25 facts about me

1. I love to make lists, I have lists for everything. You will usually find at least one screwed up post it note in my pocket haha.

2. I'm married, yeah I'm only 26 but I'm very happy and have been with my hubby for 8 years.

3. I have a degree in Forensic Science sadly there aren't many jobs in it these days.

4. I was never really interested in make up until about 2 years ago. Crazy right I never used to wear it.

5. I'm obsessed with cats! I currently have 2 Wolverine and Rogue who I both love to death. I would happily have a house full but the hubby won't let me haha. Therefore I collect anything with cats on clothes, statues, pictures you name it.

6. I love tattoos I currently have 10 but want more.

7. I wear contact lenses.

8. I'm pretty good at Call of Duty Multiplayer and i did play it obsessively for a while.

9. I'm obsessed with tea preferably Twinings English Breakfast, I drink several throughout the day. I don't like coffee at all.

10. I've never been abroad at all.

11. I rarely drink alcohol

12. My middle name is Marie

13. I am obsessed with Vampires. Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries your name it I've watched it and read the book.

14. I enjoy reading. I'm currently reading Clash of Kings (Game of Thrones book 2).

15. My favourite colour is emerald green.

16. Incase you didn't already know from my blog but I'm obsessed with the 1940s era and all things retro. I love the rockabilly fashion. I wish I was born in that era.

17. I love Dita Von Teese, I admire her style and everything about her. Can I be her please?

18. One of my dream jobs would to be Snow White at Disneyland! How amazing would it be to be Snow White everyday and to get paid for it.

19. I currently don't use a computer, my husband has one but I don't use it. So all my blog - videos, editing, posts are all don't on my Samsung Galaxy S3. Crazy right. I need to get a laptop.

20. I burp too loud for a girl, not ladylike in the slightest oops.

21. My husband says I'm insane because I refuse to have any other toilet paper apart from white - is there a phobia for that?

22. I am absolutely shit scared of spiders.

23. I love horror films!

24. My favourite band is Blink 182

25. I regret the fact that I had my brace taken off after 2 weeks when I was a kid and now I have crooked teeth :-(

So there you go you know abit more about me, I hope you don't think that I'm too weird :-)

Jodie x

My Collectif Clothing mini haul

Here are the 2 items that I recently purchased in the half price July sale.

Collectif Dolores Flared Dress - Blue Hibiscus
The Dolores dresses are my favourite and this is my first flared one and I love it. It's great for everyday or to dress up for a evening out. It goes perfect with my white kitten heels.

Collectif Dolores Top - Blue Polka
I love how versatile the Dolores items are, you can wear them on or off the shoulder. I prefer to wear them off as I have shoulder tattoos and this shows them off nicely. This goes perfect with either a pencil skirt or skinny jeans, either can be casual or dressed up looks.

I now want more Collectif items as they are all do pretty. Did you pick anything up in the recent Collectif sale?

Jodie x

Alice In Wonderland themed feet cover up of old infected tattoos - Part 1

So this has been 6 years in the making, back when I was stupid and young I decided to get red hearts tattooed on the top of each of my feet.
By then I already had 5 tattoos or so and thought that I knew what to expect boy was I wrong.
I went to a different artist than usual who I knew as a established tattooist in my area.

I had never had coloured tattoos before and I didn't get pre tested for ink allergies before having the tattoo. This is not common practice as you will probably have to pay the tattooist for the needle that they will used but it is well worth doing it as it would have saved me a lot of pain and years of heartache.

I stupidly had both feet tattooed the same day 3 days before my driving test. It was a disaster waiting to happen and it did happen. Thankfully though I did pass my driving test the first time.

Anyway I had them done and they bled a lot through the procedure which was unusual as I didn't bleed a lot with my others. I just thought it's probably gravity due to the area of them. Another mistake was that my artist never covered them over when I left leaving them open to the air and everything, something again unusual as all my other tattoos had been covered in cling film or kitchen roll until I got home. But as he had years of experience I shrugged it off.

When I got home they still bled a lot so much so that I called him back worried, he told me to keep them elevated. I was in agony and terrified. My feet swelled up about 3 times as big that usual. I went to bed and I had to have my feet sticking out of the duvet as I couldn't have anything touching them. The next morning they where still massive red and aggravated. I went to college but could hardly walk I was hobbling around and popping painkillers all day. It was then the weekend and I planned to relax and keep off my feet. I was terrified to acknowledge something was wrong to jepodise my driving test which was booked for the Monday.
The morning of my driving test I woke up feeling ill I could barely stand supporting my body weight how the hell was I going to drive? My mum gave me painkillers and put a dressing on my foot as I didn't want them to see it in case they wouldn't let me take the test. I had been keeping my feet clean and then putting my bepantham on as usual with my other tattoos but my feet where swelled, red and they had massive weeping scabs. You can see this from the pictures.

I passed my driving test thankfully I think it was because I wasn't nervous as I had other problems on my mind. As soon as I got home we went to our local walk in centre.
The nurse took one look at me and then called all the other nurses around my side to look at the state of my feet. It was horrendous and she went mad. They where obviously very badly infected. As she took the dressing off the scab came too so there was no skin over the area at all I was nearly sick.
She told me later that she nearly kept me in on a antibiotic drip it was that bad. She gave me strong painkillers and antibiotics.
She cleaned it will saline and put gauze over the area. I then had to go to the walk in centre every day for the next 2 weeks, this was to have my wounds cleaned and the dressings changed. After the 2 weeks the infection had died down but there was not a scrap of skin over the wounds and my nurse was getting worried. Worst case scenario would have been skin grafts and I was still terrified. My daily life had changed I spent my life on the couch unable to walk. They provided crutches but I remember at my worst shuffling to the toilet on my bum. My parents had to cancel there holiday to look after me they where furious and rightly so.

After 3 weeks of back and forth in to the walk in centre there was a different nurse and she didn't drench my wound with saline before pulling off the gauze and I screamed. She gave me gas and air It was awful. After that they used a different gauze which helped to encourage skin growth and it worked little scabs formed around the outside of the wound and it was finally started to heal hallelujah! I remember the healing process being so itchy it would wake me in the night it was again it felt like me feet where on fire. After 2 months I was left with bad scarring. Most of the ink had bled out leaving them very patchy. I was lucky that they went back into heart shapes as when they were swelled they went out of shape.

So all these years I've been conscious of my feet and always trying to cover them up as I hated them I knew I wanted them covered over one day. So the time is now 6 years later I was very scared of the pain as scar tissue hurts a lot more than regular skin and when I say a lot more I mean it, it was killer! I had the outline first and the only colour to cover the scarring would be red, black or brown. As terrified as I was we had to have a patch test of the red ink on me to see if I was allergic or not. Thankfully I wasn't. I don't know what caused this if I was allergic to the brand of red ink or if the infection came from them not being covered up, personally I think it was abit of both.

So my tattoo artist friend Emma Fillingham at Underground Ink in Wigan worked her magic on my foot. I love Alice in Wonderland so one foot is a heart shaped biscuit that says Eat Me on it and the other will be a heart shaped potion bottle that says Drink Me (think Vera Wang Princess). I am very happy with my one foot that's complete I am currently keeping it elevated on several cushions as I type.

Have any of you had any tattoo problems? Or if you are thinking of getting one please get patch tested! - Jodie x