Hell-o, sailor... Beauty Care

I've had a whole heap of gift vouchers burning a hole in my pocket since Christmas, but thankfully I managed to offload some of them over the weekend. Huzzah! Above are my new shoes and new frock (yes, I sometimes accidentally say frock. No, not just online) which I am deeply in love with and thinking of wearing to this Saturday night's Blog Awards with some navy tights and the only red lips that truly suit me.

The frock is kind of hard to look at, though. All those stripes make for some sort of optical illusion that makes the eyes water a bit if you stare at it for too long, but er maybe that's just as well because it is very flipping body-con and not at all what I'm used to!