The street is a mirror for our country, reflects the rise and fall of our nation

I can never decide where I stand on yellow nails. I love the summery feeling they give me, and I think they look gorgeous on a tanned skin. Unfortunately I live in a country that has decided to skip summer entirely this year. Instead it has gone from April showers to... um... October spitting? Furthermore, no matter the weather I always remain whiter than white. On holiday I go a delightful beige colour, before reverting to my ghostly self on the plane journey back, and I am far too lazy to fake tan.

But there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon. I have holiday time coming up!!!! So today I decided to spend my post-exam (whoop!) hangover day window shopping on voyage-prive, secret escape, and travel-zoo. Unsurprisingly  this got me in a sunny mood, so I decided to give myself summer nails to compensate the fact I'm wearing slipper and cuddling a hottie. (Sexy image straight from me to you!)

So here it is...

So yes, Carnaby Street by Nails Inc. I used 2 coats, and was too lazy to put on a base coat, so I'm already looking forward to the fungal infection looking nails that await below! But as you can see it has the 3 qualities I look for in a nail varnish: good coverage, dries opaque, and has a shiny finish. 

The Nails Inc website describes it as a "bright canary yellow", and I'm not sure if this is true, as I've never seen a canary in real life! (is this rare? Am I revealing a somewhat lacking childhood ) But I would say it's the colour of an American school bus!

I don't think it looks too bad against my pale skin, but I do think it's an odd choice for the time of year. Will probably change to a darker colour next time! (oh the woes of a girl).

 So there we go! In conclusion I like this colour, I bought it aaages ago, I think for Easter nails, and have not touched it since. but if you are looking for a bright nail colour to brighten your day, then look no further (Woah, how cheesy was that?).

Oh and if you were wondering the post title was taken from this song:

So what inappropriate colours are you wearing at the moment? What colour should I go for next?


Kat x

What Colour Would You Call This?

Hello everyone!

As I have alluded to in the past, I have rarely done anything different with my hair. It has always been big & blonde, and I loved it like that. However, for the last 6 months I have been wanting a change. My hairdresser (the lovely Jess from The House of Charles Worthington) made me wait this long, as she really loved the beach blonde colour of my hair, but I was adamant.

So, how the hell do you choose a new hair colour? Well I still don't know. I knew I wanted to go darker, but still be on the blonde spectrum, as too mark makes me look seriously ill. I started googling images like "bronde", "caramel blonde" and "dirty blonde" and came across some lovely hair colours, but they all came on uber tanned stunning beauties (Gisele Bündchen / Jennifer Aniston / Blake Lively), so I couldn't figure out how it would look on my pasty normal-looking  (hopefully!) self. So I just turned up, told her I trusted her, and put myself completely in her hands.

She decided to play it safe, and give me a good foundation colour, so I can tweak it in a few months depending on how I'm feeling. So drum roll please.....

I came in like this.

Yuck!

This is better, but a rather unrealistic representation of my usual look!

Halfway through I looked like this.

How does everyone other women in the salon look chic, and I look like this?

And I walked away like this...

I suppose it doesn't look too different, but trust me in real life it is quite a change. Also in some lights it goes very ginger (to the delight & horror of the boy & his brother).

Definite tinge of ginge!

So all in all I love the colour! And I love that I can get away with more dramatic make-up now! I would like to tweak it in December and make it a more definite colour (i.e. more ginger brown/caramel), but I don't know which way to go! Ooh decision decisions!


What colour would you call this, as I have no clue? Have any of you changed hair recently, I'd love to see! Which colour should I go next?


Kat x

Two Faces with Too Faced

Hello Girlies!

I am not a small bag girl. Whether I'm going to work, to meet up with friends, or on a night out, I always have a mahoosive bag along with me. This is because I am physically incapable of travelling light! In my bag I always carry my kindle, a book (yes I need both), my diary, a change of shoes, my make-up bag, and an umbrella. In spite all of that I never actually carry much make-up out with me. This is mainly because I can never be bothered to touch up throughout the day. Therefore the only thing I carry out with me, are products that can easily take me from day to night look with minimal effort. I sometimes do this with a mac quad palette, but recently I have mostly been using a quad from Too Faced.

It's called Too Faced Pixie Perfect Eye-shadow Quad. It contains 4 colours that all you'd ever need to create the perfect eye. It is comprised of a matte light ashy brown (1), a dark matte brown (2), a shimmery bronze (3), and a nude flecked with glitter (4).

The dark colour is very matte, it only looks shimmery in pic as I only use one brush!

NB   Please excuse my eyebrows, I was just about to get them threaded!

Here I'm wearing 1 to define my brows and 4 all over the lid. I wear this in the day to just make my lids look a bit less dead & vein-y! As you can see the glitter is very subtle which I like, as I'm not too keen on looking like a disco ball during the day.

Here I'm wearing 3 all over the lid & lower lash line. I really like this colour, and would wear it for a more exciting day time look (i.e. not at work). It has good colour pay off, minimal drop-age, and good staying power.

  

Here is is 4 with some soft definition in my outer v and socket with 2. I really like this, and wear do it a lot to transform my day make-up into a night look, but usually with a flick of black gel liner, for a bit more va-va-voom!

Again here is 3 with 2 added for definition. I also added some black kohl (very poorly I may add, but I was rushing) to define my upper lash line and in my waterline to make it more evening-y. This really is fool-proof make-up, and only takes 2 minutes!

And here are some obligatory front on shots with my different eyes! This look will probably not catch on, but actually who knows, I still can't comprehend the souse brow!

So to sum up I really recommend this palette, as I like each colour and you use every one frequently (something I find rare in pre-made palettes), and you can achieve different looks with such ease. I'm not sure how easy it is to find as my friend gave this to me as an unwanted gift, but definitely keep you eye out. I had never used anything by Too Faced before, but now I will definitely check them out again!

What Too Faced products do you recommend? Which palettes do you keep reaching for?

Kat x