BarryM 'In a heart beat'

BarryM 'In a Heart Beat' stamped with Models Own 'Chrome Gold'

Misa ‘Be My Lover’

I’ve recently found Misa polish, I bought them from my wholesaler and they have been sitting in my manicure room for months now, but today, for some reason I decided to have a pink day and so put on ‘Be My Lover’ and I love it. It’s funny isn’t it, a few years back most people only wore pink and red nail polish - however I wasn’t one of them, I have been wearing a multiple of colours since my late teens, my mum used to hate me wearing dark colours (in fact she still does!) but it didn’t stop me - I used to do simple nail art dots, stripes, checks etc. over twenty years ago (Ooops, I’m showing my age now!) then stopped when life got busy and I was focussing on my career, but now I love it again. I digress… ‘Be My Lover’ is a beautiful creamy dusty pink with a slight blue hue to it, it painted on well and has an almost jelly finish to it but also covers the nail well (if that makes sense). I hope that you like it as much as I do!

Have a great weekend all. 

Dark Metal Lacquer Pastels

After a whole year Dark Metal Lacquer have restocked their Pastel Holos, I was sucked in and had to buy some…. The colours are as follows: 

Yellow - ‘Years of Silence’

Green - ‘Never Forget’

Blue - ‘The End of August’

Lilac - ‘Never Forgive’

I have to admit, I was a little disappointed by the way this polish applied, it wasn't a smooth application by any means, I used two coat and it looked O.K. (although if you look closely at the yellow it is a little patchy). I sorted the uneven application by a thick layer of topcoat, which really levelled it out. The holo isn't amazing but I do like them. I think my favourite is the yellow as it isn't really yellow as such, more of a pale taupe colour which reminds me of Nails Inc 'Porchester Square' which is one of my all time faves. 

If you'd like to know more you can find them here

St Tropaz Taupe by Binky London

St Tropaz Taupe by Binky London is a fabulous beige toned nude shade with a spectacular subtle shimmer, I find it so easy to wear and it goes with just about anything in your wardrobe. When I first saw it I was disappointed because online it doesn’t look like it has shimmer, but once it was on I couldn’t get enough of it, I just kept looking at my nails all of the time! 

I have yet to try a few other colours in the collection, but so far so good. Maybe slightly streaky for me on the first coat but it looked fine after 3 coats & you can't complain at £2.95 each!. 

Autumn inspired nails

With the yucky cold & wet weather we have been having lately I am feeling that Autumn is not far away, I love summer and as soon as the weather turns I get a bit sad as I know that the cold weather is coming. If I was rich I would live in Australia for 6 months and here for 6 months, but that's never going to happen... 

Here is my autumn inspired mani using Models Own - 'Naked Glow' for the base colour then for the spots: Barry M 'Mustard', Nails Inc 'Northumberland Avenue', 'Pavillion Road', 'Gosfield Street' and 'New Oxford Street' for the spots. 

Have a good week all!  

Born Pretty Plate 003

Hi there!

Today I have a glittery one for you with black stamping which I am still perfecting. I started with 2 coats of the spectacular ’Disco Ball' available from Claires Accessories which is loaded with small specs of silver glitter and looks a lot more sparkly than my picture lets on.

Then I went in with MoYou Londons Black Knight and stamped using Born Pretty plate 003 using the last image on the top row which I think is my fave. The plate has 15 patterns in all which are 1.6 cm x 2.2 cm in size so a reasonable size for most nails on a plate roughly 12.5 x 6.5 cm.

Overall I love the plate and the sparkly polish, if you love it too why don’t you you swing on over to Born Pretty store and order yours - I guarantee you won’t order just the one plate! ;-) 

It's been too long

Hi

I'm so sorry that I haven't been around much lately, I got married on July 4th and so being creative & pretty tight, I wanted to design my own wedding. The theme ending up being along the lines of 'Rustic Bling' with dusty pink and champagne as my colours. Most of my free time when I didn't have my little fella Thomas around has been taken up with all that so not much nail stuff happening. That said I have my wedding nails to show you, however I didn't get round to taking the photo until 3 days after the big day so it isn't a great shot and also a bit blurred, but hey ho, you get the idea.

I used All That Jazz 'Filigree Stickers' in the design 'Daisy' They were a bit fiddly to use but once you got the hang of it it was O.K. I was applying them at about 2.00 a.m. the morning of my wedding!

Here are a few shots of other aspects of our day

This is Thomas and my niece Kaziah

I hope that you get the general idea of the theme from these, we had a lovely day and all came together in the end.