An Introduction

Hi, and welcome to my blog :) this is a place where I will be sharing my passion for pretty fingernails, as well as my journey towards hopefully becoming a qualified nail technician!

I'm Steph, and I really can't remember a time that I didn't love nail polish - My first ever nail polishes were a christmas present as a kid, I'd been bugging my mum for ages to let me have some but I wasn't allowed as she thought I would make a mess - turns out she was right, in my excitement that christmas the carpet had an unfortunate dose of bright pink nail polish hehe. I've never looked back though and my collection has been growing ever since!

As a teenager I loved painting my friends nails, I saved up all my pocket money and bought a set of nail art pens, and am always excited to try new and inventive ways to get different types of designs. Some methods more sucessfully than others of course - I will of course be sharing the less successful designs so you can learn from my mistakes!

For a few years I followed a more academic route, but my heart wasn't really in it, so I currently work in a shirt factory whilst I save up for a Nail Tech course. Naturally my saving would go a lot quicker if I didn't keep getting tempted by new polishes and nail art bits and bobs, but I will get there... eventually!

Anyway, this post is just a quick introduction to me, and what I am hoping to achieve here, I hope I have caught your attention! Soon there will hopefully be many photo's of pretty manicures here, starting with my recent purchase of a gel nail kit, and the gel mani I did today - for a first attempt it seems to have been surprisingly successful, though who knows it may all be peeling off tomorrow, will have to wait and see how long it lasts!

Anyway, as much as I would love to take and edit a load of photos for you right now, I am shattered after a long week (big shirt order!) and it is somehow already midnight! I have 3 hungry rodents to feed and cuddle before going to bed, but tomorrow I will try to show you some actual nail stuff instead of just chattering away!

Thanks for reading :) Steph X