what's in my bag

  I haven't done a what's in my bag type thing in quite a while so I thought I would do one! All my others have been on my blog so I thought for a bit of a change I would do it as a YouTube video. My bag is from La Moda* and was only £20 which is such a bargain!
I would love it if you could subscribe to my YouTube channel if you haven't already as I'm planning on doing lots more videos when my exams are all over, yay!

valarie

♥ skirt: topshop
♥ top: primark
♥ shirt: H&M
♥ watch: river island
♥ belt: topshop
♥ necklace: topshop
♥ earrings: topshop

so basically ellie posted this outfit the other day which made me remember that I had completely neglected this skirt (I bought it a few months ago but I've only worn it once so far) and made me want to wear it again! Because I'm totally not original at all I decided to just completely copy her outfit, woo!
I don't know how much you can tell from the photos but the skirt is one of those high-low ones where it's longer at the back than at the front but it was quite long and looked pretty frumpy on me which is why I kind of sinched it in with the belt to hold it up. I have my exams starting on Tuesday (blaaaah) so sorry for the lack of posts over the next few weeks but I will have some fun things going up after they're over, woo!

p.s. please ignore how long my hair has got, it needs cutting asap
p.p.s. please check out Ellie's blog, she's pretty cool you know.

loopy bow nail art tutorial

I'd seen nails similar to these on pinterest a while ago and never actually tried them but when Helen had her nails similar the other day I thought I would give them a go! They're quite fiddly to try and get them all even but I think they're quite eye catching once you've done them!

♥ paint your nails in the base colour of your choice. I chose 'teal 2'* by nailgirls which I reviewed in my daisy nail art tutorial

♥ using a white polish create two arch shapes in the corner of each nail using a curved sweeping motion of the brush. I just used the brush on the nail polish but you could draw the shape with a striper and fill it in if you found that easier

♥ go over the line where the white meets the green with a black striper

♥ create two loops for the bow on top of the the white to make it look like it's a continuous piece of ribbon

I think these are quite unique and you could change the colours to match any outfit! Don't forget to check out Helen's blog!

Bargain £5 Jeffery Campbell 'foxy' dupes

tReds is a shop I've never shopped in before but as one recently opened up in my local town I decided to have a look on their website the other day. When browsing in the sale section I cam across these beauties for five pounds reduced from £29.99. Yes FIVE POUNDS- biggest bargain of my life! They're a pretty good dupe for the Jefferey Campbell 'foxy' heels but so much cheaper so if you didn't want to splash out then this is a great compromise! Considering how tall they make you they're really comfortable and wearable- I wore them with skinny jeans and a sheer black blouse last week and I was walking around in them for four hours and my feet ached a bit but they weren't as bad as you would expect (this is coming from a girl that pretty much never wears heels btw!)

They unfortunately only have these two colours but seeing as they're such versatile colours I don't think it really matters that there's not a wider selection!

In total with postage these both came to just £13 which is amazing! They still have some sizes left in the white and pretty much all sizes the black so go quick before they sell out! Oh and postage was super quick- around three days which is less than I was expecting!

Let me know if you take a look on tReds and buy these- after posting the link on twitter the other day I know at least five other bloggers have bought them!

Easy Cath Kidston step by step nail art tutorial

as you'll probably know (unless you're new here and in that case- hello!) Cath Kidston nails are one of my favourite nail art designs to do so here's some which I did recently!
I used essie 'mint candy apple' and barry m 'peach melba' for the base colours and the Rio nail art pens* for the details.
As I didn't take step by step photos I've created a tutorial below which should hopefully make a bit more sense as to how to do the flowers!

♥ Simply paint your nails in the base colour you've chosen
♥ Once it's dry paint vertical white stripes on top
♥ Create a few flowers by doing three small dots in the peach colour next to each other
♥ Once it's dry do the same in the darker colour on top with a smaller dotting tool so that a bit of a rim is left around the edge
♥ Do a couple of light green lines coming out the side for the leaves
♥ Do a line with a darker green polish over the top

I hope doing the tutorial like this made a bit more sense, let me know if it did and if you recreate them!