MUA NOTD

Currently listening to: Short Hair from the Mulan soundtrack

Hi girls,

Here's my first bottle of nail polish from Superdrug's MUA range.

I don't really know why I chose this colour (shade 5), I suppose I just wanted to try the product and felt this was a shade that I didn't already own. I didn't expect much from it to be honest because, well, it's green, and I don't know why I would want green nails. Turns out I really like it though.

( It's more green and less grey in real life)

Application wasn't a problem. I used three coats, possibly could have done with only two if I had been more careful. It's a small bottle (only 6.2ml) so it's not going to last for long but for £1 I think it was a good buy.

Bye for now,
Laura

Stars NOTD

Currently watching: Grey's Anatomy season 5

Hi folks,

Going back down to Manchester tomorrow for another flat-hunting session. Joy. Boyfriend's arriving next Thursday. Yay. Genuine happiness. By then we will have been apart for nearly six weeks. At first each day was horrible and I was trying to do everything quickly in the belief that it would make the time pass more quickly. It didn't really work though, I was just impatient all the time and couldn't enjoy anything as I was simply waiting for every individual activity or event to finish. Come on, hurry up and finish lunch so we can go out visiting relatives then come home for tea, watch Top Gear, blog, go to bed, say goodbye to Sunday, wake up to Monday.....repeat for four/five/six weeks..... Now that I have a definite date for our reunion, I'm on a new countdown, a different one, which asks that time slows down a little so I can get everything in order and be able to relax while David is here and enjoy our final days in Scotland. Can't do anything without nice nails though ;-)

Konad special polish in white and Natural Collection Hibiscus
were my chosen colours for this star manicure:

I think you can tell from the number of photos that I love it :-)

Bye for now,
Laura

NOTD

Currently listening to: Broken Wings by Tupac

Hello girlies,

Hope you've all had a nice weekend. It's been ages since I last blogged but here I am, back again, with a new manicure to show you:



This was done using a Polish brand of polish (MV by Editt Cosmetics) for the background colour, a Miss Sporty shade for the stripes and BM image plate 16. I love it. It's the first time I've ever done animal stripes but I definitely plan to use this image again with various colour combinations. Needing to double stamp some of my nails was an issue but it doesn't matter too much with this type of unstructured pattern. I could probably have filled in the "gaps" using a brush.

Are you a fan of animal prints?

Bye for now,
Laura

NOTD

Currently listening to: Back Here by BBMak

Greetings from me and my short nails. Today I was busy sorting out all my cds so that I can either sell them or donate them to charity shops. What fun I had! Additionally, I only recently discovered the beauty of having a youtube account and being able to create playlists so my musical finds in my house this morning sparked off a jump back in time to classic hits such as BBMak's Back Here ;-) I was never that much of a fan of youtube but now I love my youtube playlists. Not only that, I also went through the pile of clothes that was sitting on the top of my wardrobe so I now have three extra pairs of jeans to wear that I'd completely forgotten about.

The main excitement of the day, however, was my trip to see a secondhand car. Now I didn't share this at the time but last week I almost bought a car. I didn't, because the gits at Arnold Clark sold it behind my back, but nonetheless, it was a step in the car-buying direction. Today was the second step. My dad successfully negotiated a price and we took the car out for a test drive, on the assumption that if it was a good drive, I'd buy the car today. Of course it wasn't a good drive. It was very noisy. So we don't know if there's a problem with the engine or if we're just looking for a reason not to buy it (because although the price was dropped, it's still a lot of money)... This was at 5.15pm, ie too late in the day to hang around and investigate, so I think someone at the dealership will take it out for a test drive tomorrow morning then give us a call to let us know their verdict. On the plus side, I bought a TomTom sat nav yesterday and used it to guide us to the dealership today :-)

Anyway, enough of this blethering, here are my nails of the day:

Barry M Mushroom with a Spanish pastel pink shade for the stamping. I'm looking at my nails now (and of course I can't like them that much because they're shorter than I'd prefer) and while I can't say I love the colour combination (yet again), I think this manicure might look better in tomorrow's daylight. We shall see.

Bye for now,
Laura

NOTD (Bit of a fail)

Currently listening to: Quelqu'un m'a dit by Carla Bruni

I spent about eight hours cleaning on Saturday and totally wrecked my nails so once again I've had to cut them to a length that's so short I want to cry every time I look at my hands. They look awful bare so this morning I went for a polka dot design using Eyeko Lilac Polish and Nails Inc Spitalfields:

It looks okay in real life but the colour combination isn't that great for me as it looks very similar to a pastel purple and white polka dot design I did a couple of months ago.

Before leaving you for the day, let me present the collection of suits I've managed to recently acquire:

From right to left: Black, black, grey, black, black, ooh charcoal! I'm really going to brighten up the office in this attire. Pfft.

Bye for now,
Laura

Revelation

Currently listening to: Terrified by Katharine McPhee

For someone who apparently doesn't like blue polish that much, I have a surprisingly large amount of it in my nail polish collection.

It came as quite a surprise.

Are there any surprises in your nail polish collections?

NOTD

Currently watching: Seven Pounds

Good afternoon ladies,

Today I used Boots No 7 in Magic Cerise and a gold shade from the M&S Autograph range for my nails. My camera wasn't in a good mood so unfortunately I only have some blurry photos of my Konading:

What do you think?