A Final Festive Week in Photographs!

Sorry this post is a couple of days late but I have been really busy with friends, family, new years eve and of course...shopping!

Christmas tree preparations // Christmas tree finished // Tangled lights!

Presents! // Chocolate cheesecake // More chocolate cheesecake...

Big Ben //  Chinese Lanterns // Floating to the moon!

My week has consisted of cake, cheese cake, cupcakes, noodles and presents - so overall, not a bad week! My sister made a chocolate cheese cake which was really nice and it was very easy to make apparently - I may have to try and make it then write a blog post with the recipe! I also made my cupcake christmas tree and other cupcakes for friends and family. I cannot believe that christmas is over, myself and my sister have been looking back at photographs over the past four weeks from putting up the christmas tree, wrapping presents (well 99% of mine were already wrapped in october/november!). 

New years eve yesterday was a bit chaotic and we went to out friends/neighbours house which we do every year and I created a quiz which is always funny and we also played game such as the box game (which myself and my sister won!), the chocolate game, the card game (very funny!) and others. We also had some large chinese lanterns which you light and they float off into the sky - they look very pretty and magical in a way but they do have to land somewhere - hopefully not in a field or near animals! 

I hope everyone had a good 2012 and happy new year!!! x

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New Years Eve Nails!

I received a Caviar nails set for Christmas and I was dying to try it out - so I thought that news years would be a great time to test it out! 

The first thing I did was paint the nail I wanted to decorate with the silver polish. The Ciate silver polish looks really beautiful and it looks like a foil/metallic cover over the nails. I just painted one thick coat on the single nail first - then I tipped the beads onto the nail with a plastic tray under my hand to collect the stay beads. I would suggest you open the bead bottle in the tray too as some beads did come out when I opened the bottle. 

After I painted the nail and cover it with the tiny silver, dark grey and bright pink beads I then gently pressed the beads into the nail polish - the nail polish has the be wet. Be really careful when pressing down on the beads as they can move around and stick to your finger if you press too hard. Also the beads can get every where so you have to be really gentle and slow when using the beads. 

After I pressed on the beads I then carefully painted the rest of my nails with the silver polish and let it all dry. On the leaflet that came with the set, it says to leave the polish/beads to dry for at least 15-20 minutes. After 15 minutes I checked the polish and then I applied my Seche Vite top coat to all of my nails, but only the tips of the nails with the beads on. There is the final result! I am really happy with the way it tuned out, especially as this is my first time using the Ciate Caviar nail kits. 

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