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Nouvelle Vague? Follow Mr Spoon!

Well I am not one to blindly follow trends but tomorrow I have a trendy DO to attend. It's the Habia Hair Show and detail is all when mixing with fashionista beauty industry types. So, naturally I've been on the search for a nice pale turquoise nail varnish, a la Chanel's Nouvelle Vague. A cross between a pastel blue and a mint green, some warmth, no pearliness. Some research led me to China Glaze's For Audrey, only from the USA, and Nail Inc's Haymarket, available here but nearly a tenner. Even Barry M, yhough close, with their shade "pure turquoise", missed the colour by shades. Then I discovered Collection 2000 Button Moon. £1.79 and the exact right colour. Perfect perfect perfect. The pot from Boots and the pot from Superdrug are oddly two different shades. One slightly bluer. For comparison I also got Boots 17 Mint Choc Chip, a warm ice blue. Gorgeous. Close! But no banana. Follow Mr Spoon. £16 for a mail varnish? Nooooo. No need.


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It been a while!

The last time we did Grilla Styling we re-visited Westfield for its fabulous restaurants and shops all under one roof. The thing about Westfield is that it could either be A. the worst retail cluster-fuck ever, B. intensely commercially boring or C. just a great place to do unashamed retail therapy, and we reckon it depends on the day of the week. Go when its quiet, huh!?

Heres a picture of Miryam having her birthday, now let me dig out those last Grilla photos and the packs of cards! Watch this space!

Totally awesome shoes.

ahhhhh. very very cheap and very very sparkly and pink. tacky? Yes. very me? yes. Score!! FInd them here.

Grill my New Look!!

Well. We went to New Look. More than a week ago. Frankly it could have gone better- simply the rain and the fact it was a week day did put us off our stride a tad. However, we did end up with some totally fun pictures. Can I just mention that even though the pics are fuzzy and dark we weren't A. in a bordello or B. drunk. it was just- well, very dark in there! I'm still a HUGE fan of New Look Holborn so yahboosucks. We got....... Flouro Greek.... and Pale Pink Mermaid. Borderline porno pictures were taken! Then we squelched home in the drizzly dark.
Inspire us to do more!!!! aaargh will be addicted to Westfield for evermore simply because the damn place has a roof!

Right now I am.....

Right this second I'm mitigating misery by buying myself (technically for my birthday AHEM) yet another wonderful Threadless Tshirt- "You are the best" by Emily Glaubinger. I say it a lot to my darling Sammy. I'm marrying him shortly..... Besides, it is green, and it is awesome. I'm going to wear it with a pencil skirt like this and I don't care if I look a. silly or b. like a fash slag. I want to. I like pencil skirts, yes? Generous lovely people at work gave me a £20 Wallis voucher... so I'm not really spending, right? hee. Pics of latest Grilla in 2 tics.

Meeeeellllttiiiiiinnnnnnnggggg

I am melting. So are my credit cards, under the weight of forthcoming nuptial excesses. Nver mind that though... just bought some fantastic pink sequinned baseball fake-converse type shoes from BooHoo.com though, so can't be ALL bad. I will dream of wearing them like Lily Allen with flouncy dresses, but in fact probably just wear them with cutoff jeans.... Off to cut off some jeans, eat some more chocolate and plan another Grilla trip when its cooler......keep watching....pics coming.....