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Showing posts with label Lifestyle. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Outfit Of The Night | Ellie Goulding Concert

Outfit Of The Night Ellie Goulding Monochrome Dress Belle-amie UK Beauty Fashion Lifestyle Blog
Outfit Of The Night Ellie Goulding Gold Statement Necklace Belle-amie UK Beauty Fashion Lifestyle Blog
Outfit Of The Night Ellie Goulding Black Primark Bag Belle-amie UK Beauty Fashion Lifestyle Blog
Monochrome Dress - New Look | Black Bag - Primark | Floral Bow - Topshop | Black Tights - Primark | Leather Jacket - Oasis
Black & Gold Detail Boots - New Look | Gold Statement Necklace - Oasis | Ring & Bracelet - Pandora

Hello everyone, I hope you're all having a lovely week! You may have read in my last post that last weekend me and my boyfriend took a trip up to the London O2 arena to see Ellie Goulding in concert! This was my very first trip to a proper concert because I've never really been a "music person" and tend to stick to my favourite artists, with Ellie being one of them. Knowing that she always puts on an amazing performance at her shows, I had to pick up a couple of tickets as soon as they went for sale! Today I thought I would share with you all what I wore this weekend plus I've included a few pictures from the night itself!

A couple days before the event, I picked up this beautiful monochrome dress in the New Look sale for just £10. I loved how perfectly it fitted and I always find the floaty, skater style dresses look flattering on my body shape. I also thought the print on the top half was very pretty and it's the sort of dress that can be easily dressed up or down depending on what accessories you pair with it. I decided to go for a gold statement necklace, some thick black tights and my trusty New Look boots! As we've been experiencing some sort of heatwave in England recently, this outfit wasn't all that comfortable during the day but once we actually got to the arena, it became much cooler. Paired with my leather jacket this is a great little outfit to wear during the miss-match weather of March!

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As for the night itself, we made sure we got to the O2 early so that my boyfriend could eat at one of his all time favourite restaurants, TGI Friday's! I went for the Jack Daniels chicken, chips and vegetables and it's safe to say we were both stuffed afterwards! Once we'd eaten we headed to the queue and filed ourselves into the arena and headed to our seats. I was so surprised at how good our seats actually were! We were on the front row of the seating area directly in front of the stage - this is great for short people like me as there was no annoying tall person standing in front haha! After a supporting act and a lot of waiting patiently, Ellie finally made it on to the stage and delivered an amazing performance! I enjoyed every minute of it (except when the people behind spilt a bit of wine on us!) and would definitely recommend everyone to go and see her in concert - she is just absolutely brilliant!

I hope you enjoyed today's more lifestyle sort of post! I would love to hear your thoughts on my outfit and do tell me what fashion trends you've been loving recently. Thank you for reading and I'll speak to you all very soon!

What are your thoughts on my outfit?
Have you been to see anyone in concert recently?
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Monday, 23 December 2013

Homemade Gingerbread Biscuits

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Hello everyone! The other day during one of the Twitter blogger chats I talked about how I wanted to add more lifestyle posts to my blog. I find these quite difficult because I don't really think anything that I do on a day-to-day basis is that interesting. But a couple of days ago, after watching Zoella's latest DIY video, me and my boyfriend decided to make some gingerbread biscuits! We do like to bake cakes on the odd occasion and as it's nearly Chirstmas, we thought we'd make something a bit more festive! The only cookie cutters we could find however were a bear and squirrel, so they're not the most Christmassy looking biscuits out there! I just want to add I'm not copying Zoe's latest video but I was inspired by her to make these yummy biscuits! If you want to watch her video then do click here for the full list of ingredients and recipe!

These were really simple to make, the preparation of the dough does take a good 45 minutes though as you do have to allow it to cool. But they're quick to cook so they can be ready in just over an hour! For decoration we did just want some plain white icing but the only white I could find in my local Sainsbury's was in a set of chocolate icing. It actually didn't taste that bad so I'm really happy with how they turned out! We mainly used Smarties to add colour to our biscuits but you can easily use little jellies, coloured icing and other delicious treats!

I hope you liked this little lifestyle post, if you did then I will definitely consider making some more as this was really fun to do! This if going to be my last post before Christmas so I hope you all have a lovely day and that you eat lots of good food and have fun with your family and friends.

Happy Christmas everyone! I will speak to you all very soon.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2013

1 Year Of Blogging

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Hello everyone, I hope you're all well and having a lovely week. I have a very exciting post for you all as today is my blog's first birthday! I seriously cannot believe it was this time last year that I sat down and decided to make my own little corner of the Internet and start blogging. I'm so proud of how much my blog has grown and that I am a part of this amazing online community!

I decided to make my blog Belle-amie on the 11th June after coming home from one of my exams. I'd been thinking about making a blog or starting YouTube for such a long time, but the prospect of sitting in my room talking to a camera and then putting it on the Internet seemed pretty daunting. So I decided to set up an account on Blogger and just see how things went. I instantly fell in love with blogging and it quickly became a hobby that I carried out in my spare time. Now, I spend a lot of time working on my blog and new posts as I really enjoy sharing my interests with you guys! I do also have a YouTube channel where I have a couple of videos, but to be honest I don't think it's for me. I much prefer blogging as I love being creative with taking and editing photos and simply sitting down with a cup of tea and writing up a blog post.

Blogging has definitely changed me as a person, and I'm not the same girl I was a year ago. I was very shy and had no idea what I wanted to do in the future. Writing on Belle-amie has made me so much more confident and actually made me believe in myself a lot more. I never imagined that within just a year of blogging I could reach the amount of followers I have and it just amazes me that all of you enjoy what I do! It's given me a sense of achievement and shows that if I put my mind to something, I can do well. I also now know that in the future I want to go into a career in the beauty industry and hopefully have a business of my own - definitely not something I would have dreamt of a year ago!

Basically this post is just a very long way of saying thank you to each and every one of you that have joined me in my first year of blogging! I seriously couldn't have done this without all of your support. Blogging has allowed me to do some amazing things such as working with companies and talking to so many other bloggers around the world - I'm even going to my very first meet up next month! It's such a brilliant hobby and I would urge anyone thinking of starting their own blog to go for it; writing my blog has been one of the best decisions I've made!

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Thank you! ♥

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Saturday, 1 June 2013

Meet My June Advertisers


Hello everyone! At the beginning of the month, as part of my Exclusive and Large packages, I like to write a blog post about the lovely ladies who are advertising with me. I personally love reading these kinds of posts as it allows me to find some amazing new blogs to read! This month I have 1 Exclusive advertiser who is Trish from Reserved For Ruby. I hope you go and check out her blog because it really is lovely - her photos are stunning and I just love the way she writes her posts!

My Exclusive Beauty Advertiser of the month is Trish from Reserved For Ruby
  
Reserved For Ruby is a fashion, style and beauty blog. Vintage shopping obsessed mixed with high street pieces combines the true essence of Reserved For Ruby. Has a unhealthy penchant for Peter Pan collars, bright nail polishes and gold buttons! Follow today for daily fashion and beauty updates!
 
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I hope that you pop over to Trish's blog and say hello, I'm sure you'll find lots of great posts to read! Do let me know in the comments if you do check out her blog as well. If you're interested in advertising your blog with me next month and featuring in a post like this, then feel free to contact me. If you want to know any more details, either click on the "Advertising" tab at the top of my blog or click on this link HERE!


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