Taylor Swift - "I Knew You Were Trouble" Music Video Premiere

I have an immense amount of love for Taylor Swift at the minute. "We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together" has to be one of my favourite songs of the whole year, and defo one of my favourite Taylor songs ever. But I'm totally obsessed with her new song, "I Knew You Were Trouble", at the minute and the video for the single, taken from her hugely successful "Red" album, dropped today.

The video seems to show Taylor embracing her inner rock chick and I think it's a pretty good look for her. Her new music is a lot more experimental and definitely not as influenced by country music as her previous releases have been. The video shows Taylor getting down and dirty with a guy, getting into a fight and rocking some cool pink dip-dye hair.

Check the video out and see what you think of Taylor's new sound and new image!

When did River Island get so amazing?!

When I was Christmas shopping in Merry Hill yesterday, I paid a visit to their River Island store as my local store is pretty bad in comparison to bigger city stores. Normally I walk around, spend about five minutes looking at what River Island has to offer and then walk out, completely underwhelmed by what they have to offer. Yesterday was a different story entirely.

I found so many things in there that I wanted and I could have easily spent about £100 if I had that kind of money to spend so freely. Sadly, I don't, so I'll just have to settle for oggling until payday. I'm also hoping that the stuff I want goes into the sale after Christmas; that would be fab!

The first item on my want list is this cool, khaki with leather-look sleeved jacket. It's taken a classic, vintage style jacket and reinvented it with the on-trend leather sleeves. Beautiful, but perhaps slightly overpriced.

RI leather sleeved khaki jacket, £65

My second item to accompany the above jacket is a t-shirt emblazoned with the Queen of my world, Rihanna. I think it would look perfect perhaps a tad oversized and could be worn underneath a shirt, over a pair of jeans and maybe tucked into a pair of shorts in the summer. I'm not usually a fan of tee's that plaster musicians all over them, but this RiRi tee is a must!

RI Rihanna tee, £20

The final item from River Island that I need in my life is this pair of blue skinny jeans. As soon as I saw these jeans in store I fell in love with them. I love, love, LOVE them. I think it's the colour I love the most; I don't own a pair of skinny jeans this colour, which I think is why I love them so much. I also have so many other items of clothing I could wear with them; I have a burgundy jumper and a pair of studded brown biker boots that would go perfectly with them! I also think they're insanely cheap for River Island, only costing £25!

RI Limited Edition skinny jeans, £25

So they're the items I have my heart set on from River Island, but there's so many other's that I could have added to this list. I may drop some very subtle hints to my family on ideas for Christmas presents.

Where have I been?!

I seriously suck at keeping my blog updated; my last post was almost a month ago, when I was contemplating dying my hair dark. So, here's a brief update:

I'm now dark! I went for the plunge and darkened my hair for winter and the end result was a lovely browny/reddy colour. I decided to warm the dark with a hint of red as dark brown can be quite harsh on my skin. I have super fair skin and look pale at the best of times; if I dyed my hair a dark brown I would look waaaay too drawn out for my own liking, so I opted for a brown with a subtle hint of red. I love it! Although I've almost had my hair dyed for a month now and it's in desperate need of touch up. But this time I'm planning for the end result to be more brown than red, so I look forward to seeing how that turns out! Below is a photo of my hair colour that I uploaded to Instagram once I'd had it dyed.

My new hair!

Other than my new hair, nothing else has changed much. I've been working all the hours God sends at work, super, super busy! I've also made a huge dent in my Christmas shopping and have bought more than I originally thought! Woop! I'm about to start wrapping my presents so that I don't leave it until the last minute like I normally do every year. I'm actually enjoying the festive cheer this year, which is quite strange as last year Christmas was the last thing on my mind in the midst of University deadlines, a new job and lack of dollar to contend with! Funny how much things can change in a year :) 

Here's a picture of my Christmas tree that has been decorated grand by my Mother.

My Christmas Tree!

I hope everyone else is embracing the madness of Christmas! It's only 20 days until it's finally here!