethos to come across. Sartorial vintage flair makes up a large portion of the brands aesthetic while its exclusive approach to marketing an individualistic identity allows Joy to stand out from the mass produced crowd. What's ... read more

    Living With An Invisible Illness

    The pain begins the moment I wake up, like a rumble of thunder it hits me hard and I struggle to breathe. Every action, every thought and every word is a struggle and I drift through peripheral wastelands trying to make sense of this hazy, dream like world I enter. This is what it is like living with an invisible illness, I get angry at the world for not knowing how much pain I am in and frustrated with friends and family because they think I am fine. I have been labelled a drama queen or been told it is because of stress. Sometimes I am told it is my fault that I am sick but I know that it is not, when you are given diagnosis after diagnosis you don't know what to think any more. I don't ... read more

    5 Bloggers That Inspire Me

    Sometimes as bloggers we forget that we are a community and many cut down their competitors to rise to the top. But I am not like that; I am competitive but at the same supportive of my fellow bloggers and their rightful rise to the top. Bloggers should support, love and understand each other but many do not know and seek to destroy others self-confidence because they feel insecure in themselves. And this is wrong, learn to love those who are in your community and live in harmony and peace. You only have one life to live so live it with a warm and open heart. That is why I have decided to highlight five bloggers that have helped shape the blogger that I am today and taught me that being open ... read more

    Irresistible Me: Review

    There is one thing you should know about me, I have never shown my true hair on my blog because it is thick, messy and a pain to manage. Sitting between curly and wavy my hair lacks volume and is often coated in frizz and tangles, taking me at least 20 minutes just to brush my lions mane. It is frustrating to deal with and all my life I have dreamed of having sleek straight hair with no frizz to its name. That is why in all my blog photos you can see that my hair is straight, smooth and shiny because it takes me at least two hours to get it straight and even then it fails to stay straight especially in light of our temperamental English weather. It was not until I was at university that I ... read more

    Firmoo Review

    Out of frugality came Firmoo, the most popular discounted online eye-wear brand in the United States. After years of expertise in the optical industry, the founders of Firmoo conducted a survey to evaluate the efficiency of the optical industry in the US to glean what changes the optical industry needed to target its consumers more effectively. One of the predominant inefficiencies that Firmoo found was that there was a divide between retail costs and consumers costs which left customers paying $100's when retailers made them for significantly less money. With customers being pushed into buying prescription glasses and sunglasses because of its 'label' Firmoo understood that a change needed ... read more

    Replay Stone Review

    Perfume has always been a central part of my lifestyle and helps me feel more complete, confident and above all alive with every spritz. To me perfumes are spiritual and at the core essence of every human being. Our attraction to scents is nothing new, refined by the Roman's, Persian's and Arab's perfume became an emblem for wealth; incense based perfumes lacked the refined iconic scent of steam distilled perfumes but by the 18th century distilled perfumes were used worldwide. Scent consiuners delighted in cooking up new concoctions and were inspired by sixth century Arabian recipes which preserved musk, amber and jasmine as part of religious purification ceremonies. Today perfume trade ... read more

    It’s Ok To Not Be Perfect

    Why do we feel the need to put on a front? Is it because we are too scared to reveal our real selves, terrified that they won't like the person behind the mask? I find it hard to be honest with who I am as a person and reinvented myself for university to protect myself from my wounded shell of reality. All the scars had to be hidden, the battle wounds of the past locked up in the safe of my mind and in person I was a hyperactive ball of energy, the life of the party and always the person you could count on 'for a laugh'. But this wasn't me I tried to compensate for my imperfections by reinventing a 'perfect persona' I could not could not keep up with and it was exhausting. Because if I did ... read more

    New Chic Wishlist

    I have been blogging six months now and am so incredibly proud of what I have acheived and the people and companies that I have met along the way have helped me become a better blogger. I have a strong ethos to promote brands that are as of yet under the radar and deliver 'fast quality fashion' at reasonable prices so when New Chic contacted me to review their products I was more than happy to write a detailed, honest review in exchange for lust-worthy products. I was wary at first. A similar company who I reviewed last year [ Read HERE] sent items that barely resembled the products in the photos and were 'fast' 'cheap' but not high quality. To be fair I understand it was cheap but ... read more

    Stop Online Abuse

    As I write this I am sobbing, depressed and feeling isolated from the blogging community. When I joined the blogging community I did so to connect and meet online bloggers but as of late I have received nothing but abuse and it hurts like hell. I have been called horrible names, been accused of doing things I have not done, recieved negative comments and been told that I deserve to die and should have never existed. Do you know how much it hurts to be told you are worthless, be told that your ugly and that my blog is shit simply because I stood my ground and fought for what I believed in? I don't care if my opinions are controversial because to be honest I don't care anymore, blogging is not ... read more

    International Women’s Day

    The struggle torwards achieving gender parity has been tultomous and worldwide women have been exploited, degraded and treated unfairly. But this is wrong; women should have the same rights and be treated the same as men because we all have a purpose on this earth to fulfil and that is to change the world that we live in. Throughout the centuries women have fought for equality and questioned the cultural, political, economical, religious and social structures that stratified society to view women as 'inferior' leading to countless worldwide movements. Elizabeth I fought to be viewed to be mens equal leading troops into war, Anne Boleyn influenced the Reformation movement and Mary ... read more