Lucy's cupcake giveaway!

Hello lovelies, just here to pop in another post today! (Oooh, such a good track record for today, ha!)

Lucy who is an excellent cupcake maker and a friend of mine, is doing a giveaway.
For the chance to win a £40 voucher to all 6 CSN sites, leave a comment on Lucy's giveaway post saying which items are your favourite from the CSN websites. For more details and how to gain more enteries, have a little looksie on the post. :)

It ends tonight at midnight (so Sunday 22nd August) but even if you catch this post in the future, have a look at her blog regardless, she makes such amazing cupcakes she deserves as much attention as possible to them!

Nail art #1.

Hello all!

I'm rather protective over my nails, the thought of going to somewhere to have my nails done makes me cringe. I've seen plenty of places in the town doing 'see-sawing' and it just makes me twitch like a crazy person. Thus, I do my own and maintain them (despite the occasional letting the nail polish chip as you're too damn lazy that day.)

Here's what I came up with yesterday:



It looks quite difficult (or so I've been told so far) but it's actually really easy. I don't own any nail art pens, before you ask!
Toothpicks are the cheapers way forward.

Now I've shown you it, time to show you what I've used.



From L-R, 'Collection 2000 2in1 Base Coat and Ridge Filler', 'Make Up Academy Shade 5', 'Nails inc. Beaumont street', 'Nails inc. Portland Place' and finally 'Collection 2000 103 French White'

All very beautiful colours!

Steppity steps (use whatever colours you like however, be creative!):

1) Apply one coat of your base coat, leave to dry.
2) Apply the colour you would like to show on the bottom half of the nail - mine being a mint colour - to all over the nail. Right to the tip! Make sure whatever colour you're using here, it's the lighter colour of the two. Else you're going to have a bit of a hard time when it comes to step 4.
3) Grab those tooth picks! (or nail art pens if you're not a cheapo like me) Mark two dots in the colour you'd like on the top half of the nail, diagonally, so when you paint it's nearly half and half of each colour.
4) Paint a line from where you've marked your dots, then fill the rest to the top of the nail in from there. You now should have two colours diagonally.
5) With another colour of choice - this is where 'Portland place' is used - draw a thin line with your tooth pick/nail art pen where the two colours you've just painted meet. This also hides and squibbly lines you may have painted earlier.
6) Now grab your other end of your tooth pick - make sure it's dry, we don't want little bits of other polish all over your fingers - and apply dots along the line you just drew.
7) Add a top coat after all of this has dried. I've not got a top coat at the moment though, boo. Do make sure to add the top coat though, else chipping will happen faster.

So there we go.

Next time, I'll remember to take photos instead of getting distracted by Bill going 'SOOOKIEEEEEE!' on True Blood.