Be Beautiful

Last week while we were in London we stumbled across the most fabulous treasure trove of delights on Carnaby Street. We were rushing on our way to an appointment when we did a double take. We were lured in by the piles of boudoir-esque beauty products, vintage-style perfume bottles, and silk flowers covering the walls.

B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful is a boutique packed with girly gorgeousness. Perfumes with names such as Two Hearts Beating As One, and A Thousand Kisses Deep sit with bejewelled make-up. Eyeshadows, lip creams and glosses are packaged in the prettiest jewelled pots, there are carved wooden pots of face glitter, and jewelled-handled make-up brushes. And to top it all, they sell my favourite all-time beauty product, Smaragadine, a deliciously wicked bubble bath.

All their fabulous products are available online at bnevertoobusytobebeautiful.com

Hannah Dulcie knickers

Quick... we put a load more Hannah Dulcie knickers onto the website yesterday and we're selling out already! Each pair is handmade by Hannah herself, using rare Liberty fabrics, so each style is limited, generally only one in each size, so they're completely unique.
If you select Spoil Mee, followed by Luscious Lingerie, you will find the current gorgeous selection, but be quick!

London Fashion Week

Having just returned from London Fashion Week, we just wish it was next season now!

Despite all the raving reports on GMTV, London Fashion Week itself was rather quiet, although we picked up on some fabulous bags for spring, and placed orders with one of our favourites, Aura Bella. However, the rest of our days were jam packed with appointments with showrooms and agents. We may have aching feet and have accumulated a year's worth of taxi receipts in three days, but it was all worth it.

It was all about colour, colour, colour. Mee Boutique is going to look like a sweet shop with all the fabulous colours we're going to be getting in. Dresses, skirts, light knits, kaftans, tops, jeans, we saw it all. We can't wait.

And of course, it was part of our duty to pop into Zara, H&M and Topshop to check out what they're all up too. Zara was disappointing, Topshop was heaving and having tried on several pairs of shoes, the pressure all got too much and we had to leave. However, I did manage to pick up a rather fabulous pleated swing coat from H&M for the bargain price of £69! That's my winter coat sorted.

So we're now working on all our orders this week, and when that's out of the way, we'll be thinking about Christmas. Yes, Christmas!!! No rest for the wicked!

New arrivals

We've had even more deliveries at Mee.

More rumba pants from Honeydew as the first lot flew off the shelves in a matter of days. We'll get them onto the website as soon as we can grab a few pairs for long enough to photograph them!

Today, French label, Ambre Babzoe, delivered their gorgeous cashmere and silk boyfriend jumpers with fabulous fitted sequin sleeves, and silk blouses embellished with sequins.

We've got wool berets and gloves with pretty diamante jewels, and cosy scarves for when it gets colder from Lisbeth Dahl.

And still there's more to come...

Thinking of spring

As the buying season for next spring/summer gets under way, we have already found lots of beaufiful things for Mee. Getting our head round next summer is always a bit of an odd one, when we're just starting to take delivery of cosy knits and cashmere gloves for winter!

However, we've found some fabulous jeans from LA label, LoFly; pretty dresses and tops from Australian label, Fleur Wood; gorgeous kaftans and tops from Reason; beachwear, kaftans, skirts and dresses from Mimimango; and silk dresses and tops in the most wonderful colours from Bellaju.

This weekend is London Fashion Week, so we'll be trawling the shows to find the most tempting pieces for you, so watch this space!

Stella magazine

We had the most fabulous write-up yesterday in the Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine. They featured Mee in the six best shopping cities in the UK, with the most fabulous picture of the boutique.

Thank you Stella.

Fabulous bits and pieces

September is a busy old time for the girls at Mee. No only are we now buying for next spring/summer (more about that later in the week), but lots of fabulous bits and pieces are also arriving at Mee, on an almost daily basis.

Fantastic false eyelashes in black, silver, gold, and diamante, glitter eye make-up, handmade silk roses that can be worn as brooches or hair accessories, and Honeydew's famous Rumba ruffle knickers.

We've also stocked up on the brand new Fashion First Aid, the solution to all thoses annoying 'fashion' problems. Concealits for over-pert nipples, Tapeits for falling hems, slipping bra straps, and gaping blouses, and Underwhere?, the ultimate invisible boyshorts and thongs. All theses will be available to buy on online in the next couple of weeks, and in the meantime you can snap them up from our boutique, Mee, in Bath.