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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BUTTER LONDON COLOUR CLASH AUTUMN/WINTER 2013 REVIEW & SWATCHES

Happy Monday! (What do you mean no such thing?) Hehe, anyway I'm so excited to share this post with you guys ! 

Today I have four polishes from the Butter London Autumn/Winter 2013 Collection to show you guys. The collection consists of some lovely bright colours which probably would have been better suited for a summer collection but they're still pretty and hey, nothing stops me from wearing bright colours in the winter  ! 

Looking at the summer collection though it feels like they made a bit of a mix up and this should have been the summer collection and the summer collection for the fall but either way they're both still lovely collections and maybe Butter London are trying to break away from the stereotypical collections we normally see in the fall and if so I applaud them !

Ok so to see a review on each polish and more swatches just click on the read more button !

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DESPICABLE ME MINION NAIL ART TUTORIAL

Hey guys, sorry this wasn't posted yesterday but honestly this weekend has been crazy! 

Anywho let's get straight into it shall we. 

What you will need

Base Coat

Yellow polish for the minions (I'm using Butter London Jasper)

Black & White acrylic paint/nail polish

Silver nail polish/acrylic paint

Brown nail polish/acrylic paint (not pictured)

Fine nail art brush

Top Coat

STEP 1 - After base coat apply your yellow polish 

STEP 2 - Paint on 2 small black lines at the edge of your nail 

STEP 3 - Using your silver colour paint on a circle between the 2 coat black lines. 

STEP 4 - Paint on 2 very small vertical lines where the silver circle meets the 2 black lines 

STEP 5 - Paint on a semi circle using the white in the centre of the silver circle 

STEP 6 - Using your brown, draw on a smaller semicircle in the centre of the white semi circle you've drawn.

STEP 7 - Draw a small black dot in the brown semi circle 

STEP 8 - Next draw on a thin black line for the mouth or alternatively you can draw on a different smile like I've done  

STEP 9 - Finally top coat the design to seal it all in.  

Okey dokey, that's that then, simple ! Do give it a try and share with me if you do ! 

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GOODBYE GFC

Good afternoon guys, how's your weekend going? Ok this is a really quick post to remind you guys that Google Reader is retiring tonight so just to make sure we don't fall out of touch go ahead and follow me on bloglovin or whatever your preferred reader is. I personally really like bloglovin and I'm not sure of any others so if you guys know of any then let me know in the comments ! You can import all your blogs from Google Reader really easily here

 Also be sure to follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook where I will link to each new post here, just head on over to the Contact Me page for all the links ! 

So that's all for now guys, I'll be posting again tonight so look out for that a little later on 

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ASSEMBLE THE MINIONS !

Hey everyone! So today Despicable Me 2 comes out here and I had planned to watch it tomorrow but something has come up this weekend and I can't now :(

  Anyway these nails were highly requested by my littlest brother, lol ! He loves the minions and has been asking me to paint them on my nails for ages, and it's been on my to do list and with the release of the second movie this weekend I thought it was the perfect time, so here are some Despicable Me nails for you !

I used 3 coats of Butter London Jasper and then painted on the rest of the details with acrylic paint and Barry M Silver Foil. I've also created a tutorial for you guys so you can recreate this design, but I think I'll post that tomorrow for you ! 

I didn't have room to paint on the overalls or the hair on them all, but apart from that I think they're pretty cute ! What do you guys think? Are you going to watch the movie this weekend?

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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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MINTY ONE STROKE ROUND FLOWERS

Hey guys, hows your week started? I have spent most of today painting my nails and trying out different techniques and designs, some of which you'll see soon :) 

So I felt like painting something different to the regular one stroke flowers etc. which is how this design was born. 

I started off with 2 coats of Catrice Sold Out Forever (please don't ask me which version this is because there are quite a few and I find it slightly frustrating!) Then I used 2 blue acrylic paints, one dark blue and one lighter blue, then I just kinda pressed down on the brush so the bristles spread out on the nail and rotated to form a circle shape. I then outlined the flowers with some black acrylic paint and added some white dots in the center before finishing it all off with topcoat. 

What do you guys think? The technique is quite easy but it takes a little bit of practice which you can see I need lol!

This is dodgy hand pose but I included it because you can see the difference between the 2 blues in the flowers a bit more clearly. 

See you in the next post then guys, take care :)

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