Panda nail art 🐼

I've been meaning to try out this panda nail art design for a while! It's so cute and quirky!! Here's how I created this look step by step. Give it a try :)

You will need a base and top coat, white nail varnish (I use Rimmel tip whitener as the brush is thinner), a black nail varnish and a dotting tool (found in craft or beauty stores). Also to tidy up any nail varnish from the skin you will need a cotton pad, an orange wood stick and nail varnish remover.

 

 

 

Step 1.

Apply the base coat to the nails.

Step 2.
Use the white to paint half the nail.

Step 3.
Use the dotting tool to create the panda's ears, eyes and nose. I use the larger tip for the ears and the smaller tip to create the eyes and nose.

Step 4.
Use the small tip of the dotting tool to dot a small white dot on the panda's eyes.

Step 5.
Apply a top coat.

Step 6.
Use the cotton from inside a cotton pad on the end of an orange wood stick dipped into nail polish remover and rub away any nail varnish on the skin (if you've been a bit messy like me!)

 

 



So there you have it! Hope you found this helpful if you were thinking of trying this for yourself!

Michelle x

 

Have you seen enough of the Ombre trend?

So we’ve seen a lot of the ombre trend and it hasn’t just stopped at hair. We’ve seen makeup, nails and clothing too, but is it on the way out? I think not! The dip-dye hair trend has been rocked by loads of celebs and I just wanted to share with you a couple of my favourite looks!

Drew Barrymore ombre hair

 

Alexa Chung ombre hair

 

Jessie J ombre hair

 

Of course we can't forget everything else ombre!!

 

 



  



 

Here's how NOT to do the ombre trend... #neapolitanicecream

 

 

Michelle x



My favourite iPhone apps

I love installing new apps onto my iphone and I'm interested to see what apps you lot love too!

My favourite apps at the moment (other than Twitter! - follow me MichelleLou_mua) are We Heart It and Beautylish.

I've heard a lot about Pinterest but I've not used it myself, as I found an app called 'we heart it' which I suspect is quite similar? It's fab! I can spend hours scrolling through inspiring pictures of hair, makeup, fashion and everything in between... Once you've signed up you have the option to save your 'hearted' images to a gallery. I have several different galleries (for fashion, hairstyles, home, quotes) and by saving these images to separate galleries makes it so much easier when you want to look back through them.

If you are looking for something in particular then there is a search bar and the option to sort the results by 'recently added', 'most popular' or 'best match' first.

There is also a cool tool where you can heart images that you have found from other websites, all you have to do is select 'add image' and visit the website through the we heart it app and you can heart anything from the website so all your pictures can be saved in one place :)

There is also the option to follow friends and those with similar interests as you but as I don't know anyone signed up to We Heart It I have yet to try this!

If it's something you think you might be interested in then install it on your iPhone it's free :) and let me know what you think!

I've also recently installed the Beautylish app. It's similar to We Heart It because I can scroll through inspiring images but these images are purely related to beauty (hence the name!) so it's great for finding hairstyles, makeup, nail designs.

What I love about this app is that it doesn't stop at images, there are also 'how to' videos to watch, articles to read, a forum for beauty chat and (my fave!) a list of products with reviews to read. When reading a review on a product, (for example the Urban Decay Naked2 palette) it then gives you the option to see images and videos tagged with this product! It's pretty amazing and I love it!

Let me know what you think of these apps if you have them too and if you have any suggestions of other apps you think I might be interested in I would love to hear from you.

Michelle x

First EVER blog post!

Ok so here it goes, my first ever blog post!

I’ll start by introducing myself... I’m Michelle, 23, a mum of one and a recently qualified beauty therapist and makeup artist.

The idea for this blog came from other blogs I’ve read and the fact that just about anybody can start blogging! I love being nosey and having an insight into someone else’s world so I hope that you will enjoy reading about mine.

I’m not entirely sure what I shall blog about... I’m thinking beauty, fashion, makeup, crafts, baking and music! It just depends what I’m thinking about that particular day :)

Feel free to give me any suggestions and ask questions!

Thanks!!

Michelle x