I would just like to thank the beautiful Niamh for figuring out the templates and making my blog look pretty. Not only is she completely fabulous at blog templates but she has an amazingly keen eye for fashion and has her own line of clothes (all 100% designed and hand made by her!) she experiments with colour and trends and the end result is always stunning. (apart from the curtain shorts) I cannot thank you enough, Niamh and if everyone could check out her blog there are links to her etsy stores where you can buy an original favio and fran creation!
http://favioandfran.blogspot.com.au/

Liv xo

fur

Recently I've been so conflicted between my animal liberation and love for fashion, as Sydney is cooling down the coats are being brought out. This season particularly, I've been seeing so much fur and it's making me want to get a fur coat of my very own. They're such a statement item and can dress up any outfit so beautifully. Although, a couple of years ago we found my great grandmothers fur coats and at the time I was completely appalled so made my mum throw them out but now looking back I wished we kept them so I too, could be ultra trendy with a nice coat, even in saying this I'm not sure if I could bring myself to wear real fur, even though fake fur is so poorly crafted in comparison. Which is where I'm conflicted, since I watched babe as a four year old I became interested in animal rights, having attempted to be a vegetarian so many times, volunteering at the zoo, donating money to animal charities and even now rarely eating meat. I just don't know what to do, leather is practically the same and I wear leather shoes and if the coat's vintage.. it really doesn't make any difference.

This confliction is only heightened with a page found in my diary that I wrote when we found my great grandmothers coats it says "today we found mum's grandmothers fur coats, i can't believe they wore fur back then. haven't they seen 101 Dalmatians?" Would it really make me Cuerella De Vil if I bought a fur coat? Her last name answers that question. I'll stick to Bindi Irwin's views for this battle, maybe I'll find a realistic faux-fur coat to tide me over to when I don't have a conscience anymore.

Despite being completely evil, Cuerella De Vil is pretty ultra-glam.

Fendi Autumn/Winter 2012

Rose Huntington-Whitely 

Liv xo 

Please bare with me for the next little while as I have no idea whatsoever how to apply themes but hopefully within the next few days I'll figure it out and my blog will start looking somewhat professional/nice.

Thank you
Liv xo

Piercings

It took my mum twelve years to allow me to get my ears pierced, it seemed like an eternity when all my friends had their ears pierced but I didn't. In retrospect, I can understand where she was coming from but since getting my ears pierced she has been adamant in her decision to stop me from getting more piercings. Which you know, usually for most people - wouldn't stop them from getting whatever piercings they want. But I always feel so bad when discussing it that I've forced myself to forget about the idea, but it doesn't work because everyone keeps getting really cool piercings and I'm just here trying to convince myself that it wouldn't make me the worst person in the world if I got an auricle piercing.

I've wanted an auricle piercing since about year nine, and unlike my want for a nose piercing then later a belly button piercing I've actually remained keen to the idea two years on. I also really like piercings that go right up the ear with the same sort of earrings in each piercing, but I think that might be pushing my mum's limit. Okay well this is a completely irrelevant post that I'll finish off with some pictures of people's ears that I like.

Abbey-Lee Kershaw, she's generally an all round gorgeous person but her ear arrangement is just fab. 

Auricle Piercing

I found this on tumblr, it looks so cool.

       

Also side note, I really like tragus piercings. 

Liv xo 

Inspiration

So lately I've had quite a few people (like one person) ask me where I get my inspiration for outfits from. So in a fit of self obsessed boredom I've compiled a list of what/who inspires me with what I wear.
Okay so first off, the internet. I scour through website after website when I get home from school, Tumblr, Sydney Street Style, other fashion blogs, asos, topshop etc etc. Seriously, without the wonders of the internet I would be even more of a hermit only without semi-trendy clothes.

Secondly, magazines. Vogue is wonderful for ideas, although everything featured in it is so expensive I like to pretend I can afford it so try to find similar things.

Key people, Alexa Chung as an example is always very well dressed but not over the top, models off duty are always so trendy and you'd be hard pressed to find a model who's dressed appallingly.
This next bit is going to sound heaps lame and I'm sure that they might be reading this now (thank you Niamh) but in all honesty, my friends are actually the most well dressed people I know. They all have an individual style but are still so so trendy and know what suits them but aren't afraid to create groovy trends. They influence me quite a lot in terms of experimentation and what I buy.

Also, after a 14 odd years of dressing myself I know what colours suit me now and what styles work with my body and skin tone. Like, I wouldn't wear a cream dress because I know I'd look washed out and blend into the walls and that's just come from experience.

In saying all this, I can't pin down direct things that influence everything I wear. If I like something I'll get it, despite whether it's 'hip' and 'happening' or not. The amount of things that have been 'hip' and 'happening' yet almost bring me to tears due to sheer annoyance (think mullet skirts circa 2010-2011) You'd be far better off buying things that you like and look nice on you than something that's on the runways yet doesn't suit you.

Liv xo

hair.

Hair is something that can make or break a persons image, the cut, style, colour, length - it goes on and on and on. We all go through phases of hair styles, the amount of times I've been bored of my hair and taken the initiative to cut inches off it myself, with the end result being somewhat questionable. In the past 4 years of my life I've done dip dye, had a bob, grown it long, semi bleached it for a while and never been completely content with the end result. One of my friends came to school today with her hair that has been long the whole time I've known her cut short into this semi-bob that seriously looks amazing. The dilemma of my life (first world problems) is that now I want to cut my hair shorter. A couple of years ago this happened and I cut my hair into a bob and cried the whole way home from the hairdresser. It was too short to be in a pony tail, had this super awkward side fringe and I seriously think my hairdresser might have been high while cutting it.

I've also been looking up so many youtube channels about styling hair and now really want to rock a sock bun or a bow bun but I also want an Emma Watson-esque pixie cut and to bleach it like white blonde. 

I do not understand why something that is basically a dead particle causes such grief. 

Even guys seem to have hair issues, the Beiber hairstyle is over. Please do not re-live it. Also shaving your head looks stupid unless you have the natural face for it, or are doing it for charity. 

So here's a list of hair styles that I'd really like to try at some point in my life

1. Pixie cut

2. Shave it all off (for the worlds greatest shave and apparently it's really good for your hair)

3. Reeeally long hair

4. Dye it brown

5. Shave half of it off

6. Go Abbey-Lee Kershaw's colour

7. Get some cornrow things happening. 

8. Front fringe.

Okay here are some pretty pictures of hair

this is basically what my hair looks like now

Sock bun

I also really like Emma Watsons hair now that it's in the awkward growing out phase.

Okay Bye, Liv xo

Bargain Hunting.

Bargain Hunting has been something that I've been brought up with, something that my mum instilled in me from a very young age. So accordingly, like all things that you practice very often I've become a professional in the field. So much so that I'm writing a post about all my bargains and some of the best places (in Sydney) to get bargains.
Purchase number 1 - Ksubi Jeans. Usually a pair of high waisted Ksubi jeans would retail at around $240 which is crazy expensive yet to some, completely worth it. I never really have $240 spare so I never would think that I'd get a pair of these jeans until, I went to Surry Hills Markets a couple of months ago and picked up a pair of almost brand new high waisted Ksubi jeans for $30. I almost cried of joy, now not only do I look really rich when I wear them but I also have a beautiful pair of high waisted jeans that I get complemented on every time I wear them.
Moral of the story: Markets a seriously such a godsend for anyone who wants nice clothes but can't necessarily always afford them. Surry Hills markets are on the first Saturday of every month, Glebe Markets are every Saturday,  Rozelle Markets, Kirribilli Markets, Bondi Markets, Paddington Markets...seriously the opportunities are endless.
Purchase number 2 - Black Maxi Skirt. It's silky and has two splits up the side and was retailed at $140, in classic me fashion I didn't pay that much for it. Infact, I went to a warehouse sale not long ago and I picked this piece of loveliness up for $30. Another item where the compliments are ongoing.
Moral of this tale: Keep in the loop for fashion warehouse sales, Sass and Bide have them, MinkPink and just about every other brand under the sun. Usually they're around Oxford St so keep a look out, so worth it!
Purchase number 3 - These heels that I don't quite know how to explain but I got for a ridiculous price. They kind of look like Jeffrey Campbell Foxy's but not really. They're very nice though and were only $50 reduced from $150 because the shop was closing down. Shops closing down sucks but closing down sales are nice.
Internet Shopping - Asos, Urban Outfitters, Topshop, Princess Polly.. it goes on and on and on and on. So do the savings, particularly Asos. The plus side of living on the other side of the world from England is that when they're going into Summer, we're going into Winter so accordingly their Winter clothes are drastically reduced in cost just in time for the chilly seasonal change in Australia.

I could really go on for days but I'll stop there because I'm tired and have to be at school early tomorrow.
Byeee, Liv xo