by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 31, 2010 | Beauty, Nails, Review
I’ve been thinking about posting swatches of my nail polishes for quite a while now. Seeing as I’ve collected so many it seemed a shame to just have them sitting there already swatched and not post them! And I finally convinced James to take all the photos for me… even better!
So first up is this awesome glittery pink from Missha. It’s currently my faaavorite!
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Brand:
Missha
Colour Name:
Lucid (?)
Bought From:
Missha store at Box Hill
Price:
Around AU$5 not completely sure though
Description:
Very highly concentrated dark pink glitter polish.
Volume:
7.5ml
Ingredients:
Not listed on the bottle. Bottle says “Against Animal Testing”.
Bottle:
Very cute heart shaped design. The design takes away from the volume but because it’s a fairly tall bottle it makes up for it.
Brush:
Very wide and flat. Really good design for being able to get almost an entire nail in one swipe. Also makes it very quick and easy to do French tips.
Drying Time:
One coat dries very quickly and looks great.
Thoughts:
I looooove this colour so much and I really love how pigmented and opaque the glitter is. It goes on surprisingly smoothly and maintains a good sheen even without a top coat. Very thick consistency due to all of the glitter. When it’s in the sunlight it is insanely shiny.
Good for:
-Fancy french tips -Looks cute plain on short nails -Pigmented enough to use for nail art
Bad for: -People who don’t like cutsy pink glittery things 😉
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by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 30, 2010 | Craft, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial
The first shout out in this knitted fingerless gloves tutorial has to go to Vintage Grrl, without her I wouldn’t have been able to make this because she hand spun the yarn for it!
How freaking cool is that? Please go visit her blog because she is truly a very skilled and talented lady.
I was so happy when this arrived at my door!
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Look at the lovely colours, it reminds me of yummy candy 😀
This is what it looked like after I balled it. I couldn’t ask for a more “me” colour!
And this is what I made out of half of it… a pair of very frilly fingerless gloves 😀 I searched Ravelry for patterns but I couldn’t settle on something that I really liked so I took a very basic lace stitch and made a standard fingerless glove with ruffles ^_^
Now I’m going to try and show you how I made them. Please be kind because this is the first knitting/crochet pattern I’ve ever written so it may make no sense at all. I’m more of a visual person so I prefer to just knit and see if it looks right rather than following patterns to the letter but you girls keep asking for patterns so here goes nothing! |
Row 1: Cast on 44 stitches. (please adjust the number according to the size of your wrist and hand) Row 2: *Knit 2, purl 2* repeat until end of row. Repeat for rows 3-13. Row 14: *Knit 2, K2tog* repeat until end of row. Row 15: K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1. Repeat for rows 16-30. Row 31: Cast off 14 stitches. K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1. Row 32-42: K1, *K2tog, YO* repeat until 2nd last stitch, K1. Row 43: Cast off.
You should end up with something vaguely similar to this:
Now fold the left side in half, this will form the finger holes. Fold the right side in half too to make the thumb. Sew together.
You have something like this…
Make a second one. Also make sure you try them on to make sure they fit!
Now let’s crochet some ruffles. I used a very simple stitch to do this…
Single crochet in the first stitch, chain 2, 2xdouble crochet in the same stitch, single crochet in the next stitch etc. Repeat until you’ve gone all the way around the finger and thumb.
You have something like this…
Now you should sew a stitch between each finger. This is optional but I prefer it ^_^
Add some ruffles to the bottom ribbing. This time I just did 3 double crochet into each stitch.
Taaadaaa! And there you have it. Cute lacy fingerless gloves ^_^
Phew! I’m all tired from trying to remember how I made the gloves, next time I have to take more photos while I’m actually doing it and write it down as I go XD Now go have a look at Vintage Grrl‘s beautiful yarn! Thank you for giving me such awesome yarn to make knitted fingerless gloves!
by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 29, 2010 | Hime Gyaru, Life
Last weekend a whole lot of bloggers met up at Koko Black to eat a whole lot of chocolate. A whole lot of fun followed.
There are a huuuge number of photos from the day, around 30 or so bloggers turned up, each with their own cameras in hand. I’ve put my photos in a gallery here so you can have a look through easily and to avoid this post becoming just full of “…and this is me with ___” I’ve added some of my favorites below ^_^
Koko Black Gallery:
Click for larger photos or navigate through the pages at the bottom. To get out of gallery mode just click the photo again.
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The lovely Penny from Jeroxie and I were the organizers of this one and Nuffnangsponsored our chocolate addiction. Yummy!It was so lovely to be able to meet a lot of people I’ve been talking to online in person!So many people came and it was fantastic! I wish I had gotten more time to chat with everyone there but I had a great time anyway!
The view from the other end of the table! There were even more people than this but we took the photos at the beginning.
Sarah from 100 Dates was a little bit silly to bet me that I couldn’t finish both my ice chocolate aaaand a hot chocolate.
I win!! Where’s my prize? I felt soooo full afternoon even though I forgot to have lunch before hand >_<
The silly scarf brigade 😉
Makes it slightly difficult to eat chocolate…though not for lack of trying!
There was such a lot of photo posing going on! I don’t want to post every one of these so please do check the gallery above for the rest ^_^ |
This is Sylviaand I, we had been talking online for so long it was almost like meeting an old friend!
Alice and Ness who I was so happy were able to come! Having a few friends at events like this makes it so much easier to break the ice ^_^
Bunnywho is the sweetest person I think I’ve ever met!
Of course Penny and I had to be slightly silly and take photos of each other taking photos because we have the same camera XD Though I deco’d mine this week so it looks slightly more pink and sparkly now XD
Everyone wrote their blog addresses down so we could catch up with each other again soon, here is the list, please go have a look at their blogs ^_^
I think that’s everyone, if I missed you I’m sorry please let me know in the comments ^_^
I had such a wonderful time and I really hope we can have more events like this soon!
