WATERCOLOUR BUBBLE NAILS

Hey guys, so it's Sunday night again :( but I have some watercolour nails to share with you today! 

I saw this design on instagram and fell in love with it but was a bit apprehensive about trying this technique out, but I'm really glad I did because it's super easy to do! I've also made a tutorial for you guys but I will post that in another post probably tomorrow.

I used the Deco Art acrylic paints again and Essence white stamping polish. 

Tweet Pin It

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. 

Tweet Pin It

ESSENCE A HINT OF LOVE

Hey guys, I hope you've all had a lovely weekend! 

Tonight I have another pretty polish from Essence to show you. This is A Hint Of Love*, it's a gorgeous pinky red glass fleck polish which just glows! 

I used 2 coats and even though you can see a bit of vnl in the pictures it's not there irl. 

Ok, so that's it for today, I hope you have a lovely Monday and I shall see you in my next post :)

Tweet Pin It

ESSENCE ORCHID GRADIENT NAILS

Hi guys, Yaay it's Saturday (well nearly Sunday now!) :D 

Today I have some more gradient nails to show you and I absolutely love them! 

For these nails I used Essence Purple Sugar and Break Through to do the gradient, these colours just blended together so flawlessly and just looked so gorgeous together! 

I decided to take it one step further and add some glitter because I you know I always do, teehee! I used the lovely Maybelline Top Splatter (Precious Pearl in the US I believe)

Tweet Pin It

ESSENCE NAIL ART TATOO PEN REVIEW

Hey guys, I'm super tired but I have a day off tomorrow yay! 

Today I have a quick review of the nail art pen* from Essence. I'd been eyeing this up for a while and finally picked it up from at the Blogger event. 

This has a plastic tip and is shaped just like a pen and you have to press it down a few times to get the ink flowing and then your good to go, it's the same type of pen as the Barry M one. 

So, I had issues with the ink flowing, I had to press down loads to get the ink flowing to begin with and then my main issue was that it didn't flow evenly and consistently, it kept stopped and then I had to press it down again several times and then it would just do a huge blob and yeah so it caused quite a few issues. I decided to the triangle design below because it would show you how well it did fine lines and blocks.

I sturuggled using this to be honest, it doesn't look like it did too bad in the pictures but it was frustrating to do and it took a while to get it looking like this. 

I used Essence Love Me Cupcake* as a base colour. 

This is only £1.99 but I wouldn't recommend it (sorry Essence) this is the first Essence product which doesn't live up to the companies high quality reputation and other products. 

The Barry M pen is much easier to use and I'd recommend you go and get one of those if your looking for a new nail art pen. 

Tweet Pin It

ESSENCE CANDY LOVE LACE NAILS

Hey guys, how are you all? How's your day been? I think I'm becoming ill yet again, this is so weird because I'm normally never ill or if I am it's only once a year but this year in the past 3 months this is the 3rd time I'm becoming ill :( 

Anywho I have recently been infatuated with lace nails and since I discovered I can actually paint something on my nails which resembles lace, it's all I've been doing! 

So for these nails I used this gorgeous Essence polish in Candy Love* and then used black acrylic paint to paint on the detail on my ring finger. 

Tweet Pin It

GREEN GRADIENT CHEVRON NAILS & TUTORIAL

Hi everyone, I hope you've all had a lovely weekend! I haven't really done anything, just getting stuff ready and organised for uni, but the weekend has gone way too fast! 

So today I have some gradient effect chevron nails to show you, I love how these look and they are so simple to do as well so I've added a tutorial in this post, if you want to see how I did these just click the 'read more' button below all the pictures :) 

Tweet Pin It

SUNRISE GRADIENT NAILS

Hey guys, today I have a nice easy gradient to share with you guys. This colour gradient has been on my to do list for ages and when I had the Essence colours lined up on my desk it was the perfect opportunity. 

I used, from the cuticle upwards, Essence Wanna Be My Sunshine, Flashy Pumpkin, Redvolution and Femme Fatale.  I then topped it all off with one coat of Dance Legend Argus, I wiped most of it off the brush because it's quite dense. 

Tweet Pin It

ESSENCE STAMPING

Hey guys, so like I said the other day I am back at uni and this year is going to be crazy busy so there may be times when I'm a bit quite here, I'll try my best to schedule posts and stay on top but honestly I can't make any promises! 

Today's nails are done using Essence Break Through which is a super gorgeous purple. I then used an Essence Stamping plate* with their black and white Stamping Polishes* for the details. I know that the little Essence logo is not meant to be an image but I just thought it was too cute to not use! 

I used the Essence Stamper* and Scraper* for the stamping, I'm not a fan of the scraper but these polishes are probably the best stamping polishes I've used, I just wish they came in more colours! 

Tweet Pin It