Nails, Nails, Nails.

Top Left: Both Barry M. Right: OPI. Bottom Left: Matte Black Barry M, Glitter Loreal. Right: Models Own.

Now as it's clear from these pictures I'm probably not the best person to talk to you all about nail care as I've had the habit of biting my nails for virtually my whole life and I've tried every treatment under the sun and nothing has really worked. Even though my nails are extremely short I always like to have them painted but the skin around them is awful, partly to blame is my bad habit but the other is also because I now spent a fair amount of time sewing or using pins/needles/scissors/overlockers etc and my skin takes a hit everytime I accidentally jab myself with any of these such things resulting in dry irritated hands.

I've decided 2014 will be the year I look after my skin better starting with keeping my poor hands and feet in better condition (I wouldn't dare post a photo of my feet as that just on a whole other level gross!) I'm going to treat tired, dry feet with gel socks to get my tootsies in tip top condition for the summer so I will wear lovely sandals again without hiding my feet in pop socks and converse!

Even though I am an avid nail biter I have a slight obsession with nail polish particularly the more sparkle the better in my opinion!

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DIY - Neon Necklace.

These are some photographs I took while doing a little DIY I'd seen around online and on Dani's blog here. Of course her pictures are soooo much better than mine as well as her explanation of what to do so I won't drone on about how I did it as its exactly the same as what the lovely Dani did.

Mine isn't quite as neon as I would like but as I don't actually own any neon polish I think it looks pretty good! I'm also thinking about buying another necklace and doing a pastel themed one as I'd really like to see how that would work out. I bought my necklace from eBay for £1.99 and a pound postage it also came with some lovely clip on earrings which aren't really my thing so have been put into the jewellery box for pantomine! I also added more colours to it in the end so there was even less bling on show (though I did leave a little so they could catch the light and twinkle slightly) I'm going to have to wear it for a post as soon as possible so you can see the finished piece! I am thinking of either a light weight over sized denim or white shirt with leggings and flatforms and this necklace would look amazing, just going to have to hunt down such things now!

Nail polishes used were as follows:-

- Matte White Barry M
- Lemon Yellow Barry M
- Cyan Blue Barry M
- Pink Siren Collection 2000
- Orange Sun Downer Rimmel

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Nails, nails, nails.

These are just a few pictures of my ail art attempts I've collected over the last week or so. I'm finding it hard to blog at uni at the moment but only because I can't find anywhere to take my outfit pictures and at the moment I'm having to use the mirror so eventually I will post them up even though I'm not totally happy with them!

I bought a Andrew Fulerton Dot and Flick from superdrug during my freshers week and I've been playing with it since! One of these images is also some Barry M nail effects crackle I now own a black and white of this and tend to wear with alternate colours under neath.. so I'd have white crackle on a black nail and vice versa. After reading some of LLYMLRS posts over nail art has got me really excited to try more, including browsing eBay for all manner of goodies!

If any of you fancy seeing some of my attempts at tutorials just let me know? I hope I will be posting better in the coming weeks!

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Marbled nails, first attempt!

Taping up the fingers ready for dripping.

First attempt done.


This was my first ever try at doing marble nails, I know there not perfect but I personally think we did pretty well considering. Now all the tutorials I watched (which was a lot!) all did something slightly different so I guess you just have to find a method that works for you. I found that over all cold water worked the best as it took us about an hour of changing temperature of water and never worked well. So we gave up and used cold.

I'll let you watch the video's instead of me rambling on and not really making sense! I'm going to have ago at doing it on some fake nails I've bought as my nails are just far to short! I'd like to say thank you to my brothers girlfriend who was my hand model for these pictures, haha! We used Rimmel nail polishes and a Barry M 3 in 1 which is a top coat, nail hardener and base coat. Below is the video I watched to help me create this.

What do you think of my nail posts, would you like to see more of them?

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First half decent attempt at nail art ever!

Two layers of white nail varnish (as I don't own a light grey one) I prefer white anyway.

I dipped the Newspaper into the surgical spirit and pressed it onto my nail for 10ish seconds.
Peeling off the Newspaper, which on one nail I left it on to long and it got stuck!

Things I used, including my choice of Newspaper, finished nails.


This is my first remotely decent attempt at some nail art! Considering I bite my nails (which I know is a awful habit!) I adore nail art! Though having due to me having ridiculously short nails I've never really been able to do anything at all fancy other than slapping a bit of polish on. This has now changed, I love the idea of newspaper print on nails and it looks so good as well!

I'll just let you watch the video instead of me trying to type out how I did it, as I'll waffle on and it's really not difficult. Rubbing alcohol is surgical spirit and the bottle I used is probably older than me but worked fine! And definitely Make sure your varnish is dry otherwise the paper can stick to it and it'll ruin the look! In case you were wondering my choice of Newspaper was Saturdays Sun. The page I used was the article on Will Young, by the way how good is he new song!? to be totally honest the only reason I got it was because I wanted the Fabulous Magazine.

Below is the tutorial I used, I've also watched the majority of the cutepolish videos and I've bought fake nails to do them! So look out for more nail art on here in the future!

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