I'm in the company magazine weekle edit!!

so basically guys if you don't already know- I'm a massive fan of company magazine. I've been subscribed for years and it's my all time favourite which I always look forward to arriving in the post and reading. A while ago when Gemma contacted me and asked if I would be able to do some nail art to go into their beauty school section of the weekly edit I jumped at the chance and said yes! I decided to do a watermelon nail tutorial as it's nice and summery and not hard to recreate if you break it down into the steps shown in the tutorial!
I used the Rio nail art pens (my favourite) to create the design!

If you'd like to download the company weekly edit (only 69p!) to see my tutorial click here and it will redirect you to iTunes to buy it (I think it only works on apple devices- sorry!) and please let me know if you did!

Thank you to Company Magazine and Gemma for this opportunity!

Oasap giveaway!

so it's been a while since my last giveaway so when Oasap contacted me this morning to ask if they could host a giveaway on islaay.com I said yes straight away! Oasap is an online fashion/accessories store and they have literally hundreds and hundreds of items on their site- all at great prices! If you haven't already then I would recommend checking them out- they have free shipping too which is GREAT!

Anyway- onto the competition! All you have to do is sign up to create an account on oasap.com (it's free) and be able to provide me with your postage information if you win. As for the prize the winner will get to win an item from the ones below- it's that simple!

♥ candy coloured skater skirt
♥ mini skirt with chiffon overlay
♥ galaxy print leggings
♥ straw hat with flower
♥ Eiffel tower top
♥ Pink Panther top
♥ Crochet lace top
♥ asymmetric chiffon dress

these are all so pretty and the lucky winner will get to choose which item they like the best to win. Personally I think I like the candy coloured skater skirt the best, it's so cute!

I've used rafflecopter for the entries as I think it's the easiest way for you to enter. Don't forget to create an account on oasap.com before entering (it takes about two minutes and it's just simple things e.g. your name and email address- don't worry you won't get loads of spam emails!).
The competition will last for 10 days and I will announce the winner on twitter and email the winner.

Thank you for Oasap for letting me to do this giveaway, good luck!


*the giveaway prize will only be provided by oasap if 50 people create an account on oasap.com so please make sure you create an oasap account!*


a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

watermelon NOTD and nail art tutorial

 I was over the moon when I got an email a few weeks back from the lovely Gemma who works at Company magazine (aka my favourite ever magazine) asking me to do a nail art tutorial for their weekly edit in the nail art section. I decided to do watermelon nails for it but I'm not sure if they've already been published in it already or not but I'll find out for you.

These are perfect for when the weather gets warmer (fingers crossed) as they're really summery. I plan on having watermelon nail art and wearing my new watermelon cami top I bought in American Apparel whilst using my watermelon phone case and eating watermelon. Watermelon obsessed? Me? No!

The pink polish was one from Essie and I did the details using the Rio nail art pens. This design is fairly easy to do once you break it down into the small steps as you can see above! If you don't have nail art pens then you can use the end of a kirby grip for the details and it works well!

As always I LOVE seeing people recreate nail art I've done so if you do then please make sure to tweet me a photo (@islaay_x) or send it to me on instagram (@islaay) as I love seeing them!

spring wishlist

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I haven't done a wishlist post in soooo long so I thought I would do one today! I think the polkadot blouse with some high waisted shorts and the daisy earrings would look SO cute together! The earrings would also look really cute with the coral dress which is from New Look (it's basically their version of the Topshop ones- I bought the dark green one in Topshop which you can see in this outfit post and I wore it to death over winter so I think having a summery one would be nice too!)

I've read so many good reviews on the Emma Hardie cleansing balm that I've decided I need it in my life- only problem is that it's £34, boo! I was meant to add Hydraluron into the list too after hearing Caroline Hirons rave about it but I forgot to add it in, oops!

Let me know what's on your wishlist and if you have any recommedations of things I should add to mine!

ps I just noticed this is my 200th post, WHOA! Also I hit 100K page views the other day so thank you all SO much for that!!

beauty things I suck at

so today I thought I would share with you some of the things I suck at doing when it comes to beauty- enjoy! I'd love to hear what beauty things you suck at, please leave a comment letting me know!

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