Little Treats!

As we're squirrelling away every spare penny for the wedding/honeymoon fund at the moment I haven't done a great deal of shopping lately. However, after finally plucking up the courage to go and trying on some wedding dresses (more on that soon), and a stinker of a week at work, I decided I deserved a little treat.

Or 4.

I've been seeing quite a lot of nail art posts on blogs and on Instagram recently  and despite having bought some tools earlier in the year I haven't really gone beyond dots yet. To be honest I'm not sure I have the capacity to go beyond dots - I can but try! So I ended up with a black nail art pen, confetti nail polish and a new top coat all from Barry M.

So far I've only tried the confetti nail polish, and have established it doesn't work on its own too dull and lumpy:

This leaves me a bit unsure when I could use it; perhaps one coat over a pale pink polish? Goodness knows.

I also ended up with a One Direction Lipstick from MUA - Niall's shade, which is called 'moments'. Now I'm 25..and not even a particular fan of 1D, but I didn't see anything odd about me making this purchase, until Adam looked at me as though I'd come completely mad and asked me in a rather derisory tone if I was really buying a One Direction lipstick. Err, yes?! 

I justified it because I liked the colour - it's a nice rosy pink colour ideal for every day.They had the other colours too but they were all a little bit extreme for me!

Barry M is currently on 3 for 2 at superdrug and the MUA One Direction lipsticks are £3 - bargain!

Have you tried the nail art pens or the MUA 1D collection yet?

Suzy

Xx

CHALLENGE: #blogyoursocksoffseptember

In a moment of insanity last night I decided to join in with a challenge that potentially has the longest hash tag ever created - #blogyoursocksoffseptember. It was created by Jess at Lovely Jubbly Blog. There's a fair few bloggers taking part so definitely search #blogyoursocksoffseptember on twitter to go check out their blogs.

Having never left education - school, 6th form, uni, post grad and then teaching - there's still a part of me that gets excited by the fresh start that September brings. I start off the academic year with significantly more enthusiasm than I end it with and I love all the new stationary and new classes of students I get to meet. Even being back in work after 6 weeks off was a slight novelty..briefly! So in that frame of mind this challenge has come at the exact right time for me - new year, new start etc.

.

So ill be blogging every day (hopefully) in September. Or at least ill be trying my very best to! If I don't manage to post on a certain day ill try to double post the day after - its not easy when you're working full time but I think it'll be a great motivator for me to give my blog some more attention!

I'd love to follow as many blogs who are taking part, as possible, so please leave your links below or feel free to tweet me them.

Hope you enjoy reading this month :) 

Suzy

xx