Mini Nail Polish Haul and NOTW: Glitterball!

So recently I took a trip into town for hair dye and pressed powder, only to find that Superdrug have an offer on their Rimmel nail polish - 3 for 2!

So anybody who reads my blog will know by now that I like nail polish, right? Right. I love it, so I couldn't pass up this offer! I bought three colours and I was so excited to try them that my nail of the week is using all three!! xD

So the first colour I bought was a pretty purple shade called How Do You Lilac It? Its a really nice pastel shade with a sort of pinky undertone and I think it may be my new favourite colour!

The second colour is called Silver Bullet, and it's a very sheer and shimmery white colour, that almost looks silver in certain lights.

The third colour is a glitter polish and is called Disco Ball. It has different sizes and varied colours inside clear polish. There are pinks, blues and silvers as far as I can see, and it works so well with the other two shades!

NOTW: All three colours together!

July Favourites!

I know that it's a little bit late but I had a few things lined up for this post at the beginning of August and just kept forgetting to write the post so, at long last, I've managed to haul my ass onto Blogger and it's here!!

There are a few products on my list and a couple that aren't cosmetic products (or even products) so I feel I have a good variety to share with you all! I hope you enjoy the post. :D

Okay, so the first product I have in my July favourites are for your hair, and they are Schwarzkopf Live Colour XXL hair dyes! I used the Shake It Up Foam Colour in Black Velvet Crush - I've used this on the lower half of my hair and it's true to the name - it made my hair look like black velvet! I love the colour, it smells like strawberries so there's no nasty chemical smell. The only downside is that you get a lot of dye and I only really need a quarter of the amount it gives me so I have to waste a lot of dye.

The second product in my July favourites is a food! It's Wrigley's Extra sugarfree gum in STRAWBERRY. I didn't even know this existed til recently, I think it's new? But omg it's amazing and I am addicted. Like seriously, take me to gum rehab. I can't stop chewing this stuff! Love it!!

Product number three is the Radiance Brightening Moisturiser with SPF10 from Simple - I recently have been going through having a dry face and this moisturiser is AMAZING. It has mango extract to hydrate, bisabolol to soothe and calm, glycerin to nourish, pro-vitamin B5 to restore, soften and smooth, vitamin E to moisturise and vitamin C, which is an antioxidant. It's been working really well to keep my face hydrated and get rid of the dryness, it also gives my face a very smooth and bright look which I loooove! Definitely going to be buying more of this!

Numero quatro is my makeup mirror! I put this in because last month I decided it was too boring, and I covered it in glitter and pink things. It's so freakin' shiny and pretty, I had to include it in this post. :')

On top of the mirror, my glitter wedges!! I did them the day after my mirror and I have yet to wear them out but will be doing so very soon! I'm so excited to show off my shiny handywork to everyone!

And last but not least, my favourite person of the month - Skyler! He goes by the username SegaSky on most sites/devices and we met through a friend a little while ago on Twitter. He was actually spoiling an episode of WWE Raw for me and I thought he was really funny and kinnnda cute, too. We spoke a little more and it developed into friendship and now it's just plain ol' love. He's amazing and just makes me go akjshdskjdh all the time - it's so sad that he lives so far away. :(
Love you my bby Skysky!! <3 xo

Annd that's the end of the post.
Thanks for reading, see you next time! :3

xo

Glitzy Pink Nails Tutorial!

So I get a lot of questions on what colour nail polish my glitter nails are, and I think it puts them off when I tell them that it takes more than one colour to do - maybe they think that it's too complicated? Who knows, but I decided that since so many people asked me irl, I would post a (sort-of) tutorial online. 

The reason I call this a 'sort-of' tutorial is because I'm still not sure that I'm any good at this stuff!
However I have pictures to explain what I'm blabbering on about today, so without further a-do, here's the tutorial!

Step 1: Apply a base coat to your nails in order to protect them - I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails. (I did this the night beforehand, hence the changes in lighting)..

Step 2: Apply a hot pink colour to all of your nails, but just one coat. The reason we only apply one coat is so that the colours don't build up and you end up with really thick layers of polish on your nails - I've found it's more prone to chip the thicker it is. I used 17 Supreme Shine Miami.

Step 3: Apply a sheer light pink over the hot pink colour, again, you'll only need one coat. This time it's so that we can still see the darker pink through the light one. I used 17 Supreme Shine Pinking Shear.

Step 4: Apply a glitter polish! Any nail polish with glitter is fine - I've just used an off-brand polish I got in a set. You do want it to be a clear polish, though, otherwise you won't really see the pink you just put on! My polish has silver sparkles, and they work with any colour polish - as you've seen, I've used it with blue, silver, pink, gold, black, etc - however you could use glitter of the same colour, e.g. using pink glitter on pink nails.

Step 5: Apply a top coat and you're done! Here is the finished look:

I hope this tutorial was easy to understand! Thanks for reading!
xo

First FOTD - Dramatic & Neutral.

So the make-up I would have worn to NKOTBSB is a sort of natural, yet dramatic look.

I used a light, almost white colour all over the eyelid and on the inner corner, then used a beige colour on the outer half and a dark brown to fill in my crease. I blended the dark brown above the crease slightly, too, and put my usual white highlight on the brow bone. I then used Collection 2000's Extreme 24 Hour Felt Tip eyeliner to create a big, dramatic line across my eye, ending it with a wing. I used my Body Shop pencil eyeliner on my waterline and then my Maybelline Falsies Volum' Express mascara on curled lashes to finish the look.

I am wearing a mixture of peach and baby pink blushes and have my Candy Doll Ramune Pink lipstick on. I'm also wearing my Super+ BB Cream (the pink one) and Rimmel London Clear Complexion pressed powder in 021 Transparent.

Sorry for the over-processed picture - I know that you can't really see much of the make-up on my face at all, but I haven't got hold of any better picures. I'll try to find something better for you guys, but in the meantime, bare with me! xo

First OOTD - What I Would Have Worn To NKOTBSB!

Yes, would have!

I was supposed to go see NKOTBSB (that's New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys, for those who don't know) with my 'best friend' a week ago. I spent over £300 on train tickets and two VIP tickets for us both, only for her to basically screw me over and I ended up not going since I would have ended up stranded in London had we not gone, etc. Turns out she went with her Mum instead. I was devastated, to say the least. Long story short; It didn't go how I wanted.

HOWEVER, I did buy a new jumper in honour of the event and I was planning this ootd for a while, so I figured why not go ahead and do it anyway? Now since this is my first, I'm not sure how well it works with the pictures, etc. But enough explaining and onto the outfit!

So the outfit consists of my American flag jumper, which I got from New Look. I think it was about £22? Something like that. It's by Cameo Rose and has the stars down one sleeve, stripes down the other. Pretty cute and at a good price, too.

I just wore a little brown vest underneath it - also from New Look but not sure how much for - probably around £10, maybe.

I tucked both tops in on the front right side of my jeans - these jeans are slashed/ripped jeans from Criminal Damage in a sort of acid wash dark grey colour. I can't remember how much they were but I bought them from Blue Banana's website so you can check there - I'm pretty sure they still sell them.

I wore a pair of skin colour tights underneath and my pink studded belt (also from Blue Banana), then paired the outfit with my black lace up wedges from New Look (£25), however I was planning to wear my black Jeffrey Campbell Litas once they arrived in the post. (Seperate post coming soon for those, I think!)

So that's it! I hope you liked it and let me know if you'd like to see more ootd posts from me.

I think I'll put up a fotd for this outfit, too, since I had my make-up planned to co-ordinate. I know, I over-planned, but I was supposed to be meeting Backstreet Boys - I had to look my best! ;D

Thanks for reading! xo

Pink Hair!

So I got rid of the purple in exchange for a dark pink!

It was originally supposed to be a dark red colour, but when I recieved the dye in the post it looked more pinky. I got suspicious and opened it up, testing the colour on a blonde extension, and what colour did it turn out? Pink!! 

It didn't bother me too much, tho, I've always wanted to go pink but never had the balls - this gave me that push to actually do it at last - I wasn't about to waste £8s worth of hair dye! xD

About a day after I first dyed it - it was so bright!!

A few weeks later and it faded to this colour, I think it still looks quite nice :P

My Return to Blogging!

Hey guys, so I know I've been a bad blogger as of late and havent really kept up to date at all.

I'm very sorry, (not that you'd miss my posts much anyways!) and this year has been hectic for me so far!

It's just been one bad thing after another if I'm honest with you.

This weekend has by far been the worst of all and I've lost a LOT of money and a couple friends, too. I'll be going to visit the police station in about 20 minutes, so I wanted to write a quick post letting you know what's been going on!

I won't go into details, as you guys don't want to know and I don't want to go through it all again.
However, the good news is that I'll be returning to blogging hopefully - I need something productive to distract me from everything as I'm no longer in school (I couldn't cope with the stress - I'll be returning to college in September!) and don't like to dwell on things all the time - it just makes me depressed! :(

I know that excuses are useless and you guys probably didn't even notice I was gone, but I wanted to keep this up to date. I'm hoping to start posting nail tutorials, or fashion inspired blogs to fill my time - maybe a Jeffrey Campbell Lita review? I just ordered a pair and I'm hoping to receive them later this week!

Let me know what you guys would be interested in seeing, be it make-up tutorials, nail tutorials, OOTDs, FOTDs, reviews, etc. Whatever you'd be interested in seeing, I'd love to make it happen. (:

Thanks for sticking with me gals,
(all 14 of you! xD)

xo

NOTW: Catch Up Post!

Here are some of the nail pictures from the past few weeks that I have collected and didn't post here!
The last picture are my nails for this week - blue sparkles, which I had to use two nail polishes for to achieve maximum glitter-ness! :P <3

Chevron!

Pink + White Polka Dots!

Happy Valentines! <3

Blue Sparkles!

Hair Pictures!

Hey guys, sorry I took so long to post this - I was on half term and I think it was the busiest week of my life!

As I said in my previous post, here are pictures of my new hair colour! I love it - it's so bright and purple! It shines so pretty in the sunlight, too! :D

Abi + I @ My birthday meal! <3

Alex + I before a friend's band gig! <3

Abi + I - With the dye in our hair! <3

Bye! xo

Purple Hair!

So I dyed my hair with a friend on Sunday - we went to town in search for some blonde dye and then came back to my place to do the actual dying process. I had already brought my purple dye online from beeunique.co.uk - I reccomend it for anyoen interested in dying or bleaching your hair crazy colours, located in the uk! (They can't ship bleach outside of the Uk, for certain reasons.)

So Abi wanted blonde and brown ombre hair, which I was going to do for her, since I had more experience in dying hair than she did. Unfortunately the dye didn't lighten her hair very much, so we're going to dye on top of it again sometime soon to make it more noticeable. 

I then started on my own hair, putting the same blonde dye in my fringe, then dying the rest purple. I was stupid and didn't use gloves. xD

I'll post pictures soon! (: <3

NOTW: Birthday Sparkles!

So it was my birthday on Tuesday, which is why my post is up today, instead of Sunday. :')

I went out for a meal with friends to celebrate, so I decided to paint my nails a gold sparkling gradient with a few rhinestones on my ring finger - I really love it and so did all my friends! Unfortunately soon after they turned purple due to the fresh dye in my hair. :(

I just have an instagram pic of them, sorry! I lost my other photos. :(

NOTW: Vintage Roses.

This week's nails are vintage wallpaper themed, with one hand full of roses and the other hand with roses and stripes. I was inspired by some videos on YouTube that I saw and decided to make my own version, using the same sort of style as one of my favourite nail gurus: cutepolish! :D

Here are some pictures of my nails and the products I used to achieve the look! (:

 

I used Rimmel Lasting Finish Misty Jade, Rimmel Lasting Finish Fruities Apricot Punch, Claire's Red and off-brand French White.

Forgot to add this one into the picture, hehe. I also used Rimmel Lasting Finish Green Grass for the leaves!

NOTW: Barry M Purple Crackle!

So I've decided to start making Nail of the Week posts, as I love to change my nail colour every Sunday religiously, and I don't post often enough on here! I thought why not use my love for nail polishes to fix my posting problem. :D

This week I'm wearing a super girly combination of 17's Lasting Fix in Parma Violet with Barry M's Instant Nail Effects in purple. I really like the Barry M crackle effect and I feel it goes on well, however the bottle tends to dry out pretty quickly so you have to keep putting the lid on between each nail. I think it's much better quality than my other crackle polish by Rimmel, which doesn't really give such a nice effect on the nail, but it doesn't dry out so easy.

NOTW

Barry M Instant Nail Effects & 17 Lasting Fix Parma Violet.

The 17 nail polish I have came in this cute little box as a gift for Christmas this year! I have another pink one somewhere, too! Isn't it pretty-looking? :3