Free Hand French tip NOTD

Just a quick post for my nail of the day! Just a simple free hand French Tip manicure. Only took me a couple of minutes!

My top tips are....

1. Use a nail varnish that is new, nice and runny not gloopy!

2. Practice! Practice makes perfect (not that these are perfect)

3 . Don't worry if you get it on your skin, you can scrub it off the next day when the nail varnish is 100% rock solid or use a cotton bud and nail varnish remover to wipe it off.

Personally I think using a nail varnish remover and a cotton bud is useless and I can never get it off my skin and end up wiping it off my nail instead! But that's just me!

Here I used an old base coat first, next one coat of a nude polish (i used miss sporty) then Barry M white for the tips. To top it off I finished with my Seche Vite top coat!.... And Bob's your unkle! Done!

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Barry M NOTD

So I haven't posted for ages.... And I just did this snazzy little number the other day! It's a couple of different blue colours, mostly Barry M and I think one miss sporty! Used the a Barry M nail pen for the stripes!

Quick Tip

Just a quick tip tonight! If you are trying to remove glitter nail varnish and it won't come off, because it never does, then apply some nail varnish remover to some cotton wool as normal. Wrap the cotton wool around your nail the wrap the cotton wool in some tin foil. Leave it for a couple of minutes while the nail varnish remover lifts the glitter off!

Yay! Glitter nail varnish be gone!

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NOTD to brighten up a Monday

Just a quick post to brighten up the dreaded back to work Monday! And I mean how can you not have a smile on your face with the models own Southern Lights!

I think I would have to rate this as my favourite glittery nail polish to date! I just applied 2 coats on to my nail which I had primed with Sally Hansen base coat then 2 coats of the models own Southern Lights and I finished it off with 2 coats of my Seche Vite top coat!

My boyfriend bought me this nail varnish for Christmas and he did a good job!

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Boots Sale Haul

Merry Belated Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have all had wonderful times, not worked to hard, eaten lots and been merry! 

Today I just wanted to do a post, as I haven't done one for a while, about my great bargains I bought in Boots! So for anyone who doesn't know Boots is one of my favourite shops and I LOVE LOVE LOVE their christmas sale! So I went there and had a look around and I grabbed myself some AMAZING bargains! 

I bought the soap and glory 'Bag' which was ment to be £35 but everything was half price so it cost £17.50. A Mark Hill brunette hair set which was ment to be £10 but was £5. A Charles Worthington textured updo kit £12 for £6 and a vintage trinket pot which was £8 and I got it for £4. One of the best things about Boots is all year round you get points with your purchases so I only paid £21.50 for everything! 

So in the soap and glory bag this is what I received....

From left to right 125ml of Endless Glove, I have not used this before so it will be nice to try a new hand cream out! This hand cream can be used as a regular hand cream or an overnight hand mask with gloves when applied generously! It smells beautiful, all the products in this set have a very similar scent which they describe as 'notes of frozen yuzu, orange oil, green fig and jungle pomelo essence' I don't actually know what most of that is but I can tell you it smells nice! The only thing that would have made this better would have been a pair of cotton gloves to use with the mask.

Next is 500 ml of Foam Call I have used this before it is a shower come bath body wash. I really like this product again the scent is delicious it's really bubbly and leaves your skin feeling very soft!

500ml of butter yourself with a pump. I really hope the pump is good as when a pump works well it's one of the best things, it makes applying the moisturiser much easier, but when the product is too thick or the pump breaks it becomes a useless nightmare! I have not used this product before so I will have to see what it is like but I have 100% faith in soap and glory products so I think it will be amazing!

250ml of Pulp Friction which is a body scrub, again I have not used this before so I'll have to try it out and last but not least a shower cap! I love shower caps they make a quick shower so much easier for someone with long hair! This shower cap is also pretty glam so you could definitely open the door to the postman in it! 

And of course it all came in a big zip up vanity case which I am sure I will use a lot!

So far my favourite thing I bought has to be the Charles Worthington textured up do kit.

As you most probably already know I am a massive fan of a bun, especially with a bun ring. They are super quick, super easy and most importantly super glam!

This kit came with a small bun, which I needed as I only had a large bun ring and some brush out strong hold hair spray. Now both of these things are good but the pink can.... The volume and bounce texturising spray is something else!!! It says it give a back comb effect, height texture and volume and that it is non greasy! It is all of these things and much much more! It is amazing! It gives my hair such an amazing feel and volume and texture! It's as though my hair doubles in size but in the right kind of way! It's just amazing. I will 100% buy this product again! I will try and do a post with a step by step guide on how to achieve the look with these products so you can see how much it transforms my hair!

One of the reasons I love buying these kits is you get the chance to try products you never normally would buy or use. I would have never bought a spray like this as it's not anything I thought I would have needed and I would think I could achieve this with normal hair spray. But the fact is I can't and I wouldn't have been able to do it!

And finally I bought the Mark Hill brunette hair kit.

This came with shampoo, conditioner, anti-humidity shine spray and hairspray. I haven't used any of these products yet but I will be taking them to my boyfriends to stay there so I am not caught short when we decide to do something last minute with messy hair! 

If you have tried any of there products befor then let me know what u think of them, or if you got any super sale bargains let me know what you got and what you thought of them!

Happy new year! Peace out!

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Nude Nails with Christmasy Black Sparkly Tips

So today I have decided to do a sort of step by step how I did my nails like this guide! 

So as you can see my natural nails are very stained because I wear nail varnish pretty much 100% of the time! Nearly all of the time I use base coat but on this one occasion I didn't and my nails got stained! So always wear base coat! So I started by shaping my nails with a very fine nail file as they only needed a touch up they didn't need to much re shaping or re sizing.

Next I gave my nails a gentle buff with a buffer block I got really cheap from superdrug and then applied my base coat. My most recent base coat is Sally Hansen miracle nail thickener, I don't think it does what it says it does but it is strong and if your just wearing the base cost it's nice and shiny, I would probably buy it again but not to thicken my nails! It's the one with the purple bottle and gold lid!

Next I applied one quite tick coat of miss sporty in a nude shade. It is number 24 it's one I have blogged about before, I really like it and 100% recommend it if you on a budget!

Once that had dried I followed the shape of my nails edge and painted it black, this was actually a massive pain in the arse as both of my black nail varnishes I've had for ages and ages and ages and they were both really thick and hard to work with but I'm sure if you had a thinner nail varnish that you would find the task of following the shape of your nails very easy! Before you do this you could tape up the sides of your nails as it gets very messy escically when you paint your hand your not so good at. I think taping up your nails is a complete waste of time and once your nails are 100% dry just soak them in some warm water for 5 minuets and give them a gentle brush with a nail brush or at the end of a bath or shower and all the varnish on your fingers will be gone!

Once the black was dry you could just stop there as they look really nice. I applied one layer of top coat before I went on to the next stage, as I wanted something a bit more glittery and special! So I used the BarryM special effects limited addition glitter that I got a couple of years ago in a sale, it's still going strong, and applied that to the very edge of my nails!

So once the glitter had dryed, I put on two coats, I applied another layer of top coat. Seche Vite is my favourite glossy top coat I have ever come across in my whole life, no exaggeration! It makes any nail varnish I apply stay on for a week plus and I'm convinced it's the only reason my nails are so long. As you can see it's really messy around the edge of my nails where I've been a bit heavy handed.

So as I said earlier I just waited till all my nail varnish was dry, Seche Vite makes it touch dry really fast but it's not really 100% dry on the lower coats so I waited a couple of hours then soaked my nails for a couple of minuets rubbed them with the nail brush and here is the final result! 

 

I hope you have enjoyed this, if you try it out then you should send me a picture! Don't forget to follow my blog. I'll have lots of Christmas sparkly nail designs coming up and some product reviews on my current skin care and just lots of other bits and bobs really! 

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October Update

So after the busy month of September October was almost as busy! I decided to really start a full on diet when October started as I'm going away next summer and I just know with stuff like Halloween, fireworks and Christmas I'm going to put on weight so I've started early to hopefully kick it off in the right direction! When I've lost weight before I found the best diet that works for me is Rosemary Conley so I haven't gone back to any classes but I'm following the diet, I think in the new year I'll go back to the classes to kick start the post Christmas weight loss! If anyone is interested then the link is here to the website.

http://www.rosemaryconley.com/

I went to the O2 arena to see Bruno Mars! I was so excited as I love Bruno and I had never been to the O2 before! So that was so much fun! I honestly think that Bruno was better live than the recorded stuff! He was so amazing! While I was there I also had my first ever GBK experience! It was amazing! (So amazing I'v  been twice since) everyone is allowed a not so strict day when dieting, I mean it is a lifestyle change not something for a couple of weeks and you can't go your whole life never eating a burger or curry again!?!?!? 

So back to a bit more of a normal post for me! I did a Halloween style manicure! I can't take the credit for this as one of my friends did it on her nails and posted it on Facebook and I had a go because I thought it was so cool! So here it is, black and white Beatlejuice style stripes with a ring finger Halloween face! And I posted it to Heat for the Halloween nails and got on there website which was super-duper cool! So as I'm a looser I screen shot it and here it is! 

I then had a week off work so I met up with some uni friends, went to stay at one of There's for a couple of days, then it was Halloween! So I got back on the fancy dress, carved my pumpkin and decorated the window for the trick or treaters! I carved a pumpkin of a face being sick! I wanted a pumpkin which was a bit lumpy and bumpy not like the supermarket pumpkins that are perfectly round so when I was seeing my friend in Kent we went to a farm shop that only sells local produce and got our pumpkins from there! There where so many it was hard to pick one!

I dressed up again for Halloween so I went as a broken doll! And here is also a picture or my cousin with me who went out as Batgirl! 

So that's October done with! I should now be back to some normal blog posts! I hope you have enjoyed my updates and I should be posting some more nail designs and Christmas ideas soon along with some new products I am currently loving!

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