OMG it feels like spring! I was so over winter..so much so that I faked tanned to feel a little bit more well summer girl than pasty winter ghost! Inspired by the recent does of sunshine we have received her in Scotland I thought I would do a little post on my top 5 spring fashion choices. Which is also like a little early spring haul cause I own these items. epic right!
Its nearly hear and LOVE it or hate it, its the season of Valentine! Valentine wither you are loved up or flying single is about having fun. So here is one of my idea of a stylish valentine.
Date night - if your going out with your loved one or dancing with your girlfriends this would be a lovely valentine special night outfit.
It has been a while since I have worked on a style post and I though who better than to...steal her style other than Taylor Swift. I mean I have became obsessed with her album 1989 and I do love her style. so here is a few I love.
Summer might becoming to an end but that doesn't mean that we have to be all sad and gloom. Autumn is coming or Fall if that is your deal. Fall sounds so romantic to me and Autumn sounds so worldly but that is just my little input on the subject matter of what to describe this time of year...any ways. As the title states these are my wish or dream list for fall.
Have you been having a great summer?? I hope and if not am sure the little summer Snow Man will bring some happiness to your day. So I have been loving summer this year, its been a great summer in Scotland. So I thought I would share what my must have beauty products have been.Now I am not bragging but I have a really nice tan when the sun decides to grace me with its presents, so I don't use a lot of products.
All products can be found at DEBENHAMS HERE (which are having a sale on the now - buy two products get 10% off!)
No I don't normally post anything deep on here which is a shame because well whats the point in having a blog if your not going to try and change the world a little. So I though I would change that...and talk about a subject which I am very passionate about.
Anti Sex Trafficking, in my last year of university I completed a dissertation on the subject of sex trafficking. It was one of the hardest years of my life, not because it was an important year at university, because I dived into a subject which is so taboo and awful that no one could really support me on it. Or understand why I was getting so frustrated when people would change the subject, when I started talking about it, which am sure many people will stop reading this post, because it hard to acknowledge that slavery, yes slavery is how I would define human trafficking is a live and well today.
There is an assumption that women who are trafficked are willing participants but many are dupe into trafficking by "Boyfriend/Friend sanario." This is were a girl from a poor country, or state will be talking into leaving with someone on the pretenses that they will gain a better job, education if they leave. Often this is not the case and the girls will be taken into a country but then later have their passports and liberty removed within hours.
Then there the break in for these women/girls, this is how the traffickers will break these girls spirits and yes its just as awful as you see in Law and Order: SVU, if not worse. Women/girls will be gang raped, beaten, burned, humiliated, threatened (family/friends) and much worse until they comply with there owners needs. Even if the women/girls earn money from the prostitution they are forced into, they will have to pay fees i.e. rent, food, clothing, bedding, even pay to use the loo. A little to back home to their families so they wont be aware of the hell their daughters are going through. And probably much worse than even I can imagine.
Even if the traffickers get caught the women who are extremity traumatized from all their ordeals (that words seems silly but cant think of any other). Most are prosecuted, sent back home to be either be shunned and rejected by their communities if they find out what happened to them or re-trafficked by another gang or worse, killed. I should also point that many governments have laws and legislation which means any women/girl who reports themselves as being trafficked can seek help and some form of asylum mostly on the grounds that the help prosecute the traffickers - however if a large organisation who had been torturing you and the other women around you said they would torturer or kill your loved ones if you spoke out, would you?!
I believe Sex trafficking is just as horrific as slavery. The youtube video above by Michelle Phan, is very inspiring and somewhat wonderful. She has used her own personal reach to help highlight an monstrosity of our generation, and hopefully spark conversations with those who are important enough to make a change.
Thanks for reading and here are some helpful links for anyone looking for more information on Sex Trafficking or Human Trafficking: Please be aware that many charity organisations have a high level of confidentiality and will help any women who is trafficked without prejudice, or obligations.
Human Trafficking Foundation - http://www.humantraffickingfoundation.org/
Tara Group Glasgow - http://www.saferglasgow.com/what-we-do/support-services-for-victims/support-to-victims-of-human-trafficking.aspx
