As promised in my previous post I have a step by step tutorial on how I did my nails! It’s supposed to look like roses, I’m not 100% happy with how they turned out but they’re fun nonetheless.

I started with Seche Clear basecoat and Seche Porcelain (or any white nailpolish) as a base colour.

Apply Pink and Yellow dots randomly, I used Check me out and Being on the A-list by H&M.

Make leaves! I used a green nailpolish by Claire’s.

Finish off by tracing with black! I used black nail art polish and a nail art brush, any fine tip brush will do! Finished off with Seche Vite for ultra shine!

It took me at least an hour to finish this! Very time consuming but oh so fun.

Yesterday I went to Antwerp with my boyfriend and his brother. It was really hot outside and it was very busy but we had a lot of fun. I shopped a few things at H&M, they have a great discount going on now, if you buy two items with coloured tags both the items are 50% off. The brothers both bought a great suit which would have been €90 but they were able to buy it for €45 instead!

I let myself go a bit, splashed out and got 5 nail polishes cause I loved the colours that much. They’re more vibrant in real life and the purple is more reddish instead of blue.

From left to right, Check Me Out a gorgeous hot pink, Being on the A-List a bright yellow, Pink Mist a nude colour but it’s not very opaque so more suitable for French nails, Bella’s choice which is a great turquoise blue, and Fashionista which is the most gorgeous shimmery purple.

I love the colours but I’m not a big fan of the formula, it takes a long time to dry, besides Pink Mist they’re all pretty opaque though I am wearing white underneath my swatches, they look pretty much the same without and give good coverage after two layers. They do chip really easily unfortunately.

They’re €3,95 each at H&M.

I also bought some sunglasses, I already had the pink one, I bought it a while ago. I saw the mint green one when I bought the pink and I really regretted not buying it at the time. I saw it again yesterday at the separate accessories H&M store on the Meir and I grabbed it instantly. They’re just €4,95!

Went shopping with Dries today, we went to the Waasland Shopping Center. He needed some new clothes, I “needed” some new polishes! I had read all over the internet how fabulous the new Catrice nail polishes are. And I must agree, they are! I strongly recommend all of you to run to Kruidvat stores now and buy your favourite colours of the new line, they have such amazing coverage for only €2,5! It’s what I did, I just grabbed all the colours that took my fancy, checked out at the till for €14,94. If you can’t do maths like me, that means I bought six polishes. I don’t think I ever bought that many polishes in one go, I don’t think I even have that many polishes of one brand.

Prepare yourself for a colour overload!

Those are all the colours I bought minus one. The top four colours are from Claire’s, the six bottom ones are from Catrice. I will make proper swatches when I wear a colour on all my nails.

These are the three colours I bought at Claire’s, the fourth one at the picture above is a fluo green I bought for my mom, tested it out and it looked like a nightmare, as if I had splashed yellow marker all over my nail, not the look I was going for. You can still see the whites of my nails through the polish, that just looks off. My boyfriend very kindly helped me return it and I could switch it for a different one, picked the purple one instead, pictured in the middle here. They were €2,5 so they were the same price as the Catrice ones. I’m not wildly enthusiastic about these, they are nice but not nearly as nice as the Catrice, they have less coverage and are still slightly opaque after a few coats. I wouldn’t really recommend them, I’d go for Catrice in a heartbeat, same price way better coverage and way nicer colours! Also beware: DO NOT use these polishes without a basecoat because they will discolour your nails!

Aren’t those the loveliest colours ever? From left to right: London’s Weather Forecast (it’s grey, do you get it? It’s so fun), Sold Out Forever (which wasn’t sold out, thank god!), I Sea You!, I Scream Peach!, Just Married and It Blue My Mind. Aren’t those names great?

I’m so in love with all of those, I grabbed Just Married at the last minute, not sure if it would have any coverage at all but it looks really nice! Honestly I wish I had all the colours in their line and if I visit Kruidvat again I will buy more, they really are that fabulous. I have rarely seen colours that great in drugstores and for that price! Just €2,5 is a bargain. If you want to see all the colours in their range definitely take a look at their website.

Soon I will have an entire entry dedicated to the Sold Out Forever colour, my personal favourite. Keep your eyes open for it!

As I said at the start of this entry I went shopping with my boyfriend, he bought lots of really great stuff at H&M for this summer, an amazing nautical blazer, a t-shirt with long sleeves and three shorts. Summer here we come!

Here’s Dries sporting his new blazer, he’s looking a bit grumpy cause the sun was shining in his face, poor guy ♥

My lack of posts this week was due to the fact that I’ve been spending the week at my boyfriend’s! His parents were away on holiday so we had the house to ourselves. We had an absolute blast and enjoyed it lots. Took a few pictures along the way too. I thought it’d be fun to share them with you, it’s not my regular type of post, but as this blog is about my personal life as well I didn’t think it would be very out of place here.

This was our bed for the past few days, we completely disassembled his bed, dumped it on his brother’s room (as he was away too for the week) and put his and his brothers mattresses on the floor together so we had this huge bed! I slept like a rose all week.

We stole his brothers TV and Xbox 360 cause Dries his TV is really tiny, you can see it in the back behind his couch if you look carefully.

The rest of the room.

The frame on  the wall was my present to Dries on his 20th birthday, it took me hours and hours of sweating but I still really like it. Every letter is a picture of us together.

Took some sneaky pictures of him while he was watching TV.

We played some Rummikub as well! It’s a game I’ve enjoyed ever since I was very little on holiday with my parents, a tradition I intend to pass on!

I won the first game. Look at his sad face, awww!

He won the second game though! Yay!

We also took our bicycles to Aarschot City and had a stroll around the charity shop. I bought some really lovely belts and a skirt! Also note the really funky 80′s shoes, I was doubting whether I should buy them, when I eventually decided I would, some Russian lady snatched them before my very eyes. Have to say it did make me a bit pissed! They weren’t very comfortable so whatever! I secretly hope they’ll give her nasty blisters how naughty of me.

From left to right, €1, €0,50, €1,50, €1. In total, €4 for four belts. What a bargain! Apologies for the sad quality of this picture, I had to take these quickly as I’m coming down with a cold. The belts look a lot more attractive in real life.

A pencil skirt for €2,5, it doesn’t fit me quite yet but it soon will! It’s a European size 36, shouldn’t be too long before I can fit into one of those again. (I think I might customize it a little, remove the buttons and add sparkly golden ones, thoughts?)

We made our own meals each day, no junk food, all proper meals! We made stuffed zuccini, my home made burgers, a Greek salad with chicken, stir fry, and steak and chips! This was our first time ever of making home made Belgian fries. They were really delicious, we made ourselves very proud!

We also went to Antwerp on Saturday, I didn’t buy anything except for a copy of Vogue, I’m not buying clothes until I hit my target weight (the pencil skirt was an exception! €2,5!) but Dries did find a lot of really nice t-shirts at H&M. We decided to take some pictures of his new purchases, I put them together in this collage, albeit not the best photoshop job I could do… I’m coming down with a cold, been feeling a bit low, and not as patient as I normally am. Excuses, excuses.

I’m going to leave you with this one. It’s totally cheesy but when you’re in love, you don’t care!