Bright Butterfly Nail Art

Hello there!! Today's nail art was one of uncertainty, not like butterflies are overly crazy but I didn't know how this one would turn out. They're my standard cute animal design but I didn't know how well it would work with butterflies. But go being pleasantly surprised cause I ended up really liking this one!! :)

It's the bright colours isn't it? That always makes me a happy bunny. But honestly I think the butterflies are pretty cute. The wing pattern isn't exactly inspired but I like simplicity sometimes. I wanted to let the glitter shine cause bright colours!! I think I like the butterfly on my ring finger the best. See my thumb? I used the glitter as antennae, smart ideas from PlumeriaPainted :P

This was a toothpick design and it was extremely random. The colours of the wings and antennae were ones that went with the flow of whatever colour I was using.

 

Base: Rimmel - Misty Jade and Glam Polish - Mars Attacks!

Teal: Barry M - Guava

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

White: Barry M - Matt White

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Pink: Orly - Basket Case

Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind

Yellow: Topshop - Naked

Dusty Pink: OPI - Japanese Rose Garden

Orange: OPI - Where Did Suzi's Man-go? (which I think looks GREAT here)

Light Purple: Essie - Lilacism

Dark Purple: OPI - Plum & Get It

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

My Little (Chinese New Year) Pony

Hello there my fine folks!! Here is my Chinese New Year nail design!! Ok mine's a bit later than everyone else's but it's still Chinese New Year so it's not like I missed it. I did have this on at the start of Chinese New Year. Since this is the year of the horse I wanted to paint something unusual and not typical, so I tried to think of cartoon horses and that. But nothing came to mind. But after talking to my friend she said I could do My Little Pony nails, which was a total stroke of genius from her. I made it Chinese New Year by using Jinx as a base (suggested by the wonderful Lacqueerisa :)).

My Little Pony is such a cute series, I don't watch it myself but it's pretty clear that the cuteness can't be avoidable with that show. So I painted Rainbow Dash (who seems to be the shizz, it's the only pony anyone seems to know) with a rainbow cloud and Apple Jack (which I had someone tell me who Apple Jack is cause lol I didn't know, I just used pictures) and had an accent of Mars Attacks! for colour and cuteness, nothing wrong with that :P I love bright colours and cuteness and I think this design does that pretty well.

Surely we all know about the obsession with this show with male viewers, "bronies". Frankly I have no issue with it, I think it's funny and I'd probably be a fan of this show too if I watched it. They're probably all just trolling too which I'm definitely onboard with. 

Painting wise I did my usual, white base and fill with nail polish and pens, I have to say the ponies were incredibly difficult to proportion, seriously I spent ages trying to get it right cause it wasn't happening. Thankfully I feel like I got it in the end cause otherwise I would not have been a happy bunny. 

Sorry about the cut :/ Couldn't hide it in this picture

Red base: OPI - Jinx (it really is the perfect Chinese New Year polish)

Mint base: The Face Shop - GR501 and Glam Polish - Mars Attacks!

I layered Mars Attacks! this time and I'm not sure if I prefer it that way, when it's not layered there's more glitter and I thought if the polish was layered that would tackle the issue of glitter being covered up but it doesn't really. I'll have to see what I do in the future of this polish. Still love it though, can't say no to bright glitter. 

White base: Lovely Me:Ex - White

Peach: w7 - Sheer Peach

Pale Yellow: Ciate - Loop The Loop

Neon Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

White: Barry M - White

Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia

Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff

Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine

Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream

Dusty blue: Revlon - Dreamer

Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire

Green (that you can't see): Illamasqua - Nomad

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a lovely day (and had a great Chinese New Year, whether you celebrate it or not)!!! :)

Gimme Glitter: Glam Polish - Mar Attacks!

Hey there guys!! Hope you're having a nice day, I'm glad the weekend lets me catch up with stuff (and even so, I don't get to catch up that much) cause otherwise I'd have no time. I've been so busy lately it's ridiculous, oh January, how you are so full of surprises.
My dear friend got me this polish as a Christmas present (but given on the first day back to school) and obviously I HAD to wear it straight away. She asked me to give her my nail polish wishlist (lol my nail polish wishlist, it's got a bit ridiculous recently :P) and she picked this super super cute one, eeeeeeeeeee it's so pretty!!!! And fun fact, this is the 25th edition of Gimme Glitter, hopefully many more to come which wouldn't be all that surprising due to my love of glitter.

The swatch for my left hand was better, simply because I used thinner coats so the glitter showed WAY better, and when the glitter shows I'M IN LOVE (I'm in love a lot but it's matte neon glitter). I love things with all the colours so it wasn't a question whether I was going to love this or not.
Mars Attacks! is a mint green polish with (get ready for the list) pink butterflies (which I got obsessed with), red-ish and yellow circles, pink and teal squares, small orange, green and purple hexes and small pink and teal glitter. Look at all the fun, it can't be contained. I loved how bright the green glitter was, and just all the glitter was so cute together.

Glam Polish has so many fun shades, I love that they are so bright. On another note I love the Rainbow Connection UK website, seriously so much good stuff and for the UK!! This will become a big issue for me, an easy access to indie polish, even my friend said as she was browsing she couldn't believe the polish (ok maybe slight exaggeration but that's how I feel).

I used 3 coats for full coverage and for sufficient glitter as a lot of it got covered (:(), I think it needed 3 coats to cover up the slight streaks. But definitely not difficult to apply, just the glitter getting covered up issue. Cause when I was removing this polish, all the glitter that was covered was revealed, and it looked so incredible. So I'm going to have to find a way to apply this to get all the glitter to show cause it's even more beautiful. On the removal note, it wasn't easy because this is a glitter polish, the base came off fine but the glitter required a bit more force, but I could deal. I don't mind removing glitter cause I love it so much.

And here's the right hand swatch, you can see the butterfly on my thumb popping off. The butterflies after a while began to stick out, after 3 days or so the butterflies began to break through the topcoat (some of them), and I took some off. But my nails are pretty curved so this wasn't too surprising for me and I didn't mind. You can see the glitter getting covered up issue I was having but even so this is lovely. I can't say no the all the colourful glitter.

Thank you for reading, hope you liked this fun polish and have a nice day!! :)