Here comes the sun

I came home from university for Easter yesterday so have spent the day enjoying the luxury of a sofa (sounds stupid but fellow students living in halls will understand!) and submitting my journalism essay which felt amazing!!! The essay was on defamation which is a important but incredibly complicated process linked with journalism and I think I finally cracked it today. I also got my exam timetable today so can start sorting out my revision timetable. I'm a ridiculously organised and controlling person so I like to know when everything is!

On Wednesday, we had our last night out at university before we all get on board the dreaded exam train (that was an awful metaphor!) and leave our social lives behind for a couple of weeks. Wednesday nights are great at my university because they have one room which plays literally all my favourite music from my beloved Arctic Monkeys to the legendary Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I'd been feeling ill all week but I got through it like any good student would!

here are some snaps from the night...

I wore my black stretchy H and M skirt, sequinned vest top, Dorothy Perkins and Sheer blouse fro Primark.

 Hope you all have a great Easter break and I'll try to blog throughout!

Kat xxx

beauty, beauty, beauty

In typical Kat fashion, I am meant to be completing my journalism essay which is due in on Friday but I have manage to somehow to be doing a blogpost...hmmm....I'm not very good at this student lark.
Anyway, let's just forget about my pending essay and carry on with this fascinating blog post.

Recently, I've made a couple of make up purchases, something I'm wanting to do more of after looking through my ancient make-up collection and wanting to cry.

For my birthday, I got the Loreal, Super Liner Gel Intenza. I've been a bit scared to use it because I'm comfortable with my trusty Bourgeois liquid liner. However, yesterday I plucked up the courage to use it, and it's AMAZING! It's so easy to apply and I think it looks much more defined and effortless than my other liquid liners.

Another product I've recently brought was a Rimmel Lipstick in Sweetie. 

Please don't judge me. I am just a pro at making unattractive faces ok? 

For my birthday, I also got some Myleene Klass nail wraps which you can get in ASDA. I was a little bit unsure of how well I would apply them with my sausage fingers and clumsiness, but they were really easy. I think they cost about £5.

You basically, place them on each nail (no need for glue, they're sticky!) and then file them down to the right size. 

Right, this essay isn't going to write itself so I better try and be a model student for the next couple of hours. Oh, I went to see The Hunger Games last night and loved it! I haven't read the book so didn't know much about it but I thought the film was really fast moving and a great story line. I'm going to read the book over summer. 

Kat xxx

He walked down a busy street, staring solely at his feet.

How amazing is the weather at the moment! However, it's not great when you have important journalism coursework to be completing by the end of the week and get easily distracted in the sun by anything from bees to over-excited friends. So here I am, sitting in my nearly cleaned uni room writing my bloody journalism essay which, I'm proud to say is only 500 words off the word limit! Woo! Sat in the library for the past 3 hours has actually paid off.

It's my last week of university and I'm going back to (hopefully still) sunny Kent on Thursday evening. As much as I love uni life and that, I am ready to return to homely life consisting of my lovely mum making me dinner and play fighting with my little sister. I say little. She's 16 and I'm 19 but hey, you're never too old to play fight, right?

So I've been out quite a bit recently, making the most of pre-exam freedom and Jay from the Inbetweeners DJed at my uni on Friday night. If I'm honest, he looked like he didn't want to be there and I don't think he even said hello to the crowd, but regardless, we had a really fun night!

Some typical uni photos for you there! 

As the weather is so good (yes, I know I keep going on about it!), I thought I'd add some of my perfect summer playlist...

Enjoy!

Kat xxx

let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain

I'm currently catching up in Eastenders, (poor Heather!) and making a long list of things I need to do. I literally live my life by lists, is this normal? Anyway, number one on said list is to do a blog post on recent things that have happened so thought I'd tick it off.

It was my birthday last Monday and although I had lots of lectures and seminars that day, I went out with all my friends at night to a local club which played some amazing classics. I remember one unforgettable moment singing Barbie Girl with all my beauties. My flatmates got me a rabbit onesies although with a few other bits and my lovely friend Jess got me Matilda on DVD which I was so happy with! I've wanted it for ages to re-live my childhood days. Jess' mum also made me this birthday cake.

I also took some rather drunken photos on my iPhone which I thought I'd also share with you. (remember it was my birthday, I was allowed to get drunk!)

My friend Jess and her boyfriend Michael

This is me and my lovely friend Shemol

Me and my  friend Kealie

Kat xxx

Home is wherever I'm with you

So I'm sitting here in my PJs, waiting for Sex and the City to load on my laptop, feeling a bit sorry for myself. I go home for Easter 2 weeks yesterday and although I love uni, I'm really missing my family. I saw them today because it was mother's day but it made me want to go home with them. So I thought I'd come to my dear old blog and moan my little heart out.

My mum and dad and my little sister are my entire world and I would be nothing without them. (hope you haven't puked up from the cheesiest of that sentence!) I'm so blessed to have such an amazing family but it just makes it harder to live away. I've got friends here at uni who literally could not wait to leave home and as much as my parents can pissed me off sometimes, I'm always excited about going home. Uni's really made me realise that different people have different relationships with their families.

So, as it's mother's day and my Sex and the City film has finally loaded, I thought I'd leave you with a photo of my lovely mummy and me.

Kat xxx

Marni for H and M Collection Review

So one of my favourite stores, H and M have got a new designer collection by Marni which, like all it's previous collections, sold out within hours of it's release. 
I've never been able to snap up a piece of any of the designer collections H&M has sold as I can't really afford them, plus, they're are never designer I am particularly interested in. However, Marni's collection is unique yet wearable, two words I would also associate with the rest of H and M. These are a few pieces of the collection. 

This Green Striped T Shirt is £49:99. I'm not keen on the design and the zip detail. 

This Silk Cardigan in £59:99. It's a unique item but not my style. 

I like this Silk Top, £59:99. I think it's really wearable and would look great with plain disco pants. 

These Silk Trousers are £49:99 and would look great with a plain black t shirt.





Kat xxxx

first post

Hi Everyone! 

So this is my first post of my new blog, redshoes. 

My name is Kat and I am a history student with a love for budget fashion. 

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