Who's that Pokémon? Slowpoke!

Hiya guys!! I hope you're having a good life, I am, I've had this personality adjustment where I don't care about stupid things that don't matter and life becomes amazing!! My university applications have been sent off too so that's a waiting game.
So this manicure was my birthday manicure, I've become a pokémon lover (at the tender age of 17 lol) and I'm currently trying to complete the Pokedex and it's quite the challenge. Also I'm trying to do it with Wondertrade which if you've wondertraded you know it's a mixed bag. Though I've nearly got a full bow of shiny pokemon from it so I say it's worth it. Also I picked Slowpoke for this mani cause Slowpoke is so cute and I have a Slowbro now and I love it. Also side note: sorry about my cuticles!!

So I have a wee Slowpoke with a blue gradient with the big bombastic glitter. It looks better in real life trust me. My lighting is going down and my cuticles are dying lol. I'm happy with that Slowpoke but thankfully it's a pretty easy one to paint. I thought my gradient was done well too cause I did the layers and stuff and I love subtle magical glitter. And then big as glitter (leaving bubbles but you can't win everything haha).

I did the gradient with a sponge and yeah I did it layer by layer, I had the patience. Then slapped the glitter on. For Slowpoke, I started with the pink base and then the yellow mouth with some toothpicks and did the details one by one including the black outline. It was a good shape to paint, it's nice when it can look cool but still be simple to paint.

Pink: Barry M - Miami (I became unsure about this pink cause it was quite dark but it was only in certain lighting)

Yellow: Ciate - Loop the Loop

White: Barry M - Cotton

Black: Rimmel - Black Pearl

Red: Seventeen - Dark Heart

Blue: Barry M - Malibu

Light Blue: Nails Inc - The Tide is High

Subtle Glitter: OPI - Last Friday Night

Chunky Glitter: Etude House - No. 346

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a fantastic day!!

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!! :)

Who's that Pokémon? Spheal!

Hello nail art people(? I don't know, are you??)!! Continuing my favourite series with the Pokemon nail art, I love this so much. Pokemon are so cute. So today I have Spheal because he's the cutest puffy seal, 'nough said.
Also I recently got Pokémon X and I love it so much, it's so fun!! But I'll elaborate on that once I do some 6th generation nail art. I'm current;y at the 5th gym and I'm addicted like you don't even know haha. I picked X even though it's a bit older because it's the still the newest gen and I love the customisation of my character and I picked X because the legendary is real cute and looks like the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke. I'm infatuated guys.

Very proud of those spheals which look so cute. Like he's a ball!! I went for a distressed background to give the idea of like ice and aurora borealis. I really loved the look of it, thing is I probably went a bit too cray with the colours but I managed to save it 8) It just gives a very cool look and glitter always helps (unless its the wrong type of glitter...). I have no reason for the speech bubble, I didn't want to do a ring finger accent but then it looked very bare. So speech bubble.

So for the base I did you standard distressed thing where you wipe all the polish off the brush and go crazy with the strokes, I used all the colours. But then went overboard, sometimes you just know when you go overboard like you lose colours. I busted out the cotton bud and the nail polish remover and saved the base!! M&S Light Mix was perfect for the icy look. For the spheals I started with the colours and then did the outline, took a while to get the positioning right but worth it!!

Base: Nails Inc - The Tide Is High
Distressed colours: Models Own - Asscher Blue, Color Club - Sky High, Barry M - Socialite, w7 - Mosaic, Essie - Naughty Nautical (I think, I used so many colours I actually have no idea what I used :/), The Body Shop - A Grape Affair, OPI - Plum & Get It, Barry M - Chai (this one was a mistake, too dirty and dark), Barry M - Berry Ice Cream (or some pale purple of the like, I know no one cares but I do try to be accurate), Barry M - Dragon Fruit and probably more or less but whatever they were, they were a fierce combo.
Flakie glitter: M&S - Light Mix
Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny
White: Barry M - Cotton
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Green: Barry M - Kiwi
Red: Barry M - Carousel
Dark red: Barry M - Raspberry

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

Who's that Pokémon? Mareep!

Hey there guys, I have another "edition" of this Pokémon nail art thing. I love this series it's like my favourite, Pokémon is so great. This was my Chinese New Year manicure!! I told you this was going to be late. Cause you know Year of the Sheep/Ram. I had a party with my friends and family and it was so fun, Mario Kart was great. There were so many of us that we had to team and my friend and I actually did pretty damn well #kartmasters.

Mareep is so cute and my versions don't do it justice whatsoever, the proportions are totally off but I didn't let it ruin the manicure for me. Blue sheep are cute and then I used Nails Inc Regents Park for the accents cause I haven't used that polish in ages and I love how edgy it is. Though I don't think it was the best choice for the accent but oh well.
Mareep is a 2nd generation Pokémon and Ampharos got a mega evolution in Pokémon X and Y which is cool, man I want that game so bad.

I purposefully chose opaque polishes so I wouldn't have to do a base even if it meant the colours being slightly off. Except the yellow I had to do a white base for that. I started with the wool with toothpicks and the brush then did the blue face and legs with the same kind of technique. I went back with toothpicks and did all the other little details, this is where things went wrong. The face was hard to get right but I think I could settle with what I did.

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Glitter: Nails Inc - Regents Park (Nails Inc have got all fancy now and I liked their old bottles)
Blue: Barry M - Malibu
Cream: Nails Inc - Sao Paulo Streets 
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White
Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Brown: w7 - Brownie

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

Who's that Pokémon? Jirachi and Fletchling in a pear tree!

Hey guys!! Happy new year!! I'm cautiously hopeful about this year, I'm determined to make it a good one on attitude alone (this is like motivational talk here). I had a really nice 2014 and that year was crazy :P I'll be doing my favourite polishes of last year soon, I love nail polish haha. I'm a busy gal on blogging will almost definitely be taking the backseat, I've been obsessed with the holidays though, doing fun things and being generally refreshed ;) Anyway I see no better way to start the year than with Pokemon nail art, this is one thing to expect more of, I adore Pokemon. This design is somewhat Christmas theme but I think it works for new year too!! :)

What I was going for was a Christmas tree kind of idea, you know from the 12 Days of Christmas so that's the whole Fletchling in a pear tree thing and the green and glitter for the tree. But the tree is so bling which is so NYE (not even my new year's manicure :/). I didn't really do much Christmas nail art so making up haha.
So there's Jirachi who's a legendary and while I didn't paint it so accurately I think it's pretty cute!! And the lil bird is Fletchling who's the standard bird pokemon from the 6th generation (Pokemon X and Y looks incredible). So cute, Fletchling is adorable and while the combination of Jirachi and Fletchling is really random, Christmas ties them together. Oh yeah cause Jirachi is a star.

I began with a white base for both pokemon and did the colours with a toothpick and brushes and then did the black outlining. Eyes are hard to position and scale haha. Jirachi's crazy head thing was also hard to proportion. I love the glitter in this design, I wasn't sure if it would work over the green but it was perfect for channelling tree ornaments and that glitter is just fabulous.

Base: Illamasqua - Melange
Glitter: Barry M - Starlight
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White and Barry M - Matt White
Yellow: Ciate - Loop the Loop
Jade: Max Factor - Cool Jade and Essie - Naughty Nautical (but I painted over that)
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Red: OPI - Jinx and OPI - Dutch Tulips (I picked the wrong shade of red but it's really not a big deal :P)
Grey: Barry M - Chai

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a great beginning to the year!! :)

Who's that Pokémon? Mupkip (with dripping chevrons)!!

Hey there guys!! I'm here with some Pokemon nail art, apparently now my favourite nail art. Not gonna lie especially this design, I adore Mupkip and I saw the dripping chevrons at Chalkboard Nails and it's pretty much my new favourite design. It's so easy to paint and it looks so cool!! I think everyone should give it a try cause it looks incredible :)

So yeah here we have some Mupkip, cause I herd u lyk them ;) And some really funky dripping chevrons that go with the colour scheme of Mudkip. I thought Mudkip would be quite appropriate since Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is coming out really soon. You know Mudkip is your water starter and who I intend to start with, if I get the game (hopefully I will cause it looks really great) Look how cute Mudkip is!! Awk bless.
I really love this design, I know the combination seems totally unrelated but I like the strange combinations ya'know. The matteness was also really nice, matte nails are great. I really want to do those chevrons in every colour combination, for seers they are amazing :3

Whilst I think the dripping chevrons are amazing, they are the most time-consuming thing. I wanted a random colour scheme which meant I did each row at a time without having a set pattern so that took even longer haha. As usual I used my toothpicks and as you can imagine I just painted each row trying to keep the zigzags as neat as possible. Some of the chevrons aren't completely aligned but I can look over that. I added the drips randomly at the end. 

For Mudkip I started with a white base, and added the appropriate details. Sounds like bundles of fun, I know. But the outcome is worth it :)

Base: Color Club - Sky High
Blue: Models Own - Asscher Blue
Light Blue: The Face Shop - BL601
Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White
Light Turquoise: Barry M - Sugar Apple
Gold: w7 - Golden Sands
Teal: OPI - Sea You In Hollywood
Periwinkle: Essie - Bikini So Teeny

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

Who's that Pokémon? Marill!

Hey there guys. Man it's been a while since I've written; I've been scheduling due to the masses of homework I receive on a weekly basis. But hey, I have slightly less this week so I get to talk to you!!! Honestly it's been a while since I did this design, but I still remember how much I loved it so let's get started!! :D <-- I'm not even that happy

I'm really thinking of making this Pokémon thing a series cause I seriously ADORE Pokémon nail art. I painted Marill a cute lil' water type. Once again I don't know if Marill is actually good in play or not (I suspect or not), but my favourite Pokémon are the cute ones. I wanted Marill to stand out so I did a nice gradient background, which I liked but it was nothing special. How glitter can magic all things!! After the glitter I felt like I was looking at a magnificent night sky with flower petals falling down. I get very emotive about this kind of stuff ;)

I really do intend of actually getting into Pokémon one of these days. I've rediscovered my cards properly and I want to battle!! From watching gameplay I'm getting more and more interested in it. Also the video-game looks so good and OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire are coming out kind of near my birthday, so maybe now's the time (if school would let me)!! But more Pokémon nail art is a definite. 

So for this design I used a sponge to do the gradient (it wasn't the best gradient) and the brush of the polish and toothpicks for everything (this is something I would do). I was going to get Marill to do a different pose but I painted the blob too small so things had to change. But in the end it didn't matter cause I still think Marill looks cute :3

Blue Gradient: Barry M - Indigo, H&M - Blue My Mind and Revlon - Dreamer

Snazzy Glitter: OPI - Last Friday Night and OPI - Minnie Style

Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

Light Blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple

White: Barry M - Matt White

Teal: Barry M - Guava

Pink: Orly - Basket Case

Thank you very much for checking in here, I hope you have a fantastic day!! :)

Who's that Pokemon? Buneary!

Hello there guys, I hope you guys are enjoying your weekend and not trying to tie up the loose ends of schoolwork like me!! :P I don't know if I've inadvertently started a new series but probs not, I don't know enough about pokemon unfortunately. But Buneary is adorable!!

Buneary is an adorable normal type pokemon and yeah she (or he)'s adorable so I had to do nail art. And I'm pleased with this one, I love cute bunnies and I think I painted them cute (I fail at saying intellectual things).
I have never played with Buneary (I don't even know what gen she is, fail -_-) so I don't know if she's good or not but thing is I would just pick all the cute pokemon, cause do I care if they're good? You need to know little about me to know that cuteness is everything.

I was trying to do a green ombre base kind of thing but I failed as I should've put Cool Jade before Greenberry (-_-) thankfully in the end I didn't care as it was covered up. So it's more a green skittle than ombre. Painting wise I can't really say anything other than I painted some bunnies, I did a white base and then went colour by colour. Those yellow eyebrows were difficult to position as were those eyes, much fixing had to happen.
OO THE GLITTER. Whilst I was painting I didn't know what to do with the 2 bunny free nails, and then what happens? The mail comes in with my first Hare Polish, clearly it was meant to be. Buneary, Hare, see the theme? It was meant to be. You better believe there's going to be a post dedicated to this glitter, and I have much to say.

Greens (thumb to pinky): OPI - Jade Is The New Black, Barry M - Greenberry, Max Factor - Cool Jade, Illamasqua - Nomad and China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Brown: Paris Collection - Mauve Melody
Yellow: w7 - Sheer Lemon
Pink: Per Una - Pink (no name)
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Matt White
Normally I use my white pen for these kind of things but it just wouldn't work. But this was great as no smudging!!
Glitter: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen

Oo bonus picture!! I have a Buneary plushie!! I got it quite a few years ago when I went to Japan, I know the Japanese name phonetically is Mimirouru, I had to do a whole search on google to find out the english name so I could do this design. I wasn't sure if I was going to include my plushie but I decided if you have a cute bunny plushie (oh my goodness plushie is such a cute word) you pose and take a picture with it!! Yes I sound crazy, and yes I don't care :P

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a fantastic day!! :D

31 Day Challenge - Day 23 - Inspired by a movie

I just wanted an excuse for Pokémon nails. Pokémon movies definitely do exist; I watched one with my cousin (in Japanese probably not the wisest move). I watched the TV series when I was younger and it was seriously amazing. But now the series is full of different characters and craziness. Bring Misty back!!!!! But anyway here are my Pokémon nails.

           (Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Togepi and Squirtle, not the toughest pokemon to guess ;))

I looked up some images on Google for inspiration. I really wanted to do a Togepi nail, I watched the Togepi episode a lot, and Togepi is SO cute!!! ^_^ I got a new white nail polish. Unfortunately it’s a jelly :’( It’s really hard to tell with a full bottle, oh well it will be great for jelly sandwiches. I really wanted Jigglypuff to be a paler pink but I don’t have one, so I just had to make do. I probably could do endless amounts of Pokémon nails and never be bored of it, Pokémon are SO cute (even though I know I think many things are cute, Pokémon are above those, well some of them :L).

Colours used:

White: No7 – Snowflake (such a cute name), Natural Collection – White (no name) and Sally Hansen – French White Tip

Red: OPI – Dutch Tulips

Black: Lovely Me:Ex – Black

Yellow: Barry M – Lemon Ice Cream

Pink: Barry M – Strawberry Ice Cream

Blue: Barry M – Blueberry Ice Cream

Pale Yellow: w7 – Sheer Lemon

Pale Blue: Barry M – Blue Moon

Brown: w7 – Brownie

Hot Pink – H&M – Check Me Out

Equipment used:

Toothpicks

Bobby pins