Floral Nails: Take 2

These are not my best nail art by far but it is such a simple and easy design that I thought I would post it. 

STEP BY STEP GUIDE

Step One: Gather your 'ingredients'

Racing Green: Barry M

Rio Nail Art Pens

Step Two: Paint your nails using 'Racing Green' from the Barry M range. 

Step Three: Using the yellow nail art pen, paint three dots on your nail at equal spacing to each other.

Step Four: Using the white nail art pen, draw little lines around the yellow dot like petals. I found this quite difficult. If you do too, try doing little dots.

AND VOILA!!  There you have it!

I'm getting a lot of practise doing nails so hopefully the only way is up!

Chloe x

10 Day 'You' Challenge: Day One

Ok, so I think I'm going to do this challenge, although it actually seems quite difficult haha!

Day One: 1 picture of yourself
Day Two: 2 songs
Day Three: 3 films
Day Four: 4 books
Day Five: 5 foods
Day Six: 6 places
Day Seven: 7 wants
Day Eight: 8 fears
Day Nine: 9 loves
Day Ten: 10 secrets

DAY ONE: ONE PICTURE OF YOURSELF

Here's a photo of me and my boyfriend Seb. I literally never take photos of me by myself so this is the most recent one where I look half decent! It was a 1950s party (i think we were the only ones who dressed up-rage!).

Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Edinburgh has had glorious sunshine this week (for once!) so I thought I may as well bask in this, and what better way to do that then at the fringe!

I can imagine that if I didn't live in Edinburgh, I would love the fringe 100x more than I do but if I'm just doing ordinary day activities, it can be super annoying! Especially trying to get from one place to another!

However, I do enjoy it the other times! I'm just going to write a little bit about the 3 shows/events that I went too. I think I'll probably go to more but I'm back home at my parents the now.

Show One: Potter Trail

This is the blurb 'Grab a wand and join your robed guide on the only tour in Edinburgh designed especially for Potter fans! You’ll discover the magical locations that inspired characters and scenes in the series, visit the places where JK Rowling wrote the books and even learn about the real-life witches and wizards of medieval Edinburgh'

The tour was actually very good, although at one point, I thought I could probably do a better job at it, than the tour guide! 

The tour focused on objects and places which might have had an influence on JK Rowling whilst she was writing Harry Potter so it technically wasn't factual BUT there was far too much evidence for it not to be.

Lord Voldemort's Grave

This is probably my favourite photograph. The grave of Lord Voldemort. Although Riddell is spelled differently in the film (probably to spell the anagram 'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT'. It did definitely feel that we were actually at the grave! But did JK Rowling actually walk around that graveyard? NOBODY KNOWS! So it's up to your own judgement really.

They also gave out wands....The inner child in me & my friends came out.

Overall Score: 7/10

Show Two: Jessie Cave: Bookworm

Many people know Jessie Cave as 'Lavender Brown' in Harry Potter. BUT she is so much more than that! She is a quirky, positive, hilarious girl that really does make you laugh! Her show was full of factual information PLUS lots of laughs! 

Overall Score: 9/10

Show Three: David O'Doherty- Seize the David O'Doherty

He is one of my favourite comedians!! Although he is not brilliant on the tv -because it's simply doesn't work with his act. He plays a little keyboard and sings songs that are soo good! I was in the front row this time and my neck did hurt a little but it was worth it because last year, he was a tiny little dot. 

A must see though, I laughed far too much!

Overall Score: 10/10

Have you seen many shows?

Florals.

Decided it was time to face the challenge and paint my nails flowery. I should have taken photos at each stage but I was just too excited to see how they would turn out. 

To be honest, they are not as hard as they look. A lot of people say that I must spend ages on my nails but it really only takes about 40 minutes max! 

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1. Soda Pop Pink- Models Own

2. Spring Green- Barry M

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3. Rio Professional Nail Art Kit- Amazon

How to achieve flowery nails:

1.  Firstly I painted all my nails in 'Spring Green' by Barry M. I love Barry M nail varnishes. They are cheap and come in all colours and they are pretty decent as well. Remember to put a base coat of clear nail varnish on!!!

2.  Using Model's Own 'Soda Pop Pink' I drew rough circles (about 4 per nail) on my nail, making sure there was enough space for leaves. Bit disappointed in this nail varnish. It is a lot lighter than advertised on the website. It looks like a peachy pink but I would say it's more a baby pink.

3.  Using the purple nail art pen from Rio, I drew random lines onto the pink circles. Not going to lie, it was just random squiggles however it actually worked!

4. Using the green nail art pen from Rio, I drew 2 leaves on each flower and hey presto, the nails were done!

This was actually one of my easier nails to do!

If you have any questions or enquiries, don't be afraid to ask!