RATHER LARGE HAUL

This post should have been up yesterday but technology was busy hating me which prevented me from getting this post ready for you guys ! 

So this haul is from the past 2 months, including my purchases from December and January !

So the bulk of my haul was China Glaze !

Anyway so I got 91 nail polishes and a huge China Glaze stand from ebay (for a really good price) , haha yeah quite a lot, and hidden in it were some amazing gems which I'll show you first  !

The best part of this lot was these babies here :

 The China Glaze Kaleidoscope collection, there are 2 missing but it doesn't bother me !

So I'll just quickly show you the other polishes that were included in here (I'm not including the names here but if there's anything you need to know the name of then let me know in the comments) I will probably purge some of these though!

There were some polishes here from old collections which are super gorgeous but I'll show you them in a separate post, I also forgot to photograph a few so they're not all here! 

Then I found these China Glaze Christmas polishes on sale and had to get them !

Angel Wings, Glistening Snow and Pure Joy

Then I had to get some of China Glaze Cirque Du Soliel polishes, this was a pretty impressive collection and I'd probably have got more if I could have afforded to

Whirled away, Running in Circles, It's a Trapeze 

I picked up some nail art supplies from Born Pretty using a $20 gift certificate I won in a giveaway

Some studs & glequins

Holo glequins

Then my brother ordered me the Cheeky Vibrant stamping plates :)

(I will be reviewing these soon for you)

Then I got some Essie polishes from Fragrance Direct 

Lights, Off the Shoulder, Bazooka

Next from the Illamasqua sale, I ordered these 3 beauties !

Load, Poke and Baptiste 

Sally Magpies had a sale on her Layla hologram polishes too so I got Misty Blush and Mermaids Spell

I also got some polishes from a Blog sale 

Hits- Chameleon, Catrice - Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans,  Color Club - Take Me To Your Chateau,Sally Hansen Insta-dri - Whirlwind White,  Wet n Wild Fergie - Tonight's Gonna Be Good Night , OPI - Pepe's Purple Passion

I also ordered lots of Swatch Sticks (which I've already painted)

Then I got this lovely Kiko polish from a friend 

I also got this 18k gold leaf topcoat by Rococo from Ebay!

I got these pretty polishes from the pound shop !

Fairy Teal, Green Tea, Thinking of Blue

I think that's it for now !

I know it seems like a lot but in my defense they were all cheap/on sale!

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TETRIS GLEQUIN NAILS TUTORIAL

Hi guys, so here's the tutorial for these nails which I showed you at the beginning of January, hope it helps ! Enjoy

What you will need 

Base Coat (not pictured)
Base colour - I used W7 Black
5 different colour glequins (I'm using Red, Orange, Blue, Silver and Green)
Orange wood stick to pick up your glequins (or whatever you use)
Topcoat 

 

Before I started I quickly sketched out how I wanted the shapes to fit together, if you think this will help you you can do it too, if not then just skip this step!

STEP 1 - Apply your base colour (after base coat) 

STEP 2 - Apply topcoat to the area you want to stick on your glequins 

It helps to have all the lids off your pots so your ready and the topcoat doesn't dry before you stick them on

STEP 3 - Onto your wet topcoat apply your glequins in the first shape

STEP 4 - Repeat step 3 again and apply the glequins in the different shapes 

until your happy with how it looks

STEP 5 - Finally top coat the whole design 

There you go a really simple design, just a little bit of patience is needed and that's about it ! 

Good luck, if you try this out don't forget to share : )

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BLACK & SILVER STUDS & GLEQUINS

Hey guys, I'm back : ) How are you all ? 

It's been a while! Anyway my exams are now finished and I'm free aaand I have a lot of exciting things coming up soon so keep an eye out for those : ) It's so good to be back blogging I've really missed it ! 

So my nails have been naked all month and so the nails I show you over the next few posts were all done in December. 

Also I'm going to Istanbul in February so any lovely Turkish people who can recommend nail polish from there and where to get them, please leave me a comment or email me : )

I was going to show you this mani before I left but I just couldn't squeeze it in ! 

So when I got my glequins and studs I couldn't wait to use them and so I rustled up this mani, also at this point I just could not get enough of glossy black nails (which is really unusual for me because I never wear plain black on my nails!) 

So really quickly, on my pointy finger I placed silver glequins in rows (which look so crooked now haha) and then on the rest of the nails I applied a gold stud (they look silver here though!). To finish I topcoated everything with one coat of NYC Turbo dry (which I will be reviewing shortly because it is uh-mazing) 

 

This was insanely glossy and I totally loved it ! 

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TETRIS GLEQUINS & TIME FOR A BREAK !

Hi guys, ok so this will be my last post until my exams are over, there just aren't enough hours in the day !

I probably won't paint my nails for the rest of the month now but when I do I'll post on my Instagram so make sure you follow me on there to keep up to date : ) 

Just wish me luck & pray for me that I get the required grades ! 

Ok so I did these nails around Christmas time and wanted to use as many of my new glequins as I could so I  came up with this : ) I even made a tutorial for these, but I don't know when I'll post it now

Hmm for some reason these pictures are really pixelated, not quite sure why, I hope you can look past it ! Sorry

Anyways take care guys and I'll talk to you all soon hopefully 

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CHINA GLAZE IT'S MY TURN STAMPING

2 coats of China Glaze It's my turn (gorgeous scattered gold holo) and then stamping with the CH10 plate (from the Cheeky Vibrant collection) using China Glaze Little Drummer Boy and no topcoat 

I love it, do you? 

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ESSIE BIKINI SO TEENY & VERY SUBTLE STAMPING

Not much talk today instead a quick swatch ! 

2 coats of Essie Bikini So Teeny, gorgeous colour ! 

Look at the shimmer in the bottle ! 

Next I stamped over it, I didn't want to ruin the delicateness of the colour, so I used China Glaze No Way Jose and the bubble image from the CH 9 plate from the Cheeky Vibrant collection 

It was really subtle, not as subtle as in the photo's but still ! 

Sorry it's blurry but I loved this picture ! 

Ok, end of break, back to learning about Stalin's Russia ! 

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CHINA GLAZE SEDUCE ME & GLEQUINS

HI guys, I'm taking a night off studying today as I'm not felling well and I'm tired ! So I'm just tucked up on the sofa with my snuggle blanket and a hot cup of tea, watching TV and editing photo's ! 

So these mani's I did at the end of last year but didn't get round to showing you! 

I recently got nearly 100 China Glaze polishes off of ebay ( I will show you all in a haul post soon) and there were some gorgeous treasures in there ! On of them was this gorgeous, gorgeous plumy/maroon/raspberry jelly which I hadn't come across before. I introduce to you Seduce Me which I think is the perfect name for this colour !

So for this mani I painted 2 coats of Seduce Me and then on all the fingers I used  Barry M Gold Foil to stamp this funky design (which reminds me of racing flags) from the CH5 plate in the Cheeky vibrant stamping collection (more on that in another post).

Then the accent nail I added holographic gold glequins in the honeycomb style, this was my first time with glitter placement and I think it went ok, I had to move some of the glitter around on the nail which messed with the base colour a bit but otherwise it was ok ! 

I wasn't crazy for the overall look, not sure why but I think it was because the gold in the stamping and the glequins were too different ! 

What do you guys think of the mani overall?

Also, anybody know when this came out and which collection it was from? Thankyou :)

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