You can call me queen bee

Yellow is and always will be a tricky colour. No matter your skin tone, body type or style - it's a challenge! However, I do have a few yellow pieces in my wardrobe that I absolutely love. One of them is a lemon yellow cropped jumper, one is a mustard yellow jumpsuit and the other is this chartreuse yellow skirt. This skirt is much easier to style because of the black lace pattern, meaning it's pretty easy to match it up with a black top and black shoes. In this instance I went with my flared sleeve black top and oldie-but-goodie black caged heels. Although wearing black and yellow does give off a honey bee vibe...

Which leads nicely on to my next point (wow it's almost as if I engineered that). For years I held off on getting a tattoo until I was absolutely, irrevocably certain on what I wanted. But I think that getting tattoos is a lot like breaking the seal on a night out - once you've got the first one, you just want to keep getting them. And after getting my world tattoo back in December, I realised I was thinking about the whole thing too seriously. I'm not a flaky or fickle person - I'm headstrong and sure of myself and once my mind is set on something, that's where it stays. So I'm pretty sure the same will apply with my tattoos - and if not, it really doesn't matter. I believe that you shouldn't take everything too seriously; life is for enjoying. So my approach to my tattoos is that they all mean something. Not like lyrics to my favourite song or names of my family members or anything like that. But my tattoos are about putting what's on the inside, on to the outside (in a less gruesome way than it sounds). So my world tattoo is a symbol not only for my wanderlust but for the fact that I wish for the world. My Serendipity is my belief system; I believe in fate and destiny and in the universe having a sense of humour. So my third tattoo is my queen bee to represent (pretty self explanatory really) my inner queen. Not a secret obsession with Beyonce as my friend from work Joe keeps insisting it is. My whole life, I wanted to be a princess, due mostly to Disney's beautiful dresses and timeless musical numbers. But now I've learned about history, and I know that princesses had little to no say in their own lives, were almost never eligible for their own throwns and were sold off to kings and lords by their parents for money and power. So I've realised that I'd rather be a queen. Queens are powerful and decisive and admired. One of my favourite quotes is 'What's a queen without her king? Historically, more powerful'. Suffrage may not have come around until the mid 1800s but women have been running the world for a hell of a lot longer than that. So my third tattoo is not only beautifully done and made prettier by added flowers, but it's to remind me that I'm powerful and I can do absolutely anything I want to. Because I'm a queen.