Star Water Decals from Sparkly Nails

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Hello!
Today I have some water decals from Sparkly Nails to show you, Water decals are so easy to use and I would recommend them to people who are not comfortable in hand painting or looking for something that is quick and easy to do but yields great results.

I chose to use some Essie polishes and gradient them, I then added some glitter to the middle to fingers!
To read all the details and see more pictures then join me after the jump!

O.P.I Gradient and Stamping Nail Art

I recently bought some new O.P.I and thought I would do a little nail at with them!

I haven't bought any newer O.P.I's in a while but when I saw these lovely shades I just had to! I am in love in corals and pinky shades at the mo, which is strange as I used to hate orange or pink shades with a passion. I think I may have turned into a girl.


For this subtle gradient I used Sorry I am Fizzy Today and Live Love Carnival. Sorry I Am Fizzy Today doesn't have a great formula unfortunately. Its streaky and hard to apply and took three coats and I still wasn't happy, but I am willing to forgive as I LOVE this shade. It is unlike any other pinks I have.

They may look quite similar shades in my photos but as you can see in the bottle shot they really are different.
I then added some stamping using a MoYou stamping plate. Its an abstract design that reminds me of something you would see on an fabric from the 1980/1990's.

What do you think of this nail art? Have you tried any of these O.P.I shades?

Life in Lacquer Challenge:INSPIRED BY ANOTHER NAIL ARTIST OR BLOGGER

Ill start of by apologising. I am really late on this prompt but I do have a good excuse I swear!!

As you can see we have had a big change here at Life in Lacquer.... We are now a dot com! This is a big step for me and its really made me feel quite accomplished!
I also have a fantastic new layout courtesy of Shiny Magic. They are so reasonably priced and was really easy to install.

Okay so back to the last prompt of the Life in Lacquer July Challenge. I chose one of my fave bloggers Let Them Have Polish.
She did a fantastic look called Rainbow Ombre and she also made a tutorial. All of which can be found on her original post.

Here's my take...

I used the exact method she did my following her YouTube tutorial. 

The colours I chose are bright so to me it looks a bit like a galaxy nail art! 

The shades I used were

Moyra Bubblegum Limoncello 622

Moyra 102

China Glaze Electric Beat 

OPI Pink Friday 

Manhattan 67N

Essie Mojito Madness

CND Vinylux Cream Puff (base) 

I used Sick Lacquers Pastel Fusion over the top to give it some glitz. This bottle is not pictured in the bottle shot (I forgot, sorry!)

I then matted it all using Mentality Matte Top Coat. I love this topcoat and the effect it gives. 

The clean up wasn't great as I got it everywhere, but I am still happy with the look. I also found Let Them Have Polishes video really easy to follow. 

So what do you think of this nail art? 

Also what are your thoughts on the new look? There's more to come with the look so its a work in progress.

Marcus Manis!

Marcus is back! It feels like ages since he has had a guest spot here!

As many of you will know Marcus is my father in law and he is also an artist. He regularly comes around and dones my nails for me. Its nice to have someone who supports my mad obsession and even joins in!

Marcus is a skilled painter and hes really good at making mosaics.. More on that very soon.
Today's nail art is based on the colourways of a beautiful picture he painted in 2000 and now proudly hangs in my living room!

I love the way this nail art came out. Its bright and summer orientated! I feel the lined gradient came out looking like a beautiful sunset.

What do you all think? Do you enjoy seeing what Marcus comes up with?

 You can see more of Marcus's Art work HERE 

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*

Guest Post ~ Penguins Left Green Polish

Hey all!

Another guest post here for the lovely Jade :) poor girlie is feeling poorly, so what's the best medicine!? Lay in bed and watch as many TV shows as possible and have some lovely ladies who love to give a helping hand out with blog posts! WOOOP!

Hopefully Jade will be feeling better real soonsies :D!!!

I bought a new bottle of white polish recently since those colours seem to thicken and become a pain in the ass real quick! I decided to do a quick gradient on it to test out its durability and I am so impressed! LOL by white polish :D!!

I used light pastel colours for the gradient and topped it off with some fine glitter polish which I don't think its very visible...but its there trust me!

Here it is :)

The colours are very light and really blend nicely together :) I do like gradients but I dislike the clean up after!

What do you ladies think!?

Thank you Jade for having me again! :D get well soon! xox

Bye for now!

x

French Tip Drip

 Nail Delights sent me these lovely smART stencils to try out. They reminded me of dripping water so I couldn't resist a blue gradient.

I found the stencils really easy to use as they don't pull up the underneath polish like normal tape or masking tape. they are made of a more plastic type material and they are really sticky but not in a way that damages the polish.

Colours are 

Fuchsia by China Glaze as the base. 2 coats

Blueberry Ice Cream and Gelly Blackberry both by Barry M

They come in a wide range of designs and cost £1.50 a pack and you can by them HERE

 

^ Here are the stencils ^

Holographic Splatter

 Here is some splatter nail art I did for the Nail Polish Lovers Weekly Challenge. 

I used two coats of Purple With A Purpose by OPI on the index and little finger, then used a make up sponge to layer on the Holographic Hero by Gosh to make a gradient. Then added studs from the Born Pretty store.

For the splatter I used Holographic Hero for the base, 2 coats. Then used a straw dipped in Purple With A Purpose and lightly blowed to create the splatter. 

*HINT* Cover your cuticles and surrounding skin with masking tape to minimize clean up.

I love this mani as it really catches the light. Massive fan of Holographic polishes!