Sweets are treats but liquor is quicker

Happy Sunday!

It's a cold and drizzly end to the weekend so a great excuse to snoodle up on the sofa with a terrific amount of comfort food (comfood?) and my laptop. Usually I'd feel a guilty for lounging about like this, but as I've been looking all kinds of cool, busting my nut on Xbox Sports for the past hour I feel I THOROUGHLY deserve it.

Anywhoo, it's been a while but I thought I'd reconnect with blogspot with a post about one of my most favoured things in life... Food? No. Writing? No. Ebay-ing? Not quite..

...It is infact, alcohol.

Now I want to make this as tasteful as possible. No of that "aah maa gaaad ah was soo pissed it was like shiiit" here! Instead I'll show you all my recent attempt at cocktail making! Well, it was more like alcholic smoothie attempts as my friend and I got a little trigger happy with the fruit.

Pretty nifty huh? Easily doable if you've got a bucket full of fruit, a blender and your favourite alcofrolic beverage

This particular beauty consisted of two punnets of strawberries, milk, pineapple, an apple, two bananas, a lime, vodka and alcoholic grenadine. The grenadine can be bought from most booze shops and goes in last to get the deep red marble-y look in the drink that eventually sinks to the bottom. The pineapple top just makes it, and to think I was moments away from throwing it away!

So, we've had the angel of the pack. Now for something a litte more devious and a hell of a lot stronger.







I was honoured to try out my first 'Sexy Ass Motherfucker' at Cubana (where else) not long ago. A friend who works behind the bar asked me if I'd ever tried a SAMF... He got a confused expression for his efforts but made me one none the less. Now this badboy is a real kick up the bum as it contains espresso, vodka, kahlua, malibu and some sort of Italian spirit that I can't quite remember the name of. Handle with care mind, I can't recall what happened the rest of the night!



Aloha darlings!

Ooer, it's been a tad longer that I'd have liked since I last posted... but in my defence I've been consumed by exams and a blooming relationship with ebay!

Speaking of which, here are a few little bargains the sister and I managed to bag!

A delightful little Next number, only £14!



Beautiful vintage (1970s) faux fur jacket only £10!

Also snuffled out an Urban Outfitters jacket for a mere £5. Perfect for wearing on a night out when you don't want a bulky coat preventing you from busting a move. All these(and many, many more) can be found on the Ebay fashion outlet... click on 'time ending soonest' to bag yourself the best bargain. Careful when bidding though, the sneakiest of people wait until there's a few seconds to spare before placing their final bid so keep a close watch!

It seems like there's just never enough clothes in my wardrobe... When your New Year's res is to become the new you, all your clothes just don't seem worthy enough. My wardrobe seems to change constantly, usually depending on what mood I'm in and whether I'm single or not. Single girl clothes are your best weapon ladies! Mine at the mo is a very dark, navy blue pencil skirt. Works absolute WONDERS on making your legs look lengthier and your buttocks look firmer which is seriously needed for the post-christmas wobbles.

Good evening bloggererers...

A busy day to say the least! Three hours of study and an 8am start meant that by the time it got to lunch time and I was in Meadowhall, I looked like the love child of Dracula and the Gruffalo. However I did manage to kick my way through the sales and bag these little beauties for £6!!

I plan to team them together with a pencil skirt and chiffon blouse this friday for a night out.

I thought I'd take them for a test drive round tescos when I did my grocery shopping this evening. My sister managed to elegantly pull of geek chic whilst I skated around the condiments aisle searching for low fat mayonnaise. But after an hour of shopping and hauling bags through the pissing rain, I can proclaim them a star buy. Huzzah!



Now here's a few loves from my hometown...


It's such a great place. Where you ask? Ah, I guess I'll leave it to the intelligent people to guess and those who already know to sit there smugly. But seriously, it really is swell.


Numero uno; the night life.
Having dated someone who worked in a bar, I stumbled upon a wonderful little treasure. It was an amazing escape after the mainstream atmosphere of a stereotypical bar and after a few complimentary tequilas, I was sold.

Cubana Bar and Restaurant

The home of the most wonderful mojitos and the reason I nearly failed all my A Levels! Aside from befriending the dreamy staff (girls we're talking Italian and Mexican HEAVEN), I fell in love with the buzzing atmosphere and the friends I gained.

I even have my own drink! ...This is the 'Lydia Special'. Well, technically this is the Lydia Special 1.1. Two versions, equally delicious and both will be made if you go in and ask for one! This pretty little number includes whole crushed strawberries and peach schnaps! Handle with care though, a couple of these badboys and you're on the bar dancing to 'Hips Don't Lie'.

Currently snoodled up in a blanket infront of The Big

 Bang Theory boxset and thought I'd let you know a

few of Lyd's loves...

The most beautiful fragrance in the world

Cheating on my Malaysian roots with Chinese food

The greatest of them all, Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory

 Possibly my best ever present to myself!

Special note about the tiffany ring and Daisy fragrance! Having recently set our business, the sister and I are now supplying a whole range of gems including Vivienne Westwood and Tiffany & Co products. If you love this ring as much as I do drop me an email, special discounts to my bloggers!

Only a short one, back soon.

Where to start, where to start... Hmm. I probably should have attempted to plan something really witty that I could use to start this entry - something so gobsmackingly, brainblowingly and headjerkingly brilliant that anyone reading this would automatically bump me to the top of their 'people on par with God' list. Unfortunately having had far too much of a hectic Christmas, the creative, super-cool part of my brain is still on vacation so I'll have to just begin with explaining a few cheeky little nuggets of information about myself... but not too much mind, who knows how valuable this information could be in the future.

Rightio, let's do this.

I'm Lydia. Above is a shot from my most recent shoot, a colaboration with photographer Ruth Howsam Fashion Photography and make up artist Afshan Islam (@Beauty Beneath) Having modelled for four years now I can by far say that this was THE weirdest shoot I've ever had the pleasure to be involved with. The shots (along with a selection of other looks) are being entered into an international competition. We've had pretty good luck with competitions in the past so fingers and toes crossed we make the final in Vancouver!  

Make up and clothes?

The beautiful rose jacket seen in the photo was a delightful little find from Primark would you believe. Original price was £15 but thanks to an unobservant cashier, the tag was scanned wrong and I managed to bag this beauty for £5!

The make up however was a little more high end. A combination of Mac foundations, eyeshadows, eyeliners and lipsticks went into creating this look. As I am now a Mac makeup supplier, there'll be a post with all the products used and a chance for everyone to bag their own.

Just us two.

I live with my beautiful twin sister. We're unidentical (something I'm always reminded my sister is very thankful for) and couldn't be more different. Our little suburban flat is a hive activity; if it's not being filled with wasian food smells, it's being abused by around twenty of our nearest and dearest.

The other twin, setting up our lights at Christmas:

Here we go...



It's 2:15am on the third of Jan, 2012. Say what? The new 2012 Lydia has decided that she'll make a fantastic new blog that everyone will LOVE. It's a long shot for someone that woke up at 2pm this afternoon and has escapee quality streets hiding in various corners of her house, but I'm going to go ahead and give it a shot anyway.


We'll start with the basics...


I'm female (yes, with my potty mouth you'll soon find that hard to believe) and a student. I like to dabble in the modelling industry and have a twin sister with a brain the size of the northern fucking hemisphere. And though I really (reaaally) hate to admit it, she'll be the award winning genius who's million pound attic I'll be inhabiting when I'm 30. Well, me and my thirty-seven cats that is.


I'm also Wasian (now's the time to start taking notes as I refer to this constantly) ...for the simpletons among us that's the white-asian variation of being mixed raced. Though if i'm honest I much prefer the term 'racially flavoursome'.