Pandora & nail update

For a couple of year now, the jewelry brand pandora have been a huge trend, with shops popping up all over the place and more and more people receiving their silver starter bracelet.
I recieved mine in 2010 and now I am embarrassingly proud that it is full with charms, all of which have been gifts from lovely friends and family. Something quite sweet about the pandora is that if you buy the charms for sentimental reasons or memories, you can tell a little tale about each charm.
My silver one has only space for around one more charm, so I had been wondering for a while about what I was going to get next, I wasn't sure whether to just buy another silver, try some rope bracelets or maybe the necklace.
And then, ta-da! for christmas my lovely mam got me a grey rope charm, I doubt I would have ever chose it myself but I really love wearing it with my silver bracelet. I think from now on I'm just going to collect a few rope ones to layer.

I also got two little charms to start off my new bracelet :) The little ghost, which was a little inside joke nudge from my mam, as we often sit up at night in the pitch black with all sound off because we swear we can hear some ghosty noises, ha ha.
Then the crown, which has been brought out with the Girls Aloud collection, it's a lot different to the normal charms, a lot more 3D. I like it, think it sets of the grey nicely, gives it a gothic look maybe?

I have since shuffled around my bracelets (a tedious task as everything has to be symmetrical for me aha) but I now have moved my little fairy charm to join the crown and the ghost and I think that's my grey bracelet complete, you can't fill up the rope bracelets like you can the silver as the leather would stretch and snap. The pandora lady suggested 3-7 beads, so I may add 2 more but until then I like it being in three's.
What's your pandora like? I love seeing people's themes with their beads, my silver is very random, bright colours and memories.


Also a little nail update! I told you guys about the red carpet manicure which I applied on christmas day, a whole week ago! I'm very impressed, it hasn't budged! I'm so tempted to take it off though to try a new colour but I'm determined to see how long it can battle on! My nails feel super strong, they're normally very brittle and even with a good few layers of regular polish and topcoats and nail envy, I can bend my nails if I press down on them, not these bad boys. It's really giving me confidence that I can maintain my long nails, which I have never had the pleasure of having, I almost always have very short nails with a free edge, it isn't since the last month I've managed to get them long.

Sorry about the awful photo.. blackberry camera's are awful and very very frustrating!

Maddy xoxo