Dripping Glitter Nail Art

I have been wanting to uses this bright pink polish that my sister gave me a while ago and I hadn’t got around to using it yet so I thought it was time. I also have really been wanting to get some glitter on my nails recently as it’s been a while, so when I saw this manicure bye hello_glitter on Instagram I thought I would recreate it.

First Polishes by Colour

Earlier I did a blog post on first polish by each notable brand that I own. In this post I want to talk about each polish I got in the notable colour category, the colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple) as well as black, white and nude.

Reciprocal Gradient nail art and nail polish disaster!

I’m a big fan of Christine from simplenailological and she does this reciprocal gradient design (top left in above image) that I love so I decided to give it a try myself.

I was also at my sisters this week so I used all of her polishes. My sister also had this flaky glitter polish that I wanted to use as an accent nail.

Now all my nails broke while I was on holiday as I wasn’t taking as good care of them so that’s why they all look shorter. and i dint have my good camera with me so the photo quality is not the best (sorry).

Mike/ Mutt MotorCity nail art

My best friend and I love this show called Motorcity, it want very popular and only ran for one season in 2012 but it was so good that I still love it. Short version the burners led by mike drive in cars trying to protect Motorcity from Kane who wants to destroy it as he can’t control Motorcity.

So in the past I’ve done nail art based on all three of the five burners but not there leader mike. I’ve put it off so long as I dint have the right shade of green but I’m visiting my friend so I decided I would have to make do with what I have.

Jelly Sandwich Nails

So I watch jenny Clear Fox and MissHollyBerrys YouTube video on jelly sandwich nails and a year ago I tried to do it too. As you can see from the photo I chose a jelly and a cream polish that I thought it would be sheer enough to do this with and it didn’t really work. Recently I decided to try it again as I had this pink jelly polish that I hadn’t used yet.

Geometric triangle nails

I have been seeing a lot of these triangle styed nails around recently and decided to give it a go myself.

 I decided to use chi chi salon formula -sophisticated sassy as I haven’t used this polish in a long time and decided it was time to try it out again and this random sheer nude colour from models prefer because I haven’t actually used it yet.

Easter Nail Art

So its Easter weekend and I was feeling a bit uninspired when thinking about what to put on my nails. All Easter patterns start to look the same, pastels with egg prints and bunny/chicks on them, and I had done those looks in previous years.

Nail stickers

Hi everyone,

As you may of scene in my recent haul post my friend Hayley got me 3 sets of nail stickers for my birthday. I have had sally hanson nail stickers before but not this Glossy Blossom brand. So I immediately wanted to give it a try.

First up I wanted to try the sweetheart stickers. I also brought some new OPI polish around the same time so wanted to use them as well so I peered the sweet heart sticker with OPIs Cosmo with a twist and this was the result.

DIY cuticle products

If you saw my post on DIY cuticle oil then you saw how I ran out of cuticle oil so followed a recipe to make some more for me and a couple of small bottles to give as gifts. Well I went through the oil that I made. So I decided to make some more DIY cuticle products.

Yellow bead manicure

My sister passed on to me the Chi Chi pearl bead manicure clear polish as she thought she would hardly use it as it wasn’t very often she did bead nails and when she did she could use a normal top coat over the beads to hold them in place rather than the bead polish.

So I wanted to give the pearl bead manicure clear polish a go to try it out for myself. And to see if it could perform as a normal top coat as well.

Flatting/Leaving Home Nails

So I have just moved and left home which means all the furniture clashes, you get the most amazing retro designs and pattern. The family essentially give you everything that they no longer want and it all gets put into your new place as it free and you’re not going to complain.

So I got inspired by all this clashing and mismatched items and have created this manicure inspire by the house.

Matte neon pink leopard print nails

So after seeing a lot of leopard print nails on Pinterest I’ve been thinking about doing another leopard print manicure for a while. Then I was thinking about what colours to do and this neon pink that my friend gave me popped into my head as I haven’t used it yet, and my sister had this shredded flaky glitter polish that I’ve bean wanting to uses. And then the inspiration keeps coming as I remembered seeing a YouTube video by Jenny Claire Fox called Matte Nail Art♥ Three Easy Ideas!  in it she put a matte top coat over a shredded glitter. And all these elements came together to create this look.

Instagram account

So hay peps.

This is a quick post to about how my Instagram account is now UP TO DATE. So excite.

So when I got my Instagram account I was going to post daily until I had posted all my previous manicures and then post weakly after that when I did my new manicure of the week.

December nail art challenge

I decided to take part in the December nail art challenge hosted by rose_nailpolish and nailsby_bridget on Instagram and it was so much fun.

Dec 1^st - snowman

As I live in the southern hemisphere December is the first month of summer so this felt a bit wrong to me but I put a summer twist on this and I think it’s cute although the snowman doesn’t look as melted as I wanted him to.

Top polish of 2015

Ok so I’m choosing my favourite nail polish that I brought in 2015 (not released in 2015) and I didn’t have to think too hard about this one as I love it so much.

Top 5 designs of 2015

This is my five favourites nail art designs form this year. I sorted through all by photos to choose the only 5 to make it on to this list.

Number five:

Bee nails. My friend borrowed the yellow polish in this photo and it look really cool on her and it inspired me to create this cute bumble bee design for spring. I had to wait a few weeks to do it though as I had a couple of events to go to that needed themed nails…

Polishes used:

•         Chip preventer – OPI chip skip
•          Base coat - OPI nail envy              
•          Top coat -Rimmel London finishing touch
•          Black nail art pen - sally hansen nail art pen Black/noir
•          Yellow – unknown