Monday, 11 February 2013

RED VALENTINE'S

Hi guys, so here is a Valentine's mani I rustled up for you guys : ) I'm not a Valentine's person at all but I know some of you like seeing these types of mani's :) 

Ok so for this I started off with one coat of Kiko 238 (which is an amazing red) then I sponged on Colour Club Ruby Slippers on to the tips. When that was dry I stamped on this hearts image from the CH-15 plate using the white Born Pretty stamping polish I reviewed here ! To finish off I topcoated the design with NYC Turbo Dry !





Hope you like this one :)

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Sunday, 10 February 2013

GLISTENING SNOW

Hi guys, how are you all, did you have a lovely weekend? I've done pretty much nothing all day, but I spent the whole of Saturday painting swatch sticks ! 
Anyways so here is a mani I did a while ago, hope you like it !
The base coat is 2 coats of China Glaze Glistening Snow. When I first saw this polish I though meh and passed on it and then I don't know what happened but I got a huge lemming for this polish, like seriously, I NEEDED it ! Thankfully I found it on sale in the gift set :D 
Then I stamped over it with Pure Ice French Kiss with the Spongeboby flowers on the CH-14 plate from the Cheeky Vibrant Collection! 




Unfortunately, I couldn't take any photo's in the sun but trust me this was insanely holographic !

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Friday, 8 February 2013

CHINA GLAZE I'M WITH THE LIFEGUARD & GLITTER LAYERING

Happy Friday guys. I'm in a very good mood today, not sure why though!
 I've just spent the past hour glequining and I need a break so I thought I'd show you these nails I did a while ago; very bright and in your face ! 

So I completely skipped over the China Glaze Summer 2012 neon collection and got this shade by accident in the big lot I showed you in my previous haul and I fell in love with it, well mainly the shimmer in it! I'm thinking I need more of that collection now, hmm! 

Anyways if you would like to recreate this mani, then you'll need 2 coats of China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard, followed by 1 coat of China Glaze Glistening Snow for some sparkle and finally top it all off with one coat of the best glitter topper in the world ie. Ninja Polish Sticks n' Stones (or any of it's many many dupes!)

It was rather difficult capturing the true colour of these nails because when my camera saw neon it just refused to co-operate ! I tried to make it a bit more colour accurate whilst editing but that didn't really work and I've ended up with funny looking skin ! 






I'm With The Lifegaurd - Very neon and green, with gorgeous gorgeous shimmer which makes this shade a lot more wearable imo!

Ok, so that's all folks, have a lovely weekend and I'll see y'all soon ;)


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Wednesday, 6 February 2013

KIKO 336

This polish has stolen my heart ! My favourite blue polish (and I have a lot of blue polish!) 
This is supposed to be a dead on dupe for Nails Inc Baker Street (I don't have Baker Street so I can't do a comparison) so when my parents went to Rome I asked them to pick this one up for me and boy do I love this ! 
The first time I put this on, it was late at night and I was disappointed ! Yes it was nice, but I just didn't see the hype this shade had got and if this was the Nails Inc dupe I was glad I hadn't forked out £11 for Baker Street ! I left it on  though and the next day in the sunlight this just blew me away ! Yes, this is gorgeous! 
Perfect bright blue which is slightly dusty and not neon ! 

Below is 2 coats and no topcoat 



Gosh, just seeing these pictures again makes me want to go on put it on again ! 
What do you guys think about this shade? Do you own this or Baker Street? 

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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

POLISH DAYS - NATURE

Welcome to another Polish Days mani ! 
Today's theme was nature and this was again a very much last minute thing ! I wasn't really sure what to do for this one, but last night I got the idea to do this really simple, basic world from space kind of design! 
It's kind of more abstract than a real repsentation lol ! 
Anyways so for this I painted on one coat of Kiko 340 and the I sponged on little bits of Pure Ice French Kiss and Catrice Blue Cara Ciao. When that was dry I used a dotting tool and some green acrylic paint to freehand these random shapes and voila ! 




So I'm looking forward to checking out everybody's ideas :)

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Monday, 4 February 2013

VALENTINES HEARTS & BORN PRETTY STAMPING POLISH REVIEW

So recently I was contacted by the Born Pretty Store people asking if I wanted to review any of their products, well of course I said yes! I choose their stamping polish set which you can find here. 
I'm still a novice at stamping and so far haven't tried any special stamping polish so I was excited to see what these were like. 
All of the polishes were thick and pigmented and dried really fast !
 So I thought I'd show you  a mani I created with these polishes and then these stamped over white and black nail polish!

Ok, so for this mani I did 2 coats of Essie Lights, 1 coat of OPI I Lilly Love You and then using the black and white stamping polishes stamped on this hearts image from the CH-16 plate from the Cheeky Vibrant Collection ! 


Ok so this is very girly and very bright lol, not 100% my style but for some reason I really like this and as you can see both polishes worked well for stamping, again they dried really fast so when I stamped on my nail sometimes the image didn't transfer fully but it still looks good, right ! 


Ok, so quickly I'll show you each polish stamped over white and black

First up the white polish
Wow, this was amazing, really really pigmented and transfers really well ! 

The black was also pigmented and thick but I found it dried really fast and didn't transfer as well as I would have liked

The red one transferred well on the white aswell, but as you can see it's barely visible on the black , I added topcoat to make the colour pop a bit more but it's still really faint !


The yellow was the same as the red again, it was slightly more visible on the black than the red but still faint !


Finally the blue was the same as the 2 above, pigmented but faint on the black !

So as you can see the polish works really well over light colours, they transfer well and are very pigmented and they dry really fast which means you do have to work quickly otherwise it tends not to transfer too well onto the nail! Unfortunately it's very faint on the darker colours but I guess you could stamp white first and then stamp over it with the colours to make it more visible though! 
Would I recommend these? If you mainly like to stamp over dark colours then probably not, you'd probably be better offer picking up a single bottle of the white in that case, but If you don't mind stamping with white first and then the red/yellow/blue and you can line the stamping up then this set should be ok for you! 
If your looking to stamp over lighter colours or just to test out some stamping polishes then yes, these would be good for you and they're really cheap considering one Konad polish can cost upto £5/$7.88 !

If you decide to pick these up, or any other nail art supplies, you can use my discount code to get 10% off :)


*some of the products in this post were sent to me for my review. See my disclosure policy for more details
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Sunday, 3 February 2013

LITTLE DRUMMER BOY STAMPING

Hi guys, how's your weekend been? I have spent the weekend painting my nails and editing photos :D 
So here are some nails I did before my exams, very easy stamping!
For this I used China Glaze Little Drummer Boy and Barry M Silver Foil (both are great for stamping) and Cheeky plate CH-13 
On all the nails except the accent nail I used Little Drummer Boy as a base and stamped over it with Silver Foil. On the accent nail I just reversed the colours ! Unfortunately when I topcoated this it smudged. 


Ok, so that was super quick and I will be back soon with some Valentine's looks for you.
 Take care guys :) 

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