Hola!
Hoping everyone had a lovely weekend! The weather was not the best in London town, the sun came out a little on Saturday, but mostly classic grey sky's Londres weather. Still had a wonderful weekend regardless, my amazing friend Ellie came to stay for the weekend ( she normally resides in trendy Hove.)
First we headed to Selfridges for a Lola cupcake and a latte, I wouldn't claim to be a cupcake expert but out of all the cupcakes I have tried Lola's cupcakes are my favorite, and they are massive! Went for peanut this time instead of my usual Red Velvet, and I wasn't disappointed - the peanut butter buttercream was delicious, Ellie had classic Red Velvet which has cheesecake icing - so good!
After a quick browse round the shops and a pint of cider, we headed back to mine for some nail time!
I might of already mentioned before on here, but two weeks ago I started a college course on nail extensions, training specifically in acrylic. So Ellie agreed to be my first guinea pig!
I have practiced on myself a little and in the past have dabbled a bit in acrylic nails (with a kit from ebay.) But not really knowing exactly what I was doing, so I am classing this as my first official full set of acrylic extensions.
This is just after we applied the tips, before trimming them down into less ghetto fabulous talons!
Really how do those ladies of Dalston function? One word - Toilet!??
Ta-da!
This is the finished nails after lots of buffing, no polish that shine is made by pure peachy-elbow-grease!
They actually don't look as shinny in the pictures, but believe in the Glossyness!
So happy with the way these look for my first full set! And no air bubbles! which can happen if you don't stick the tip on correctly, little air bubbles can get in and apart from not looking nice (they make a lighter patch where the bubble is) the bubble can become moist and fungus can grow! ew! But no worries as we were bubble free.
The one big thing I mega need to improve on is TIME!
The whole process look me hours to complete, you could say days! but we didn't start till about six on Saturday, and we where going to the in2u tattoo shop party with my boyfriend that evening, so had to stop at about 9pm to eat, get ready ect. I did finish everything though in those 3 hours apart from painting them.
My tutor can do a full set in 45 minutes! This is the dream! Hmmm need to be 2 hours and 15 minutes faster, better find some more willing friends for practice then!
On Sunday, even in my hungover state, this is how commitment I am to the cause!
We moved on to stage 2 - Nail Art.
Ellie was up for something quite "Carmen Miranda," (I learnt from Ellie this is another saying for OTT) So we opted for Japanese 3D look nails.
I used Nails Inc - Haymarket for the tips, then an assortment of pearls, lilac gem's, gem hearts, Hello Kittys - thumbs and lilac roses - index finger's. Nice and eye catching - just how I like my nails! Ellie said on the train home she has lots of admirers/stares.
Super happy with these and an amazing weekend!
Love A xx
