French Manicure

Hi all,

This is a crazy crazy week for me for free time, so I'm not sure how much I will be able to post, this is a lovely little french manicure I did for my bestie Dom's mum, and I'm doing her nails again tonight so will post those soon too.

Base Coat: CND - Sticky

Base Colour: Essie - Muchi Muchi

Tip Colour: Rimmel - French White

Stickers: Nailene

I'm hoping to be back some time soon with some christmasy nails. Hope you're having a good week so far!

Nailtopia - Zombie Doll Nail Stickers

Hi all

Friday - Yeeeee!

Now, these are some of the photos I was bummed about "losing" from my laptop, but looking on another memory card I found them. I was mainly bummed cause I really wanted to post these prior to Halloween, as now you can't even buy them anymore.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Essie - Navigate Her & Catrice - Shake it! Flake It!

Nail Stickers: Nailtopia - Zombie Doll

Top Coat: Nailtopia Top Coat

 And here's the sheet of nail stickers:

My other hand had different stickers on also, was really cute but I can't take photos of my right hand for shit!

Hope you all have a good weekend!

Nailtopia Shining Stars Review

Hi my lovelies, happy Sunday! I'm not working tomrorow so I actually mean that :P

Today I have a little review of Nailtopia Shining Stars which, I will be honest, are my favourites from the bunch I got sent which you can see here.

When I started this mani I decided that I wasn't going to use stickers on all the nails, just three on each hand (middle, ring and thumb). I personally love the look, but my mum wasn't so keen!

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Models Own - Peach Sherbet

Glitter: Sinful Colors - Paris

Stickers: Nailtopia Shining Stars

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

It was honestly one of the hardest things ever trying to capture the glitter on these stars as they're so sparkly, the texture of them is a little bit like fabric so you get a real depth to the glitter too.

I decided to try and cut these so I didn't have a massive gap on the sides of my nails etc, and it worked out perfectly, they were really easy to cut, and it didn't damage the stickers at all.

See what I mean about fabric-like? It gives the glitter such a great pay off.

Peach Sherbet had actually been on my buy list for quite some time. When it comes to a few different colours I'm mega fussy about the particular shade, I have plenty of peaches in my stash, but this is perfect for this type of look, and I just love Models Own cremes!

Hope you've all had a good weekend so far. I've spent most of mine being gloomy, but I'm off to see The 1975 later so I'm sure that will perk me up!

*Nail stickers were sent to me for consideration of review*

Nailtopia Nail Stickers

Hi all, happy Monday.

Today I'm showing you some gorgeous nail stickers that Nailtopia kindly sent me. She sent me three different styles of stickers, and my favourites are still to come.

These were really easy to use, and the gold really really pops. Click here to buy the nail stickers i'm showing today.

In this picture you can clearly see the ridge of the sticker, but to the human eye you can't tell at all. The texture of the gold parts looks like metal and they almost glitter.

Thats all from me today, I shall be back with some stamping soon :]

Christmas Nails & Christmas Goodies

Today we have the nails I wore for Christmas Day, and the nail goodies that Santa brought me. :D Quick post today, but I should be back to the usual blogging after all my festive cheer is gone :P

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: China Glaze - Millennium
Nail Art Pens: Red & Green
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

 These were a bit rushed, and botched for my liking, but after doing my Cousin, my Aunt, and my Mam's nails I ran out of energy and just couldn't be bothered :/ I was going to do a different design on each nail but I kept knocking the different base colours, and then they all took different times to dry so I decided on a Chrome, just because they take no time to dry!

 Mini Haul!!! Santa was so good to me this year, especially Scotty-Santa. He went a bit crazy with it all :P But don't get me wrong, I appreciate that he likes to buy me nail stuff ^_^ He bought me the Beetle Juice collection, the Konad special polishes, the Konad plates, the Konad book of ideas, the China Glaze, the O.P.I. and a 4 set of O.P.I mini Muppets Holiday 2011 collection. Such a lucky girl ^_^ The rest of the goodies are from friends and family.

Looking forward to trying out that pink, it's more neon in real life.

Looking forward to this plate :D

I think the full size konad is a dark plum colour, but I'm not positive. Can't wait to try the white though!

Can't wait to try these beauties!!!

Blue Gradient, Stars & Snowflakes

I said the other day in this post that I was going to use snowflake nail stickers, but couldn't find them, but then I did find them :P today is a post using those decals. Thinking about it, these decals were bought as part of a Christmas present from my mother, 4 years ago, with my first ever roll of striping tape! I got a lot of nail stickers that time, and got my gingerbread men and candy canes too, best stickers ever!! Recently that striping tape when missing, after it came off the plastic middle it was attached to.. maybe I'll find it next week hehe.

On to the nails :]

Bad photo but I felt like a bottle shot :] L-R: Nubar - 2010 G188, Mac Glitter In White (I Think), Rimmel - Disco Ball, Essence - Speed Of Light Blue

It still makes me LOL every time I read "Just stick on your nail and you will be attractive"

I started with two coats of Rimmel - French Rose, and then sponged on Essence - Speed Of Light Blue, I then added one coat of Rimmel - Disco Ball to the full nail, Nubar - 2010 to half the nail, and pressed in a little loose glitter when it was slightly tacky. When that was dry I used the 5 point single stars, and snowflakes from the pack of Tina stickers. The different types of glitter, and flakes are more noticeable in real life, the flakies give it a nice glow in certain lights ^_^ I think this is my best gradient to date :]

Almost Christmas!!! :D

Beauty UK & Nailene Star Stickers

Just a quickie. I may be a little busy this month with Halloween preparations, but I'm still gonna try and do my nails the usual amount despite already ruining one mani earlier while sanding ¬_¬

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Beauty UK - Purple
Stars: Nailene Stickers
Top Coat: China Glaze No Chip Top Coat

The polish is probably 2 years old, so i'm not sure if thy stock it anymore. It's quite sheer, but it builds nicely. In person I wouldn't agree with "Purple" and more of a dark berry red.

Niece's Nails & My Half Moon Mani With Nailene Stickers

I've been meaning to do a post about this for a while now. Somewhere around the start of August my brother came over with his girlfriend and her daughter, and when she saw me doing my nails, you could tell she wanted hers done too. She picked the polish and the image plate, which was a plate full of tips, but she has teeny tiny nails so the whole thing covered her nails. Painting tiny nails isn't so easy! Not my best handy work.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: BYS - Voodoo Violet (1 Coat)
Stamp Colour: N.Y.C.- Techno Foil
Plate: Bundle Monster BM220
Top Coat: Rimmel - 10 Day wear

And on to my nails! She sent me some Nailene stickers for my birthday. Which I got after I was done house sitting, so I wanted to do a mani with them :]

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colours: George - Cloudless Sky & BYS - Pouty Purple
Nailene Stickers
& I Used Hole Reinforcement Stickers

Pink Glitter & Flower Stickers.

More pink times. Not a massive fan of this look. But I've had these flower stickers for at least a year and a half without using them.

Base: CND - Stickey
Base Colour:Models Own - Pastel Pink
Glitter: Barry M - 264 - Pink Irridescent
Stickers: Bought from Sally's I believe

 

They're a bit chunky looking. But I haven't got a top coat on, so I suppose that would smooth the edges out.