OOTD & NOTD : Children in Need - Something Spotty

Yesterday we had a dress down day in work and had to wear something spotty. We had to donate £2 to Children in Need and were then allowed to wear our own clothes. I did my nails spotty as I didn't think I had any spotty clothes, then I remembered my bargain £5 polka dot dress from Asda.

Dress - ASDA

Belt, Cardigan & Boots - Primark

Tights & Socks - H&M

Necklace - Temporary Secretary

Brooch (barely seen) - Dainty Roses

ELF White

Piggy Paint Dragon Tears

Barry M Yellow

Barry M Blueberry

No 7 Devils Delight

I was very pleased with how my nails turned out, I had so many comments on them.

Did you do anything in work to raise money for Children in Need?

How do you Konad?

Hi guys, I hope you don't mind the late night post! I wasn't going to post tonight as we went to watch The Inbetweeners (hilarious by the way!). I've just had a cup of coffee and an wide awake so thought I'd pop up this post that I took the pictures for the other day!

Konad...how do you use it?

After several failed stamping attempts I decided to sit down with a few nail varnishes and Konad plate m83 to see if I could get the stamp to transfer with any of them, the results weren't very successful as you can see below...

MUA - Hardly there

Eyeko - quite promising but only part of the design

17 - no transfer at all!

Rimmel - this one picked up a lot of the image clearly, but missed parts 

Barry M - hardly there

ELF - picked up a lot of the design but again missed chunks

No.7 - just a tiny dot!

This is where you guys come in, how do you Konad? Am I doing something wrong or do I just have to admit defeat and buy the Konad Special paints? Do you have any Konad hints and tips?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated!

 

Nail Art Fail

Evening all, how are you today? I've finally recovered from my pollen induced coma, a result of walking home along the canal, so have decided to write a post!

You may remember me mentioning Emily's amazing tiger nails in my monthly summary post. They were amazing, my attempt wasn't!

One coat of NYC Spring Street

After dabbing Barry M shade 134 and Nails Inc Copacabana over the top using the corner of a sponge

Finished result

It didn't look as bad  blurred....

This nail art fail has really taught me that I need to invest in some nail art pens instead of using my Eyeko Eyeliner! I had to skip the gold step out as I didn't have a gold nail art pen, and I do feel that the black may have come out better with a nail art pen. The plus side of using eyeliner...I didn't like the design so instead of locking it in with a top coat I washed the eyeliner off and kept the gradient nails!

I'm still a nail art newbie so am definitely going to try this again as Emily did it so well! Do you have any nail art tips/recommendations?

OOTD - Friday night meal

Hi all :) How are you? I'm feeling good after a very naughty Dominos! Spencer is still waiting for his, bless! I ordered them on my iphone app, two pizzas in the two for Tuesday offer, the email confirmation said I'd only ordered one pizza, I rang straight up and they said no problem they'd send the two. Delivery guy turns up with one pizza! (thankfully mine!) I rang up and they said they'd re-do the other and send it out, I then asked what else we get for the inconvenience, we have 50% off our next order :) Always worth being cheeky and asking!

As you will probably already know we went for a trial of our wedding food on Friday, the photos of the food are in my most recent week in photos post. This is what I wore...

Outfit

Cardigan - Primark

Dress - Primark via Ebay

Shoes - Ebay

Tights - New Look

Bag - Primark

Necklace & Earnings - Peacocks

Make-up

Foundation - Rimmel 25 hours

Blusher - part of Rimmel set

Lips - Barry M Touch of Magic over Eyeko Strawberry Fat Balm

Mascara - Eyeko Big Eyes

Eyeliner - MUA

For those of you who are concerned, Spencer's pizza arrived as I was about to push publish!

Review : Barry M Lip Paint - Tough of Magic

I first saw this lip paint when Kirsti reviewed it, I knew then that I had to try it!

If anything I needed this just for the shock factor! I love the look on people's faces when I casually apply green to my lips!

Barry M say "A waterproof formula with added Aloe Vera stays on for up to 8 hours. Depending on the alkali level of your lips, determines just how pale or rich the colour will go."


I absolute LOVE this product! It goes a really bright pink on me, I did get scared on first application as it kept getting brighter and brighter! 

 Didn't go very bright on hand.

BRIGHT pink on lips! I love it!  If you take a look at Kirsti's review you will be able to see the difference in the colour on me compared to her.

The lipstick applies clear and then develops quite rapidly. As with all Barry M lipsticks the packaging is a win for me. I find a lot of lipsticks quite drying on my skin but this one is actually quite moisturising.

I would say though that this is more of a lip stain than lipstick. I even struggled to remove the swatch from my hand! After washing my hands several times and a shower there was still a very faint trace of it the next day! The one night that I wore it out I was very naughty and slept with my make up on, my lips were still bright pink in the morning! This doesn't put me off at all but I know it may some people.

You can buy this product from Barry M for just £4.49, it is also available in some Superdrug and Boots stores.

Will you be snapping this up or do you already own it? I would love to see how it comes out on a few other people!

NOTD, pastels and crackles

Hi all, hope you're all okay.

I've been in a real crappy mood today and don't really know why, so far I've hated my job, hated my life, hated my house, hated my bank - pretty much hated everything that crosses my path! Fingers crossed that the bitch from hell, aka me on a bad day, will be gone tomorrow!

This is how I've been rocking my nails the past week (yes, the whole week! The one good thing about all my nails snapping is that now they're shorter my nail varnish lasts so much longer!):

without flash

the colours used, annoyingly the stickers have fallen off the green so I'm not sure what colour it is

as you can see I painted the colours on VERY roughly, just one coat

and then went over them with BM crackle in white

Do you like this effect? I love how simple it is to create unusual looks with the crackle effects.

NOTD - Konad Stamping with Barry M

Hi guys, if you follow me on Twitter you may remember that my partner bought me a Konad stamping kit for my birthday. I finally got around to trying it out! Unfortunately I didn't realise that you needed to use the special nail paints to use them! I just thought this was their way of trying to make more money! I decided to give it a go with my Barry Ms, although the design did, eventually, come it took a while! I tried almost all of the designs and they just would not transfer to my nails, for some odd reason the two all over patterns worked, so I went for those!

 Photos can be enlarged by clicking

two coats

Have you tried Konad nail stamping? Did you find it easy or difficult?

NOTD - Mixing it up

Hi all, I hope you're all enjoying the weekend so far and the fact that there is one more day of it yet to come! Are you up to anything exciting? I'm spring cleaning, aka spending all day on Twitter and Facebook.

I recently had a play around with my glitter and matte top coats, here is how it turned out.

These are the polishes that I used:

two coats of Barry M Indigo - with flash

without flash

my patterns

loving the glitter top coat!

I'm not sure if I'm keen on this design to be honest. The visions in my head were better than in reality! I think I may try it again but just doing vertical stripes with the matte.

What do you think?