Zebra OMG Nail Strips

Hi all.

I'm still plodding along on my family computer, and iPhone pics, but I'm not missing too many mani's so it's not that bad!

Today I'm reviewing some nail wraps from OMG Nail Strips, the ones I'm wearing here are called Psychedelic Zebra which are a really fun and bold design.

Now the previous nail wraps I have tried were quite difficult to trim (and you guys know I have slim-ish nails, and freaking tiny little finger nails), but with these strips it was really quite easy to trim, and really easy to file the excess off the nail too. All in all the application of these was really easy, positioning the wrap near the cuticle was easy enough to do even though the glue is really great, and these lasted perfectly for four days until I changed my nails up.

Psychedelic Zebra Nail Strips

Top Coat: Sally Hansen - Advanced Hard As Nails

And these are the strips that OMG Nail Strips sent me to try out. I still haven't tried the checkerboard ones, I think I may save them for when I'm low on time but need a long lasting mani.

*These were sent to me for consideration of review*

Saran Wrap Base - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi everyone, happy Sunday and all that :]

I hope everyone's doing good. I've had nice lazy chilled weekend, ready for the chaos of the week ahead.

This week's challenge for Adventures In Stamping - We Stamp On Sundays is to stamp over a saran wrap (clingfilm) base. When I started painting my nails I knew I wanted to do pastel, so I picked up one of the palest polishes from my 'untried' tub and went from there.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Models Own - Banana Split

Saran Colours: Purple Professional - 53 & 55

Stamping Colour: W7 - Blue Lagoon

Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM 313

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

 Here's the saran wrap base using Purple 53 & 55 over Models Own - Banana Split

Swatch of Banana Split & What I used:

Banana Split was the first scented polish of two I've tried and I wasn't that impressed. Formula was kind of normal for yellows like his, crelly like, but the scent just didn't last an hour. Which is very disappointing as I've had scented polishes that last until they come off. Nevertheless, very pretty yellow, perfect as a base which is why I bought it - so I can't complain too much.

How do you guys like the saran wrap method? I really love doing it, it always reminds me of stone. and it's so so easy.

Til next time!

Green, Purple And Gold Animal Print

Hi all. Happy Sunday.

Not taking part in Adventures In Stamping this weekend as I haven't got a clue what to do for it!

These were meant to post yesterday but after having a lush little trip to Seahouses (clicky here) on the Friday  & Saturday and seeing Despicable Me 2 as soon as I got back into Newcastle there was no way I had the energy to do anything but be lazy and snug.

I did these the start of May which is crazy! I loved wearing these though, and they were were definitely more interesting to look at in real life as the stripe of flakies shifting colour broke up the nail completely.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: W7 - Mauve Suede & Cutex - Sweet Pea

Flakies: Golden Rose Scale Effects - 13

Stamping Colour: Barry M - Gold Foil

Image Plate: Konad M60

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Better representation of the colours here.

Before Stamping

Above is two coats of the gorgeous Mauve Suede, I could have got away with just the one if I was more careful about coverage. Below is two coats that has a little of hand lotion on so it's not as matte as it normally is.

And for good measure he's a couple pictures from Friday night when myself and Amy were running along the beach like loons trying to catch the sunset!

Hope you've all had a great weekend like I have!

Over A Lilac Base - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all, happy Sunday! Happy bank holiday weekend to my UK peeps. It doesn't make much of a difference to me as I've not been working Mondays for the last month. Still the weather is pretty nice out, so I'm going to grab an hour lazing in the sun reading :D

This week I've actually made time for the challenge over at Adventures In Stamping and I'm hoping to keep this up as I've missed doing these weekly challenges.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: Models Own - Utopia & Lilac Dream, Catrice - Dirty Berry

Stamping Colour: Miss Sporty - Raindrop

Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM313

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Here's the base before stamping:

I started with two coats of Utopia and then dabbed all the colours randomly onto a piece of sponge to create the subtle mix. I had hoped Raindrop would've stamped a little more opaque, but I like the colour combo anyways.

And here's what I used:

L-R, Models Own - Utopia, Lilac Dream (in China Glaze bottle), Catrice - Dirty Berry, Miss Sporty - Raindrop

Hope you've all had a good weekend so far :]

Over Orange - We Stamp On Sundays

Happy Sunday :]

Bit of a late post today but it seems like my day's just slipped away from me, and I've been on slow motion for a few hours now.

This week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping was to stamp over orange. As soon as orange was decided as the winner I knew I wanted to do tiger nails as it's been a bit of a while.

I started with a base of Kiko - Melon and used the rough side of a kitchen sponge to dab on Essence Colour3 - Dancing In The Street and Alessandro - Pomegranate. Pomegranate looks a little pinker than it is when it's next to the other two colours. Then I added a top coat, and stamped with Bundle Monster BM223 with BYS - Black Satin and added another top coat.

Base Coat: OPI - Nail Envy

Base Colour: Kiko - Melon

Other Colours: Alessandro - Pomegranate & Essence Colour3 - Dancing In The Street

Stamp Colour: BYS - Black Satin

Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM223

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

And here's some pictures of the base before stamping. I only remembered to take photos after stamping one nail!

And here's what I used:

Hope you've all had a good weekend, mine has gone far too quick!

Purple Gradient & Purple Zebra

Hi all! Happy Tuesday :]

Today I have a mani for you that's a couple of months old, these in theory should've been quite something, but I rushed it so I had some free time to spend with someone who (turns out) didn't deserve it. Should've spent more time on my nails!

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Gradient Colours: Models Own - Utopia

Manhattan Lotus Effect - 67N

Stamp Colour: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Grape Escape

Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM 223

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Hope you're all having a good Tuesday! :]

Fesitve Leopard Print

Hi everyone! Officially a week until Christmas *squee*

I'm still wishing it will snow, but I doubt it :( it would totally make if for me if it did. But still; I'm looking forward to the family, the banter at the dinner table, the food, the drinkies ;] and all the bits in between :D Is anyone else excited?

These nails were inspired by a post I seen about a week and a half back, and I can not remember for the life of me from where :( So if you know where I got this idea please let me know!

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Barry M - Gold Foil

Stamping Plate: Konad M57

Image Colour: BYS - Black Satin

Dotted Colours: Barry M - Red Glitter & NOPI - Fell From The Tree

Accent Glitter: Barry M - Yellow Topaz Glitter

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

I took these photos at work, using my coworkers SAD lamp as the light source, I'm still not used to it, and I was leaning all the way over my desk, so next time I'm gonna try and pay more attention so not to get shaky pics.

The Gold/Holographic glitter is one of the new ones I've recently purchased from Barry M - I'll have a post up tomorrow showing the four I recently bought on some sort of glitter binge :D It's a really lovely mix though. Micro holo glitter, small gold and holo glitter, and medium gold and holo glitter, very sparkly in real life.

I hope everyone's having a good Tuesday so far!

Turtle Shell Stamping With Essie - Navigate Her, And Essence - Choose Me!

Hi all! Happy Tuesday!

It's probably a weird Tuesday for me, as I'll be working, which isn't the norm, that said, it means this is a scheduled post, so I hope everything goes out okay.

Today we have the First Essie I ever tried (I wore it a day plain when I first bought it) I'm just so impressed with the Formulas on all the Essies I've tried, and this is such a beautiful green!

Onto the stamping though! I stamped over Essie - Navigate her with Essence - Choose Me! Which came to me by the lovely Susana in our first swap. I say first, as we've just done our second, and I'll be posting about that maybe tomorrow! I stamped with images from Bundle Monster BM 313.

Base Coat: La Femme

Base Colour: Essie - Navigate Her

Stamp Colour: Essence - Choose Me!

Image Plate: Bundle Monster, BM313

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

  

This is how much the little flecks shone

And here's a swatch shot of Navigate Her, two coats, no top coat.

What do you think of these? I loved wearing them =D

Elf Desert Haze Gold And Brown Leopard Print

Hey all.. Simple Leopard print today. I'm still trying to catch up with all the mani's I've done but haven't posted, so these are from a few weeks ago. I've done this combo before on a nail set, but with Models Own - Nude Beige, and I think the warmth of that shade helps tone down the brassy look of the Citadel Paint, so I'm not fully a fan of these. But I like them matte =]

Base Coat: Nai RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: ELF - Desert Haze
Stamp Colour: W7 - Suede
Image Plate: Konad M57
Gold: Citadel - Shining Gold
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

Elf - Desert Haze, 2 coats

And here's the basee colour, the first Elf I've ever tried; and I loved it. The formula was so great, and dried so quickly! I think it's my favourite nude right now. Then I added a coat of Rimmel - Matte Finish.

Hope everyone's had an okay day.

Unnatural Animals - We Stamp On Sundays

So because I got a bit behind on this week I had majority of yesterday to plan something to do. I had thought to do something inspired by a pair of socks I own, but they are leopard print, and I'd done leopard print recently so that idea was scrapped. Then I settled on some sort of rainbow cow print, but they turned out pants. So I settled on rainbow zebra or tiger, even though I used the stamp a couple of weeks back :P

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Sally Hansen - White On
Stamping Colours: Rimmel - Purple Reign
                              Clubworks - Neon orange & Pink
                              Deborah - Turquoise Fever
                              Miss Sporty - 346
                              George - Buttercup
Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM223
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

 

I started with a base of white, and used my usual mixing method for multicoloured stamping. As always on Sunday; here's what I used :]

Can't even describe how fun these are :D I keep staring at my nails. I think I'm going to wear these until I have the serious itch to change my mani. Hope everyone's having a good Sunday! :]

Acid Leopard

These are actually from a few months back, and I'm not sure why I haven't posted them, as It's really not like me. I like posting things in the order I do them :P

This was my first time using a real konad stamping polish (this was before I used Konad White), and I was not expecting there to be so much of a difference between special polishes and regular ones. I had to re-do a lot of nails because of the smearing that occurred. Usually when I stamp, the image that's transferred is already dry within a few seconds, but with the special polish I had to actually wait before top coating, and be more careful with the brush strokes. The nails that I had to re-do were a total, total streak fest. Every little bit was streaked and smeared! Urgh!

Oddly though I don't have this problem with Konad White, so maybe It's just because this colour was so pigmented.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Clubworks - Neon Green
Stamp Colour: Konad Special Polish - Red Wine (I Think)
Image Plate: Konad M57
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

 

I personally love these. The base is such a weird acid 80's vomit green, and with the wine red combo, it's so wrong it's right in my books!

Stamping Over A Gradient - We Stamp On Sundays

This week over at Adventures In Stamping the voting was a draw. This was between stamping over a gradient, and stamping using two images. So I actually voted for using two images, but I already had this mani done before the voting began... and I'm having a horrible lazy blah everything sucks day, so this is the mani you're getting!

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Essence - Speed Of Light Blue
Sponging Colours: Models Own - Pastel Pink & George - Mischeif
Glitter: Rimmel - Disco Ball
Stamp Colour: BYS - Black Satin
Image Plate: Bundle Monster 223
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

 

 And a pic of the gradient before the glitter & before the stamp.

I loooooved wearing this mani. The daylight was beyond crappy for photo taking though. And most of these photos turned out a little fuzzy =/

 Here's The plate I used & the polishes used also :]

I hope everyone's had an alright Sunday.