Wednesday, 29 February 2012

SUNSHINE

Woow, thankyou for all the lovely comments on my last post, I am thinking of doing a tutorial for you, if you want?
Anyway seeing as mother nature is hiding the sun from us, I decided to wear some sun on my nails in the form of essie shorty pants !
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of yellow polish, but I think it was a case of finding the right yellow polish, because I love this polish, I've worn it 3 times already and thinking of getting a backup !
Anyway I also wanted to try out my milani jewel fx in gold which I got from Karen so I used them for the accent nails
Needless to say I got a tonne of comments on these nails at school ! hehe !





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Sunday, 26 February 2012

JELLY BEANS !

I have soo many mani's to show you, for the past 3 weeks I've been changing my mani every single day but haven't had a chance to post regular notd, so my nails will probably be different lengths in these posts !
I'll try to start from the beginning...


Yep here are jelly beans, on my nails, 
I painted all my nails white as a base coat and then using various polishes ( I can't remember but if you desperately need to know just ask !) and a dotting tool I painted on these jelly beans !







What do you think? do you like them ?

*DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT MY GIVEAWAY !*

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Saturday, 25 February 2012

SWAP WITH IVANA & AN APOLOGY

WELCOME to all my new followers I hope you stick around and enjoy my blog : )


Sorry my posts have been a bit irregular recently, but my cat is ill and so we've been busy with him, this 1st bit is all cat related so skip ahead if you don't want to read it .




This is our cat, Skippy, he really is the best cat, he has never scratched or bitten any of us and he even cleans his paws on the mat before coming into the house ! Anyway a couple of weeks ago he went missing and no one had seen him, (we've had him for about 6 yrs and he's never disappeared for more than 3 days ) after about a week and a half we were getting really worried, but then one day when I entered the drive I saw him there coming towards me lookin surprisingly skinny but I was so happy to see him I didn't pay much attention, then he came into the house and it was only then when I was stroking him I noticed his tail, it was swollen and brushing the floor, he couldn't lift his tail and just sat in one room, so the day after we took him to the vets and it turned out he'd been hit by a car and just left there, so he wasn't able to come back home, and as a result he'd lost all sensation in his tail and they were going to have to cut it, they had him under observation in the hope he would recover but no he didn't so they had to shave half his fur and cut off most of his tail.
He's still at the vets having injections and medicine and hopefully his fur should grow back quickly but it's soo sad, I know these things happen all the time but this cat is another member of our family, he was always there when we went through some really hard times, and even when we had to leave him for a few days and couldn't feed him when we came back he was always there even when we couldn't be for him, so the thought that anything could happen to him really upset me but like my mum said I should be grateful he wasn't hit anywhere else and he's still with us !





Anyway now I've got that off my chest let's talk nails, there's nothing like nail mail to cheer you up, especially when it's super super early and your not expecting it !


Anyway, I've really been dying to get my hands on some essence polishes, It's soo ridiculous they aren't available in the uk : (  Anyway I knew Ivana wanted a china glaze polish I could get for her and we agreed to swap, and I think this was back in November? loll A long time ago but we both had delays but anyway we finally managed to get our parcels out and I got mine yesterday and I wasn't expecting it until Friday !


Anyway here's what she sent me  ! : )




Essence colour and go - got a secret, blue addicted, lime up 

Essence nail art twins - chuck, bella, edward

look at the gorgeous sparkles in edward ! *drool*

essence nail art magnetics, vampires love- the dawn is broken, waking up in vegas topcoat 

essence - high waist pink, piggy polish - confetti ! 

Oh and I also got an essence gel liner in black, I've tried it and it is amazing !!! : ) 
I've already worn 3 of these colours as full mani's so will have those pictures up for you soon and in the meantime if you want to see any polish in particular leave a comment : ) 

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Monday, 20 February 2012

GIVEAWAYY !

Yes, you read that right, it is indeed giveaway time, well this giveaway is for reaching 100 followers, then 150 followers and my first blogoversary ! It's verry delayed but better late than never right ?
Ok I had planned a much bigger giveaway but ... well you know, after this giveaway I plan to do regular smaller giveaways !


Anyway I hope you like the prizes, this'll be my first giveaway so please forgive any mistakes I make or if I miss out any info or anything.
1 person will win all these prizes




Beauty uk - wild child set 


Nicole by opi holo's - holiday's glaze, holly pop red (there is some evaporation in holly pop red, if you don't want it let me know )


Not only is holiday glaze a holo it's also a subtle duochrome, can you see the green in this picture?


BYS - kinky pink, mosaic plum, Models Own - fuzzy peach, Zoya - Reva


Stamping plate m31 



Ok, all you have to do is follow this blog and fill out the raffle copter thingy below 'simples' !
This giveaway will close on March  31st, it is open internationally, good luck and thankyou for following : )


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Friday, 17 February 2012

BLACK KNIGHT LAYERING

*sigh* it sucks being sooo skint ! 
Anyway, I'm sure you all saw this layering combo by Scrangie, well it was gorgeous right.

Anyway I really wanted tart with a heart but after my recent cash flow crisis I wasn't able to but the other day whilst attempting to organise my stash I came across this really old thick polish  
It looks all yucky in the bottle now but irl, it's a real pretty colour with loads of holographic sparkles and I thought it reminded me slightly of tart with a heart, so since I was already wearing my black knight franken I thought why not and slapped it on

 well I was kind of blown away, no it doesn't look like Scrangie's layering but it still looked pretty amazing ! 

The base colour wasn't black anymore it was more a duochromy plummy now and it has a tonne of sparkles in it which shine like crazy ! it doesn't look as awesome in the photos as what it does irl though ! 

holographic sparkles !!! 






here I tried to capture the colour shift 

So, what do you think? unfortunately this polish is a really old one from superdrug, some of you British ladies might recognise the old long rectangular bottles, so I'm sorry if you want this polish now, but I guess the morale of this story is erm... never underestimate old manky polishes because they may just surprise you ; )

Oh and another thing Nail Loopy is now on twitter !! 
So come and follow me by clicking on the button in the right hand column ! : )

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Thursday, 16 February 2012

THE BLACK KNIGHT FRANKEN

Remember I got sally hansen rockstar pink in my swap with Karen a while ago, well I set to work straight away and started  making my franken


I had this black nail polish from Loreal which was really thick so I added some thinner, there was just under 1/3 of black polish left in the bottle and then I started adding the glitter I think I added the same amount of rockstar pink as there was black and lo and behold this beautiful polish was born ! 


I really like the black knight and if I hadn't found this quick and cheap franken I would have bought the original, anyway you'll have seen the same recipe on loads of blogs already but I wanted to share mine with you because I loovvee it ! : )





Oh, I also added some loose blue glitter which you can see on the middle finger, looking at it now, it might have been better to use a smaller finer glitter, but you can't tell irl !


Wow, is that just not beautiful?
 I love the person who came up with this recipe and shared it, they saved me a lot of money, thankyou ! 
Anyway's as if this wasn't enough tune in tomorrow to see what I layered over this baby ! 

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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

MY HEART SKIPS SKIPS A BEAT

Urgh, that Olly Murs song is in my head ! (I love the song but I've listened to it too  many times !)
Anyway this is my final valentines mani for you all 
I hope you like it 





For the black today, I couldn't find any of my normal black polishes so I had to use nocturnelle by mac, this reason I don't use this is because you need 2 coats to get opacity ! but anyway omg, this was as shiny as heck, I really liked the shine, I only put seche vite on this to smooth out my dodgy lines ! but the black was shinier than a jelly ! 
Anyway hope you like this mani, have a nice day ladies, take care xxx



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