It's a mans world.

I was given an assignment for my fashion journalism course on the styling module to create a themed photo shoot. I decided to name it 'It's a man's world' and the theme being masculine smart wear with a side of femininity.

 For the first look I decided to incorporate black and white clothing to put the look of a typical working day. I used an umbrella as a prop so the pose didn't look too boring, it also highlighted my models face, contrasting the black and white colours used.

 I then started to combine the masculine look I was going for with a feminine touch shown in the second photo, the first pose shows my model slouched but holding a cocktail glass, showing both the sexes.

 Still using the black and white theme I had my model drape her jacket over one shoulder to appear sophisticated but still keeping the masculinity, the doctor bag was a touch added at last minute which I made my model hold as if she were holding a briefcase.

The last and final image shows my model in a black and white shirt as if she was sorting her cuff links out as a man would if he wore a suit, all looks were simple but I made the poses as masculine as possible on a womans frame.

Ellie Gibson. 

The struggling student...

Hello people of blogger!

Ellie and I are now half way through our second year at University. For the most part it's true what they say about University being an amazing experience but believe me when I say it has its drawbacks. Big ugly drawbacks.

1. Increasing overdraft.



I started out my student life getting my massive £1,600 maintenance loan. For a while life was sweeeeet! Then I paid the £900 rent, then I went out a lot, then I bought books and clothes and food and before I knew it my bank balance was -£500. And from then each term my overdraft grew and grew and now when I look at my bank balance I weep a little. Any student who manages not to get an overdraft I applaud you. You did the right thing.

2. Student nights.



Student are on weekdays, weekdays are days with uni in the morning. This does not make for a comfortable week. The nights generally pretty good but the morning after sucks! You either drag your half drunk butt into lectures and fall asleep mid way through or you don't go in at all and spend the day thinking about how much you might miss.

3. 101 things to do...



Take this week for example: I have to catch up on blog posts that I've forgotten to do, write two court reports with commentaries on each one, create a newspaper page layout, write articles for SR News, write a news backgrounder, study for a shorthand test and study for a court reporting exam. Oh and I need to remember to eat, sleep, do Christmas shopping on Thursday, shower and go out on Wednesday night for, 'my house mates finished their essay celebrations'. Can I get a Butler with that?

4. The mental breakdown when you think you might not get your dream job.



Sometimes I start thinking about how I'm going to be in £50,000 worth or debt before I'm 22, then I think about how much time and effort I've so far put into 20 years of education, then I think I hope I'm the Editor-in-chief of the Guardian one day. And then I think what I'm just a cashier at Poundland? ...Then the mental breakdown begins.

5. Noodles are as good as it gets.



There's chicken, curry, BBQ, bacon and beef. You boil them in the pan, eat them from the pan and that's breakfast, lunch and tea all sorted.
They're 5 for £2 at Iceland if anyone's bothered.

6. Dishes.



I live with two boys, Joel and Coner and Ellie. Joel generally cleans his dishes after he uses them but us three just use all of them and wash them when there's none left. The problem here is though actually bothering to wash them. There's usually a long debate about who should do them and then long break where we avoid the topic and hope they'll wash themselves but eventually we all help out like one big happy family.

Amy x

Taylor Momsen Inspired Make-up

Helllooooo blogerino's!
I hope everyone is felling festive! 1 month 2 weeks until Santa Claus comes to visit.

Ellie has created a Taylor Momson inspired make-up tutorial and to be honest that has little to do with Christmas, well she was in the Grinch so we'll go with that being festive...

We hope you enjoy, thanks for watching, Shade of Pale x

MISSGUIDED HAUL | Crazy Cat Lady

Hey guys I  shopped, I rambled about my/the streets/ the mysterious cat!

I hope you enjoy my little winter haul!

Thanks Amy x

What we wore...

I know, I know. It's been. It's gone. I need to stop.

I can't help it though, I love halloween and now I miss it. We have to wait another whole entire year before we get to dress like psychopaths again!

But in the mean time we can always reminisce what we wore...

Let us address this peculiar image first. 

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a cabbage. It's Conor the cabbage. Conor is my house mate and decided that for halloween he would dress as a cabbage. The idea came from the fact that in the North East, when you're really drunk it's customary to say "I'm absolutely cabbaged". Absolute brilliance. 

This is the only image I have of our very own Ellie at the moment. £ guesses who she dressed as and the first two don't count. WEDNESDAY ADDAMS - everyones favourite little psycho... The whole outfit cost £20 I think. The wig, the dress and the white stockings she wore were all from Ebay. 

I was browsing masquerade masks as I knew I definitely wanted to wear one this year, being that they're fabulous and all. I stumbled upon this magical one; a jester type of masquerade mask. So I figured I'd go as my own take on Harley Quinn. The mask was £35 including delivery from www.justposh.com. The face paints were £10 and took me about an hour to do and the dress I already owned. Believe it or not I wore it to my prom in year11 when I was a total gothy girl. 

This is Bahram! He went as that scary clown that I did for Ellie on one of our YouTube make-up tutorials! His outfit cost him nothing as he wore his own clothes and my face paint, but he looked amazing!! 

If you wore anything particularly crazy please send us your images and we'll do a blog post of the top ten! Thanks for reading, Shade Of Pale. x