Celebrating over 200 followers giveaway!

Hey guys,

So I meant to do this a while ago when I actually first reached 200 followers but I have been kind of busy sorting myself out for my work experience placement, which I started today. I don't know whether it is just me but I never know what is classed as acceptable work wear and so it takes me ages to choose an outfit. In the end I settled on a dress over black leggings, I couldn't quite bring myself to go for the full on black pencil skirt as I just don't think it is quite me, I always need something with a little bit more character.

Anyway I now present my FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY!!

So it took me ages to find some things that I thought were worthy of my first giveaway and in the end I decided on these beauties...

A cute little silver pendant necklace from accessorize.

 I think it's the perfect necklace that can go with anything, you can wear it over a dress as I have done or you can just pair it with a plain white t-shirt.

In addition to this there are also two Barry M nail polishes. Racing green on the right, which gives a nice metallic shine to your nails and on the left is glitter hologram hexagons in silver.

All you have to do to enter is follow the instructions below in the rafflecopter widget, the competition closes at 12:01 am on 06/07/2012 and it is open internationally. Good luck to everyone who enters :)

here are some useful links you will need...

Fashion Nerdette twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FNerdette

Fashion Nerdette facebook:http://www.facebook.com/fashionnerdette 

Love

Ally J

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a Rafflecopter giveaway

Nails: Paint Explosion!

Hey guys!

Hope everyone is well. I have one exam out of the way..yay but 3 more to go...boo! But I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel or as my old teacher used to say I'm at the final 100m sprint of the race.
So this is just a quick post, I basically wanted to show you what I did with my nails today. I suddenly had the cool idea of trying out something that I like to call a paint explosion! It turned out like this....

What do you guys think?

To create this look I used what is pictured below (from left to right: Barry M in strawberry, Barry M in mint green, Rimmel in black cab, Barry M in peach melba and Barry M in berry). Start with a black base colour and then slowly drip the different colours down the top of your nails, taking any excess off where necessary and vola you have a quick yet effective 'paint explosion' nail design. I think the colours symbolise our english weather perfectly at the moment, mainly dark and cloudy with a hint of colour and warmth.

So what are your favourite nails colours at the moment? Any favourite brands of nail polish?

Love 

Ally J

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Aztec inspired nails

Hey guys,

So guess what....I have actually some how managed to DELETE ALL OF MY COMMENTS!! I cannot believe it, all of your nice words have vanished. Oh well I guess I live and learn from my mistakes.

Anyway continuing on with the post, I recently purchased some models own nail art pens a couple of days ago and I have been waiting to try them out. I felt my nail varnish was getting a bit boring so I thought I would try out something a bit more experimental and because I love Aztec print so much, I thought I would try and put it on my nails. So here goes nothing....

What do you guys think?? Kind of a work in progress but I was pretty pleased for my first attempt.

This is what I used to create the look:

Nail Art Pen - Models Own
Nail Varnish - Barry M Peach Melba

And here is where I got my inspiration from:

Sorry again for the comment deleting incident I will promise to be more careful next time :).

Hope you all had a great bank holiday!

Love

Ally J

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Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

Hello everyone,

Sorry again for the lack of posts, exams are looming and so my desk in my room has unfortunately become my new best friend, cannot wait till the 28th May when I can regain my freedom. Anyway, first off let me just say a big Happy Birthday to my wonderful Dad! I have to say that his new jacket from my Mum is the coolest thing I have seen in a while, it actually glows in the dark/sunlight! Might try and sneakily steal it for my next post. Well any who I thought since the sun has finally come back out (hopefully we have seen the last of the snow and hail!) I would take the opportunity to try on my new shoes and Topshop jumper. I have been so excited to share these shoes with you all.

The jumper is actually so delicate that I've been too scared to take it out of the wardrobe because my dog Jarvis  doesn't seem to understand the concept of 'down' and sure enough when I walked down stairs Jarvis jumped up and pulled out some of the threads...cry :( so as we speak my mum is busy fixing it.

                 

I picked these shoes up at the weekend and I absolutely love them, I haven't taken them off since, if I could sleep in them I would. They have the perfect heel height for me as I'm 5' 8" and slightly conscious of towering over my parents and boyfriend. They go perfectly with leggings and skinny jeans and when we finally do get our summer weather I think they will look great with my denim shorts too.

Hat - Topshop
Jumper - Topshop
Leggings - Dorothy Perkins
Socks - New Look
Shoes - Ash at Harvey Nichols
Necklace - Topshop
Bangle - gift
Rings - left: Topshop, right: gift
Nail varnish - lilac Barry M

I hope you all had a lovely Easter, I know I definitely managed to eat my body weight in chocolate.. but hey that's what Easter is for...right?!?

Alex

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