Your Beach Beauty Essentials Sorted: Selfridges Summer Beauty Box

Did you manage to get your hands on Selfridge's Summer Beauty Box? If you haven't you still can!  Packed full of �176 worth of hot-weather-worthy products (although it'll only cost you �40), it's going to be your go-to for beach babe beauty all summer long. The box has even been replaced by a cute bag by Alphabet Bags, perfect for keeping all of your essentials in whether you're heading off to a festival, beach holiday, or city break away.
There's a few products that I simply cannot live without (Tangle Teezer, I'm talking about you) so here's the full list of what you get inside:

• Starskin Instaglam foam peel perfect
• Starskin After Party Brightening
• Ribband Sorbet
• James Read Day Tan SPF 15
• Eyeko Fat Eyeliner
• Nails Inc Gel Nail Varnish Pink
• Illamasqua Lipstick Luster
• Nars Mini Orgasm Lipgloss
• Rodial Dragons Blood Sculpting Gel 15ml
• Urban Decay Setting Spray
• CAUDELIE Grape Water 75ml
• TANGLE TEEZER Original Blue
• CLARINS Eau des Jardins Smoothing Body Cream 100ml

James Read's Day Tan is another huge favourite of mine. A little bit of SPF and colour never hurt nobody! Plus, Urban Decay's setting spray is perfect for nailing beach-to-bar beauty and keeping it all in place whilst you party away on the sands. Have you managed to get your hands on the Selfridges Beauty Box 2015 yet?

Summer Workwear: Day To Night Style

Being a fashion writer, I have a stylish reputation to keep up. You can�t work in fashion if you don�t look the part! As you might know, I live and work in London. It�s such a buzzing, vibrant city and I love working there, but there�s no such thing as a 9-5 job when you are a writer. There are brunches with brands in the morning, deadlines to hit in the afternoon, and then after work drinks in cool new bars or launch parties in the evening- it�s nonstop. You can�t afford to miss anything, so you�ve got to make sure that you�re wearing something that�ll impress from day to night. Plus it can get seriously heated in summer and I find myself wondering what to wear to work during the summer. Switching between cabs and tubes all day can take its toll and it's sometimes hard to know how to beat the heat in style. 

An oversized T-shirt tucked into a sleek split skirt is a light, airy, and seriously slick style for days spent dashing around London in the inner-city heat. It�s a chic, stylish look that�ll impress your boss and then have people asking �Oh my god where did you get that?� at the bar later on. Being a fashion writer, you never know where you�ll end up or who you�ll end up meeting, but with this classic outfit combination you�ll always know that you�ll be nailing essential day to night style. 

What's your summer workwear personality? Dorothy Perkins have created the ultimate quiz to determine your workwear style ! Are you a day-to-night dresser like me? Or functional meets fashion? See the full personalities over on the Dorothy Perkins website. 

Skirt | Shoes | Top | Bag - All c/o Dorothy Perkins

Working The Relaxed Trench Coat

Relaxed tailoring- it's something I can't seem to get enough of at the moment. A pair of floor-skimming trousers? Count me in. A long, sweeping duster coat? It's in the bag. There's something about the flowing, sensual silhouettes, based on stricter notes of tailoring that combines the best parts of a fragile femininity with power and dominance. What's not to love? Of course I want to feel like a sexy goddess powerful woman, channelling both the grace and command of Beyonce simultaneously, but with Kim Kardashian's stylist (AKA Kanye.) 







This particular trench coat was from H&M's 2015 conscious collection. Yes, the one seen on Solange. That went out of stock immediately. That I might have spent �30 extra to get it off eBay. But just look at those pictures... It was worth every penny. From the vamped up side splits that catch the wind and flash some flesh (okay, sometimes too much flesh), it delivers the perfect amount of laid-back sex appeal. Scroll down to see my best current versions of this coat online! The closest I've found is this gorgeous longline trench coat from Warehouse via ASOS. 

Doing Double Denim With A Skirt & Chambray

Had any of you told me I'd be the proud wearer of a double denim ensemble a few years back I'd have laughed in your face. If you ask me what I think of the double denim trend in 5 years time I'll probably laugh in your face again, then tell you how much I regret ever wearing it so casually at the tender age of 23. It's just one of those tricky trends that keeps plummeting into the depths of fashion exile- reserved only for losers stuck in a 1990s or 1970s time capsule- then coming shooting right back into the height of hotness, being hailed as the coolest and edgiest look to work simply based on the fact it was once seen as so bloody ugly. Everyone who tries it is a fashion maverick because, quite simply, making something so wrong look so right is a pretty solid style accomplishment.








With the seventies revival in full swing and the last few seasons nineties trend still simmering along in the background too, it's no surprise that double D is proving to be such a hit again. Instead of working a denim jacket and jeans combination, I slipped into this season's hottest style skirt: the denim button up. With so much choice of high quality skirts in this style I was pretty surprised to pick this one up from Forever 21 for only �14 after seeing my friend Sarah totally rock it on her blog (it's only available online in white now!) I always expect to feel either like a massive loser or all East London-edgy when I do double d, but I actually felt cool. And not even in an ironic way.
Styling chambray with denim is an easy take on the trend, plus pairing a super light shade of blue with a deeper indigo colour makes things look less Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake circa 2001. 

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