Gloomy Tuesdays and LDF

I am not a big fan of Tuesdays, they just seem, like their neighbour Wednesday, to pad out the week unnecessarily. I have a ton of work to do but as I am a master procrastintor, obviously I am here instead of on the microsoft word document I have open.
While I was commiting said procrastination yesterday, I flicked onto Nylon.com to see their rundown of LDF and stumbled across the Burberry Prorsum show.

Cleverly they showed the whole show live online and I loved every second of it. The 'rain' streaming down the sides of the glass house was literally the most inspired thing to do in line with the collection. The collection itself was a look back to Burberry's roots; lots of burgundy, brown and heritage fabrics but with added snippits of leather.

Cara Delevingne wears a coat for her final look of the show that I am in love with. Plus, the owl t-shirts and jumpers appeal straight to my heart. I adore anything that includes owls.

Could they have hit the nail any harder on the head with this collection for A/W? And surprisingly, there was no fur or feathers! I have become accustom to certain things being part of collections for certain seasons, pastels and nauticals for spring, prints and brights for summer, monochrome and metallics for winter and burgundies, rust reds and oranges and fur and feathers for Autumn. It's always a nice surprise when designers mix it up a little.

So in summary, I want, I can't have and I need to stop procrastinating.
Peace out, make sure you watch the video.

Lonely and Hellbound.

Don't worry, it isn't as ominous and the title sounds.
So today I went to my philosophy seminar, then procrastinated, then came to the library...to procrastinate?
I know what you're all thinking, why go to the library to procrastinate? I DIDN'T! I CAME HERE TO DO SOME WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE OKAY?!
Yeah, so I'm getting a tad frustrated. Therefore the most logical thing to do was to come onto here and read all of the new daily posts from the bloggers that I follow.
This is when I stumbled across two things that I love very much.
Now to elaborate, I have been a huge fan of UNIF clothing for a long time now. I just can't seem to find anything that is nearly as good as their laid back grunge styling. This is how I came across my new obsession:

The 'Hellbound'. Now I have been in love with shoes before but these? These are something else. I want them, I need them, oh baby, oh baby.
But at $210 I don't think I can afford them. I mean, I have the money but that is a lot of money. And I would be hell-bound because my mother would kill me for being so financially irresponsible. The temptation however, is now well and truly entrenched in my head.
It makes me sad inside.

I then stumbled across this little video by Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis and it made my day a little bit brighter.  Thank you to Bohemian Musings for introducing me to it. Being alone is something that I'm no longer used to so this momentarily stopped me from naming the 25 cats that I'm sure I'm bound to collect in the future and made me focus on the positives. Thank you!
So now, back to Art and Sentimentality. Or to Art and Sentimentality...
Signing out.

Nail Art.

Now, my idea of nail art simply comes in the form of: 'Well I'll paint them a pretty colour in 5 minutes before I go to work and maybe no-one will notice that I bite them.'
As you can all see, this is maybe not the most enlightened view but I maintain the fact that I don't have time to do them properly.
However, I am learning! I got the most brilliant glitter nail varnish from Essie that I haven't taken off since I got it:

The shade is 'A Cut Above' in-case any of you were wondering and I am in love. The picture shows it as slightly darker but in real life, it is a nice dusty pink. Now I have heard that the 'Luxe effects' range are purely for top-coat use. But to those advocates I say bah humbug. I literally coat in on in layers until its completely covering my nail and this works absolutely fine. Plus the thicker it is, the harder it is for me to chip off but once again, that just shows how much I lack femininity and decorum.

Now, anything further then just painting one colour on my nails is beyond me. I am clumsy. Case in point, I painted my nails the other day and managed to accidentally stick my thumb nail to the palm of my hand. This as you can imagine left a nice splotch of varnish on it. So when I was reading my new favourite blog by Gem Fatale, (check it out, I work with her, she's lovely and exceptionally more gifted then I am at being a girl) and saw the new Meadham Kirchhoff nail wraps for Topshop, lets just say I was dubious but with eyes the size of an excited Pixar character.

Now I've read the reviews which move from startlingly good to startlingly bad. I was so game for these before I new how difficult they could possibly be to put on but now I'm not so sure. While my brain is going 'Squeeeee these are so cute and creepy all at the same time. It's like a Tim Burton film...FOR MY NAILS!' There is a little voice in the back of my head that ominously pronounces: 'These are eight pounds. You don't have that kind of money to spend on your nails you fool. You don't have that kind of money to spend on food. Do not buy them, you'll only fuck them up and regret it. I am your spending conscience and I ruin fun.'
As you can see, a moral dilemma it most certainly is.

BUT LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY ARE:

I WANT A CAT ON MY NAILS GODDAMN IT!

So, fancy nail wraps, good or bad idea? Have any of you used them before? Answers on a postcard please. 

We're Back in Business.

Hola, Bonjour, Ciao, Hello and Hi there!
It has been an ashamedly long time since I posted anything on here but with the develpoments of the past few months, I have decided that this is going to be a new begininng. That is for both me and 'Closet Addiction'.
I will be updating the layout, header and other technological bits that I can muster the courage to do very soon so keep your eyes peeled but for now it will just be a few short posts while I get some work for uni done.
So, what has been going on? I hear you scream with anticipation. Well, I've started uni, an old job in a new place, made some very good friends, changed my hair colour at least twice, sadly a long term relationship has ended and now i'm starting afresh.
I will be dedicated to this from now on, I promise.

Well, valentines day has come and gone and this year I was on my own. Well not completely on my own. My housemates being the wonderful bunch that they are entertained me by getting me a little bit drunk. The night ended with dancing on kitchen chairs to Whitney Houston and crawling into bed at 4. Who says you need a partner on Love Day, I certainly felt the love last night.

I felt the love even more so when I got this little valentine's care package from my wonderful mother.