Weight Loss Wednesday - Update!

Hey My Loves,

WLW has been a little light on the ground recently but I wanted to let you know that it will be back in full swing next week.

I also wanted to let everyone know that our newest member of WLW Sophie is going in for her op today so we will be able to follower her weight loss once she has recovered! Good luck Sophie!

I am also looking for other new members so if you are doing slimming world, calorie counting, or any other diet icluding exercise based and would like to be involved please do get in touch. You would only need to do one post a month so it won't take lots of your time and it would be great to share and inspire others.

Have a great week.

Grace xoxo

To Date or not to Date.....that is the question!

For those of you who don't know I am single and am one of the many girls awaiting the arrival of their prince charming.....but my goodness he is taking his time!

I have been single for pretty much three years, over that time i've had the odd date or was seeing someone for a little while but nothing that became serious. 

Back in september last year I thought I would join a dating site and see what was out there! Well I lasted two and a half days as what was out there was far too scary for my liking! After receiving just under 300 messages in those two short days I was totally over whelmed and scared to say the least! Don't get me wrong there were a few nice ones but jeez the bad ones definitely over ruled!

It ranged from 19 year olds sending a simple "your hot" message to a 72 year old saying "hope I'm not too old!" ......well if you have to ask the question! It left me shuddering everytime I heard my phone beep and I ended up handing it over to my friend to siphon through the messages.

Well we are almost six months on from then and I am feeling like I could venture back out in to the world of dating (providing all those men have disappeared!), but my big question is how do you do it succesfully?

I am aware that this is many peoples question too so I have decided to take one for the team and set out on the quest to answer this question for all the singletons out there!
I am armed with the updated version of The Rules, I'm ready to set up my online dating profile and with that my Single Girl in the City series will be born!

So for dating tips, stories and I'm sure a few epic fails along the way stay tuned!

Wish me luck!

Grace xoxo

I LOVE ME #8

This weeks I love me challenge is to surround yourself with happiness!
Oh Just like that I hear you say....don't worry, it is easier than you think!

A simple human trait is to want to something in one go, unfortunately this isn't always realistic or even if it is it then proves difficult to be maintainable! But if you do things the way I suggest hopefully being surrounded by happiness will become slightly easier!

Good things come in little packages is how the saying goes and that is exactly how this challenge works! Happiness can be in a smell, a song, a photo.....absolutely anything! The idea is that by having small things such as a scented candle burning or a song playing will help to trigger the happy hormones to be released and that can only lead to feeling happy! See its easy peasy....

Here is this weeks I Love Me challenge video.....

Have a great week filled with lots of happiness!

Grace xoxo

I LOVE ME #7

This weeks I Love Me Challenge is a bit of a continuation from last weeks challenge! Last week I challenged you not to compare yourself to others so much, which I know is sometimes easier said than done. This week I'm challenging you to

Write your own story!

By this I don't mean go and write a book (of course unless you want to!), I mean don't try and copy someone else's story or try and be something / one you're not.

I love to read books by celebrities whether it be an autobiography or a self help book, but what can sometimes happen when we read these books is like I said last week, we start to compare ourselves to them. Now one major difference between most of us and celebrities is MONEY!! They normally have a huge amount and us...not so much. It means that when they need help they can afford to get the best of the best and quickly, where as we probably can't. But this in itself could be seen as a challenge, it means we have to be creative and use our heads a bit more to solve our own issues or problems, we need to reach out for help in different ways and places, it means we are writing our own stories and drawing from our own strength!

One really important thing when writing your own story is to take it one step at a time, don't write the ending before you get there! How do you know whats going to happen....and if you decide how somethings going to end you may skip by all the exciting things that could happen between now and then with out even knowing they were there!

Here's this weeks I Love Me Challenge video....

I hope you all have a Fabulous week

Grace xoxo

Valentines Nail Design #6

Hey My loves,

Well V Day is here and I am bringing you a quick and simple nail look that will take you less than a minute to do, so it's perfect if you are whisked off your feet on a last minute valentines date!

Here's how to get the look......

Step 1. Paint your nails with a base coat and base colour with an accent colour for your ring finger

Step 2. Apply a coat of top coat and then pop on an assortment of coloured nail gems. Apply another layer of top coat to all your nails and viola! 

Happy Valentines Day!

Stay gorgeous

Grace xoxo

Valentines Nail Design #5

Hey dolls,

Here is a valentines twist on a french manicure that's perfect for a Valentines rendezvous!

Here's how to get the look.....

Step 1. Appply a base coat and your base colour

Step 2. Apply your chosen colour to the tips of your nails

Step 3. Use a small ended dotting tool with a nail art paint to draw on the hearts, allow it to dry and pop on a top coat

For this design I have used OPI Matte Black and Shorts Story (pink).

There you go, easy peasy!

If you recreate this look I would love to see, please send me some pics to my Facebook or Twitter

Stay Gorgeous

Grace xoxo

Valentines Nail Design #4

Hey Ladies,

I wanted to bring you a super girly Valentines Nail design, so here it is!

Here is how you get the look....

Step 1. Apply a base coat and then two coats of your base colour

Step 2. On your thumb use three different colours (including one glitter) and draw a heart, then continue to draw and outline using the different colours until you've covered the whole nail

Step 3. Use the glitter you have used on the thumb and paint an accent nail on your ring finger. Allow all the nails to dry for a moment and then apply a top coat.

For this look I have used OPI's Shorts Story for my base and OPI's Peru-b-Ruby, Spark De Triomphe and Barry M's Strawberry for the heart and ring finger.

If you do recreate this look I would love to see so please do send me over a pic to my Facebook or Twitter

Stay Gorgeous

Grace xoxo