Pop Out Nails

Hi there everyone!! I hope you are enjoying this lovely Sunday. I miss painting and blogging more frequently, but hopefully I will be getting back on the bandwagon very soon (very soon being tomorrow!!! Once again hopefully). I have been seeing these nails EVERYWHERE, and I wasn't sure if I liked it at first but once I saw it more I warmed to it. Unfortunately my attempt wasn't so great, I might try it again one of these days.

I think it's quite a me design, but the execution wasn't so great. I don't know what it was, maybe the border was too thick or the shine wasn't painted right, but the great thing is it looks WAY better in pictures and I'll take it :P
Another thing I don't like, borders. I think I need to give them a bit more time.  To add a bit of interest to the design I added I Lily Love You, it looks awesome matte, I should've put on another coat of it.
Personally I think the shine looks like exclamation marks, I don't think it's just me (unless it is :'().
The base of this I did a post in the earlier days of my blog, check it out if you please, I think my photography is better now but that's debatable ;)
Pink: The Face Shop - PK105 and OPI - I Lily Love You
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
I used 3 coats of PK105 to remove visible nail line and 2 coat of I Lily Love You which I should've used more of. I freehanded the border with a pen which is why it's not very even.

Thank you very reading and have a wonderful day!! :)

Hibiscus Nail Art

Hey there guys!!! 200th post!! Oh my goodness!!! It came right before my eyes, I was not ready, if I was I would've done some sort of special nail art. Which this is not really, something I'm not too hot at = floral nail art, so why not do some? Hibiscuses (hopefully that's grammatically correct :/) are some of my favourite flowers, I adore flowers so my inability to do floral nail art is a bit weird, people who know me know I LOVE drawing flowers but it just doesn't translate to nail art. But give it a try, it'll be alright (name that song reference?).
Unfortunately right now I have a ton of tests and exams so I'm not posting as often, hopefully it'll all be over soon (PLEASE BE OVER SOON) so I can post more (cause I love to :)).

I was planning to do a more intricate design but after this I realised I quite liked it like this. Another thing I'm not so hot at = gradients. I'm no good at blending, and yes I had another gradient fail but I was thankfully able to save it. They're summery colours which gets me in the mood ;) Then I freehanded some flowers, they're not the best but I like it, overall I was surprised that it looked quite nice (especially from a distance, it was one of those manicure).
Yellow: Topshop - Naked
Orange: Bourjois - Tangerine Fatal
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Glitter: Nails Inc - Glamour Glitter 
Flakes: China Glaze - Luxe and Lush
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
This design is one where Luxe and Lush does not work, I hated it here. For one it was all lumpy and rough and made everything looked discoloured, picture wise it looks fine but it real life it's not pretty. It's just so disorganised and I don't like that. I thought it could tie things together but it made things worse, everything was already quite tied together. Majority of the time I don't like Luxe and Lush, it's just not my type of glitter.

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

Flip-flop Fishtails

Hey there guys!! I hope you are doing fantastic, school has come and ruined everything :P Also I am fabulous at embarrassing myself in everything I do :/ Today I have some simple nail art I have never tried before simply because I thought I wouldn't like it. The chevron/fishtail manicure, and I think it's a really great design. I was wrong once again.

The thing is, it's so simple but it looks so striking (in my opinion anyway). I wanted a more cool colour palate, personally I think they look like flip-flops. I found it slightly challenging at the beginning (getting the point in the middle, keeping the lines straight) but once you get into it it gets easier and so much fun (it could be weird to find fishtails fun).
My ring finger was the result of a mistake, I wanted a glitter accent, but no glitter was going to build up by itself opaque. So I used a white base and that worked, but once I tried it again for another colour it was 6 coats and I knew it wouldn't last so I pushed it off. I proceeded with Metallic 4 Life again, the rejected glitter was Orly - Go Deeper.
Turquoise: Essie - Turquoise and Caicos
Hot Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry 
Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Pale Purple: Essie - Lilacism
Light Blue: Revlon - Blue Lagoon
Pink: OPI - Japanese Rose Garden 
Dark Purple: OPI - Plum And Get It
Shimmery Blue: OPI - Sea You In Hollywood
Black Glitter: OPI - Metallic 4 Life
Pink Glitter: OPI - Excuse Moi! (OPI PARTY!!!)
White Base: Models Own - Snow White
I wanted to use more opaque polishes (makes thing SO much easier). I've been wary of Turquoise and Caicos for quite a while. I wanted to love it when I got it, but I didn't. It's such a me colour. I thought it took a million coats and bubbles badly. But I tried it again and 3 coats for opacity (2 coats was not going to suffice though) and the bubbles weren't too bad (I was more patient, but I am not a patient person). It's great for jelly sandwiches though.

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

She's my little Minnie Mouse

Hello there lovely people!! Hallelujah for the weekend, am I right? Gonna chill and enjoy this sunny (I know right, insanity) Saturday. I'm pretty sure Minnie Mouse is a universal cartoon character everyone knows, and she's adorable. And since I felt like it, that calls for Minnie Mouse nail art.

Ok not gonna lie I'm really proud of this one, I adore all things cute and that lil' mouse is the epitome of cute. I freehanded the design (as always, I can't do anything else :P) with the combination of nail art pens, toothpicks and the brush of the nail polish. I'm happiest with the Minnie on my thumb, it was precision to the max. I thought top coat would screw up everything but thankfully it really just smoothed things out, as opposed to smudging everything. Yay for that!! 

Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia 

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

Light Peach: w7 - Linen

White: Lovely Me:Ex - White

Linen is a very opaque polish which was handy (pun?) for this design. I wasn't sure if pink would be a suitable background for this design but I think it works as it brings out the girliness (sorry I'm not very sure if this word exists) of Minnie... Or something like that, my english essay mind is currently wanting to appear. It's too bad I'm not very good at english essays. 

During my 31 day challenge last year I did a Minnie mouse-esque design, it's much simpler but it's quite cute. Beware of bad cuticles though. 

Finally a close-up of Minnie :)

Thank you very much for reading this rather long post and have a wonderful day!!!! :)

Match Made In Heaven: Sprinkle Of Fairy

Hey there guise!!! Hope your enjoying this lovely day, for me it's making the most of what's left of my holiday. Which means "revising". But oh well. I haven't done one of these Match Made In Heaven posts in ages, so I have one here today. I'm using the picture I took a while ago, I should do this combination again soon though cause it's super pretty.

This was the base I fell in love with for my polar bear design. I used 2 coats of Essie - Bikini So Teeny, one of my favourite polishes. It's a cornflower blue with silver shimmer and it's gorgeous. 

I continued with 1 coat of Models Own - Indian Ocean. I think it was intended to be a duochrome but it's not really, still pretty though. It's more a blue/purple shimmer kind of thing. 

I added one coat of Barry M - Silver Glitter, it was limited edition Christmas 2011, but it's your standard silver glitter, but it's really dense.  

I think what really pulled the combination together is that 1 coat of Barry M - Pink Iridescent. The base is tinted pink but it really doesn't show, it might as well be clear. Pink Iridescent is difficult to remove, you wouldn't think it (maybe) but tough scrubbing is required or the tin foil method.  I found with the glitter on top of Indian Ocean it brings out the purple in Indian Ocean whilst still showing the blue. It's pwetty :3

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

Celebrate good times, comeon?

Hi there nail people!! I'm not sure about my title, the nail art is related but really I have no good times to celebrate right now. All I have to look forward to are exams and to put it simply I am not looking forward to exams :'( I've had a lazy day today (as I have everyday), I really do need to do some kind of work, but blog post first (procrastination at it's highest levels :/). I have some simple nail art today, those banner things you put up at parties, apparently they're called "bunting".

I like triangles, this is quite cute. It could be a funky half moon manicure... I really have nothing else to say, this is a first. No ramble from me today ;)
Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia and Revlon - Belle
Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Purple: Essie - Lilacism
Dark Blue: Kiko - 265
I've never know how to describe Belle until now, it's small silver and iridescent glitter (they're tiny squares!!!) with larger holographic pieces of glitter. It's a nice one, my best friend got it for me almost 2 years ago. Once again thanks to her :)

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

Pink Nails: Barry M - Fuchsia

Hi there guys!! I assume that you enjoyed your 12 hours of pranks yesterday. I have never actually played a big joke on anyone on April Fool's day, I just can't be bothered. But in other news I fell for every single April Fool blog post and Youtube video. Seriously, it would take me an age before I would process the date, and be like "Ohhhhh, I actually I fell for that" -_- Really some of it was ridiculous. Today I have a new polish (WAHOO!!!), I love me some Barry M and I picked up this one. Yeah that's it, nothing else.

Well ok maybe not nothing else (I have a story for everything, normally terrible but that doesn't stop me), I have been looking for a pinky purpley polish and I found the perfect one. Illamasqua Obsess (is more blue-toned than Fuchsia and is beautiful), the problem is I had a ton of Illamasqua polishes on my wishlist ("a ton" being 3) but I don't have the money for 3 and I'm just not willing, so I had to find a suitable replacement. Which was this polish. By the way I only have 1 Illamasqua polish on my wishlist now, even though they are expensive I do think it's worth it as the colours are gorgeous and the formula is wonderful.

I've spent more time talking about polishes not even in this post -_- Anyway Fuchsia is a gorgeous colour, it's difficult to photograph, I tried my hardest with my editing skillz to get it colour accurate but I couldn't quite get it there. It's very close but I'll say it's a touch darker and a tiny bit more red-toned. It was pretty much a 1 coater (but I did 2), the formula is great, somewhat runny but it doesn't pool in the cuticles. Hmm let me describe the colour, it's fuchsia. On the hint of red side dark pink (what fuchsia is basically). Why it took me so long to own this one I'll never know, another winner from Barry M I say.

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