Festive Nails No.5 - Candy Cane

17 'Knockout Red' (freebie in an old GWP), white nail art pen from Rio Professional Nail Art Kit and Barry M All in One as a topcoat.

I love this festive look and I've had lots of compliments from people, friends, co-workers, shop workers and random girls behind me in Asda, talking to each other about how cool my nails are, haha!

Pretty quick and easy to do, though I struggled to do the stripes quite so neat on my right hand, as left handed is not easy for a 'Righty'.

These have lasted 4 days but have now started to chip, mainly the right hand - the one that will not be easy to re-do. The left hand is all good, bar 1 nail. Doh. I'm currently debating whether to attempt to re-do this look for tonight, leave as is for the night, or just remove and do plain festive coloured nails...

 Tonight, I'm going to my favourite pub, for the monthly DJ night. I can't wait! The last 2 were crazy-fun, so tonight will be brilliant, especially as it's Christmas time, so everyone will be more merry than usual and lots of awesome folk will be out.

Yesterday, I drove to Cardiff...yes, 3 whole hours drive there and 3/4 hours back in horrendous conditions, on my own, for Kids in Glass Houses Christmas Party gig. I've missed every year and decided to go this year, as they added a Saturday Matinee show. I planned to get the train but due to weather, getting to Cardiff via train was not happening. I had bought my gig ticket, £13.75 but luckily not booked train. I did consider bailing and losing out on the £13.75 but didn't want to miss the gig. So, I spent over £40 petrol and most of my Saturday driving!

Well worth it though, the gig was amazing, as always.

I fit in a little look round Cardiff's St. David's Shopping Centre after the gig, before heading home.

During the drive home, I realised I hadn't had any sugar the whole day, after hitting an energy slump, so I made a service station stop and got a Costa Black Forest Hot Chocolate, which was oh so yummy and did the job.

Today, I've done a little Christmas shopping and some chilling.

Now, it's about time to have a drink, blast the tunes and start getting ready for tonight :)

(I've been the sober one all weekend, when everyone else has been drunk, so tonight is my turn!)

Happy days!

xXx

Jubilee Nails

It's the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, as everyone who hasn't been hiding under a rock knows.

So I just HAD to do some celebratory nail art.

I decided to switch the colours up a little and use pink, white and lilac, instead of the traditional Union Jack colours of red, white and blue.

Here's my cutesy Union Jack Jubilee nails :)

What I used:

 

Nails Inc 'Bluebell', free with InStyle mag, post here.

Rio Professional Nail Art Brushes in metallic pink and white, from Nail Art Kit, available at Argos. I've mentioned this in a few of my previous nail art posts.

I started with Bluebell:

Then the tricky part, trying to keep a steady hand:

and finally the pink:

Add some top coat and tadaaaaa:

and here's last year's Royal Wedding nails, which can also be classed as Jubilee nails:

Hope you are all having a great Jubilee weekend, despite this dull weather! Oh, to be British.

It wouldn't be a British celebration without the great British weather.

I wonder if the Queen is partying hard?!

xXx

NOTN: Tiger Nails

Following on from my last post on Model's Own Hedkandi Beach Party nail polish, this is my FINAL post of the night, promise!

I just wanted to share with you tonight's nail art.

Just as I was about to remove Beach Party to re-paint my nails, I had a GRRReat idea (oh, such a cheeseball!).

What I Used:

Model's Own Hedkandi Beach Party

Rio Nail Art Pen from the Professional Nail Art Kit

Hope you like :)

If you decide to give this a go, link me, I'd love to see!

xXx

OOTN: Tonight We're Gonna Live Forever

*PIC HEAVY*

Last night I went to Birmingham to watch one of my favourite bands, Kids in Glass Houses <3

The guys were supporting You Me at Six, along with Mayday Parade and The Skints (we missed The Skints!).

The gig was awesome.

KIGH absolutely smashed it, as always.

I have seen them 9 times now over the past 5 years and still get excited like it's Christmas every time I see them.

One of the best bands live. So much energy, charisma, entertaining, great musicians and Aled is one of the greatest frontmen, EVER.

Sadly, we didn't get to meet the guys this time :-( I dislike seeing them live and not meeting them, so used to meeting them now! Boo.

Anyway, as you can tell, I am still on a KIGH...sorry, I just had to!

I am still on a high from the gig, even though I didn't get home til 2:30am, was in agony from wearing 5 inch heels at the gig, had 3 hours sleep and then (I don't know how) I walked a good couple of miles to work this morning!...must have been the excitement and listening to some great tunes on my journey to work (KIGH included, of course!).

Here's what I wore:

 

 

Top: River Island

Skirt: The Infamous Faux Leather, Primark

Tights: Asda

Shoes: Primark (year or so ago!)

Bag: Birthday present off Kelly a couple of years ago, New Look

 

 

The Shoes:

Gig shoes - Driving shoes

The heels killed, but I felt older and was taller and had a 5 inch height advantage so could actually see the stage! I only noticed one other girl wearing heels there, everyone else was in Vans, Converse or military boots...

 

 The Nails:

Lefty: Barry M Black, Rio white nail art pen and Models Own Hedkandi Ibiza Mix on the thumb.

 

Righty: Barry M Black with Models Own Hedkandi Ibiza Mix

 The Face:

Had the dramatic eye going on.

My hair is so shiny after using my new shampoo and conditioner (post very soon!)

 

The face consists of the usual foundation and powder, Accesorize Diva blush, some charcoal eyeshadow from 17, L'Oreal Volume Million Lashes mascara, Barry M Waterproof eyeliner and Vivo Frosted Pink lipgloss.

 

The Photos:

 Some (a load!) of photos from the night...

The venue from the car park.

Tickets and nails :)

Outside the venue, where we joined the tiny Box Office queue, as the kind security said it was ok :)

Few minutes later, we were in!

The main queue was down the road, round the block, thousands of people back!!

Kind security! Makes a change for security and staff to actually be friendly and chatty, that was nice.

Mayday Parade.

Kelly and I, living the KIGH life :)

Kids in Glass Houses.

You Me at Six.

Kelly revealed she is a proper geek and had a mission of finding £1 in change on the floor...she had 30p, then I spotted a whole £1 coin, so she picked it up and was very happy...BLESS.

Picked up these cute little flyers for Diamond Days :)

Sitting in the ride, waiting in the warmth after the gig, in hope of meeting the guys but sadly they had left when we were still in the venue :-(

DUDE.

Faux pas.

This would be why I said that there was to be no eating in my car after the valet 2 weeks ago!

 So there we have it :)

 

Loved loved LOVED last night, so much.

Love gigs.

Love music.

Love live, amazing bands :)

Next up: Lostprophets,  23 April, O2 Academy Birmingham.

I hope you all had a great weekend!

I will leave you with Kids in Glass Houses latest song, one of my favourites and where the name of this post came from :)

Check them out.

Great video too (even if you only see the guys briefly!).

 

xXx

Nails: Dalmatian Dots

Hello All :)

I just painted my nails again (it is a daily/nightly thing at the moment!) and wanted to share.

Tonights design:

Dalmatian Dots!

What I Used:

 

17 Lasting Fix in Mini Skirt

Black Nail Art pen from the Rio Professional Nail Art Kit 

17 Nail Xtras Nail Recovery as topcoat

I hope you like :)

I am really enjoying nail art and trying different designs at the moment, so expect more to come!

I have a list of designs that I want to try.

Talking of nails: the Blogosphere is going crazy over Model's Own Hedkandi collection and in particular the Ibiza Mix polish, which I amazingly found in Chester last weekend!!

Click to see my post on Ibiza Mix.

WARNING - you will want to go out and buy it!

xXx

NOTD: Pastels & Polka Dots

Happy Tuesday!!

I just got home from watching 21 Jump Street at the cinema.

I highly recommend, it was brilliant.

So hilarious that I had tears of laughter!

and Channing Tatum is in it...need you more reason to watch it???

So, last night I decided to paint my nails and do a little design...

I decided on pastels and polka dots :)

Before:

 

After:

(opposite hand)

What I used:

 Rio nail art pen from the Rio Professional Nail Art Pen Kit.

(My friend Kelly bought this set yesterday after I recommended it! I would recommend it to anyone who loves nail art!)

and 17 Nail Xtras Nail Recovery as topcoat.

What do you think?

There will be a lot more nail art to come soon, I have a bit of a list going on of designs I want to try :)

...I also have a load of other posts still to do!

Hope you are all having a nice week!

xXx