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It is just the beginning of Autumn and I want to stay looking and feeling my best but the cold mornings just make me want to throw on a warm sweater and a pair of jeans without even thinking about it. In this post I am going to show you how I spiced up my sweater this cold morning...

ImageIn the photo above I am wearing a striped navy and grey knit sweater (Hollister £34) with a pair of dark washed (New Look) super skinny jeans. This is what I would normally wear when I have just rolled out of bed on a cold morning but this morning, on impulse, I grabbed my bright pink skinnies and threw them on with this sweater and thought 'Wow that actually really works!'

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I bought these jeans (Topshop Motto Kristen Jeans £40) during the summer and it worked really well with my summer tops but I never thought of incorporating this into my Autumn wardrobe at all until today. These jeans really brighten me up both literally and emotionally, I feel so much more happier wearing my bright colours, and they also brighten up the sweater.

I'm still so in love with my coloured denim that I can't let Autumn take them away from me and this is one of the ways I am wearing my bright colours against the swarm of greys and blacks I am going to be surrounded by this Autumn/Winter. This is why it's so great to experiment with the pieces you already have, now I can get wear out of my coloured jeans and feel great during the chilly months.

To calm the look down a bit I wore this with a tan coloured pair of ballet flats.

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If you're not daring enough to try this look out but still want to make a bit of effort on your sweater-jeans outfit you could wear coloured flats instead and turn up the jeans at the end to create a really relaxed but thought about look...

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Remember the american flag nails I attempted for the first time? It was a bit of a gamble to promise to blog about something I have never tried and wasn't absolutely certain it would work out. But I did it, and here's me doing it again!

Click the image to see my old post.

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Except with a different technique! I am adding this to the 'MODERATE' on difficulty as this is so much more easier and quicker and mess-free than my first one.

You will need:

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- Nail Art Polish in Red and Blue (or a nail art pen in red and blue, or nail art brush)

- BarryM Matt White

- BarryM 3 in 1 Basecoat Topcoat & Nail Hardener All in One

Step 1: Apply base coat.

Step 2: After the base coat has dried apply white nail polish.

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(This isn't the blue I will be using this time. This was the old blue I used on my first post about these nails, but if you like, this is Barry M's Cobalt Blue).







The difference: (Left) New polish, (Right) Old polish.



Step 3: After the white polish has dried use a red nail art pen or nail art brush to draw vertical red lines.

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Step 4: After the red lines are dried, draw on a rectangular box to the left of the flag with a blue nail art pen or brush. (If this is your left hand then it should be against the end of your nail, and if it is your right hand, it should be against the tip of your fingernails. (Left hand only is illustrated in the image below).

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Step 5: As you can see in the image above, I have filled one in, after drawing the rectangles, fill them in.

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After this, when your nails have dried, gloss over with a top coat. I used my usual BarryM 3 in 1 Basecoat Topcoat & Nail Hardener All in One.

If you want to check out my old technique simply click here.

Have you just tried this out? Let me know which of my techniques suited you.

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