Palladium Fresh

Everyone loves the classic white shoe come Spring and Summer. It's fresh, looks great with anything and most importantly, it's super comfy! So I'm bringing you a new option to the fresh white table. Introducing Palladium Boots, which are now available in Topshop...making this super easy for you guys to get your hands on these hot booties. 

I love the fresh white kicks look, it makes you feel a bit more secure that the weather is more on your side so you know they aren't going to get caked in mud. But they also look chic with basically anything. Dresses, skirts, jeans, whatever. So I opted to style my Palladium Boots with my ripped knee jeans from River Island and a off the should sweater from Topshop which I bought a few sizes too big for that extra comfiness. Topping my look with my cat-eye sunnies also from River Island.

It feels pretty incredible walking around without a massive coat and knee high boots to keep warm and this is fast becoming a favourite S/S'16 outfit for me. 

I chose the low cut white boots, but they do high tops in white and black in Topshop but a whole loads of other designs on their website. The grip is a super big part of why I love these boots because my vans were useless. They would get really slippery on wet floors and their lack of grip wasn't ideal for the amount I walk and spend time exploring. 

So this summer must have from me - Palladium Boots...shop them at Topshop online! 

Spring Into Baby Blue

This week has been crazy busy with shoots and it's no where near over yet. I have been helping my lovely girl Holly Kenyon (check her out +Holly Kenyon) with her first ever lookbook this week and I'm so proud of her. These are all her images, and only a little snippet of the outfits and looks we went for, I'll be showing them all over the next couple of weeks amongst other shoots. 

As you had all seen and heard whites and blue are my spring fling this year so this outfit is a new fave of mine. My new baby blue coat is absolutely beautiful and I cannot get enough of the colour. It's time to wean myself off the blacks and dark colours of winter and come into to bright happy colours and this outfit is the perfect way to welcome in the sunshine. 

Outfit Details:

Coat - Miss Selfridge

Shirt - Jack Wills

Jeans - Topshop

Shoes/Hat - Topshop

Bangle - DuttsonRocks

Watch - Daniel Wellington

Loads more exciting features with Holly coming up soon including another swimwear shoot. Keep up with shoots, behind the scenes and everything I get up to on my instagram page @crystallily1 

Spring Has Sprung

Spring is one of the prettiest seasons in my opinion, the bright colours, the sunshine, the warm sun with a chillier breeze. The perfect space for thawing us out from winter and pushing us into summer. This spring shoot was a perfect example of that. The spring sunshine was wonderful with a fresh breeze that was so light it kept us from being too cold. 

Lots of you liked the vlog I shared with you all when I took you behind the scenes of one of my shoots so I thought this would be a beautiful one to vlog and get you feeling ready for spring. I was lucky enough to wear an original 70s dress which was actually worn as a wedding dress. It floated effortlessly in the breeze and the sun made it look even more magical. Such an amazing boho feel in a sea of bright yellow daffodils.

These are some of the final images and they are so summery it's making me so excited for the sumer sun, late evenings on the beach and road trips. What are your favourite things about summer? 

Loads of exciting shoots happening this week so keep up to date with behind the scenes of them and more of what I get up to on my Instagram (@crystallily1) and twitter (@crystallily1)

Photography by my favourite Griffin Photography!

Watch the vlog on this shoot now! 

Winter is Golden

Last year (still weird saying that as it was only 2 days ago but still) I did a gold themed shoot which has to be one of my favourite shoots ever. It was so much fun and my team were just amazing. You can still watch the Behind the Scenes Vlog of this shoot on my youtube channel inclusing make up changes and how i got this hair. But now I can finally show you some of the final images from this shoot. 

We produced two different looks, one much softer than the other but both equally amazing. I still can't get over how gorgeous the dress was and how well it fitted me, if it was mine I'd wear to bed. It's also so lovely when you work with people who put you at ease at make you feel like you're around friends, which I like to consider them as now. This is definitely one of the more smiley shoots I've done, so many giggles on this day and a very fond memory of 2014. This was the perfect shoot to do just before christmas, so much sparkle and magic and I cannot wait to do other big shoots this year. Need to push myself out my comfort zone more this year with shoots and see how far I can get. 

Dream big and believe in yourself. No one can reach your goals but you, so don't let anyone get in the way and tell you otherwise. The people who tell you that you can't do it...let them be your motivation and prove them wrong!