Leather Jacket

A leather jacket should be in my eyes a wardrobe essential. It goes with any outfit and can be used as much in a functional way as it can be to bring together an outfit. Pictured below is my French Connection jacket, a timeless piece which although Ive had for years as not aged even slightly.

Leather Jeans

I got these as a present for christmas from Urban Outfitters and have worn them ever since. They are perfect paired with a blouse and denim jacket when going out for dinner or even worn to lectures and seminars.

I particularly like the detailing on the leg as pictured below with an abstract arrangement of the leather on each leg. They are different to a lot of the other jeans I have seen which tend to have tacky looking strips of leather. As all items I have from Urban Outfitters have, they have lasted well without any fading or ageing happening to the black jean material. 

Black eyeshadow

I recently purchased a sleek eyeshadow pallet from Boots for only £7.99. It includes a good range of colours and is a fraction of the price you would pay for a designer make-up brand's eyeshadow. 

I love the black (pictured below) which is perfect for creating smokey eyes or a heavy eye look. 

Leather Shoes

For ages now I've been looking for some shoes that I cannot destroy on a night out. Something that can be worn to a pub or club that do not come back looking like I've walked through barbed wire or attacked by a pitbull (the dog, not the rapper…although I don't know what would be more scary).

After a long search I FINALLY found these flat black leather crocodile print cut out shoes. Better yet they were only £10 in the Topshop sale, something that would never normally happen to me.

So here they are after being worn countless times out, still looking like they did when I first bought them. Heel wearing, fake eye lash loving, fake tan fans are probably confused by this post wondering firstly why you would wear flat shoes on a night out but secondly how on earth you could ruin them. Well if that is you I'm afraid my blog is not for you.