DIY Flower Nails

Ciao,

I have been wanting to do a nail post for ages and just haven't got around to it. I love painting my nails and have more nail polishes than any one person could need. I also invested in some nail dotting pens to take my nail painting skills to a whole new level. Up until today I had mastered polka dots, simple but very cute.

Then today I decided to try a pattern a work friend of mine had on her nails a few weeks ago...she wouldn't tell me how to do it but I googled it. Oh how I love the internet. Et voila!

Cute huh? Especially the pastel colours...perfect for spring! So here is how you get these cute nails!

1. Choose your colours: You will need a base colour, a light colour for the main flower shape, a darker shade of the same colour to draw petal lines and a green for leaves. Also nail dotting pens or a thin brush or even a cocktail stick.  

2. Apply your base colour, I did 2 coats of this lilac and obviously waited for it to dry. 

3. Next take the lighter of your two flower colours and dot random sized circles all over the nail, you can do as many as you want. 

4. Whilst the flower is drying I use my dotting tool to paint on the leaves, I do two on either side but again you can adapt this however you want. I find the easiest way to get paint on the dotting tool is to put a pool of nail polish on the applicator lid of another nail polish so you can literally dip the tool in whenever you need more and you don't have to keep fiddling with lids.  

5. When the flower shape is dried, take your dotting tool and using the darker colour paint small lines within the flower so as to create the look of petals. 

6. Once all the nail polish is touch dry apply a clear topcoat to prevent the nail polish chipping. 

There you have it, cute flowery nails. Enjoy :) 

After I wrote this blog post my sister came home from school and she wanted hers done too. So here's some more pictures, hers are the blue and mine the purple. 

Ciao for now...

Imagine

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I'm currently on a revision break and decided that I would change location from the stuffy library where I've been all day and move somewhere much more comfy and cool in both senses of the word. So here I am sitting on a huge luminous orange bean bag surrounded by a mismatch of things which really shouldn't work but somehow look so cool. 

 I am talking about Imagine, a lil spot on campus where students can chill, study, buy yummy frozen yoghurt or just marvel at the funky décor  This place is such a gem, there's bean bags, cool lampshades, round chairs you can plug your music player into, various funky plastic tables and chairs, deck chairs, astroturf, funky lampshades, chairs suspended from the ceiling and more "feature" walls than you can shake a stick at. One of the feature walls is an extremely cool and useful whiteboard wall. Yes you heard me right, a wall of whiteboard. Epic. 

As my description cannot really do this place justice I will instead give you a load of pictures...enjoy!

Ciao for now...

Ciao,

So it's Thursday already? Say whattttttttt? Time is literally flying by and my exams are creeping ever closer. Shit. So I think I shall take my mind off things by writing a Things I Love post.

1. The emergence from winter...*do not jinx it* As I am writing this there are dark grey clouds looming and the sun is fighting to break through but the Brit in me feels that the solitary days of sunshine in this country must be celebrated. 

2. Sara Cox's Radio 1 show: after getting my iPad I have started listening to Radio 1 through the iPlayer app and I love Sara's morning show. She's a hoot.

3. My friend tweeting funny things about her new born baby...my fave so far was "*****'s belly button just fell off!!!!". HEHEHE.

4. Cooking, now I'm back at uni I'm cooking everyday and I didn't realise how much I missed it. :) Shame I have the belly to show for how much I enjoy it.

Wishing anyone out there a fabulous Thursday and also sending love to those who have been affected by the Boston Bombings and now the explosion in Texas :( <3

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Ciao for now... 

All work and no play.

Ciao,

So I'm not blogging as much as I'd like :( I've had a hectic 2 weeks involving absolutely no revision which is bad. VERY bad. I am now suffering the consequences with long library days and probably far too many cups of coffee. It doesn't help matters that the two departments I study can't sit down together and work out a reasonable exam timetable. I have 7 exams in all and this is just part and parcel of doing the degree I do. However, you'd think that the two departments would realise that having 4 exams in 3 days, including French speaking, French grammar, French writing and just to make it ultra confusing Italian speaking, is a teeny tiny bit stressful and not at all helpful for doing well! They are not consistent with this tight timetabling, ohhhh no, my last 3 exams are one a week meaning I have 23 days of torture in all. Bastards.

Rant over. 

'I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.'

-Natalie Portman

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Ciao for now...

Hola! I'm back!

Ciao!

Well I am sorry I have been absent on ye old bloggersphere for so long things have been busy for me. I broke up from uni 2 weeks ago (how time flies...eek) and had a few days before I headed off to Madrid to see my best friend who is on her PRA! It was so lovely to see her and spend 6 whole days together after 3 and a half months of separation. I had a lovely time being shown around the very centre of Madrid, which is called Sol. However, I ate far TOO much food and my jeans actually broke whilst on holiday! Now I don't think, or maybe don't want to believe that I ate that much that I broke my jeans as they are fairly old and it was only the zip that broke so I'm going to stick by the story that they were always going to break...it had nothing to do with all the tapas or calamari. Definitely not. 

 Amazing hot chocolate which is so thick you need

 a spoon and glass of water...you dip the churros in it.

This is a plate of tapas, we shared clearly. 

The sauce on the potato is so yummy! 

It was a pretty relaxed 6 days full of lie ins, food, alcohol, laughing and shopping! Half way through the week Hayley decided we were going to row a boat. At first I was sceptical but it turned out to be my highlight of the holiday, it took us a good 10 minutes to even get out of the jetty bit and everyone was laughing at us. Must have been hilarious to watch, I know it was hilarious to experience. My other highlight is my amazing birthday present, Hayley really does know me too well. She spoilt me rotten, she bought me a Pandora bracelet with 2 charms; the first is a red glass charm with little daisies on it and the other an Eiffel tower. It's so pretty and I love it to pieces, a real 21st keepsake :) it couldn't have been more me if it tried, red is my favourite colour, my name is Daisy and I am a complete francophile! Parfait!

It's pretty cool as a language student to be in a country where you have no knowledge of the language, it's amazing how much you can understand and how quickly you can pick things up. Being there got me all excited for my own year abroad which is getting ever closer...I leave on 26th June (ARGH). I'm lucky to have found a job with Hayley for 2 months in the south of France and I am so excited for it but equally just as scared. I'm planning on taking my blog with me as I do my year abroad...I can now confirm I will be going to Gascony, Lyon and then Lecce in Italy to finish off with a 2 month gap between France and Italy so I can complete a qualification which means I can teach English as a foreign language all over the world. Very handy. 

This was taken on the 9th floor of a shopping 

centre which is where we ate the first night.

Hayley sent me a picture of her with this sign on my 

21st birthday so we had to take a photo on the day I went to Madrid! 

More photos to come when Hayley uploads them :) 

On that note I shall love and leave you...

Ciao for now...