New Nail Polish & Trying Out My Dotting Tools.

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beauty, dotting tools, Fashion, nail art, nail art dotting tools, nail art sandwich bag, nail biter, nail dotting tools, nail polish, nail polish art, nail polishes, sandwich bag nail art

I bought these dotting tools over four months ago from THIS Ebay store. They cost me under $2 from China, you get what you see. They came in a small padded bag and took a few weeks to arrive, I wasn’t in a rush to receive them so the postage time didn’t bother me.

If you need them sooner then a couple of weeks you can of course buy them from Australian Ebay stores but they will cost you a about $8 or you can always use things like toothpicks or bobby pins to do the designs.

I’ve never been good at doing anything more then just basic nail painting but in recent times I’ve been experimenting a bit more and this is what I came up with yesterday!

Excuse my short nails and inflamed looking skin. I’ve been a life time nail biter and am just finally growing them back.

The solid colour is one of my newer nail polishes I bought from Ebay. I just managed to catch them in the last minute of the auction and snatched them up for $5.50 and $6 postage!

Quite please, but unfortunately the sender just had them in a padded bag and they got rough handle by Australia Post. I open up the parcel to find shards of glass everywhere and a big chunk off the bottom of 301. It won’t stand up now of course so it’s a little hard to work with.

The only other tiny annoyance is the style of the lid on these L’Oreal nail polishes. Perhaps I’m just used to China Glaze and OPI style lids?!

Quite a while ago I came across a tip about doing your nail art on a plastic sandwich bag, so I decided to try it out and do some basic flowers, hearts and dots to get used to using the dotting tools.

While doing the designs I found it was easier to see what I was doing by keeping them over the white strip, I suppose you could also put a piece of paper inside the plastic bag! hmm I wonder if you could print something on paper and use it as a guide. Now that’s another thing I’ll have to try. 😀

I left them to dry for a few hours and then peeled them off to apply them to my nail. I didn’t need to use anything to stick them to my nail, they just stuck on perfectly and I used a top coat to seal it.

I found that it was a bit of a task to peel them off the sandwich bag and they were rather delicate. Quite a number of them broke while I was peeling them off but I found the thicker ones were stronger and less likely to break. So I would advise to do extras in case of breakage.

I would definitely do this again. Both hands looked great and far more uniform then if I were to free hand the design on to my nail.

This I class as a success!

Have you ever tried using a sandwich bag to do your nail art? How did it go?

Caitlyn

Saturday Shopping

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Avella, Avella Big W, Big W, cheap accessories, clothing, Emerson accessories, Emerson Big W, Fashion, Moda Target, Myer, plus size, plus size fashion, shopping, style, Target

Early this morning the light from the rising sun streamed into my room and awoke me around 8am.

Mum and I decided to head “down town” to do a spot of shopping. We live in a small populated valley in South Australia and have to travel a good 30mins to have access to any sort of large shopping centre.

We wandered off this morning around 10am and weren’t really on the hunt for anything too specific, we were mainly looking for an iPod Shuffle for my little cousin’s birthday.

Walking into Myer and were instantly drawn to a clearance section! Everything on the racks were reduced by a further 50%, which was pretty damn awesome because many of the items were already reduced by that much.

Unfortunately nothing for sale in plus sizes were found for me but my Mum managed to grab these two cute tops for a bargain price!

This top by Stella was $25. It was originally $70, reduced to $50 and with an additional 50% off. Definitely a cute work one for her.

The second top by Urbane is a bit more casual and a steal at $15, down from $39.95.

My only purchase for the day was this skirt from the Avella range in Big W for $25.

Now I’m being really super brave here and posting a picture of it on me. (My hair is getting super long!) 😀

I’m wearing an Avella black singlet & the new skirt with a 2 year old lace detailed shoulder cardigan from Moda Target.

So yes I’m a big girl, this is a size 22 skirt with a reasonable amount of stretch to the waist band. I think I was drawn to the colours more than anything, unfortunately a lot of plus size maxi skirts are hideous and have really ‘old’ looking patterns.

I think this one is quite lovely and it’s rather bright, sadly not seen in the full length picture. I have terrible light in my room, but you can really see it in the previous picture :)!

Oh, while in Big W I noticed that Emerson have an accessories range located in the cosmetics section. They have quite a cute range, rather similar to those found in stores like Colette, Lovisa and Diva. (click pictures for larger versions)

So that was pretty much our day. A couple of bargains, a new skirt for me and some quality time with Mum!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend!

Caitlyn.

Squee! Birthday Excitement.

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Fashion, JAG, JAG women's watch, shopping, silver watch, silver womens watch, style, watch, watches, womens watch, womens watches

So I recently posted about trying to find a watch for myself and saying how I was still undecided…

…Well, would you believe it!? Mum and Dad bought me a watch for my birthday (26th!) last Saturday. I was SO thrilled, I just had to share.

I love it and my parents were awesome enough to pick out a silver one, I’m not a fan of yellow gold.

So happy, I just need to remember that I shouldn’t wear it every single day. I found with my older Fossil watch that the face scratched very easily. I’m definitely going to take better care of this one.

Caitlyn xo