Without meaning to sound too full of myself, I’m quite good at buying gifts for most people. I’m also really good at buying myself things that I want but absolutely don’t need throughout the course of the year. What I do struggle with, however, is being asked what I want for Christmas, so in the interest of being slightly more organised I’ve compiled a want-list in the hope that it might help inspire gift-buying for you from others, for your more difficult to buy for family and friends or, most importantly, from you to you (because you deserve it):

I feel like shopping. I am in an insatiable mood where I want to spend lots of money on things that I don’t necessarily need and definitely don’t have space for no matter how much I sell or give away (hey, buy my stuff on Depop), and the black hole of clothes, shoes, accessories and make-up that is ASOS is calling me. Whilst I scour the website for my own purposes, I thought it might useful to compile a list of really great things on the site at the moment, which all come in at under £50 each. PLUS you can get 20% off everything with the code YESPLEASE for today (Bank Holiday Monday) only, so you’re basically saving money too.

clockwise from left –

• YAS smock blouse – £48
• pussy bow ruffle blouse – £30
• Lazy Oaf ‘baby’ velvet t-shirt – £35
• BooHoo lace-up espadrille – £18
• Nars velvet matte skin tint – £30
• Nars velvet matte lip pencil (in ‘red square’) – £20
• white denim jacket – £40
• Monki wide leg jumpsuit – £35
• black low rise denim skirt – £25
• Monki balloon sleeve sweat top – £25
• plain baseball cap in black or stone – £8
• cropped bomber jacket – £50
• red glove shoes – £35

more asos buys under £50:

All of my wishlists and ‘save for later’ carts are full of off-the-shoulder tops. All of them. As I’ve rambled on about in recent posts, like this one and this one, I think they’re super elegant and make an outfit altogether slightly more interesting than it might otherwise be. I am envisioning my go-to summer outfit being an off-the-shoulder top worn over denim shorts, and in the mean time wearing them with kick flare jeans or a pretty midi skirt. My personal fave of this bunch is the indigo denim off-the-shoulder top, which I want to wear with jeans and a faux leather biker jacket immediately, and over off-white denim shorts in the summer.

Topshop ‘retro floral’ smock bardot blouse – £28

Topshop ‘retro floral’ bardot frill off-the-shoulder top – £24

Whistles cotton bardot top – £88

Topshop white off-the-shoulder blouse – £28

Glamorous off-the-shoulder top – £14

ASOS pale pink off-the-shoulder top with ruffle sleeves – £30

ASOS pink minimal off-the-shoulder top – £32

Topshop blue bardot frill off-the-shoulder top – £22

Lost Ink denim off-the-shoulder top – £30

some skinny scarves to pair with your new top: