Lyst me up baby!

It's not often I post twice in a day (especially 2 non-beauty related posts!) but when I saw Amie's post on Lyst, over at Credit Crunch Chic I couldn't resist sharing! Lyst is a website 'revolutionising the way we discover fashion'. I don't know about you, but if it isn't featured on ASOS or Net-A-Porter, I'm quite often stumped as to where else I can find gorgeous clothes, bags, shoes & watches. This solves my problem!

I started off creating a dream birthday outfit to wear on my birthday night in NYC. We are booked to go to dinner in the Meat Packing District. Obvs I need to be dressed to the nines. What better than a Valentino dress?! The cost of this entire outfit would be over £3k; wonder if TK Maxx will have it in the sale... A stunning find is the wool cape, available on NAP for £83. I am seriously considering picking it up!!

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Leather Camera Bag

This is the first of many (I'm sure!) of 'prep for NYC' posts. I do have some priorities ahead of planning where I'm hitting up for cocktails & shoes and my first one was to organise a camera bag for my Nikon. I actually tweeted a few days ago asking for recommendations of online places with bags that didn't scream 'I'm a camera case'.

As much as I would love to buy this Marc Jacobs, I amplanning on taking all my £££s with me to NY and not spending more than I have to here. So, I had to re-evaluate my budget and was delighted when Primark came up trumps with this little leather bad boy! It was £6 and fits the camera perfectly. I might add in a little foam block to support the lens from underneath, but even if I don't this will work; exactly what I was looking for!

Luxe Gold Nails

I'm seeing out the last remaining days of the festive season with a more sedate, but still very sparkly manicure. This will last me a good couple of weeks and my next appointment will be my pre-New York manicure (I haven't mentioned on here yet that I'm off to the Big Apple with husband in 2 weeks time to celebrate my 2nd 29th birthday so expect a few preparation posts on bags, outfits, shopping lists etc!).

Anyway, back to the nails! As usual, it was by Sarah at Preen Beauty. It is black gel, with bronze glitter pushed in, then sealed in with a clear gel.

New Blog!

I just wanted to let you know I have started a new blog over at One Snap Girl. I am aiming to post 1 picture a day for the next year, documenting my very boring days!

The point is to get me photographing more, using my new camera and to learn more about how to take good photos etc. I think at the end of the year I will get an album printed too.

Anyway - have you done something like this? I found very few other sites with similar projects; do you know of any?

Happy New Year...

From Beauty Blogging Blonde

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