Funky Cheetah Nails! B-)

Hellooooo fellow nail art lovers!;) Today I was feeling inspired by the sun and everyone being in a great mood these day and decided to mix it up a little by doing multi-coloured cheetah nails! This design  looks a lot more complicated then it actually is, promise!

I used two pastel colours as the base- An aqua green and a purple nail varnish by an Italian cosmetic company called KIKO!

  

1. First paint your nails whatever colour you've picked as the base
2. When they dry you might want to apply a second coat, but if not paint little random dots all over your nail. Don't be afraid to mess it up, GO MAD! The messier the better with this design.
3. Then grab your black dotting tool and paint a 'c' shape at each side of the dots you've drawn but make sure the c-shapes don't touch. 
4. Fill in the rest of your nail with lovely black squiggles- Seriously the messier and less you try and perfect this design the better it will turn out LOL
5. Last but not least, when everything is dried fully paint over with a clear coat to make your nails shine and smooth out any imperfections:)

 And here's the end result.....

Fabulous and fierce nails for any occasion!

Here is some different colours I used for this design:)

Enjoyyyyyy xoxo

Easy flower nails tutorial:)

One of my favourite things to do is paint my nails! I may have a slight addiction (admitting it is the first step, right?). Literally everytime I'm in the shops I cant help but pick up a nice new nail polish to add to my ever growing collection! So I decided to take pics of the design I did today and show you how I did it:) 

I love this quick and easy summer nail design! ♡It's great when your running some were and want to do a cute nail design in under 10 minutes;)

Firstly we need two (I used two bright colours as it was a lovely sunny day and decided it suited my mood lol) different colours for the base. I used two coats of barry m's gel nail polish to give it abit of POWWW! °•○●

I then used my white and blue pin-top nail varnishes (you can use a tooth pick or dotting tool aswel) to do four dots for the petals. After about 30 seconds the dots get a bit sticky, when this happens dip the pintop into one of the dots and glide it into the centre of the four dots. When that drys use a different colour for the centre of the flower:)

Use a clear top coat to even everything out and make it look slick and shiny!

Cute flowery nails under ten mins;) enjoy!!

The REAL currency of life is... LIFE ITSELF!

Today as part of an assignment I researched a speech written by an environmental activist that goes by the name of Vandana Shiva. The speech was about 'Economic Growth'. BUT WAIT!! :D Before you stop reading and think this post will bore you to death, I promise if you love the earth as much I do you will fall in love with this wonderful lady. 

 As many of you can probably relate, when you're told to research something my automatic thought is 'But mom, I don't want to...'  Well, the second I started reading I realized that I am reading a speech written by an incredible women. The way she views the world is just amazing, and I truly believe if more of our world leaders had the same outlook on things as her OUR world would be a much kinder place. (I have posted a link to her speech at the bottom of my post)

The main message I took away from this speech is how the world only sees a country growing by the amount of wealth and money the country has (GDP). Shouldn't growth take into account human life and how we are growing and developing into the people we are? Are we willing to put profits and the greed of businesses before nature and real life? 

How is it that beautiful forests aren't seen as growth but when we cut down the trees and destroy their natural beauty by converting them to timber to sell on, then and only then this forest will be seen as 'Growth'? I don't know about you but that just doesn't seem right to me! 

One of the most shocking examples Shiva highlighted was that health organisations which promote health and well being aren't seen as growth, yet diseases which force people to BUY medicine are seen as growth! Does this mean disease is a good thing in terms of economic growth? Would out country be in a better financial position if we were all sick and forced buy medicine so the government can get a nice juicy profit? 


I think it is TIME TO CHANGE the definition of economic growth, and a little country called Bhutan is already way ahead of us!:) They have created a Gross National Happiness Scale instead of the widely used GDP! They have focused on the well being of their population instead of wealth(in terms of money that is). That's what being human and living is all about, creating real life memories and experiences. We're only here once so we need to learn to enjoy the ride and not get caught up in the mumbo jumboo of creating so called 'wealth.' When we focus on money we miss out on real life and what it really means to be human. 

My Favorite quotes from this speech include:

• And the rich might be rich in monetary terms – but they too are poor in the wider context of what being human means

• We need to remember that the real currency of life is life itself.

• The dominant model of economic development has in fact become anti-life.

So I ask YOU, beautiful people of earth, what are your values? Do you value money or do you value life and real life experiences? At the end of the day our values shape the people we are, ultimately shaping our universe.

Peace out and spanksss for reading :)


xoxo

Here is a link to this wonderful speech, ENJOY!
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/how-economic-growth-has-become-anti-life