How to do the Perfect Manicure

This is a how to on nails, it will tell you how to do the perfect manicure and even the perfect french manicure! I do this myself :). It'll make even short nails - like mine - look fantastic!

1. Remove all nail varnish.
2. Soak hands in a bowl of warm water with a couple of drops of lemon juice in for 5 minutes or so. (The lemon juice will remove stains)
3. Push cuticles back with a cuticle stick or the nail on another finger.
4. Rub hand and nail cream into your hands and nails (making sure you rub it into the cuticles) or you can just use hand/body lotion it works just as well.
5. File your nails (cut them too if you want - I always do, I can't deal with long nails) - a squoval is the most flattering nail shape.
6. If you have a nail buffer and polisher then buff and polish your nails.
7. Apply base coat. (For french manicures this will be the light pink shade, for just a normal manicure this is just clear nail varnish) Let it dry for a couple of minutes atleast.
8. Apply middle coat. (For normal manicures this will be your colour, for french manicures this will be the white tips - just get a little bit of white on the brush and carefully paint the tip of your nails - it takes alot of practice to get it right!) Allow to dry for around 5 minutes as this coat is the most important and you don't want it smudging.
9. Apply top coat. Just a clear coat, and allow to dry for a couple of minutes. (Some nail varnish may dry quicker but just to be safe you may want to not touch things with your hands until they're rock-hard-dry)

Tips:

• If you can't paint nails very well without nail varnish going all over your fingers (this happens when using my left hand to paint my right hand!) wrap a bit of sticky tape around the nail half of your finger after step 6 then take off when your nails are dry.
• File, buff and polish in one direction so your nails don't crack.

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Celeb Plastic Surgery - Before and After

Does plastic surgery really make you look pretty? Or even just better? Sometimes, I guess, but out of all the celebs you see you only really see a couple that look better after their surgery.

Miley Cyrus

She doesn't look that bad, a bit plastic, but not the worst case out there. She doesn't really look that much different, but then you look at her lips... Which she says look like they've had botox because she had an accident and had to have her top lip sewn back on or something (ewww) for some reason I don't believe her... My friend would kill me for saying that - she loves Miley Cyrus :D.

Ashley Tisdale

Again, the end result isn't bad. But with most plastic surgery it just looks a bit plastic. In this next picture I found of her you can really tell she's had a nose job:


Megan Fox

Before surgery Megan Fox still looked beautiful but she had a more natural, girl-next-door look and the fact that her nose was just slightly less than perfect gave her an air that you could approach her, she wouldn't bite; after surgery she looks too perfect, intimidating. Makes you wonder why she wanted plastic surgery anyway, she was pretty before.

Carrot Top

Now to the scary surgeries :S.
Carrot Top! This picture just speaks for itself.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

Now this is by far the scariest picture I have ever seen! Epic FAIL!

Heidi Montag

Huge plastic boobs strapped to your chest, tiny unnatural-looking nose, botox botox botox, need I go on?

And Last But Definitely Not Least!
Jordan!

Back before all the surgery Katie Price looked amazing, a whole different person! I just cannot understand why you'd trade in her old self for... well, her present one!

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Passport Panties!

Bettersuitedforafictionalworld at http://bettersuitedforfiction.blogspot.com/ has told me about an AH-MAZE-ING invention for those emergency's when you get your period early and have a stain on your knickers! PASSPORT PANTIES!
http://www.passportpanties.com/
I don't know if they're available in the UK yet but if you live in America, GO BUY! I will as soon as I can! But I live in the UK so :'(.

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Beauty Is Only Skin Deep...

Not true! I know that sounds vain and shallow but it's not! Us girls don't put makeup on or have beauty treatments done to look good for others (or not all the time anyway) mostly we do it for ourselves. If you look good then you feel good. So don't let anyone tell you you're vain for wanting to look your best but listen when they tell you you're beautiful because you are, everyone is.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.

That's why the beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

~Audrey Hepburn

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How To: Have Beautifully Soft Feet!

Here's how to have feet that feel soft to the touch!

 

1. Before bed apply body lotion to your feet.
2. Put on some nice soft socks - I wear furry ones I think they're slipper socks? Apparently it works if you wear cotton socks and I don't know what mine are made out of but my socks make me all warm and cosy so! :D
3. Sleep tight!
4. If you have really dry skin on feet try getting a wet flannel and rubbing it along the bottom of your foot - Mine seemed to go away with just the lotion and socks but this is a quicker way - or use a nail file (or I've heard there are foot files?) along the bottom of your foot if the flannel doesn't work.

 

Hope it works for you!

 

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How To: High School Survival Kit For Girls

First, get a small bag - I use a medium-sized makeup bag which I can just fit in my school bag.
All of the things I list below you'll want to get mini versions of to save space. (And just FYI I do know some schools don't allow some of this stuff (makeup, nail varnish etc.) my school doesn't but why are rules there if not to be broken?)

 

1. Makeup - I only usually bring mascara, lipbalm (essential!) and lipgloss and concealer.
2. Nail Varnish - I bring clear, light pink and white from my french manicure set. You only want to wear paler colours if nail varnish isn't allowed so you don't have to take it off.
3. Hand lotion - Don't you hate it when you're hands are really dry?
4. Small hairbrush with hair bobbles - ESSENTIAL!
5. Hair grips - I only tend to bring a few slides.
6. Tampons/Pads - bring a couple for emergency's we all have those times! You may also want to bring a spare pair of knickers for those accidents!
7. House Key - If you have one, don't lose it! Also your locker key if you want.
8. Spare Change - A few pounds will do for EMERGENCYS ONLY!
9. A Mirror - Your phone has a limit to how well you can see yourself.
10. Mobile Phone - But I usually keep it in my pocket.
11. Nail file - I just got an emery board, polisher, buffer etc. in one from savers.
12. Makeup Wipes - Even if you use makeup remover cream etc. wipes are always useful! (They're pretty good at getting toothpaste off your jumper!)
13. Tissues - This is an obvious one but I don't have any little packets so don't carry these around! :S
14. Gum/Mints - To keep your mouth fresh and nice-smelling after meals!

 

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How to...

Please comment what how to's you want. Any requests welcome. I'll be posting a how to on emergency everyday kits tomorrow - from makeup to spare underwear! (For girls only! :D)

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