Who's That Pokémon? Skitty!

Hello there everyone!! I hope you're doing well. School is back in swing but I'm coping (just about haha), applying to university is coming so soon which is insane, what is happening??
Anyway today's nail art brings us back to fun times and my new Pokemon obsession, I'm trying to fill the Pokedex right now and it's quite the task. I've been addicted to wondertrading (I can trade for hours at a time), I guess I just like the possibly of getting something good i.e. I've got 9 shinies from Wondertrade so this is what keeps me going back. I don't think you can get Skitty in Pokemon X but I got one in Wondertrade and it's just ADORABLE!! So that's why I had to paint Skitty.

It's such a cute little pink and yellow cat with that crazy tail. I did not do Skitty justice at all!! She's SO much cuter. But that being said I still like it and I really liked the design. Purple and pink is great and you can never go wrong with glitter (I always say this, you totally can but shhh) and the added flakies work so well.

I painted the white base first and then went colours then black outline. I proportioned wrong, the eyes should be more spaced out. Black outline with a toothpick is hard cause it's hard to get it the same width the whole way round.

Soz a bit blurry

Purple: The Body Shop - A Grape Affair 
Flakies (worked so well): M&S - Light Mix
Pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit
Yellow: Ciate - Loop the Loop
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Red: M&S - Poppy
White: Barry M - Cotton
Glitter: Etude House - #117

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Hello Kitty & The Diamonds

Hi there guys!! Happy Friday!! By the way my title isn't meant to refer to the singer (though her songs seem cute :P I haven't heard many though), it's merely an accident but I like accidents like that. I actually have not done that many Hello Kitty manicures and cartoons are right up my alley, so another was called for!! And yeah I love this manicure so Hello Kitty was the right call.

I'm loving this, I love the colours of the diamonds over the nude and of course Hello Kitty who is the quintessential cute cat. I feel like it all just comes together in this manicure. I like all the arrangements of the diamonds too, it's pretty cool, like those staircase diamonds. Yeah I love this, there's not much more to say, I love when designs like this come together and I'm not disappointed.

To be honest I messed up my Hello Kitty the first time round and I had to get a cotton bud and start that nail again, the proportioning was just all wrong. I was trying to give Hello Kitty a hat and it was a big fat fail. But otherwise I drew the details with a toothpick dipped in nail polish. The same goes for the diamonds.

Nude: M&S - Sun Glow
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White and Barry M - Matt White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine
Pink diamonds: OPI - Charged Up Cherry, OPI - Japanese Rose Garden, M&S - Peony, Barry M - Pink Foil, Barry M - Dragon Fruit and Barry M - Princess
Red diamonds: OPI - Dutch Tulips, M&S - Poppy, Barry M - Raspberry and OPI - Jinx
Orange diamonds: Essie - Tart Deco, Essie - Fear Or Desire, Models Own - Beach Party and Body Collection - Orange Pink (no name)

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day!!! :)

31DC2013: Day 2 - Orange Nails

Hello there!! We're back with day 2 of the challenge and I am still here, this was inspired by my phone case, I was a bit stuck with what to do but once I thought of my case it's perfect to translate into nail art!! I just want to say that 31DC2013 looks super edgy which I can always be onboard with.

The little animal is intended to be a fox, it looks more like a cat or even a dog, but it's quite cute (but not cute enough for my cute standards), I have to say I'm ultra proud of my stripes, yes everyone else is very pro with their stripes, but if you've seen a post with stripes on PlumeriaPainted it's a big fail. I just used the brush of the nail polish and went across, I'm just happy with how equal and straight the stripes are, cause that's all I want.

Orange: Bourjois - Tangerine Fatal
It's one great colour, I love a good orange polish, I explain the story behind this and a nice representation of the polish in my original post and the pictures aren't shocking (:O :P)
Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White (also used as a base for the orange on the ring finger): Lovely Me:Ex - White

The manicure con my phone case sin phone, I'm using a different one currently which is cute but I think the fox will always be my favourite. Come on, it has ears!! Even though they sometimes stab you in the leg/stomach you can overlook these things cause the case is SO cute!!! I got this in Accessorize last year during the Christmas sales, this wasn't on sale but it was reduced before, I thought I could get more of a discount but no prevail, I got it anyway cause it's a fox and has ears.
Ok I just looked on the Accessorize website and there's a grumpy cat phone case with glasses and ears, obviously this is calling to me. But they have a great range of cases, most of them are more whimsical, but they have gems like this too (and nail polish) :)

Haha lots of links today, thank you very much for reading and i hope you have an absolutely wonderful day!!! :)

The iPhone (Nail) Series: Happy Street

Oh hello there lovely people!! Welcome to the 2nd instalment of The iPhone (Nail) Series, I have some nail art based on my current favourite iPhone game, Happy Street. I stumbled upon this game last year and it's just the best. Mostly the game is ADORABLE!! The characters are seriously the cutest (I'm being very superlative, that's not an adjective :/) and everyone is always happy.

These are the main characters of Happy Street. Thumb to left to right, Billy, Zoe, Pepin, Nyok and Dahlia. I play Happy Street for quests, I have to complete all the quests, when there are no quests I am sad (not really haha). Recently the game brought in a train feature which is virtually constant quests for various items, so currently I'm happy with Happy Street. Except when I get all the items it's gonna be a problem, but that won't happen any time soon :) Happy Street is a free to play game where you start with a small street and the more time and effort you put into your street, the more it grows.
Another thing I really like about the game is the "story", it's in bunny ears cause it's not your typical "storyline", but the characters interact with each other and has made me crazy over the Billy/Zoe coupling (THEY NEED TO BE TOGETHER). This is what the game does to you, makes you want a fox and a cat together. I'm sure the game is aimed at kids but the characters sometimes talk about inflation and sometimes there are the weirdest innuendoes that the creators must've had an older audience in mind too. I really could say so many good things about this game, and there's no reason not to give it a try (well there's the possibility of getting addicted), it's free!!

I really like all the characters (Zoe being my favourite by a small margin), except Dahlia (the purple bunny), I should like her but I just don't, her character isn't substantial to me. So Nyok and Dahlia are getting married, Pepin is your money obsessed wolf and the Billy and Zoe thing is slightly heart-breaking so I won't be mentioning it (also it's a bit of a spoiler), BUT THEY HAVE TO END UP TOGETHER (this game does this to me).
I'm the happiest with how I painted Billy, Zoe the 2nd happiest, the characters aren't painted perfectly, but otherwise I'm quite satisfied as they are cuties.

I started with a gradient of Ciate - Cookies and Cream, Per Una - Pink (no name) and H&M - Check Me Out, it started well as I was trying a different gradient technique, but as usual ended in fail. I knew it was getting covered up anyway. I sealed the gradient with OPI - Pirouette My Whistle, not the greatest move as the glitter dulled the colours and didn't look as nice, but early stages it's ok.
I started the characters with painting a white base with Lovely Me:Ex - White and all black details were done with Lovely Me:Ex - Black.
For Billy (the fox):
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire, Light Brown: Ciate - Cookies and Cream. I was trying to do shading and it failed. Mint Green: Max Factor - Cool Jade, Light Blue: The Face Shop - BL601 and Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny.
For Zoe (the cat):
Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream, Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips, Light Pink: Per Una - Pink (no name), Mustard: Topshop - Naked and Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia.
For Pepin (the wolf):
Blue: Barry M - Indigo, Shimmery Blue: OPI - Sea You In Hollywood, Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror. The black didn't show up on the dark blue and it made me sadz, I thought the silver would be a suitable replacement. It wasn't Pepin looked crazy evil so the happy medium was the black over the silver. Red: Nails Inc - Tate.
For Nyok (the dog):
Copper: Nail Polish - Copper (no name), Brown: Paris Collection - Mauve Melody, Light Brown: Ciate - Cookies and Cream and Shimmery Blue: OPI - Sea You In Hollywood
For Dahlia:
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina, Pink: Per Una - Pink (no name), Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine, Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny, Darker Blue: Color Club - Sky High and Green: Illamasqua - Nomad.
Yep that's a lot of colours :/ but I didn't have the exact colours for a few things, not very important though. I like the colour palette the creators of Happy Street used, they all compliment each other.

Ok thanks if you read this extremely long and rambly (what I do best) post, I like this game. I hope you have a great day!! :)

Cabbie! (with some doodles)

Hi there guys! Hope everyone is happy today, as why not we all deserve to be :) Now from the title you may be thinking "Cabbie? What is that, taxi driver nail art?". That is where you're probably mistaken :P I have an obsession with the show Victorious (I'm a big kid, that is also literal), and Cabbie is the sole reason why I LOVE that show. The other couples hold no candles compared to Cabbie. Cabbie is Cat and Robbie, and yeah hopeless romantic here but they are SO CUTE. I can't cope. I don't think my nail art does them justice but it's not too bad it's quite cute.

The red cat with the glasses is the main focus point here. A cat cause of Cat, red cause of her hair and the glasses for Robbie's glasses. Pink and blue also seem to their colours, I could've done more Victorious stuff in this manicure but I was tired :( So I added some random doodles which I ended up quite liking. I put topcoat over the cat and that got messed up (clearly I'm doing something wrong) but I fixed it up, also I didn't like the cat in real life but in pictures it looks way better and I'll take it.
Pink: The Face Shop - PK501
Foil Pink: Barry M - Pink Foil (Boots Xmas LE 2012 B)
Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny
Light Blue: The Face Shop - BL601
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Pk105 looked brighter this time I had it on which is always good in my books. Bikini So Teeny was also showing it's shimmer! I did like the way the pinks and blues went together.

I wanted Cabbie together since the 4th episode of Victorious, "The Birthweek Song" when Robbie invites Cat to his grandmother's house. Clearly my favourite episode with them (ok there are a few) is "One Thousand Berry Balls", I cry tears of cuteness. The sad thing is Victorious got cancelled so Cabbie will never officially be together :'( That really was the only thing I cared about in the show, at least finish the season properly before cancelling it :'( I hate when TV programmes do that, end a show without a proper ending. But One Thousand Berry Balls will have to do :/

Thank you very much for reading about my (potentially creepy to you) Victorious obsession :P Have a great day!