Pink Haired Princess

Another screen-cap from the Fly video of Nicki Minaj. I've secretly longed for leopard print hair for a while-how cool would that be? Not all over like this, but just a section. I think I'm gonna save this image as my desktop wallpaper, I like the way I captured the moment when the ray of light appears (taking the credit for quick reflexes not for actually making this video, lol!). Speaking of videos, I'm in the process of editing one of my new Irregular Choice shoes that arrived today-should have it finished tomorrow. Have a good weekend ladies x

Haven't done a discount code post for a while, but there's several that popped into my inbox this week, so here you go. Illamasqua 15% off, see details below, ends midnight tonight. Style369.com 20% off until midnight tonight, when you spend £50 or more, discount automatically deducted at checkout. Peacocks 20% off full price items and delivery for £1 until Sunday, no code. Miss Selfridge Free delivery when you spend over £40, ends October 4th, promo code FDSEPX SecretSales £15 off when you spend £60 or more, details below. Debenhams Half price sale on and spend £30 online and receive free delivery (automatic, no code). Estee Lauder , the annual Breast Cancer Awareness/Pink Ribbon Collection is now available and also free samples, see below for details. Clinique have revised their shipping charges and there's also a couple of different sample options available, see below for codes. Punky Pins free delivery all weekend. Barry M -Two new blusher colours available, ...

I've made no secret of my love for Nicki Minaj, I just adore looking at her. She's always so bright and bubbly and never fails to make you smile, even if some of her outfits aren't exactly what you'd wear down to Tesco! I'm loving her new tune with Rihanna, Fly, it's really beautiful. As usual Ms Minaj sports a number of different looks and I loved the cropped pink hairstyle in this part. The whole mood of this scene was unusually calm and muted for her, but she still looks breathtakingly beautiful. I've added two screen-caps, so you can really see the style of the wig in the 2nd image.

I haven't had time to put up the post on The Shoe Girl Diaries of my shoes today, but here's a little clue as to the pair I wore. This unicorn is one of the cutest unicorns I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot ), I would love Irregular Choice to produce more styles with this print.

The more I look at the Prada SS12 collection, the more I want and love it. These are the shoes I was telling you about on Monday...they come in a wedge or heel and in all kinds of colours. Seriously dude, a shoe that looks like a car? How insane is that? I want and need them now!

I had a horrendous day yesterday, where a situation completely escalated out of control. I don't like the blog to be a release for my depressing moments (nobody wants to read that), but I'm trying to think as rationally as possible and get beyond this and perhaps venting a little here will help and I could also use your advice. So you know how I sell on eBay quite regularly? As anyone in the same situation knows, it comes with it's problems at times. People win an item then don't pay and you have to chase them up for days, open a case, wait around, finally get your fee back, blah, blah, blah. There's a lot of protection for buyers, not so much for sellers (you can't even leave negative feedback, yet they can for you), but on the whole I put up with the occasional stress and time wasting for the "greater good". Lately though, it's been one thing after another and to be honest, I don't cope well with stress these days. I'm a worrier, I ...

Any posts I've made here lately have felt very rushed and for once I've had more satisfaction out of posting on The Shoe Girl Diaries (which rarely happens). I think the 'Irregular Choice Month' has given me a new zest for shoe blogging and wearing! I need a wee injection of inspiration on Pink Haired Princess though...I've just not been 'feeling it' much recently and I don't think you should force it, if your heart isn't in it. I've also not had much time for computing either which adds to it. Anyhow, I was quickly browsing the Prada runway shots today. Can't say I'm entirely in favour of the whole collection, but the vintage car theme, LOVE it. I'm not a car girl at all. I don't drive, I don't know names of cars, but I've always, always wanted a pastel coloured vintage Cadillac. Owning or driving one of those is on my list of things to do before I die! I've seen them up close, in the flesh, so I'm alm...

Ok, so here's the tutorial on how to do your scarf like mine in a turban style or bow (cue extremely unflattering footage of me with my hair pinned up, sorry). Hope this answers your questions. If you're still stuck just comment on the YouTube video or here and I'll do my best. This is my first vlog, where I'm 'properly' in the video, so go easy on me! I hope it had just the right amount of info for you. Things I didn't really say on the video...if you want the rosette of your scarf off-centre, obviously just start your twisting/tying wherever you need it. My attempts in the video were very sloppy and rather lumpy but I made the video in one shot and without a mirror, so normally I'd do better. I just really wanted to get the video up as soon as. I meant to say as well, you really need to turn the sound up to hear me on both videos as my camera records really quietly. Ok, that's all-have a good weekend.

You may think I've had another day of not doing very much and neglecting you-however I've been busy ("behind the scenes") making some videos for you! I was in my jammies in this one of my Primark haul, hence my arms being all you can see. However I have another video coming up, where you see....well me! It's pretty hideous actually-I can't say I'll do another like that again, however for the subject matter it worked perfectly well. Here's the Primark one first...I tried on some of the things this arvo and I'm not sure about a lot of them (probably returning several). Enjoy!

In my late school years and early Uni days, I wore dark blue lipstick. I had a brighter Bourjois one and a deep, matte finish Lancome one that I would pair a silvery colour over the top, for light, bright or deep blue lips. I wasn't trying to be weird or a goth, I was just given the lipsticks at work at actually thought I suited it. Beauty rules dictate that if you press your lips together, the colour you see is your perfect lip shade and when I do that mine are blue, so that's possibly why! Anyway the long story leads to the fact that I would quite fancy wearing dark green lips. I thought about this a while ago and wanted it even more so after seeing them on my Lagoona doll. I didn't think a rich, deep bottle green shade was available until this new Sheer Lipgloss from Illamasqua popped into my inbox today. The shade is part of their new collection and is named Violate. On the models lips, it's exactly how I envisioned it to be. Whether or not I'd suit it ...

I'm soooo behind with blog posts, I know! Today has been a nightmare, with really slow internet connection, so I've got nothing done until now. I feel rather big headed using myself as 'Inspiretty' today, but it's more for the scarf than my face! If you've been following The Shoe Girl Diaries you'll be aware my hair dye didn't arrive and I've been left with a half bleached mess on my head! A new order was dispatched today, so hopefully I'll get that tomorrow, but in the meantime I've been covering up with hats and scarves. When you can create pretty styles like this, it's actually fun to keep your hair covered (good for those 'bad hair days' too), so hopefully it's 'inspiring' and 'pretty' to someone and therefore worthy of inspiretty, hee hee.

You peeps are being a shy lot this week. I am in desperate need of seeing your lovely Irregular Choice shoes for The Shoe Girl Diaries as we are celebrating ' Irregular Choice Month ' on the blog. You will feature in a guest post on Friday for the world (or my readers at least) to see! Pop over now to see the previous two guest posts for photo inspiration and all the details on how to submit your pics can be found below. I'm wearing my IC's every day, all month and I want to encourage you to wear yours as often as you can too. I know many of you are huge fans of IC, just like me, so every Friday all month long, I'll be choosing my favourite fan photos and posting them on The Shoe Girl Diaries. So how can you enter? I ask that the photos be as clear as possible, at least 600 wide (don't worry, I can resize them afterwards to fit the blog if they're supersized). Obviously the shoes have to be Irregular Choice and if you know the name of the style or have ...

When Rimmel posted some product images and swatches of the new Kate Moss collection of lipsticks on their Facebook page, I immediately sent my sister out to buy some! Good promotion there Rimmel! I took photos of my wee haul straight away but unfortunately it's taken me a week or so to get them up here. They are available worldwide, but in the UK, they are exclusive to Boots , priced £5.49 and currently on 3 for 2 (luckily I wanted three). I believe they are the Lasting Finish formula. They come packaged in a sleek looking matte black case with red 'Kate' scribbled across the lid and the slanted end with crown logo, which all looks very nice. The colours do not have names, only numbers and the red shade Kate wears in the print ads if you're wondering is 01. I bought 03 a beige nude, 08 a more pinky brown and 04 a dark vampy purple. The colour pay-off, like most Rimmel lipsticks is excellent. It's creamy pigmented colour in one swipe and intense colour like...

Jingle G, Jingle G, Jingle all the way...ho ho ho! I bring you good and possibly bad news too. Here is the new Harajuku Lovers fragrance, Jingle G in her little festive get-up. She is a little 10ml and comes beautifully presented and you can even hang her on your tree. Ahhhmazing! I adore it! Christmas has always been a very special time in our house and my sisters and Dad are especially obsessed (they seriously count down the days for months )! So a festive themed fragrance is pretty exciting for us. The rumour is though, that's it's possibly the last HL fragrance ever. Noooo, say it isn't so! Here's the details on the scent and sorry for the lack of posts today, the dentist took longer than expected and I still have a numb mouth, plus I'm sitting with bleach on my hair, so I don't have time to post anything else. I shall see you all tomorrow though x x x Notes: White Star Fruit, Gardenia, Tangerine, Honeysuckle, Orange Blossom, Jasmine, Vanilla, Cedarwo...

I'm getting really into boots, that resemble 'sensible winter wear' but upon closer inspection aren't really at all! Like the Irregular Choice 'Toad In The Hole' for example and these gorgeous lace-ups by Yves Saint Laurent. They look pretty normal, great for autumn, good base for walking on but also feature this fabulous, puffy layered wedge heel. Reminiscent of Terry De Havilland (is there anyone that hasn't copied the wedge legend?), I really like that added element of surprise to an otherwise average enough boot. There's nothing average about the price though at £1065...suddenly those TITH boots don't seem quite so steep!

Remember I said the colour description of the 'dark green' Pearl Lowe jersey dress was 'off', considering it looked bright turquoise to me? Well, if you checked the Peacocks site now you would probably wonder why I was being so picky. It's only because the image has magically turned green over night! Here's my original image on the left and the new one on the right. Still not 'dark' green but definitely green. I think I'd be rather annoyed if I'd been expecting true turquoise and got that instead, especially as this is the one dress that is an online exclusive, so you can't see the colour in person. Also makes you wonder how spot on product images are and how easy it is to manipulate them to look like whatever the art/photo department wants. Clearly it is the same photo, with a tweak to the colour-how very 'L'Oreal' of them!

Inspiretty comes today in the form of the prints of my new dresses I ordered from Debenhams. I knew I'd buckle and get them! I 'only' got 4, three H by Henry Holland and a Red Herring one (the bird print). I'm a sucker for a kitsch print, an absolute sucker, so little doggies and birdies are of course right up my street!

I regularly check my blog stats and it's the type of thing I geekily find rather interesting. Not only do you see basics like your hits per blog or post (per day/week/month), you can find out which search phrases led people to your blog. Turns out my most popular always seem to include some type of the following 'ruby red or sparkly slippers/shoes', 'monster high dolls' and 'nyx swatches'. Without fail, they are always in the top. It can help, because you know the types of things people want to read and are searching for. You can usually find some random things too, one example today for The Shoe Girl Diaries , was 'tightest shoes', but I've had much stranger that I can't quite recall off the top of my head! You can also find sites that link to your blog that people have clicked on and this is one of those situations where you think, will I check it out or not? The reason I say that is because I have in the past found forums where people...

Ooh, I like these Joan platforms from KG by Kurt Geiger (£180). They are also available in black, this is the salmon coloured pair. Some may argue that it's a little much, but I like that you get jewels and a bow, why choose between trims when they're this pretty?

Irregular Choice month has hit a bit of a snag over on The Shoe Girl Diaries with me not getting out for a couple of days. The weather hasn't been on my side, but it'll hopefully brighten up tomorrow. As you know, I have an IC closet and most of the time it's pretty difficult to get access to, as I have a couple of 'floor to almost ceiling' towers of shoes boxes in front of one of the doors and various piles of boxes and clothes in front of the other. Obviously for the sake of the challenge I needed to get lots of shoes out, so the above pic shows some of the pairs I wore last week, which I swapped over for those below. I made a conscious decision to bring out more wintery styles, but even they look a little 'cool' for this current weather! Remember I'd still like to see you wearing your IC's this week too, just click here for all the details and you could be featured in my guest post on Friday.

So here's the other No7 items I got with my vouchers. Mum got herself some wipes and sun-cream, so I 'only' had another 5 to spend! I knew I wanted some more Sheer Temptation Lipstick £10, so I got a really bright pink 08 Pretty Please which is scary bright in the tube, not so scary swatched thank goodness. Then I got a shimmery one called 06 Sparkle which is a brown in the tube with lots of sparkle (obvi) and it comes out a sheer nude-ish shade. I also got High Shine Lipgloss £9 in Glaze which is a mauvey pink with lots of multi coloured shimmer, really pretty. It came out much more brown looking in the swatch, but I don't think it is in real life. I took these photos really quickly and was struggling to get their true to life colours. The swatches therefore aren't as spot-on as the product photos. I didn't have time to label everything, but I'm sure it's obvious which swatch is which. These were my last-second grabs when I was struggling to find...

My Terry de Havilland 'Lulu' shoes arrived today. Very pretty in the flesh and somewhat pacify the anger and disappointment of the cancellation of my 'Emma' platforms. Sob!

So here's Ghoulia's shoes and you can just see the sparkly fishnet tights too. The platform peep toes feature a bone shaped heel and she has a matching clutch too!

This week has had it's ups and downs. The good things were I finally got Monster High 'Ghoulia' Dawn Of The Dance which I've been stalking Argos for. All my locals suddenly got tonnes more stock (fyi St Andrews have 2 Lagoona and Dundee Overgate have 1 Ghoulia and 1 (I think, I was so excited I didn't really look) Cleo, Dundee Wellgate also have 3, but I haven't checked which ones they are). *since writing this the Overgate have got another 2 DOTD in stock, so I don't know which ones they are* I also eventually (we've been searching for weeks) found tights to match an outfit I'd bought for my friends daughter ages ago, for her birthday. The striped pair in the pack perfectly match the stripey pair on the H&M dress and are by Matthew Williamson at Debenhams. We're starting to be extremely thankful that my sister has three boys, because girls clothes are waaay too cute. In Debenhams though, there were soooo many dresses I liked for myself. How...