Amsterdam Shopping..

So if you didn't already know.. how could you not! Im going to Amsterdam next month so already I'm on the prowl for some comfy's for DAM! I have no idea what the vibe is or how the dress code goes but I'm hoping to gain some inspo from a few friends about the night life... I'm guessing its pretty laid back city vibes so I can leave my highest heels at home? 

So this is my FEB Lust List - Well Dam Lust List and I'm already a lucky enough girly to own two of these already! 

1. Khaki Fedora - Topshop - £25 - I think this Fedora will channel my inner Millie Mackintosh, glam up casual outfits and most importantly save me from trying to do my hair. Hat and GO!

2. Nike Air Force Crocs - £75 - I need to be comfy and stylish in Dam and unfortunately I don't think my boots are going to cut hours of walking and cycling on bikes. With these beauties I'll be able to do comfort stylish. 

3. Burberry Trench Coat - £1,195 - Obviously NEVER gonna be able to afford this especially not in the next 3 weeks but a girl can dream. I am in fact in search for a cream trench though as they go with EVERYTHING and I seem to have lost mine :( if you're reading this and I've left it at your house/in your car please holla! I can't find another I like...

4. Mulberry Lily - £850 - Another pipe dream but my Bayswater is TO BIG I've taken it on city breaks before and it just gets to heavy and in the way when out for hours. Especially if out cycling on the bikes so I need a nice (maybe not so expensive) across the body bag so I can zoom zoom zoom.

5. Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 - £60 - I've been banging on about getting one of these for so long but the only thing putting me off is how expensive the polaroid film is. So it can't be used for dicking about, only for serious photos. But I love the idea of having an instant photo, a memory there to hold and keep forever. Elliot's reaction when I said I think I might be buying one for Dam was "not a chance, you're going to be a nightmare wanting to take even more photos of me, you're bad enough with an iPhone" why does this kid not like having his photo taking.. doesn't he realise he's hot FFS!

So the fedora.. I went for lunch with Ell today and popped in Topshop on the way past looking for a camel roll neck and stumbled across this beauty. Ell normally hates hats and give me very disapproving looks when I wear hats followed by "you look like a t**t* but for once he approved YAY probably wouldn't of snapped it up as fast usually but for the first time I can wear a hat and he won't moan YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY I feel like Millie Mackintosh. 

And I finally got the babies too.. I saw these on net-a-porter at christmas, Ell wanted to get them for me but I was like uhhhh they look a little chunky I don't think I'd be able to pull them off. Anyways saw them Friday in office in Preston and fell head over heels seeing them in the flesh but they didn't have my size and they're completely sold out online. After speaking to a few Air Force owners they've all said they had to get the size down anyways cause they're massive fitting! So Ell the beau went into town Saturday for me to snap them up quick and I'm now the proud owner of these babies! Cannot wait to rock them with my skinnies! 

Anybody got any tips on Amsterdam things to do? What I should I pack?

Thanks Lovelies .. Heather xxx

Valentines, iPhones, Burgers and Pizzas...

Hope you've all had a lovely Valentines Weekend love birds...  

This is a photo of me on Valentines Day (...well maybe in 2017 when I've finally achieved a banging body.. and um gone brunette)

Every single year I've been a Valentines HATER! Maybe it was cause I never had a boyfriend until I was about 19 and even then he was an ass so I just played it down as a stupid hallmark holiday. Then when I finally bagged myself a dreamy boyfriend who actually wanted to spoil me, he was in the Military and posted abroad so I had to spend Valentines alone anyways.

Don't get me wrong I still massively disagree with spending ridiculous amounts of money on gifts and having an Instagram war on who's "boy did good" the best. I also massively don't agree with going out for over priced meals on Valentines either.. did it once three years ago and it was just an embarrassing cringe of an evening ever. Literally PACKED in tight in a restaurant in Manchester, the tables to close the waiter couldn't even fit in-between to serve, I could eat off the girls plate next to me if i wanted to, never mind listening to their cringe ass conversation of what they're gonna be doing later on.. all whilst some old man's playing a Violin whilst I'm trying to eat in peace and another trying to sell single red roses. NOOOOOOO! It's all just to false and fake. You don't need one day a year to make your partner feel special. Everyday should be special and you should show your significant other you love them spontaneously throughout the year not predictably with every other person on Feb 14th.

I say I don't agree but I wouldn't turn these away if I had them delivered.. Probably just question what Elliot's feeling guilty about haha! 

But saying all that, I'm a girl, a girly girl who loves romance (when its real and not fake) and seeing some of the amazing surprises some bfs have got their girls made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside when checking my social media :) - so from now on, I'm no longer a valentines hater. I won't be going out for cringy meals anytime soon but I shall definitely be making more of an effort from now on (last year he didn't even get a card, whoops!) 

So this Valentines day, I was working.. as a beautician in a hotel Valentines weekend is absolutely HECTIC! Literally loved up couples one after another, after another, after another coming in and treating each other to massages and facials! Its quite refreshing to see people of all ages celebrating Valentines and treating one another. The best thing about it as always is decorating the salon, sprinkling petals, love hearts, red roses and Valentines cupcakes. 

We did an amazing deal this year which was £50 for two people, the woman gets a back massage and facial and the man gets a back and scalp massage. BARGAIN! No wonder we was so busy..!

So our Valentines was spent casually at the Trafford Centre looking for the best iPhone 6 deal for me as my contract was up last weekend. So I got myself a little present to me from me.. a 62GB gold iPhone 6 with unlimited calls, texts, free Spotify and 10GB of internet a month with 20% off my bill a month with Ell's military discount. BARGAIN! My last phone only had 1GB of internet a month and on average I use 8GB a month so you can imagine what my bill looked like every month so by upgrading I'm saving an absolute FORTUNE and got £90 back for my iPhone 5c! It's literally so worth shopping around, for years I've always gone for early upgrade and been stuck in the same crap contract costing me a fortune. So it was definitely waiting it out until the end and shopping around! 

And to finish (as we've already just been through my opinion on Valentines meals) my first ever FIVE GUYS! Definitely not something you get every week seeing it is a little on the expensive side for fast food.. and the fact you'd be the size of a house! But it's definitely worth it for an indulgent treat... I had the cheeseburger with grilled onions, lettuce and BBQ sauce. And I can honestly say it's probably one of the best burgers I've ever had.. well worth its price in calories and cost! 

So Valentines weekend is also our "official anniversary" we have like three no joke. We met in the August just before he left for Afghan for 6 months (so we celebrate that, well I do.. he gets dragged out and forced to spoil me) then in the Feb we met again after 6 months of none stop talking online and on Feb 15th he was going back to Afghan after his R&R was over and we had a (drunken) conversation of soooooo are we? Aren't we? Where do we go from here? Even think I said I Love You in my drunken state. LOL it was a hard 6 months you know.... So here we are Feb 15th our official 3 year anniversary! 

We stopped at Guys which is a family pub/italian/hotel just up the road from where I work and the only place I know locally that has hot tubs in the room which is the reason that attracts me every time! We got the Sunday Saver Deal which is £80 for the room with jacuzzi bath (candles, champagne and petals are our own) breakfast in the morning (we got up late and missed breakfast but they was so accommodating and made up a sausage barm and a bacon butty on toast in the morning anyways) and an evening meal in either Old Nell's (the pub) or Guys (the Italian restaurant) - we choose to be little fattys and get takeout Pizza for the room instead so we could just have a 100% chilled evening. No dressing up.. No going for dinner.. just time together chilling out in our comfy's! (which you don't get to do a lot when you both still live at home) 

  

So thats a round up of my Valentines weekend.. chilled out eating far to much fatty food with Ell and getting myself a brand new iPhone ;) highlight! 

What's your thoughts on Valentines Day? Do you go all out or not bother at all? 

Whatever you did I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

Heather xxx

Live for the Weekends...

As a beauty therapist its very rare that we get a weekend off... So when we do get a weekend off (or just a Sunday in this weeks case) we SQUEEZE the life out of it and enjoy it as much as we can! 

I've been enjoying doing these OOTD posts so I've made a couple more seeing I've had a lot of questions on Instagram and Facebook about what I wore over the weekend :)

So Saturday was the lovely Rebecca Taylors birthday in Stratos. Dining on tapas and Pornstar Martinis as standard!

The food in Stratos was beautiful I must say, when it first opened I went along during the day with Ell and we wasn't that keen, maybe we didn't make the right decisions but everything seemed a little to fancy and nothing really filled us up? WELL the portions are massive, I got the tempura prawns and I think you got about 8 on the plate, along with the Bruschetta which again you got about 6-8 pieces of bread with tomato topping and it was definitely 'normal' food, nothing to fancy just good quality Italian Tapas!

If you can make out the OOTD in the middle photo I'm wearing

Black crepe crop top - River Island

Black Silk Scarf - Alexander McQueen (probably gathered I wear this scarf a lot by now)

Camel coloured wide leg trousers - ASOS

Barely there shoes - River Island 

So perks of being a beauty therapist on your days off you can come back into work (cause everyone can't get enough of work) and get your hangover blasted away and skin revitalised with AMAZING facials. My absolute favourite favourite favourite facial in the world is the hydro-peptide pumpkin peel facial (RRP £52) literally to me this facial is the queen of all facials and one of the only facials I can see immediate dramatic results straight away.

Personally I get very fine lines across my forehead (basically just expression lines cause I speak with my eyebrows far to much) and immediately after this facial its banished them and left my skin looking so plump and smooth. The only way I can describe the feeling is when you put a bobble in really really tight and it gives you an immediate face lift and taught skin. THIS IS WHAT THIS FACIAL DOES FOR ME! I literally cannot get enough of it, if I could get away with it I'd have one every single weekend! 

So Sunday night was the 'Marriott Oscars' a yearly awards evening in which for one night of the year every single associate gets the night off work and given an excuse to dress up!

Unfortunately for me I had work on Monday morning so I had to leave the festivities early after an amazing three course dinner and save myself the embarrassment of showing everyone just how much I can't handle my alcohol for another year.. Jagerbombs for £1.50 need I say more?

OOTD in the middle -

One shouldered high split black maxi - Missguided

Barely there sandals (yet again) - River Island

MCR weekends.

Been lucky enough the past two Fridays to of been for two lovely meals and cocktails in MCR.

So thought I'd do a little blog post on these fabulous nights and what I wore.

The above photo is The Alchemist - Spinningfields, unfortunately I don't have a photo of what we ate as I think I was that hungry it didn't even touch the sides (oops) *slaps hands* but to start we had a sharing platter, with THE most amazing beer battered prawns and for my main I had a lovely jerk chicken, with dumplings, rice and peas! 

 The cocktail on the far left is a traditional Pornstar Martini and the photo on the far right is a very exciting "The Colour Changing One" which just blew my mind simply because of the smoke from the ice haha. 

This photo is from Neighbourhood the previous Friday with my girls (after being drenched by rain). These photos are from my Instagram so I apologise if you can't quite make them out but for starters we had lollipop chicken and for mains I had a juicy neighbourhood steak burger! Highlight of the night was definitely receiving a large statue of liberty, complete for sparkers and 6 shots for basically being old grandmas and complaining about people having to much fun.... LONG STORY hahahahaha! 

The above photo is from the previous Friday that I went out with the girls. That day I took a brave decision and went full on brunette (well on the top of my ombre I did) with a number 5, I've been a blondie for years and years so apparently to everyone at the hairdressers being a no5 is a MASSIVE deal. I absolutely love it too, I don't think I'm quite ready to say goodbye to my blonde yet but I think I could pull off being brunette one day.... ;) 

Crop Top - River Island - £16

Wide Legged Pants - ASOS - £35 

Barely There Shoes - River Island - £50 

The photos above are from the lounge bar in Manchester House, officially my new favourite bar in the world. My uncle only told me about this place as I was setting off for the train to MCR Friday afternoon. Its on the corner of spinningfields and just looks like an average high rise office building with security. But in actual fact its a restaurant on the 2nd floor and cocktail bar on the 12th with a huge terrace going out with big chairs and heaters over looking the city. Amazing views! 

This Friday I actually went down to MCR in the afternoon (wrapped up warm) for optimum drinking time with my bae Elliot. Last week much to my heartbreak I agreed to let my hairdresser TRIM off my split ends. So now I feel bald (yes healthy but still bald) so for the first time in 2827363 years I managed to style my extensions into a long straight pony as the rain was to horrendous to handle a curly blow! 

Waterfall Coat - Missguided - £70

Turtle Neck Jumper - Topshop - £35

Ripped Skinny Jeans - River Island - £45 

That's enough cocktail drinking for me for a while. Think I've spent about a weeks wage purely on drinks the past two fridays *vom* has anybody else got any other little hidden gems in MCR they can enlighten me with? 

Heather xxx