Sunday 14 August 2011
Oh Mon Dieu
Saturday 6 August 2011
Tutorial Trio - Three Days Of Nail Art
Three quick nail tutorials then I'm gonna put a short term hold on the mani's as this 'bit of everything' blog is quickly turning into one all about nail art...
Left hand thumb nail in H&M Preppy, other nails in Miss Sporty (no 340, a kind of deep cherry) with a heart on the thumb in the darker colour - created by dotting the three points of a triangle with a kirby grip then continuously dotting to join them together and create the shape.
Red nail polish is Revlon Cherries in the Snow, grey polish is Mavala The Elle Grey (free with this months British Elle) - I used the red colour on the nails I would be wearing a ring on.
Nails Inc in Basil Street (my new favourite nude) with both pinky fingers edged in clear diamante (from a Poundland nail art kit).
Left hand thumb nail in H&M Preppy, other nails in Miss Sporty (no 340, a kind of deep cherry) with a heart on the thumb in the darker colour - created by dotting the three points of a triangle with a kirby grip then continuously dotting to join them together and create the shape.
Red nail polish is Revlon Cherries in the Snow, grey polish is Mavala The Elle Grey (free with this months British Elle) - I used the red colour on the nails I would be wearing a ring on.
Nails Inc in Basil Street (my new favourite nude) with both pinky fingers edged in clear diamante (from a Poundland nail art kit).
Three Seperate Days, Three Nail Ways
Three quick nail tutorials then I'm gonna put a short term hold on the mani's as this 'bit of everything' blog is quickly turning into one all about nail art...
Left hand thumb nail in H&M Preppy, other nails in Miss Sporty (no 340, a kind of deep cherry) with a heart on the thumb in the darker colour - created by dotting the three points of a triangle with a kirby grip then continuously dotting to join them together and create the shape.
Red nail polish is Revlon Cherries in the Snow, grey polish is Mavala The Elle Grey (free with this months British Elle) - I used the red colour on the nails I would be wearing a ring on.
Nails Inc in Basil Street (my new favourite nude) with both pinky fingers edged in clear diamante (from a Poundland nail art kit).
Left hand thumb nail in H&M Preppy, other nails in Miss Sporty (no 340, a kind of deep cherry) with a heart on the thumb in the darker colour - created by dotting the three points of a triangle with a kirby grip then continuously dotting to join them together and create the shape.
Red nail polish is Revlon Cherries in the Snow, grey polish is Mavala The Elle Grey (free with this months British Elle) - I used the red colour on the nails I would be wearing a ring on.
Nails Inc in Basil Street (my new favourite nude) with both pinky fingers edged in clear diamante (from a Poundland nail art kit).
Tuesday 2 August 2011
When Life Gives You Lemons...
...don't make lemonade. It's time consuming and that time would be much better spent doing a little online shopping (or in my case window shopping) on the Internet superstore that is ASOS. I set myself a little £100 challenge...
Warehouse Full Midi Skirt £14
Cheap Monday Boyfriend Roll Sleeve Shirt £33
Triple Finger OMG Ring £10
G-Star Breton Stripe T-Shirt £33
Boyfriend T-Shirt £10
Pictures Of Pictures
Photographer Ben Heine has kick started a new craze...Pencil vs Camera is an ongoing collection of photographs of scraps of paper filled with pencil doodles held over a real world image creating a whole new graphite world...
Winehouse Style Lives On
While I in no way want to glamorise the way Amy Winehouse chose to live and end her life, it is undeniable that she was one of the greatest singers of our time as well as a British style icon. Winehouse's look will surely now live on in the thousands of imitators who take inspiration from her retro 1950s pin-up style, now even more so as ever before...
Adriana Lima. Love. 09.
Brooklyn Street Style. Mr Newton.
French Vogue. 08.
Backstage. Chanel. 07.
(1983-2011. RIP)
Vintage Bathrooms
Fingers crossed in a few weeks we'll be installing a new bathroom suite into our house. Our current one is very bog standard (non-purposeful pun there) and cheap but we have been given a freestanding bath and pedestal sink so all we will need to buy is a new toilet. If the bathroom stays in the room it's in now then we'll just do a little touch-up decorating - it's quite spa-like with white floorboards, white muslin curtains and sand coloured walls and giant tiles. If, however, we are able to move it to the smaller 2nd bedroom I'm thinking a cosy vintage look will be in order - especially since this room houses one of the two original fireplaces. The space where the sink would go would also allow us to have a vanity unit! And I'm thinking of lots of extravagant, over-the-top details - chandelier light fitting, heavy pile cream carpet, vintage mirrors...Ooh the possibilities...
♥ the metro tiles, the vanity unit, the deep plum wall, the venetian glass mirror ♥
♥ vintage serving tray filled with bottles, jars and vintage trophy cups for storage ♥
♥ the vintage trolley filled with rolled up towels ♥
♥ the painted towel rail and the freestanding shower ♥
♥ the organised baskets and vintage ladder as towel holder ♥
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