Colour me crazy- red

This is a new weekly challenge brought to you by the British nail bloggers fb group.

The prompt for the first week is red. And I felt like a bit of silliness. So we have ladybirds (bishy barney bees :p). It's not until I sat and looked through the in linkz that I noticed Kerrie also did ladybirds, oops sorry Kerrie! Hers are cuter than mine though haha so make sure you click on the in linkz to see her version.

My version, on the other hand, is the lazy version in that I decided to only do one nail as an actual ladybird and make the others leaves. Yea it's a bit of a cop out when the theme is red and I only have one red nail on each hand! Haha. In my defence I wore this to work and I thought the green might tone it down a little from a while hand full of ladybirds lol.

I genuinely don't think I've ever said the word ladybird so much in such a short space of time haha.

Orange is next week's prompt so I better start thinking.... and try not to repeat someone else's mani this time ;) lol. Night. X

An InLinkz Link-up

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Um? I said I'd post some nail stuff. And I said I'd post some mental health stuff. Well I posted the nail stuff.

But I say a lot of stuff.

I said I'd get my essay in on time. That ain't happening. Nothing ever changes does it?

I did email my tutor telling her I won't have anything to submit by tomorrow. If I'm lucky I might get an extension. If in very lucky I might use it. That's new. I don't admit defeat. And I don't ask for help. Denial all the one. And it took a lot to send one pathetic little two sentence email.

And it's not enough. All that keeps spinning through my head is 'I'm not supposed to be like this anymore'.

Which is of course a ridiculous thought. As most thoughts containing words like 'supposed to' are. I should do this I shouldn't do that I'm supposed to be better.

And the really upsetting thing? I am. This is better. This is pretty much as well as I've ever been (well enough that I'm not an 'effective use of resources' for the youth team certainly). And it's not enough. If this is as good as it gets I'm not sure why I bothered fighting so hard for it.

And of course in being self indulgent and self pitying and generally just a bit stupid. Sorry.

I don't know what this post is supposed to be about? It's more a diary entry than a blog. But it's midnight and I'm anxious and tearful and totally failing to sleep and I need someone to know how that feels.

Cos right now I feel like a f*** up and a failure and a waste of space and I don't know how to make it better.

Tomorrow it will be better. Sleep and sunlight. Rah.i need to get it together. Xx

I water marbled!

Well tried to anyway lol.
I've been meaning to attempt this for ages but been rather daunted by the whole thing. I think I told the story of my first attempt that didn't even get as far as being an attempt? Advice: don't use a polystyrene cup, any sinking polish will burn through it. I made quite a mess lol.

Anyway this time I used a proper drinking mug so that was an improvement. I still made a significant amount of mess though haha. I was going to marble all my nails but quickly ran out of patience and decided to just do my two ring fingers instead lol.

It doesn't look as good as I'd like... but equally it doesn't look as deeply disastrous as I was expecting! And in a weird kinda way I kind of enjoyed the faff and mess and stuff so maybe I'll try again some time!

And yes the polishes are the models of for tans collection again (I forget the names sorry) plus, you've guessed it, Barry m coconut haha. X

Neon nails!

Yea, so I'm seriously loving neon lately. Not entirely sure why, think it's the sunshine lol. Having grabbed a couple (followed by a couple more, ie the whole collection :s lol) of the models own 'for tans' collection I spent over a week wearing nothing but neon haha.
I shared several of my neon efforts in a guest post over at nail parade (awesome blog btw). But in case that's not enough neon, here are a few more :).
The base for all is Barry m coconut. Probably a bit cream for neons, I'm sure they would have popped even more over pure white.... But I'm a little in love with coconut, it suits me better than stark white and it's really, really easy to work with. Think I'm slowly coming round to the Barry m gellys :p lol.

The stripes were a quick and lazy attempt at a mani because having painted the base I realised I had less time than I thought before I had to leave the house lol.

Then saran wrap. Which is a technique I love. I do like the mani but I think I'd arrange the colours differently if I did it again...The Green and yellow don't look that great right next to each other.

Finally sugar spun. I've been wanting to try toys for ages but felta little daunted by it tbh. Plus I've not really been in the mood for anything that involves effort of clean up lol. But I liked this and I was kinda pleased with how it turned out. I'd definitely try the technique again anyway :).

Finally don't forget to check out the other British nail Blogger ladies in the inlinkz.x

An InLinkz Link-up

Pop! Goes the weasel

If you're wondering the exactly the title has to do with anything, suffice to say I'm a dork lol.

Long ago one of the first pieces of 'drawing' nail art I did was to paint bell ropes on my fingers. Today I fancied a bit of silliness so I thought I'd have another go... It's always fun to revisit old ideas. I've included an original pic for comparison.

The base is a England 'galahad' which is significantly more pretty than the original butter London 'Billy no mates' which was chosen out of necessity back when I only owned about ten colours :p.

The sally (that's the stripy fluffy bit lol) is Barry m 'coconut' with red and blue added in two nails Inc polishes that I can't remember the name of lol.

The only other change is the placement of the 'bells'. Last time I kept it simple with the sally progressing further up the nail moving across my hand. This time I tried to make it look like the bells had 'pulled off' in 14235, by painting least of the sally on my thumb, slightly more on my ring finger etc. This particular order is known as weasels.... cos it sounds like pop goes the weasel :p. Hence the dorky title!

In other news I've been slacking with hand care and my cuticles/fingers look rank, sorry!! X

giveaway winners

Ah, total fail on this! Better late than never?! So sorry it's taken so long :s. But here they are. a Rafflecopter giveaway Have a lovely day (that's a ridiculous thinb to say at half ten at night katie :p). X

A commitment to blog

Ok yes. I need to blog. I like blogging.  That'd be why I've been avoiding it then.
So in the next few days I will:
-announce competition winners (so overdue, oops!)
-post some random nails
-post some swatches
-write a post I've been wanting to about scars
-write about the mush of my brain of late
-write about something more lighthearted (what?  I dunno lol)

Yep. Commitment. It's all good. X

nails...

Ok. Yes. Must get it together. Here are a couple of things I've done to my nails lately. Both were prompted by the 'simples' series that Debbie is running over at The Crumpet. The series has been really informative so far....and I'm finding I really need prompts/starting points atm.

The first one is supposed to be a plain skittle but I cheated with the flower. It's the dementia friends logo because I planned to post this for dementia awareness week a couple of weeks ago but then everything kinda crashed. I've pretty much forgotten what colors, barry m coconut, then I think most of the others were nails inc ones?


The second is ombre. I actually did it properly and everything. I started with nails inc devonshire row on my middle finger and mixed in nails inc floral street towards pinkie and  new york noir towards thumb. The thumb could have done with being a touch darker...and little better mixed lol. Was fun though.