my first adult post!

this is my first post writing as an official adult!

I turned 18 earlier this week, and so I have received an array of fabulous presents, including a selection of perfumes, tonnes of Benefit make-up, and a gorgeous metal birdcage (for decorative purposes only of course.) From the boyfriend I received a strange silver machine that projects colourful nebulas onto your ceilings, giving the illusion of being in space! I didn't even know things like that existed but its super pretty and I love looking up at my mock stars at night.

the photo shows some of my favourite presents, including the infamous barry m nail polish I blogged about in an earlier post, my mum said she saw it on my blog and bought it for me! how sweet. However my biggest present of all was a Topshop Shopping Spree that I had todayin London. Complete with my own sales advisor and swish private dressing room the poor woman scoured the whole of Topshop Oxford Circus to find things that she thought i'd like. I was probably her most difficult customer ever and she wrote down a list of all my dislikes and in the end she ended up with a list that looked something like this:

• No leggings
• No high waisted items
• No yellow
• No polka dots
• No shoulder pads
• No one armed items

I despise all things 80s, and as the 80s are in, Topshop is cram packed full of shoulder padded one armed items, complete with matching leggings. I was doubtful that she was going to find anything at all for me. In the end she found the bottom floor with all the concessions stuff to be best for me and she pulled a range of items from lace tops, to body con skirts, to a 1930's tea dress that honestly made me look like my nan. She had to make two trips to the shop floor to find items!

After a long haul I finally found some things I liked. Here are my top two favourite items.

Rose and Ribbon Dress By Motel - £49
I liked this dress because it was alot more rock inspired and less girly than alot of the other floral stuff she tried to get me to buy. Apparently it 'suits my skinny figure'.


Illustrated People Jumper - £30
This hand painted jumper is so cosy yet light I thought it would be great for summer evenings. I like how intricate yet unusal the desgin is. She told me not to pair it with dark colours otherwise it would look too goth but i think i'll wear it with gray ripped jeans and some DMs that im soon to purchase.

All in all I would recommend the shopping spree, you get a free lunch at topshop and the staff are really friendly however even £100 doesnt go far in Topshop, i swear thier prices get more outrageous everyday!

So have any of you had a spree at Topshop or any other store?
Was your experience good?

turns out im a poet and now i know it

I entered a national poetry contest a while back (the top prize was £1000 and being unemployed with no money for summer it seemed like a good idea). So I had a go at trying to write a little something and sent it away for fun thinking nothing of it.

When I opened my mail yesterday I was surprised to find a letter from a press company. The letter said although I didn't win the competition they want to publish my poem in a new poetry book they're making called 'A Guiding Light'. So it turns out my poem wasn't complete nonsense after all, and although I know the book wont be hugely successful at least I can say I'm a publish poet! Here's the poem...

Desolate desert, skull and bones
Two skeletons together, we call this our home
Willingly stranded from all humankind
Happy to live leaving all else behind
We'll escape persecution under the stars
Our love only shall judge us
Define who we are

What do you think? :/
When I wrote the poem I thought about an apocalyptic scenario, lovers in a trashed wasteland. I think that's why I like the new Insight 51 campaign so much. It kind of illustrates that idea pretty well.

Insight 51

is my new favourite label. Originally starting as a Surfboard company they quickly moved onto making super hot clothes. Their garments have a strong 90's feel to them and they apparently draw inspiration from surfers, skaters,and the 90's. I'm really obsessed with grungy 90s looks at the moment. Kristen Stewart probably has something to do with that.. Heres my favourite looks from thier latest summer collection. Enjoy!

A letter

Dear Ms. Chung,

I am writing to you about a very serious issue. Not only are you lucky enough to have an extensive designer wardrobe full to the brim with tight skinny jeans, floaty blouses and cute mini dresses, but also every time you look down to floor to take a careless glance at all those less fashionable people below you, you are greeted with this sight.

A gorgeous pair of beige double strap Chanel heels with black toes. Now don't try and be sneaky Chung we've all seen you parading the streets in an array of other heels from Vuitton, Louboutin and even more Chanel! However you are probably unaware of the extreme dangers that come from wear a pair of Chanels. With their skyscraper high heels your infamous long twig legs (see above) could snap if you were to fall in a pair of these beauties and so in order to protect your safety I propose that one pair of your gorgeous Chanels should be given to me (hippyhippychic). I'm sure you understand that your health and the future of career 'presenting' are at risk until you hand them over. Feel free to send them whenever you want.

Yours sincerely,
Hippyhippychic

PS. I'm not fussy I'll take the tweeds or the beige ones (:

this aint no fools gold

I've got a question for you.

What do these 3 girls have in common?

Is it the fact they're all rock chicks?

Is it the fact they're all utter gorgeous with luscious long hair, intense eyes and cheekbones to kill for?

Or is it because they're all so uber famous that they get invited to every celeb party, get to grace the covers of all our favourite magazines and therefore make us all deadly jealous of them?

I can tell you its all of the above and one other factor:
Dominic Jones Jewellery.

His line of spiky and chunky gold jewellery has a wicked edge and is the perfect balance between devilish and decadent. His designs are very vampish, which is perfect in this twilight-obssesed era. Some pictures of my favourite pieces are shown below, I especially love the knuckle duster ring, so badass. Around $300 the jewellery isn't in my price range :( but hopefully if i search the net hard enough i can find some cheaper jewellery with a similar feel.

not too sure about these pink gloves with gold tips, no idea what you'd wear them with. i can see these on a rock chic during a gig, maybe juliette lewis...
so what do you think of the collection?
will you be buying anything?
(: