Friday 20 December 2013

Festive nails!

As I am on a slight budget this year (commuting ruining my life as per) I have decided to makeshift my festive nails rather than getting then done professionally after a few (failed) attempts at nail art, I decided nail wraps might be the beat option. So I bought these candy came beauties off eBay for a lovely price of £3. 

So I started by filing my nails down to a good length, and went from there. 


You then need to pick the right sized nail wrap for your fingers. They are pretty large but as I found they are nice an easy to cut. I have never met anyone with nails a large as they come on these things, never understood why they don't make them smaller! I'll be sticking to child sizes from now on. 

Once the nail sticker has been removed from the backing plastic, the wrap is pressed down onto the nail. Then get a hair dryer and give your nail a quick blast. I do genuinely mean a quick blast- I have experienced a little by of pain while doing this!!! Once the nail is secured, file away the excess length and this is the result you get: 


Not too bad if I do say so myself! After the first nail, all that's left to do is stick, heat, file, repeat. Until you get a result similar to this:


I think this is ok as a first attempt! Having said this I reckon they would probably look better on a longer or possibly even an acrylic nail. 

This is my first step into festively beautifying myself! Any suggestions for anything I could do next? 

Xxx


Itsssss Christmassss

Christmas time is upon us and I could not be happier! My absolute favourite time of the year. We've been getting super festive at work although I'm missing out on Disney Xmas party tonight due to being a poorly mouse. :( 

So I only have 2 more days left at work before I have a full 12 day break. So excited it's unreal. In that 12 days I have so much to look forward to! Of course there's Xmas itself which will as always be a wonderful day. Then I have NYE which I have promised myself will actually be good this year!! ( no drink spikings, no tonsillitis etc) going to shoreditch to see duke dumont and will heard which will be amazing. Then I'm going to the ballet with ma, and of course plenty of relaxing and catching up with friends :) next week I'm going to do some posts about some bits and pieces I've been making, cushion covers, candle holders and snowman cookies to start! 

Hope everyone has a fabulous time this season! Xxxx