WHERE HAVE I BEEN???!!

Hi guys, where have I been? Long story short, I've been very busy, I've lost my blogging mojo and my love of polish, I've only painted my nails 3 times this year! :o

So I have some stuff sat in my folder which I will be posting over the next God only knows how long and a few things which I need to review which you'll see soon too. 

In the meantime here is OPI I Carol About You topped with Comet In The Sky and Globetrotter. 

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BEE NAILS

Hey guys, I am glad we have finally reached the end of the week! I have a huge amount of work to get through this weekend so I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to blog again. 

Today I have some bee inspired nails. I used Butter London Pimms for my base colour, once it was dry I applied Illamasqua Swarm on my pointy and pinky and then I used the straight nail vinyls from She Sells Seashells and w7 black to paint on the stripes. 

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VERTICAL GRADIENT WITH ZOYA LING & TILDA

Hey guys, so I'm still ill but today I finally managed to sit and do my nails before heading to work. 

I am in love with the nails I'm showing you today, remember the vertical gradient I did, about a year ago now, here. Well I loved it but never actually got round to doing another vertical gradient, haha! So when I saw these two gorgeous Zoya polishes side by side I just knew what I had to do.

I used Zoya Tilda* and Ling* for the gradient, and I really think my gradients have improved, just goes to show practice makes perfect! I topped the whole thing off with one coat of Wet n Wild Fergie polish in Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Good Night. 

These colours are made for each other and they work so so beautifully together, if you own these you must try this out!

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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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GREEN & PURPLE ILLAMASQUA GRADIENT

Hi guys, so I recently got Illamasqua Nomad, which was a big lemming, and it's so beautiful, I used it with a neon purple polish to do this lovely green and purple gradient. I would have liked to used Illamasqua Stance but unfortunately I don't have it :( I then used Illamasqua Swarm over the top before applying topcoat!

I love gradients so much and this was no exception!

Are you a big fan of gradients? Do you like this combination?

Oh, and I'd just like to thank you all for your lovely comments, I read each and every single one of them but unfortunately don't have the time to reply! 

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TRIANGLE CHEVRON TIPS ?

Hey guys, well the weather here has definitely got warmer and I think I can say Spring is here! This means a wardrobe clearout/organising which I am not looking forward to! What's the weather like where you are? 

So today I have a little bit of nail art to share with you. To do these nails I started with 2 coats of OPI Wonderous Star and then I used black acrylic paint to paint on the rest of the details, can these be classed as chevrons? 

I love it :) Mainly because I love Wonderous Star haha!

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OPI WONDEROUS STAR

Hey guys, I'm really tired but here's a post for you! 

This is OPI Wonderous Star from their Christmas collection. I wasn't planning on getting this or liking it but it was on sale so I picked it up and first time I put it on I loved it !

Its' a lovely delicate gold glitter polish with just the right amount of black glitter peeking through!

I used two coats and you can see a bit of vnl but it wasn't noticeable in real life!

Did you pick this up and did you like it?

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