Gradient hearts + blue tribal nail art

Hey there!! I realise now this actually would've been a valentine's appropriate design but I did this is January. Gurl don't have time for valentine's designs. I was looking for something funky to wear for the week and I love some glitter gradients and tribal.

My gradients are very hit and miss and this one missed but I feel like that component didn't really matter cause of everything else going on. I love cute little heart patterns and I've always thought tribal patterns were great. It's somewhat contrasting, but not too much, like most nail patterns work together anyway. I had a slightly different pattern going on, on my left hand.

I think my gradient wasn't so good cause I just used the brush of the nail polish. Otherwise everything was with a toothpick and went wild with that.

Purple: The Body Shop - A Grape Affair
Teal: Essie - Naughty Nautical
Glitter: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen
Dark pink: Madame Milly - Pink (no name)
Pink: No. 7 - Me! Me! Me!
Pink glitter: Barry M - Socialite
Blue: Essie - Lots of Lux
Light blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Facebook Sticker Series: Napoli the Ice Cream

Hello you fine people!! I have another installment of Facebook Sticker, it took me less than a month to get this one out, personally I'm proud. It usually takes me a long time to get my series out so good job me haha. I have Napoli today who's a really cute ice cream. This has me written all over, cute food!!

Sorry it's a bit messy today but I really like it, especially index finger with the HUGE eyes, I'm all about that. But Napoli does various cute poses with cute things, I have Napoli listening to music, being really cute, holding a heart and a flower here. I would've done something for my pinky but the surface area is small hahaha.

I did a glitter gradient on all my nails but yeah you can't see that, hey that's one good thing about one less Napoli.
I started with my white base and then went the with the Napoleon ice cream order, strawberry, vanilla, chocolate with the toothpicks and brushes. I added different details with my toothpick and pen.

Base with glitter: Etude House - Play #60 and Nails Inc - Regents Park
Pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit
Peach: M&S - Sun Glow
Brown: w7 - Brownie
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White and Lovely Me:Ex - White
Light Brown: Nails Inc - Porchester Square
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Orange: Rimmel - It's A Scorcher!
Green: Barry M - Kiwi

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a really nice day!!! :)

Penguin Aurora

Hi there guys!! Ok this was the other half of my Christmas manicure but like I'm all out of order here on the blog but whatever, this wasn't as Christmas related so I thought it would be appropriate to post now. I was meant to match but then I didn't want to paint Kermit twice (and I'm glad I made that decision). So I did something simpler, but I LOVED it!!

Penguin and glitter gradients, LOVE. Seriously the index and middle gradients might be the best glitter gradients I've ever done, the combo is GORGEOUS!! Now my gradients were pretty sub-standard but this is why I love glitter, it enhances every gradient a million times better. I might do a full manicure of that gradient, I love it!! The penguin is pretty cute and was so easy to paint, I made a little bow out of placed glitter which I think is mega cute. I wrote aurora cause I like the word, but the gradients kind of give that aurora feel (well I think anyway).

I get lazy during gradients, I'm meant to sponge them but then it's such a slow process that I just get the brush and paint it on, which works so all is ok. The glitter gradients look amazing matte, all glitter should be mattified cause in general it looks incredible.

Sorry for the state of my hands, this time I really don't know what happened :/

Blue of the penguin: OPI - Get Your Number
White: Barry M - Matt White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Orange: Essie - Tart Deco
Light blue to purple to pink gradient: M&S - Ultraviolet to Barry M - Prickly Pear to Barry M - Dragon Fruit
Pink/purple/blue glitter: OPI - Polka.com (I LOVE THAT PURPLE GLITTER!! Ok this glitter is just so pretty)
Teal to purple to dark blue gradient: M&S - Peacock to OPI - Plum & Get It to Kiko - 265
Square glitter: OPI - Lights Of Emerald City (Ok I love those squares, clearly I need more square glitter, clearly I need more of all the glitter cause I clearly don't have enough glitter haha :P)

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

Girly Flowers + Pastel Gradient

Oh hey there guys!! I hope your well this lovely Sunday. Happy international nail art day!!! I would've created something special for this but I'm currently away. But I still have nail art for you (this is primarily a nail art blog after all). Today I have a fun floral with some pastel glitter (aka a new purchase :/ whoops). The floral is inspired by Mr. Candiipants and she has a tutorial for it which is super simple. I didn't actually use the tutorial but it's a brilliant idea that I used for this look.

I have to say I love the design, it's so simple and it looks so upbeat. The best part is you can be as messy as you want and you can claim you were being "artsy". It's perfect. All using the burshes of the nail polishes. Also the pink and purple flowers are so sweet. My index finger was a bit of a trial and error flower but it still fits in. I decided to dab the holographic glitter in the middle for fun (though most lighting it's silver). So yes I like them flowers.
Ok the gradient, trust me it actually is a gradient, the base colours were originally pale turquoise, blue and green-y blue but the glitter base changed them all to green hues. In real life the glitter gradient looked decent especially with the flowers.

White: Barry M - Matt White (Lovely Me:Ex - White for a correction)
Darkest Pink: Color Club - Wing Fling
Pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate
Light Pink: Barry M - Superdrug Summer LE 2013 A
Pale Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear
Purple: OPI - Plum And Get It
Holographic glitter: Nails Inc - Abbey Road
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Gradient (Lightest to Darkest): The Face Shop - GR501, Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream and Barry M - Greenberry
Pastel Glitter: Etude House - WH901
My first Etude House polish!! I am so in love with the mix of glitter, though I have many thoughts about the formula (written below). Etude House have such a great range of polish that I was staring for a while. I hope to get more glitter polishes from there as they're so indie-esque and interesting.

The glitter was extremely thick, I've been looking for a pastel glitter for a while (I was planning on making an indie purchase) and the mix of glitter is so perfect here, the satin pastel glitter, the shapes, the white glitter, the sprinkle of holographic glitter = so perfect.
But as many glitters go too much base and not enough glitter. The base being really thick too. Placing and fishing were definitely required. It wouldn't dry so what I did is do 2 coats of glitter, topcoat, then 2 coats of glitter, then topcoat.
Not a very smart idea but I'd failed with time management and I had to go out and the base was not drying. Actually I'd pushed the polish accidentally leaving a patch of not painted nail therefore I had to paint over with Greenberry again (which didn't look nice as you can see in the pictures). But there was no where near enough glitter in a base that wouldn't dry equaling more glitter and topcoat.
Some of the glitter wouldn't lay completely flat on my pretty curved nails, which didn't bother me too much except that green heart on my ring finger, I had to rip that off. 
There are also bubbles everywhere, let's pretend they're glitter but the bubbles are just horrendous, especially the amount.  
Another rave to the Color Club topcoat, if I'd used a sub-standard topcoat there was no way the glitter would've dried but the Color Club topcoat being amazing dried it solid in 5 minutes. It's amazing.
I'm probably gonna do a Gimme Glitter post on WH901 but it's gonna be placing to the max, it's a difficult formula but the mix of glitter is so perfect and I'm not one to give up. I don't really know how to strain the base, if I find a way it will definitely happen because there is way too much thick base here.
With how thick the glitter base was and the 2 coats of topcoat it was no walk in the park to remove. Maybe to some they wouldn't be willing to deal with it but considering how thick it was I wasn't too bothered by removal.

Even though the glitter was difficult I really like the flowers and the gradient together for an altogether cute look. Thank you so much for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Purple Drips + Black and White Glitter Gradient

Oh hello there!! Today I have a simple nail art look that consists of bright colours (all my designs have bright colours, I realise this isn't really a shocker). But it probably would be fun for summer that anyone can do.

Does what it says on the tin, drips and glitter gradient. The drips look less messy in real life. Black and white glitter over a gradient always looks nice. It's not the best gradient but I don't think it's half bad. I just sponged the colours on. Except it's a bit OD on my middle finger (or maybe the other 2 fingers are UD).

Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Green: Barry M - Greenberry
Black and white glitter: L'Oreal Color Riche - Confetti
Holographic glitter: Nails Inc - Abbey Road
Abbey Road really added a lot, the drips weren't looking so good then a stripe of Abbey Road gave some kind of dimension.

Short and sweet today (haha that never happens :P), thank you for reading and I hope you have a fabulous day!! :)

He's Perry, Perry The Platapus!!

Hello lovelies!! How you doing (hopefully well :))? Catch the title!! Perry the platpus from Phineas and Ferb!! I can't even remember how I got the idea but I had to make it happen. I love painting cartoons!! I absolutely adored Phineas and Ferb, it's such a legit show. Who couldn't love Perry the platapus? Though I've been removed from the show for a while (having homework etc. to do sucks) you can't forget awesome shows like that. In fact I was watching Phineas and Ferb yesterday (and of course when Perry was on screen I had to compare), but the internet distracted me -_- Oh you internet, not even something normal. Wikipedia, I'M ADDICTED TO WIKIPEDIA -_- Anyway, hey where's Perry? ;)

I may have got the idea when I added Greenberry to my wishlist as it's the perfect Perry colour. I'm pretty pleased with how he turned out, he's one cool platapus. I did the Agent P variation of Perry cause he has a funky hat.
The eyes were driving me insane, it was fine but the nail art pen white is the smudgiest thing ever, it's impossible for it not to smudge so clearly I had an issue. But the eyes don't look too bad here, I did have to fix it many a time though. I have to rave about the Color Club topcoat again, it's simply amazing.
I really wanted Perry to be the main focus of the mani so I did no other art on the other nails. I was up for the other nails being plain but I am such a glitter fiend I had to add some.

Green: Barry M - Greenberry (more green in real life)
The formula is beautiful, 2 easy coats. The Gelly line is so great. Greenberry is everything I wanted Topshop - Green Room to be, Green Room is a jelly but basically it never builds up to be opaque, I couldn't wear it out. But Green Room is great for jelly sandwiches but Greenberry is far superior.
White: Barry M - Matt White (for base) and Lovely Me:Ex - White (for details)
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Brown: w7 - Brownie
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
For glitter I started with a coat of Barry M - Aqua Glitter the added a glitter gradient with Revlon - Radiant and Orly - Go Deeper. I was going to stop at Radiant but I wanted the holographic glitter that Go Deeper had to offer. But Go Deeper made the gradient awesome. Go Deeper is far superior to Radiant, I'm thinking of giving Radiant to a willing friend.

Sorry for the state of my hand, I thought my hands were clean due to me washing some dishes before, but apparently not :/

And before I go, I have a cut on my thumb that I edited out cause ain't nobody got time for that. But seriously also that thumb in the same place -_- I moisturize my cuticles everyday, clearly my thumb just has an issue. In real life it's much better now.
Oh there you are Perry ;) I hope you enjoyed this post and thank you very much for reading! :)

Summer Flowers + Pink Gradient

Hello you lovely people!! MY EXAMS ARE OVER!!! Doing nothing has never felt SO GOOD, they finished a couple of days ago but I've been a bit busy and taking a break is ok. I feel FREE!! Haha. Posts will hopefully getting more frequent again (tres excitement) and improvements are to be made. Also I got some EXTREMELY EXCITING MAIL that I screamed over and such, so post on that soon. I love floral nails so it made sense to do some, I felt there a definite summer vibe to the look.

Taking the plunge and going for the big pictures, I've hesitated for a long time about this because come on THE PICTURES ARE ENORMOUS!! I wish there was a happy medium picture size but that doesn't exist so big pictures are happening. Hopefully we will all get used to it and I'll eventually change all my pictures to be big. Cause once you go big, there's no going back.
The glitter saved my gradient, it wasn't bad but it wasn't that good either. My favourite flower is the one on my thumb, it's proportioned which is everything I could ever ask for ;)

Peach/Orange: Essie - Tart Deco

Light Pink: Per Una - Pink (no name)

The 2 bases before any nail art looked SO nice, it had happy vibes coming off and I would've been happy just wearing them by themselves. Tart Deco is also one of my favourite ever nail polishes, the colour is just the best. In 2 easy coats, short nails could easily get away with one. Even I could've got away with one if my coats were thicker. The Per Una polish didn't have a great formula (3 coats and still a little streaky) but it's my only light/middle pink and it's a nice colour. 

Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream

Turquoise: The Face Shop - GR501

Green: Illamasqua - Nomad

On the blue flowers I dabbed some Barry M - Blue Moon, Models Own - Indian Ocean and OPI - Last Friday Night. For the turquoise flowers I added some Barry M - Aqua Glitter which aren't that prominent but are nice touches. Of course I did details with Lovely Me:Ex - Black. 

Middle Pink: Orly - Basket Case

Dark Pink: Per Una - Fuchsia (no name) and Color Club - Wing Fling

Glitter: OPI - I Lily Love You

I Lily Love You looks so great here, I used 2 coats over the gradient. It looks a bit thick and that wasn't helped with the subservient topcoat I used on top. 

In general I think it's pretty fun. I love me some flowers, these are the kind I draw all over the place. Summer is the best season colour-wise as I wear brights all year, during the summer it's the most accepted.

Hey thank you for reading, It feels good to be back with some freedom :P I hope you have a great weekend!!! :D

Geometric Diamonds (if spiders liked geometry)

Hi there!! How are you all, I'm hoping good. During the holidays I never know what to do, as much as I love the holidays (soon when my proper exams begin holidays will cease to exist D:) I sit around wondering what to do. But currently I'm thirsty, after this post I'm gonna get a drink :P Today I have some rather random nail art, I did some glitter gradients then drew something on top. I really don't know, they weirdly remind of diamonds (strange diamonds) or if spiders made geometric webs.

This is probably the kind of design that would grow on me. just looks... strange (but kind of cool). I like the uniformity of the index finger. I want to experiment with the pattern for another time. I'm surprised with how much I like the purple gradient, Shambolic really works in this case.
Purple: Essie - Lilacism
Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Purple Glitter (lightest to darkest): Nails Inc - Abbey Road, China Glaze - Luxe and Lush and Butter LONDON - Shambolic
Pink Glitter (lightest to darkest): OPI - I Lily Love You and OPI - Excuse Moi! 
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Charged Up Cherry is really red in the pictures, and in all honesty really red in real life too, I'm not too keen on that.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day! :)

"Patriotic" Glitter Leopard Print

Hey there guys!!! I hope you are good this week, my mood changes with the weather apparently as I was feeling awesome last week. But this week the weather got really crummy and I'm feeling not too great. But I feel good about this post? ;) This was not intended to be patriotic, and I don't even know patriotic to what country. I guess Britain but the gradient looks like a french flag. I decided I didn't like it plain so I spruced it up with some leopard print (as always, 1 leopard from the limit used).

I wanted to the glitter gradient to be inspired by the Barry M Xmas glitter (it's one awesome glitter), but then french flag happened and I wasn't too keen :P But of course after the leopard print I quite liked it. I also did sporadic leopard spots, again I quite like that too.
Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
Dark Blue: Kiko - 265
White: Models Own - Snow White
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Red/Blue/Silver Glitter: Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B
Green/Blue Glitter: Orly - Go Deeper
Go Deeper looks awesome over a dark colour, it's the way forward. I wasn't sure if the leopard print could fix the design for me but it did (I should never doubt leopard print, ever).

Thank you for reading and have an awesome day!!! :P

Pick 'N Mix: Geometric + Glitter

Hey there guys!!! I decided to start a new series (I love making up series, not gonna lie), because why not? ;) I'm making these pick 'n mix posts random skittles that really are just random. I was inspired by someone's schoolbag I saw and I thought the pattern looked really cool, I saw the brand and looked it up. I wasn't creepy and didn't take a picture or anything, kind of awkward now though cause I asked to take a picture of someone else's bag for nail art inspiration. She understood but more on that in the future :/ Then everything stopped fitting together and I rolled with it.

The bag was from a brand called Mi-Pac and the bags look nice but the triangle one is really the only one with substance (from the range I saw). I changed things up a bit then the glitter happened and everything went crazy. There were several points where I really disliked this design but it's good how small things can fix up a design for you. It just shows you shouldn't give up!!! I'm gonna write more about the "glitter gradient" nail tomorrow, where I have a different design with it. The geometric design isn't as nice as I'd like it to be but even though everything is so mix matched here I still quite like it, everything doesn't have to go together ;)

Green: Barry M - Mint Green

Pink: The Face Shop - PK105

White: Lovely Me:Ex - White and Models Own - Snow White

Dark Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black

Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire

Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream

Light Blue: Revlon - Blue Lagoon

Dark Blue: Kiko - 265

Yellow: Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream

Green/Blue Glitter: Orly - Go Deeper

Red/White/Blue Glitter: Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B

Sometimes a bit of mish mash is a good thing. I think this looks better in real life, you can see the mistakes clearer :P

Thank you for reading and have a great day!!! :)