Distressed art deco arch nails

Hello there!! Man I cannot believe it's April, life has been going so fast this year!! I know that's every year but I feel it's especially speedy this year. Life moving faster ya'know. More nail art today and I really like this design, mega cool, geometric designs are some of my favourites.

Also this was so unbelievably easy to do and I love the way it looks. I love the colour scheme too, I thought it was very art deco, obviously a much less complex art deco but I don't think that detracts. Distressed nails are also super cool. I like the silver outline too, got to stray away from black you know. I think black would've been too intense, also my pen is acting up :P Oh yeah I was totally inspired by Mr. Candiipants!!

So I got the brushes of the polish, wiped most of the polish off and randomly swiped, I tried to make the distribution of colours as even as possible. Then once it was all dry I got my silver on a toothpick and drew the "egg arches", haha some got totally wonky but I thought it added to the design. No need to be perfect :)

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips

Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!

Yellow: American Apparel - Neon Yellow (love this in the design cause it blends great)

Gold: w7 - Golden Sands

Dusty green: Illamasqua - Melange

Dark green: Barry M - Kiwi

Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror

Flakies: Essie - Shine of the Times

Thanks so much for reading and I hope you have a fab day!! :)

Hot Geometric Rainbow Nails

Hello there guys!! It's been a while, but as you can assume I've been busy so I haven't been painting let alone blogging. Hmmm what's happened in like the last 2 weeks? I passed my driving theory woohoo!! Oh yeah I hope you had a nice Valentine's day, I legitimately forgot that was a real thing, like I don't think it has any weight as a significant holiday. The piano was my valentine, I love the piano haha. I have a nice little design here, I really like the geometric rainbow pattern.

I liked the idea of a warm toned rainbow thing, and then different shades of the colours fading.  really like the look it's fun and I think it's sunny and funky. I wanted the colours of the rainbow to stand out and it was random but I like it way it looked. I should've used my good topcoat cause the matte topcoat didn't do well on top of that.

I freehanded the whole thing as usual starting with the outlines of the rainbows and then I used my toothpicks to fill the stripes of the rainbow in.

Red outline: Barry M - Carousel
Reds: M&S - Poppy and Essie - Leading Lady
Orange outline: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Oranges: Rimmel - It's A Scorcher! and Paris Collection - Copper Topper
Light orange outline: Models Own - Beach Party
Peaches: Paris Collection - Brown Beaute and w7 - Linen
Gold outline: w7 - Golden Sands
Yellows: Ciate - Loop the Loop and American Apparel - Neon Yellow
Base: M&S - Maize

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

Kawaii Cloud Skies Nails

Hey there ma peeps!! I'm on my half term break (thank goodness) and I'm hopping off to London so hopefully I'll have nice stories from that!! Today I have a cute sky scene nail art look and not gonna lie I love it. I think this is the first cloud design I've ever done and I wanted to make it cool (read: cute). Also 500th post!! That's a lot of posts, let's call it an achievement :)

Once I realised how perfect Asscher Blue is as a sky blue base I got to work on the cute clouds. For variety I made the clouds white and pastel and of course I needed a neon rainbow. That's where it's at. So after all the elements, I think it shaped out pretty sweet. Cause neon rainbow. And clouds are cute and blushing.

I used the brushes of the polish for the clouds and the polishes being pretty opaque it was easy to do. Details I did with a black nail art pen and toothpicks like usual. For the rainbow it was the same kind of deal except I changed my mind about which colours to use about a million times so some rejected colours were Etude House - No. 60 (I actually had to scrape that off and repaint), No. 7 - Me! Me! Me!, OPI - Charged Up Cherry, Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!, Rimmel - Sunshine and Barry M - Greenberry. But I painted over them so they contributed so shoutout to them :P

Blue base: Models Own - Asscher Blue
White: Barry M - Matt White
Pale blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple
Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Pink: No. 7 - Me! Me! Me!
Light pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit and Barry M - Superdrug Summer LE 2013 A
Neon pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate
Orange: Models Own - Beach Party
Yellow: American Apparel - Neon Yellow
Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard

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

Geometric Glitter Rainbows

Hello there!! Finally I have some nail art and I'm loving this, I love some geometric rainbows and pack it with glitter, I'm in nail art heaven :P It was another "hmmmm I don't know what to do with my nails" and I went with the flow (that's how all the glitter happened) and love it, again they are the best manicures :)

So you see a geometric design with a ton of glitter, like a lot of glitter, and that's the way uh-huh uh-huh I like it uh-huh uh-huh. Yep I just referenced that. I didn't intend of this much glitter but that's what happened after going with the flow. I was just going to do a glitter base then do the black outlines on top but then I thought the black outline was boring by itself so I added a bunch of glitter. I loved the outcome, I really did, and the glitter base was fun it reminded me how awesome Barry M Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B is, it's still beautiful :)

I painted my base, dabbed different sections of my nails with different glitter polishes (mostly half-half horizontally or vertically) and once that dried I got my black nail art pen and painted on the rainbows. Then I got some toothpicks and put some over some of the lines and for the other black lines I used a sparkly black textured polish so it wasn't too overloaded with glitter haha.

Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
Base glitter polishes: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen, OPI - Polka.com, OPI - Rainbow Connection, The Face Shop - CMX321 and Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Black with green: M&S - Petrol
Glitter on top of the black lines: Barry M - Fairy Lights, Essie - Shine of the Times, Barry M - Amethyst and Barry M - Aqua Glitter
I was going to use more glitter, but restricted myself, I'm good at restricting myself.

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

Rainbow Paisley Nails

Hi there fine fellows, I feel like it's been way too long since I did a paisley design and I'm so glad I decided to change that cause I love this mani. I wasn't so sure how the execution would come out from the idea in my head, but I love when things work out right. That's just the best.

So we have some paisley print in all kinds of colours, rainbow colours specifically. I love all things rainbow so this was too much fun for me. The paisley is also just cute, and I actually spaced it out correctly for once. I'm always up for more colour and the little dots added that. There was no glitter, so I added glitter, so much for trying to do a design without glitter I can't do it. But I'm really happy with the outcome, glitter is always the right option.

I had my array of multi-coloured polishes laid out and for each section I painted I'd dipped my toothpick accordingly. Took a while, but so worth it. I tried to have a balance of each colour, I kind of played it by ear. I made sure I used opaque polishes so I wouldn't have to deal with white bases.

Peach: w7 - Sheer Peach
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Mustard Yellow: Topshop - Naked
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Blue: H&M - Blue My Mind
Teal: Barry M - Guava
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Pink: No.7 - Me! Me! Me!
Glitter: Revlon - Belle

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

Pinwheel Multicoloured Stars

Hi there guys!! I've just edited a mad amount of pictures and now it's just time to write posts. I am tired though, it's pretty late when I write this and I'm excited to chill (to an extent), really I have a ton of work to do (as usual) but let's not think about that. I had good intentions with this design but things ended badly. This goes hand in hand with yesterday'd glitter post, I don't like this design very much.

But I think the design looks much better in pictures. I like the colourful chaos in the pictures, it's fun and contrasting. But in real life it's a mess. We ignore such things though. I wanted to do stars without a black outline and of course that called for mental rainbow and monochrome(ish) stars made up of lines to go with the bar glitter. Yep and that didn't work out so great. I always like bright colours but the execution could've been much better here.

I did a base of white for the stars then got my toothpicks and drew lots of lines for the stars. I really do like some of the black and silver pinwheel stars, they are cool. I think I need to do more pinwheel nails in general, cause they're really cool in general.

Base: OPI - Sea You In Hollywood, Rimmel - Azure, Color Club - Sky High and Nails Inc - Hampstead Court
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Light Orange: Rimmel - It's a Scorcher!
Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine
Mustard: Topshop - Naked
Green: Barry M - Greenberry
Light Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
Dark Blue: Nails Inc - Baker Street
Teal: Barry M - Guava
Dark Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Light Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear 
Pink: The Face Shop - PK105
Light Pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Black: Rimmel - Black Pearl
Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror
Silver glitter with holographic bits: Revlon - Belle (I thought this polish would help the stars but it didn't, foolish child)
Yep I like to utilise my polishes.

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

Magical Rainbow Fish

Hello there guys!! Hope you are having a nice day. I just want to say that I watched Saving Mr. Banks and The King's Speech recently, and they are brilliant. I did not expect to love The King's Speech as much as I did, it's incredible and I think everyone should watch it.
I posted my new year's nails on the 30th and on new year's day and I really did intend for them to be my new year's manicure. But then I decided to change up my nails on new year's eve. And this is one of the manicures I did, I kind of loved this manicure and I'm glad I went into the new year with awesome nails (not meaning to be narcissistic :/). Yeah this is why I love the holidays, I can get a ton of posts up so even 8 days after new year's I have posts to fill in-between.

It's a lil' fishy design!! But it has the blue, purple, pink combo that gives a "magical" effect (let's pretend), I really like the fish, they look nice. The scale nails were originally big fat fails, I thought I could do scales with placed glitter alone, but fail I wasn't placing the glitter in the right place and the green holographic glitter was too similar to the base. Yay for black outlining that saved the scales. They were mad sparkly, I can always support mad sparkly.

For the fish I got help from Mr. Candiipants's Koi design, didn't mean to do so many Mr. Candiipants designs but the koi were very helpful for this. I painted a white base then dabbed all the colours onto the fish then did black detailing.

Base: M&S - Peacock and M&S - Light Mix
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Silver and green placed glitter: Barry M - Hologram Hexograms and Orly - Go Deeper
White: Barry M - Matt White and Lovely Me:Ex - White for the base
Blues, purples and pinks of the fish: Color Club - Sky High, Barry M - Blue Moon, OPI - Get Your Number, M&S - Ultraviolet, OPI - Last Friday Night, Barry M - Berry Ice Cream, OPI - Plum & Get It, Color Club - Wing Fling, Rimmel - Disco Ball and OPI - Polka.com
Pretty sure I mentioned every polish used, normally I know but it was a bit of a dab fest and all the colours blended and bam I'm not sure about the polishes I used. But I think I named them all. Though I'm really the only one who cares haha.

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

Colourful geometric trapezium + glittery versions

Hello there you wonderful people, here we are, last post of the year. Is this appropriate for New Year's Eve? I don't know and I don't care, though the glitter probably constitutes it as appropriate. As always I'll just be chilling at home for NYE (I only realised what this abbreviation was this time last year), I also never realised people actually did crazy shizz for New Year, I like home and I like the internet. The internet is a happy place (sometimes :P).
Anyway I love me some geometric designs so I went to Google, asked for some geometric designs and found this funky trapezium one, though trapezium makes me sound like a nerd, I like it that way :)

I love this, geometric designs are the bomb. And you know me, add all the colours and I'm in love. I just LOVE colour!! If there is any way I can pack in all the colours, I will.
This is pretty insane, it's like of like those 3D boxes without the box part. Then I had to add glitter strips, I was going crazy clearly cause I placed all that glitter, I love the look and honestly I didn't mind all the placing, I actually find it quite fun, I want to create all kinds of placed glitter looks. I added a black outline cause I can't help it, but black outlines are awesome. Maybe this would've been better with a white base, but I really like the crazy glittery pink base, adds to the chaos.

This actually wasn't too hard to do, see there's no proportioning or any of that nonsense to worry about. I did my black outline, got a white base and filled the colours. Though I went over the black outline again after I painted the colour.
For the glitter rows (I intended to do more glitter rows but I painted without thinking and a glitter row was lost) I got a toothpick and placed every single piece of glitter, it was only hard for the green glitter in Rainbow Connection cause it was stuck to all the other colours of glitter in the bottle so I had to first find the green glitter then attempt to separate it. Having that glitter on the tips was bad cause I kept poking myself with it and it's rough.

Ok as you can guess I used a lot of colours for this, I know no one cares but I love listing polishes so bear with me ;)
Base: Barry M - Dragon Fruit, Barry M - Fairy Lights and The Face Shop - CMX321
Black and white base: Lovely Me:Ex - Black and Lovely Me:Ex - White
All the colours of cremes: OPI - Charged Up Cherry, Nails Inc - Baker Street, The Face Shop - GR501, Rimmel - Sunshine, The Face Shop - PK105, Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream, Essie - Fear Or Desire, M&S - Sun Glow, Barry M - Guava, Essie - Tart Deco, OPI - My Current Crush, Illamasqua - Jo'Mina, M&S - Poppy, Max Factor - Cool Jade and China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard
Black glitter: Barry M - Ruby (the black glitter in it)
All the glitter: OPI - Rainbow Connection, Orly - Ridiculously Regal, OPI - Polka.com, Orly - Go Deeper, Hare Polish - The Teen Queen, Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B and OPI - Minnie Style

I feel like 2013 went quite quickly, not as quickly as other years though so I'm hoping that there's a chance that life isn't going past obscenely fast. I didn't have the greatest year in real life (oh real life :/) but it wasn't the worst either, hopefully 2014 is a good one full of improvement.
Guys thank you for following my blog over the past year, I had a good year here (excluding the odd blip), I feel like my nail art, photography and hand care (definitely hand care) improved and it's been enhanced so much by your awesome comments and just your reading which I really appreciate. Thank you for reading my crazy thoughts and taking a look at my nail art, to another enjoyable year on PlumeriaPainted!! Hope you have a fantastic day and great start to your new year!! :D

Rainbow Snowflakes

Hello there!! Hopefully you are all on your holidays and enjoying it, I'm really looking forward to doing nothing to the max. I hope everyone is doing their year end favourites about now but I like doing mine in January (also I haven't swatches everything yet and the end of the year always brings a surge of polishes into my lap and deciding whether to include them or not is a debate).
Anyway, every year I feel like I have to do snowflake nails but this is definitely my coolest design (see what I did there), I really like snowflakes too so obviously I need them to reappear every year (though not in real life, I really don't think I've seen a real snowflake ever).

Eeeeeeeee I love all the colours!!! As you can tell snowflakes in all the colours, everything bright and colourful is my favourite so this is just great. It was also nice and simple to paint, that's always nice.

I got my toothpicks and freehanded all the snowflakes, pretty standard. Painting over textured polish was quite nice too as I don't know I felt like I had more control. Trying to keep everything nicely positioned and not crammed was something I had to keep in mind but overall I think I succeeded. Also the texture was (somewhat) taken away by topcoat, I like to seal in nail art.

White: Barry M - Lady

Red-y Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry

Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire

Jade: Barry M - Greenberry

Blue: Nails Inc - Baker Street

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Teal: Barry M - Guava

Light Pink: Barry M - Dragon Fruit

Neon Orange: Models Own - Beach Party

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

Blue + Teal Leopard + Rainbow Cookie Spots

Hello there guys!! Happy weekend, good to see you here. I've finally done another leopard, 30th of June was my last leopard :O I had a pact to make sure I only did maximum 2 leopards a month. Now it's been nearly 5 months since the last leopard :O Well I'm glad I branched out into different things but it's now is the time for a leopard print.

I also wanted to use all the colours quite clearly. You know I love me a leopard, I only do the crazy colour ones (well there was one exception), it is the best way to get ALL THE COLOURS into a mani.

I also wanted a gradient, at first I regretted the rainbow cookie spots and thought I should've done a gradient leopard but in the end I really liked the rainbow. I love all things rainbow.

Blue gradient base: M&S - Ultraviolet (similar to Essie Bikini So Teeny, soooooooo up my street), Rimmel - Azure and Rimmel - Disco Ball (I love the holographic glitter in this)
Teal gradient base: Barry M - Guava (I love this, post on this soon), M&S - Peacock and Barry M - Sour Apple
Black: M&S - Petrol
When my friend kindly gave me the box for the Marks & Spencers polishes the back said "textured" and I was like "Marks & Spencers is doing textured???" like the fact they were doing nail polish was baffling and textured polish was just mind blowing. I began to try to guess which one was the textured one and I did guess Petrol due to the glitter. It looks beautiful, especially that green glitter/shimmer, I can't wait to try it on it's own!!
Pinky Red: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Peachy Orange: Essie - Tart Deco
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Pink: No.7 - Me! Me! Me!
Orange: Bourjois - Tangerine Fatal
Yellow: Ciate - Loop The Loop
Light Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear
Yes all the colours, some regulars in there as well as some new ones. I hope to post swatches of everything eventually, just cause I want to!! :P

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

31DC2013: Day 9 - Rainbow Nails

Oh hello there guys!! We have some rainbows today and currently this is my favourite nail art of the challenge. It works on many levels too, it's like triple rainbow all the way across the sky.

You see dem rainbows, there's the rainbow pattern, there's a rainbow skittle going on and just lots of rainbow colours, I love all things multi-coloured so this works for me. I like the colour combinations on each nail, though I could've added more red or yellow, I like the abundance of cool tones :)

I love geometric patterns (I don't know if this counts as a geometric pattern but I think it does) as they're complex and look super cool. Sometimes I just forget to do more even though I really like them. I'm positive there's a name for this design but I have no idea what that name is.
I personally think they look like rainbows, I used to be obsessed with rainbows and I still think they're beautiful and can make the rainy days better (ah I'm full of corn today ;)). Basically I drew some "rainbows" with my black pen then filled in the colours accordingly.

Polishes used:

Thumb: OPI - Dutch Tulips (red), Essie - Fear Or Desire (orange) and Rimmel - Sunshine (yellow) over Lovely Me:Ex - White

Index: Models Own - Beach Party (orange, new polish alert! I have many things to say about this polish but we'll save that for another time :)), OPI - Charged Up Cherry (pink) and Max Factor - Cool Jade (green)

Middle: Illamasqua - Nomad (green), Revlon - Dreamer (blue) and Barry M - Berry Ice Cream (purple, originally going to be Barry M Prickly Pear)

Ring: Nails Inc - Baker Street (blue), OPI - Jade Is The New Black (green) and OPI - Japanese Rose Garden (pink)

Pinky: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina (medium purple), Barry M - Fuchsia (pink) and OPI - Plum And Get It (dark purple)

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

Well I hope you enjoyed this post, thank you very much for reading and have a fantastic day!! :)

Rainbow Star Nail Art

Hello!! I mentioned 2 posts ago that I did some nail art over The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt 01 that I loved and I have it here today. It's pretty sweet :)

 :D I really like it :D I was a bit meh for a while until the moment I matted it (Rimmel - Matte Finish) *Hallelujah chorus* All the colours were popping and the glitter in the polish was standing out. It was a beautiful moment. When everyone was posting their 4th of July manis I was smitten by all the stars. I love stars but I feel like I neglect and forget them sometimes. Stars are awesome. And look how fun this design is because of them!! :)

When painting the stars I didn't mind if the star wasn't completely opaque cause then the glitter could come through. I freehanded the stars, I first drew the outline of the star then filled it in with the polish. I'm proud of my stars cause they're quite nice and it was a non-dominant hand effort. 

Base: Barry M - Matt White (2 coats) and The Face Shop - Vanilla Sugar Yogurt 01 (3 thin coats)
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Yellow: Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream
Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard
Blue: Color Club - Sky High
Purple: OPI - Plum And Get It
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

I have another somewhat similar star design that I really like that came from a fail, proves stars are awesome :P Thanks for reading and have a great day!! :)

Geometric Rainbow Cupcakes

Oh hey there guys!!! Hope you're having a great start to your week. I have been revising (whoop whoop), I have properly started after who knows how long of procrastination. On that note my posts will be reducing significantly for the next while. I have to spend less time blogging, which bums me out, cause I love it!! But hopefully late June I will be back with "regular" posting, but I won't be disappearing completely (hopefully anyway). I'll also be back with a snazzier blog (I'm hoping if I write it I'll actually do it, computer stuff scares me)!! :)
Since I'm painting less I wanted a nail design that I'd want to keep on for a long time, so of course I go back to geometric patterns and FOOD (I love food ^_^)!!

This might look a tash familiar, as quite recently I did similar design. But I loved that one, so another one can't hurt. Also I think it's rather different.
The geometric design is inspired by the inside cover of Esc (might do a full design inspired by it as it's awesome) by Clara C. I adore her music, I don't know why it took me so freaking long to get her new album. And it's amazing; I have to say the second half of the album is better than the first. My picks from the album are "You've Got It All", "Eventually", "By The Blue" and "Fish", but they are all great.
So I went with that colour scheme, and I wanted to paint another kind of dessert, but I really couldn't think of one, so cupcake had to do (good thing cupcakes are SO cute :3).
I especially like my index finger, to me it kind of looks like a robot. Which I think is funky.
Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear
Red-y Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Orange: Essie - Tart Deco
Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
I have been adoring Prickly Pear, it's gorgeous man. I used 3 coats, but you could probably do with 2. I wanted to use opaque colours as that makes everything so much easier, Charged Up Cherry, Tart Deco, Blueberry Ice Cream and Basket Case all fit the bill.

I have to mention the Color Club topcoat. It came with the set I got from TK Maxx. For one I wasn't sure if it was topcoat or basecoat cause it didn't say!! But I reckoned it was topcoat (still not really sure, but pretty certain).
Topcoats are scary for me as all they do is smudge for me, but the smudging was near non-existent this time (:O). I applied at snail's pace, I'm being serious, I applied it SOOOOO slowly, which probably helped. The topcoat is also really shiny, it has an almost gel-like consistency. Don't accidentally get some in your cuticles as it comes off weirdly and makes your fingers look dry. It's very thick as well, I couldn't get a thin coat.
But the thing that really surprised me was that my manicure was super smooth after. I know that's what topcoat is meant to do, but I find a lot of the time it's still lumpy after, less lumpy than before but lumpy nonetheless. So smooth this was, could've been due to the thick coats but it didn't dry thick. I was just surprised at the shininess and smoothness, topcoats aren't normally that nice to me.

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a lovely week!! :)

Rainbow Paisley Print

Hey there guys!!! This post is very much inspired by One Nail To Rule Them All, I love reading her nail art posts (she's super talented) and she loves matte nails (she clearly understands me ;)). I was never really into the paisley print until Alice did one certain paisley print which I thought was gorgeous. Then a couple of days ago she put up a tutorial and I was like "I know what I'm going to do with my nails". So that's what I did :)

I personally think it looks cooler in real life and from a distance. Oh man it looks cool from a distance. Alice's looks more delicate and better in general but I still like it :) My gradient was a fail (as the majority of my gradients go), I actually owned 3 out of the 4 polishes she used so I thought to use them too. But my gradient failed, I really liked how the paisley print covered over the fail though. It is simpler than it looks but it took me a long time (maybe I'm just slow).

But I love the colour combination, and it really makes me realise how awesome gradients are. I really want to do more (but that's bad for me as my gradients fail). Of course I had to add some black and white glitter into the mix and that looks really nice (I've seen that on other blogs before). I really like how complex the print looks and in general I think it's really pretty :)
Orange/Peach: Essie - Tart Deco
Yellow: Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream
Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Blue: Blueberry Ice Cream
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Silver Glitter: Revlon - Belle (to seal in the gradient or whatever)
Black/White Glitter: L'Oreal Color Riche - Confetti
Blueberry Ice Cream and Re-Fresh Mint are really pigmented polishes, Lemon Ice Cream not so much. When came to gradienting (not a word) I begun with the sponge and did that. But as the gradient failed more I began to just dab with the brush of the nail polish and then sponge to make slightly less failure.

My camera was having difficulties with capturing the colours so I busted out the unnatural lighting, not too shabby if I say so myself ;)

Thank you very much for reading and have a lovely day!!!! :)

Sea Jelly Gradient

Hello there, good to see you (kind of :/). I was meant to do a base for some nail art but it turned into an actual clever idea (rare occurrence in my brain) that I don't see floating about a lot (AH PUN :D).

I did a really pretty gradient (another rare occurrence) and I didn't want to ruin it with nail art (though it probably wouldn't of ruined it) so I thought to add some rainbow glitter for festivities. I didn't like how shiny the glitter was so I used 2 jelly polishes and bam. Some funky gradient. I really like it, it looks pretty cool.
Pale Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Medium Green: Rimmel - Misty Jade (as base creme) and Essie - Turquoise and Caicos (as jelly) 
Darkest Green: Topshop - Green Room
Rainbow Glitter: OPI - Rainbow Connection
In real life these polishes are more green.

Thank you for reading!!! :)

Combo: Phoenix Egg (Rainbow Jelly Sandwich)

Hello there. I've wanted to do this for a while but I kept getting distracted. Also my first successful jelly sandwich, last one didn't go too well. Failed something that's near impossible to fail. Go me.

I wasn't sure what to call it, but I thought Phoenix Egg worked. White nails are weird, it's not that I don't like it, it's just weird. I'm not used to it. Jelly sandwiches are really cool, I have limited jelly polishes but once I can more interesting glitters (I'm looking at you Models Own - Freak Out!) and more jelly polishes. I will probably go jelly sandwich crazy.
Opaque White: Models Own - Snow White
Jelly White: No7 - Snowflake
Rainbow Glitter: OPI - Rainbow Connection
I've had Rainbow Connection for almost a year and it's starting to get thick. Anyway I did one coat of Snow White, one coat of Rainbow Connection and one coat of Snowflake.

                   (A picture with crappy lighting to hopefully show the glitter better)

31 Day Challenge - Day 9 - Rainbow Nails

I had such high hopes for this :’( When it said “rainbow” I thought rainbow glitter. So I attempted my first jelly sandwich.


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Revlon Dreamer you lied to me, I thought you were a jelly polish. Now I know it’s more of a jelly-crème :L the second finger looks ok but otherwise it’s an unquestionable mess and an unmitigated disaster. I love OPI Rainbow Connection though; I bought it for the name. But also, IT'S RAINBOW GLITTER!!! My aunt showed me the song and I instantly loved it. I love rainbows in general but I failed this. 

I gave up with the jellying of the sandwich for my left hand. The glitter didn’t really show up true to colour. But trust me it’s lovely. 

Colours used:

Powder Blue: Revlon – Dreamer

Rainbow Glitter: OPI – Rainbow Connection

This is upsetting. Tomorrow better go amazing.