HAIR CRUSH: PASTELS

MERMAID | oh yeah, love a bit of mermaid green-blue hair, I can't pull it off, I've tried- lavender is more my colour.

RASPBERRY ICE CREAM | gorgeous pink toned tresses are a welcome sight for summer and I can't get enough of all the raspberry shades

BLUEBERRY | lilac toned locks are darling, super pretty with gold flecked nails and pink milk shade tops and sun dresses

CELLARDOOR MAGAZINE : THE TRAVEL ISSUE

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Hello lovelies! Hope you all had a super lovely weekend, ours was a little upsetting but also happy and we visited family and had a sunday walk in a gorgeous country park before coming home and settling down to homemade burgers and Gravity.

I wanted to share one of my pastel illustrations with you that I was commissioned by the darling Cellardoor magazine to do. I've contributed to their wonderful magazine as an illustrator a few times previously and it's always refreshing and super cool to work with them. Their latest travel issue features some amazing destinations, the most gorgeous hair and makeup looks, wonderful interviews, yummy food, super cute illustrations and rad music to name a few. Have a sit down with a cup of your favourite tea or strawberry milk and get lost in its beautiful pages.

AND WE WON'T STOP

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Happy new year lovelies! I hope you all had a super lovely festive break and have some fun things planned for 2014. It's shaping up to be a pretty good year so far, with mini adventures to be had, lots of lovely illustrating work, wedding planning and fun times. I still need to find myself a good diary and calendar, I'm lost without them, although my phone and ipad (thanks Matt) make up for all the digital planning, there's nothing quite like pen & paper (or in my case pink paper and felt tips) 

I've been drinking lots of tea over Christmas, mainly in floral jumpers, visiting family, watching copious amounts of festive films and we had a LOTR marathon, fun drives listening to soundtracks, carrying lip balm everywhere, glitter and champagne

Oooh a small side note, there's a january sale happening in my shop right now, with a huge 50% everything (except blog headers & portraits which have an already discounted 20% off them) to get your 50% off just use the code NEWYEAR in the coupon section when you check out. Happy days.

CELLARDOOR: THE MUSIC ISSUE

Have you got your copy of the latest lovely music issue of Cellardoor magazine? It's a really amazing issue, with lovely articles including the beautiful Kate Nash, super cool Bastille, the wonderful The Staves to name a few, flip through for gorgeous picks of pastel headphones, hummingbird watches, flamingo satchels & super cool bright pink song lyric prints by Fizzy Lemonade, there's also an amazing fashion shoot by Holly Booth inspired by Wuthering Heights as well as some really lovely things to do before spring suggested by Daisy Laverock-Willis with super sweet illustrations by Yasmin Mason. My silver-locked, peach-cheeked, diamond-collared illustrated girl makes an appearance too, with her retro pastel pink headphones, I wonder what she's listening to. Today I think it would be HAIM & Lorde. What's on your November playlists? I'd love to know! 

OCTOBER: DRESS UP LIKE MARIE ANTOINETTE

Teenage queen of pastels and prettiness, who wouldn't want to dress up as Marie Antoinette? Macaroon hued dresses, peach hair, floral crowns and cherry lips. Throw on the film's soundtrack, hand out glasses of your favourite fizz and eat decadent cream laden pastries from Laduree.  

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE

Hello lovelies, hope you all had a gorgeous weekend. Mine was spent sipping wine, hanging out with family, taking glitter bubble baths & wishing we had climbing roses all over the house. What did you lovelies do? Have you seen all of the beautiful pastel colours Bleach London have brought out? So many different hues I'd love to tint my hair with- at the moment it's sea foam green ombre, but I'm getting pretty bored with that and wishing for rosy pink or a violet colour. 

My illustrated a4 prints are still on offer, if you treat yourself to one you get another of your choice for free, perfect for stocking up on early christmas presents, or just as a little extra something for yourself. I've been putting some in vintage frames and they look really lovely, the pastel colours and pencil are compliment so much by a thrifted frame (especially in gold, I love gold ones, don't you?) 

So anyway, I'm off to catch up on American Horror Story and Supernatural, really love these tv shows, especially this time of year when you can throw on a jumper (or three, in my case) and light some pumpkin spice candles and watch them in the dark (or, if you're like me, definitely with the light on) 

Bye for now sweeties x x

UNDER EVERY SCAR THERE'S A BATTLE I'VE LOST

Illustrating Paris Fashion Week, love the delicate collection by Elie Saab and wishing for Autumn so much, the summer has neglected England and so I am wearing wool tights, layered dresses, drinking hot chocolate, hosting Twilight marathons and listening to the Eclipse soundtrack ♥

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE LINES

Ohh dip dye, you beauty ♥ Really wishing my hair was still pale vanilla blonde so I could indulge dipping it in delectable sweet pastel shades or vibrant pinks, oranges, purples and greens ♥

Thunder clouds are starting to roll in, I'm in the studio illustrating listening to an epic playlist that's currently playing the amazing Cast Of Cheers I can't believe it's almost two months since we saw them play live ♥

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CANDY POP ♥

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Pastel hued hair, nostalgic push pops in the brightest of colours, rose and strawberry cream flavoured ice cream, popping candy pink bubblegum, mountains of Care Bears, Care Bears in Wonderland ♥ ( I loved this movie as a kid, I was obsessed with Alice's hair and her heart crown), sugary candy floss clouds dyed pink and purple, magic horse bubbles and the happiest place on earth ♥ 

PEPPERMINT HAIR ♥

Peppermint, apple, mint colours I'd love my hair to be, like a mermaid ♥ 

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COMIC BOOK GIRLS ♥

Castle ice cubes, Spiderman trilogy, wishing I had Kirsten Dunst's hair (especially her red locks as Mary Jane), illustrating lots, listening to Ladyhawke & Florence + the Machine ♥
I have a new flickr page ♥

PASTEL HAIR & ROSY CHEEKS ♥

Pages from my late night sketch book, experimenting with pastel colours, muted pinks & bruised purples, they're addictive. Hope you're all having a swell weekend lovelies ♥ x

EMERALD BLEACH ♥

Dip dyed emerald hair, like Mountain Dew. Eclipse soundtrack ♥ 

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