Cherry Blossom Season

The cherry blossom trees are blooming about a month too early this year but aren't they just stunning? I'm spending a few days at the seaside now, attempting to relax a little and catch up on sleep. Have a lovely weekend everyone!

And also, here's another bunch of fun links to get you through the weekend: 1 Fashion Girl Instagram Cliches - Are You Guilty? (here) 2 Jennifer Connelly at the Mexican premiere of 'Noah', dressed in Givenchy Couture Fall 2009 (here) 3 Old Loves (here) 4 Most Shocking Second a Day Video (here) 5 What If Disney's Frozen Had Fashion? (here) 6 L'Wren Scott's Best Dresses (here) 7 An interview with Freja Beha Erichsen via Vogue Paris (video) (here) 8 I Saw It On Pinterest So I Did It Myself.. And NAILED It! (here)

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Waving

I am lucky enough to have naturally wavy hair (on most days, that is), it's definitely my favourite kind of 'do; messy, wavy and preferably also with a bit of volume. I can't say I ever really styled my hair before - I usually just wash it, often at the end of the day so I can go to sleep with my hair still damp, and wake up with a "surprise hairdo". Sometimes it turns out more wavy than other times. But when Cara McLeay (A Fashion Love Affair) sent me the XO Styling Iron a few weeks ago I was excited to try it out! She designed this iron in collaboration with Mode. And I've never had an iron that was so easy to use before ánd looked so stylish at the same time! Most times I still find myself too lazy to style my hair in any kind of way but I use the iron on a daily basis to just get those random waves and curls in place. I can highly recommend the XO Styling Iron - you can find more info on it here.

credit: pinterest, fashiongonerogue and 4th image by me

February '14

I'm glad I decided to skip the fashion weeks this season as I actually ended up feeling poorly quite a bit this month. So it was a good thing I could now follow all the news and collections online and in my own time, instead of running from show to show and meeting to meeting like a maniac. Can't believe the fashion week season is almost over again already though, I guess that means not much has changed in 2014 - time still flies. And with crocuses blooming too early around here time only seems to fly even faster this year.

all images by me (Instagram @ fash_n_chips)

Weekend

Weekend again - after what felt like a really long week! I'm feeling a little under the weather so I'll be spending my Saturday and Sunday mostly relaxing at home, catching up on all the news from #LFW and looking forward to the BAFTAs on Sunday night. BBC 1, 22:00 (GMT+1) - FYI.

For now I'll leave you with a bunch of random links again that I can recommend you to check out: 1 Olivia Wilde asks: "What Will They Think of Us in 75 Years?" (here) 2 Meryl Streep makes everything sound more interesting (on The Ellen Show) (here) 3 How to pronounce Moschino, Hermes, Miu Miu and more designer names (here) 4 Sofia Coppola in Vogue Italia February 2014 (here) 5 Beauty and backstage at Michael Kors Fall 2014 (here) 6 Talented 2 year old hoop shooter (here) 7 Yours truly on StyleUp's new homepage (here) 8 Panorama: 86th Academy Awards nominees class portrait (here)

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