Showing posts with label poppy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poppy. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Green dripping chevrons + poppy nail art

Hey there!! It's a nail art day, been a bit obsessed with dripping chevrons this year they are just so cool. I had these on for St. Patrick's Day, I mentioned in a March post I had green nails for St. Patrick's Day, now you have an idea about how far behind the backlog is. I'm very behind!! But girl legitimately doesn't have time haha, still don't really have time hahahaha oh dear.

Dripping chevrons are just the coolest. I love green too, it's just so unnatural and great!! I contrasted it with some pink and the little flowers, I like the look but I think I could've used a brighter yellow. but yellows are generally are so sheer and nobody got time for a white base!! Awk it was a cute look.

I just used my toothpicks, I did like circular shapes for the flowers and then for the dripping chevrons I tried to paint the chevrons as randomly as possible colour wise and then just added the drips at the points again randomly, like it's hard to not do it randomly.

Pink: Models Own - Radiant Pink 
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Orange: OPI - Where Did Suzi's Man-go?
Yellow: Topshop - Naked
Green: Barry M - Kiwi
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Light brown: Nails Inc - Sao Paulo Streets
Light green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Dusty green: Illamasqua - Melange
Dark green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Yellow green: Etude House - No. 86

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

Sunday, 5 October 2014

Red Nails: M&S - Poppy

Hello!! Red nail polish here and I have been quite a red girl recently. This is such a nice one (though I still believe a girl only needs so many red cremes ;)), and I'm really proud of my swatches this time.

Poppy is a medium red creme polish. It's not ground-breaking but a good one to have. It's pretty similar to other red polishes I have but it does get used over other red polishes I own. I don't really know why, it just works well for nail art.

My close pal-ios gave this to me as a birthday present (along with 11 other polishes) and I didn't know how much I'd use it but it has been one of my most used of the set. It's an M&S polish which are very legit and I have been impressed by it generally. Now when I go to M&S I make sure I check out the polish. I'm sure it has brilliant alternatives for certain colours that would cost over double the price of M&S polish. Pro tip?

The formula of this is really nice, I think 2 thick coats are sufficient but I used 3 thin coats cause that's generally what I do. It was very flowy so it was easy to apply and the brush was a really good shape for my nails, that's a nice bonus.

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

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Remembrance Poppies

Hello there. Today is Remembrance day, a day to remember all the people who died in wars. I did a little manicure to commemorate this.

I really like it, I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out but I think it's really cute. It was also really easy, I think I'll do it again with a different colour scheme.
Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Black: Lovely Me:Ex

I hope you are having a good day :)