The totally doable I have a life challenge! - My favourite beverages

Hello there!! I hope you're doing great, I'm gonna complain again about how busy I am and why do I have all the homeworks? I've had to write a list to remember to do basic things. I forgot to take a shower -_- Just -_- I just want to relax like before but unfortunately school has begun and relaxing is just not on the schedule. So this is the final part of the challenge (I do have one bonus look though) and it's beverage; it's a bit random and though the look I created is basic, I really like it.

I just created patterns of all my favourite drinks. I like the simplicity and I think it's pretty cute. So drinks form thumb to pinky is strawberry milkshake, lemonade, water, orange juice and root beer. I LOVE those drinks. Skittles in general are fun too. I matted the manicure and I love the matteness, I forget how it can really add to a manicure. So the circles are meant to be bubbles.

I freehanded the details with toothpicks as usual and there was lots of little strokes of colour added for dimension. Not like fancy dimension, basic dimension but I think it works. Fancy dimension isn't me after all. Strawberries didn't really work out the way I wanted them to but I don't think it detracts.

Pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit, OPI - I Lily Love You, OPI - Charged Up Cherry, Barry M - Strawberry Ice Cream and Barry M - Princess
Strawberries: OPI - Dutch Tulips, Rimmel - Sunshine over Barry M - Matt White and Barry M - Kiwi
Yellow with glitter: Ciate - Loop The Loop, Rimmel - Sunshine and Claire's - Dizzy
"Lemons": Etude House - 60 and Topshop - Naked
Blue: The Face Shop - BL501, OPI - Get Your Number
Bubbles: Barry M - Matt White, Barry M - Lady, Revlon - Dreamer, Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream and H&M - Blue My Mind (I think)
Orange: Rimmel - It's A Scorcher!, Essie - Shine Of The Times and The Face Shop - CMX321
Oranges (this is confusing): OPI - Jinx and OPI - Where Did Suzi's Man-go?
Brown: w7 - Brownie and Nails Inc - Glamour Glitter
Root beer bubbles: Nails Inc - Porchester Square, Paris Collection - Mauve Melody and M&S - Golden Sands

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Red Nails: Essie - E-nuff is E-nuff (Reswatched)

Hi there guys!! I have an old polish to show you today. I got it a while ago and it came from quite an old collection. But this is a really great one. In nail art it's easily becoming my go-to red cause it's fab.

'Pologies for the cuticles :/

E-nuff Is E-nuff is a light red creme with orange tones. I sometimes think of it as a tomato red. But otherwise there's not much to say apart from that it's a really nice shade.

I think this was from a Winter collection in 2010(?) but I found it in TK Maxx (that said I need to go to TK Maxx :P). I've always thought Essie was great and that regard still holds cause I love their particular shades and nice formulas.

Speaking of nice formulas, E-nuff is E-nuff definitely has one. It's an easy 2 coater that glides and is smooth and the thickness is probably perfect to most people.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a nice day!! :)

The totally doable I have a life challenge! - Striped Mostachioed Macaroons

Hey there guys!! Man it feels a while since I've written one of these. Been busy ya'know, having a life ;) I know this challenge is well and truly over but to be real I actually finished the challenge before August was over but it takes me a while to get things up :/ Anyway today was stripes and um yeah here's more food. Side note: I was watching Modern Family as I was painting these and oh my gosh Haley and Andy are my new OTP, I was crying from cuteness and new season is coming out this month!! But not like I can watch it cause I don't have cable.

Originally I was going to do a fruit basket but then I realised a previous prompt was pineapples so it'd be a bit fruit overload. Also cute food never gets old with me. I actually really liked the stripes by themselves, they were very Battenberg-esque. The filling is intended to be the moustaches, well I didn't plan it that way but it came out that way. It's more charming in my opinion anyway. I added extra glitter pieces cause I need extra stuff to fill space. Also glitter.
By the way I LOVE macaroons, I think they taste so good and that's not just the colour of them being a placebo, they are yummy ^_^

The stripes were freehanded and kind of straight. I did have to go back and touch up with the brush and toothpick. Otherwise the macaroons were painted with a toothpick and I placed glitter after fishing. The glitter was very prickly and some fell off (ring finger). But moons and stars though. 

Yellow: Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream

Pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit

Glitter: Revlon - Celestial

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

White: Barry M - Matt White

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Dark Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia and Barry M - Superdrug 50th Birthday

Dusty Green:Max Factor - Cool Jade

Peachy Orange: Essie - Tart Deco

Orange-y Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry

Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind and OPI - Get Your Number

Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire

Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff and Nails Inc - Regents Park

Dusty Blue: Revlon - Dreamer

Medium Green: Illamasqua - Nomad and Barry M - Sour Apple

Bright Green: Barry M - Greenberry

Medium Pink: Orly - Basket Case and Barry M - Princess

Teal: Barry M - Guava and Barry M - Aqua Glitter

Light Blue: The Face Shop - BL501

Light Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a really nice day!! :)

Yellow Nails: Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream

Hello guys, it's good to see you on this swatch day. It's always a good day when it's a Barry M. This was my first EVER Barry M, so it was almost received 4 years ago :O So yeah disclaimer this polish is good but my bottle is very gloopy. But you can understand why right?

Lemon Ice Cream is a nice paler yellow. But from the bottle you'd expect it to be paler but it comes out brighter on the nail. It's a nice yellow, the colour is nice even if you're not the biggest yellow fan like me.

If you don't know by thoughts on Barry M... You must be new :P No obviously I adore Barry M, it's by far my favourite nail polish brand and I can't wait to get my hands on some Autumn Gellies ^_^ The Ice Cream polishes came out quite a while ago, but there were a bunch of them and they're all pastel and I'm pretty sure I am them all.

Sorry the polish looks a little gloopy here

Now the coats were more thick and gloopy than most peoples' bottles but even before that the formula is generally very thick and maybe some people would really dislike that. I personally don't mind it but it;s not the easiest formula. I used 3 coats and it was still a little bit streaky but I didn't think it needed another coat. You know yellow formulas, they're never the best.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

The totally doable I have a life challenge! - Guilty pleasure = Hey Baby by DJ Ötzi

Hey guys, I'm still here doing the challenge. I'm also still here with a bunch of homework I'm procrastinating on. This is my life guys. You can't change me!! The prompt was guilty pleasure. Now I have a lot of guilty pleasures. Frankly the majority of my hobbies are guilty pleasures, whether it's gaming, reading or 1930's music I felt they didn't truly capture the essence of a guilty pleasure. That's why I've decided to pick a song that really is a guilty pleasure but I love it with all my heart. Guys, the guilty pleasure is real.

So I decided to create a design based on the feeling of the song. Which of course called for pop art. I think the explosion around the "Hey Baby!" really reflects the emotions in the song. There is an exclamation mark on my index finger to show that this "Hey Baby!" is exclaimed!! I wanted a more basic colour theme and I thought it was sweet. I do really love pop art cause it just looks really cool, edgy and bold.
But seriously Hey Baby is such a song. I first heard it when I was 5 and when I recently rediscovered it over the summer; now I can't help but belt it out all over the house. It's just that kind of song that needs to be spread to send out happy vibes. That "heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey" cannot be topped. Or the oohs and the ahhs haha. It's just a nice regard too; so many songs are about being too cool for people but this one is the opposite. It's willingly asking something that people think they are too above to ask. Let's not even start on the happiness the key change brings me. It's just great.

After some research I realise this song was a cover of a song in the 1960's and was the unofficial theme of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. It was also No. 1 in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Japan. That's pretty legit. If this song doesn't make you feel warm inside, then my friend you have a heart of stone ;)

I started with the shapes before putting the outlines on them. I think it was neater this way. I used a mixture of a brush and a toothpick. The writing was with a toothpick and that was hard. I did the little dots with bobby pins and that worked out pretty well.

Base: Essie - E-nuff Is E-nuff and OPI - Jinx
White: Barry M - Matt White
Yellow: Topshop - Naked and American Apparel - Neon Yellow
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Green: Barry M - Kiwi, Rimmel - Block Your Green! and Orly - Go Deeper (i.e. the saviour of the writing)
Blue: Revlon - Dreamer
Light Green: Etude House - Play 86
Shiny Blue: Rimmel - Azure
Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!
Medium Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Dark Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind

Thank you so much for reading this long and I sound crazy post and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Pink Nails: OPI - Japanese Rose Garden (Reswatched)

Hey there guys!! Hope you're having a nice day so far. I have a pink polish today if you couldn't tell, which you definitely could. My last swatch of this was just a complete shambles, the lighting was a mess and generally it just looked terrible. But we are mending this today.

I think my mind has kind of changed for this polish. I used to really not like this shade of pink but now I think it's actually quite nice. Japanese Rose Garden is a cool toned pink that's rather dusty in appearance. Dustier than in pictures. I think there might be the tiniest hint of silver shimmer but it's pretty invisible at all times. But it's quite a nice shade, I'm not hatin' :)

This polish is the bomb.com (I never say things like this) for water marbling. It's perfectly opaque and spreadable. Not that I water marble very much, I think I'll have to force myself to do another one (I do 1 a year). You guys know how I feel about OPI (maybe), nice colours, great formulas, pretty much the quintessential nail polish brand. Right?

Like the formula I mentioned for water marbling, it's totally perfect. It's so opaque, I used 2 thin coats but as usual 1 thick coat will do. It's so smooth and the easiest to apply. OPI really really really got the formula right here.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

The totally doable I have a life challenge! - Classy lace design

Hello there guys!! Happy September guys!! This is my catch up design for the first day of the challenge: classy. It's a very broad theme but I like that, means I can branch out in crazy directions. Nothing says classy to me like lace. Also recently I have been loving lace tops, they're so pretty.
On another another note I was wearing this design during my week off blogging (which was a while ago now...), where I was a leader in a summer scheme (it exhausted me, which was part of the reason I took a break) and the people liked this design (and the tropical beach one :)). This design also got destroyed by paint in that summer scheme when I joined the face painting crew hahahaha.
Yes I'm still doing this challenge when the 31 Day Challenge has started to roll. There is no way I'm doing that challenge unless I was insane. Girl has work to do. Girl has a life to run. That was the point of this challenge and the 31 Day Challenge is the opposite :P

I wanted the simplicity of black and white. I like white lace after all. I used an image from google images and changed it up a bit. Mostly from the fact that the lace is very fat (which it's ok with, it's accepted itself :P).
So there's mostly flowers and some hearts. Some curly lines and some leaves. I added extra lines within to make it more lacy? I do like it.

As you might be able to guess I got my toothpick and white polish and got to werk. My white polish is reaching gloopy stage (the stage every white polish inevitably gets to) but it's lasted much longer than other weaker white polishes. I also added a touch of glitter though the same toothpick method.

Black: Topshop - Gypsy Night
White: Barry M - Matt White
White textured polish: Barry M - Lady
Silver glitter: Barry M - Silver Glitter
Bonus glitter!: Essie - Shine Of The Times

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)