Life in Lacquer Nail Art Challenge July: FLORAL

After a little faux pas on monday, some of you may have already seen these! I was sat in my car looking at lions in Longleat when my twitter went a bit mental as I had published the wrong post DUH!

Today's prompt is Floral... I decided to give one stroke another go.I wanted to do something very feminine so decided to use pink and of course some glitter!

A couple days ago I bought the Cupcakes and Champagne collection by Ruby Wing from a nail friend only and I couldn't resist using one!
If you didn't know the collection of polishes are all scented and they change in the sunlight!
The scent is strong even with a topcoat on, its divine!

For this look I used Essie Neo Whimsical and Color Club Strawberry Shortcake. The roses are painted using some acrylic paint.

My one stroke still needs loads of work and my middle finger is the worst but I do still like the look of this nail art and I am pretty proud of the results.

You can see the other challenge entries below and please go and give them a view. 

An InLinkz Link-up

GUEST POST Butterflies by Nailallure

As the lovely Jade is on holiday I am honoured to do a guest post for her. Have a good holiday, Jade!

Since we've enjoyed some sunny days recently, I thought it would be nice to do a fun, bright and girly manicure. Pink butterflies seemed a good choice for a cheerful manicure like that!

For this manicure, I painted the pointer and little finger with Models Own Hypergel Cerise Shine. The middle finger and thumb are painted with Models Own Hypergel White Light. The ring finger has on Sally Hansen Sugar Coat Razzle-Berry, a blue textured polish.

I stamped the image with the butterflies from the Cheeky Jumbo Plate 2 - Tropical Holiday with Mundo de Uñas 2 - Black stamping polish. I used the lead light technique to colour the butterflies pink. This is basically using a dotting tool to colour in the stamped image with a translucent polish. I used a jelly polish Nails Inc Henley Regatta for this.

I added blue rhinestones to two nails and finished with topcoat. Hope you enjoyed the manicure as much as I did!

Oh my! these are so sumemry! Thanks Nootan and please pop over to see her blog and Facebook! 

Breast Cancer Awareness Mini Challenge Day 5

Its the last day of the challenge today and I think I have left the best til last! 

Today we have an Ombre mani with a hand painted heart and ribbon motif. 

I Used 

Essie Lights 

Essie Flawless 

Essie Neo Whimsical 

OPI If You Moust You Moust 

Acrylic paint in white

G&G HK topcoat 

Pearls from +BornPretty BPS 

I think this is my fave of all of them, what do you think? Breast Cancer Awareness Nail-Supporters

Pish Posh and Polish	Nail Parade!	No More Nail Polish Mum!
Monkey Nails	Emma's Little Corner	The Pink PrincessZ
Life in Lacquer	Neon Sparkly Nails

 

Guest Post For PishPosh and Polish

Today I am over at PishPosh and Polish with a very girly mani!

Kerrie was on holiday so had other (lucky) bloggers fill in for her! 

Go check out my post and others HERE 

Simple Stamping over OPI Pussy Galore!

I have never tried any OPI liquid Sands before but now i finally own one! 

Dont get me wrong I do own textured polishes just not any by OPI ;)

I have wanted this polish for a long time and it hasn't disappointed! 

This is two coats with no topcoat. 

Pussy Galore is a really pretty pastel pink with a pretty shimmer. My camera refused to pick up this shimmer really but its there in real life. 

This just reminds me so much of cupcake topping!

The stamping was done with MoYou Pro plate 4 and 10

What do you think of textured polishes? I actually really like them!

Owl Stamping Nail Art

Something very strange must have happened as I have incredibly girly nails today! 

They have also had the chop! I have very curvy nails so after a certain length they look all silly!

For this I used OPI's Pink Friday as a base. My god was this streaky, I had an absolute nightmare getting this on. 

This is three coats.

 Dont get me wrong I love this colour but it infuriated me :(

The Owl is from a MoYou London stamping plate, filled in with OPI's Suzis Hungry Again and Fly. 

The black is Konad Special Polish. 

Over all I do like this but maybe next time I would choose different colours.

What do you think?

Mountain Nail art

Hello my lovelies! 

The wether has been so bleugh here! 

yesterday we had our father in law round and he is an artist so as you can imagine we were sat talking and painting for a while lol! 

So this is what we came up with..... 

Marcus *father in law* gave me some tips and painted some things for me to copy. 

I actually found this okay to do, not too hard! 

Okay so we have mountains,birds, a kite and a hot air balloon. 

I used Essie's Butler Please and Avenue Maintain and a little BarryM at the bottom of the gradient. 

The rest is acrylic paints. 

So what do you think? I think the gradient could have been better but its all good practice! 

Polka Dot With Bows!

These are the nails I'm wearing today and I must say these freaking rock! 

I used Essie Neo Whimsical as the base, three coats. Then plain old Black by Barry M

Believe it or not I purchased these bows from POUNDLAND! But I have also seen them on eBay etc. the diamanté in the middle is also super cute! 

I beg you to all to give this look a go. I've said it once and ill say it again 

IM IN LOVE!! 

Leopard Print French Style Mani

I absolutely love this! Pastel Blue And Barbie Pink by Kleancolor with Leopard print using Black and Special Effect Silver Foil by Barry M

I used tape to make the lines super sharp

I'm in LOVE!!