RAINBOW STARS!

Happy Sunday! I hope you've all had a lovely weekend and I wish you a very good week to come. 

Todays nails are made up of a few of my favourite things, namely rainbows, stars and nail vinyls! 

To do these nails I started with 2 coats of Essence white stamping polish which is a great white nail polish, I then used these awesome star nail vinyl stencils from She Sells Seashells to paint on the rainbow stars. Now let me attempt to name all the colours! 

The red is OPI The Thrill Of Brazil, the orange is China Glaze Stoked To Be Soaked, yellow is Color Club Almost Famous, green is Illamasqua Elope (I think), light blue is I can't remember what it is! the darker blue is Barry M Gelly in Blue Grape, lilac is Barry M Gelly in Prickly Pear and finally the dark purple is  OPI Funky Dunkey. 

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DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?

Happy Friday guys, have you got any nice plans for the weekend? I'll be spending my weekend studying and I'm expecting some very exciting nail mail which I hope to have swatched and posted this weekend for you guys :)

So Frozen. I went to go and watch it back in January and my friend is obsessed with the songs, seriously she sings them all day, even when we're being blown off Mount Snowdon! Haha, so with that song ringing in my ears I decided to do some Olaf nails, because how could I not? 

To begin with I applied two coats of  Kiko 340 and then used Color Club Chelsea Girl and Kiko 340 and a makeup sponge to do a gradient on all my nails, I applied one coat of Claire's Fluffy (which I reviewed here) and drew Olaf on my middle finger. 

'Hi I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs'

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FLUORESCENT NEON GREEN & BLUE GRADIENT NAILS

Hey guys, any one out there craving summer? Well these nails are for you :) I suggest you go and grab your sunnies before continuing.                                    Got them? Ok good.

So I have been meaning to do a blue and green gradient for ages and decided to try it out a while ago and well why not use neon colours? So for these I used China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard and Color Club Chelsea Girl (I think) and to top it all off I added a coat of Illamasqua Swarm because it's awesome!

This was so gorgeous in real life (if I may say so myself) and the colours looked amazing but this was an absolute pain in the derriére to photograph so I have had to fiddle with the colours in gimp which is why my fingers look a rather funny colour!

Look at the macro shot, don't you just LOVE it!! 

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SWARM OF BEES

Hey guys, how are you? I'm so happy it's Friday, it feels like it's been a really long day!

 So when I got Illamasqua Swarm this idea popped into my head and it's only recently I got round to trying it out! 

I did 2 coats of Color Club Almost Famous on all the nails except the middle finger where I applied Kiko 340. I then used one medium coat of Swarm on all the nails except the middle finger where I used acrylic paint to paint on a beehive and used Swarm for 'bees' 

This just screams summer to me :) 

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SUPER HOLOGRPAHIC & SPARKLY RED GLITTER NAILS!

Hi my beautiful friends, how are you all today? Are you happy it's Friday tomorrow? I am :)

Ok, so when I saw these nails I fell in love and I knew I'd have to recreate them on ma nails and so here you go !

I applied two coats of Color Club Ruby Slippers and then placed the red holographic glequin discs on to the nail before applying one coat of Gelous and 2 coats of Essence Better Than Gel Sealer which helped get a smooth finish, unfortunately on my middle finger I had a tiny edge of glitter which stuck up and wouldn't lay flat and it drove me crazy! Other than that though I really really loved these nails!

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ILLAMASQUA SWARM SWATCHES

Hey guys, I'm really sorry I haven't posted this week but it has been an exhausting week! Thankfully things look like they're settling down for the rest of the week!

Anyway so if you follow me on Instagram you probably saw I treated myself to some Illamasqua, as you may already know Illamasqua is my favourite nail polish brand, I love their colours, the formulas, the customer service and the way they always interact with bloggers on various social media platforms! The hard part is choosing which colour to get, I have 40 Illamasquas in my collection so it's not always easy choosing which colour to get! Anyway enough rambling, lets talk nails.

One of the polishes that I've had my eye on for a while is Illamasqua Swarm, so I treated myself to a bottle when I got my exam results and all I can say is I love it !

I have a lot of pictures to show you so please click on the link below to read more and see some macro pictures too :)

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STRAW DIPPED NAILS & A TUTORIAL

Hey guys, how are you all?

So the other day when I was climbing into bed I was struck by nailspiration! Using a straw to make circles on the nails, how cool would that be? Anyways the next day I'd forgotten all about it until I sat at my nail desk and saw a straw in my pen pot (don't ask!)

I decided to try it out and well I love it, it's really simple and easy to do and I've created a tutorial to help you. 

For this design I used Illamasqua Load for the base colours and then used Illamasqua Grab, Urban Outfitters  Bandeau and Color Club Chelsea Club. 

Click on the read more to see the tutorial. 

Click on to see the tutorial

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NEON MINT & HOLO PURPLE CIRCLE GLEQUINS

Hey guys, how was your day? Mine was busy but I used a bone saw today and cut through somebody's mandible (not a living person!)

Anywho so I'm still quite liking neons so I used Color Club Twiggie and holo purple circle glequins for the rest of the details and then applied a generous coat of topcoat.  

I love it ! I love glequins & glitter placement :)

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NEON NAILS IN WINTER!

Hi guys, I don't know about you but I always feel weird typing up a post without saying hi to you all first! Lol

So I don't let the current trends, weather etc. dictate what I wear on my nails, if I want to wear eye searingly bright colours in winter I will, but often when the colder months come I do feel like wearing darker vampier shades!

So the other day I was looking at my Color Club Poptastic Set and decided I wanted to wear Wham! Pow! (orange) and Warhol (pink). I did an accent with Warhol and then just to tie it all together I added a single gold diamond glequin in the middle of each nail and voila! 

Let me just tell you that this was so bright my nails were glowing, you can kind of see some glowiness around the orange in the pictures but yeah.

I love orange and pink together and I love how the simple gold glequin just brings it all together! Do you like wearing neon colours in winter or do you prefer the darker, vampier colours?

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