Watermelon Nails!

I've been drinking... Watermelon!

I've been embracing the colours I purchased recently and I've created a pretty watermelon look for my nails. All the colours and polished I used are shown in the picture above. They're mainly from Primark or the local drugstore and are all pretty inexpensive. 

I wish I was better at this blogging milarke, I haven't been able to show the step by step tutorial AGAIN because my camera is so heavy and I'm not the best at doing nails so it would have been disastrous. So, I'll type the steps instead! This is a lovely summery look and I have gotten a lot of compliments on them already!

Make sure to give each step time to dry before trying the next one! There's a lot of colour going over base coats and it'll just smudge if it's still wet! :) 

Steps:

I firstly used the pink colour and painted my nails up to the JUST before the tips (with two coats for everything because my polishes are cheap). 

I then used the light apple green and painted straight across the tips.

Then, I took a light pink (you can use white or any light colour really, I just used what I had lying around) and with a tooth pick I drew a line in between the darker pink and the green to create a more gradient effect. 

I then used a separate toothpick and dipped it into my black nail varnish and dotted a lot of pips on to each nail. You can do lots too or just 3 or 4 would be cute too, it depends on what you like. 

Then, dun dun dun, another toothpick was used to draw the thin dark green lines over the light green tips to give the impression of the watermelon outer (skin?) bit. 

I then took a clear glitter nail polish and used it over the tips of the nails to make them stand out a little more and create a super girly effect.

Finally, I used a clear coat to seal it all together and make sure that the watermelon nails last longer!

I did this look for four of my nails on each hand and then chose to have one nail entirely apple green with dark green stripes (and glitter!) to give a little bit of variety and edge to the look. You can pick any of your nails to be the green one, the thumb would be nice too. If you don't want to do that you can just have all of the nails the same, it's up to you. There's a lot of variety with your own nails!

Make sure not to rush this or it could end up smudging or going wrong! Do it when you have a little bit of free time set aside.

This took me 25 minutes (I watched Tangled and painted my nails which was a fun multi-tasking experience). 

If you like this look or have any suggestions for my next nail design then let me know in the comments!

Much love, I hope you have a really lovely day!

-Tessatata xoxo

My Summer Bucket List

Hi! I'm starting a little blog to document my life and just for me to write general nonsense whenever I feel like it. I'm starting it off with a fun to-do list of some little and some big ideas for me to complete in the next few months. 

So, I was inspired by other bloggers to create a bucket list for summer 2014. It's going to be a list of 25 things that I want to have done come...September this year. I think this is a great idea to get me a little more motivated and active this year instead of just spending all my time chilling out I can actually do really fun or productive things too. So, here's my list:

1. Go Camping
2. Swim in a natural body of water
3. Take lots of photos
4. Star Gaze
5. Watch the sunset
6. Watch the sunrise 
7. Go to the Zoo
8. Build a camp fire
9. Get a part-time job
10. Get healthier (I say this on every occasion possible but i'm determined!)
11. Go abroad
12. Learn 2+ songs on my Ukelele
13. Watch my entire Hitchcock and Kubrick collections
14. Create healthy recipes for myself to follow
15. Visit Loch Lomond
16. Refrain from buying a hamster
17. Buy a Mac lipstick
18. Go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 
19. Vlog at least once
20. Wake up early and be productive
21. Carve something for someone
22. Read one book every week or fortnight 
23. Go to Alton Towers for a day trip
24. Hug people and smile more at strangers
25. Complete this list! 

There's my list! I'll try to blog about the things as I cross them off the list and take photos of them to share with the internet. I'm really excited to get this started and have an awesome summer, I hope you are too!