Chained and Able A/W '16 collection

Have I made you fall in love yet? The lovely guys and gals over at Chained and Able generously sent me over some samples from their new Autumn/ Winter Spirit collection  to show you guys and I think they might be my favourite yet! Chained and Able are becoming so well known for their beautifully simple geometric designs and pendants which I find so easy to layer up with any outfit to give it an effortlessly stylish boho vibe.

I love that this new collection have incorporated this gorgeous turquoise gem stone set, it gives a lovely pop of colour and looks so classy and expensive for only a fraction of the price that you would expect to pay! The pendant with the long stone comes with a long chain which compliments the half moon shaped stone pendant so well if you love to layer these necklaces up. One of my favourite combinations was these two together paired up with the larger hexagonal necklace, which I have styled together in the photos below. I have also showed you how they look when styled with the raw cut stone cuff and the gold bar bracelet, because if you haven't guessed yet I love stacking my jewellery up! They also do a set of four rings with the same stone which I think would look stunning especially with the stone cuff.

This brand is so lovely to work with and I love how much they inspire and support emerging bloggers and influencers and I strongly recommend snapping up some of their pieces. Also if you are looking for some early christmas present inspo for the boyfs have a look at their Mens collections which are now available ASOS, they have some really original and unique pieces. I will include all the links below for you to find them easily.

Website: www.chainedandable.com

Insta: @chainedandablewomen

  @chainedandable

Snapchat: chainedandable

V Festival with Mark Hill Hair

                                            

- 20th - 21st August 2016 -                        

I was recently very lucky to have been chosen as the winner of a competition run by Mark Hill Hair to win tickets to join them at V Festival, and as they treated us so amazingly and we had such a fab weekend, I decided to start up a blog (which I have been um-ing and ah-ing over for a while now) and dedicate my first ever blog to all the glittery fun that we got up to, so here goes!

Day 1 - So after battling through a thunderstorm and an illusive coach on the way up there and having a little too much fun at the silent disco the night before, we made it in one piece to the Mark Hill tent bright and early on Saturday morning. After being rained on and attempting to do SOMETHING with our hair from the inside of a tent, the girls from Mark Hill were an absolute saviour. We jumped straight to the front of the queue (which was already growing at 11am!) and sat straight down. I opted for a half up - half down braids do to make the most of my still clean hair, whereas my best friend Tori went all out with a glittery roots triple braid look - both looked fab and went felt 100% better after being pampered a little bit. Of course we couldn't resist popping into the selfie booth (anyone who knows us knows that we LOVE a selfie booth). We also hung around for a little bit to say hi to Charlotte who (god bless her) was spending the day meeting and greeting fans at the Mark Hill Tent.

The fabulous girls at Mark Hill and also managed to bag us VIP tickets all weekend, meaning we could hang out in the VIP area when all the dancing got a bit too much, safe to say that we made full use of the giant yellow banana hammocks in VIP!

Day 2 - Sunday morning we returned back to the Mark Hill tent and were greeted by the same lovely ladies Poppy and Sophie and jumped to the front of the queue again. Tori just had a glitter top up and I changed into a similar two braid glitter root style to hide the slightly worse for wear third day festival hair. I have to say that the girls did such a great job that and the products smelt smelt so amazing that I actually came out feeling more confident than I did on the first day. All the while the team were filming and did a few interviews with us both and gave us a chance to talk about some of our favourite products from the bundle of their new summer products that they had sent us to try out before the weekend. We came out feeling like celebrities and buzzing for our last day of V Fest with our sassy glittery matching hair do's!

So there we are, my first blog post! I want to say a massive THANK YOU to the Mark Hill Team and Sophie and Poppy for giving us this opportunity and for the most amazing weekend being treated like VIP's the entire time. Keep an eye out for Mark Hill and their products, I have a feeling they are going to be BIG this year!

Tara-Jade x