Showing posts with label diy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diy. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Sparkles

For a few months now, I have had an obsession with sparkly nails. There are many glitter nail polishes now out on the market, my favourite being a chi chi one my friend bought not long ago. What I prefer though for a more intense effect is to use craft glitter on my nails. On several occasions I have covered all or just two of my fingernails in glitter and they look brilliant in the light.

My first attempt I went with one silver glitter nail on each hand and painted the rest dark purple. It stood out nice and sparkly bright and was so easy to do. 


I bought a pack of six coloured glitters at my local craft shop as that way I can try out so many different colours! I painted four out of my five nails with dark purple 'Rimmel 60 Seconds' nailpolish and painted clear nailpolish on my remaining nail. After this (with plenty of newspaper down) I tapped on some glitter, shook off the loose bits and waited 5 minutes for it to set. After this I just dropped some clear nailpolish on top, and spread it carefully without glittering my brush.


These are my Australia Day nails. I went a bit more out there this time and did all my nails in full glitter!


Even attempting the Southern Cross on my thumb nail.


What do you think?! xx

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

DIY - shredded singlet

I was going through my wardrobe last week and pulled out a few items I never wear and don't really like. Instead of just throwing them out or using them as rags I decided to play around with them and see if I could make them wearable again. 

I have really been inspired by fringing for the last few seasons, I love everything with fringing (I've been looking for a reasonably priced fringed bag for agessssss!). So this was my inspiration for this funny coloured asymmetrical singlet top from glassons which I'm pretty sure I found on the sale rack and bought it for the sake of buying something.


front view


back view

Because the back is shorter and sits just above the bum, I only shredded the front of my top.


1. Turn the top inside out and with a pencil draw a line where you want to cut strips up to. It's best if you try the top on first and work out how high you want it.


2. Cut in a straight line up the middle of the top up to the line you drew.


3. Continue cutting strips up all the way to the side, I did mine in all different thicknesses so it was nice and rough looking.


4. Finish cutting up the whole front of the top to the line drawn. 


Voila!


What do you think? Quick, easy and cheap to add a little quirkiness to my festival outfit. xx