Sunday Thoughts: Organisation is the key

Another week is over and a new one is just around the corner. I'm really shocked how time has flown over this year. It feels like one minute I was getting my head in a spin as to whether my partner was going to propose and next month it will be exactly one year until we get married...I've been engaged nearly a year and a half, it feels like yesterday. I also can't believe I'm getting towards the end of my university holidays. One and a half months left and I feel that if I blink, i'll be sat in the university library crying my eyes out that the holidays are over. This year is going to be massive. Wedding planning, moving house, getting a new job and hopefully finishing university with a decent degree. It's mind boggling how many things i'm going to be juggling, but as long as I have my diary besides me, I know i'll get through it. Organisation is definitely the key.

So, less talk about the future, what's going on in my life now. Every now and then it's nice to take a break from discussing fashion and beauty and tell you all what's going on in my life. Currently, I have a border terrier that isn't mine sat at the end of my bed with his legs in a weird frogs legs position. Me and my parents are looking after a family friends dog called 'Ollie'. He's a sweet little thing, very well behaved and although he resembles a grumpy old man, he's rather cute. The downside? The quote 'make yourself at home' never seemed so appropriate. He has taken full reign of the house and my teeny Yorkshire Terrier is quivering with jealously. At least it's a temporary measure and we only have the little chap until Friday.

Ollie!

My doggy wearing his reindeer hoody because he's cold!

Secondly, as I have mentioned before, I have a very busy year starting from September and I've now made myself even busier by enrolling onto an Italian course. I love nothing more than learning new skills and although I'm at university, I felt eager to learn something different. I hope I become good enough to eventually write a short post in Italian for some of my European followers. It will be challenging, but so much fun.

Finally, coming up on the blog this week I have lots of exciting and very pretty products to show you. There's even more hair posts, beauty posts and a glimpse into my week as very exciting things are about to hopefully happen.

Are you doing anything exciting in the near future?

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Nail Polish Colour Wheels

Before I start writing about the actual post topic, I'd like to pose a question to all my regular followers. In the above image, do I look different? If you answered yes, but couldn't figure out why, it's due to my ever so slight hair colouring disaster yesterday. For a start I picked the wrong colour for my roots and secondly I got so distracted by listening to my current favourite band (The Vaccines) that I left it on a whole 10 minutes longer than it should have been applied. Hence, my hair has now gone almost black. In the picture, I have my lighter hair extensions underneath the dark hair to give it a two tone colour and give the illusion of lighter locks, however without these, it's very, very dark. The change came as a bit of a shock, but now, I'm embracing the rock chick Jessica that left me long ago and has now returned. I'm loving being at the dark side. 

Despite yesterday's mishaps, I've had a really good weekend and to top it off, my nail wheels finally came from China. I bought these on Ebay for £1.37 (including shipping) in hope it would help me organise my nail polish draw. I go through phases where I buy far too much nail polish and end up with multiple polishes that are very similar colours. I've seen lots of bloggers adopting this technique for organisation and I really wanted to try it myself. 

Painting all these colour wheels made me realise that I have over 65 nail polishes - not all nail polishes have been applied to the wheels yet, I'm always buying pink or red colours and a few of my nail polishes have dried out and I didn't realise. 

I love these colour wheels, because I can show them to my friends or family if they ever need to borrow a colour and I can gaze at all the colours from my beautiful collection.

I've also organised the wheels by nail polish brand. The ones that do not have a label are a mixture of brands and my higher end polishes have a wheel to themselves. I love collecting Nail Inc and Ciate.

Crackle polishes also show up on these colour wheels and look amazing! You could also buy additional wheels and experiment mixing various colours. It's great knowing what they will look like before you put them on, if you're in a rush to go out.

Although they take quite a while being delivered, at £1.37 you really cannot go wrong. If you're a nail polish addict or simply want to experiment, I really recommend that you invest in these. They're great for demos if you're a blogger too!

How big is your nail polish collection?

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