SUNSHINE NAILS - UK EDITION

Hi everyone, I hope your all having a lovely weekend! Today I went and picked up my very first car and I love it, then I went to my little cousins birthday party!

Today I have a fun mani to show you which to me is a true representation of the British weather.

We very rarely have a sunny day with blue skies, mostly the sun plays hide and seek with the clouds and more often than not it rains.

I have included a tutorial for you after the jump so click read more if you want to recreate these nails.  

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ILLAMASQUA RAINDROPS & HOLOGRAPHIC PINK DISC GLEQUINS

Hey guys, how are you all? I'm sad the holidays are over : (

Anywho here are the nails I did to cheer me up ! I shared a sneaky peak video on my instagram yesterday so be sure to follow me on there for more sneak peaks and behind the scenes, hehe!

Ok so these holographic pink disc glequins* were amongst the package I was sent from The Glitter Shop and I just knew I wanted to pair them with grey. So I started off with one coat of Essence Got A Secret (my favourite grey) then applied one coat of Illamasqua Raindrops before applying the glequins. I then applied two coats of NYC Turbo Dry Top Coat.  

Urgh, this is so so sparkly and I love this type of glitter so much, actually I think this is my favourite type of glitter I've ever used! I have the same glequins in different colours so I hope your not sick of these yet because there's still more to come : )

You can buy these glequins here, for some reason they're only showing the silver ones at the moment but if you email them I'm sure they'll be happy to help you.

Ok, so I hope you have a good week, I have a lot of studying to do this week so I might not see you until the week after now so take care until then guys! :)

*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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ILLAMASQUA PINK RAINDROPS

Hi my loves, how are you all doing? I just have a very quick swatch for you today !

I loved the original raindrops and was a bit disappointed with it, not because it wasn't pretty but because it wasn't like the original, it's not a jelly and this also it has some pink shimmer in it !

My pictures show 2 coats of Pink Raindrops

Did you buy this? How did you like it ?

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RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN' ON MY HEAD

Good day to all you lovely polish obsessed people, how are you all ? i'm tired , so very tired, but i really want to show you this mani, as you probably all know illamasqua had a summer sale on with their nail polishes reduced from £13.50 to only £5.00 !!!! and whilst looking at the colours my heart kind of skipped a beat when i saw they had raindrops!!! they also had hectic but it was out of stock in a couple of days, anyway long story short i ordered insanity and raindrops! 

the colours ran in the umbrella : ( 

i find that this mani is totally appropriate looking at the sky! i just want to say to all those who could be affected by hurricane irene, stay safe : ) 

however these few seem a tad contradictory as they're taken in sunlight looll

this is a close up isn't it gorgeous, the name of this polish is completely fitting don't you agree?

this is my first illamasqua and i must say i was pleased, however the brush on this seemed to be a bit funny, it didn't spread out properly on the nail, it had a gap in the middle ! and the other thing, 4 coats!! i could have done 5 but nooo, too many, next time i think i'll layer it over a grey 

another thing i want to mention is that this had incredible staying power, you may have noticed the one tiny chip on my index finger but i think that's quite impressive considering this nail polish underwent a grueling testing process today loll, what, i hear you ask, well today we were chiseling off all the kitchen floor tiles and my job was to collect them all and chuck em away, not very nail polish friendly but all i suffered was one tiny chip ! i'm very pleasedd :  )

ok i hope you enjoyed this post, oh and tomorrow is my very first driving lesson, so stay off the roads ladies lolll

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