Christmas decoration....

Christmas is well on it's way and it's time to put the tree up for another year. My sister came down the other day armed with red and white felt and a promise of making a Christmas stocking for the tree, and that she did. I thought I'd do a quick post to show you all because it's a great idea, especially if you're on a budget and want cheaper alternatives for tree decorations:

She cut the red felt into the shape of the stocking and stitched both sides together using white wool 'to make it more Christmassy' then added some white sparkly felt along the top, and made a button with the red felt. Pretty nifty right? And because we both love ice skating, she added a little 'blade' along the bottom ;)

Will you be hanging any home made decorations from the tree this year?

Thanks for reading :)

S xx

Christmas nails take 2....

Time for another Christmas nail design, I'm loving playing about with nail varnish! This time 'O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree'

For this I used:

* Barry M '320 Foil effects' on all of my nails
* China Glaze 'Glittering Garland' for the Christmas Tree
* Essie 'Tour de Finance' (pink) Essie 'Fifth Avenue' (Red) and Barry M 'Cyan blue' for the baubles and the dots on my thumb
* The star is from a pack of nail stickers I had from Bodycare

You could do this without the Baubles on the Christmas tree, but I wanted a little extra colour

Thanks for reading :)

S xx

Gift idea....

Every Christmas I buy my niece and nephew sweets to go along with their presents, and I wanted to do something different this year. So I decided to make them up a sweetie jar:

I just thought it would be nice to give them something different because they'll probably have selection boxes coming out of their ears!

If you wanted to do something similar for a friend/sister why not fill a jar with miniature make up products? I'm pretty sure a lot of the make up counters out there give out samples of mascara and perfumes. I think I might make myself one of those haha

Thanks for reading :)

S xx

Small haul....

I'm trying SO hard not to buy myself anything until after Christmas because I still have some prezzies to buy. However I failed and bout a few things over the weekend....oops!

I needed (OK wanted) a new bag and fell in love with this one from Primark for £9.00:

When you buy a new bag, gotta ave a new purse right? £4.00 Although I picked up the purse then the bag.........

Next was H&M for a new jumper. Love this one and it was only £14.99

And lastly some beauty. Sally Hansen nail varnish in 'Dorian Grey' £1.00 from poundland and Limited Collection 'Butterfly' perfume £3.00 from Marks and Spencer:

I'm going to try and behave now and not buy anything else.OK who am I kidding? We all know I will :P

Thanks for reading :)

S xx

Purple Christmas eyes....

Today I thought I'd do a purple eye look for Christmas. I love wearing purple's anyway but especially at Christmas time because I can add a little glitter :P

For this look I applied NYX jumbo pencil 'Purple' on my lid and stopped at my crease. I then added a little NYX jumbo pencil in 'Cottage cheese' to my brow bone and tear duct area for highlight

* I applied MAC 'Phloof' onto my brow bone and tear duct, the used Soap and Glory 'Pink T' as a transition colour to help the colours blend

* For shadows, I applied MAC 'Trax' all over my lid, then took MAC 'Shadowy Lady' onto a 217 and added this to my outer V and blended it into my crease

* I then applied MUA liquid liner along my upper lashline, took MAC 'satellite dreams' onto my lower lashline and added two coats of mascara

* No look is complete without the glitter so I applied Collection Glam Crystals 'Shake it up' on top of the black liner

Hope you enjoyed

Thanks for reading :)

S xx

Weekly Favourites....

Time for another weekly faves post, there won't be one next week because I'm away for sunday and Monday but shall be back on Tuesday :)

* Aapril exfoliating scrub cream - I LOVE this! Best exfoliator I've used by far. I notice a difference with my skin as soon as I dry my face

* e.l.f blush in 'Berry Merry' - Perfect shade for this time of year. I love berry and mauve  shades anyway and this is beautiful

* e.l.f blush in 'Blushing rose' - Same as above. This is a very similar shade to 'Berry Merry' when applied to the cheeks except this has a gold sheen to it and 'Berry Merry' has gold shimmer. Both gorgeous

* Sally Hansen color comfort Lipstick in 'Soft Orchid' - Gorgeous Mauve shade, I absolutely love this lipstick <3

What have you been loving this week?

Thanks for reading :)

S xx

Christmas nails take 1....

As it's December and the countdown to Christmas is on, I thought I'd put up a Christmas themed post every day up until Santa comes :P Today's post is......Snowflake nails:

For this I used:

* Technic nail varnish in 'Monnlit Jade' and for the snowflakes I used Barry M '319 Foil'

I'd probably wear this on my ring finger as an accent nail and paint the other nails silver and maybe add the dots on my Index finger using the 'Moonlit Jade' If you don't have a silver, white work work just as well.

More nails art coming up

Thanks for reading :)

S xx