Love for LID!

I really enjoyed the recent Lily Allen documentary all about her and her sister's new shop Lucy In Disguise, if you haven't seen it pop down to 4od and watch 'Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags'! I've always liked Lily, but its just shown what a lovely person she really is in my opinion. I love the idea of being able to rent clothes, as I'm often guilty of buying something, loving it for a month, then never wearing it again! I also can't wait for their own clothing range to be available which they've promised to be affordable, and i'm glad the sizing is going to be up to a 14 initially and then a 16, because I feel a few high street shops like Urban Outfitters sort of exclude larger people, which I don't think is fair! 

Anyway i've just seen this post on the LID website... obviously they've been inspired by my daisy themed name, what can I say?

I'm actually a little bit in love with this idea and will be defo be trying it when the daisies come out, perfect for spring, i've fallen in love with florals all over again! Any idea where to find big daisies like this though?

This photo is lovely, a modern take on Hamlet's Ophelia!

Here's a selection of daisy print goodies... I think I might buy the Topshop dress as i've got a skinny tan belt crying out for it!

Thank you so much to anybody that actually reads this, I am well aware that at the time of publication I may as well be talking to myself! Any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated!

Daisy chains and school yard games.

Though it's a lovely name, unfortunatley i'm not called Daisy and I have to admit 'Pretty Daised' was a bit of a random creation. All my desired conventional names plus the lyrical names (mainly inspired by Babyshambles and The Libertines - I should warn you i'm a Pete Doherty fan) such as 'Gin in tea cups' had been taken so I was forced to be a bit more creative! I liked the idea of some juxtaposition within the name like 'The Pretty Reckless' so that's where I got the 'Pretty' bit from, eventually I came up with 'Dazed' but didn't really like the spelling and thus 'Daised' was born, so overall pretty random... a bit like this paragraph really! 

Anyway i'll stop boring you and get to the point, which is, that I decided i'd do my first proper post on something topical to the name of the blog! 

I recently discovered this gorgeous daisy nail art tutorial from pamperedandpolished.co.uk, so all credit goes to her for the idea!

I think this is a perfect spring/summer look, and an idea i'd never seen before! It's also something a bit different from the leopard print nails (which don't get me wrong i love) that have been a bit over done recently. If you're like me, you might not have a nail art pen, so i used a cocktail stick (classy!) dipped in nail varnish to create the effect, which looked better than I thought, although it was very fiddly and a bit messy! Mix and match prints are also going to be big this season and i think this is a great way to try out the look, especially if you're initially a bit nervous to try out the look with clothes. Topshop have once again done some pretty decent features on their website and have very kindly done a whole section on prints, and if you haven't seen their 214 online magazine, i'd defo recommend it for a bit of spring/summer '11 inspiration! 

Here's a picture of my nails using the cocktail stick method (sorry about the terrible image quality), i'm sure using a nail art pen is probably easier, as i'm pretty sure mine don't look as good! I used Topshop nail varnish in 'mannequin', 'airplane' and 'paint it on'.