‘Sup dawgs? First post of my new blog! My name is Lena, I’m fifteen and living in the UK right now. Became totally addicted to nail polish about three weeks ago and this is the product of my madness. Only in this country, I have to attend school five days a week. Nothing wrong with this apart from the fact that we have to wear uniform and hair extensions, make up, jewellery and nail polish are BANNED.

*cue shocked gasps and fainting*

You see what I have to work with? And to make matters worse, being a student, I’m usually broke :P So this blog is going to basically chronicle my attempts to circumnavigate the uniform policy while making nails look good on a budget (read: eBay and buying nail polish for like a pound over at Wilkinson’s) and avoiding the ultimate terror – being sent to the Head of Year’s to take off your nail polish. And I hope you’ll enjoy this journey with me!

Here are the official guidelines for my nail painting:

Mondays: Have to be relatively sheer or glittery with little to no nail art. You see, a Monday is the day our form tutor checks our nails. This will probably be the day that I review a sheer nail polish or clear.

Tuesdays: We have assembly on this day and usually I can sneak out without having my nails seen. I like to have my nails done on a Tuesday as I have violin lessons and everyone stares at your left hand, haha. So I’ll probably do some nail art on this day.

Wednesdays: No assembly, so the risk of being caught is slightly higher. But often I’ll embellish Tuesday’s design or try out a new mani altogether.

Thursdays: I help some of the year sevens that day, so hopefully might escape watchful eyes but can’t be sure. Usually I’ll have a completely new mani on that day but may just do an alternative French or something.

Friday: Assemblies. Go wild, because it’s the weekend!

Enough with the introductions already, let’s see some PICTURES.

OK. This was a Wednesday look. I started out with my Nails Inc “Kensington Basecoat Caviar” – yes I know I won’t really be doing expensive salon brands but my mum has a lot of Nail Inc stuff and she bought the basecoat for me. After the base coat, I used a fairly generic bottle of light lilac nail polish on my nails. I got it this Christmas in a set full of about 22 eyeshadows, mascara, lipgloss etc. and there were two mini bottles of this stuff in there. Meh. You’ll probably find you’ll have some at home but if not any purple or pink sheer will do. This was two coats.

And that was it. Really simple yet really pretty!