Calypso Trend

My favourite summer trend of all! What Topshop are calling the "Calypso Trend" has it all. Bright glowing neons, outgoing prints, dip-dye, rough denim, and metalic body skimming peices that all shout "look at me!". This look is about being daring, creative and making a statement, so if you're not into bold colours and crazy patterns, you could always tone it down by blending it in with calmer trends. But with this trend, it's all about attitude.

Tropical, Hawiian prints are definatley tricky to pull off, especially if you're matching your dads embarrising holiday shirt, but when you get it right it can look wild and outgoing or laid-back and relaxed; it's up to how you style it! These garish patterend shorts from Topshop look abstract from a distance, but when you look closer the pattern is made up of colourful flowers and leaves. The two symetrical zips down the sides of the shorts make it look more edgy and modern, giving this relaxed pair of shorts a twist. The pattern also comes in ciggarette trousers and a halter top.

Calypso trend isn't only for parties that never sleep, it can also be laid-back. Tie-dye comes in a variety of colours and most blues and yellows are quite calming and peaceful. To make this work, you don't want to go full on hippy; one statement piece of tie-dye is creative enough. There are a wide range of tie-dye tee's like this one from COW, but you don't have to stick to tee's. Everything is being tie-dyed now, from leggings to shirts, so be adventurous and see what you can find!

Lime green is a tricky colour to work with anyway without it being neon, but if you want to go bright, you can't get brighter than this! Be carefull you don't get mistaken for a traffic light when wearing this lime crop top from River Island! It also has bows on the back which give it that extra touch! Tone it down for day with white and gold and live it up at night with a black contrast or even another neon colour!

If you're looking for denim, Topshop have the best selection around! From denim shirts, jeans, shorts, skirts, and this long sleeless shirt i found whilst browsing in their denim library. For an outgoing look i'd style this with bright patterned leggings, Dr Martens and some neon rimmed sunnies. Resist pairing denim with denim most of the time, and certainly not with this piece, but a denim jacket and jeans is just about acceptable if you style it right! If you're a bit like Gok and you want to be creative, you could style this up a bit by adding gold studs along the shoulders or collar! Alternatively, you could just shop around!

Hope this has given you inspiration to pull off your own "Calypso" look. Thanks for reading! Come again xx

5 pink things!

Unfortunatley, i have missed the deadline ( i think anyway) for a March Favourites post because i have been on holiday. This was very upsetting really, because i have a lot of favourite things that i would have wanted to share! However, as some of them were pink, it gave me the idea to do a post about my 5 favourite pink things! I haven't unpacked yet so i can't take photo's but google will do! :).

The new(ish) Revlon lip butters have become my favourite obbession recently. I bought one and fell in love instantly. I got the colour "cotton candy". It's a baby pink colour but when you wear it it looks much more sheer than in the tube because the texture is like a balm. I love this because usually i don't like lipsticks because they are dry but this pink thing is incredible. Also, the packaging is gorgeous; i just couldn't resist.

I love the body shop, especially their body butters and i like buying the mini ones so that i can mix and match them more frequently. Recently i have finished up a strawberry body butter and have started using the pink grapefruit one. I didn't think i would like the scent before i smelt it but it actually smells delicious! Now i can't wait to use it!

Now technically this is purple and pink, but that doesn't matter, we're friends :D So i've only recently discovered bomb cosmetics because they have a section for it in my local yankee candle store, and i was surprised why i hadn't used their soaps before! They are absolutley yummy! This one is the one i am using now called Caiperina. It smells just like bubble gum and again, i look forward to using this!

This is my current favourite pink nail varnish. It's called Pink Spice and it's from Accessorize and it is almost identical to MAC's version called Bad Fairy, except this one is much cheaper!! I have spent many boring lessons with this nail varnish on just moving my hand around and watching the colour turn from pink to orange and even hints of gold! It is beautiful!

First of all, let me start by saying that i am a total Lush junkie and that there is hardly anything from Lush that i dislike at all, so it way pretty obvious that i would love this, and i DO! This limited edition easter bath bomb from lush smells divine, and i think a bit like snow fairy the shower gel. It's so pretty and would make the perfect easter present!

Thanks for reading, hope this gave you some pink thoughts!