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The Little Plum

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  • AD 🌿 Ready, set, jet (god I’ve wanted to use that in a caption for ages) . Prepping for holiday with my favourites, @isleofparadise. We don’t leave until the end of the week so I’ve opted for the Medium Tanning Water instead of my usual dark shade, just so I can top my colour up Thursday evening for a lovely layered glow (it’s currently a 1/3 off at @bootsuk, by the way, so you can bag it for £12.63!). I made the mistake of not fake tanning before I went away last year, and never again. 😂 As someone who doesn’t really tan naturally, having a little bit of colour helps me to feel a million times more confident in my slightly more revealing holiday clobber. I have those little red bumps on the tops of my arms (if you know, you know), so I appreciate the SuperBalance colour correcting actives which help to calm those down. Plus, as with all of the other Isle of Paradise products, the Medium Tanning Water is packed full of gorgeous natural ingredients. I’m talking avocado, chia seeds, coconut oil - you catch my drift. I’ve been tanning for YEARS now so if you have any questions about application, just drop them below! Otherwise you can shop this little baby from my stories. #ownyourglow #bootsuk
  • You’re either one or the other: a person who can wait to wear their new holiday clothes, or a person who can’t... 😅 I bought this little top for our trip this Friday and it was supposed to go straight into the suitcase, but in my defence, you do have to road test these things don’t you? {Sandals gifted by @fitflop.}
  • Recently I’ve found myself having a few conversations about how and why I got into blogging. It’s been over six years since I started, and my first article was the result of a university recently fled from, a three month break until the next, and a lot of unchanelled noise in my mind. I knew I wanted to write and without a platform to explore that I could feel myself fizzing over, frustrated and somewhat defeated that my big move and my big education and my big new life had shrivelled into nothing. So I restarted the blog I’d been dipping in and out of since sixth form, and wrote my first piece on the Tesco horse meat scandal. Remember that? Yep, that was where my current career started (or restarted, I suppose). Fast forward to now and I’m juggling blogging with a side-job in marketing, the flurry of which gives me purpose but also means my time is a lot more restricted. Anyone who does this job will tell you that there are times when you feel uninpisired and somewhat unsure of who you are and how you can reflect that, and I’ve definitely felt that way thus far in 2019. I feel like I’m starting to find my way now though - starting to recentre, I suppose, and relocate my “niche”. And it’s in books, my garden, inappropriately explicit conversations about sex and super simple outfits. It’s greenery, girls, gold and glugs of wine. It’s being ambitious from 9-5, and an introvert thereafter. I just want to enjoy my life, appreciate the little things, and talk about vibrators in the meantime. If that sounds like your bag, then I’m your gal.
  • Sun! At the weekend! In June! It shouldn’t be such a novelty but it is! Off for lunch soon and maybe a glass of something white and grapey. Hope your Saturday is as chilled as it should be 🌞 {Necklace gifted by @carrie_elizabeth_jewellery. One of my all time favourites, the pendant is engraved with a K for Keiran. Very sweet. 🥰}
  • The saying goes that if you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. I think this is bollocks. I think even if you ~ do ~ do something you enjoy and which enriches you and makes you feel fulfilled, you can still get to Friday and think ‘fuck, can’t wait for the weekend’. To see the clock tick past midday and know you’re on the homestretch, easing into a languid two days fuelled by spontaneity or the outright rejection of solid plans. To feel your shoulders droop, your neck stretch and your chest exhale, as you relax into the freedom of a slow Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes you’re just a do-nothing kind of person, and when you are, the promise of nothing and space and calm will always beat the day job, no matter how enjoyable that is. So here’s to my fellow lazy loungers - hope your weekend is a good one. 🌞
  • AD ✨ Stacking up my ear party with some new additions from the @astridandmiyu post-piercing collection. I swapped out the silver hoop my top ear was pierced with for something a little more pretty - the Cross Barbell Charm – and then halted the huggie train in my bottom lobe with the Gem Moon Barbell. If you’re partial to a piercing or two and are looking to upgrade your tragus or conch or whatever else it might be, then definitely take a peek at these pieces (available in silver, rose gold and gold) – they’re reasonably priced and easy to pop in. I have my eye on the Beaded Barbell next. 🤓 #AstridandMiyu