My Hair Story // Style Addict

Hey, Lovelies! 

I thought I would switch it up this blog post (not going to lie I'm just being super lazy and cba picking out an outfit and getting pictures haha). I decided since I just recently got my hair done that I would do a little post on my hair journey, I'm a bit addicted to getting my hair done and have been since about the age of 14. I've had SO MANY different styles and colours and I thought it would be kinda fun to look through some old (and kinda embarrassing) pics and talk you through my journey! 


So...this is 2010 Emo/Scene Kid Danni. This has to be one of the first times I got my hair done, I got crazy amounts of blonde highlights in my fringe and around my face. I thought I was the coolest guy ever. This picture would have definitely been a Bebo profile pic at some point. 

I'm sure this is still 2010, see what I mean about changing my hair constantly! It's a weird non-intentional reddish colour with a MAJOR side fringe! I'm sure this is round about the time of when every gal and their granny had that red Rhianna inspired hair! I obviously wasn't ballsy enough to go hard or go home haha! And no I'm not going to even talk about the denim sleeveless waistcoat I have on. (But it was from Topshop FYI). 

I'm not gonna bore yous/ embarrass myself too much so I've jumped to 2012, when the coloured ombre trend had just started and I was so desperate to try it so I got a friend to dye the ends of my extensions...and this is what I looked like. Yes, I had a photoshoot myself in my room and used Picmonkey to OVER edit my pictures. 

2013 - the year of yet again more drastic change and the one and only time I ever ever ever used a box hair dye! My hair went from a beautiful, healthy-ish condition to patchy dark brown and I did this about two months before starting uni...worst idea ever!! Also, 2013 must have been the year I actually started smiling in selfies and realised duck face wasn't actually cool! 

Funnily enough, I then ventured back to ombre! I think I did this mainly because it was cheaper than getting my whole head done, and it was super in! Looking back now I really did love this hair colour, it wasn't that super harsh ombre that you could actually see where the bleach stopped and your 'natural' hair colour began. But surprise, surprise Danielle did something stupid again and bought a pink chalk hair colour from Topshop and put all over my beautiful light blonde hair and it would not come out!! 

After spending so much money on getting my hair perfect I go and put a cheap ass apparently 'wash out' colour in it! So this resulted in me having to get the chop *GASP* I'd only ever had my hair cut super short once in my life and I was about 14 and I just went to the hairdressers without telling my mum and got it cut off (thankfully I couldn't find any of those pictures to show you!) bad times! 

I don't think this is a photograph of my hair directly after getting the pink out it might be a little while later, but apart from the little bits of blonde at the bottom I'm 90% this is mostly my natural hair colour and I haven't seen that in a while!! 

There's more...after this, I got a little bored (surprise, surprise) so I decided to get a little fringe put in, I loved this hair style and always toy with the idea of getting it cut back in but it was just too high maintenance! 

Not gonna lie looking at all these pictures of skinny, young Danielle isn't great when I'm slobbing it out in joggies and a junkie bun. NOT GREAT! 

After our wee walk down memory lane, I'll get to more recent times (just so you know I have skipped hella a lot of horrid hair decisions, not gonna lie). 

Grey hair, now this was something that I had lusted after for such a long time, I would constantly talk about it, make Pinterest boards about it, follow Instagram accounts because the person had grey hair but I just didn't exactly know how to go about getting it done.

I had won a free cut and colour at a hairdressers in Glasgow a couple of weeks before my 21st birthday so I decided that I would use it the day before my 21st (the day of my 21st surprise party) to treat myself and get my grey hair (finally)!! I was in the hairdressers from literally 10 in the morning until about 6 at night getting this done, now this wasn't a full head it was literally just the ends and it went BLUE, DARK DARK BLUE and on the car ride home I cried my eyes out because I had ruined my hair for my 21st birthday but thankfully that night I got way too drunk to even give a dam and actually ended up loving it!! 

The blue finally washed out and I was left with a kind of grey/blonde ombre that I just wasn't lovely. And one day when I was scrolling through Instagram and came to Number 659's insta page and I saw THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PERFECT grey ombre that I had ever lay my eyes on and I knew that I had to go there and get it. 

So my first trip to the salon my hair turned out like this obviously not as grey as I had hoped but if you hadn't guessed already by this post I had a lot of colour build up and it would be super difficult to get it really light first time around. I went back a good few times and ended up with a super gorgeous colour! 

 

And then...probably the most adventurous thing that I have ever done with my hair was this... 

Again I got this done in Number 659, I did not go to the salon to get it done it just kinda happened! 

I loved it so so so much, but unfortunately, it was just too much hard work and the pink washed out really really quickly! 

You may or may not know but blue hair dye is very very very difficult to get out...so we opted for a half grey, half blue which again I LOVED! and then once my roots had grown out we went for a gorgeous icy grey with a peppermint green/blue flash through one side. 

(Don't worry the post is coming to an end) we have my newest hair style which is a beaut lilac, grey colour! I'm so super happy to have my hair all one colour again haha! 

FINALLY! It's done! I'm so so so sorry that this post is so bloody long but I really wanted to include so many pictures of the different hair styles I have had. And thank you if you actually managed to read right till the end! I'm thinking about writing about my current hair care routine for coloured hair if that's something that you guys would be interested in reading about...let me know! 

Love Yah! 

- D 

xoxo

On Trend - Leopard Print // Style Addict

Hey Lovelies! 

Not gonna lie I'm having the best Sunday eva. I have Cheetah Girls - Cheetah Sisters blasting and I'm singing my wee heart out! And if you don't understand that reference then just get out. 

I managed to get a couple of new pics taken by my ever so amazing boyf yesterday. We rarely have a full day together so we got all dressed up and headed into Glasgow for a bit of lunch at Drygate Brewary and to book tattoos! (Our Valentine's day gifts to each other). 

This gorgeous leopard print jacket is a very recent purchase! Im so so so happy that leopard print is on trend again I really am a sucker for it! Obviously it's from H&M, they have so many amazing leopard print items in ATM, making it super easy to stay on trend without breaking the bank. 

I really wanted the jacket to be the main focus of the outfit so I kept everything else rather simple. The black pleated skirt, also from H&M, works really well for my shape highlighting the smallest part of my waist making me feel super slim. I paired it with this little top from Zara, I love little slogan t-shirts, and the positioning of it works really well with the jacket. Also this top is slightly cropped which means there isnt that awkward line of where your top ends underneath your skirt. Its worse than VPL in my opinion! 

For accessories I went for these lil hunnis - my Kurt Geiger pom pom shoes and my Zara chain bag, which was a graduation present from my boyf! As for the shoes, I'd searched for ever and ever for a pair of pom pom flats, I'd seen a pair on ASOS but typically they were sold out :( So I was plesantly surprised to find these ones, yes they were a little pricier but I feel like they are a good investment and they feel like they are made really well. 

Jacket - £39.99

Top - (Can't remeber because I bought it so long ago, so heres one that it super similar) 

Skirt - £24.99 (Now down to £14.99) 

Bag - £89.99

Shoes - £55.00  

Me thinking I am hilarious on Snapchat..

Peace Out Huns, until next time. 

xoxo

The Jacket // Style Addict

Hello Strangers!

A LOT has happened since my last post...in April. I graduated with a 2:1 in International Fashion Branding, I got a new job and booked a trip to New York as part of mine and Grant's (my boyfriend) 5 year anniversary! So it means I have been super busy, and kinda pushed the blog to the side for a bit.

But how could I not blog about this jacket!!! It's from H&M (which shouldn't surprise some of yous). I've been wearing it constantly since I bought it, I makes me feel like a super cool, edgy mermaid!

 

A massive trend this season is pink! So I combinded that with a new staple item in my wardrobe - a hoodie. By wearing it underneath this black pinifor dress gave it a more femmine vibe, and it looked less slouchy for a date day. Although I couldn't help pairing it with my mega bright white Stan Smiths! Which I'm not gonna lie are KILLING my feet, I need to break them in ASAP because I cannot live without them. I decided to go for a bare leg, which might have not been the best idea in freezing cold Glasgow but I actually managed to slap on some fake tan during the week and I was gonna show that off!

I'll link all the items I'm wearing below, most are from H&M, oops!

Hoodie - £24.99  
Dress - £24.99
Jacket - £59.99 (Sold Out Online)
Although it has been sold out for a while but if you really want it keep trying the website because that's how I got mine!
Shoes - £69.95
Bag - £29.99

- Danielle xoxo

Bedroom DIY

Hey guys! Finally I found something to blog about, I’ve been kind of lost for a little while in terms of fashion. My outfits recently have consisted of a lot of jeans and trainers...nothing exciting! Although the same can't be said for my room. Why is it when you have a million and one things to do you always seem to distract yourself with something ridiculous like re-decorating your room! I'm constantly looking on Pinterest for DIY inspo and cute bedroom ideas and this is what I have came up with! I thought the easiest way to do this is take lots of pics of my little set ups and talk through them and tell you guys where I got things etc!  

So...I have two sets of white drawers from Ikea (not 100% sure what they are called) bursting with hundreds clothes! 

I have stacked some copies of my favourite Vogue issues and placed a couple of little trinkets on top. A picture of me and my friends, the frame is from Tiger. Another picture of me and my friend in New York last year, the frame is just for polaroid pictures from Urban Outfitters. A cute little elephant that I got when I was on holiday in Portugal, a mini Eiffel Tower that I bought when I was in Paris and a pink champaign flute that my auntie bought me for my 21st Birthday. I really love this little collection of trinkets because each one has a very special memory attached to it.  

I thought I would tell you guys just why these are my favourite Vogue issues. The top on is my ultimate fav its a September 1994 issue (the month/year I was born) the BEST birthday present my boyfriend has ever bought me. The second is a Spanish Vogue that I purchased when I was studying in Madrid. And the last two are just ones that I really really enjoy reading over and over again! 

And on the right hand side I have a little display of my favourite fashion books. A book about Vivenne Westwood (that I haven't actually read yet!), An amazing book by Lucy Siegle that I recommend EVERYONE that is intreseted in fashion to read it is such an eye opening book, Alex Chung's It ... If you havent read this ... Where the fuck have you been?!, Bringing Home the Birkin is the most wonderful holiday, easy-read book I have read it soo many times. Finally, Confessions of a Fashionista which I have yet to read but I will be taking it on holiday! 

I have actually had this feature for a while in my room and added to it over the years. Changing the pictures every so offten. I'm not going to go through this too much but I have purchaed frames from ... B&M, Home Bargins, The Range, Urban Outfitters, Paperchase and Tiger! 

Finally, the newest addition to my room is this wall... 

Now this is totally inspired by Pintrest! It's a mix of prints ("but first coffee." from Paperchase and the Chanel perfume bottle is from a market in Paris), poloroid pictures and shopping bags from my favourite brands. I really love this wall I feel like it makes a great feature! 

Well I hope you have all enjoyed this short and sweet blog post! Sorry for the lack of posts I've been super busy with work and FINISHING UNI! 

Lots of Love 

D 

xx

Not So Glamorous Glamping..

Hello, Lovely people!

I am actually getting pretty good at this blogging thing again! I'm sure that this is about the third or fourth week in a row now *pats self of back*.

Well, today's blog is slightly different than anything I have ever written before. To be honest I am only writing it so I don't have to tell this story over and over again when people ask how 'glamping' was.

So, myself and my boyfriend Grant (who is actually becoming a regular feature on my blog...do not know how I feel about that) decided to go 'Glamping' which is glamorous camping for people not in the know. I found this really great deal on Itison a couple of months ago and thought that it would be a great idea for a few nights away from the dissertation stress. We booked two nights in a dome within Loch Tay Highland Lodges campsite. 

(Here is a screenshot of how excited I was about the trip...if only I knew)

We got to the site at about 3:30 and it was GORGEOUS, the views were outstanding and we couldn't believe how peaceful the place was, although it was a little cold. 

And after walking around for a little bit we got the keys to our own little dome for two night. 

Stepping into the dome for the first time was perfect it looked exactly like the pictures (minus a few details), but it was gorgeous. We (I'm saying we but I really mean Grant) then got the fire going and we chilled out on the massive beanbags watching the loch, with what I can only describe as a major throwback playlist. 

After a few hours of chilling out and having a good ol' gab with each other we decided to go and get ready for dinner. As it is technically 'low season' in places like this the outside restaurant was actually closed so we had to go a little further afield for food, which was fine as we had done our research in advanced anyway and decided to go to the Kenmore Hotel which was only about 20 minutes in the car. OMG, the food was amazing, the restaurant was beautiful, the staff were excellent and the place just had that perfect little Scottish highland feel to it. Which is exactly what you want when you visit places like this. 

As you can possibly tell the diet was 100% forgotten about for a couple of days. I cannot recommend this place enough to everyone, it was seriously perfect. 

Funnily enough, it was all downhill from then on. We got back from dinner and decided to put the fire on, have a few glasses of champers and play some boardgames (apparently that's what people with no phones or laptops or Netflix do?). We began to realise VERY quickly just how cold it was getting. Even with the fire roaring the dome just wouldn't heat up, even though I had FIVE layers on and about 7 pairs of socks my feet were still ice cubes. Remind me again why we thought to camp in February in Scotland was a good idea? 

Sleeping in that dome was the WORST THING I HAVE EVER DONE (using the word 'sleeping' loosely). It got so cold during the night that inside the tent was frozen, actually frozen!! I could have cried but tbh my tears would have just turned into ice, I didn't realise that we signed up to sleep in an igloo overnight!!! 

The next day we made the conscious decision to pack up our things and get out of there super fast. There was no way I would have enjoyed sleeping in there another night, I didn't particularly feel like putting myself through that torture again, I don't think my body could have handled it. Although it was freezing cold and I could have cried at 3 am when I had to double check that my nose hadn't fallen off, I'm actually glad that we did it. I had seen these domes online for a while and we did actually get them for a really good deal, it's just unfortunate the weather sucked! I do seriously think that it would be amazing in the summer when it is just a little warmer. I don't want this to be a negative blog, I'm not complaining about the place at all I just thought I should write about this because it would be a funny thing to look back on. Although I do plan on writing a couple more lifestyle-type blogs just to mix it up from the usual fashion related posts. 

So if anyone asks "How was camping?" I will just be directing you straight to this post! 

Lots of Love

- Danielle 

xx