25 Random Facts About Me

I'm currently procrastinating from writing uni notes, and watching Essie Button's youtube video on 50 facts about herself, and I kind of had an urge to do a text post of the tag :) I don't think I'd be interesting enough to do 50 so I've cut it down to 25 :)

1. I'm a homebody. I'm not a big drinker, because I hate vomitting/feeling queasy, but I don't mind having a drink or two. I just feel really awkward dancing in a sweaty room with strangers and there's always creepy guys trying to hit on you, and it's always so darn loud. Although I do like dressing up and such :) I just like staying in and watching films and just  being all cosy and warm.
2. I have a lip product obsession. Not so much with lip glosses as my lips are pretty full as they are without adding more fullness, but lipsticks, lip balms and lip stains are quite the obsession. Being asian, I have very little eyelid/crease space for eyeshadow so it's hard for me to do smoeky eye looks or any eye look that isn't just the one shade and some eyeliner, so lips were my next best option.
3. I can quote F.R.I.E.N.D.S and How I Met Your Mother. I have the massive Friends boxset and season 1-7 of HIMYM on my laptop and watch at least one ep of either series a day.
4. I like animals, but see no problem in animal testing (for medicines and such, not so much about cosmetics)  and I still eat meat. I know this is SUCH a contradiction. But I'm currently studying Pharmacology at Uni, and if I get a job in the industry, I'll most likely be testing on animals (I'm pretty sure 4th year projects can be animal based too). The reason is because there would be a even bigger uproar if we started testing on humans when a drug is first being trialed (human clinical trials are usually at the very end before being marketed), and the medical industry wouldn't be as advanced as it is now without animal testing, even medication for peptic ulcers benefited from animal testing. Rats and mice have similar blood brain chemistry to humans and that's why they are used quite a lot, and cats and dogs (i.e the "cute" animals) are actually rarely used, in less than 1% of drug trials. I can't really put my thoughts on this down on paper right now, as there is a lot more to it, but I have my reasons for medical animal testing. I wouldn't voluntarily grab a cat and start testing on it, but if a job requited me to do it and it was for the future benefit of medicine, then I would.
5. I'm just barely over 5ft, and I have size 4 feet. Actually, I think my feet have shrunk to 3 and a half -_-
6. I hate overly pointy men or womens shoes. They scare me.
7. I have a retort/question for everything. I'm not sure why. But I tend to start going off on to hypothetical tangents if I run out of normal ones.
8. I'm not the biggest chocolate fan. I  much prefer crisps.
9. I like to cook and bake, but bake more cos it entails less money for getting ingredients.
10. I'm allergic to kiwis. I won't die, I just get a bit itchy and swollen.
11. I'm quite fussy with fruit. I don't like bananas because of the texture (don't mind banana flavoured things though), I don't like apples, oranges and raspberries. Some fruits depend on my mood. But I like a lot of veg, even spinach and brussel sprouts.
12. I can either be extremely tidy and have everything organised...or leave everything in a heaving mess. I don't know why, I can never have my things normally tidy.
13. I like putting everything into boxes to keep them organised. For example, my hair proucts are in a box seperate from my make up box.
14. I also like herbal tea. Green tea in particular. Partial to some Chrysanthemum tea for the "yeet hay" y'know? ;)
15. I have a blackberry but want to defect to iphone
16. I love Disney films. Although most people like at least one. Alladdin, lion king and beauty and the beast are my faves
17. I have a wonky pinky where i suspect i may have broken it at some point, but i don't remember ever doing so.
18. I hate feet. Despite working in a shoe shop for 8 months.
19. I hate going to the gym cos I dont like people watching me pant like a pie, so I now prefer doing dvds at home.
20. I want a cat and a dog when i grow up. I ideally want a ragdoll cat and a husky, but I dont like the idea of purebreds. It makes me sad at how they're genetically predisposed to so many conditions.
21. Not many people know about my blog. One friend laughed atme for having one and Ive not told many people since.
22. I despise being late. I need to be 15 mins early for everything
23. I can't stand certain textures, like using a glass nail file. shivers!
24. I don't like sweet scents. I prefer fruity/citrusy smells.
25. M hair is down to the bottom of my waist, and is such a pain to wash/brush.

Rambling Apologies...

Okay, so I didn't quite do as many extra posts during the holidays as I'd hoped...lol. Mainly cos I enjoyed just lazing about, and I was actually enjoying christmas for once, with my boyfriend and his family (my dad usually works during the holidays, and my mum isn't the biggest fan of crimbo...). I've kind of enjoyed the break from doing nail designs, it's gotten to the point where I feel people expect something from me every time I see them, so I started feeling pressurised to do some form of design, which I really didn't want to happen as I love doing nail designs so much. Doing nail designs have been a bit harder for me since I started 3rd year at uni, not because I couldn't think of any designs, but having time to do designs as I get coursework a lot of the time, or I have notes to rewrite. And with me practically living at my boyfriend's flat, I obviously don't have my full polish collection at his, nor the little stick on gemmy/fimo thingies, so if I ever have a random epiphany for a really good design, I dont ever get to do it since I rarely have all the materials needed with me. I've been mainly wearing plain nails, or just easy designs like polka dots which I'm sure you guys have seen billions of times.

I'll be honest and say I'm not sure if I'll be posting much between now and May, when my end of year exams are. Both my modules are year long modules, so instead of having short modules where you get christmas exams and start a new module in the next term/semester, I carry on the same module, so it means I have TONNES of revision to do, plus I have a 2,500 word essay and a poster presentation to do this term, along with other coursework, so it'll be a super busy term for me. I don't want to shut down  my blog, since i've put so much work and time into this, but thought I'd let you guys know. I might start doing swatch posts so fill in the breaks between nail design posts, and maybe pop along to Boots more often ;)

But yeah, I'm kind of bummed out that I rarely have time to do design posts like i used to, like mroe complicated ones like my pokemon or first pacman nails. I've ntoiced my designs lately have become more simplified, which is still good as it shows that you don't need to be an expert to do nail designs, but I kind of enjoyed spending aaages doing my nails, and having everyone oooh-ing and aaah-ing. Gadz. Although come May, I should be free to do more designs.

So in conclusion to this ramble, I'm sorry for posting less designs as I have little time/resources, but will hopefully post more swatches/Boots hauls :)

If Nothing Ever Changed There'd Be No Butterflies....

As you can tell from the new post, I am free from all things examinable and uni related! (at least until resits start...which I hopefully don't have to do...argh...) WARNING: This post becomes rather rambly after the photo, so you can stop reading afterwards if you wish XD

Moving on, I realised it'd been around 2 months since I'd done a design...was quite disheartening...darn exams! I'm not sure why I decided to do butterfly wings, I thought they looked lovely on a tumblr photo I'd seen, (the person used metalic polishes though, so they looked more...sheeny?...Is that even a word?...Obviously vocabulary is my strong point ¬_¬ ), so I thought I'd give it a wee bash. I don't have many metallic polishes since I'm not a huge fan of pearly/metallicy finishes, so I just used creme finishes instead.

To create the base, I used Rimmel Lasting Finish 280 Sunshine but it was so streaky and patchy even with 3 coats, that I ended up sponging over it with a yellow polish anyways. The red/orange gradient was done by sponging too, generally coming in from the corner of the nail rather than just the bottom as I was attempting to make the wings almost diagonal looking? However, my lack of practising drawing the black outlines led to  the majority of the nails looking...well, shit XD

But I managed to get the hang of the method for a few of the nails (middle and pinky) so I definitely know what to do for next time. I then just added a few white dots on the tip of the nail, smeared on a fast dry topcoat (it's become rather gloopy!) and ta-daaaaaaah...monarch butterfly wings!...ish... ¬_¬

All colours from ebay!

So, a few posts ago I said something about selling some false nail sets online (either folksy or etsy) to make a bit of money over summer and to give me something to do. I'm still planning to do that, so hopefully should start things rolling around next month once I get supplies in like false nails, glue, etc. Not sure of which designs to do though, as the seller I found on ebay for false nail sets only does them in batches of 5, and I dont want to buy too many in case this just epicly falls flat on it's arse and I'm left with tonnes of nails just hanging about not bought by anyone... Although after calculating how much everything would be, it shouldn't cost too much for eveything so it wouldn't be too much of a loss if this fails :)

Sounds quite scary that I'm opening a kind-of-but-not-really shop :/ It's been more or less a year since I started messing about with polish designs (the polish obsession has been ingrained for a good few years obviously) and now I''m considering selling some designs...I wasn't even expecting to create a blog, and when I did, I didn't expect to even gain one follower never mind 12...12 followers is nothing compared to the more "famous" polish bloggers, but it's a lot to me and I appreciate that people have spent time reading my mindless rambles haha!

Anyways, I shall keep you posted once my "shop" starts if you'd like to purchase my questionable designs or you can buy them as a gift for someone :)

Farewell and have a nice day! Till next time!