Graduate Fair OOTD - APOLOGIES for the photos!!!

Ok, first off, before I ever start this post, I just want to apologise whole-heartedly for the photos in this post. My camera died and I was in a rush, so I took some quickies with my phone and didn't bother looking at them until oh, five minutes ago. And they are pants. Poor quality, poor lighting, and like a big stupid I took the photo in the mirror so you can see my phone taking the pics. DUH.

/sincereapology

Soooo, anyways...! Today I was kidnapped gently persuaded by my boyfriend Scott to attend a Graduate Fair with him. He's in his honours year at uni, and I'm an unemployed graduate, so it all seemed like a logical thing to do. Except I'm a teacher, and every single stand had to do with busines degrees. Meh.

I am like Scott's own personal PA/cheerleader though, and kept pushing him (literally) toward people to talk to. I am about half the height of him, here's a little picture to show scale:

(and I'm wearing high heels in this obv)

.. so it was like a midget pushing a giant around saying 'This is Scott! He wants to know more about your graduate scheme!!" and then jumping in the convo with my notepad at the ready and my pen tapping my chin, "soo, what is the chance of progression in your company? How many grauduates are you taking on?? What are you looking for in an employeeeeee???" All the while poor Scott stands there looking bemused.

Needless to say, I didn't get offered any fantastic jobs, so I'm back to claiming jobseekers today, YIPPEE.

So let's get these horrendous photos out the way.

Whole outfit - Primark

I thought I'd go smart, but with a quirky twist of the knee high socks. I am a bit of a Primark whore, just realised the whole outfit came from there. It's a little skater dress with gold buttons on little fake pockets, I just love skater dresses, I think they are so flattering for my figure.
I love the cardigan too, got it last year and it's a bit Chanelesque. =p Over the knee socks are my winter staple right now, so I had to throw them in with a wee pair of sensible shoes.

As it turns out, all my effort (ha) wasn't worth it but hey, it was worth a try!

Going to get my eyebrows threaded later today so if you've never had it done and are curious about it, make sure you check back tomorrow for my threading post!

~ Lauren ♥

So, did my socks stay up??

Well, I'm happy to report that after my over-the-knee sock-falling-down-dilema has been RESOLVED! Eylure Body Tape seems to have done the job very successfully. It was quite easy to apply, although I actually struggled a wee bit to get the backing off the tape lol. I stuck it about an inch or so down from where I wanted the top of the sock to stay.

The sock stuck to it easily and stayed put! I did some lunges (lol), jumps, bends and apart from that basically just carried on my normal activities. There was no budge from my socks! The only problem I had was that the socks were trying to come down but the tape was pulling it back up, creating a kind of 'pucker'...

The top of the socks also rolled down a little bit, but on the whole it was a lot better than before! Next time I might try to put the tape right up at the top rather than a little bit down.

But, overall, success!!

~ Lauren ♥

Wee quicky for my sticky problem!

Ok, I love wearing knee high or over the knee socks, I have a lot of floaty dresses  and I think they look great with them (see this post for an example). My problem is that my socks never stay up more than five minutes, they're always around my ankles as soon as I move an inch! So I either have to strand like a statue, move like a robot, or find a solution!

So, I posted a comment on More! Magazine's Facebook wall asking for help, and the lovely ladies there suggested some fashion tape. So I checked out Amazon and ordered one with good reviews (although none seemed to mention being used for socks!!) and it arrived ten minutes ago:

Yes, it's 'body tape' but I'm hoping it will do the same job.

This is what's inside:

12 x curved pieces and 15 x straight pieces. Not really sure which will be better, but hopefully one of them will work! I'm going to try use them just now and will update later on my progress. Fingers crossed this fixes my slouchy sock problem!!

~ Lauren ♥