Nail art blog... that I'll stick to!

Hello :)

So, seeing as I suck at these things and once I do something, to actually carry on after failing I start out fresh. So in basics, created an actual nail art blog I'll stick to. Promise!

Interested? If so, here's the link :)
http://whatprettyphalanges.blogspot.com/

Nail art #2 (Hello!)

Hello all, apologies for such the long distance inbetween these. To be honest, I haven't done too much nail art stuff as of late, just applying one colour for that week. Hence the long wait. I've also seen I've gained followers, hello to you all! It's exciting for me to come back and find new people. :)

But, with christmas coming around, I got creative, and bam! New nail art for you all. With props to my brother for his camera.



Base and top coat: Rimmel '5 in 1 Base & Top Coat Total Care Action'
Base colour: Rimmel 60 seconds 'Green with Envy' (819)
Nail art pen: Andrea Fulerton 'Stripe & Sparkle'

This is the first time I've used an actual nail art pen, so I don't think it was too badly done. Excited to see the stuff I can do with it in the future!

It's a pretty easy design to do, I'm not sure if anyone would like little step by steps? Feedback on that would be great, all up to you as you're the ones reading it. :)

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.

Redhead.

I certainly have a thing about red hair, I'll admit. I also have a deep hatred for brown hair (on myself!) which is my natural colour.

The last time I dyed my hair red was in the salon, back in October. As you can imagine, I have terrible roots now. They can't even be described as roots more 'random red bits at the end of my hair.' Rather attractive, hey?

So to save on costs and an exhausting trip to the salon, I'm doing home dye again. We have a new bathroom floor, so we ended up getting a creme, red spots on a new floor I don't think my parents would appreciate much!

The lovely Lucy reccomended that I try L'Oreal Casting Creme, along with another friend who uses 'Dark Cherry' in the range, I thought I'd give this one a go. I'm yet to do the patch test, which requires 48 hours, so most likely will be doing the dying on saturday.
As much as I'll dislike it, I'll do before/after photos. You'll get to see my scatty 'random red bits at the end of my hair', joy!

I've chosen 'Terracotta' in the range, it's a darkish red but any red for me at the moment is good! Along with it being a semi, if it goes horrible then at least I don't have to wait forever.

Below is the colour chart, I have a mixture between light brown/brown, so gives you a rough idea of the colour that should come out afterwards.



Looks slightly promising! Shall update you guys on how I get along, lets hope it really is 'no drip'! Any else of you tried this range before? I'm excited!

Introductions.

I would just like to point out, despite the fact below I have a post about photography and what appears to be a first post in an odd layout, it's not. There was previous posts, but they have simply been deleted, to just fill in any confusion!

So. I'm Daisy. Hello! Nice to meet you.

I'm not quite sure in what way this blog shall head in, I like doing nail art a lot recently, so perhaps it will end up with something like that alongside useless rambles about things you honestly don't give a knickers about. Unless you do care about my useless rambles, in which case, bravo to you. Kudos ect.

To get small formalities and facts out of the way... I'm 16, have an illness called M.E (www.ayme.org.uk) and apparently spew rubbish quite a lot.

But I'll let you decide that.

Photography.

Now, this isn't a post posting different photographs ect. This is basically the post of me going 'OMG LOOK AT THE PRETTY CAMERA, I WANT I WANT!!' so please do bare with me. (ooer.)

I wouldn't say I'm a particually amazing photographer, I've stuck with a small Fujifilm (which apparently has been updated and they don't stock my exact one anymore...!) for quite some time, it's not the best of cameras but at the time it was cost effective.

However, my eldest brother has a beautiful camera. He's done photography before as a job, his work is amazing! I think -emphasis on the think- that the camera he owns is a Canon 4OD. I shall have to ask him and correct myself if I've gotten this wrong.

Anyway, I've come quite far in terms of my photography, from the 11 year old self who put her thumb over a photo of the eiffel tower to now where I can take a pretty decent photo, when I've got the right equipment. Decent photos are all about quality to me, which my little pocket Fujifilm one doesn't like to do! Not knocking it, I do love it, just the quality isn't 'eeee this is sososososo amazing' y'know?

I'm shit at saving but I'd love to have this camera:
http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/75886/show.html?cm_vc=PPZ1

One day, my lovelies... one day. x