Christmas nails

As we all know the festive season is immensely busy! Therefore, there has been a lack of blog posts from me over the past week or so! 

However, I am now back and very keen to update you of all of my Christmas excitement, gifts and such. 

Over the Christmas period it is a great time to always be painting and doing my nails. I'm the sort of person who will always always have nail varnish on and I frequently change colours and try out new styles. 

As Christmas has been super super busy, I haven't had much time to try out proper nail art as such. But I have gone glitter mad!!!! 

For my first Christmas nails, I went for a simple blue Barry m colour, number 294, cyan blue. It almost reminded me of really cold frost and snowflakes. I then used the models own clothes show live, showstopper nail varnish  which is chunky blue glitter bits, however they look silver on my nails. 

 I also tried out another models own glitter nail varnish, sunset chill out. I really like this glitter nail polish as it is made up of a range of colours such as blue, pink and gold and it looks different depending on the colour you put behind it. Here I used another Barry M, coral. However, I wasn't really a fan as it reminded me a bit of a barbie girl theme.

A few days later I changed the background back to the Barry M, cyan blue and again used the sunset chill out nail varnish, getting a completely different look. I have to say I am a much bigger fan of blues and purples on my nails, so I thought that these looked fab and very glittery and festive. 

Finally, right before Christmas I decided I must have a bit more of a festive touch. I did try and paint some festive images onto my nails however, this did not go to plan and therefore I resulted back to the glitter style again. 

Here, I again used a Barry M nail colour in the background, this time, 290, spring green. I love this green colour as it stands out and it reminded me of Christmas trees! I then used yet another models own glitter, dancing queen. Which has lots of lovely green, gold and silver specs of glitter!! 

Now who knows what my nails will be like for new year!!

I got a lot of lovely new nail polish for Christmas, so I'm sure there will be much more nail posts to come.

I also found I got several complements from these nail varnishs, mostly when put shopping, so give them a try!! 

However, the glitter is a nightmare to get off!! 

Look out for some more post Christmas blog posts! 

Happy new year!! 

Love 

Alice May 

Xxx

The Clothes Show Live

Hey hey hey,

So this is just a pretty quick post. Just want to get back into the swing of blogging and such.

Anyway, last Friday I went to the clothes show live, in Birmingham. I'd never been before but always wanted to go, so when I found out the Cardiff Fashion Society were going I was of course mega keen to get in on it.

Basically, it's in a big building with loads of halls which is full with stalls of make up, beauty and fashion items. Literally, there is sooo much there it just goes on and on. As I hadn't been before I didn't really know what to expect but it was amazing.

As you can see I chose to wear a vintage style dress, with a vintage style cardigan and think tights, me and the girls I went with also had a cheeky picture in the photobooth when we arrived! 

 

First thing I picked up was some make up from a few make up stalls, basically alot of them you pay a set price and get a lot more than you pay for. 

So for all of this Barry M make up, I paid £10 which is such a cheaper for all of the amount you get. I absolutely love Barry M nail varnish, they have so many lovely colours and nail varnish is one of my many faveourites. 

I then went over to Models Own and again got all of this for only £10. This was amazing as you were also able to chose three nail colours yourself, I opted for a green glittery colour (pretty festive) and then a pinky glitter which again was nice and Christmas/new year like. I also chose a black nail art pen as I love experimenting with different patterns and such on my nails and I manganed to loose my other one. 

I also spent £5 on a Rimmel set, which came with a mascara, fake tan, nail varnish and a foundation sample, again which would at least be worth about £20 on it's own. So lots of bargains there. 

I also got a cute little t-shirt with elephants on, it was only £18, it's pretty loose fitting but I thought it would look nice with jeans and leggins maybe in the spring time as it's got lots of greens and lighter colours in. 

Lastly, I was absolutely blown away by they catwalk at the clothes show itself. It was really well done and my pictures do not at all do it justice, it was just full of colours and such lovely girls. If only I could be a model. 

 Anyway, this is a bit of a simple and rushed post but I hope you enjoyed it. I'm really excited about starting to post more on here. 

Much love, 

Alice May 

Xxx