A sight for sore eyes.

Five years ago I went through the horrendous experience getting my eyes lazered. I had a bad reaction and it was obscenely painful, in fact when I have time I may well do a blog about it one day.

Anyway, I've had five blissful years of amazing vision and all that pain was a distant memory...until now.

A few weeks ago I noticed my vision was a bit blurry and I was squinting a lot, so I went to the opticians and my vision has started to go again. Bleddy hell. Before the lazering my prescription used to be -5 and now it's only -0.5, so nothing major but annoying none the less. This means I now have to wear glasses for driving and other similar pursuits.

The reason I got my eyes lazered in the first place was because glasses REALLY didn't suit me. I remember being 13 and having glasses and a brace and just feeling horrified at the amount of metal on my face, so from then onwards I always wore contact lenses. But -0.5 isn't really enough for contact lenses, so me and my nemesis, the glasses, were to meet again.

I read lots of internet articles about how you're meant to choose glasses to suit your face shape and the advice for me, as on oval shaped person, was as follows: you can wear most shapes.

Very useful indeed.

Therefore I decided to just blitz the stands at Specsavers and not stop until I found the right pair. As I'll only need to wear them once in a blue moon, I decided to go cheap and start with the sale stand. After trying on a few designer pairs by Karen Millen and Gok Wan (who knew?) my eyes were drawn to a really cheap "no name" £25 pair in the men's section. I put them on and I swear there was a 'ping' noise because they just seemed to look perfect.

These glasses are so cute they're making me want to wear them all the time. I think they've got a bit of the Zooey Deschanel about them, which I like.

Now, photographing glasses is actually quite complicated (do you remember that awful peering forward thing that school photographers used to make the speccy kids do?) so here's the best my long-suffering boyfriend could do in the short time allotted. Nice glasses, shame about the wonky smile...

Glasses: bargainous £25 from the men's sale rail at Specsavers.

Beautiful Tea Dress.

I was wandering through the shops last week and I saw this lovely tea dress for sale in Monsoon. I'm not usually a fan of black (or Monsoon for that matter!) but this dress is just gorgeous.

You can't really see in the photo, but it's very well tailored and nips in at the most flattering part of the waist. I also think the coral lace collar stops it from just being a dull black dress.

I'd wear it with coral shoes, trusty black tights and a cute leather, coral clutch bag.

 Just need to wait for pay day now.

Marcelle dress, £55, Monsoon

My favourite outfit of the moment.

Just thought I'd share my current fave. Now it's getting warmer, I'm trying to step away from the wool coat and leather boots and here's the result. The dress and the head band are the only things from this season, the rest is from previous years. Well done to economical old me.

Red dress, £42, Miss Selfridge; bow belt, free with a dress, Next; silk scarf, £3, Beyond Retro; head band, £6, River Island; two tone brogues, £18, TK Maxx.

Rejoice, stange-headed people!

Ever since I was a young girl I've always been envious of girls with lovely head bands on. There have been many head band phases over the years: Alice, zigzag, pretty metal ones with butterflies on, even those jersey sport bands, but I've never been able to wear them because my head is a strange shape and they just slide off. Annoying.

But all is not lost, I have discovered the answer. While browsing in River Island I came across a 50s-style head band which is made of a red scarf material with pretty hearts on. However, this head band is different from the rest. This head band has a metal wire sewn into it so you can mould it around your strange-shaped head and once you tie a bow at the top it stays in place. I immediately bought it and can confirm it works, even on me...and my head. Et voila, no more head band envy.



Head band, £6, River Island