Labels: 2012, Forever 21, Heels, Jeffery Campbell, Nails, new york, NYC, Polish, Shoes, Wedges
Pre-warning: Picture heavy post!
I haven't blogged in so long, college really is taking over my life. I attended an 'interesting' life drawing class on Friday... showed up ready with my watercolour and fineliners, to see a 90 year old naked man named Gerald to greet me. My artwork was interesting, to say the least.
Anyway, I've been meaning to post about some more of the bits that I got from New York. I've been back a month now, and I miss it so much. I'm saving to go again! The weather in England has been dismal to say the least this past month, but it was so beautiful today so I managed to get some decent shots of the shoes! P.s, you may fall in love, not only the shoes; but with the price.
I got these 3 pairs of heaven from some boutiques in SOHO. Hey - who knew that SOHO was short for South Of Houston? I didn't! Despite the obvious shops there, the little ones that were hidden were the best. They were similar to Ark, or any smaller shops that might be in England. A lot of the clothes were similar in each shop, but it just meant that you had to delve deeper in each shop! Initially, I saw these beige badboys above and thought they were amazing - but a little bit like what you might find in Spearmint Rhino. I tried them on, and fell in love. So comfy, and so different. I've been wanting some unusual heels for a while, contemplated buying some Jeffery Campbell's, but for the price of these... I just had to. And hey, they're super easy to carry - the hole in the heel is perfect for little hands like mine!
These also, were from a small boutique in SOHO. They are SO similar to Jeffery Campbell Foxy's, and the base of them is rubbery and the grip is amazing. The little buckle detail means they definitely won't slip off on a night out (much needed). Considering that Foxy's are around $119 (no idea about conversion.. we'll say about £100), I wish I'd bought more than one pair.
And lastly, the staircase wedges. They looked so boring on the shelf, until I saw the gradual steps on the back! A-maze. With the leopard print inside too... possibly my favourites. I wear them pretty much every day, they add 6" to my 5 ft 4 frame which is also a plus!
And the best thing about them all.... is that they were all $10 each. Which is £6.53. Yep. No joke. Thats like £3.26 per shoe. Wooooooooooo!
And these amazing polishes from Forever 21. They were $2.80 each... so cheap. The blue is sort of galactic, and shines deep plum in the light. The glitter is similar to one of the Muppets from O.P.I collection, again, I wish I'd have bought more!
There's lots more to come, so I'll post soon lovelies :)
Labels: Art, Christmas 11, Nails
Feeling very festive, and had previously seen lots of Christmas themed nail art around on Tumblr, so thought I'd give it a go! I've got these nail art pens by RIO which are amazing and so easy to use. I got mine as a Christmas present a few years ago, but I think you can pick them up on eBay for about half the price! On the photo above, the purple glitter polish (I was going for a mulled wine look) was the Deborah Lippman polish I received in the December's Glossybox. Love it. The overcoat to these is a Rimmel one, not sure on the name, I think it's something like Stargazer? It was a cheap one anyway! Fingers crossed these'll last all the way through to the 25th itself!Who's excited? 
Third post in a week! Not bad! The title of my post today is a song by Eminem - Spacebound. It sums up whats going on with me now so I can really relate to it, and besides, Eminem is an all-round badass.
I worked this morning, so got home and didn't really have anything to do. I decided to spend hours on Tumblr (like most days) and some of the nail-art on there is really amazing. I was inspired by lots of things on there - dip-dyed hair, bleached shorts, nail art - so decided to try and combine all of that together. Gradients seem to be everywhere at the moment, and doing it on nails looks so hard!! I thought it was done with an airbrush, or with tiny tiny dots of nailpolish.. but then I discovered doing it a MUCH easier way! I wasn't too sure how it was actually going to look.. but I'm pleasantly surprised with it :)First you'll need to decide on what colours your going to use - I was torn between pink or blue, but went for pink. Gather up all of your nailpolishes in that colour range to help you decide which ones to use. The colours I used were:Sally Hansen Diamond Strength No Chip - 29 Radiant RoseNo7 Stay Perfect - 40 Sugar SyrupAvon Arabian Glow - Coral Sands17 Fast Finish - Pink GrapefruitNo7 Stay Perfect - 45 Very PetalSpectacular - Mermaid 83Obviously don't go out and buy these exact ones haha, just use whatever you've got - they should all blend together as long as they go from light to dark. I painted my first base coat with Revlon 050 - White on White to give myself a clean canvas for the colours to show up on, but it looks really pretty just clear too. Make sure that your base coat is completely dry before you put any other colours on or they will all blend together (which we don't want just yet!)Create swatches of all your colours in order, on a piece of paper or a paper plate so you can easily sponge the colour on. I used an old foundation sponge, and just cut it up (the sponges never worked for my foundation anyway aha). Dab the lightest colour you've got onto the paper and wipe away and excess polish. 
Dab it onto your nail almost all the way to your cuticle, with less pressure the nearer the bottom of your nail. I did this three times because the pink I've got is really light and I wanted to get a really solid base, but it's entirely upto you how you'd like to do it :) Again it's completely upto you how many shades of colour you'd like to use, I did 6, so it took a while for each coat to dry. Do this over with each shade, doing less and less each time until you get to the solid dark pink at the top of your nail - this will create the gradient effect.
To top it off, I used two glitter nail polishes to make give them a sort of galactic look, I used gold (Rimmel London 651 Eccentricity) and pink (Barry M Nail Paint - 264 Pink Irridescent). I chose to use two because the gold has really nice big clumps of glitter; whereas the Barry M is very fine. I found it easier to just dab the polish straight onto the sponge and then onto the nail. I only did it at the top; but then went over the whole nail with the pink glitter. 
Putting a good quality top coat on is really important too, I used Sally Hansen Insta-Dry top coat (mainly because it dried all the layers in 30 seconds!) The top coat will keep your glitter stuck down instead of peeling away.Sorry the pictures aren't the best, it wasn't very sunny when I was doing it :( I did make a video too but my iMovie is being really silly so it's not letting me crop it down, but if you'd like me to put it on just message me :) If anyone has a go at this, take a picture and send me the link! I'd love to see your outcome.Ruth xx
November 2009