Cosy At Home :)

Hello world! Today I'm sharing some snuggly nail art and a new ILNP polish from my untried collection. The ILNP shade is Aspen and it's from one of their latest winter collections. I love the muted yet sparkly effect and it's a bit different to other colours I go for at this time of year. I feel like there's lots I could do with it.

While my base colour was drying I made decals on my Uber Mat, you can see how here. All images used are from Uber Chic's Cosy At Home stamping plate. It's an unusual theme for a plate I think and I love it! I decided to go for a sort of greyscale look but did add an orange flame. I'm really pleased with the way the colours worked together.

To conclude, I love this look! I like the colour combination, the relaxed feel and the images being different to anything else I've done on my nails before. We're doing some ongoing DIY at the moment so it feels quite fitting to have interior themed nails!

Colours used: Aspen - ILNP, Black Stamping Polish - Dance Legend, Cream Soda - Barry M, White Horse Street - Nails Inc, Beach Hut - Models Own, Grey - Barry M

Halloween Nails - There Are Ghosts In My Tea!

Hello all and happy Sunday! Sun is very much shining here today which is lovely, but definitely feeling very autumnal still. I am fully embracing it now! Today I'm back with another prompt for the Glam Nails Challenge October on Instagram. Today the theme is ghosts, and I was keen to use my new Cuticula nail polish as a base. This gave me the idea of making them tea themed as well, as it's from a tea themed Cuticula collection. I also recently purchased some autumn stamping plates with tea images, as well as some Halloween ones, so it seemed like a perfect combination.

As above I started with a base of Honeydew Tea from Cuticula. I then used the advanced stamping technique to make decals for the tea and book images, as well as the teapot, all images from the new Mo You London Fall In Love 08 stamping plate. On my ring finger I just used the top half of the pile of books image as I had less nail space. I then used white stamping polish and the Halloween 13 plate, also Mo You London, for the ghosts. I couldn't quite fit it on my thumb so it looks a bit more like steam than a ghost, but I still like it! I finished the look with a matte top coat as it makes the colours pop and I thought it worked well with the book images too.

In conclusion I really like these! The shade of green is unlike other polishes I have, and I love the images from the stamping plates. I had fun combining two different themes and I really like the way it looks. I also enjoy the Cuticula tea themed polishes too, I love a concept collection! There are six pictures today instead of my usual four, as I wanted to get a couple with my little ghost in a bottle, Boo-vier!

Colours used: Honeydew Tea - Cuticula, Black Stamping Polish - Rainbow Connection, Laguna - Barry M, Cobalt Blue - Barry M, White Stamping Polish - Rainbow Connection, Basil Street - Nails Inc