Hi it's Little Painted Lady with my Derry Vibe Autumn Fashion look for 2015 and as October kicks off with some fantastic weather ,I thought there is no better time to share some of my favourite Fashion Pieces with you all. 
 
And of course ever the bargain hunter, most of my items are from High street retailers or on-line boutiques, All of which are super affordable.


One celebrity I have become so obsessed with at the minute is the gorgeous Kylie Jenner, should it be on her snapchat, Instagram or Tumblr the girl always looks drop dead gorgeous , with an array of on trend outfits to match! But a few of my favourites that I have seen her in at present is the stunning Tan Seudette Asymetric dress and another is a Tan Seude Jacket. Both being paired with perfectly matching accessories of course. But unfortunately we all can't afford to go all High End and designer when it comes to our clothes, so I have sought out some "steal her style" options, just for you .

Here's some of our top tips on how to feel good and keep those nasty viruses or flu's away while your away studying at University. 

1. Go sign up to local doctors or GP 
Sign up to a local doctor who can advise you on best options if you ever become unwell. It's so simple to register with a practice while your away studying in the UK. It's also essential to get your Flu Jab that could help you prevent from getting ill during your term. 

2. Keep Clean always wash hands
If your staying in a student house or sharing a house with a lot of students then it's always best to keep your hands clean as you never know where some peoples hands might have been. So either get a sanitize hand wash that kills bacteria in your hands or there is some really good hand washes that you can clean your hands with without washing your hands but we always advise getting something like  Carex Hand Gels that can protect your hands for up to two hours. Always keep your hands clean especially if your cooking food as it could cause someone to catch something and remind others to is always helpful. 

3. Eat Healthy and take Vitamins can help you prevent illness 
It's always something people always say to take your vitamins to keep the doctor away. It's a true saying as it can help prevent you from getting certain flu's that may be going round your student room or in your class in which you can easily pick up and you don't wanna end up sick during your course. 


4. Drink reasonably and have a first aid kit in case of emergency. 
We might as well not say it but try to drink responsibly during your course as you have a few years of parties and madness to handle and take some paracetamols if needed for headaches from hangovers or feeling sick as it can always help. Also plasters and stuff are always needed in case of an accident as we can be all clumsy.

​5. Safe Sex 
Always perform safe sex at all times when you meet someone. It's so easy to get condoms and you can get them for free from your local doctor or you can buy them in chemist stores nearby and most convenient stores will sell packs of condoms of all sizes so there's never an excuse for not having safer sex while your away studying at university. 
 

Hi it's Little Painted Lady with my Beauty Blog tips for Derry Vibe and last week in the post I received 2 products from Instanatural, This company sell skincare as well as haircare products, these are made with all natural and organic ingredients.
The entire range of products are made with-out harmful alcohols, parabens and sulphates which can be quite irritating to the skin. Instead they focused on formulating their products with the highest quality ingredients that can be found through-out the world. Their mission is to create natural solutions that are both effective and affordable.

I received the Superior Hydration Argan Oil Hair Mask, this product retails for £17.95 on their Amazon store with free delivery in the UK. I also got the Luxurious Argan Oil Hair Treatment & Elixir which retails for £19.95 also with free postage in the UK.

​The First one I used was the Argan Oil Hair Mask, this is a deep conditioning treatment designed to transform dry, damaged hair into soft, shiny, healthy hair, it is packed with restorative ingredients such as , Argan Oil, Japanese Green Tea, Amino Acid complex, Coconut oil, Shea Butter, Jojoba oil, Avocado Oil & vitamin B5, together these penetrate hair and leave it super hydrated with loads of shine. The intensive ingredients also strengthen the hair to defend against heat damage and other external aggressors. This is thee perfect product for my hair as many of you may know I  have one section of my hair bleached within an inch of its life, so I found that when I left the mask in as an overnight treatment that is when I achieved the best results.It left my hair sooo hydrated, feeling so healthy and it looked extra shiny.
 The aroma off this product is gorgeous, reminds me almost in the Palmers body butter as does the texture, even after applying the product my skin felt super soft.

The second Product I used was the Argan Oil Hair Treatment & Elixir, This product is also jam packed with Argan Oil, Coconut Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Jojoba Oil, Olive Oil and Shea Butter. This revitalizes weak, limp and lifeless hair. It quenches dryness, tames frizz and infuses instant long-lasting luminous shine. Their unique formula contains 100% buttery rich plant oils that also penetrate the hair fibre and rehydrate the dry scales of hair cuticles. In addition, Panthenol strengthens the hair by filling the cracks and the Shea Butter thickens the hair to add volume.
I found this to be a little miracle worker, especially after my hair was freshly washed , I dispensed a teeny tiny amount onto the palm of my hand, rubbed the product into my hands them little glided it over where I needed, as when I was styling I had those little fly away hairs and this tamed them perfectly. Again this conditioned my blonde hair sooo well, when compared to other hair care products this one comes out tops for me.
This can also be used as an over night treatment but it must be washed out with shampoo afterwards as it has quite an oil consistency. 
The only scent to this Hair treatment was almost like an Olive Oil smell, which i'm sure we could all put up with.

Hi it's Pete Gerard with my Derry Vibe Blog and I am taken a look at how to become a Derry Citizen with my Citizen Test. 

Derry is a strange place. The late Gerry Anderson once described it as “Monaco, without the Money”.

In many ways it is like a mini-Northern Ireland with all the wider problems throughout the province focused into the small but beautiful city situated in the North West of Ireland. I have spent a lot of time up here in recent years. While I don’t feel completely accepted by locals I do feel that my eyes have been opened to a wider world beyond Belfast by coming up here.

I want to become a Citizen of Derry. I wish there was a test I could take. One day my ambition in life is to be the first Belfast man to be Mayor of Derry. I’d be great at cutting ribbons, wearing gold chains and I would chat to anyone provided they were dead on. I have also heard there are secret Mayor parties where you get to meet Boris Johnson.


However, I don’t feel I will be fully accepted by the city until I have learnt a few things that everyone who has lived in the city knows about. I don’t mean visit the Guild Hall and get a tour of the Walls. I mean really get under the skin of this place. So after asking a few people around the city, Here is the check list of things you have to know about to be accepted by local people in Derry:

Chat to Someone outside Derry about calling it Londonderry  

As I write this I can feel some members of a certain side of the community’s blood boiling, “It’s LONDONDERRY you ignorant wannabe hipster”. And maybe you are right, but I am too lazy to write LON-DON-Der-ry all the time. Most of the people who think I should write Londonderry all the time come from Belfast. My impression is that whatever people’s background up here a vast majority of them don’t care. It is only people from outside the city who bring this up. Most people who live here are over the whole Derry~Londonderry issue.

Yes, I know the history. I know people came over from London, built walls around the city and that’s how it got it’s name. But I also know that I like to chat really fast and can’t say Londonderry all the time, unless I want to use valuable conversation space.

I reckon the people who get hung up on this issue are the same people who insist on calling their children Anne-Marie or Hannah-Ruth or Clive-Staples. Why can’t we all just call you Clive?

If you still insist on calling it Londonderry all the time I hope you keep up your high standards. I hope you always mention your travels to Newcastle-on-Tyne, Stoke-on-Trent, The Democratic Republic of Congo, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, The United States of America and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch. See how far that gets you. If you end up in hospital with Temporomandibular joint Disorder it’s your own fault.

Take Your Oil’

This is a Local Derry Phrase… It means ‘Catch yourself On’ or ‘Wise Up’ for those of you from Belfast. For the rest of the world, there is no accurate translation for this phrase… Sorry.

Go to the Gym…A Lot

Having arrived in Derry for the first time in 2008 I still consider myself a blow in. I don’t know half the streets are and I still rely on Sat-Nav to get me to Bridie’s chip shop. But I have observed one very obvious cultural shift among the males living in Derry.

Yes, the metrosexual skinny Derry man is still alive and well but he is being phased out by a different beast, and I blame TOWIE.

Since the Launch of that show and similar ones, the men of Derry have started to resemble Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson from above the waist and Cheryl ‘The Rake’ Tweedy below the waist.

If you got 10p for every bench press you did, Derry would be full of Millionaires. The Local economy could have gone through a Celtic Tiger all on it’s own!

Go to Boots at 1650 on a Friday afternoon and you are likely to witness grown men fighting over the last bottle of fake tan available in the shop. Everyone knows Derry men have to look their best for their evening back and biceps session at the local Crossfit Gym.

Please No…

Warning: It’s called ‘Creggan’ not ‘The Creggan’

This is a mistake you make only once. If you want to make enemies fast try calling it ‘The Creggan’. Maybe it’s similar to Derry~Londonderry issue but I def don’t want to find out.

Get a Haircut

If you are ever stranded in Derry City Center you may end up cold and hungry, but at least you will do it in style thanks to one of the 4,000 barber shops scattered around the city.

With so many to choose from such as Derry Barbers, Foyle Haircuts, McGarvey’s, Derry City Barbers, I can’t believe it’s Not Derry City Barbers and Bog Back ‘N’ Sides you have no excuse not to be trim and well groomed if you are male and aged between 18 and 45 in the city.

This is a man I have only heard rumours of his existence but never actually met in the flesh. I’m told the final step in being welcomed into the Derry Clan happens when Tights sings ‘Puppy Love’ to you on a Thursday night.

People who have met Tights tell me only good things… He even has his own youtube video…

I have also heard he is staying in the house a lot more these days and drinking Fanta. I still hope if we ever meet he will still be able to recall the classic Donny Osmond song. I still need to be initiated into Derry.

Tobacco Onions

Throughout Derry there are roughly 30 restaurants worth talking about which collectively serve about 5 main courses between them.

If you are a vegetarian and you are heading to Derry, may I suggest Limavady or Strabane? Because Derry ain’t the place for you.

On the other hand… If you like Chilli Chicken Pittas and Tobacco Onions come on in.

Derry people are obsessed with Tobacco Onions. Strawberries and Cream and Tobacco Onions is a local favorite dessert. There has been a local campaign to get rid of popcorn at Brunswick cinema and replace it with Tobacco onions.

During recent fragile negotiations between the PSNI and local paramilitaries, Tobacco Onions were used as a bargaining tool in an attempt to restore peace… and so far it seems to have worked. We can only hope that Derry is supplied with it’s  weekly quota of Tobacco Onions and the tensions here are kept at bay.

Country Music

People think Northern Ireland is divided into people who are Protestant and Catholic but they are wrong. 

The real division is East Coast/West Coast and is along the lines of what you think of Country Music. If you ever stumble across Hugo Duncan’s radio programme and think ‘Who listens to this guff?’ Visit Derry and you will find out.


Songs like ‘That’s important to me’  by Keelan and the cover version of ‘Hit the Diff’ by Ritchie Remo mean nothing to people in Belfast but around Derry the guys performing these songs are musical superstars!
Nathan Carter can’t walk down Shipquay street without getting attacked by a mob of 16 stone young farmers. 

The Samaritans set up a special Garth Brooks hotline after what is now known in Derry as ‘the July 2014 incident’
And Everyone in Derry knows you only have a girlfriend because Derek Ryan doesn’t want her.

In the surrounding towns of Derry, ‘Socials’, usually organised by young farmers, are still massive. While in Belfast you had a chance with a girl by chatting her up in The Box and buying her some Buckfast, in certain parts of Derry unless you know all the moves to ‘Strip the Willow’ you don’t stand a chance.

Other Things Needed

Once You Understand These things about Derry you are halfway to being accepted by the locals. But there is still much to learn.  If you have come this far you have only got your Derry Green card. To get a passport you must achieve the following:

1. Get chatted up by a Cougar in Da Vinci’s

Hi it's Little Painted Lady with my new Derry Vibe blog for Beauty and Fashion tips as we are gonna take a look at the Autumn look as it's almost end of the summer and as much as I love Summer I am just soooo glad to see the back of it, 
Don't get me wrong I love a wee evening chilling out in the sun with a wee glass of wine, but I love Autumn that whole much more. Not only because we get to wrap up a bit more in gorgeous pre winter fashion , we also get to rock the vamp/dark lips that has been seen adorn all the fashion runways of late,and no-one can rock a dark lip better than the sultry vixen herself miss Dita Von Teese, this look just ticks all the boxes when it comes to getting that Autumn runway 2015 look, from the berry coloured lips to the winged liner she is bang on trend.

I have seen so many of the beauties Rocking this new trend on social media, mainly Instagram over the past week, it seems to be so hard to choose which look I liked the best but, when it comes to the crunch no-one and I mean no-one can rock it better than these three stunners.
 I follow these ladies religiously on all of their social media sites, but I will link their Instagram pages down below for you all to check them out.

 Who?                Where?

What’s good to order?

Country Fried Chicken

 

Clooney Terrace

The Chicken Burger with lettuce, tomato, cheese and mayo with those chips drowned in the secret sauce, known affectionately as a SUPERCHIP!

 

The Golden Fryer

 

Spencer Road

The Veggie Burger and Mega Onion Rings are very tasty.

 

Bridies

 

There’s all called Bridies, they’re all good, but Bridies Drumahoe, has to be the best!

The Fish Supper

Don’s

 

Bishop’s Street

The Hawaiian Burger and scoop of chips is a definite must after a night out.

 

Gibbon’s

 

Park Avenue

The Red Fish and Chips.

Wheelers

 

Strand Road

A Pizza and Chips

This is our top pick of Pizza places to try out in city and Mister C's comes on top of places we've tried as one of the best pizza outlets we've tried. 
This popular takeaway serving not just pizza but all your favourite takeaway foods including burgers, fish and chips and much more. Mister C's has just celebrated it's 10th year in business and is highly popular in the Culmore/Muff areas in outskirts of the city centre. 

They do a huge selection of Pizzas from our favourite Prosciutto to Meat Feast you can get everything you want. 

Also check out their daily family pizza offers which you can get 2 pizzas, 2 garlic bread, 2 chips and 1.5 litre bottle of drink. 

Mister C's is situated on the road to Muff in north of border in Culmore Road area and they also deliver call: (028) 71 352 888 

Turkish doesn't just sell Kebabs it also sells Pizzas and is one of our guilty pleasures for Pizza in town. They really do a tasty pizza and offer a huge menu for every taste if your into your spicy kind of pizzas you'll love Turkish. 
They offer fully fresh 10, 12 or 14 inch pizzas all cooked fresh in front of you and you choose your very own toppings that goes on the pizza. Not just good food it's also not to expensive so it's worth visiting when your around the city and quite locally suited from the pubs across from Ice Wharf and Quayside Shopping Centre on Strand Road Derry.  Turkish also deliver food to your door call them now on (028) 71 41 8313 or check them out on Facebook for latest offers. 

Fresh stone baked pizzas to go is Piemonte's motto and they really do a lovely pizza that's worth checking out. They offer a wide selection of the best pizzas we've seen in the city from small 10 inch pizzas to huge sizes they can do it all freshly made. Our favourite has to be the Family meal deal in which you get 1 x 10 inch pizza with 2 of your own choice of toppings + 1 x 10 inch Pizza Margherita, 1 x Garlic bread along with 2 chips and a choose of dip from only £12.99. 
Situated in Derry's Waterside on Clooney Terrace it's worth trying or getting it delivered to your doorstep. Call now on (028) 71 318 801 

Last but not least is one of the cities known Papa's Pizza's in Wheelers in which you can create your own Pizzas with 2, 3 or 4 toppings on a wide range of Pizzas. One of the oldest pizzerias in the city side based on Strand Road Wheelers is worth trying out. Call now for delivery or collection (028) 71 266 065