Lifestyle
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30 Days of Summer: Get Blogger StrangenessandCharm’s Look
Hayley wears Postcard Dress, Lace up Worker Boots, £31.50, and Travel Wallet Day 18 Blogger, Strangenessandcharm tells us about her travels in our postcard print dress and why she loves Yumi. Briefly describe your style I don’t really think I have a style – I wear a lot of different things. At the moment I’m loving bright, patterned clothes and lots of florals. Where would you wear your Yumi outfit? I wore this dress in Amsterdam. What do you love about Yumi? There’s so many different dresses in a lot of different styles – I just want everything! Read more on Hayley’s blog: Strangenessandcharm.co.uk Like Hayley’s look? Tweet us @official_yumi…
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30 Days of Summer: Get Blogger SugarandSpice’s Look
Emily wears Floral Maxi Dress and Jewel and Stone Necklace, Now £7.50 Day 25 Briefly describe your style My style is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple and tend to opt for a monochrome palette of blacks, greys, navys and whites – with a little colour thrown in occasionally. Where would you wear your Yumi outfit? I think this maxi dress would be ideal for a late summer wedding – the statement necklace really packs a punch. I’ll be wearing it when the hubby and I head for a long weekend away later in the summer. What do you love about Yumi? The pieces are definitely “outfit makers”.…
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Festival Guide: Dimensions 2015 Playlist
With a little over a month to go until Dimensions sets up camp under the Croatian skies. We’re counting down the days until we can relax on the sandy beaches as well as catching the hottest DJ’s and performers! With Artists such as Nao, Four Tet and Motor City Drum Ensemble gracing the stages, and artists like Ben UFO and Horse Meat Disco taking their stages off shore for the boat parties. This festival fueled get-away can’t get any better! Get yourself as excited as we are with our Dimensions 2015 Playlist. For more information and tickets simply click here. https://open.spotify.com/user/11120974386/playlist/76oygFxUnuYDhbFd8C84Op Where are you off this Summer? Tweet us @official_yumi Summer Diaries: Lost Village Festival 2015 A…
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Yumi’s Top Festival Must Haves
Festival season is well and truly at its peak. Even though many of you might be fighting away your Glastonbury blues, just remember there’s many more festivals to be excited about this summer!! With festival plans sorted, tickets purchased, tents and sleeping bags ticket off your to-do list, the hard bit is yet to come … The Festival Wardrobe.. AHH! Well no need to freak out, because we’ve got the top 5 festival accessory must haves to give your festival look an extra added something. One, Unique Freak Tattoos Temporary tattoos are definitely on the hit list for this seasons summer festivals. Mix and match to build your unique empire of gold and silver patterns.…
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Summer Diaries: Found Festival 2015
Last weekend our Marketing Assistant stayed close to home, and paid a visit to Found Festival. Situated within the beautiful landscape of Brockwell Park, Brixton – Found Festival is one of 5 installments taking place throughout the summer months. This week we bring you Summer Diaries, the Instagram edition. 1 bus ride, 2 bottles of prosecco and a view of the famous London naked bike ride later… the girls and I had arrived. With the grey clouds covering the skies, and having to line up twice in a 50 minute wait, this wasn’t exactly what we had in mind… But there was hope! The blue skies washed in and we finally got closer to…
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Summer Diaries: NoTomorrow Festival 2015
Hip-Hip Ho-Rayyyy, I think we can officially say that the Festival season is undoubtedly under way. The last couple of weeks you’ve seen our Marketing Assistant venturing in and out of festivals, from exploring the first ever Lost Village Festival, to dancing stage side at We Are FSTVL. Well its been a new week, which means a new festival and it also means a new instalment of Summer Diaries. This week, our Marketing Assistant Faye has crossed into the Northern border to party in the city which gave us Robin Hood. Last weekend Faye ventured to Nottingham where she saw the likes of Jessie Ware and DJ EZ. Welcome to the third segment of Summer Diaries: NoTomorrow Festival 2015.…
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Summer Diaries: We Are FSTVL 2015
New week, new festival! Ohh yes, this year’s festivals are really kicking off. Last bank holiday saw our first instalment of Summer Diaries where our Marketing Assistant reviewed and sharing her adventures of brand new festival Lost Village. This weekend Faye‘s giving you a front row seat into the adventures of We Are FSTVL. So leap, jump, skip or walk this way and step closer to the second segment of Summer Diaries: We Are FSTVL 2015 Addition – no rain macs needed! New week, new festival. Ohh yes, this year is really kicking off! Last bank holiday saw me situated within the woodlands of Lincolnshire for Lost Village, while this weekend I made a Sunday appearance…
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Summer Diaries: Lost Village Festival 2015
Ahh yess, so it begins…Last Bank Holiday played host to this years first wave of festivals. Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Love Saves the Day, Common People, Lost Village and Drifters Festival were amongst the handful of events to help jump start this year’s festival antics, as well as reassuring us that summer isn’t too far away (dresses at the ready girls!) Didn’t get the chance to make any festival plans? Well lucky for you, our Marketing Assistant Faye has been invited to a handful of the best festivals around! Giving you a front row seat at some of the most high profile festivals Britain has to offer. So leap, jump, skip or walk this way and…
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5 tips to get feet sandal ready for summer
Summer’s fast approaching and so comes the dreaded dilemma: when’s the time to expose your feet and start wearing your new sandals? For most of us, getting our feet ready for sandals is quite the challenge. From chipped off nail polish to parched heels closely resembling hooves, for most of us our covered up tootsies have been deprived of any kind of maintenance. Cue our top home-pedicure tips to get your feet fit for the general public. 1. File a foot We don’t want to be too graphic here but you might need to combat any hard skin with a gentle foot file. Not for the ticklish but it works, so there.…
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Yumi Loves: Clean eating deliveries from Mindful Chef
It’s always a challenge keeping up with new food trends, so at Yumi HQ, we decided to make it that little bit easier for you. Let us introduce you to Mindful Chef, a delivery box business unlike the rest (and we didn’t even mean for that to rhyme…) A couple of weeks ago we stumbled upon this new food delivery service, one which guarantees to take the hassle out of clean eating. With 3 freshly prepared Paleo-inspired meals in each weekly box and average prep time of 15-20 minutes, we couldn’t have been more intrigued. The boys at Mindful Chef let us in on their secret: “You won’t find any pasta, white/brown rice or white potatoes in…