A bit of nail art!

I haven't posted any nail art for aaages so it's about time! I am really pleased with this one!

So for this I painted my ring and little fingers with Picture Polish Fairy Floss and dabbed using The Nailasaurus' gradiant technique (with a lot of extra dabbing because it didn't work the first time :p) over the bottom of those two nails with Cult Nails Love at First Sight and painted the other two nails with the same.

Now I have to inform you of the awesomeness that is MoYou. Their plates are amazing, their stampers are squishy and a good size, the prices are brilliant and best of all it's an English company :D Here I used the edge of the tree on Suki Plate 01 and some of the flowers along the bottom in Barry M Matt White. 

Then I added some finishing touches, a bit of Barry M Pink Iridescent dabbed over the bottom of the last two nails, a gem and a few little silver studs from the NPW Rock Chick Stud Wheel.   

Hope you like!

Christmas Jumper Nails

Even though I have some much more exciting posts I'm posting this one sooner seeing as it's waaay past Christmas :p These Christmas jumper type nails were always on my list of nails I have to do at some point, I had tried to freehand them but then MoYou came along!

Right I did these at Christmas and apparently didn't write down what I used and how many coats etc. so I might be off a bit. I painted all nails in two coats (I think!) of Ciate Boudoir (I'm pretty sure). Then I painted over all of them with a coat of Calvin Klein Hallucinate. Then on the ring finger I used a coat of Barry M's limited edition Christmas polish (that I bought the Christmas before :p).

And finally I stamped over each nail with different stamps from the MoYou Festive Collection plate 04 in Barry M Matte White.

I loooove them! 

It's slightly after Christmas now but I hope you all had a good one :p

Valentine's Nails

I'm already a bit late so I have to post this now :p I couldn't miss out Valentine's day nails, so many possibilities! But I decided to go obvious and went with lots and lots of hearts :D

First I painted all nails with two coats of Picture Polish Fairy Floss. Then I stamped all nails with MoYou Mother Nature plate 01 in Ciate Kiss Chase. Oo oo that reminds me, I treated myself to the Ciate Advent Calendar last year, it was brilliant and now I have all these beauties!

So for the middle nail I wanted to try a negative space nail that I saw on One Nail to Rule Them All's blog. I painted on a heart using Barry M Matte White and a dotting tool, which took me fooorever! Then used a cotton bud and acetone to remove the polish in the middle of the heart, which also took me ages :p 

Then I topped each nail with a coat of Seche Vite and that's all she wrote! 

Of course I had to matte them...

Cute! :D My negative nail is obviously nowhere near as good as on One Nail to Rule Them All but not too bad for a first try! 

Soo did anyone get anything nice for valentine's? My boyfriend got me the perfume I love before disappearing off on holiday for almost a month, I think he was trying to distract me with pretty things :p Tata for now!

Fandom Cosmetics Justice League Collection Part One

Well hello! While I'm taking a small break from my nails to sort out my room I thought I'd post the first half of Fandom Cosmetics' Justice League collection. I was going to do all four in one post but I have half ready and thought why not! 

I loooove superheroes so I just had to get this, I made myself stop at DC but I might get the Marvel one eventually :p 

I am the Night

I am the Night is a clear polish with black, grey and yellow circles, black bar glitter and small black hexagonal glitter. I love the version of the suit it's based on, it matches my Lego Batman phone case!

This is one coat of La Femme grey cream from ebay with two coats of I am the Night. No fishing was needed because it's so packed! I couldn't see much of the black bar glitter when I painted it on but looking at the picture I can see there's plenty! 

I own an embarrassing amount of Batman things so I'll stop at my Batarang :p My only problem with the polish is that it was quite hard to get circles off afterwards, but as I always say I don't do the foil technique properly so it is probably just me!

Now let's take a moment to appreciate the awesomeness of Christian Bale!

He is too cool!

Son of Jor-El

I don't have any Superman things to pose with so I decided to do a bit of nail art with this one. I can't tell you how much I love this polish, it's just gorgeous! It is another clear polish with three different shades of blue holographic hexagonal glitters, yellow circles and biiig red circles. Very cleverly based on the suits and SO packed full of glitter! This is one coat of Barry M Navy with two coats of Son of Jor-El, there was no fishing needed at all but I did need to place the circles a bit, only because there were so many coming out at a time (which is definitely a good thing!). 

For the ring finger I painted half with Barry M Navy and the other with Barry M Raspberry using striping tape to separate them. Then I painted the Navy half with two coats of Son of Jor-El and lined the middle with NPW gold studs with a dotting tool. 

And all topped with a coat of Seche Vite. 

So there you have the first two of the DC collection, these guys are next :p

Hope you like them! Do you have a favourite superhero? :D

Pics: Fandom Cosmetics Justice League Collection, I'm Batman, I have all the characteristics of a human being, Oh my god it even has a watermark!, Are you watching closely?, I just wanna sleep, Yes Mr Wayne it does come in black, Chest of Ste-I mean Man of Steel, Lego Justice League

Nyan Cat Nails

In case you don't already know Nyan Cat, he is a poptart cat with a rainbow trail who flies through space, of course! Here is the song you will have in your head all night:

I've wanted to do nails of this for aaages and recently got some glequins from the Born Pretty Store so I thought that would be a good way to try them!

This was my first time using glequins so be nice! :p I painted all nails with Barry M Navy, then painted on the cat using acrylic paint (funnily enough I've had a box of acrylic paint sitting in a wardrobe for years and thought they were watercolours so I didn't think to try them for my nails, so much easier than trying to paint over dark varnishes with lighter ones!). I painted a white square and the side of the face in white first to make sure the other colours stood out from the blue.

Then I put a bit of clear polish on where I wanted the glequins to go (I did a colour at a time rather than each nail) then dabbed the dotting tool in the polish to pick up the glequins and stuck them on.

That took me sooo long, I don't know if it was the dotting tool or the clear polish but it took a while to pick the glequins up. And by the way they get everywhere, I had to change my bed sheets and had this going on under that first picture :p

Have you tried to get glitter off your hands, especially in this heat??

Overall I'm happy with them, I need more practice with the glequins though! They came off pretty easily with cotton wool and polish remover (a few pinged off before that so use two coats of top coat!), the acrylic paint needed the foil technique to get off.

Hope you like! Are you a fan of the Nyan?





Video: Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan
Pic: You'll thank me later

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

South Park Nails

This is another one from the saved manis while my nails are growing back. South Park is hilarious and I did my usual thing of going back to episode one and watching every episode a few months ago which inspired this :p I'm not sure why I only took one picture but it might be because their eyes are all a bit funny!

This one was easy-ish to do but it just took forever! I painted them all with Cult Nails Enticing as a sort of skin colour, then used a dotting tool and freehand to do the hats/hood (too many colours to list!) and the Barry M pens in black and white to do the eyes (whites and pupils), mouths, Kyle's eyebrows and Cartman's chins :p I have to say I love this one :D

Unfortunately that's the only pic I have of this one, but I do have another interesting one. When I did this I was still using the foil technique (but without foil, now I use one of these sponge things) to take off my polish so it would always come off onto the cotton wool the same as it was on my nails...

That just makes me laugh :p 

And that is that, short post today so here are some Cartman gifs, woop!

Pics: All from here

Nicole by OPI

As Sid would say, all right! Double prizes!

There was no gif for the double prizes bit, boooo!

Anywho, as it took me so long to post my last update with trying to do it at work during lunch (the signal is terrible) I wanted to do another post. So I shall be showing the two polishes I've got from Nicole by OPI, Alex by the Books and Am I Making Myself Claire? 

I was minding my own business when I stumbled across this in Superdrug:

Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, Batman!

I've been a follower of Chit Chat Nails for a long time and had been lusting after Alex by the Books after seeing her post on it, so of course I had to buy it and it's just silly to only buy one polish. So I also picked up Am I Making Myself Claire? They're both from the Modern Family collection (which I don't watch but I can still enjoy the polish right...right??)

So the lavly Alex by the Books is a yummy shiny green.

I just love how OPI goes on, the first coat (or two) seems quite patchy, then the next coat evens it all out and it looks gorgeous. One of the main reasons I always go back to OPI (and Essie) is the wide brush, it makes it so much easier to apply and I'm also loving the shape of these bottles!

I believe this was two coats (over a normal basecoat) and a coat of Seche Vite although it was pretty shiny without it. Once more for the kids:

Moving on, Am I Making Myself Claire? is a sha-weet creamy, dusty purple.

Loooove it. This was also just two coats with Seche Vite. 

Obligatory bottle shot...

I used up all my words on Alex by the Books :p But this was also really easy to apply, a bit of a patchy first coat but levelled out on the second. I should add that the patchiness issue could just be my lack of skillz but it still looks lavly in the end.

I did a little bit of nail art with this one but not enough to give it a separate post so I shall share it here

For this I used a Born Pretty Store heart shaped stud (from he-arr, those hearts are gold but I got silver ones!) and a dotting tool (see heeere) for the dots coming off the heart. I used OPI Anti Bleak, OPI You're Such a Budapest (I think! I normally write this stuff down but I didn't for this for some unknown reason, apologies!) and Sally Hansen Showgirl Chic. Showgirl Chic is also used on the little finger. I thought it looked pretty cute. The heart is a bit too flat though so it pinged off quite soon afterwards :p

Well longest post ever, thanks for reading!

Pics: Sid