Here comes the summer...

I've been for a lunch time wander around Liverpool today and you can certainly tell summer is on the way. It was really warm and sunny and the emergence of maxi dresses, gladiator sandals and ropey fake tan is on the up.

I'm a pale english rose with freckles. I don't really tan just go a barely there hint of colour mixed with red patchy bits. My legs never tan, I could sit in the sun for 10 hours a day and they'd still stay the same shade of pasty milk bottle white. I've tried fake tan and it's not been successful...it goes streaky no matter how much i exfoliate, moisturise and massage, spray etc and the colour never looks natural, more like i've dropped a bottle iron bru down myself. So I'm sticking with the fair english maiden look...and it's cheaper too. I have seen some sights today though. A couple of the girls (and lads for that matter) looked like they'd been dipped in cuprinol fence stain, one girl's fake tan was that patchy she looked like she had clouds on her legs and Amy Winehouse has got a lot to answer for with the matted bouffants which seem to be being sported this year.

The maxi dress is also a big fashion trend this summer but one I think might avoid myself to be honest. I don't suit dresses and clothes that are so full of fabric you could use them as a teepee for scout camp. Don't get me wrong I love maxi dresses but prefer them slightly more simpler and not something which if the wind caught it would blow up round your nether regions showing off Bridget big knickers and a 'week before I'm due for a wax' pant beard. Attractive......errr no. (I would like to state for the record....I would never be so slovenly!!).

Well on that Gok Wan type blog (well more Not Quite Wan, than Gok Wan) I shall leave it there. I hope everyone enjoys their summer whatever the weather, cos I know I will be.

Till next time...x