Showing posts with label Essie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essie. Show all posts

Friday, 12 July 2013

Delush Polish Forever Young

Happy Fridayyyy!




Today's mani is the lovely Forever Young by Delush Polish as tips over Essie's Where's my Chauffeur?



For this I painted all nails in two coats of Where's my Chauffeur?, one coat of Seche Vite over that, then I painted the ring finger nail all in Forever Young (I could probably have done without the Essie under it seeing as it covered up my whole swatch stick in only two coats!) and used striping tape to mark out the tips then painted Forever Young on top. 

Forever Young is sooo pretty, it's quite thick and white in two coats which reminds me of snow and makes me feel all Christmasy, not that it ever snows at Christmas, but wearing this makes me think of wooly cardis, especially Martin Freeman's big red cardi in Nativity



Sigh...Anywho, this polish is interesting because in normal light and flash you can see white small and square glitters. The above is without flash and this is with:




But when you get it into some sunlight you can see the pretty blue glitters too :D



Pretty special! Plus it also has lovely big red hearts in it. I had to dig a bit for the hearts but I hadn't kept the bottle upside down for a while so it was my own fault. Other than that it goes on really well, I purposely used thick coats but it looks really cute as one thin coat too.

Hope you like!





Pics: Neat...click, Sparkle and shiii-iiine

Sunday, 9 June 2013

Django Nails

Django Unchained is one of my favourite films by the coolest director, I just had to give the nails a go! 





I based them on the main poster:












I'll admit I did cheat, I used the black Barry M pen rather than painting them on, but using the pen took me long enough so there's no way I would've been able to paint it! Here are some close-ups, I prefer them matted:






Apologies for the crap cuticles, not sure why I left them like that! 

So for this I used Essie's Snap Happy as a base, I've never found a proper one coater until Snap Happy! Then I sponged on some black because the poster is kind of grainy, but I think it's just made them look a bit dirty, well the thought was there. Then I drew on the chains with the black Barry M pen. I used Seche Vite for the shiny one and the matte top coat from the Born Pretty Store. I recommend the film by the way, it's brilliant! This has got to be my favourite still of any film ever:




Such a cool dude! And don't get me started on Schultz, I could make a whole other blog on that guy :p 

Ciao for now!