Arrow Doodle Nail Art

We have something less gross on the blog today, here is a simple nail art with a doodle feel.
I saw this image on Pinterest and it inspired me to create this nail art. Mine is no way as good mind you!

I used 

OPI Pink Friday 

Color Club Unknown (I think its Gingerbread)

Acrylic Paint 

Just a quick mani today but I am happy with it. The reverse French style would be cute as an all over mani too, 

What do you think?

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.

Life in Lacquer Nail Art Challenge:MONOCHROME

We have nearly reached the end of this month long challenge and I would love to hear your thoughts about how its gone, your favourite design and any improvements in running the challenge, just incase I decide to do one again one day!

This prompt is another fave of mine. Monochrome is very trendy and I love the contrast in the black and white

This was not my original design as I messed up the one i did previously. I am far happier with this design though as it really is something different for me.


As you may also be able to see is that I have gone back to the more pointy nail shape. I really do prefer this shape. What is your fave nail shape?


I used Art Club Stripers by Color Club . They are okay but they get thick everytime I use them.


I hope you like them! Please take a look at the other nail arts from this challenge by many other talented nail artists!

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First Attempt at One Stroke!

I have been trying to learn one stroke nail art. MAN its hard!

I practise every now and then when I have time but I need to give it alot more time.

This is the first time I have risked ruining a mani haha. I don't think it turned out too bad for a first proper attempt.

I used a one stroke brush from Moyra UK to do these and also the St Petersburg brush. I love Moyra Brushes! They are great quality and I swear they make all the difference. I spent years trying to get by with cheap eBay ones and I swear these have already improved my nail art loads!

The polishes are Tropical storm by Happy Hands and Essies Shes Pampered. My fave red EVER!

What do you think of my first attempt?? Id love some tips too if anyone has any!? I'm currently watching A LOT of YouTube videos mainly by Cute Nails. 

Polish Me Silly Pinky Swear I'm a Star Thermal Indie Polish

Today I have another beautiful thermal polish by Polish Me Silly! 

I LOVE THERMALS!! 

My nails are at that length where you can see the transition all the time so I get the gradient effect which is great.

This is called Pinky Swear I'm A Star.

 Its a pink when cold and white when warm polish packed with glitter, this includes pink and green stars!! 

This is the polish when cold.... 

Its pink.... and I love it! I think I may have been converted to pink as recently I have been wearing it quite abit! 

This is a funky bright pink (brighter than the pics) and I really like the green stars with this! I love pink and green together! 

Here is the polish warm...

AGAIN I love this shade too! You can really see all the glitter and who doesn't like a white crelly!!??

Transition shot..

I <3 it!! 

and finally the bottle shot (cold) 

I really love this polish. The formula was a little on this thicker side but in no way messed up my application. I used three coats for these pics and one topcoat. 

The stars of course can stick up a bit but that doesn't bother me at all. 

Its a funky bright polish perfect for summer!

What do you all think of this?? Are you a fan of thermals? 

In other news my new bulb came SMASHED! annoying!

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! 

Sick Lacquers Nail Mail!

OoOoOo new pretties! 

I was blown away by the last polishes from Sick Lacquers, the colours and the application were top notch. I loved them so much i could resist putting in an order! 

Here I have 9 new polishes from the indie maker. These can be purchased HERE 

Butterflies & Roses, Mysterious Ways and Grape Juice. 

 Butterfly Effect, Pastel Fusion and Cotton Candied 

Scatterbrains, I Pink I Blue Up and Lavender Lover. 

WOW! I was so happy unwrapping these. As you can tell I am really into the whole white base with glitter thing at the mo! 

I have tried a few out and love them all but I think my faves so far is Butterflies & Roses and I Pink I Blue Up. 

Butterfly Effect is so glittery in real life and I cant wait to get that on!

So which one do you like the best? 

Anniversary Rose Nails

 

 Its our third wedding anniversary today so i thought i would do a little nail art to celebrate whilst my husbands at work.

This is OPI Gouda Gouda Two Shoes. 2 Coats here with a Poshe topcoat.

It is a truly beautiful copper rose shade with a shimmer. Unfortunately you cannot really see the shimmer here and it is subtle. If you squint you can see it LOL

I used Oumaxi White acyclic paint to do the roses. 

These are my first roses ever and I think I did okay!

 I chose white as my wedding flowers were white roses.

Accessorize Speckled Swatches

I purchased these from Superdrug a couple weeks ago on a 3 for 2 as i am really into glitters at the mo and I wanted to try these out.

Big apologises in advance of my TERRIBLE cuticles and side walls! Gross! No excuses, i will sort them :)

So first up is Damselfly. Here it is with 3 coats, no top coat.

 A light blue,almost turquoise with dark blue and silver glitter. This is my fave out of all three. All three polishes applied really well, i was actually surprised as i thought that with all the glitter i would get a rubbish cuticle line but in fact all these swatches had NO clean-up so that's a bonus. 

Next up is Dragonfly, also pictured with 3 coats and no top coat

 A green with blue hex's. This is my least favourite as i think this colour combination is a tad boring! 

Last up is Butterfly, you guessed it... 3 coats with no top coat.

A PVA glue style white base with red and black hex's. Loved this!

The formula was really good on all the polishes and the glitter distribution was fair too. I hate the lid on these! I have big ol' hands and its hard to use :( 

I loved the jelly type effect these had and it created depth as the glitter from the previous coats are slightly covered. 

Lovely Polishes all in all and there are a few other shades available. 

Buy from Superdrug HERE for £3.45

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

Jaye Bird By InVogue

 I received this lovely polish from Nick at ohbeauty.co.uk.

This is Jaye Bird from Invogue Feathers.

It features strands of blue and white glitter. The polish has a high density of glitter so its easy to position and get a full coverage. I did use four coats though, just to get the placement right.

It can be used on it own or over another polish. 

I wouldn't have called it feather effect, i would have called it Sprinkles! As to me it looks like cake sprinkles!

Pictured here alone with one coat of Poshe topcoat.

This polish is really pretty and completely different to the other polishes I have seen, as a lot of glitter polishes don't have this type of coverage.

This polish, along with the whole InVogue range, is available HERE for £4.49 with FREE UK postage :)

 Reminds me of streamer or sprinkles on cakes. It also reminds me of the Queens Jubilee?! Very royal colours!

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

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.

 

 

Kleancolor Blue Spirals and Waves

I actually did this quite a while ago but i never actually got round to putting it up, but here it is!

I used Barry M white base, 3 Different Kleancolor Blues and Kleancolor Holo Teal

I'm really unsure of this design but i wanted to give my new brushes ago.

 *forgive my dirty hands,i was in a nail art frenzy!*

Mocha With Stamping, Yummy!

 Kleancolor Mocha With Cheeky Stamped Hearts

I know im using a lot of kleancolor polishes but i just bought a load and really want to try them all out :P

This is mocha 2 coats and i stamped a heart design using a Cheeky Plate and NYC White Polish (which i left open to go thicker for a few hours) topped off with lumos

I love nail stamping and believe me youll be seeing alot more stamping on this blog lol.

Cheeky Plates can be bought on Amazon for a fraction of the price of konad and they work so well. They have so many designs too.

Monochrome With a Hint Of China Glaze

Monochrome with a splash of colour :) 

Hello again :) second post of today, think I'm getting abit addicted. Well who wouldn't want to talk about nails all day eh?! 

Today I've Chosen monochrome, classic! But then added a slash of colour to make it a tad more lively

I purchased some striping tape today and surprisingly I have never used striping tape before. 

So I decided to have a bit of a play. 

I used Barry M white and black and China Glaze Papaya Punch. 

Started off with Lumos Basecoat, of course! No nail staining for me :P 

I used two coats of Barry M white, I was in a rush so in a bid to seal the polish and speed up drying time I then used the Lumos top coat. 

When that was COMPLETELY dry I then got creative :) I have never used striping tape before so I just wanted to have a go. Firstly it was a bit of a pain to get dead on straight so it is abit on the wonk, with more time and practice I'm sure that will improve. 

After I had done my designs with the tape I then painted over the top with Barry M black and China Glaze Papaya on the ring finger. There are all some very small glitter fragments on the thumb and ring finger. 

Then topped it all off with Lumos top coat. 

Unfortunately I was in a rush to get out of the house and put on the topcoat prematurely, resulting in a slight drag of colours. As I as it was just a practice so at least ill know for next time. 

This way of doing stripes I will use again, imagine the possibilities!