Four Months

Loving the black nail varnish at the moment.  I use NYC Expert Last Nail Polish.  Really need a new top coat though, my current one chips far too easily.

My hands and nails are in a state.  I need to get back into a good moisturising routine.  I blame the cold weather!!

I cannot believe it is the end of January!  I didn't even realise until I was reading through other blogs today.  This means just four months of university left!  Eeeeeeee that's scary!  This month has gone too fast but I have achieved quite a lot.  I have always wanted to do an Instagram post, so I am doing a January one for the sake of it and just because I can:

1. I learnt to bake. 2. Went back to university. 3. Had a few shopping sprees.
4. It was cold so I lived in slippers. 5. Had a few drunken nights out. 6. I got pierced!
7. Love these nails. 8. Addicted to hot chocolate because it was cold. 9. Became addicted to these shoes.

I have an exam next Thursday so now it's time to revise like mad!

Manicure

I had Wednesday off University.  Prior to that I had been revising a lot so had the day off work and essays watching TV shows and doing my nails.  I love the way my nails are looking!

Hope you all have a good weekend :)

Weekend Nails

I have been so busy and tired lately!  Last week at the beginning of the week on the way home from placement my car broke down which meant it was unusable until it got fixed.  So that meant I had to get the bus to and from placement which involved waking up at 5.45AM and getting in at 7PM.  It was awful and I hated it, I felt tired all the time and had an essay to complete.  But luckily my car is now fixed and me and Barry (my car) have been reunited.  This week on placement I am working from 4PM until 12AM which should be interesting, I have never worked until midnight before.

This weekend I didn't do much, just caught up on sleep, started and completed my essay, watched films and TV, played a new computer game and went to my parents house yesterday for dinner.

Some of you might remember this post where I mentioned some new nail brushes.

I got them from Amazon for £2.49 from here.  I have had a few goes with them and it turns out I am quite rubbish.  But my nails this weekend weren't so bad.

As you can tell, I am not so good at doing my right hand!  The blue nail varnish is Lasting Fix from 17 in seabreeze.  It claims up to 5 days lasting colour but as you can tell from the photo, some of it is already chipped.

Hope you all had a good weekend!

Manicure

Next week I am starting placement for 6 weeks, which means short nails and no nail varnish, so I thought I would give myself a manicure.  I always like to do this when my nails have grown to a decent length.

Firstly I applied Nivea's Calcium Power in Soft Rose.  This nail varnish claims to strengthen nails and gives my nails a lovely light pink colour.  I used one coat of this.  The white colour was from a gift set someone bought me from Debenhams.  I started off by covering the natural white bit on my nail, then if my hand slips or I make a mistake I have room to make that white bit a touch thicker without looking silly.  I applied two coats of this.  After this had dried I gave it two coats of Lasting Colour by Collection 2000 as a top coat.  The clear Lasting Colour varnish claims to last 10 days so I am going to see if it lasts!

What I wore today to university:  Summer colours for a rainy day.  Yes, it was raining today and I didn't realise resulting in muddy shoes, wet clothes and frizzy hair.  Even though it is quite obvious summer is now over I am still loving this mint green colour so won't stop wearing it just yet!

Top:  Vero Moda
Blazer:  Krisp
Jeans:  River Island
Shoes:  Primark

At the moment I'm in my own little world of university where I don't have to wake up that early, can have naps in the middle of the day, can watch television or films in the day and do my own thing when I don't have lectures, can stay in my pyjamas all day when I don't need to go out, can go shopping in the middle of the day, have time to do my essays and work, can hang out with housemates whenever I want and can go to bed at whatever time I want.  Like I mentioned earlier I have placement next week so will soon snap out of this.  But at the moment I am quite content in my own university bubble.