Bright Watercolour Effect Nail art

Hello my lovelies!
Been another stressful week, will I ever get used to the school routine?!

I have no idea what to call this nail art. Its bright and reminds me of slushed watercolour with perhaps an Indian sari type theme? I have no idea!
Well anyway here it is....

For more pictures and a how to video click read more....

Sparkly Nails Water Decals Review and Nail Art

PRESS SAMPLE

Hello my lovelies! I'm sorry I haven't been around recently, its the summer holidays and both my sons birthdays. 

I have a review of some more water decals by Sparkly Nails for you today.

To see what I created and what I thought please click the "Read More" button! 

Fantasy Unicorn Nail Art

This has got to be the cutest, most girly nail art I have ever done!

I used some nail vinyl stencils from She Sells Seashells for the unicorn. I know I have been doing loads of reviews for Nail Stickrs recently but of course they are not the only supplier and they do different stencils too. She Sells Sea Shells is also based in the UK.
They were easy to use and I got a great result too! I used Konad stamping polish in white to do them as it covers better than other whites.

You also get the cut outs left in the middle so they can be used as stickers :) 

I used Zoya Robyn, Unnamed Color Club Glitter, Essie Cascade Cool and Zoya Mira

I used Essie Cascade Cool as the base. Its such a powdery sweet pink. I really love it. Then used a sponge to splodge on the two +Zoya Nail Polish. Topped off with the Color Club glitter.
I hate that they don't label half the Color Clubs! I think its all the ones that come in sets that remain unnamed.

The metal charms are from eBay. I think I payed like £1 for a wheel with loads of different designs.

What do you think of my unicorn fantasy nails? I LOVE them!

I think I may be turning into an actual girly girl! HELP!

You can browse and buy various stencils and other nail art items from She Sells Seashells HERE




*some of these products were provided as a press sample for my honest review*

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 ?!!

Funky Line Nail Art + Sam Biddle Pen Review

I've finally had time to sit and have a little play with the nail art pen by Sam Biddles Be Inspired Range. 

I bought this and the Nails Supreme pens a while back to add to my nail art tool kit. 

This pen looks just like an old school dip pen but it has been modified to cater for thicker paints i.e water based acrylic. The paint has to be the consistency of cream. The paints designed to be used with this pen are also sold on Sam Biddles website. I bought black and white as I figured they would be the ones I would use most. 

When I received the pen it was already assembled and when I took it out the package I realised straight away that it felt really light in the hand. I personally am not a fan of that. I would prefer a bit more weight. I like to feel like I have a hold of something. 

I did my design using polish. Then used a fast dry topcoat. I then outlined in white using the pen and paint. As you can see I kinda messed this up and I got into a right kerfuffle. I tried to go over the lines to make them thicker and more bold but it was just dragging the already there paint off! 

Here's where I went wrong.

I used topcoat.

I couldn't put any real pressure on the pen as it was denting the topcoat. I just have no patience when it comes to drying time lol. The problem is the shine. I have problems with normal nail art acrylic gripping to that so I have no idea what possessed me to topcoat??!!! 

One other thing of note is how much mess i made! I got paint all up my arm and all over my hands. I am a really messy person anyway so I wasn't really surprised. 

All in all I need a shed load more practise and I believe the pen not doing a great was my fault. 

I have used this pen previously for my Earth Day nails. I found the text easy to do and Ill tell you for why.... I let the polish dry without using a fast dry topcoat. It was easy to get the paint to "grip" but still I found the flow could be uneven but I think with some practise this pen could be a nifty piece of kit to have, even if its just for writing text. I just cannot do text with a brush.

For the rest of this nail art I used Zoya's Areej and Mira. KBShimmer Chick Me Out and Sick Lacquers Grape Juice.

Have you ever tried this pen? Did you like it? 

You can buy this pen and the paints from HERE

Earth Day Inspired Nail Art

Happy Earth Day!

I have gone with a very simple nail art today. As you can see I am back to nubbins :( 

I had a really bad break on my index finger about a week ago and I managed to patch it but it finally gave way. I think I am going to stay with shorter square nails. 

What do you think? Do you prefer my old long and rounded or short and square?

Anyway getting back to the nail art! 

I used Zoya Robyn (a personal fave of mine) KBShimmer Laugh Myself Lily (Harlow haul post) OPI Alpine Snow and acrylic paints. 

I used my new Nail Art Pen from Sam Biddle. I will be doing a more in depth post about this very soon. 

I love painting these little clouds. It about as artistic as I can manage! I messed up the actual Earth and its not geographically correct :P 

I hope you have enjoyed my Earth themed nails! 

Mehndi Summer Doodles with Marcus

Today we have a collab between me and my father in law Marcus.

We were running late with our usual biweekly takeaway and we couldn't decide what to do. The idea is great but we could do with messing around with it abit to fine tune this.

I did the base and Marcus did the doodling. I love Mehndi designs and when I told Marcus this he was keen to give it a go!

I chose to do the base bright and funky as I havent really seen this type of design done before.

I painted my nails white and then used a sponge to add the colour. I used Vant To Bite My Neck by OPI, Chick Me Out by KBShimmer and Robyn by Zoya. I layered these and then sponged on some subtle glitter.

When this was all dry Marcus used the White Nails Supreme pen to create the design. He took to these pens like a duck to water. I was a bit jealous lol! 

Like i said we didn't have as much time as we usually do so we are going to come back to this theme at a later date. I am still very very happy with it!

I also love that this is a collab! I liked actually being part of the design,

What do you think of our creation? Do you like it when Marcus features on the blog?

Peacock Pretties

Hello my dears! 

Today has been a bit of a crap day, I have a cough that just wont go away :( 

How are you? Did you have a good weekend? 

I literally just crocheted all weekend! Oh and I picked up a couple lovely OPIs in TK Maxx. 

Anyway.........

Recently Ali from Sparkly Nails emailed me and asked if i would like to take some pictures of different manis using her products for her website. 

Of course I agreed! 

Here is just one of many designs I have been working on. 

When I saw these Feather Decals the first thing I thought of was a peacock. 

I used a thin brush to layer 4 colours over each other on the feature nails. 

To be honest it may have looked better with more purples and darker blues but I don't use greens very often. 

The water decals are so easy to use and i think they look soo good! Have you ever tried water decals before?

What do you think of this mani? 

To see Sparkly Nails full range of nail art products please click HERE 

*this product was sent to me for my HONEST review, please see my disclaimer page for more info**

Reverse Waterfall Nail Art

I have to start off by saying YAY!!! 

My Facebook blew up today and I have gone from 182 like to 305!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because of this I will be doing a GIVEAWAY soon!

Anyway.......

Here is a twist on a waterfall mani. I first saw this type of mani over at The Nailasaurus. 

I used Zoya Perrie as the base. Not really my colour if I am honest as I don't think it goes with my skin tone?

I then used Color Club Fashion Addict to fade some holo in from the tips. 

To do the waterfall type effect I used some of my new Stripers. I believe they are also by Color Club. 

The sripers are actually really good, plus they are bloody cheap! 

So what do you think? 

Oh and if you want to pop over to facebook and give me a "Like" you can HERE

New Years Nails! Only 11 Days Late!!

I apologise! 

my laptop died AGAIN! so was off being repaired. 

I do often wonder if people notice I have gone lol I'm sure some of you do :D 

So here are the nails I wore on New Years Eve.

I wore these for a very uneventful night in!

 As you know I have 2 young boys so I don't get out much at all now a days. 

This is Storm by Zoya. 

It is superbly superb! 

It has holo glitter scattered in a black base. 

2 coats in the ^above^ pic

I used a Moyou plate from the Festive collection for the gold streamers. I wanted to use the designs with "Happy New Year" and a clock on but they are just so bloody huge. I couldn't get them to fit on my nails at all. Its annoying when you buy a plate and can only use like 1 design :( 

I'm not quite sure what possessed me to put a blue bow on this Hahahah. I don't like it at all now I'm looking back at it. 

I hope you had a fab new years and 2014 is treating you well so far! 

My Final Christmas Nail Art!

Here is my final Christmas nail art for 2013!

I am hoping to wear this for Christmas day so I really bloody hope they don't chip. 

Here are the last cheesy Christmas tree photos... Enjoy!

I couldn't do a mani without the use of some texture could I?! Here's Zoya PixieDust in Chyna. I also used OPI Affair in Red Square. This is such and Christmas colour, it has this lush shimmer type metallic sheen. 

As you can see the stamping smudged a tad but when you look at it in real life you cant see it at all and I mean AT ALL. Its kind of annoying!

The stamping plates are all from the festive collection by MoYou London. 

I used the decal method for the Hollie. You can find a tutorial HERE 

Did you know I have written 180 posts this year? My first year of blogging! 

MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU LOVELY PEOPLE! 

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!

Purple Skittle Mix Up Nail Art

I have been really busy painting up these false nails I haven't had much time to do my own nails!! 

I have also been going crochet crazy! I have really fallen in love with crochet and spend most of my time making numerous baby hats! 

Anyway.... 

I have been wearing these all week. Usually nail polish only last a day on me 2 at most but i have switched to Zoya Anchor Base Coat and its really working for me!

I do apologise for the state of my fingers etc I have been painting these nails and I always get polish and paint all over me! 

The fab glitter polish on this mani is Aurora by Zoya . It is lush! Holo glitter in a purple jelly type base. 

The stamp is a Moyou one. 

The other polishes are Planks Alot, Steady As She Rose by OPI and Zoya Mira.

What do you think of my mix and match? Mira reminds me of Cadburys Chocolate!

Zoya PixieDust

After the Halloween mess up Ive gone for something decidedly better! 

After trying Zoya for the first time a while back, I just had to give PixieDust a try!

And wowzers! I think it is now my all time fave! 

Its so glittery and applies sooo well. The only thing about it that I am not a fan of is drying time.

 I usually use a fast drying topcoat but if you do that you would loose the textured effect.

This is Liberty, 2 coats. The accompanying polish is Robyn also by Zoya. 

I also love the Zoya bottle shape.

 I don't know why really but it is my fave shape of all my bottles.

The texture of this polish is not the most bumpy I have tried so if you are new to textured polish this would be a fantastic one to start with.

This sparkles like a dream. I cant stop looking at it!! 

I want this is every shade around, but I have decided to go on a no buy for a bit. Christmas is coming and all!

What do you think about textured polish? Have you tried PixieDust?

Zoya Love Heart Nail Art

I have lost my Zoya virginity and my my am I in love! 

So much so that I have painted little hearts in acrylic paint! I have actually never don't free hand hearts before and this was relatively easy! The one thing I found hard was keeping them the same size. 

(proud of these pics lol)

This is two coats of Zoya Coco, a super pretty red brown, its like a raspberry brown. Very hard to describe. 

I find this type of colour really suits my skin tone and I really love them!

What do you think? Have you tried Zoya before?