Florrie Elizabeth.

Whilst flicking through music channels on the TV the other day, I came across a video that I had not seen before by Little Mix. The video was of their latest single, 'Black Magic', which is their first taken from their forthcoming album, 'Get Weird'. The song itself is one of those 'mehh' tunes: not one of those tunes that makes you want to grab the radio (or TV, in this case) and hammer against a wall until the machine is entirely dysfunctional, but not one that you just cannot resist whacking on full volume and belting out the lyrics to when you're in the car. However, what really caught my attention was the characterisation in the video. 'Black Magic' is based at a college. Perrie, Leigh-anne, Jade and Jesy are the college's 'uncool' girls. In fact, they're so uncool that two of the clan are glasses-wearers. Stumbling (literally) out of the school entrance, the girls are wearing some shocking outfits as, obviously, every girl w...

17th May 2008. The day my dreads became reality: I got my first pair of glasses. I'd seen it coming for a few months prior to it, but there was still a part of me clutching on to the idea that perhaps my eyesight was just blurry because of the side effects of some peculiar, undiagnosed illness I'd had. Yeah, I was pretty desperate. However, just because the optician tells you to start wearing glasses, that doesn't mean you to have to, right? ...Wrong, but that's what I did anyway, up until late 2012, when it got to the stage where I felt like my grades were being affected by my near-sightedness.  Don't get me wrong- I don't have anything against glasses-wearers; in fact, I genuinely do believe glasses can look sublime. It's just the hassle of wearing them that frustrates me to this very day. If you forget your glasses, you're completely, and utterly, stuck. Every activity you attempt to complete at work that day becomes 19842 times more d...