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Hey guys!

Yesterday, I broke one of my New years resolutions. I know I'm yet to share them with you, I promise that post is coming soon, but I can tell you that one of them was to try and go a year without dying my hair. I did originally want to see if I could grow out the years of dye to go back to my natural colour, but seriously. Who was I kidding?! Me? No hair dye. That was never going to happen. 

For days I have been trawling through image after image of girls with beautiful hair, I've spent hours being absolutely jealous of every one of them and I couldn't help myself but to reach for the bleach. (haha)

So here it is, my new doo!

I decided to stick with highlights, rather than an over all colour, and I've also decided to stick with this for as long as I can. I know it's bleach, but I figure this is more healthy for my hair, rather than whole head dyes. 
I always tend to go lighter for the Summer, so I've kind of just done it a bit earlier this year. It's strange, but I feel I'm liking the length a lot more with this colouring. (Although, I'd still love to get my mitts on some hair extensions.)
So how'd you like it? Hugemungoooose thank you to Sarah for sitting and doing it for me! 

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Hi my lovelies!

Now you guys know that I am a little DIY mad. So, roughly a month ago I started working on a new project and I can finally share it with you! 

Below I have written all of the steps I took to create my masterpiece.

Hope you like it!  

- I started off with my £6 denim jacket. I found this one in a charity shop.

-I then used several elastic bands and 'tied' the material into bunches

- After placing the jacket in the bath, I added thick bleach straight from the bottle and left it for an hour.

- Onvce I was happy with the result, I filled the bath with enough water to cover the jacket. By doing this you create a bleach bath. I did this to fade the colour of any of the denim that had not been touched by the neat bleach.

IF YOU LIKE, YOU CAN LEAVE YOU JACKET LIKE THIS. (OPTION ONE)

- A few days later I decided to add some colour.
- I hung the jacket on a hanger, placed it on the washing line in my garden and used a purple a pink dye to fill in some of the white patches.
- I left my jacket to dry and then I put it in the washing machine to wash out the excess dye. I always find, by leaving the dye to dry into the fabric, you get more of a strong colour.
THIS IS OPTION TWO AND YOU CAN LEAVE IT HERE. YOU CAN ALSO YOU AN ARRAY OF DIFFERENT COLOURS!



- My last little modification included studs, of course. I purchased mine from ebay. £2 for 200 and they came within 3 weeks from China. (you must plan ahead if you have a time limit.)
There are a huge variety of studs, spikes and other adornments you could use to fancy up any piece of clothing.
THIS IS OPTION THREE

I am so, so happy with how my jacket turned out. I'm just waiting for some ideal weather to wear it. 

I'm currently on the hunt for another jacket because I have the DIY bug now. 

Let me know if you guys try any of this! I'd love to see what you come up with. 

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Hi my loves!I thought it was time to share another little DIY with you. This time it's the turn of 'how to turn a t-shirt into a tank top'. 
1. Make sure to lie your shirt on a flat surface. Line up the seams and cut off the sleeves.2. To make sure that you don't cut the front too long, put your shirt on and use a pin to mark how low you want it to be. You can also pin how wide you want the straps to be at this point.3. After taking the shirt off again, cut in a curve from the top of the shoulder, past the strap tip and down to the lowest pin.4. To make sure the front of your shirt is symmetrical, once you get to the lowest pin, fold over the material and follow that line for the other side. 5. For the back, you only want to cut below the seam of the original seam. If you cut too much lower, you could risk having a very loose, off the shoulder tank top.6. From this point on, your options are endless. I used some Dylon fabric paint and a handmade cat logo to personalise mine, but you can do absolutely what ever you like to it. I actually it would be great to fringe the bottom for the last step. Just a little bit of festival chic for cheap. 
If you do this tutorial, make sure to link me to a picture below! I would love to see what you guys come up with!! 

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Shirt - George at Asda/DIY Dyed Black

Tank Top - Primark (last year)

Jeans - South Denim/DIY ripped and dyed

Flats - Primark

G'Morning you beauties!

I thought I'd sport some of my DIY bits today. It felt right seeing as I am going to try and DIY some more stuff today. I'm not too sure what yet, but I feel like doing something productive. I may even pack up some more housey bits ready for the move. 

Also, sorry I'm wearing the exact same shoes as yesterdays post, I've already packed up my shoe collection. But, I'd probably usually wear my chunky heeled boots with this outfit. I still haven't managed to get my hands on a pair of creepers, which would also look great with something like this!! 

Man, I need a pair so bad!! Haha. 

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Hat - ???

Top - Originally from George at Asda, DIY by me

Leggings - Originally from Primark, Dyed a darker colour by me. 

I'm off out to view a house today, so I thought I should go with an outfit less in your face than the last one I posted. Obviously, I couldn't go without a cross though. Believe it or not, this was the first top I ever DIY-ed and I'm still in love with it. You can find out HERE how I did it. 

The leggings were originally a light brown, almost skin colour. (Why I ever bought them, I don't know!) I tried to dye the black the other day along with another pair and they both failed to take the dye, luckily these have turned a little darker which means I am more than happy to wear them now. 

I'm finally feeling more and more confident in myself to post OOTDs. My weightloss is going well and I'm still looking forward to seeing a smaller me in OOTDs of the future. Make sure to follow my Friday Fitday posts to see how I'm getting on. 

Have any of you guys got any favourite DIY's you can link me to?

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This tutorial is a super super easy one.

All you need is

- a t-shirt/tank top of your choice

- some fabric paint in a colour of your choice

• Firstly, you need to make sure your shirt is flat and place some newspaper in between the two layers of fabric just to make sure the paint doesn't run through.
• With a soft leaded pencil or some tailors chalk, mark out your cross design, or if you fancy something different, now is the time to design it. 
• With your fabric paint of choice, you now need to fill in your design. With the Dylon fabric paint I used, you do need quiet a bit before the colour is solid.
• Once you are happy with the result, leave to dry.
• Most fabric paints require some kind of heat sealing. I just used my iron on a high heat with a tea towel between the shirt and iron. This prevents any paint getting onto your iron. 
• Usually after this step you can just stick your shirt in a normal wash in the washing machine. If your t-shirt seems stiff where the paint is, this will be corrected after washing.

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Yes, this is something I never thought would happen, but I have become obsessed.

Tie dye clothes, bedding, bags, I want it all! 

It started a few weeks back when I cut and bleached some denim shorts, ok so it's not quite tie dying, but since then I've wanted to dye everything. I recently dyed my bedroom curtains (if you have been following me on instagram you would have seen the various stages,) and now I'm looking into tie dying my bedding. I figured it would be cheaper to do it myself than to buy new ones anyway. Although, I did see the most perfect bed set on ebay the other day, if only it hadn't of been £55!!

I'm currently on the hunt for some reasonably cheap plain white duvet covers, so if you know of somewhere I could get some please let me know. I'm going to hunt around the charity shops at the weekend, so hopefully I'll have some luck then. 

Clothes wise, I'm just sitting here wishing I had the money to splurge. I would totally do more fashion posts if my wardrobe wasn't so dire. When I first started struggling with my depression my style seemed to be effected. I started to dress really drab and plain, my hair got dyed back to brunette and I didn't have the confidence to pull off the kind of clothes I loved. But now I'm feeling so much better, my old style is re-appearing. I just wish I hadn't of thrown away the clothes I thought I would never wear again.

So what obsessions do you guys have that seem to be a little unrealistic?

I guess we always want things that are just out of our reach. 

Hope you are well.