Cheer Up Glitter!

Being that time of year where colds are inevitable, and where work is chaos, I would like to cheer myself up by showing you one of my favourite glitters! This is Topshop's Dark Knight. and it was love at first sight! I'm really impressed with Topshop's polishes, though admittedly I don't have any plain colour ones. Wouldn't normally go to a clothes shop for nail varnish but they have some quite special ones that I just had to try.

It's a full cover polish with lots of different sizes and shades of glitter in a clear dark blue base, giving it a lovely multi-dimensional look. It needs a few coats to be opaque but would also look good in thinner coats over dark colours. I particularly like to wear it on an accent finger next to their black Matte Metallic polish. Nothing but good feedback on this one! Texture is slightly rough due to the glitter but can be smoothed out with a top coat.

Stamping Sundays: Beatle Mania

My 50th blog post today, how exciting! Today I'm showcasing my Mo You Rockstar Plate Collection no. 10. I had a little more trouble with this one than my doodles plate so had to make some amendments to my original intended design. I was going for the famous picture of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road in black on my blue nails, but just couldn't get the image to pick up. I think this is because the images are quite wide, and my black stamping polish doesn't seem to be quite as good as the white one. It's just that bit too thick I think.

So I made do with another image from the plate which I do think looks quite nice in white. The only downside is that I managed to miss off their heads on the middle finger. Doh! General feedback was that it was a nice pattern but people weren't sure what the image in the middle was meant to be, so I don't think this is one of my best manicures! Still, I like the colour combination and it was fun to have on for a couple of days.
Colours Used - Lady In Black - OPI, Blueberry - Barry M, White Knight - Mo You

Throwback Thursday: The one with the pom-poms!

Got something a bit silly to showcase tonight. After watching the last episode of Doctor Foster in iPlayer I think I need something a bit lighthearted! So, I got this Nail Rock pom-pom set on sale a little while ago in Topshop. I've got a couple of their other sets, the caviar and velvet but none as ridiculous as this! I like!

The set comes with a lovely green nail polish, which I think I'd be pretty tempted to wear on it's own. It's a nice consistency and lovely and shiny. Instructions are fairly simple, apply one coat, let it dry, apply another coat, press on pom-poms and allow to dry. Here are the results below:

In conclusion these were great fun and suprisingly long lasting! I wore them for a night out and the next morning I had only lost one. They lasted most of the next day but were starting to gather dust and look kind of grey, so I think these are a one day/night look. I actually had to cut the pom-poms off in the end but they were fairly easy to remove once it was just little fuzzy stubbs left. What do you think, super silly or super awesome?!

Nails Inc - The New White

Good evening! Today I'm reviewing a couple of polishes from Nails Inc's 'The New White' range. They are not especially new any more, I think they've been around for about a year now, but oh my they are beautiful! So I would like to share my thoughts though they are a little late.

The new white polishes are super pale, essentially 'shades' of white. The first I got was this lovely pale green, Swan Street, as a valentines day present and fell totally in love with it. The consistency is brilliant and the tapered brush makes it easy to apply and keep the edges neat. In the pictures and on the bottle you can see it's lovely white mint green shade, but in some lights it also looks a sort of duck egg blue, it's just wonderful!

As I loved Swan Street so much I went back for more! The pale grey shown below is White Horse Street. In the pictures it looks just a touch more matte than it is in life but the colour is the same. It's a lovely subtle shade and again it goes on really smoothly. Wore this for a client meeting the other day, the perfect grown-up colour! In conclusion I would highly recommend these! They're versatile and beautiful. Yet to try some nail art with them as I just love how they look on their own.


Colours Used: Swan Street - Nails Inc, White Horse Street - Nails Inc

Rainbow Fish!

Todays blog post is based on a colourful friendly kids character from a book I enjoyed as a child, the rainbow fish (Google him, he's a beauty!). I saw a fish scale manicure on Instagram and decided to simplify it a bit as I was short on time. I've used dotting tools to add on one colour at a time, in  the Instagram video the colours are layered going down the nail to look more like scales.

I really like this one. Although it took a while for all the colours to dry it wasn't difficult and had a detailed final effect.

Colours Used: Blueberry - Barry M, Cyan - Barry M, Indigo - Barry M, Spring Green - Barry M, Holland Park - Nails Inc, Never Been Kissed - Topshop, Soho Silver - Kate Spade at Nails Inc

I've included a picture of the base colour, Barry M's Blueberry, as I love the way it looks! I've used it a lot lately, it goes on smoothly and is lovely and shiny. Big fan!

Stamping Sundays: Guest Nails

So, I said last week that Stamping Sundays would be fortnightly... But I've been doing a lot of it recently, and as I have had some kindly volunteers for practise I think I should be able to do it weekly for the near future.

Below we have my sister Imogen's nails modelling a sea themed design from my Born Pretty stamping plate number 23. I bought this one as it has a little whale on it :) This design was done to go with an outfit she wore to a barge party we went to for a family friends birthday. The colours matched her skirt, and the flowers on her top.

I found it a little tricky to pick up the whale image as it's quite a thick image. I've found that the more fiddly stamping designs tend to pick up better. All in all pretty pleased with how this turned out, I think the colours suited the design well. Ttfn!

Colours Used: Papaya - Barry M, Guava - Barry M, White Knight - Mo You

Throwback Thursday: Pastel Patterns

Todays throwback is a little rough round the edges, it was my first attempt at outlining my nails round the edges, and all the lines were done with a Barry M nail art pen. Inspiration from Pinterest but as with many of my throwback Thursdays I'm not sure where this would have been from so if you know please let me know so I can credit.

Finally have a watermark! :) Thank you to my lovely boyfriend for help with this. Thinking of adding it to all my older blog posts but I think it would take a while!

Colours Used: Mint Green - Barry M, Berry Ice Cream - Barry M, Colville Mews - Nails Inc, Nail Art Pen in Black - Barry M