Here are some fun finds I've stumbled across this week, I really enjoy doing these fun finds posts as they're really light hearted and I always succumb to buying things like these as they're just cute and make you smile, although this edition is not as wacky as the ones I've previously done!
I absolutely love the pineapple crop and zesty skirt; Motel prints never fail to entice! These posts always seem to veer down a fruity route, especially in summer but who doesn't love a brightly coloured fruit print!
So the sun decided to pack up on our last day in Berlin but we weren't too bothered as we had planned to go to Berlin Zoo and didn't want to be sweltering in the sun all day! As one of the best zoo's in the world, this was definitely on our Berlin Bucket List. We were lucky to see so many of the animals up close, I'm not the biggest animal person but we had such a fab time. This took up most of our day but we managed to squeeze in a mandatory shopping trip and visit Charlottenburg (in the rain, sadly) which is home to this beautiful palace to finish off our sightseeing before heading to a posh square for some nice grub!
I wore my DIY Maxi Skirt turned dress which you can find my Youtube tutorial of here, I paired it with a pastel pink cardigan, cute sunhat (although it wasn't needed I wanted to whack it out!) from eBay and choker from Depop.
This was such a lovely chilled out end to an amazing trip, I wish I could just travel forever but sadly in reality no-one has an endless supply of money for such things. I saw an ace quote on instagram the other day which has really stuck in my mind 'Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer'.
We jam packed our second day in Berlin with all the main tourist sights; Brandenburg gate, Reichstag Dome and the Holocaust Memorial. We firstly headed to brandenburg gate to see it in all it's glory in the blazing sun before nipping round the corner to the holocaust memorial which was stunning. I love the simplicity of the memorial yet the impact it has on you when you walk around and amongst the tall angular blocks is extraordinary. It really is a beautiful and thought-provoking memorial to all those who lost their lives.
We then sun-bathed the afternoon away by Reichstag dome and took some embarrassing tourist photos holding the German flag and getting an unexpected snap with some locals!
I wore a cute African printed co-ord that I bagged in the H&M sale for £17 with TK Maxx sandals (which I had to embarrassingly resort to wearing socks with as my feet were completely massacred after wearing them for about an hour).
For dinner we roamed Potsdamer Platz checking out some cool skyscrapers and more Noir art as seen on the East Side Gallery before settling for an American Diner for tea (really immersing ourselves into the culture!) To top the day off we headed bag to Reichstag and Brandenburg gate to catch them as the sun was setting and managed to get some striking photos with a gloomy sky! Panoramic camera mode has never had so much use in it's lifetime!
My best friend and I decided to take a last minute 'yolo'-esque holiday to Berlin, here is a photo snapshot post of what we got up to on the first day. We were lucky to get fab weather and so far it's definitely one of the best places I've ever travelled to and would recommend it to anyone!
We commenced our tourist activities at the East Side Gallery of the Berlin Wall, it was interesting to learn about the civil unrest here which still continued through the 80's, I had no idea this was still quite recent. The artwork on this stretch of wall by artists from around the world was great to see and somewhat brings light to the end of a dark period for Berlin whist being a something to remember what happened. We walked past a busker along the East Side Gallery and gave him some spare change who then insisted on us having photos with him and having an awkwardly confusing cross-language conversation but he was so fab!
We then gallivanted around Alexanderplatz to see the TV tower and Berliner Dom/Cathederal and went up to the 37th floor of a hotel for only 3 euros to see these great panoramic views of Berlin!
I wore this fab eye dress which I got from Sheinside but of course this dress is being sold in multiple places after selling swimmingly in Zara.
So after last year's poor effort of not even going out or dressing up for Halloween due to being at home and simply inexcusable bad organisation on mine and my friend's part, we managed to celebrate Halloween three times this year! Well, I loosely use the term 'celebrate' because the origins of Halloween but who doesn't love a good fancy dress? It actually feels like we've dressed up more to go out than we have normal clothes, but I'm not complaining! Most students seem to shy away from fancy because it's usually expensive to do well but I hope to show you that you don't need to splash the cash to do a half decent job of dressing up!
Our first dress up was for a friend's party and most of our outfits were improvised and put together that day (being scrimping students and all). I had an essay deadline for the next day so I wasn't planning on going but my course friend persuaded me that day and whilst we were in town she said she'd seen a pop art tutorial on YouTube so I bought some yellow hair spray for only £2 and poundland face paint as that's all I needed to create the eye-catching look.
After being happy with and finishing my essay at around 8pm, I set to work on the make-up which I thought would be really difficult but it wasn't it just took SO long to do but it was worth it, I was really chuffed with how it turned out! I already had bright eye shadow and liquid eyeliner which is needed for the look, I've posted the YouTube link below so you can see the tutorial but I'm sure you may have seen this pop art fancy dress before. I simply wore black and white clothing to complete the Lichenstein inspired style who I love and have blogged about before.
Next, for actual Halloween, we had actually planned doing spice girls for a while and were so excited about it. Beings as there are 5 girls in our house it was inevitable! I drew a relatively short straw in being sporty spice just by default based on our looks but again I only spent £6 for this fancy dress! The top I bought from Primark for six pounds which is a typical 90s high-neck sparkly crop top that I paired with Mel C's classic tracksuit bottoms and trainers (was bliss wearing such comfy shoes on a night out!) I already had some fake blood which went round everyone and there's still some left over, I painted tattoos on with left over face-paint and voila. We had to make our make up zombie-fied just to add a scary Halloween edge. We got a fair bit of attention when we were out because who doesn't love the Spice Girls? The DJ played a few spice girls classics and requested we were on stage on our own for one song haha it's definitely been the best Halloween ever.
Lastly we were invited to another house party but only three of us girls went so we did a quick 3 blind mice dress up which we spent no money on! Using left over face paint, paper ears, a lipstick nose and sunglasses we made our outfits! I admit this is the least impressive fancy dress but I thought I'd add it to this post too.
It seems like I've been living the life of Riley recently but I have been working hard recently I promise! Second year is tough and the deadlines are getting more and more painful in addition to working as well, you need to let your hair down on a regular basis! Hope everyone had a wicked Halloween!
