T.G.I. Friday’s: Burger time

Oh burgers, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… 

I’m writing this from the comfort of my armchair, unable to move due to a burger-induced food coma. The trouble with T.G.I. Friday’s is that everything sounds so good, you convince yourself that you’re Adam Richman and more than capable of eating your way through Man v. Food sized portions. Oops.

Some meals are spontaneous, others are excitedly planned a week in advance with your best friend. This trip was the latter, giving me time to do some themed burger and fries nail art…

I chose red, white, and black, in keeping with the T.G.I Friday’s colour scheme, but I just want to point out the black matte polish. Jessica does a great black duo called Black Beauties, which contains Black Lustre (shiny) and Black Matte. It’s just £14.85 from FeelUnique.com. YSL did something similar with Duo No6 Terriblement Noir Manicure, but you’ll be hard pushed to find it anywhere other than Ebay now and it’s double the price of Jessica.  

#BurgerFace

Reading Festival 2014

Yes! August Bank Holiday weekend is upon us, and for me that means one thing: Reading Festival 2014. 

I'll keep it brief, as I have a tent that needs erecting...

Last year I painted different band logos on each finger and thought I'd do the same this year. They're not particularly neat, but you get the idea. Camping for four nights is really going to put my Seche Vite topcoat to the test!

Here's the game: Can you guess the bands? I'll leave the answers at the bottom. 

Here's 2013 too:

And I thought I'd be polite and share the line-up with you... 

The answers:

2014: From left to right: Blink-182, Queens of the Stone Age, Chvrches, Peace, Papa Roach, Paramore, Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Twin Atlantic, Gerard Way. 

2013: From left to right: Green Day, Chvrches, Peace, Nine Inch Nails, Earl Sweatshirt, Eminem, Frightened Rabbit, Frank Turner, Fall Out Boy, Biffy Clyro.  

A trip to Belgium…

After a recent trip to Belgium, I’ve been able to surmise a timeline of university friendships. It does lead to nail art, honest.

1. You meet lots of people.

2. You quickly find that some of these people are sh*theads. Through no fault of your own, some people will decide that they consider you a sh*thead too.

3. After sifting through the figurative sh*t, you find friends. Brilliant, all sorted right? Not quite…

4. You and your friend(s) will probably like the same person. It’s inevitable. You’ll potentially both sleep with that person during Fresher’s Fortnight. Oops.

5. The metaphorical sh*t returns to hit the fan… Gossip travels faster than the speed of light on campus.

6. Everyone gets over it and accepts that university is a rather incestuous place. You can all bond further while you sit in the sexual health clinic holding hands. #STI

7. You spend around three happy years together – give or take an odd domestic over the washing up.

8. You have to say goodbye as everyone you’ve grown so close to are now flocking back to different places across the country. Or even harder… across the world. You cry all the way home. You cry more as you unpack. You conclude that no one understands your woes, and that the best days of your life are now over.

9. Your relationships turn digital. Facebook, Instagram, Skype… not quite the same as knocking on your roommate’s door at 2am with pizza.

10. It might take a fortnight, a month, one year or TWO, but you finally get organised and see each other again. Some of your friends will move to interesting places – take advantage and VISIT.

Okay, so every uni experience is slightly different, but you’ve got the gist of it.

Where am I going with this? A uni friend, Max (who kindly provided the photos for this blog post – except the chips, the chip picture is all mine) moved to Brussels. After two years, three of us decided to get on a Megabus and visit Belgium. A three-day reunion involving Belgian frites, beer, and waffles, is a beautiful thing. One of the most beautiful things in the world.

So here’s to friendship. And Belgian chocolate.

Oh, and nails. Because this is a nail blog. And of course, the theme was Belgium…

As well as acting as a tour guide, Max is a talented Web Developer. You can take a look at his work here: MaxMakeDesign. 

*Disclaimer: Not all personal experiences.*

The Blink-182 Effect

It isn’t every day three middle-aged men with guitars encourage you to restart your beauty blog again, but that’s exactly what happened after I saw Blink-182 perform at Brixton Academy.

As you’ll notice from previous blog posts, I love a theme. So the night before the Blink gig there was only one thing for it – paint Blink-182’s Untitled album cover on my thumb. Yup, I’m one cool kid.  Within minutes of uploading a photo onto Instagram, my phone was going crazy with Blink-182 fans liking the picture, even Blink-182’s official account hit the like button, not that I’m bragging or anything…

After spending the weekend feeling like a Z-list celebrity with so many notifications, I thought I’d start blogging again for anyone wanting some nail art inspiration.

For those of you who've landed on this page thinking you were getting a music review, apologies. What I will say is that it was incredible. Blink-182 rocked my little world. I laughed, I cried, I got kicked in the head by a crowd-surfer, someone’s pee definitely splashed up my leg, I did my best Tom-DeLonge-I-Miss-You-voice as loud as I could… I’d happily talk about this gig from now until I stop breathing, but they’ll be performing again at Reading Festival so I should probably get my tent packed.

Here’s the set list for those of you interested –

The list misses off Family Reunion and a Mark Hoppus drum solo. I repeat: A Mark Hoppus drum solo. 

I’d now love to end with lyrics from ‘Family Reunion’, but I’m not pop punk enough to get my blog reported. Y’all know what I did to your mom anyway… x