Have a gold star! And a silver one, and a pink one...

Hi there guys!! Simple nail art today, this was the other half of my true new year's manicure. I wanted something simple and to let the bar glitter shine. Haha many will not be keen on letting bar glitter shine :P

I love stars, one of these days I'm going to say "I love stars so I made up a super awesome manicure with them", one of these days... I wanted a simple gold, silver and bronze colour combo but without the bronze. And replaced with pink and white with black and red glitter instead. Oh yeah and gold turned into mustard yellow cause I forgot to put the gold on top of it lol.

This one was v simple, I drew some stars with black and filled them in. Normally I would paint the colours first then the black but I was lazy haha.

Base: Various green polishes and Barry M - Sour Apple
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Yellow: Topshop - Naked
Silver: Nails Inc - Abbey Road
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White and w7 - Lava Flow
Pink: Barry M - Princess

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

SImple purple flowers + hot pink glitter

Hi there guys!!! Welcome to the new year *manly whoop*!! To a year of good times, being kind and less procrastination. And welcome back to PlumeriaPainted, I love florals and it's nice to start the year that way. Inspired by Mr. Candiipants cause this floral design was a stroke of genius, so easy to do yet looks so good!! The colour combos are endless and I just love her nail art, it's incredibly funky and on another note she is just hilarious!!
Also I feel like I want to mention her cause of the whole stealing issue that we've been all hearing about and unfortunately Candice has been affected by. I'm appalled with the stealing and frankly I think it's sickening, this is hard work created by talented artists and it's carelessly being stolen for profit (and probably to aid egos too). There are plenty of places to read up about it if you want to so I'm not gonna go into it.
I always give credit when I'm inspired by another, it's common decency really, and they deserve it! I can imagine she who will not be named stealing from me (which is something I'd hate to happen) and her getting away with it cause this place is so small, but people are catching on and hopefully she'll be stopped. She's stolen from the big dogs, obviously someone is going to notice!!
Lol that got deep, sounds like something from a fantasy movie (;)), sorry to start the post with a mild rant but it's been very apparent lately. Anyway to the nails, we are now back to focusing on the nails!!!

I was stuck with what to do with my nails then flowers appeared, then all the glitter. I thought the design could do with more pink so glitter was the answer. I told myself to use less glitter in designs but I don't think I can do that, expect lots of glitter this year (and all the years)!!! I quite like this, it's simple and sweet. Also the odd appearance of the square glitter is cool.

The flowers were done with the brush of the polishes, so easy to do. Also I used no black nail art pen, I placed black glitter and I really liked it. The hot pink glitter was a mixture of dabbing and placing, I wanted quite a lot of glitter. My bottle of Minnie Style has more pink due to me placing the white glitter in that polish in various designs.

Peachy pink: Barry M - Princess
Glitter: OPI - Minnie Style
My bezzie bought me another bottle of this cause she is the best, I feel like 2 bottles is fine and also they are very different. My current bottle has squares (not to mention a big decrease in white glitter) and my new bottle has no squares and an equal amount of pink and white glitter (obviously not exactly equal) :)
Purple (lightest to darkest): Essie - Lilacism, Barry M - Prickly Pear with Topshop - Razzmatazz, Illamasqua - Jo'Mina, OPI - My Current Crush and OPI - Plum & Get It
Black: the black glitter from Barry M - Ruby
Green: Barry M - Greenberry

Thank you so much for reading (ma lil' rant lol) and I hope you have a great 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!! :)

Pink + Glitter Half Moons

Hey there. Hope you are feeling fine this Tuesday evening. Unfortunately for me school was not cancelled and I had to go in when there were too little people in class to do any work :/ I can't complain I guess. I wanted a simple mani and I like half moons but I'm not enamoured by this design.

I really like both colours though. I went a bit too crazy with the glitter on my thumb but otherwise I like the half moons. The manicure in general, don't like it too much.
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Glitter: Barry M - Amethyst 
Amethyst is an absolute nightmare to take off, it looks lovely but it's like it glues itself onto your nails -_- You have to battle through these things. Basket Case also chips easily but I love it, the formula is really good so that could make up for it.

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