Shopaholic Star Buy: H&M Swing Top

Mooching around Selfridges, begrudgingly walking on past the queue of cashed-up people patiently waiting to get past the velvet rope and into Chanel, I found solace in H&M. I'd got a 25% off voucher with last month's Glamour, so thought I may as well spend it!

The very first thing to catch my eye was this cropped, crepe swing top with sweetheart neckline (£29.99), and needless to say reader, I bought it!

The well-cut, vintage style top doesn't at all scream 'high street', and its simplicity means it will work equally well dressed up with a skirt or dressed down with jeans. It's sure to become a staple this summer.

I thought maybe the H&M voucher I had wouldn't be valid in the Selfridges concession, but it was - and the staff were very helpful answering questions, finding items and offering styling tips to me and the fellow shoppers sheltering in Selfridges on what was a very wet evening in Oxford Street.

Soho Silver Nails

Along with all the latest goss from Katy Perry this month's
Glamour magazine comes complete with a great free gift. Nails Inc. have teamed up with Kate Spade to produce a fab collection of nail polishes, and there are full sized bottles of silver, gold, red and black worth £12 to collect. I wanted to get my hands on the Soho Silver, and after rooting through the shelves of magazines in three different newsagents I finally found one!

It takes three coats to achieve an opaque finish, but it dries really quickly so you can get it done in no time. Can you believe the finished result is even shinier in real life than it is in the picture? It almost looks like I've glued tin foil to my nails - dazzling is not the word! It's a great look for parties and as Christmas draws closer I'll definitely be trying it out with the new snowflake effect polish from Nails Inc.

Note, I would recommend using a top coat for longer lasting results as I found that it does chip easily without.

Glamour May Beauty Giveaway

It's the 1st of May, the summer sunshine is here and Glamour's Beauty Giveaway is back!

Each day throughout May there are amazing beauty products up for grabs to give your make-up bag a much needed boost - starting with Bourjois nail polishes. With 31 chances to score some of the 21,255 treats, that's gotta be better odds than you get with a lottery ticket?!

All you have to do is answer a really easy question and enter your details to be in with a chance. Previous years I've always got a surprise bundle of beauty goodies in the post come June. Fingers crossed the same happens this time around...

Shine Like a Star

It may be a rather demure look compared to what we've come to expect from Jessie J, but she quite literally shines on the cover of Glamour's August issue. The figure-hugging Dolce & Gabbana star print dress gets a gold star from me!

Day Dresses by Asos
Purses by Dolce & Gabbana

Glamour's May Beauty Giveaway

It's always exciting getting a parcel delivered - even if it is your internet shopping that you've been expecting to arrive all week. A parcel makes it feel like your birthday (just without the getting older part). What could be better?, I hear you say... well, a surprise delivery.

This morning I awoke to find a couple of Bourjois goodies on my doormat. A perfect start to a day that ended with a win at the pub quiz.

For your chance to win fabulous beauty products every day in May, all you have to do is enter your details at: www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/competitions/may-beauty-giveaway

Good luck!

The Most Stylish Woman of 2010?

It's official - Glamour.com readers have voted Emma Watson as their most stylish Brit, leaving Victoria Beckham in second place - in an illustrious top 10 that included Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Cheryl Cole. There's no doubt that Emma's got her red carpet look nailed. Whenever she makes a public appearance she has got a stunning dress fit for the occasion. Christopher Bailey can be credited with transforming the schoolgirl swat of the Harry Potter films in to the style icon we see today, thanks to her casting as the face of Burberry. Plus she has recently upped her style stakes further by going for a Carey Mulligan-style elfin crop.

However, it is her off-duty sense of style I'm not so sure about. She hit all the right notes at Glastonbury this Summer - when she was papped in a Louis Vuitton corset and the obligotory denim cut-offs. Yet at other times she's been spotted in a less than flattering combo of Ugg boots and tracky bottoms. Although she wouldn't top my list, she is definately one to watch.