Castle Break

Castle Break

Have been super busy revising for exams, so there are no nail paints in this post! Just an update, more nail paints in posts to follow!

On the 8-10th July two of my and I will be travelling around the UK, raising money and awareness for St John Ambulance. We will be dropped off at a mystery castle somewhere in mainland UK and then have 36 hours to collect points by completing various picture

challenges and then get back to our regional headquarters in Birmingham!

Our challenges include taking a pictures in front of things such as;

10 Greggs stores, the front door of 10 downing street, with the angel of the north, with a town cryer and on the top of the London eye!

Another part of the challenge is to complete all these tasks and get around the UK purely by the kindness of others!

Asking people to support a charity who supports so many others!

I have learnt so much through becoming a first aider for St John, and am excited (and nervous) for this challenge!

We have set up a just giving page
http://www.justgiving.com/Castle-Break

To get an idea of what the money you donate could go towards

£6 could pay for 100 pocket first aid guides
£20 could pay for half an hour of first aid training 
(Long enough to learn how to properly dress a wound and prevent infection)
£80 could pay for someone to attend a half day first aid course
 and learn the skills to be the difference between life and death in a range of emergency situations

Any donation would be massively appreciated!

If you find it easier, you can donate through sending a text!
Just text CBKL87 followed by the amount you would like to donate (e.g. £3) to 70070

And if you unable to donate, we would greatly appreciate that
if you spot us out and about you come ans say hello, offer us a lift and/or give us some food!

Thank you

x x

We also have a twitter if you want updates on our progress!

Becoming a First Aider

Becoming a First Aider

In October I decided to join my university's St John Ambulance LINKS unit. 

I then began learning the skills and took my exam to become a fully fledged 

First Aider in February.

I have really enjoyed becoming part of an amazing organisation, 

who have taught me life saving skills and so much more.

I have met some incredible people, both within my unit and on training courses 

and duties.

It gives me an enormous sense of pride to put on my uniform and be part

of an organisation and charity who help thousands every year!

x x

Easter holidays!

Easter holidays!

So it has been forever since I last blogged!
A lot has been going on, and I haven't had all that much time to paint my nails!

I have had 3 weeks away from uni to catch up with friends family and work... 

although as always not as much work as needed got done...

Since christmas I attempted to edit the video of me painting my nails, but my laptop

decided it didn't want to co-operate and destroyed the file!

I do really want to film a tutorial, so hopefully will work out a better way to do it!

But for the mean time here are some nails I painted for Easter, 

with many more updates to come!

x x

Merry Christmas..

Merry Christmas...

So, I was meant to post this yesterday...
Every year these are by far my favourite nail design!

They always make me jolly, and are very noticeable, 

so normally get commented on!

I still don't have my camera so again these are taken using my phone!

Which I am now getting used to!

Hope you had a lovely Christmas!

Hopefully will post the tutorial later tonight!

x x

Red and White

Red and White

I was inspired by one of my Christmas jumpers for this design!

Its such a bright jumper, I love it!

Unfortunately I didn't leave myself much time to do this design, 

so ended up being a bit rushed..

Hope you're having a lovely Christmas eve!

Tutorials coming soon

x x

Feeling festive!

Feeling Festive!

Its Christmas eve!

I have a few nails paints coming tonight, and some tutorial!

Hope you're all getting excited for tomorrow!

I decided for the design to cover some of the 

other things I think made Christmas that I haven't already!

So I painted a postbox and robin, Turkey an sprouts, 

Santa, a wreath and Rudolf!

x x

Santa Nails!

Santa Nails

I painted my housemate's nails, 
however I totally forgot to photograph them!
She took some pictures for me though, phew!

We decided to go with Father Christmas, 
as we were going on our last night out of the year we thought 
we'd dress up!

She was Santa and I was Rudolf and my other friend was festive!

x x

Candy canes

Candy canes

I painted these right at the start of December, but only
took two pictures and they weren't great...

I kept telling myself I would redo them, but haven't gotten around to it!
I really liked the design, so posting anyway!

x x

Holly

Holly
Painted my Nan's nails today.
Seems like forever since I last saw her!
We kept it simple but festive with little holly eaves and berries.

I have also filmed a couple of tutorials that I am
attempting to sort out!
Unfortunately I have not got my camera with me,
so everything recently has had to be taken on my phone!

4 days till Christmas!

x x

Christmas Nails

Christmas Nails

I've got round to painting festive nails!
Finished all my assignments for the year, so just looking forward to 

Christmas and revision...

The only idea I had for this manicure was

candy canes, so I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out!

Been wearing plenty of Christmas jumpers 

and decorated my uni house with my house mates, 

love this time of year!

Hope you're all getting in the festive spirit!

x x

Pink, black and white stripes

Pink, black and white stripes

I haven't painted anyone else's nails for such a long time!
But I went home recently and caught up with my best friend!
We chatted, drank wine, and of course nail painted!

 We decided one the base colour before the design,

and got inspiration from a nail art book someone sent me!

Pretty happy with how they came out, 

it was nice to be painting someone else's nails for once!

x x

Birthdays

Birthdays

November was a very busy birthday month!
Lots of celebrating and merriment!
As my last post was fairly serious and not at all cheery,
thought I would lighten the mood! 

I did a really simple design, but it made me feel cheery!

I thought I would keep this post short and sweet!
Christmas nails coming soon!

x x

Phoenix

Phoenix Nails

As some of you may know, at the end of October there was an 

electrical fire at my university house.
Me and my house mates are all OK, (although shaken and stressed).
It was a complete accident and no ones fault (Which is very relieving!)
We were moved into emergency accommodation for 2 weeks,

it was one of the most stressful experiences in my life.

Moving our stuff back and fourth between accommodation, and trying to
sort out what was going on, took all of our time.
If we weren't in lectures we were busy sorting something house or fire related.
I don't think I've ever truly understood what being busy was!
We are all back in our house now, and have most of our time back, 

there are of course still things being sorted, but its manageable!

I decided to paint phoenix nails, as I wanted to explain why just after 

getting back into the swing of blogging, I left again!
And I think the idea of a phoenix ties in really well with our situation.
The fire definitely changed all of us, but I think for the better!
(Although we are now some of the most cautious people on the planet!)
I believe it has given us a different outlook on things in a largely positive way.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me and my house mates!

From sleeping on their sofa, to storing food in the freezer!

It was massively appreciated!

My family were amazing and helped support us as much as they could.

Thank you

This has been a very wordy post for me!
Hope I haven't waffled on too much!

Its now officially December, 

so get ready for some Christmas nails and cheerier posts!

x x

Liverpool Match

Liverpool Match

On Thursday night I went to my first ever Liverpool match!

My boyfriend is a massive fan
(who also blogs at leachatuni.blogspot.co.uk),
and so for his birthday I managed to get him 2 tickets
 to see Liverpool vs Bordeaux and he took me!

The atmosphere was incredible and I have never experienced

anything like it before!

I had a really good time, and enjoyed it much more than I thought I would!

So I decided as I haven't blogged in a while 
(which I will talk about in my next post)
I would attempt to do some Liverpool FC themed nails!
It's been far far too long since I have blogged!
And am again struggling to work out how to take a good picture!

x x

Frankenstein drops

Frankenstein drops

I did these nails a little while ago and kept meaning to
post them! But I like to keep all my Halloween nails together!
So waited until now!

I have done a few blood dripping nails and things,
so thought I'd change it up a bit.

Purples and greens always make me think of Frankenstein around Halloween!

The pointed nails also add more of a sinister feel to them.
I'm still trying to decide what to dress up as for Halloween this year!
Many more spooky manicures to come...

x x

Carnage

Carnage

At my university, like most around the UK there are big nights out called Carnage. 

Its the standard buy a t-shirt that gives you entry to lots of clubs in a town centre.

This years carnage was animal themed. 

From my experience people do not usually stick to the theme, 

however me and my friends thought animals was a fairy easy theme to

look good, but not have to go all out for!

 I went as a leopard, and my house mate went as a deer.

I of course painted my nails to match!
I kept it really simple, with just one accent nail, mostly due

to lack of time!

We all had an amazing night!
And I thought our animal themed make up and accessories looked brilliant!

P.'s. My lovely housemate dressed as the deer 
also has a blog if you like to have a look its
http://preciselyriley95.blogspot.co.uk
She writes about.uni, fashion, beauty and life
In general!
x x

Birthday!

Birthday!
My birthday was over a week ago now, but as I have said many times, it's been very busy back at uni!I decided this year to paint my nails based on the different pieces of wrapping paper I received!

I had a really lovely birthday, my house mates decorated the house
with banners and balloons! 
They even got party hats for our outing that evening!

All the wrapping paper was beautiful, but I tried to pick
patterns I could attempt and that I loved and thought went
well together!

Thank you to everyone who wished me Happy birthday, and those who celebrated with me!

x x

Incredibles

Incredibles
I am finally back and settled at uni!
The first few weeks are normally massively hectic and this year was no exception!
As my birthday always fall in freshers week it gets very busy very quickly.

I have been painting my nails a little in my new house,
we did a couple of nights in freshers week and a birthday night out!
My birthday post will be going up soon!

Lots of university nights out are themed, one of this years themes was
cartoon characters, now me and some friends decided to go as a group costume,
it was very loosely fitting to the theme... we went as...

The incredibles!
 (If you hadn't already guessed from the title..)
I went as violet, although we didn't really stick to individual characters.
But I of course painted my nails to match! 

I kept it really simple, mostly as we only decided on our costumes the day of the event.

I just used the incredibles symbol and a red glitter fade!
We had an amazing night, really enjoying second year so far!
Many more posts to follow!

x x