Showing posts with label Hot and Not. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hot and Not. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

How to: Chevron nail tutorial.


Here's a quick tutorial on a chevron nail design.
You can choose any colours you like for your design but the best type of varnish to use is either fast drying or varnish that is relatively opaque with one coat. (Saves drying time between coats!)

I started with a coat of a pink nail varnish.


You need to wait until your varnish is dried COMPLETELY before you carry on with the  next step.

Get your sellotape ready. Cut ten squares of sellotape and lay them out so they are easy to pick up.


Dab the sellotape on the back of your hand a couple of times so the stickiness isn't going to peel off the nailvarnish. Apply onto the cuticle area of your nail as far down as desired. Your nails should look like this:


Next add a coat of your next colour. I decided to add two coats of this varnish as it was quite sheer. I decided not to add another chevron but if you want more than one stripe on your nail you can wait for this coat to dry completely and then repeat the process as many times as desired.


When you peel off the tape it should look like this.


To tidy up slightly and add an extra pop of colour, I used a nail art pen in turquoise to line the edges of the triangles.


And here's the finished look!


Thursday, 9 February 2012

Hot & Not - 09/02/12


What's been hot:

1. Perfume party with the girls from work. Getting six bottles of perfume for the price of one.

2. Studding an old pair of boots and them turning out pretty damn bad ass.

3. Shopping trip and Snow Patrol gig with a good friend.

4. Making money on an ebay purchase that I bought specifically to sell.

What's not:

1. Walking all the way to work, getting checked out and thinking I looked dead sexy, only to look in the mirror once I got to work and realise I had the remnants of my breakfast Pain Au Chocolat all round my mouth.

2. Getting the bus to work, look in the mirror once I got there, only to realise I had a cotton wool swab stuck in my ear which I'd put there to soak my piercing a few hours before.

3. Forgetting to put my boots on after work, walking home in my ballet shoes in the rain and getting wet socks.

4. Printing out 20 copies of my artist statement and realising that there are spelling mistakes... not before I'd given them out.


Friday, 20 January 2012

Hot & Not - 20/01/12

What's been hot and what's not this week? Whether it be a nice new purchase or something that made me smile, I'm going to start writing down what has been good and what has been bad about my week. Hope you enjoy.


What's been hot:

1. Free stuff! I ordered my FREE (completely free, to my surprise...no P&P charges or anything!) facebook/moo collaborative business cards. If you have Facebook Timeline, you can get your free 50 business cards by following these instructions on the Moo website HERE. They came within about 3 days as well, which was good! I didn't particularly need them...but they were free!


2. Harry Potter DVD Box Set. I'm onto Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince next. I've been enjoying watching them, too.


3. Putting my newly learnt crocheting skills into action. My mum taught me how to crochet a granny square over Christmas and it has just been getting bigger and bigger. Think I'm going to either make it into a cushion cover or a throw.


4. Liz Earle Hot Cloth Cleanser. The best makeup remover I have ever used, hands down. 

5. Getting a new lip balm and getting 50p off with a voucher. Yay!


What's not:

1. Getting to work after walking for half an hour and finding a pair of used false eyelashes stuck to my scarf.

2. Finding a hole in my favourite duvet cover.

3. Researching house prices; bills, rent, mortgage etc and seeing how much it actually costs to live.