Daisy Nails

I am an avid follower of Vic's blog at www.hashtaggollygosh.com and she recently posted about her camo and daisy nails. Needless to say I saw them and fell in love! I wanted to recreate them entirely, however I'm so snowed under with MA work right now, that I don't really have much time to dedicate to blogging/YouTube and beauty or fashion stuff generally, which is making me a bit sad to be honest. So I had blue nail polish on from the weekend and decided to put daisy's on top of that to save some time. All I did was apply more of Barry M's Cobalt Blue to the tips of my nails where I had nail wear, then added some daisy's using a dotting tool and white and yellow polishes, both by Rimmel, then the Barry M top and base coat. You could also use a kirby grip or a toothpick and any polishes of your choice. I'm happy with the results and I can only improve on my nail art as I'm still an amateur!

Would you rock daisy nails for summer? I can see me putting daisy's on coral polish for a boho look in the summer. Would be pretty for festival season! (Not that I can go to any this year, annoyingly!) Also, please let me know what you think of the new blog layout!

Floral Frenzy

I love floral print clothing and accessories, especially this time of the year and into the summer. I find myself drawn to coral and floral whenever I walk into a shop at the moment. That and mint green or lilac! I can't help myself. As usual, I am always drawn to the shiny jewellery, like the magpie that I am. Below is a compilation of some pretty floral things that I found online this evening. I love them and I hope you do too!

Dress: £25 ASOS Kimono: £40 ASOS Floral Headband: £5 Matalan Floral Leggings: £10.39 Missguided

Hipster Princess Leia

A face of the day/outfit post combined today. I felt like wearing a skirt and yearned for a different hairstyle. This combo is the result! Sorry about not getting all of me in one full length shot, I was taking the photos on my own and it was proving tricky to do with a tripod as I don't have a camera with a flip out screen to check my positioning. 

I had been wearing the hairstyle for a good few hours by this

point, hence why it's messy!

The only problem with doing outfit of the day posts when you're so poor that you can't buy new clothes, is that these clothes are no longer available in the shops. However, I hope you can draw inspiration from my outfit posts, whether that's 'I should never wear that' or 'I really like the way that's styled, I can use X in my wardrobe to achieve a similar look'. I just want you fine people to know how I tend to wear things as it helps me look back and think 'yes I liked that'  or 'dear God what was I thinking?!'. I won't list items for this post as all of the clothes were purchased a year, if not two years, ago. Sorry!

Van Halen

Last week I decided to channel an 80s hair metaller. I had to go to bed one night with wet hair (as everyone went to bed early and I couldn't use the hairdryer and my hair takes literally all day to dry). As a result I put my hair in small braids, went to sleep, and woke up with voluminous crimped hair that my inner 80s child was immensely happy with. When I was little my mum used to sit for ages and plait my hair like this to create these crimps, until we eventually bought a crimping iron which made it quicker. The good thing about getting this look to your hair is, you can do it heat and hassle free.

"Woah! Livin' on a prayer!"

I also decided to try and replicate a look I'd seen in magazines of late; pastel orange eye shadow brought up to the brow, with a pink lip. This make up is the result of this test. I got many a strange look walking around North Wales like this!

Would you ever rock crimped hair or a pastel orange eye? I quite liked it and my boyfriend kept telling me how nice I looked. I'm sure most of you will hate it!

Photography Maniac

Hello lovely blog reader. I'm afraid that I have been unwell for the 

last week and now I have a terrific coldsore right in the middle

of my top lip. It's large and unsightly and I didn't think you lovely

folk would want to see me in this state! Hence no pictures of my face

recently.

I thought I would share some of my favourite snaps that I've managed

to take over the past year or so. I'm always taking photos of nature,

scenery, etc. First photograph is from last summer of a hydrangea bush in the 

garden. Above is a daffodil from last spring. 

This picture is of the view that can be seen if I walk about 4 minutes down
my road. I live in rural North Wales (I'm a southerner who moved here for uni)

and the Snowdonia mountain range has been a prominent feature in my life since
I moved here.

Here we have some photoshop editing so that my Ray Ban style

sunglasses are in their blue glory, whilst the rest is in black and

white. I like phptpgraphs which have a shot of unexpected colour. I hope

you enjoyed this little break from tradition and found my snaps

interesting. Normal blogging will resume once this coldsore leaves my face!