Positively considering pouring coffee on my macbook this chilly monday morning. Taking me absolutely ages to do anything – with the dreaded spinning beachball almost a permanent resident! Until the wages from my current contract for CBBC hit the bank, I have been doing some fantasy online window shopping to get the feel for christmas presents and outfits for the winter party season. Styling an outfit doesn’t really come naturally to me, so I often like to plan a basic idea out beforehand, and ideally get the opinion of friends when it comes to buying. I was recently introduced to Fantasy Shopper, a website which helps you discover outfits from your favourite stores, style outfits, and get inspired!
I still have a voucher to use at House Of Fraser from my birthday back in June, so I thought I’d use Fantasy Shopper to help me explore HOF’s dresses collection and see if I could plan some outfits ahead of the party season.
There are a fantastic selection of stores to choose from on Fantasy Shopper, categorised from London and New York, with Milan and Paris to be added soon! Which I think is rather impressive. However the first, and pretty much only hurdle that I faced was all the dresses I seemed to be selecting from their House Of Fraser section were out of stock when I clicked through to the source website. If they weren’t out of stock, a lot of them were listed as on sale (which is great, in a way!) so often left me with a minimum amount of sizes left to choose from. This wouldn’t bother me so much if I was looking to create a mood or inspiration board. But isn’t such a reliable source if I was wanting to then go and buy the item after discovering it on Fantasy Shopper, only to find that it wasn’t actually available 🙁
Maybe this isn’t the case for every store or brand, and I know that it wasn’t every single item on the House Of Fraser section – but it was genuinely most of them that I clicked on. Maybe Fantasy Shopper is promoting and circulating peoples favourite items so much, that traffic is forming to the source website and the item then becomes sold out? Or maybe it just takes a while for them to update live stock from their listed websites? (some of the dresses I then went on to find on Frasers actual website weren’t listed on Fantasy Shopper at all) I’m not 100% sure, either way it is not a bad thing at all, because I still really enjoyed using the site and browsing through other peoples fantasy outfits:
It really is ‘fantasy’ when it comes to the prices these outfits that caught my eye come to – but I think they work great as inspiration for styling your own outfits! The site features high street all the way to designer, and there are also message boards where you can ask people for advice. In the top picture you can see there are badges to be unlocked with different challenges for you to complete. I will really have fun doing this, but it does make the site feel more like a game than an actual shopping source, along with my other comment about so many items being out of stock. I will be keeping Fantasy Shopper bookmarked for sure anyways, and I did like looking through other peoples dream wardrobes. Alas, since my christmas party outfits will need to be come a reality after payday, I headed back to the House Of Fraser website to gather my favourite dress choices:
1. Hobbs Betsy Dress – £99
2. Warehouse Feather Hem Dress – £130
3. Jolie Moi Chiffon Dip Back Galaxy Dress – £25
4. Oasis Embellished Holly Shift Dress – £70
5. Lipsy Sequin Body Dress – £48
Have you started planning your outfits for the likes of christmas nights out, christmas day, and new year? If you have, please link me – I’d love to have a nosy 🙂
Apart from waiting patiently for pay day, here’s what else I have been upto…
Having John stay at mines lots while he’s been working, theatre trips with Mumma McCartney, Dexter enjoying his new perch on the piggies cage, sugar skull halloween makeup, cat in a bag, sneak peek of my finished mermaid, yo sushi with Kyle, halloween makeup round 2, roses from my friends little boy, Afternoon tea with Jen and Blair, new doc’s from my Daddy, sparklers on guy fawkes night, fireworks at glasgow green, papa looking like Carl from Up in photobooth, finding an old picture done of me in Italy when I was 11, mums completely home made party spread, Tylers 8th birthday, John and Dexter playing the new Halo while I get ignored! 🙂
Life. Is. Good ♥
Ayden x
10 Comments
Lea
Ooooo dress number 2 is gorgeous! I'd kill for that!
Lea x
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November 12, 2012 at 3:14 pmchar
Wow your halloween make up is awesome hun, and yay for new docs and getting the mermaid finished, I'm always in awe of your tats! xx
November 12, 2012 at 3:21 pmRowan
I lovvve that Betsy dress, how gorge!
Your sugar skull makeup looks so good; you should do a tutorial xoxo
November 12, 2012 at 3:48 pmcharlotte emma
woah that make up's cool
xx
November 12, 2012 at 5:32 pmBethany
That sugar skull makeup is amazing! Very opaque colors.
November 12, 2012 at 5:45 pmLori - Glasgow Beauty Blogger
I am so angry with you for posting this haha, I've just got over my addiction to fantasy shopper :S now I have to play it again x
November 12, 2012 at 6:34 pmbeewaits
The warehouse dress is actually perfect! GO FOR IT!
November 12, 2012 at 7:41 pmAlso love your sugar skull face, it is super sweet x
Lianne Whitelaw
Ooooo love the Warehouse dress, its beautiful – buy that one! Love your Halloween makeup, brillant! Your mermaid is looking fab – put up some pics of it all finished, would love to see it 🙂
November 12, 2012 at 10:17 pmLianne x
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Trisha Jones
Whoa… that face paint is completely amazing!
November 13, 2012 at 11:10 amRoisin Elizabeth Keats
I love that Warehouse feather dress – and your cat is so gorgeous <3
November 15, 2012 at 1:00 am