Laquerdaisical Christmas Collection Swatches and Review- Candy Caned

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Last week I was sent two polishes from the Laquerdaisical Christmas collection and decided to split the post into two as this one is a very picture heavy post!

Candy Caned is a clear to red thermal with red and white large glitter and micro red glitters.

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For loads more pictures and to see my full review please click "Read More" 

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! 

Moyra Beatrice with rose nail art

Meet Beatrice, another gel look polish by Moyra. As you may already know I really like Moyra polishes. They have a wider brush, fantastic formula and they are a bargain!

As I said this is a gel look polish so is supposed to be more shiny. Usually I topcoat all my mani's but today I haven't so you can see that it is in fact a little more shiny. Only a little mind you!

More details and pictures after the page break. Click read more, to well, read more! 

Carmine Mani by Marcus

I'm technically on holiday at the mo... Can you believe Ive been so organised Ive scheduled posts!!
I cant have you all going without nail art can I?!


Marcus, as regular readers will know, is my father in law. Marcus seems to have really gotten into nail art and its great to sit down and bounce ideas around!


This mani features three reds

MaxFactors Glossfinity in 110 Red Passion, Zoya PixieDust in Chyna and China Glaze City Siren.

These colours all covered really well so no white base was needed. Marcus just used a thin brush to do the red design and then outlined in black. 

For this design we decided to topcoat over the PixieDust and man was that a glittery red!

You would need more than just the one coat of topcoat. 

We only used one though.

What do you think of this nail art? I think this is so fab! 

Its easy to do and can be done in any colour combo! You could even add studs or dots? 

Don't fret guys I will be back soon and we can chat all about my holiday... 

Bet ya cant wait ?!!

My Father in Law Does My Nails AGAIN!!

I think this may become a regular thing! 

My father in law has done my nails again..... I think he really loves doing this and hes showing real promise too, he'll have his own nail business soon you watch LOL 

He again did it in some sort of arty style but Lord knows what. I kinda switched off haha! 

He has some more ideas too so watch this space! He will be teaching us all art history through nail art! 

He used OPI Alpine Snow and two nail art stripers by Color Club.

Then a nice coat of Seche Vite to shine it up!

What do you think of Marcus's second nail art? I think it looks so good! 

Rose Water Decals

Christmas is over :( 

I love the festive season and I love having the family all together. 

I mentioned in another post about a prize I won in a giveaway. This is one of the packs of water decals I chose from +BornPretty BPS 

I am incredibly disappointed with this :( 

The decals didn't show their colours over this base which is Red-ical Gypsy by Color Club. 

This shade enraged me no end. Its like dark and jelly and building the colour is shit!! Ive been put right off this, its all patchy! 

It is darker in real life, more of a muddy red. 

So all in all not chuffed. But manis cant be good all of the times :P 

I hope you all had a fab Christmas? I hope you got all you wanted x

Remembrance Day Poppy Nails

As we adorn our clothes with a poppy for remembrance day I thought I would do the same on my nails. 

I chose to do a poppy based on the poppies we wear rather than the actual flower. 

I used OPI's I Have a Herring Problem. Grey with a small gold glitter. 

This shade was quite thin, 3 coats in these pics. 

I also find it more grey in real life not sooo blue. 

I used acrylic paint for the poppy. 

Lest We Forget. 

X

Red Heart Nail Art

A couple weeks ago I was rooting through my stash looking for a red, a proper red. A pillar box red, if you will. 

And to my shock and horror I didn't have one!! So the next day we were out shopping and my husband went off on his own to the bank, only when i saw him later he suprised me with THE perfect red! What a babe!

So today I have some lovely valentines day type nails (in oct) lol. 

This is Max Factor Glossfinity Red Passion 110

The polish is pretty much opaque with two coats but you can still see my smile line on some nails. This is a tad less noticeable in real life.

Applies well although I did fine it a tad thin but the coverage isn't affected and I actually prefer a polish to be thinner as long as it builds up well. 

I used a stamping plate by Cheeky to do this mani. 

Arsenal Nail Art

I hate football, like literally cannot stand it!

BUT my husband is soo supportive of my nail and all the stuff that comes along with it that I thought I would do an art just for him :)

The shot of the cannon is terrible and to be fair the cannon is pretty crap too but I havent done any hand painting in a while.I am quite happy with the result.

I chose to do the number 10 as my husbands fave player was Dennis Bergkamp. 

I used Essie Shes Pampered and BarryM Foil Effects in Gold. The rest is acrylic paint. 

The studs are from the Born Pretty Store.

What do you think? What is your fave team?

Marilyn Retro Inspired Nail Art

Today I have some retro inspired nails for you all. 

I received some new plates from MoYou at the weekend and have been having a play :) These designs are from plate Pro Plate 10. 

MoYou London have some of the best stamping plates I have ever seen and are releasing new ranges every Friday. Check them out HERE

The Marilyn didn't come out as well as I had hoped but in real life it looks super cool, just looks a bit funny up close LOL 

I was sent these beautiful bubble lips from Sparkly nails. They are flat back and easy to apply. I think they really set off the design! You can purchase them and other nail art bits HERE

Products Used 

Essie Shes Pampered 

Konad White 

MoYou London Pro Plate 10 

Seche Vite 

Bubble Charm from Sparkly Nails 

What do you all think? I love the mini Ben Day inspired dots, just think of all the different ways you could use them, with laying etc...

*some of these products were sent to me for an HONEST review. The views on this product are COMPLETELY my own.*

Paris Nail Art

 This is my very lame attempt at Paris themed nail art!

I chose this design as my sister is going to Paris tonight on a school quiz. 

I did the Eiffel Tower three times and its still terrible! The annoying thing is that i did it PERFECT the first time but then I went and smudged it :( 

But i must say the flag are darn near perfect!! 

I used Barry M White as a base x 2 coats

Racey Rouge by Sally Hansen 

Barry M Gelly in Blackberry and Barry M Nail Art Pen in Black

Royal Bow

 I have been so ill this week I haven't had chance to do anything! So here is my first nail art, a red, white and blue mani with a bow. 

This really reminds me of a English Royal celebration with the colours and confetti type topcoat. 

Unfortunately the blue i used for the bow smudged a bit when i added the Poshe topcoat. 

I used;

Base colour: OPI's Red Lights Ahead,Where? 

Confetti: InVougue feather Effect in Jaye Bird

Bow: Barry M's Gelly Nail Paint in Blackberry, Barry M Nail Art Pens in Black and White. 

I absolutely love this design, and I really like the InVogue Feather Effect on top of the red. It really reminds me of England!

The OPI looks orange in this light and it is really more of a bright red, but for some reason i couldnt really capture this on my camera.

You can purchase the whole InVogue range in Superdrug and HERE

 Here the colour of the OPI is a lot more accurate.

Sally Hansen Inst Dri in Racey Rouge

 

Racey Rouge actually looks quite pink in the bottle but after application it is red,

Sally Hansen Insta Dri is supposed to be a one stroke and one coat polish but it isn't.

I applied 2 coats and you could still see my smile line underneath. (my nails are NOT false)

 

It has one of those big brushes so it is easier to apply, for me, but i wouldn't call it one stroke.

It does dry very quickly.

It goes on really well and is a lovely red colour.

 

 

 

Cloud Nails

 

 

The weekly challenge this week on the Nail Polsih Lovers community on Google+ is Cloud Nails

I added 2x coats of 24 carat by Kleancolor on the midlle finger.

The base colour is Racy Rouge By Sally Hansen.

 

I used Essie Blue Rhapsody and the black and white Barry M nail art pens.

Barry M nail art pens are absolutley fantastic! So easy to use and i prefur them to a brush.

The little finger is a partial stamp from the Cheeky 2012 summer collection.

 

Love this design. It reminds me of something abit cartoony :)

InVogue Matt Concrete Effect Nails

 

 Received this in the post today,nail mail!!

I Purchased a few InVogue Polishes from +Fragrance Direct as id never seen them before but they are only £2.50. How can you resist that?!

When OPI brought out liquid sand i really didn't like the idea of having a textured nail but i must say i actually liked Spellbound by InVogue, the colour is really bright and looks fantastic. I couldnt stop looking at them and toching them.Even my son kept touching them "ooo bumpy!"

The overall effect is matt. Iveadded a topcoat to the ring finger so you could see the difference between the matt and shiny effects.

It was as annoying as glitter polish to remove but it was surprisingly easier when removing the one with a top coat on.

All in all i would wear this again as the colour is so beautiful and bright.

 

 

 

 

Nautical Nails again :)

 

 I apologise for the messiness of this application, i had a few problems with this design and i was getting abit annoyed ;P

 

OK so here we have another nautical design using Barry M polishes.

I used Cheeky Plate CH36 from the summer 2012 collection.

Stamped using Barry M Gelly Pomegranate and Blackberry.

Base is Barry M White

Holographic striping tape and diamante to finish.

I do love this design as i really like this stamp, but i maybe should have kept all the nails the same design as i think it looks abit "busy"

 

I used Lumos top coat to help the tape stay down and i left the polish a good hour before applying and is STILL smudged the stamping.

does anyone have any tips on how i can prevent this?

I'm thinking of changing to Seche Vite as i find the Lumos only completely dries on professional polishes and not on budget or high street ranges. I find it works really well on China Glaze for instance but not very well on say Barry M or Kleancolor.

 

 

Star Manicure Design, Peel Offs

 

 

I went to my Nans and had a rifle through her craft room, that's right a whole room dedicated to craft *swoon* In her card making supplies i found some peel offs and thought i could use them as stencils......

and it worked! i use tape for alot of my nail art anyway so i suppose its not much different.

 

just make sure the nail polish is really, truly dry before you put the stickers on or it'll peel off the polish.

 

The cuticles are a half star

 

i used Essie Neo Whimsical and Barry M Gelly Pomegranate

 

Ive used Neo Whimsical alot recently but i just love it. Its a lovely spring colour.

 

 

Does Myleen Have Klass?

Time to try some nail wraps. Ive seen nail wraps for sale everywhere and there are so many different types and a few differnet types of application.

Myleen Klass nail wraps require no heat to apply and come in a pack of 24 for use on fingers and toes.

they were actually very easy to apply and looked lovely on, can you hear my suprise? :)

The only problem i had with them was that there wasnt ebough of the size i needed. There is a strip included so you can cut your own or you can trim one of the other wraps.

A nail file is also included.

The glitter also looks fab and the wraps are lovely and shiny

The next day they did start to come away at the free edge so maybe a topcoat run over the edge would help.

But all in all they would be fantastic for a night out and i applied them in 10 mins so a very fast application!

Good Job Myleen 

Ravishing dahling with added moons :)

 2x coats of ravishing Dahling by China Glaze with 1x glitter from Kleancolor Pinky Moon

 

Lumos top and base coats

Pinky moon has lovely holographic dots,lines and moons.

Picked the moons out using a cocktail stick to avoid too much polish on the nail.

think the glitter could of benefited from another coat as the glitter is quite sparse.

I fine that this China Glaze polish can be quite patchy, so could benifit from more coats if wearing alone.

 

The painting of my nails looks quite messy here and i always find that of darker red colours.Any mistakes are harder to rectify as it sort of smudges it