Valentines outfit!

Happy Valentines Day from Wear it like you made it! Apologies for the post being a day late but I was out with friends celebrating life love and most of all red and lovely lovehearts!
I'm saving my full snapshot of the outfit for the extra special feature I've been telling you all about! Here are a few of the key features though!

If there's ever a day to wear loveheart earrings it has to be today! I also wore my skull t-shirt to make a quirky valentines statement-the skull is made up of little hearts! I wore the shirt over a cutesy flowery dress for a sweet and summery look! I also kept up the theme with pink cons and the tights had little bow patterns up the back.

Gettin' shirty!

This is a quicky shirt change I made last week. I bought the shirt a few years ago for while I was on work experience. It has distinctive puffy sleeves that I never really got used to. The puffiness of them made my shoulders look huge. I removed the sleeves quite easily with scissors along the seams. The shirt actually completely changed style with the removal of the sleeves and I found it much more flattering. I just put this up as an example of really straightforward simple things that you can do to give clothes a new lease of life. I would never have worn the shirt as it was before and I definitely think I will now.

Blue and gold

I haven't been posting as much lately as I have been working on  a couple of special projects for the blog this week. This is a quick snapshot of a very simple outfit. The gold dress is an edited piece. I inherited it from a friend of my mums and it originally had long sleeves. It one of a few non-fitted dress I have and I actually love it. Its a soft shade of gold and sparkly and it honestly makes me feel like a fairy without looking like a crazy wannabe 5 year old impersonating tinkerbell. I was in a rush the morning of this outfit so while I normally team it with quirky tights but this day I just wore it with dark blue jean leggings. The beanie is an old favourite and I plaited my hair which I normally don't like  but with the two tones I have in my hair it actually looks quite interesting!

Eye see you!

This is a little quicky feature on eye make-up. I love groovy eyeliners and usually do something wild and colourful for parties. These eyes were for a fancy dress party I attended recently where I wore the leggings featured in Snapshot 8! and basically tried to be opposites (it was a late notice invite so I didn't have time to think of an elaborate costume! I used black eyeliner and white mascara on one eye and white facepaint and black mascara on the other to create opposites. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this for everyday wear but it was a look I was wanting to try for a while!

It ain't easy being scene

So I wanted to feature some old pics of how my style developed over the years and I would have to label my 'scene kid' era as the defining period of my style history. Now my main focus in any outfit is colour and pattern. It also added strongly to the passion I still have for over the knee socks! The concept of scene style is big over the top and brightly coloured clothes. Tutus and lumo colours are hugely a part of the style. Big colourful hair is also encouraged as well as copious amounts of wrist wear and earrings. Piercings are common with this style which is sometimes referred to as the colourful sister of emo style! For ages I always admired the style and loved looking at it online. The inspiration from Japanese culture and style adds a cutesyness and brightness that I love. It was difficult to really get into it as an everyday style as I didn't have any friends who dressed that way. While I'm in college now and can wear whatever I like and people wont hold it against me back then even my friends would tease me about some of the over the top things I liked to wear and I got a lot of funny looks on the dart. Happily it fostered in me the creativity that has helped shape my style and personality today and its a look that a still consider both fun and lovely!

Snapshot 8!

So this is a quirky little number that I put together in my head before I wore it. I'd been dying to wear the leggings since I got them but hadn't been able because of the cast. I love that the legs are mismatched especially as I love combining different patterns! Of course the two patterns on the legs wasn't quite enough, I had to team it with the multi-patterned top too!

The top was my mum's and is incredibly thin and soft from year of being worn and loved! (A little like my mum herself actually!) I normally wear it loose and baggy as a cover over outfits in the summer but today I belted it to make it more central to the outfit. The belt is great; really bright and it just adds that bit more shape to the outfit; the modern, neat-edged style of the belt also acted as a kind of contrast to the baggy vintage jacket.

The purple top underneath was just to keep me clothed under the jacket rather than for the look of it and it also helped tie in the purple bandanna. I like having my hair pulled back a bit like this as it shows off the blond layer in my hair (meaning my hair, like my outfit, is multicoloured).

Snapshot 7!

Before I talk about this outfit I would like to apologize for the sock on the right hand side; am just out of a cast and I took the leg brace off for the photo! With that out of the way welcome to snapshot 7! The shorts are actually Dunnes from a few years ago and are my favourite high-waisted item. It's difficult for  me anyway to find high-waisted shorts or jeans that fit both my stomach and my legs so these are my little miracle shorts! I like that there's an option to wear them with a belt too. The top is a really soft crochet and I love the colour. Today there were three of us wearing this particular shade of turquoise in my Russian class so it's clearly a good colour for all skin tones! I love the fit of it and the slightly puffed sleeves give it a 70s look (nicely juxtapositioned with the 50s inspired high-waisters). I usually wear it with a cute waistcoat and a long skirt for a laid back hippy look. The rose pattern cutoffs were to add a bit of flavour and a contrasting colour, you can probably see they have a whole in them but I cant bear to throw them out because they're quite unusual and I haven't seen them anywhere else! I teamed them with the light cardigan just to have something to keep my arms warm and to cover my ass for sitting on cold bus-stop benches! The hat was featured in my 'found items' post and is really simple and cosy. I also painted my nails today so they're in the below picture, bitta blue and black to add some more shades! The bracelets I'm wearing are homemade.