Sunday 31 January 2010

Sunday food shopping with my mum




My mum came to stay for the weekend and we decided to get up early and go to M&S to buy some food for a Sunday roast. I wanted to throw on one of those laid back Sunday "I haven't even tried but still look fabulous" looks but it simply wasn't happening. I literally stood in front of my wardrobe with "NOTHING TO WEAR"! I hate those days, don't you? OK obviously I do have clothes to wear but everything I tried on looked rubbish. After 45 mins of pulling things out of the wardrobe and then throwing them back in I settled on an outfit that I've worn to work loads lately. Normally I feel quite good in it but today I just felt weird as it's not a working day it's the weekend. I went for my ancient baggy Levi jeans that I rolled up and secured with a hidden safety pin in the style of Katie Holmes, Rachel Bilson and Kylie Minogue. I teamed it with a Breton top I got from River Island last year, a long navy cardi from Zara, tan suede ankle boots from Office and my Topshop leopard print coat. Sounds OK on paper but for some reason it just wasn't working for me today!

Ashish Tracksuit




I have a confession to make...I went to Topshop yesterday and spent £160 on a tracksuit. Yeah that's right a TRACKSUIT. I felt so ridiculously guilty handing my card over to pay for it but there was nothing I could do to stop myself. You see it's a tracksuit from the new Ashish range that had literally just hit Topshop and I knew if I didn't buy it there and then it would sell out and I'd regret it forever! I fell in love with this spiky tracksuit a few months ago when I saw Rihanna wearing it. She must have had a sneak preview of the collection because I included her in the "Stars Do High Street" page of heat when I saw her in it way back then. The thing is I thought she was wearing a black version and yesterday I could only find it in charcoal grey. I bought it anyway of course as it's amazing but because Rihanna had the black one I'm thinking maybe I should have held out for that. I've looked on the Topshop website but it's not there either! I've decided to keep this one anyway and hope that I imagined the black one as I know I'll kick myself if it comes into stock later this week. Shopping can be so difficult at times!

Friday 29 January 2010

WAH Nails


I just had to show you my leopard print nails. I went to the Arcadia press day on Wednesday and got my nails painted by a lovely girl from WAH Nails. She did this free hand in about 15 mins max and I love them!

Check out the site http://www.wah-nails.com/

House of Commons


Last night I stayed at my friend Lucie Cave's house and we stayed up chatting until 1 am drinking too much red wine. We had to get up at 6.15 am to get ready for a Fakebake breakfast at the House of Commons. Yep, that's right we went to the House of Common's for breakfast! Sooo not only was I exhausted and a little bit hung -over I also had to piece together an outfit. I didn't know I was going until the day before and I had only brought a dress down Friday outfit with me...which was a pair of blue skinny jeans, red converse boots and a grey sweatshirt that says "Bronagh" on the front. Clearly this is not a House of Commons outfit. Luckily I had placed a big ASOS order and it arrived just in time. In the end I wore a grey jersey sweatshirt dress from ASOS which taps into the Sports Deluxe SS10 trend, my Office boots that look like snow boots with heels and a pair of black M&S knee socks (2 pairs for £3 - bargain). Not sure it was House of Commons appropriate but I liked it!

My Wonderful Wardrobe

I'm Bronagh heat magazine's stylist. It's my job to dress celebrities for photo shoots but this site is all about dressing me.

In the past I've dressed like a different celebrity everyday. Yeah that's right, like what we tell you to do in heat on the "Steal her style" page. I would literally see a photo of a celeb (usually Rachel Bilson, Kate Moss, Nicole Richie) and copy what they were wearing with a high street equivalent. I even took this a little step further and began researching where they were actually getting their clothes so I could buy the exact same thing! It got to the point where my old boss Mark Frith created a page in heat called "Find it" because he could see there was something in what I was doing and told me I might has well be getting paid for it. I've been in charge of the "Find it" page ever since.

Now a days I've moved away from completely copying their looks (I got a bit older and worried I was a bit sad) so now I take inspiration from my favourite style icons and re-work some of their ideas. Don't get me wrong, if I see Olivia Palermo wearing a wicked outfit then I'm not ashamed to copy it but it's just not as often these days...