Cadillacquer Seek the Fire with Stamping

A quick and simple mani today using one of my favourite brands, Cadillacquer.

Cadillacquer polishes are so unique and I love pretty much all of them. They have colour combinations you wouldn't necessarily put together but always look good. My fave indie polish of all time, Masterpiece, is made by Cadillacquer.

Love Skittle Nail Art

This mani is super cute, even if I do say so myself :)

This is a skittle mani a la Nailasaurus, as you all know I love +The Nailasaurus.

 She is a real inspiration to me :)

I got sent these really lush Love charms from Effect Beauty. The feature a little diamante and I really love them. I did bent them a little to get them to sit flatter but I think it would probably sit better if I had bigger or longer nails. 

Doing different nail arts on different nails is quite fun as you get to try out different designs and see what you like :) 

I used BarryM Rose Hip for the base, I really dislike the formula of this polish.

 Intensely.

I also used Zoya Areej and Barry M Dragon Fruit. 

What so you all think? 

The Love charms are available to buy from Effect Beauty and used LACQUER at the checkout for 10% off. 

some of these products were sent to me for my honest review. please see my disclaimer for details. 

Blue Flower Nail Art

Today I have some pretty stickers from Sparkly Nails to show you.

I really wanted to use my new Girly Bits polish called Cosmic Ocean so I used it over this LAME gradient. It is so much more noticeable in real life but pastels are my enemy! I can never get them to show their true colours!

Cosmic Ocean is so sexy. It makes a huge difference to the polish and mani overall. It gives it a blue iridescent glittery shimmer that really makes it pop!

I used BarryM Gelly in Guava with Blueberry sponged onto the ends. If you squint you may be able to see it!!

The stickers are very easy to apply, they are the spongy type of stickers. After I have applied the stickers I just top them off with a top coat. 

I think they go really well with the blues.

You can buy these stickers and other nail art bits HERE and you can check out Girly Bits HERE

Hope you are all having a good week so far!


*these stickers were sent to me for review. All opinions are my own HONEST thoughts and ramblings*

Eden Project Inspired Nail Art

Here is my take on Eden Project nail art! 

It was my birthday last saturday and as a treat my husband took as all to the Eden Project. We even stayed a weekend in a hotel! 

My boys loved looking at all the flowers and my eldest loved going up VERY high on the viewing platform with daddy. 

Okay so these really are not great, but please bare in mind I have been pretty ill and out of the game awhile! 

The topcoat smudged the crap out of these. 

BUT all in all you get the jist of it and if they had been done better I would be ecstatic! 

We had a truly great time away and I would definitely recommend +Eden Project to anyone!

Doc Marten Roses Inspired by Get Nailed

 I have been watching a lot of Get Nailed Videos on YouTube and I had to give this one a go!

Let me first apologise again for my crap cuticles and fingers in general :( They just are not getting better!

I used BarryM Berry Ice Cream, Vivid Purple and Bright Purple.

The leaves are OPIs Dont Mess With OPI, I also used BarryM Nail art pens in white and black to highlight them in places. 

View Get Nailed videos HERE

What do you think of these roses? Do you like floral manis?

Floral Full Nail Water Decals

 

I bought a job lot of full nail water decals on EBay for the grand total of £3.99!

I had seen people using these on a few different You Tube Vids and i was really impressed with the results. Water Decals are also available as single images.

 

They remind me of the temporary tattoos i used to get out of bubble gum :)

 

They are actually really easy to use and only took me around 15 min to do one hand. The only problem i found was that the sizes were abit weird but its not hard to just re size them. The Decals are also thicker than i expected as i was worried they would break during application but no breakages!

 

To Apply;

Remove all packaging, Duh ;)

Size up decal to nail and trim if needed.

Submerge transfer in water

Life off of the paper, using tweezers helps

Place transfer on the nail and blot of excess water with kitchen roll (or something similar)

Apply Top coat

 

Handy little tip for application, i saw this on one you tube vid.....

Leave the edge of the wrap longer than required  (don't file off)

drag the top coat right to the end of the wrap

wait a couple seconds.....

the wrap will shrink backward and cap the free edge, for longer wear and a cleaner edge

some excess wrap that had shrunk back will need to be removed, i use a cocktail stick.

 

 I think i will use these in the future ALOT as i have had them on for 2 days already and they haven't chipped or anything!

Application was also smooth and there were no creases so in that respect they gave a smoother finish than the nail wraps i have previously tried. Everything gets better with practise though!

Have a nailtastic weekend guys!