Graduation Outfit

I will be graduating this Saturday and have left it till the last minute to get my act together! Last week I found my dress and this week everything else is falling into place. After dragging my mother around Blanchardstown shopping centre and my boyfriend around Dundrum shopping centre I finally found my dress in a little village called Gorey in Co Wexford. Ruby Rouge is the name of the shop. I liked their facebook page a while ago and was delighted to be getting the chance to check out their store. I found this beauty....

Brand: Save the Queen. Cost: too much to admit.

 I also got my nails done. Tried out Shelac for the first time and absolutely LOVE IT! I will be going back in two weeks to get a new colour. I am not allowed wear nail varnish at work but we are allowed gel nails and shelac so I am delighted. My nails have been bare for the past two months until now. Nails cost €35 but I do know somewhere that only chargers €20 so I will go back there next time.

 I am not a big fan of having my arms out. Legs and a bit of boobage I do not mind to a certain extent but my arms are a no no! I picked up this lovely shrug in Monsoon. It cost €70 but I will wear it alot over Christmas to parties and its really soft...stop looking at me like that!!!

I am hopeless when it comes to finding shoes. I can never find my size in a pair I like. I settled for these court shoes with bow detail. There was another pair but the heel was killer and I have visions of me falling on my ass when I go to get my cert so I thought these would be safer. They cost €55 and I bought €3 paddy thingys to stop the back of my foot from slipping out.






All I needed then was a pair of tights that wouldn't rip while trying to get them on and a good bra! All set now! Thanks to the lovely @PrettyObsessed I am going to get my make-up done at Inglot on the day. I cannot wait. She gave me a voucher that entitles you to a free make-up appointment. I will put up a post of the full outfit of the day next week. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Oh and I'm off all next week...ner ner!

Storage advice please!

My current storage

I am fed up with storing my nail polish this way, in a draw never seeing the light of day. I hardly ever paint my nails anymore, partly due to work but I also think I forget I even own any nail varnish sometimes. I want to display them, have them out to encourage me to use them.

Options

The first is a Polish rack table display holds 60 bottles and costs $27.50 from an American website. I had clicked to buy and was all ready to shell out when the other half stopped me. He went on about custom tax and how I might have to pay more to claim the package than the item itself. I do not like the sound of that!

Second option is this Pink nail vanish storage from ebay which can stand like in the picture shown or be wall mounted and costs €31.44 plus €5 delivery.

I have in the past decorated an old spice rack and it looked pretty cool and would have made a fab nail polish holder, if I only had eight bottles but I have more than that! It really was pretty but now its back in the kitchen, check it out HERE

So which would you choose? I know the wall mount would be handy. Neat and out of the way but I am really drawn to the table step display apart from the possible custom tax hassle.

Best Dressed - Colour Day - Ed Hardy palette.

On Friday we had a theme day at work. And that was colour day! I went a bit mad! I wore purple skinny jeans (I feel weird saying that when they were a size 18!) A yellow long long sleeved top and a short sleeved green, orange and purple top over that. All from Penneys. The lady in the fitting room actually muttered outloud "oh my god" when she was counting how many items I had. I think I blinded her!

On my face I did my eyebrows pink and purple. One eyelid pink and blue and the other gold and purple and on my lips I wore a bright coral lipstick. I love this wig, it cost me €10 but I will use it again over hallowe'en no doubt!

For my efforts 16 women out of 20 at work voted me best dressed and I won this lovely Ed Hardy colour make-up box. It comes with eye shadows, lip colours, bronzer, solid perfume and brushes, AND LIGHTS!

Looking forward to trying these out. I didn't even know Ed Hardy did make-up. I once bought a dress in New York in Macy's by Ed Hardy but I never ended up wearing out and sold it on ebay!!

I asked the kids in work who I looked like, my favourite response was "a bouncy castle"