Outfit | Work Wear

V-Neck Jumper - Primark   |   Leather Look Skirt - New Look  |   Waistcoat - New Look  |  Lace-up Pumps - Primark  |   Bag - Work Sample Sale

I read Catherine's post When You Hate Photo's Of Yourself the other day and it made me think of these pictures.
These pictures were taken an age ago, in fact well over a year ago.

I remember back when I was going over the images I was thinking there was no way I was going to post these online. I kept them even though I had no intention of posting them and then I thought, why? What is actually wrong with them. Absolutely nothing that's what.

I totally understand what Catherine means in terms of control,

"The picking out of these photos this week got me thinking about when you DON'T have control over which photo of yourself is chosen"
I think a lot of people feel this way, I know I certainly do.

Outfit | What I Wear To Work

So I'm finally getting round to continuing my series of outfit posts on what I wear to work after last posting about my Noa dress in January. You can find the rest of posts in the series in What I Wear To Work.

Ivory Pintuck Blouse - Mint Velvet || Fresno Pebble Wash Skinny Jeans - Mint Velvet || Handbag - ASOS || Boots - Primark

Oh what's that you say Jaye has bought more jeans? Yes I confess I've bought a new pair of jeans for work, so say hello to the Fresno Skinny Jeans. I bought these to replace my Phoenix Jeans (which I wore constantly), I really wanted a lighter pair of jeans and I absolutely love the colour of them.
I do love a good blouse and as soon as I saw this one I knew I had to have it, lovely and floaty especially for this nice weather we've been having.

Now I don't usually where heeled boots for work but when I took these photos last week I thought I'm only working a short shift so why not. Big mistake! I was out for a lot longer than I thought I would be and after leaving my house around 10.30 I didn't get back until around 9pm. I still love them though.

Outfit | Noa

Just a quick outfit post on another piece from my Mint Velvet work uniform. I'm definitely a jeans and a t-shirt, blouse or jumper girl, don't get me wrong I love wearing a skirt and a dress but more often than not you'll find me traipsing about in a pair of jeans; especially at work. That all changed (albeit briefly) when this dress came in at work. Let me introduce you to the Noa Dress.

I fell in love with the print and the style as soon as I saw it which luckily for me just happened to be the day it was delivered to our store. I think I bought the dress as uniform sometime in July or August (which is when these pictures were taken, I know a long time ago) but I've only worn the dress to work about two times much to the dismay of my manager.

I really do love the dress but I felt uncomfortable working in it especially when walking up and down stairs all day.
There are also two other tops in the Noa collection, the Noa Print Double Layer Top and the Noa Print Side Ruched Top.
You can read more about the story of the Noa Print in the Mint Velvet Magazine here.

OOTD | Uniform #4

Cool Blue Drape Knit Tunic, Mint Velvet - £17.25 | Black Coated Jeggings, Mint Velvet - £19.50 | Knitted Cuff Boots, New Look - Gift
I actually quite like these shots, they were taken some time in January with and insanely cool Canon 60D that I took out from uni to test. I'm saving up for a DSLR as I'm sick of continuously getting blurry photos on my Samsung Bridge camera.

Anyway onto the outfit. This is more of my work uniform. I brought the top in January and I love it, the only two downsides are that the sleeves are sometimes quite itchy and you can't really wear it without something underneath as it's very see through. I bought the trousers were brought in the sale I thought it was about time to buy some seeing as though I don't own any black trousers. The only downside with these is that despite getting 8R they're still short for my legs.

Outfit | Uniform #3

Quilted Sleeve Jacket, Primark - £25 | Wine Snood, Primark - £5 | Black Ivory Blocked Tee, Mint Velvet - £14.75 | Indigo Boyfriend Jeans, Mint Velvet - £14.75 | Chelsea Boots, Primark - £10

I had forgotten that I started doing posts on what I wear for work. You can see the first two here & here.

I've worn this look a few times but I've stopped recently as it made me feel to boxy, I love the top but I feel more comfortable wearing it with my skinny jeans but they have holes in them now form my persistent wearing. I'm waiting until the new year when my new allowance kicks in so I can buy me a new pair.
I don't love these boyfriend jeans as much as I did when I bought them. There's nothing wrong with them the problem is with me and how to wear them, so I've been searching through the blogosphere to find bloggers that have styled them to my liking.

P.S. As you can probably tell by reading this, I've had this in my drafts for a while oops

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Outfit | Boyfriend

Two Tone Blazer, H&M - £7 | Tessa Print Button Back Blouse, Mint Velvet - £14.75 | Indigo Boyfriend Jeans, Mint Velvet - £14.75 | Zip Up Buckle Boots, Primark - £18
Okay so I didn't actually wear this, well it's close enough. I actually wore this outfit with my skinny jeans to dinner with a couple of work friends a few weeks back, but I'm forever showing my skinnies on the ol' blog so I thought I'd show you something different.
I've had this blouse for months but this is the first time I've bothered to do an outfit post with it. These shoes aren't they just heavenly! I found one shoe in a size 4 at my local Primark, so I made a trip down to Lakeside to find my size. I was a bit unsure as to whether chunky shoes would suit me but I absolutley love them.
P.s I hope you like my socks, I usually have them sticking out of my boots

All images belong to me

OOTD: Uniform #2

Kaylie Print Pintuck Blouse, Mint Velvet - £17.25 | Leggings, Primark | Pumps, Primark - £4

If you haven't noticed I've finally made the move to taking photo's outside, what do you think?

I bought this blouse at the beginning of July as part of my new uniform for the season. At first I wasn't going to buy it as the 8 wasn't as fitted as I wanted, but after a day of trying on different tops I decided to just get it and wear it with a belt. Now as the name says it's actually a blouse but because it's been ridiculously hot recently I decided to wear it as a tunic/dress with some leggings.

I bought the pumps again weeks ago (I'm behind on these outfit posts) to replace my shameful trainer pumps things (whatever they are) that I'd been wearing to work for the past couple of months because I didn't have any other comfortable shoes.

OOTD: Uniform #1

Indigo Double Zip Jeans, Mint Velvet - £17.25 | Honey Wrap Back Tee, Mint Velvet - £13.75 | Shoes, Linzi - £12
So here's the first of another new feature on the ol' blog, specifically for my work uniform. There's only a couple of pictures with this one as I wasn't happy with the other images.

I really love this top as it has this gorgeous open back, although it is a little big (I bought the size 10 as the 8 had sold out) so I'm always worried that everyone can see down my top when I lean forward. It's currently in the sale so if you like it go buy it before it sells out, it also comes in Aqua.