Nails of [last] Week

Barry M Copper with Barry M Silver Multi Glitter and Barry M GreenBerry on middle finger.

Nails of the Week

Just a couple of nail looks I've done this week:

Barry M Gelly in Watermelon with Collection 2000 Hot Looks in Shameless sponged onto the tips. Essie Shine Of The Times as a topcoat.

First ever attempt at one of these "dotticures". Barry M Gellys in Prickly Pear and Plum.

Speckle (apologies for the blur, being ill has given me the shakes). Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, Barry M Berry Ice cream. L'Oreal Confetti topcoat with Sinful Colours Let Me Go over the top.

Barry M Nails

Barry M nail paint in Copper, with Barry M nail Paint in Silver Multi Glitter as an accent nail

Oooh the pretty sparkles! :)

NOTW with Barry M Teal and Silver Multi Glitter

Why yes I am holding a bandage.
Barry M Teal with Barry M Silver Multi Glitter sponged onto the tips.

I am so in love with Teal, isn't it pretty?

Pink and Blue

 

Face

MUA BB Cream - Light

Collection Lasting Perfection Powder - Light

Collection Lasting Concealer - Fair

George Blush - Sorbet

Eyes

Collection Dazzle Me – 7 Sugarplum (inner lid)

Urban Decay – Painkiller (outer lid)

Collection Dazzle Me – 4 Bewitch (outer corner and crease)

Barry M Glitter Dust – 20 Denim (liner)

MAC Painted Ivory (highlight)

Collection Dazzle Me – 2 Magical (patted over as a glitter)

George Satin Soft Pencil – 5 metal blue (waterline)

Borjouis Volume Clubbing Mascara – Party Black

Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil

Lips

Collection Colour Pout – 5 Flirt

(little bit of glitter from Magical Dazzle Me)

I love pink and blue together. Even my nails match!

 

Ciate Pink (free with Marie Claire I think? Magazine freebie anyway), Barry M Nail Paint in Blueberry Ice Cream.
And as a bonus, since it's EDAW I'm trying to wear silly socks every day so... these are today's silly socks. Knee high stripey ones (and bonus thermals xD - I put jeans on over to go out, I just wanted to show off the socks!) 

Pretty in Purple

Birthday face, nails and bonus outfit... you'll see why I'm in no way a fashion blogger!
Just a quick post, sorry!

Top from Next in the sale, jeans by Motel and necklace by Fossil.

Face:
Max Factor Colour Match Foundation - Ivory

Collection Lasting Perfection Powder - Light

Collection Lasting Concealer - Fair

Eyes:
Urban Decay Preen Palette - Snatch in inner corner and Flash on outside
Rimmel Quad (name is gone) - Black in crease
MAC Pigment - Polished Ivory as highlight
Collection Extreme Liner - Black
Collection Glam Crystals - Rock Chick
Maybelline Falsies
Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil and kohl liner

Lips:
Stargazer lip pencil in red
Collection Colour Pout lip stain in Pout


Nails:
Sally Hansen Extreme Wear on all but ring (I think it's Purple Potion)
Layla Holographic Cloudy Violet on ring finger
Barry M Crackle in Black and Purple rain

50 Facts About Me & NOTW

Late one today. I'm currently watching "The Mary Berry Story" on catch up in my PJs and sipping tea after finishing my second day of volunteering. It's been pretty good, I haven't learned how to use the till yet - which I'm gutted about (I'm so cool) but I've made up price tickets, entered gift aid and organised letters to businesses. There is one guy working there who's a bit creepy (even after talking about my boyfriend a lot he kept getting way into my personal space and going on about how he lives alone and it gets lonely sometimes o.O) but everyone is friendly and helpful and I do like it. No idea how I'd cope with a real job though - I feel a bit knackered after two 5hr days! So lazy.

NOTW: Collection Hot Looks in 44 Parma Violets on ring finger, Nails Inc Victoria on other fingers. Silver dots are Rimmel I <3 Lasting Finish in 239 Your Majesty, with Collection sparkle top coat and Rimmel pro matte top coat.


I've been seeing the "Facts About Me" tag all over the blogosphere lately and I thought it would be an interesting thing to do so you can all get to know me a little.

1. My middle name is Victoria
2. I have a Chemistry degree (but physics was my best subject at A-Level!)
3. I'm a sweetener addict, I use way too many of them (also I drink way too much tea and Pepsi Max)
4. I only just started to learn to drive at the age of 21
5. I spent more time with my Grandparents in Luton as a child than I did at home (Mum travels a lot for work) and as a result picked up a bit of a southern twang to my accent. 
6. I am still dating my first ever boyfriend.
7. My favourite bands are A Day to Remember and Aiden
8. I was born at 00:02 on the 7th February 1991 (the exact date I was expected - best timekeeping of my life!)
9. My hair has been pretty much every colour of the rainbow
10. I only started wearing makeup at 16 because all the other girls teased me, I only really got into it around 18!
11. I was bullied from primary school through to college *tiny violin* 
12. I am in utter love with Gothic style (a lot of it, from Victoriana & corsets to platform boots, fishnet and all that jazz) but not confident enough to wear it out and about.
13. I'm extremely shy and fail at normal social interaction
14. I'm a science geek
15. Despite this I am fairly easily drawn in by weight-loss gimmicks and alternative therapies
16. I struggle with working out which is my right and which is my left, I need to think it over
17. I have the freakiest ribcage, it sticks out at the bottom as if it slants like this \ but the left side stick out about an inch more than the right. It's never been broken, it's just weird.
18. I struggle to make healthy choices (like an apple instead of a chocolate bar)
19. I love horror movies, it's been ages since one scared me though
20. I love tea, but I only started branching out past the typical Tetley this year - Vanilla Chai is now my go-to relaxation drink.
21. I am a mega procrastinator, it's a miracle I passed my exams at all. I am queen of tomorrows - "I'll revise tomorrow", "I'll start eating more healthily tomorrow" etc etc
22. I have 7 piercings, only one of which is not stretched to some degree (12mm & 6mm in each ear, nose is 1.6mm and lip is 2.4mm at present...).
23. I have been planning my tattoo for years, I'm still too chicken to get it
24. I am terrified of falling (even standing on a wobbly stool more than a few inches from the ground scares the bajeebus out of me), spiders and I hate clowns and bugs.
25. Horses are my favourite animals, I've wanted one since I was a child.
26. I am perma-cold
27. I swear like a sailor, I really need to get it in check.
28. I have a younger sister who is pretty much my polar opposite - tall, blonde, confident, popular, stylish and stunning.
29. York and the Yorkshire Dales are possibly my favourite places in the world.
30. I have travelled to 7 different countries.
31. If I had to move to one of the places I've been overseas it would either be Lake Como, Italy (most beautiful place ever) or Copenhagen, Denmark.
32. I experience ASMR
33. In Primary school I was one of the smartest kids in the class and proud of it (probably explains the bullying!)
34. Vanilla is my favourite scent
35. I wanted to be a Vet when I was younger. I changed my mind after doing work experience in a veterinary surgery where I saw a cat getting spayed, only for them to find out she was pregnant (too young, babies had to be euthanised :()
36. I worry too much about what others think of me
37. I can be far too hard on myself.
38. I'm obsessed with high heels, but almost never wear them (I don't go out and I can't walk far in them)
39. In second year of Uni my next door neighbours were drug dealers!
40. I still don't feel like a grown up, even though I technically am.
41. My grandparents both have Alzheimer's, I scare myself when I think of the same happening to me
42. My parents are divorced. I never see my dad (never really did).
43. I spend way way way too much time on Reddit
44. I love palindromes, especially palindromic numbers
45. I used to spend all my free time learning - Ancient Egypt/Greece/Rome and the relative Mythology, Norse Mythology, Dinosaurs etc... I wish I still had the concentration for it. 
46. My cheeks go red very easily
47. Milk pretty much always smells off to me
48. Broccoli is one of my favourite foods
49. I like the smell of hair dye and bleach
50. I make squash really strong

 

Snow and Sickness

And again I am apologising for the lack of posts, bit of a fail on my part. Between snow and being ill I've just not felt up to it. Sorry to anyone who reads. To make up for it all here's a mix of FOTD's from this week and last and my current nails.

Products:
I've forgotten the eyeshadows, but mascara is Collection Colour Lash in Electric blue. The liner is generic blue one, with Rimmel Soft Kohl in white on the inner corner. And my usual Rimmel eyebrow pencil and maybelline mascara. 

Products: MUA Heaven & Earth palette. Collection Extreme felt liner in black. Rimmel eyebrow pencil. Rimmel soft kohl in jet black. Maybelline falsies mascara.

didn't get decent closeups of this one >.<

Can't remember. I think the eyeshadow is a Barry M dazzle dust. Silver eyeliner is George glamour'eyes, black is collection extreme felt, same mascara and eyebrow pencil as above.

Nails are all Barry M (aside from OPI Nail Envy Matte basecoat), 308 Berry Ice Cream on all fingers, 324 Silvery Lilac on ring finger, 322 Nail Effects Purple Rain on all fingers.