Autumn Leaves Nail Art

I am a big fan of Autumn. I love the colours, the weather and of course the darker nights.
I was really struggling for ideas the other day and one of my beautiful readers planted a seed of inspiration in my head, thanks Helen Benton!

Today we have a mani using some autumn colours and some hand painted vines.

To see what I used please join us after the jump! 

Yume Lacquer Let's Positive Thinking Swatch and Review

FINALLY I have finished all my crochet orders so I am now on full speed ahead catching up on the old blogging!!

Today I have, what I can only describe as, a grown up polish! This polish makes me feel so grown up and elegant.

 Plus I love the way it looks on my nails. 

I think it really suits me :)

Without further ado this is Let's Positive Thinking by Yume lacquer.

Bottle shot ^^

Its a chestnutty yummy warm brown with a purply pink micro glitter. Look at how grown up and elegant it makes me lol! 

The formula is great, two coats shown here with topcoat. 

The glitter isnt grainy or anything so thats great too. 

I love this. REALLY love it! If I had to go and be taken seriously somewhere this would be the polish I would wear.

What do you all think?? 

Yume Lacquer is available through ETSY and go and show some love on her FACEBOOK and say I sent ya :P 

This polish was provided for review

Zoya Love Heart Nail Art

I have lost my Zoya virginity and my my am I in love! 

So much so that I have painted little hearts in acrylic paint! I have actually never don't free hand hearts before and this was relatively easy! The one thing I found hard was keeping them the same size. 

(proud of these pics lol)

This is two coats of Zoya Coco, a super pretty red brown, its like a raspberry brown. Very hard to describe. 

I find this type of colour really suits my skin tone and I really love them!

What do you think? Have you tried Zoya before?

Aztec Style Nail Stamping

Hello lovelys! 

I hope you all enjoyed the previous post from Penguins Left Green Polish. I sure did! Make sure to pop on over to her Blog as today is her birthday!! 

Today I have some basic stamping from a Cheeky Jumbo Plate called Viva Mexico. As you may recall I had some problems with a Cheeky delivery (you can read that post HERE) That has since been resolved somewhat and a partial refund was given. 

For this I have used a fan brush to brush Color Clubs Put a Pin In It over China Glazes Foie Gras.

Simples! 

I love browns but I don't get to use them as much as I would like as i find it hard to think of ways to jazz it up! 

I used Konad in white to do the stamping.

so what do you think? 

Cupcake Nails

 

Messy hands...Naughty!

 

 

Ive never tried doing cupcake nails before but i have seen so many other good examples on other blogs, its time i gave it a go.

 

I used nine polishes for this design!!

Its hard to see in these photos but the cases are Matte and the frosting is shiny!

 

I used Barry M Mushroom and Kleancolor Mocha for the cases. Kleancolor Mocha is the stripes.

 

The blue frosting is Kleancolor Pastel Teal with Kleancolor Starry Blue glitter sprinkles.

The pink icing is Essie Flawless with Barry M Silver Cascade sprinkles

 

The cute little hearts are Kleancolor Twinkly Love

 

There is a base colour on this design by Kleancolor called Cream Pearl but you really cant see it unless you look really closely. I just didn't want the nails to be bare underneath as I'm not keen on this idea.

 

I used a very thin dotting tool to do all of this. And i picked out the glitter individually using the dotting tool too. I did try a brush but it didn't cover very well and looked streaky.

 

I also think that i should have made the cases smaller especially on my ring finger.

 

here is a close up of my little finger.

 

 

what do you all think?