W7 PISTACHIO LACE NAILS

Happy Sunday! Well, here in England we've had a bit of a storm so it's been a gloomy day but we had a lovely dinner again today and I'm happy to be ending the day with a cup of tea, Only Fools and Horses and blogging :) 

So today I have a very pretty nail polish to share with you and some very pretty nail art too. I 've been obsessed with lace nails but always have to freehand them because I don't any stamping plates with a lace design. For these nails I started with 2 coats of W7 Pistachio* which is part of the Summer Sorbet collection from W7. I'm a big fan of W7, their black and white is a staple in my collection and I love their Galaxy collection but I haven't tried out any of their cremes in a while. This is a lovely minty colour which isn't very unique but still gorgeous and I expected the formula to be nice but the formula was just a bit off with this, it's nothing major though. I did get some bubbling though which was probably my fault because it was super hot in my room when I swatched this. 

I then did a glitter gradient with Dance Legend Argus and drew on this lacey design which I copied from Creatinails on instagram. 

  

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PLAYBOY NAILS

Hey guys, sorry for no post. I haven't had much time on the computer recently; the weekend should have been spent on moving rooms but Saturday and 70% of Sunday was spent cooking, eating and shopping! As a result I've spent this week sorting and tidying and moving a heck of a lot of stuff I can't even remember purchasing! 

Anyways recently I was sent some Playboy nail polishes to review. I haven't tried Playboy nail polishes before and haven't really heard a lot about them so I was intrigued. The colours I received are the colours you'd probably associate with Playboy, ie. very pink, gold and of course glitter! 

I got Hot Violet* which is a purple toned neon pink which is actually a unique colour in my stash! It applies beautifully and covers in 2 lovely coats. The other colour I got was Billionaire* which looks like a plain gold glitter in the bottle however when I swatched this I realised it actually contains gold flakes too which again makes the nail polish unique in my stash. 

I decided to use both colours in a glitter gradient, which I haven't done in a while, I started with 2 coats of Hot Violet on all the nails and then used Billionaire to do the gradient starting from the tips (I have a tutorial here if you want to see how I do my glitter gradients). On my ring finger I used these Chevron Nail Vinyls from She Sells Seashells. 

  These are actually quite beautiful nail polishes which I think often get overlooked. You can buy these online in many different places for roughly £2.50 - £4.00 depending on where you look, so these are definitely affordable and worth the money. 

Have you tried Playboy nail polish before? 

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HOLOGRAPHIC BLUE & PURPLE GLITTER PLACEMENT GRADIENT

Happy Wednesday guys, how are you all? I've been working really hard this week since I've gone back to uni and honestly when I get home I'm so tired and honestly I've not even thought about blogging. 

I did receive some nail mail yesterday which I'd been very excited about but unfortunately one of the bottles in it broke which makes every nail addict sad :(

Anyway here is a lovely, very holographic and sparkly glequin gradient. I used a base of Gosh Misty Mauve and blue & purple holographic glequins and reversed the gradient on my accent nail in true Polish All The Nails style.

 I had to apply about 3 coats of topcoat to get it all smooth. 

  

I don't have time to think about nails right now, I'm really looking forward to the long weekend, hopefully I'll be able to paint with my nails and get some blog posts ready, see you until then :)

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PINK & PURPLE GLITTER PLACEMENT GRADIENT NAILS

Hey guys, I hope you've all had a lovely weekend :) I love Sunday evenings, they're the most relaxing part of the week, I'm watching Modern Family, editing photos and getting posts ready with a big hot mug of yummy coffee :) 

I am in love with todays nails! I bought some more glitter recently and when I got them I decided to try a gradient glitter placement using the pink and the purple and I think they turned out great! They are so sparkly and I think the colours blend together really nicely :) I did need about 3 coats of top coat on this but it was totally worth it! You can see quite a few bubbles but they weren't noticable irl!

 I forgot to mention the base coat is Orly Pure Porcelain. I love this so much and I'll definitely be doing more gradient glitter placements :) Have a lovely week my friends and I'll catch you in the next post ! 

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ILLAMASQUA FAUX PAS & SHIMMER POLISH KATHERINE

Hi guys, hope your all having a lovely week, sorry I haven't posted this sooner but I had loads of work keeping me busy but I've got most of it done now and I'm going for a nice meal with my family tonight too so overall I'm in a good mood :)

When I received a lovely package of Shimmer Polishes from Cindy I looked at Katherine and thought 'hmm, yeah a brown glitter, ok' I'm not a fan of brown nail polish and this just didn't really do it for me but then when I paired it up with Illamasqua Faux Pas, wow, I fell in love! I did two coats of Faux Pas and used Shimmer Katherine to do a glitter gradient on the nails and then applied one coat on the whole nail for my accent nail. 

What do you think of brown nail polish?

*The products in this post were sent to me for my review. See my disclosure policy for more details

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ILLAMASQUA GAMMA & CHALK DUST GRADIENT

Hello everybody, how are you all today? 

I'm not really a fan of orange nail polish but this neon orange, holy moly, this is freaking AWESOME!

Here I have done two coats of Illamasqua Gamma, and look at how neon and bright this is! It glows, look at the glow on my fingers! I have so much love for this polish, seriously if you like orange nail polish or neon/bright nail polish then you MUST go and get this ! 

Anyway I then used Maybelline Chalk dust for a glitter gradient at the tips!

Do you already own Gamma, if not why not?

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A CHUNKY GUMDROP GRADIENT

Happy Friday guys, I have a cute gradient mani to share with you today !

For this I started off with two coats of Orly Gumdrop, I then used OPI Polka dot com for the glitter gradient, the effect isn't as smooth as I would have like but I still like the overall result!

So that's all folks, have a nice weekend :)

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GLITTER ALL THE WAY GLITTER GRADIENT !

How's your day been?

 I made a rather rash decision last night which involved me owning Chanel Taboo! 

So this morning when I phoned up Harvey Nichols and they told me they only had 2 left in stock I rushed into town to pick it up, I also managed to find the Color Club Poptastic Collection in my TK Maxx. So a good shopping day 2 hours,  unfortunately I had to rush home kinda unexpectedly and to make sure I didn't miss the train I had to run and my shoes completely shredded the back of my feet and they're still hurting now :( but I got Chanel Taboo :D (I'm wearing it now, hehe)

Anyway that's enough about my day, let talk nails ! I am still obsessed with glitter gradients, I hope your not sick of them yet though! So for this I did two coats of an Asos Paint by Ciate in the shade Lilly . This is a really old polish I got for £1 (I think) in their sale about 5 years ago? It's a really pretty green crelly !

For the gradient I used China Glaze Glitter All The Way, I liked wearing it in a gradient as it makes the different colours of the glitter stand out ! I then topped it all off with one coat of topcoat!

So that's all folks, see you in the next post!

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COPPERIZE ME !

Hey guys, are you looking forward to the weekend? I may be taking my little brothers to watch Despicable Me 2 this weekend because *ahem* they really want to watch it. Other than that I'm just going to be cleaning the house with my momma, what are your plans? 

Anyway these is one of those manis that looked really lovely in real life but the photos turned out rubbish, this was the only usable one really, I wasn't actually going to post it but I thought hey I might as well because I liked it! 

So this is one coat of China Glaze Cranberry Flame which is a gorgeous colour ! I then used Essence Copperize Me for the glitter gradient. I love how you can see all the pretty colours in Copperize Me this way! 

Ok guys, see you in the next post!

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