Rachel Sarah XO: fashion

Hey guys!
So recently all I've been doing is searching the internet for things I can't afford so I thought, why not make a rare wishlist post. Be prepared for the neons.

1. Chunky Cut Out Pink Holographic Sandals - eBay: £19.99.

I've been looking at these type of sandals for ever, I have a phobia of feet so sandals are like the worst things for me to wear. These sandals have a kind of closed toe thing going on so that's great! And they're pink and holographic, they're great!

2. Tropical Floral Print Bomber Jacket - Pink Clove: £28.

I've been really into the whole bomber jacket trend at the moment but I'm not daring enough to wear one, but then I saw this and it's possibe the most 'out there' thing I'd own in my wardrobe if I bought it, it's absolutely gorgeous and waaay colourful, hahaha.

3. Frozen DVD - Amazon: £10.

I watched this movie when it first came out at the cinema and I fell in love instantly. Plus it's Disney and I feel the need to own every single Disney movie on DVD so.

4. 2 pack of Skater Dresses (Lime Green and Black) - New Look: £19.99.

I've been buying a lot of dresses lately for summer (although I still wear them with leggings, I'm wearing dresses sssh) and I've been really into kimonos and I've been looking for block colour dresses that would go with a loud, floral kimono and these are perfect.

5. Sleek I-Divine Limited Edition Superdrug 50th Birthday Palette - Superdrug: £7.99

Well, Sleek, brand new eyeshadows in celebration of Superdrug's 50th birthday, what more could you ask for? The colours look absolutely perfect too. And I need anything limited edition basically.

6. Mia Round Floral Trim Sunglasses - Boohoo: £12.

I don't really know if I'd ever wear these, but I know if I did I'd feel like a ~~fierce queen~~ absolutel idiot. But look how cute they are, soooo pastel grunge. \m/ (that was a joke)

7. Shell Pink Contrast Trim Tachymeter Sports Watch - New Look: £19.99.

Can we just appreciate the fact that this watch looks waaay more expensive than it actually is??? (NOTICE THE PINK THEME HUH? I'm a sucker for anything pink.) I've never been one to wear watches but I just fell in love with this one when I saw it.

8. ASOS Concertina Satchel Bag - ASOS: £22.50.

So I'm going on holiday to Fuerteventura in August and I'm flying with Ryanair (ugh yes Ryanair) and they've got stupid af cabin luggage regulations, a tiny suitcase (which I have to fit all my clothes in because bitch I am not paying £90 to have a regular sized suitcase, yes that's how much they charge you) and you're allowed a small bag on the flight, this is the only bag I've found that's affordable, tiny but has loads of room. AND IT'S ALSO NEON WOOO AND SO CUTE WOOOO. So if I buy it, it'll be the only bag I'll be taking on holiday with me 'cause no luggage room, waaaah.

9. River Island Bright Pink Embellished Cliptop Purse - ASOS: £20.

I've been looking for a new purse for foreverrrr because my shoddy Primark purse is falling to pieces and well, this purse is neon pink and JEWELS, all the jewels.

10. Heavy Weight Chain Necklace - Missguided: £8.99.

I adore the look of statement necklaces with block colours and I was browsing the accessories section on Missguided and this bad boy caught my eye (MUCH STATEMENT NO?) and yes, very very very pretty necklace.

I hope you enjoyed this post! I'll should hopefully be putting up another blog post tomorrow so that should be fun. (Trying to make up for lost time I suppose, haha!)

I hope you guys have been good!

That's all for now,

Rachel. xo

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22:47 3 comments

Hey guys!

Well would you look at that, another haul?! Let me cut a long story short, I ended up selling my DSI XL and all of the games for it as it just sits in the corner of my room collection dust and I ended up getting £75 for it, so this is what I spent the majority of the money on.

(It would turn out I doubled up on numbers on the photo, oh dear, I do apologise!)

1. Birds Nest iPhone 4/4s Case from eBay- £0.99 (free shipping)

I've seen these sort of cases loads lately and I'm a sucker for anything pink and minimalist.

2. Coral Sleeveless Skater Dress from ASOS - £12.99 (free shipping)

I'm going on holiday to Fuerteventura in August and I've already started buying Summer clothes, oh. I'm trying my hardest to put a bit more colour in my wardrobe and I'm also trying to wear more dresses, so this happened.

3. Black and White Heart Print Skater Dress from ASOS- £14.99 (free shipping)

I bought this dress because I bought a rather 'out there' looking kimono a few weeks ago (for £5 reduced from £25 in New Look, might I add) and I wanted a subtly patterned dress with no bright colours on it so it didn't clash with the floral pattern of the kimono, I also bought this for my summer wardrobe.

4. Tartan Fleece Scarf from eBay- £4.99 (£2.50 shipping)

Bit late on the tartan bandwagon I suppose, but I really was not willing to spend more than £10 on a tartan scarf and as of yesterday all of the ones I'd seen lately ranged from £12-£18 and that's a bit overpriced for a scarf, plus it's made from fleece, so it's going to be so soft and warm.

5. Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipstick in 'Oxford St. Fuschia' from eBay - £2.25 (free shipping)

I don't own many light pink lipsticks and after seeing loads of swatches of this lipstick, I just fell in love with it. Plus it's not a matte lipstick, so that's good, got super chapped lips lately. :-(

6. Juno DVD from eBay- £1.20 (free shipping)

Unfortunately I bought the last DVD on the eBay listing, so the link above is the DVD listing on Amazon. I absolutely this movie, but I haven't got it in my DVD collection and I've been craving to watch it for ages but it hasn't been on TV in a while.

7. Oversized Round Sunglasses in Ombre Finish from ASOS - £10 (free shipping)

I was just browsing the sunglasses section of ASOS and omg I just fell in love with these, the weather's been pretty nice lately so I bought sunglasses, not much I can say about them really.

8. Black Faux Leather Chunky Cut Out Boots from eBay - £21.99 (£2.99 shipping)

Oh look! It's the infamous Jeffrey Campbell's Coltrane dupes! These were reduced from about £30-something so that's alright I suppose. I've been wanting a pair of these boots foreverrrr and I just can't wait for them to arrive.

9 & 10. Dumb and Dumber (£1.40) & Clerks II (£1.27) - eBay

Just movies that I adore that weren't in my movie collection so I felt the need to buy them basically.

11 & 12. Sex and The City: The Movie (£1.65) & Sex and The City 2 (£1.27) - eBay.

I've been so obsessed with the TV show lately and it's the only decent thing on TV from 12am - 5am in the morning (which seems to be my sleeping pattern lately) but I've never seen the movies so I thought now would be a good time to buy the movies.

What have you guys been buying lately? :-)

That's all for now,

Rachel. xo

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Hi guys!

So as of late I haven't been in the best of moods so I decided, why not spend the small amount of money I've been saving for a few weeks and that's exactly what I did! Some of this stuff is definitely of an acquired taste and won't be everybody's cup of tea, but these are the types of things I like so, whatever.

1. Arctic Monkeys Tie Dye T-Shirt (link): £9.99 w/£1.99 shipping.

No, it's not an officially licensed Arctic Monkeys shirt, but I'd just been liking them so much lately and when I saw this on the 'tie dye t-shirt' search page on eBay I just had to grab it. It comes in many other colours aswell.

2. Pikachu Happy Face T-Shirt (link): £9.69 w/£2.95 shipping.

I saw this shirt and just fell in love, I was searching for logo/movie t-shirts and this one popped up and ugh JUST LOOK AT HIS LITTLE FACE. Adorable.

3. Doctor Who "University of Gallifrey: Time Lord Academy" T-Shirt (link): £9.99 w/£2 shipping.

Well, there's not much I can say about it besides LOOK HOW COOL IT IS?! I'm obsessed with Doctor Who, and I wish I would have find this last Summer before I went to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff.

4. Disney Princess Silly Face iPhone 4/4S Case (link): £3.99.

Unfortunately I had bought the last phone case on that listing but I have linked one closest to the price of the one I have ordered, the one linked is £5.98 w/£0.98 shipping.

Well, Disney Princesses are my favourite things ever. Disney all together is my favourite thing ever, I've been eyeing up this phone case for aaages but I couldn't bring myself to do it because I have a phone case addiction basically, haha, but I did it!

5. In The Buff Palette by W7 Make Up (link): £6.48.

So, it seems like since Christmas, every British beauty blogger has been raving about this palette and about how it's a better dupe for one of the Naked palettes than the MUA palettes are, so I went into town yesterday looking in every shop that I know sells W7 products, and there was no In The Buff Palette to be seen, I looked on normal beauty sites and it was sold out on every site, so I just went ahead and spent a couple of pounds more for one from eBay, I'm so desperate to try it, hahah.

EDIT:
Oh my gosh, I completely forgotten to mention my new 'smart' shoes. I've been after some new shoes that I can wear to a potential job or job interview and wanted them to have a bit of my general fashion sense about them, kind of edgy (god I hate that word) and grungy (hate that word too. I'm cringing so hard right now.)

Different Class Patent Shoes by Schuh (link): Reduced from £40 to £9.99.
As they are reduced, I'm not sure if they're reducing them to clear or if once all the sizes go out of stock, they'll put them back up to £40, but I absolutely adore them. I like how they have the look of creepers and loafers rolled into one.

I've been so MIA lately and I apologise for that, I promise I will do at least 3 blog posts this week, and if I don't then feel free to tweet me and have a go at me, haha! (My twitters are @anxiouschapter and @racheloverboard by the way ;o)

That's all for now,

Rachel. xo

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Hi guys!

So I was scouting around Primark for a new bag, I've been looking for a sort of businessy type of bag, that I could use for a potential job and job interview since I've been applying for loads of apprenticeships lately.

I spotted this bad boy in the corner of the Kings Lynn store and my face just lit up, I called my mum over and I was like 'IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THAT ZARA BAG I SHOWED YOU THE OTHER DAY JNWFSNDJNS' so I bought it.

It's the perfect size, it's a little bit smaller than the Zara Office City Bag, but that's good, that bag seems like a bit of a monster to lug around with you all the time. Primark, bless them, they tried really hard to recreate the look of the Saffiano leather which is what the exterior of the Zara bag is made of, but it definitely looks nice nevertheless.

The bag itself is a bit less structured compared to the Zara bag, which I quite like as it stretches more so you can shove more things in it, haha. The two outer zip compartments are not padded like the Zara bag, but can still definitely be used to keep your iPad in there as the lining inside is a thick material, but not quite padded. You couldn't keep a full sized laptop in the zip compartments, maybe a netbook but not a laptop, you can definitely fit a 13-15inch laptop in the main compartment though.

Inside the bag, is a small zip compartment, where you could keep loose change or receipts and on the other side is a phone pocket (I did not picture that well at all, haha) I always keep my phone on me when I'm out and about anyway so to me, a phone pocket is useless.

The inside lining is a dark grey speckled cloth type material, which is the only way I can describe it, haha.

The bag also comes with a long, completely adjustable shoulder strap which you can easily unclip from the sides and keep in the bag for easy access. One thing I would like to point out about the handles on this bag... So squeaky. And I'm not even sure why, I'm sure that won't be much of a problem once I've used the bag a bit more, but every one of this style of bag that I tried in the shop, they all had squeaky handles, and it was doing my head in, haha!

The handles on the front and back of the bag are quite short, so you might not even be able to hold the bag on the crook of your arm, the handles are the perfect length to hold in your hand though. (Although it can make you look like you're going to work as a lawyer, but hey ho!)

I most definitely adore this bag and the only bad thing I can say about it is the squeaky handles, haha! For a meer £12, you cannot go wrong. And for £12, it's easily replaceable if something does ever go wrong with it.

Well done, Primark! You've made one heck of a dupe here.

Tell me if you've bought this bag in Primark recently, and tell me what you think of it. :-)

That's all for now,

Rachel. xo

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1. Naked 3 Palette by Urban Decay. - £37.

The colours in this palette are absolutely gorgeous, I love the idea of the rose gold tones in the eyeshadows, also, who doesn't need another Naked palette in their collection?

2. Artist Palette for Eyes by Laura Mercier. - £36.

To me, this is the most perfect neutrals palette, all it needs is a black and it would be the only palette I'd need in my life, haha! Laura Mercier single eyeshadows are great so I'd like to think the palette would be great too!

3. Kick-Ass 2 DVD. - £9.99.

So, this movie holds a lot of memories for me. I went to see this movie at the cinema when I visited Joe in Essex in Summer this year and it was just a great day. The Kick-Ass movies are up there in my top 10 favourite movies of all time so, this is a must have for me.

4. Evil Eye Silver Bracelet. - £1.19.

I recently bought the matching necklace of this bracelet to wear on Christmas day which can be seen here, I'm debating whether to get the matching bracelet though, obviously since it's coming from China it won't be here in time for Christmas. I just think it'll look really nice with my new circle lenses, I don't know.

5. Vice 2 Palette by Urban Decay. - £37.80.

This is the most beautiful palette I've ever seen. The colours are perfect. There's only two of the colours that I probably wouldn't be able to find a way to make a look out of it but 2/20 isn't bad!

All of the colours in this palette are exclusive to the palette and you can't buy them in single eyeshadow form so that's good I suppose!

6. MAC Lipstick in Up The Amp. - £12.15.

Unfortunately, it's currently out of stock. The MAC lipsticks sell like hot cakes on the Debenhams website, everytime I go to look for the lipstick I want, it's 9 times out of 10, always sold out. :-( I might end up paying the £15 for it from the MAC website, I'm not sure yet though.

7. Pug Eyes iPhone 4 Case by Urban Outfitters. - £12.

This is the cutest phone case, I've been on the hunt for either a pug or cat face phone case for ages! For me, £12 is a bit expensive for a phone case, most I've ever spent on a phone case is £5 and that was a 3D Spiderman case, haha!

8. LA Lakers Slippers - £26.99.

I've been really into wearing slippers lately, I probably can't justify spending nearly £30 on a pair of slippers though but oh well, they're adorable! They also match my Lakers Skullcandy earphones, aw. They just look so cosy, can I have them now pleaaaase?

9. The Lion King Charm Bracelet by Disney. - £15.

As an obsessed Disney lover, I feel that this needs to be a part of my life or else I won't know how to function, haha! How adorable is it though?! This is part of the Lion King Musical collection though (hence there's no cartoon Simba to be found).

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