Mini Christmas Haul

Hi guys! Happy Tuesday :]

Hopefully it'll be snowing when this is posted so I'll be sporting a face like this: =3 or this ^-^. Cause I love the snow, and it looks great from the floor I work on, all floatyyy and awesome. I could literally sit and watch the snow for hours.

In other news, I got my manager addicted to nails! I did some of my coworkers nails on Christmas eve, and recently Kerry asked for a list of things to buy, and she even bought a Konad starter kit! So you never know, I might even share her pretties with yous!

Today I have for you my mini Christmas present haul, just to show what I got. This is no where as crazy as last years haul, but I guess that's because Scott went crazy last year lol.

 Mini Nails Inc set (the first Nails Inc I'm gonna try!) from my manager Debbie.

W7's are from my Nan/Aunt/Uncle and LA Colors & Technic are from my mam.

Hope you're all having a good day :]

Bronze Black & Teal Crisscross

Hi all! Happy Thursday!

I hope everyone had a good Halloween last night! I stayed in and tried to be productive.. But was feeling blah so I watched funny shows instead in attempts to pass some time and make myself giggle. It worked =]

Base Coat: La Femme

Base Colours: Rimmel Black Satin & LA Colors - Current

Stamped Colours: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Bronze Ablaze & BYS - Black Satin
Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM322

Top Coat: Rimmel 60 Seconds Clear

One coat of LA Colors - Current over Rimmel - Black Satin

I loooove the blue quality Current takes when layered over black. I wonder what it would look like over purple too..

LA Colors - Force, Sinful Colors - Paris & Black Konad

Hi all!

Pretty simple combo today, though I did love wearing these for the couple of days I did. While I really like LA Colors - Force as a colour, it's just really not me at all. However, Sinful Colors - Paris; I love! I really love how small the glitter is, and while It doesn't stand out too much in this mani, I've recently used it for my batman mani where I did and it looked great.

Base Coat: La Femme
Base Colour: LA Colors - Force
Glitter: Sinful Colors - Paris
Stamping Colour: BYS - Black Satin
Image Plate: Konad M64
Top Coat: Rimmel - 60 Seconds Clear

And here's a swatch of Force:
Well that was a quick post for today as I'm off to get my hair cut for the first time in 11 months... I need it baaaaad :P

I hope everyone's having a good Tuesday :]

Circles Or Dots - We Stamp On Sundays

This week’s stamping challenge over at Adventures In Stamping was to use circles or dots, I was still in a blue mood after the last challenge, and I think it is because of all the bad weather that's been going on.

So in my blue mood, I wanted to try one of my new polishes, and ended up using two. I started with LA Colors - Static Electricity (to see the base go here), and layered a coat of the super sheer Radiation over that. I wanted to try stamping with Sinful Colors - See You Soon, and tried with a polka dot stamping image, but that didn't work out too well, so I used this "reverse polka dot" image from Bundle Monster BM21.

Base Coar: La Femme
Base Colour: LA Colors - Static Electricity
LA Colors - Radiation
Stamp Colour: Sinful Colors - See You Soon
Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM21
Top Coat: Rimmel - Clear

 Base colour without stamping:

 Here's what I used:

For those of you that don't know there were some crazy flash floods going on recently. Thursday I went to the Metro Centre to shop for Scott's mam, and the first port of call was food. As I was tucking in; we heard a weird noise, and downstairs the Metro Centre had sprung a leak, and started flooding. Because our burgers were so good we carried on eating, laughing off the little bit of water. Even though the thunder and lightning was still going crazy, making the lights flicker like mad.

It was only when we started trying to shop, and seen that pretty much everything was closed, and areas were blocked off that we realised how bad it really was. And after Scott & his brother got their mam her birthday present we tried to leave.. Oh boy it was such a horrible journey home. Going one way; and then having to turn around cause the road was like a freaking river, no one was giving anyone any helpful information. And what would've been a 40 minute (max) car ride, it took us 4 hours odd to get home. Horrible! I feel a little worse for Andy, Scott's brother, who then had to drive home to Hartlepool. Ouch.

Story over! I hope everyone has had a good weekend :]

June Haul!

 So after basically a year of not buying polishes for myself, and any new additions were because of Scott buying some for me, I went a little wild this month ^-^ In fact I've just realised I've missed out two polishes, but never mind!

FCUK Bronze & Blue Purple, they don't have a name or number.
LA Colors - Current, Force & Radiation

Sinful Colours - Paris, See You soon & Daddy's Girl
Barry M - Multi Black Glitter, Rimmel - Night Before, Miss Sporty - Fatal Plum & Raindrop, Models Own - Slate Green.
When I got home after buying these I realised these two were quite similar, but Night Before has more red shimmer (you can't really see the shimmer in Fatal Plum) but when I tested them on my nails Fatal Plum Is so opaque compared to Night Before.

And a close up of Barry M - Black Multi Glitter. I didn't even know this existed until a few weeks back when I went to go buy one for a swap I'm doing, and yesterday I finally bought one for myself. It's so pretty.

Guest Post Over At Red Hair And Black Nails!

Hey everyone, today I have a guest post over at Red Hair and Black Nails, If you don't know about Theodora's blog yet you should check it out, It's great. And her nails <3 such a gorgeous shape!

Click the pic to be taken to the post =]

Here's what I used:
Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Rimmel - Tip Whitener
Sponged Colours: MUA - Shade 20
                              LA Colors - Atomic
Image Plate: Dashica Big SpD-A
Image Colour: Konad Special White
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

Happy Friday!

Guest Post Over At Northern Nails!

Hey everyone! I know I've been a little bit quiet the last few days, but Scott has had a few days off work so we've been chilling watching films, 30 Rock and geeking it up (playing saints row / call of duty) :P So it's been nice :]

Today I thought I'd let you know about a guest post of mine for Jo over at Northern Nails. Apologies for the naff pictures, I was having a bad camera day :P

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Revlon - Sunshine Sparkle
Stamping Colours: LA Colors - Static Electricity
                                   Rimmel - Pop!
                                   W7 - Matte Green
                                   Gosh - Berry Me
Image Plate: Dashica Big SpD-A
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

Pink & Red Roses Using Dashica Big SpD - A, And Cupcakes!

I feel like I've fallen behind! I've spent so much time this week looking at cake and frosting recipes for Scott's Birthday, that I've only just looked at what the stamping challenge is for this week, so after Scott goes off to work this afternoon I'm gonna try and plan some crazy unnatural animal nails, and hope there's decent light tomorrow for photos xD Anyhoo! Enough of that rant, and on to the nails.

So these are also from a few weeks ago. I'm slightly annoyed with myself not posting things, I've been playing with this plate that I won from Shirley over at Dashica Beauty for an age now. And I looove It, I only have one downside, the images are so large (which is obviously awesome for those with bigger nails) that I have a hard time picking how to put the image on my iddy biddy pinky. I know.. not a problem at all :P I love this plate!

Base Coat:CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Sally Hansen - White On
Stamping Colours: LA Colors - Power Outage
Rimmel - Celebrity Bash
Image Plate: Dashica Big SpD-A
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

Slighty annoyed at how these photos turned out. I used my typical mixing method to use these two polishes, and in real life you could see the shimmer and the violet shimmer from Power Outage on the nail.

And I finally decided to try out the new scanner, so here's a scan of the plate. Granted; it has some wear and tear, and I couldn't get it as shiny as when it was new :P

So Many pretties to try!

And.. For an even longer post; I'd like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTTIUS!

 Scott's Birthday cupcake, chocolate cake, chocolate chips, peanut butter frosting, chocolate sprinkles, popping candy, and the lolly from the popping candy packet just for funsies. xD

 Vanilla cupcakes, morello cherry jam frosting & sprinkles.

Peanut butter ones are chocolate cake, chocolate chips, with morello cherry in the centre, with peanut butter frosting and sprinkles. Crazy grey ones are Scott's invention. Vanilla cake, Eristoff Black - Wild Berry flavour and Blueberry jam frosting with sprinkles =] I hope everyone's having a good weekend so far =]

Superman, Supergirl, Nails. KKcenterHk Water Decal Review

So a while back I was contacted by Maggie from KKcenterHk about reviewing some water decals, I immediately said I would love to, but it took me a little longer to figure out which style water decals I would like to try as they have so many! After narrowing it down to something like 10 designs, I finally decided on these, and these.

Here we have WDBLE974 and WDDC061

I was so, so intrigued to get my hands on these ones as I'd never seen metallic water decals before. And as soon as I seen the designs my mind started racing with ideas of what mani's I could do! These retail for USD$6.39, or just under £4.

So Shiny!

I cut off the designs I was going use, and them placed them in a shot glass of water. I used tweezers to peel off the design and place it on my nail, patting off excess water with my finger making sure there were no bubbles under the design. I them patted off the nail with a piece of tissue, and continued with the other nails before adding a top coat to seal the decal in. These are unlinke any water decals I've used before, they didn't feel like they were going to break after I peeled them off the backing paper, which has been my experience in the past. I loved these nails, and so did my boyfriend :]

 

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: LA Colors - Static Electricity
Tip Colour: OPI - Wocka Wocka
KKcenterHk water decals
Top Coat: Model Own - 3 In 1

If you're interested in anything in the store use coupon code: goldspecknails for 10% off, this code is valid until January 31st, 2013.

*This product was sent to me for review

Spring Challenge - Day 5 - Rainbow

Hey everyone!

It's the fifth instalment of the Spring challenge myself and Esme of Nail Addict are doing. Today is rainbow nails, but I think of these more as stained glass windows. They don't scream rainbow; but trust me when I say there's 7 colours in there!

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Sally Hansen - White On
Stamping Colours: Rimmel - Purple Reign
                                   Rimmel - Pop!
                                   LA Colors - Static Electricity
                                   Barry M - Bright Red
                                   George - Buttercup Shine
                                   Flormar - N007                                   M&S Mini - Unnamed pink
Image Plate: BM208
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

You can see the purple here on the thumb, on the other nails it's kinda blended into th mix.

 

I kind of feel like I was let down a little bit by Purple Reign (although it could just be my placements) but I will try this again one day when I have a sexy vivid purple in my hands (Yes; I am looking at you Zoya Mira you will be miine!!) and will see if it works out better.

Then I decided to see how it looked matte, and I looved it even more. Giving it the matte top coat really made the colours pop, and they looked more luminous

Don't forget to head over to Nail Addict to see what Esme came up with for today's challenge.

Up next; on Friday is frogs!

Only Using Blue - We Stamp On Sundays

This weeks challenge over at Adventures In Stamping was to only use blue. For the most part I was worried about what blue to stamp with. This was after I already painted my nails with LA Colors - Static Electricity, and added glitter, so any dark blues I could stamp with would be too subtle, or look black. So I opted to see how well Essence - Speed Of Light Blue would stamp. 

Overall I'm okay with how It turned out, though the finger is a bit smooshy. I loooove the little sneaks of glitter you get through the pattern, It's just a shame I couldn't capture it better!

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: LA Colors - Static Electricity
Glitter: Maybelline Colorama - Blazes Of Blue
Stamp Colour: Essence - Speed Of Light Blue
Image Plate: Bundle Monster - BM19
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

2 Coats of glitter!

 

This is the first plate I was obssessed with when I first got my set a few years back, I would try out different designs all the time, but when I had something planned I wanted dogtooth on my nails xD Which is why the plate's so scratched to hell! Damn you metal scraper! I kind of ruined the circle image a little, you can see where the top of the ring's been scraped away over time with the corner of the metal scraper. Boo.

I hope everyone's had a good weekend so far! I'm off my anti-biotics now, and I can't wait till about 6 when I can have a beer! Yum ^_^

Atomic Tribal

Base coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: L.A. Colors - Atomic
Stamp Colour: BYS - Black Satin
Image Plate: Bundle Monster 222
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

No festive nails today, but wearing this was really fun as the colour of Atomic is sooo gorgeous, it's just a pity it's so sheer ¬_¬ Maybe it's just the way I apply it, but this was three coats, which looked fine, until I was in the light to take photos. I hate that you can see my nail line.

I never actually thought I'd wear this image, as I'm not a massive fan of tribal patterns like this, but I fancied a change and I was pleasantly surprised.

Rainbow Chevron

I was in the mood for fun and bright, and these were crazy fun to wear ^_^

I used Bundle Monster BM201 for the chevron design, and used BYS - black satin for the stamp

Colours Used: Sally Hansen - White On
Barbara Daly - Sunshine & Neon Pink
L.A. Colors - Atomic & Static Electricity
BYS - Pouty Purple
Collection 2000 - Teeny Bikini
Models Own - Golden Peach
Yes Love - Neon Green
Barry M - Unkown Red ( free with a magazine about a year ago)

I used two coats of White On first, so the colours would pop, and then starting doing the lines, some of the colours have two coats to make the colours really opaque. Majority of the lines aren't srtaight, and for some reason my "bad" hand had the straighter lines, but you can't really tell after I stamped them.

Hope you like :]