Purple Nails: The Body Shop - A Grape Affair

Hello!! I have a nice polish to show you today, quite recently The Body Shop released their nail polish line, Colour Crush or something and I heard good things and they looked quite nice so here I am showing you this polish today :)

From what I saw all the polishes were cremes, but really nice colours at that. A Grape Affair (punny) is a red-toned medium purple creme and it's totally gorgeous, I was going to give this away but then it was so nice and I wanted to try out The Body Shop's polish.

Recently I've been real obsessed with The Body Shop, I've been getting £10 off every month and it really keeps me going back to there. I kind of really want to get the candy apple body butter thing, cause it smells incredible. Anyway back to the polish, the range of colours were really nice and will surely grow, good price at £5 too. As if I needed more reasons to go to The Body Shop, like I almost like it as much as The Face Shop, and I love that place.

The formula was brill and will keep me going back, 2 coats easy and probably 3 for long nails. The formula was smooth and glided and it was pretty much perfect. The viscosity was also right in the middle, I suppose slightly on the runnier side but overall really really good formula. Like don't hesitate buying Body Shop polish ;)

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

Purple/Green Paisley Print Nails

Hello there fine people, coming right at'cha with more nail art. It's been pretty nail art-y recently, and that's the way it should be. Nail art is my fave. I think taking that break from writing and posting was nice just to try and get myself in order (order is a subjective word).
I think I'll be having some good stuff up soon, it was my birthday earlier this month so I do have some polish to display and I enjoy writing those posts so hopefully I can have some good quality content up before the month is over (and it will be considering how fast time has been passing, it's not just me right??). And woohoo my exams are over so hopefully I'll up and posting a bunch soon (if I don't get distracted, I can be a very distracted person sometimes).

I feel like it's been a while since I've done paisley print nails and even once in a while I have urges to correct the absence of certain nail art designs. I thought the clash of pink, green and purple would be cool. I like the design as a whole but the colours don't blend very well together. I reckon I could've got the gradient effect painted much better. But once you slam that glitter on top everything is solved. 

This was a toothpick affair and I tried to use the 3 colours in different orders with each paisley pattern. It was hard to do thin lines inside the middle sections. Under the paisley print I also jellied a sandwich and that actually looked really nice by itself. I think the segments of paisley are actually pretty messy but something I just dealt with haha. Also mattified cause that's what the cool kids are doing. Haha I don't know that but I like matte manicures a lot.

Base, jelly and glitter: Per Una - Pink (no name), Barry M - Superdrug Summer Limited Edition 2013 A and OPI - Polka.com
Light Green: Etude House - No. 86
Green: Barry M - Greenberry
Darker Green: Barry M - Kiwi
Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina
Plum: OPI - My Current Crush
Red: Barry M - Raspberry

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

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!! :)

Pop Art Heart Nails

Hi there, welcome back to PlumeriaPainted!! With more nail art! Yeah I've been really busy, but isn't this the story of all of our lives. But there's been exams and I have masses of fun work to do, however I've finished half of my exams today so hopefully I'll be back in business soon :) Today's design is a simple one, but like most things I like it. I have to say this design translates way better in photos than in real life. I was not keen on this in real life, go the power of photography.

It's just a little cute heart pattern, but with an outline which makes it pop art. I think my favourite part of this design is the holographic glitter hahaha. No but I like the design in photos, it's simple and sweet.

The hearts were painted with toothpicks but cause the colours were too similar and basically I painted the hearts badly so I had to add an outline with my black pen. The spacing isn't totally right either but that's something I can overlook for this design.

Base: Etude House - #60 and Barry M - Fairy Lights
White: Barry M - Matt White and w7 - Lava Flow
Pink: Models Own - Radiant Pink
Light pink: Barry M - Strawberry Ice Cream with Per Una - Pink (no name) underneath
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

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

Red/Blue Blossom Nails

Hey there guys!! It's a nail art day and I love floral nail art and my problem has always been that I'm not very good at it :( Again it's another hit and miss thing for me, except I think with floral nail art when I hit, I HIT!! I'm very happy with this one, elegant flowers are the shizz.

I was trying to be artsy and when I do that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When I don't try really hard it tends to work and vice versa (reverse psychology?), and artsiness is me in this design.
With the peach base, I thought some pinky red and blue flowers would go really nice on top. I think I managed to do the shading ok too. The black dots really helped the design an thankfully I didn't mess it up!! I felt so elegant with this design on ;)

For the artsiness, I got my toothpick and actually just went mental making loose flower shapes. Seriously mental, there was no set shape going on (I think that's my downfall) and I avoided outlines this time round. The leaves were more structured also I didn't want them all over the place so they're very orderly. For the bits of glitter I did a little bit of fishing, not tough fishing though if you know what I mean?

Base: Paris Collection - Brown Beaute

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips

Pink (hard to see): Models Own - Radiant Pink

Dark blue: H&M - Blue My Mind

Light blue: Models Own - Asscher Blue

Black: M&S - Petrol

Green: Illamasqua - Melange

Green glitter: Orly - Go Deeper

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

Peach Nails: Paris Collection - Brown Beaute

Hi there you!! This is a very old peach polish of mine with a really random brand but I wanted to give it a test run. Surprisingly I like it and I'm still working on swatching all my polish. This is a step closer to that goal!!

Brown Beaute (like the most deceptive name, this is just not brown) is a pearly orange-y peach polish. Pearly being the key word, we can all relax cause this isn't a frost. It's quite a nice colour, generally I do really like a sweet peach.

I still don't know much about the Paris Collection brand, maybe it's Canadian? But I've never seen it ever since my Canadian pal gave this to me 3 years ago. Hey the more you know.

Ok you can see bubbles but that could be my fault cause I am bubble queen. Maybe the formula would be bad to others but I thought it was ok. I needed 4 coats but they were thin and it built decently well. I've seen worse formulas :P

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

Clashing gradient + dotty flowers nail art

Hi there!! I hope you're doing well, chilling and that. Today I have some simple nail art that I thought I could quickly do and just wear for the week. The design took longer than anticipated and I ended up taking the design off after a couple of days (not that I didn't like it, I really liked it!!) cause it was thick (can't deal with a thick manicure). However I still think this is a simple cute look that's fun to "wear".

I like clashing colours a lot and I actually spent of a long time for the colours to use. I love glitter gradients but unfortunately my gradients are very hit and miss, I guess this one was in-between.
The accent nail was meant to have nothing but it just looked really out of place so I added the little flowers which are cute and so easy to do and I'm glad I added it to the design as it ties everything together. Oh yeah The Teen Queen looks great as it always does.

I use the sponge method for my gradients and after having to do tons of layers I just resorted to dabbing with the brush of the polish. For the little flowers I just used a toothpick with the corresponding polish and went with the flow on the colour scheme of the flowers.

#cuticleproblems :/

My hands match for once in my life!! But never again, I love not matching. Well not completely matching cause the accent nail is different but it's the closest I'll get to matching.
Orange, green, blue gradient: OPI - Where Did Suzi's Man-go?, Illamasqua - Melange and H&M - Blue My Mind
Glitter: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen
Neon pink accent: Claire's - Hundreds and Thousands
Light pink accent: The Face Shop - Strawberry Milk Yogurt
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Light green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Blue: Models Own - Asscher Blue

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