Lily & Lionel Scarves

I am not a scarf person at all, unless we're talking cosy winter scarves but that's a completely different story. I always reach for jewellery to accessorise my outfits though my mum has always been one to reach for a printed scarf. Her wardrobe is bursting with a fabulous collection of scarves she has sourced from as far as Egyptian markets and as near as H&M. Girls at sixth form used to accessorise their uniforms with scarves and when inevitably told to remove them, they adorned handbags. The much coveted Alexander McQueen skull scarf and classic Hermes scarves have never really attracted me either, I guess I'm just not a scarf person!

...thats until I saw this offering from Lily and Lionel via the Liberty Facebook page:

Eastborne Gift Shop Scarf - £135

Eastborne Postcards Scarf - £135

Punch & Judy Scarf - £135

It's something about the photo print that catches my eye with this brand. While they're certainly not within the range of a student budget I couldn't resist showing you them as I think they're simply perfect for the patriotic Jubilee spirit that the nation seems to be swept up with at the moment, and if the British seaside isn't your thing they have a selection that includes London and Parisian scenes.

Sunglasses Woes

This is going to turn into the ultimate #whitegirlproblems post but I've finally found a pair of sunglasses! For those who know me well, this is a momentous occasion. Whenever the sun comes out and everybody reaches for their Ray Bans, I usually start complaining about my sunglasses problems. Why I have I never found a pair of sunglasses that suit me? (with the exception of Nile's Ray Bans but at £120 I had to forget about those)

I've throughly exhausted ASOS and probably pissed off the customer services department by returning every pair I ordered - which was a lot. I really loved this pair of matte keyhole sunglasses, but my face somehow morphed them into an atrocity.

ASOS Key Hole Round Sunglasses

For some strange reason I thought I'd be able to work the John Lennons. Needless to say, I couldn't. Thankfully there is no photo to prove this but here are some of my favourite round sunglasses:

ASOS/Topshop/Jeremy Scott

I even scoured the various markets in London, with their hundreds of cheap sunglasses stalls, but nope - nothing, much to Hugo's annoyance after being dragged round them all.

Camden Market (image credit)

Here are some disastrous efforts from the past that eventually fell into my Mum's possession as she has the ability to make any sunglasses work. Even the dire 2008 Topshop bug-eyed sunglasses (in my defence they were all the rage back then).

I finally found a pair of sunglasses that suited me in Urban Outfitters. And this was after visiting the flagship Topshop that quite literally has hundreds of pairs of sunglasses on offer at the moment. They're not what I expected to suit me and perhaps I should have loosened my grip on the Ray Ban copies earlier and accepted that they simply did not suit me (unlike the real thing but alas...)

Urban Outfitters Leopard Sunglasses