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29th April 2011

Steph

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On Tuesdays, ***I*** wear pink. 💕
Serving you my best 90s glam Mom edit, featuring all @asos everything as per usual.
Can fat women wear straight leg jeans? Yes we bloody can!

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Photography- @fordtography
#asos #asoscurve

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To some people, makeup and skincare may sometimes seem a little superficial, but the truth is that ‘beauty’ isn’t just about searching and buying £££ of expensive products.
We all know that feeling good about how you look can improve confidence, but also the routine of applying makeup can provide a creative, fun outlet for self expression that can be classed as self care too! I only started wearing makeup when I was around 21/22, and during those times I’d just slap anything on because I didn’t feel I needed it all that much (lol just sayin), but now, through improving my skills and having a proper routine, I love found somewhat of a solace in having those 20 minutes to myself to get ready. Makeup has helped me fall in love with my face and accept it for what it is. There was a time that I used to hate how I looked: my eyes were too big, face too round and wide, lips too small, but paying attention to those features everyday and seeing what tools I could use to highlight, change or emphasise them made me appreciate them more. It’s taught me to love my face and learn more about it. I don’t wear eyeshadow because it makes my eye-lids look too large, I waterline my eyes, finishing off with a small flick to emphasise the size of my eyes and it’s shape. I use @esteelauderuk double wear foundation with a beauty blender because it’s incredibly light and gives me an even skin tone without clogging me down. I wear @fentybeauty Stunna lipstick because red lips gives me confidence (which is why I always do a red lip on first dates), I bake my face with powder because I’m an oily bitch and I use highlighter on my Cupid’s Bow to highlight its prominence. All things I learned about my face through makeup, and I’m still learning - it’s super fun and I’m enjoying my face at the moment. 😂

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Self portrait taken by me using @fujifilmx_uk X100F

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Foundation - @esteelauderuk double wear foundation in Deep Spice
Lip - @fentybeauty Stunna in Uncensored
Highlighter - @beccacosmetics presses highlighter in chocolate geode
Mascara - @patmcgrathreal FetishEyes
#makeup #patmcgrathlabs #esteelauder #esteelauderdoublewear #beautyblogger

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My neutral face always looks so serious 😂 anyhoo, have a wonderful weekend guys.
I’ll be at the @blogosphere_magazine festival tomorrow with my guys @whalar so if you’re going tomorrow; I’ll see you there!

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I call this my ethnic ballgrown 😂
At the beginning, I wasn’t the most confident in this dress because of how big and ‘poofy’ the dress is underneath the empire line. I realised quickly that the lack of confidence stemmed from a split second fear of looking bigger - a bit of ingrained fatphobia that we all get from time to time when the mood is low.
I’ve written articles about my hatred for clothes that are described as ‘flattering’ before, so I wondered why I was thinking this way. The truth is, we all have these thoughts every once in a while, because as body positive and fat positive as some of us are, we still all grew up in a society that has told us from birth that being bigger is wrong. Watching fashion shows that tell us that horizontal stripes makes you look bigger and that you shouldn’t wear white if you’re fat. 🥴
We’ve been brainwashed to associate fatness with unattractiveness and being unworthy, so of course it’ll take years of unlearning toxic traits before we can get to a point where we can see our bodies as normal, with just as many rights to exist as everyone else. Looking at this photo again, I cannae believe I allowed myself to think that I *didn’t* look great, lmao a FALLACY.
Dress - @grass_fields
Photo - @fordtography

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I can’t believe I’ve officially been freelancing for a year. The time has gone incredibly quickly, and I’ve been able to do so many of the things I’ve always wanted to do!
It hasn’t been an easy path, as I don’t consider myself a ‘big’ blogger so financially it took a TOLL for many months, and I almost considered going back to a full time office job, having been headhunted by The Sunday Times to be their deputy beauty editor, but in the end I’m glad I’m stayed put.

I’m a bit of a weird one in that it can sometimes take me MONTHS to process news - especially good news. It’s only in the last month that I’ve really accepted that I won blogger of the year at the Blogosphere awards, that I signed with an amazing management team, that I frequently write for publications and work with some pretty cool brands, that I’m writing a bloody book, and that I’ve been able to travel to some pretty awesome places on press duties.
I don’t say all this to boast at all, so apologies if it does come across that way, but the last year has been so overwhelming and unbelievable for me, and I’m still trying to process the fact that I may have deserves some of it because of the non-stop work on my blog for the last 11 and a half years. From working in healthcare for 4 years and blogging between lunch breaks, to moving into advertising, PR and marketing and taking outfit photos before work, as well as doing blog admin and pitching myself out to brands until 2 in the morning every day, it all had to amount to something eventually! There were plenty of times I wanted to give up but the passion overrode any impulses.
I say all this to say; I’m incredibly grateful to be in this position. It could all go away tomorrow but at least I could say I stuck it out for a year. Don’t give up lads! 💕
Photography- @fordtography

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