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

Stamping Sunday: Hygge Nails

Hello and happy Sunday! Todays nail art is the last from my birthday nail art poll on Instagram (came joint third with the liquid crystal look from my last post). The theme is hygge, which is what I'd wanted to theme my 30th birthday celebrations around if I could have had a party. According to Google Hygge is a Danish and Norwegian word for a mood of comfort and coziness with feelings of wellbeing and contentment. I'm sure you can see the appeal but it helps that I really love visiting Norway too (such a shame we won't be able to go this year!). Mo You London brought out a hygge themed plate as part of the autumn collection this year (Fall In Love 08) so there will definitely be more of this theme from me!

I started with a base of pale blue (colours listed below the pictures) and then created decals using my Uber Mat for the middle finger, index finger and thumbnails, you can see how here. On my middle and little fingers I used white stamping polish to apply the cosy jumper and speckled images (the speckles don't show up that well but they're on my middle finger - looking forward to trying some other colour variations for that one!). I then added some wording over the top, unfortunately I smudged the words on my middle finger a bit with my matte top coat, it's not a great one! 

Overall I quite like these, I like the cosy vibe (see the picture with my dressing gown!) and the theme, I do think I could do better hygge nails though, they need a bit of glitter to bring me true feelings of contentment! :D I also think the mushrooms on my thumb could have been better, the two colours I used look too similar to each other.

Colours used: Borrowed & Blue - Essie, White Stamping Polish - Rainbow Connection, Indigo - Barry M, Soft Focus - ILNP, Oyster - Barry M, Seven Dials - Nails Inc

Nail Art for Mole Day!

Hi everyone and a belated Happy Mole Day to you! Mole day took place on Wednesday 23rd October, and commemorates Avogadro's number, which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry (yep, I got that straight from Google). It is celebrated by chemists, chemistry students and chemistry enthusiasts, or so I'm lead to believe, but there does seem to be a bit of a mole animal theme. This year my boyfriend and I celebrated it with pizza, Mole Day themed cupcakes and my mole nails! We have had a bit of an obsession with moles this year after seeing a couple in the wild and subsequently finding some YouTube videos of them, They're so wiggly and cute!!

So this nail art was specifically inspired by a video on Youtube by Matty Molenator, of a mole walking on a glass panel. You can see the mole from underneath as it wiggles along! I started of by painting all of my nails with three layers of Hygge by Cirque Colors. This was the colour in my collection that I think most resembles glass. For the moles I was looking for my black acrylic paint but couldn't find it, so ended up using a Topshop matte metallic black as it has a good consistency for painting.

The moles are pretty much just little blobs with hands, feet and noses! I did do eyes as well but in dark brown so they didn't stand out much, as moles eyes are inconspicuous. The ones on my fingernails represent where the mole appears in different frames in the video, and on my thumb nails are the best bits, when the full mole wiggles into view! If you're into mole nail art you can see some mole themed Valentines Day nails I did a while ago here, and also, you're awesome!
Colours used: Hygge - Cirque Colors, Croupier - Topshop, Charlotte - Nails Inc