A Little Piercing

I finally found the time and money to hop on the nose piercing bandwagon, horray!

I love it, from the minute I saw it I was so pleased I did it - it didn't look different, it looked like i'd always had it pierced, which is kind of surreal but also great news for me as I didn't think it would suit me.

It was a lovely sunny Thursday when me and Lauren popped to the Corn Exchange to get it done. I also purchased these shades from Blue Rinse the same day, Lauren then purchased them about an hour later - great buy. 

I was umm'ing and ahh'ing about getting this done for a while as I knew none of my family would approve - not as much as they disapproved my tongue bar anyway!!  My mother actually liked it as it's tiny and can barely see it however I received a disappointing reply from my dad and the rest of my family just didn't bring it up. I decided to get it pierced as even though they may dislike the idea that I have a 'hole in my face', it's not their body and besides I barely see them when i'm living away at uni anyway.

I can't wait till I can change it, I want to buy a cute etsy stud or just a plain ring, maybe even both. The only bad thing is that I keep fiddling with it which sometime looks like i'm picking my nose (opppps)

MADE IN LEEDS!

Hello Lovelies!
First of all, apologies for the mess of the blog, David has been doing some revamping however nothing at the moment is set and staying yet, just trying bit and bobs out, so that should be sorted soon, which is very exciting.

Anyway back to shopping...
Yesterday was the big opening of the Leeds Trinity Shopping Centre, wahooo! 

Both of us sadly missed the opening launch of the shopping centre which was curated by Fashion Designer Henry Holland, and people witnessed the spectacular opening ceremony which revealed the world's longest designer dress which was also designed by Holland.
(Photograph from here)

Unfortunately it was just window shopping for us this time but we Charlotte took snaps to give you a general feel of what the centre looks like and a couple of features and shops we went too. Obviously it was very very busy and there was people broadcasting, photographing, talking about it, everywhere! 

Even though we loved all the new shops and restaurants, we have to say that it is freezing in there as there is no doored entrance and the roof is partly open, so when we went back today we were shopping in the snow! Bring on the summer!

The shopping centre even has these amazing EGG SWIRLY CHAIRS!

             

Everyone who entered the Apple store got clapped, woo'ed, cheered, high fived and screamed at when walking through the door which was absolutely hilarious, I couldn't help but think how they went home and explained how their first day was consumed with so much enthusiasm and clapping. Charlotte: Also I was pretty amazed at how every product had an iPad next to it to show the details of that product... they've probably had these in their stores for years now but it was all new to me and I thought it was all super cool.

 We lost our sight, overdosed on perfumes and left feeling ugly in Hollister 

^ Hey there Tori!

2 Storey Urban Outfitters? Literally couldn't cope... we had a look around, enquired about Charlotte's broken coat (which they can only offer a refund or credit note and they have no others to exchange it with booo!) but then we had to leave, it was too cruel that we couldn't buy anything.

And finally, what Tori was most excited for... 

The opening of Candy Kittens!

That's right, Jamie Laing from Made in Chelsea opened his Candy Kittens pop up store in the centre of Trinity, which will be there for 3 weeks. Jamie did two openings, one in the morning and one in the afternoon and we was there to see the second opening and had the pleasure of meeting him and getting a picture with him (below) he was lovely but he seemed to be doing the 'fake smile' which you can't blame him having to take pictures all day.

 Cheeky Tori waiting in the queue

 Charlotte sporting the 'Pardy' beanie

I loved the layout of the store, the furniture and I enjoyed the colour scheme, the walls had scattered neon stripes down (bang on trend) however it was very simplistic and looked pretty empty but saying that they don't have a big product selection so I don't think that that could have really been helped.

And here we all are, new best pals... we really liked his shoes!

What we found hilarious was a lot of people were walking past asking who he was and why they taking photographs and why and what we were queueing for, a policeman even came up to us and asked why no one was taking any pictures of him instead.

Overall we had a fabby morning checking out the new Trinity Shopping Centre, we can't wait till we have some more pennies and go on a mad shopping spree, it's definitely in order. 

Have you been to Trinity yet? What do you think of the new shopping centre?


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Urban Outfitters, Sparkle and Fade Parker

All my girls from home came to Leeds for the weekend and of course the Leeds girls (me and my 3 best friends all moved here together) had to show them around the brilliant shops!
Unfortunately they just missed the opening of the new shopping centre Leeds Trinity which opens Thursday 21st March, this week! It's 1,000,000 sq ft, 3 floors shopping centre, holding 120 stores, such as Topshop, Mango, Next, Hollister, there is even a Cadbury's store and the first ever UK One Direction pop-up shop. What is that!? Madness.
Henry Holland, the Fashion designer will opening the doors and 10 am on Thursday 21st March and I've heard rumours that One Direction may be opening their pop-up store on Saturday 23rd March at 9am, Harry Styles even tweeted about it.
The least I can is that I'm so bloomin' excited about it!

In our home town, shopping is terrible. Terrible probably being an understatement, Everything is closing down and there are basically no shops left, only the big brands like Topshop, River Island, Starbucks, Marks and Sparks etc.. but they are still small sized stores, compared to the 3 story Topshop/Topman that we have in Leeds. So not many of the girls have ever walked into Urban Outfitters store before, cry. But as it is moving to Trinity there wasn't much for them to see, other than the 50% sale of a couple of items that they have left.
Me and two of my friends all fell in love with this gorgeous Sparkle and Fade Parker! I've been looking for a new parker for ages now, my Tesco parker is just at the back of my coat rack hiding, because I'm too embarrassed to wear it anymore. It won us all over straight away, and that's right we all bought it... all three of us. Beth.Holl doesn't live in Leeds and if me and Danielle go out, we will just have to make sure we're both not wearing it, so we won't look like fools and we all get to own the coat of our dreams!

This Sparkle and Fade Parker was reduced from £98 to £30, which is another reason why I HAD to get it

I'm truly in love. The hood feels amazing and I would sleep in it if I could.

Well, in love for a couple of days, and yesterday I finally got to wear it (I let the girls wear there's first). A Couple of us went for a Nandos and then as we was walking out of The Light, another shopping centre, my draw string toggle broke off and my heart was broken. We ran to Urban Outiftters hoping that we could exchange for another one, but the only coat they had left had the same problem. I warned all the girls and Beth has just told me that her's has now broken! I did manage to fix it with a safety pin but it just broke again, so I think I'm going to have to pay more and get it fixed professionally. Which just sucks. Other than this faff about, I'm so glad that I bought this coat it's really light and still managed to keep you really warm, and there is a hood which is fabby cause I never have a brolly!

Has this ever happened to you? Or do you know an easy way to fix it?

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