Midi Skirts

Midi Skirts have been very dominant in shop windows and magazines over the past couple of seasons. I was a bit reluctant about the trend seeing as I'm only 5ft 2inches and I thought that they'd make me look smaller than I already am. But after my mum bought me the skirt below I think its a trend that I'll be following

Skirt: Matalan £10

As the skirt is not really an everyday-wear type piece I've been thinking about how I'd style this skirt and I've decided on two looks:

Casual(-ish) 

Top: Miss Selfridges £12
Necklace: Dorothy Perkins £12.50
Shoes: Aldo £65
Clutch: River Island £25

With this look I've added an element of colour-blocking (the colour of the clutch is amazing!)

Fierce

Top: Newlook £8.99
Earrings: Dorothy Perkins £7.50
Shoes: Newlook £24.99
Clutch: Topshop £45.00

Leather and Studs! Whats not to love!

xo The Girl

Let the games begin!

I remember in the time up to my interviews for medical school myself and other students in our sixth forms medical society were panicking as we tried to wrap our head around these reforms in the very scary case that we were asked a question about it. These reforms were first proposed in 2012 under the Health and Social Care act causing the largest shake up of the NHS since it began. Under this act GP's (family doctors) are placed in charge of 80% of the NHS budget (replacing Primary care trusts which were scrapped), patients have more control over the care that they receive and frontline doctors and nurses are also given more power. Another one of the more controversial changes was a move towards a market-based running of the NHS as opposed to a planned healthcare system which would allow for an increase in the number of private patients a hospital can have as well as the allowing of private companies to take over certain services at hospitals  And on Monday 1st April 2013 this Act was put into action across all of the NHS.

Splurge *or* Steal

Splurge *or* Steal

Dress: Marchesa 2011 Resort collection £1500+ approx
Shoes: Christian Louboutin £495
Accessories: Gold Cuff

Flower power

Left: Kristin Cavallari (image courtesy of People magazine)
Center: Aimee Song (image courtesy of  songofstyle.blogspot.co.uk)
Right: Julianne Hough (image courtesy of www.dailymail.co.uk)

Floral patterned jeans have become a major fashion trend recently and they are a trend which is much more appealing to me than the monochrome one which is being featured heavily. I first saw it last year on Kristin Cavallari and I was reminded of my love for it when I saw Julianne Hough in a pair today.

Brownies

Image Courtesy of The Girl

Soo instead of making mini versions of the pain au chocolat I decided to make me and my family some brownies and to add a bit of a twist by incorporating some hazelnuts. I used a recipe from food.com (here) but I added 2 tablespoons of milk, no vanilla extract and took them out of the oven after 20-ish minutes. [Btw 350 Fahrenheit = 180 degrees Celsius].

Medical perspective: A&E

Each week I'll be discussing a different medical specialty for anybody who is interested in going to medical school or is already there and is still not sure what it is that they want to do.
This week I'll be discussing my dream specialty -  Accident and Emergency medicine.

Splurge or Steal

SPLURGE *or* STEAL

              

Dress: Olivia Rubin £235 approx.
Shoes: Yves Saint Laurent Rivera  Wedges £550
Bag: Tan Hermes Birkin Bag £9900
Accesorised with Tan Belt

[Fake] curry chicken wrap

A couple of weeks ago I visited Tamatanga (pictured above) which is an Indian restaurant based in Nottingham and IT.IS.AMAZING. I ordered a curry chicken wrap which was soo good that I felt that I had to (or rather attempt to) recreate it the second I got home.

Diamonds are a girls best friend...

This statement could be none the more truer than for me. If I'm just lazying about my room 'sweatpants, hair-tied, chilling with no makeup on' then I don't feel fully awake until I have a pair of diamond earrings on...

xo The Girl

Bags, bags and more Bags

When it comes to fashion I have two obsessions shoes and bags. I recently bought the above bag from Accessorize which I love and get frequently get complimented on, but that hasn't stopped me being on the look out for a new one...