Shine on you crazy diamond

As I told you in my last post, me and my sis went to the Lokerse Feesten past tuesday to see The Beach Boys and The Australian Pink Floyd Show. When I bought the tickets I bought them especially for The Beach Boys, not even being aware of the fact that Aussie Floyd would be there. Little did I know that Aussie Floyd would be the highlight of the evening! The Beach Boys were fun, the first half of the set was kind of boring with all the songs having the exact same rhythm/sound. Of course there were fun parts when they played "Good Vibrations", "Barbara Ann" and some other hits, it was just a bit disappointing that they didn't play more hits. Also, we stood next to a really irritating lady who tried to get her boyfriend excited for the music by singing loudly into his face. I don't think he was very pleased. :-D

After The Beach Boys we were able to go all the way to the front of the stage, strangely a lot of people went away after TBB. Two super sweet, tall Dutch girls asked us if we wanted to stand in front of them because they were aware of the fact that they could look over our heads while we would be looking at their backs. Which would also be good if I rolled that way but I'd rather look at the musicians, being heterosexual. :-D Aussie Floyd opened with "Shine on you crazy diamond" and I got instantly teary eyed. I just love Pink Floyd music so much and they did an absolutely amazing job with preserving the atmosphere and quality of the original music. They even got me to appreciate the music more! If I closed my eyes it was almost like listening to the real deal. With a big laser show and blow up dolls, it was a wonderfully entertaining show. "Wish you were here" got me crying, of course, because it's one of my favorite songs in the history of all music and hearing your favorite songs live is always magical. I cried when Roger Daltrey did "See me, feel me" last year, too. It touched my heart. I'm also still a bit of an emotional wreck these days so I don't need much to get the ol' waterworks running. As one of the many highlights of the show, hearing "Another brick in the wall" live was awesome. Hearing everyone around you yell "HEY! TEACHERS! Leave them kids alone!", pure epicness. As you can read, I was overwhelmed by the greatness of the band. Coverbands will always get a lot of shit because they will never be the real deal but Jebus Rice, I will never be able to see the real deal so I gladly "settle" for the Australian Pink Floyd Show! If they ever come to Belgium again I won't hesitate to go once more and I can recommend them to anyone. It was perfection!

I have extra love for Pink Floyd because my big brothers and sister were always crazy about them too. Listening to their music always makes me think of my family. Most classic rock does, my dad gave every one of us his love for music and for that, I will be eternally grateful. Music is one of the best things in life and I hope that, if I ever have a kid of my own, I will be able to instill that same passion for music. To me, there's almost no feeling as good as standing in a crowd, screaming your lungs out, forgetting everything you were and will be, for that moment just being part of the music.

Now for my outfit:

Make up:

earrings and pants: H&M
cardigan: 3 suisses
band T: punk shop in Canterbury, forgot the name :-D you can probably find it online too!
shoes: converse
belt: thrifted

nailpolishes: all catrice, the first orange color a brandless stripertool I got secondhand. 
glitterpolish: essence

Thanks to the momster for taking my outfit pictures! I'll leave you with two pictures of me and my big sis and her badass legging, I had a wonderful time as I always do with her and she's been a great support to me! LOVE YA SIS

P.S.: If you're feeling in the mood to listen to some good music, this is my current favorite!
Pink Floyd - Time

Galaxy nails

I love nail art. I don't know if you've noticed but I love to do funky stuff with my nails. I've always loved nailpolish but after a while just painting my nails just wasn't enough. (sounds like I'm talking about some horrible addiction :-D) I started with really simple stuff like polkadotted nails, two or tricolored nails, and eventually tried out rainbow nails (going from purple to blue to turquoise to green to yellow to orange to red) with a tiny paintbrush and since then I'm absolutely hooked on nailart. I've done butterflies, The Who logo's, tiny triforces, flowers... not all as perfect as the next but I have had loads of fun doing it! I started looking for some good tutorials too and I found this lovely channel on youtube called 'cutepolish' (click here to visit her channel!) where you have all kinds of awesomness! Pikachu nails (which reminds me, I should totally do a pokeball naildesign!), Super Mario mushroom nails, adventure time nails (one of my favorite wacky cartoons), animal print, plaid... it's crazy and awesome. Even if you're a nailbiter or you hate putting on nailpolish it's a delight to see all the different designs. And, my favorite design of her, GALAXY NAILS. These are just brilliant, especially since november 9th was was Carl Sagan's birthday (R.I.P.) so I took a chance and tried it out. If you want to check out the tutorial, check here!: Gorgeous Galaxy Nails

My nails might not be quite as perfect as hers but I was so so so pleased when I was ready with my nails. I kept staring at them. :-D It was a little time consuming but pretty easy!

okay, they're PRETTY awesome, right?! Tell me what you think of them and if you enjoy tinkering around with nailpolish too! Here's how I did it:

I started with some dark blue as a base, just gave it two coats and let it dry.

After it had dried completely I started to sponge on some white nailpolish where I wanted my 'galaxy' to be on my nails. (sponging = putting a little bit of nailpolish on a sponge and 'pressing' the sponge onto your nail so that you get a kind of cloudy design on your nails) I just tore a tiny bit of a foundation sponge and pressed it onto my nails with the sponge between tweezers.

You let the white dry completely and you sponge on a bit of bright yellow in the center of your galaxy. Let it dry and start the last color, some rosy pink. A thin coat on your sponge and again, try to center it as much as you can so you have a nice flow of colors.

If you think you've overdone the white a bit in the beginning you can sponge a bit of dark blue polish over some of the white, it'll make the cloudiness more realistic.

After that you can add some little stars by dotting tiny white dots in the galaxies and on your nails from varying sizes. I did it with a little toothpick and the tip of a dried out pen. You can add some silver glitters to finish your starry sky et voila! You got some bangin' space nails!

I just bought some opaque white nailpolish, shimmery golden olive green and shimmery rusty golden orange by the way. Catrice is my favorite nailpolish brand ever, they have gorgeous colors and the durability is excellent if you ask me.