OUT FOR LUNCH AT CAU | SPRING OOTD

Primark Sunglasses // Boohoo Crop T Shirt // SilkFred Pinafore Dress // Topshop Fishnet Socks // Boohoo Mini Tote Bag // Vans Old Skool Shoes

Waddup. Ya Girl got dressed and left the house! I’d be spewing a pack of lies if I told you the last few weeks of my life have been easy. The final deadlines for university are virtually incarcerating me in my flat, and I genuinely feel like Will from the Inbetweeners when he doesn’t know if ‘council’ is a word anymore or not. But I’ve only got one more to go, and so Chris and I went for a (slightly premature) victory lunch. I’m sure there will be another celebration after my final deadline on the 24th of May, and hopefully it’ll involve bees because I literally can’t remember the last time some sweet sweet rosé passed my lips. But anyway, here’s what I wore to CAU for my delish lunch…

This SilkFred pinafore dress was the star of the show; people on Instagram were loving it. I bought it for autumn thinking it’d be a slightly different colour, but I’ve been reaching for it a lot since the weather’s turned warmer. It’s some kind of faux-suede material, so it’s really soft, and the cross-back straps are comfy and adjustable. It only cost £18, which I think is pretty darn good, and I picked mine up in a size 8.

I styled it with a cropped t shirt from Boohoo which is currently sold out but there’s loads of similar ones on the website. Some Topshop fishnet socks, my good ol’ Primanarni sunglasses (which I’m pretty sure are Ray-Ban dupes but only cost £2) and my new fave mini tote bag from Boohoo. It’d be rude not to show you what I had for my v. extra lunch too, so here it is…

Lots of love,

Jasmine x

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SHEIN SWIMWEAR TRY-ON HAUL + REVIEW

There are some age-old questions that constantly plague my mind. What came first; the chicken or the egg? Why won’t Leonardo DiCaprio realise he loves me? And is SHEIN a scam? I’ve spent hours of my life watching SHEIN, Romwe and Zaful hauls, trying to decide whether to spend my money with them. A lot of the videos are hit and miss; the sizing seems off, the material is cheap, or the item turns up completely different from the pictures. 

I’ve never managed to reach a conclusion from the countless videos and reviews I’ve watched, so I decided to splash some ca$$$h and see for myself. Now, I haven’t bought any swimwear since my TRIANGL bikinis, and I’m going round Europe this year, so I really needed some fresh cozzies to strut around in. I checked Zaful, Romwe and SHEIN, and the cheapest options were on SHEIN, so I placed my order.

MY FAVOURITE SPRING SKINCARE PRODUCTS | BEFORE + AFTER

Now this is a story all about how my skincare got flipped upside down and I’d like to take a minute just sit right there, I’ll tell you how I got rid of my spots with this amaze-balls skincare. *insert bit of the fresh prince theme song that goes do do do do, do do do doo, doo do doo do*. 

EGGS BAE-NEDICT AT CÔTE BRASSERIE

When ya girl gets a craving for Eggs Benedict, ya girl gets cranky. The only way to diffuse the situation safely is to ferry me off to the nearest Côte Brasserie and feeeeed meeee. Luckily, there’s a Côte nearby, meaning that after a brisk (rainy, on this occasion) walk, I can shove my face into a plate of glorious hollandaise. 

PORTSMOUTH

With all this glorious summery weather, I’ve been dying to take a little trip somewhere, escape the big smoke and get some pretty pics for the ‘gram. I’ve actually had this weekend trip to Portsmouth booked off from work for aaaaages, but it would seem that in order to get a weekend off from my pub job, one is required to make a blood oath with the devil and sacrifice their first-born child. Chris’s family are lucky enough to have a little sailing boat, and this was my first trip out on it. The trip ended in disaster (more on that later), but I had a lovely couple of days and I thought I’d share a few pictures from the weekend with you…