Monthly Favourites: June

Hey everyone! Today I'm going to be starting a new monthly feature: Monthly Favourites. You may have seen some Youtubers, and some bloggers posting these, and I decided it would be a fun thing to start doing. I will be including both make up and nail polish, as you'll see from this post, but it will definitely always include nail polish (because they are of course my favourite). Sometimes it will be all review products, and other times it will be products I've bought myself, but whichever they are they will always be my honest favourites. Most of the nail polish will be reviewed separately too, this will just be a summary, or a preview depending on the timing.

This month in my favourites I have quite a varied selection of stuff! After the jump there will be more information, but here are the 5 products, in no particular order:

1. OPI - Live Love Carnaval*

2. Dr. Hauschka - Eyeshadow Duo*

3. EVE LOM - Radiance Lift Foundation*

4. So Susan - Deep Space*

5. Barry M - Summer Matte Collection*

Wimbledon Nail Art for Barry M + Tutorial

Hey everyone! In the past week I've been busy creating 5 tutorials for Barry M and I can't wait for you to see them. Today I'm going to be showing you how to create these simple Wimbledon nails, and the rest will be coming over the next week or so. As you may (or may not) have gathered, I'm not a very sporty person. I don't like football, I don't like rugby, I don't like, or understand, cricket, but I do however absolutely love tennis. So my excitement was real when Murray won Wimbledon last year, and I'm really really hoping he'll do it again, but we shall see! In honour of Murray, here are my Wimbledon nails (steps are after the jump)

Tutorial Tuesday: Floral Foxes for Divine Caroline

Hey everyone! Today I have some nails for you that I've been super excited to show you ever since I created them a few weeks ago. They were inspired by this design on Hey Nice Nails' Instagram and I absolutely love how they turned out. If you want to see how to create them yourself head over to Divine Caroline here for step-by-step instructions. These nails were also my first experience with the Barry M Summer Matte collection (I used Copacabana* for the fox) and I was really really impressed, it was so opaque and easy to use. I also tried this out on a nail wheel with a purple fox using Rhossili* too and I love how that looks so maybe one day I'll create that on my nails!

What do you think? Let me know in the comments! 

Don't forget to check out the steps here

Alice

A Bit Dotty

Hey everyone! I have yet another design I created for our university's nail art society today (if you don't know what I'm talking about, read this). I seem to have been stockpiling them a bit. I'm not really sure where this design went, we were doing polka dot hearts, I think, and I just kind of went off on a tangent a bit. I think they're a little bit busy, but they still look okay

Nude Negative Space

Hey everyone! This week has been crazy busy, I can't believe how fast it's gone. One week of summer is now over, but there are plenty more to come! I actually created these nails quite a while ago, we did negative space nails in our university nail art society, but they were a little rushed because we were pushed for time so I'm not overly proud of them. I know recently I just seem to be posting stuff I moan about, but I promise you that this week's tutorial tuesday I really like, so watch out for that. I'm creating a lot of stuff at the moment that I love but it wont be out for a couple of weeks or so.

Polka Dot Cats

Hey everyone! Last week I mentioned that I keep delaying posting because I really don't like a lot of the stuff I have prepared and I keep wanting to wait until I have something better to show you. Someone in the comments argued that this blog is supposed to be a documentation of designs, good or bad, so I'm stepping outside my comfort zone and posting these. These definitely looked better in my head, as tends to be the case whenever I try and do cats. I think if the cats had turned out more realistic then I would like this a lot more, the polka dots and the blue work well, but the cats just went terribly wrong! I don't want to just sound like I'm moaning, they're not THAT bad, and cats are always cute (even when they don't look like cats), but the perfectionist within me is unhappy with these, for whatever reason that may be!

Fathers Day Nail Art for Avon

Hey everyone! Today I have some simple father's day nail art I created for Avon based around my scrabble love letter nails (although of course they were nail wraps, so these aren't quite as perfect). I hadn't realised that it was father's day in countries other than the UK today, but I just googled it and saw that it was, so this wont seem as odd to most of you as it would with mothers day, which always seems to be on different days!