Birthday Night Out

Hello everyone!

Todays post is focusing on my nails and outfit from my Birthday night out on Saturday! So my theme was pink and sparkly so I tried out loads of idea for my nails, I eventually settled on these...

 I decided to do a sponged graident going from light to dark pink. Please ignore the stupid chipping on my middle finger, clearly my nails don't enjoy clubbing :P

For these nails I used three coats of Color Club Blushing Rose as the base, I then sponged the tip of my nail using Models Own Pink Blush. I was very impressed with how the gradient turned out and I didn;t want to cover it with chunky glitter. So I used one thick coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust, to give just the right amount of sparkle :)

My nails colour coordinated with my outfit and shoes and everything quite well. Here's what I wore on the night...

Super sparkly!! My aim was to look a bit Barbie like... I think I succeeded :P Overall I had a really good night and everyone enjoyed themselves. I got a lot of compliments on my nails in the toilets as well funnily enough :P

Thanks for reading :)

Slight off topic post...

Hello everyone!

Sorry for the lack of posting just recently but I've been preparing for my birthday! I turned 20 yesterday and I had such a lovely day so I thought I'd do an off topic post to show you all about my special day :)

The day before my birthday I spent three hours cooking my own birthday cake, here's a slice to show you...

I made myself a six layer rainbow cake! It took hours but I'm so impressed with how it turned out. As were my friends and family as they all thought I'd fail at baking this :P Clearly I'm a master baker ;)

I received a beautiful present from my mum, dad and little boy...

They bought me a Pandora bracelet! The little teapot charm I bought myself with my birthday money from family members and I bought myself the heart charm so my bracelet wasn't too bare :P I've also bought a clip to stop my charms from sliding around but it's not arrived yet :P

And I went for a beautiful lunch with my best friends, here's a picture courtesy of one of them who has an obsession with taking pictures of whatever we eat! :P

Everyone has steak apart from me and my son (who's in the blue top!) The food was super yummy and I had a great time catching up with my favourite people :)

There will also be a post up tomorrow featuring my birthday nails for you all to look at. Again, sorry for the off topic post but I thought some of you might be interested :)

Thanks for reading :)

Pink & Sparkly!

Hello everyone!

It's my 20th birthday next tuesday (August 7th) and me and my friends are going out to celebrate. The theme for my night out is pink and sparkly so obviously I've been thinking about what to do with my nails :P 

So over the next week I will be sharing my experiments with you all :)

Today I have a simple pink and sparkly look that I actually have fallen in love with, however, I'd  like to include more nail art for my birthday mani! Here's what I did..

For these nails I used two coats of Color Club Foil Me Once. I could have gotten away with one coat of this polish but I did two out of habit :P It's such a beautiful light pink foil and it applies beautifully, would you believe this is the first time I've worn this! I then added two thick coats of Models Own Pink Fizz over the top. These polishes compliment each other beautifully, they blend and look like it's one polish rather than two separate ones, it's so gorgeous to look at! :)

I really love how these nails turned out! They're so sparkly and cute. My friends all told me that they're very "me" :P But I want my birthday nails to represent me a bit more, I'd like to add more nail art of things that I love and stuff. This week will be very interesting seeing what i come up with :)

Please leave any suggestions or ideas in the comments to help me! :D

Thanks for reading,

A Rather Late Five Friday Favorites

Hello everyone :)
This week has been manic and I woke up this morning and remembered I hadn't done Five Friday Favorites this week :( So I've decided from now on that if I know I have a lot of work to do or whatever then I will schedule my blog posts so I don't fall behind. So I apologise for the late post this week but here we go...

1. I love how cute these birthday cupcake and bunting nails are :) - http://neverlandnailblog.blogspot.com

2. I'm a lover of all things pokemon so this nail art really caught my eye - http://animalscrosshere.deviantart.com

3. This is how I wish my colour block mani had turned out :P - http://chloesnails.blogspot.com/

4. These giraffe inspired nails are beautiful and look so fun :) - http://adventuresinacetone.blogspot.com/

5.  And Finally... Hamburger nails !! Amazing. - http://www.nailnerd.com/

Again, be sure to check out all these amazing blogs :)

Thanks for reading and make sure to check back for Week 4 of the 52 week challenge tomorrow :)

Charlotte xxx