Pink + Blue + Purple + Green Leopard

Oh hey there guys!!! I hope you are all well, I have a mildly stressful week ahead of me, but hopefully everything will turn out right. Happy last day of April, I have to say this year is going obscenely fast, I can't keep up! I can't go a month without minimum 2 leopard prints, I was doing my nails, couldn't think of what to do and I was like "Oh my goodness I haven't used my 2nd leopard print!" which obviously called for my 2nd leopard print (I held out til the last day of April!).

I used a double accent for the banter (I am enjoying this phrase), I wanted to try out some new polishes (as in last post) and of course leopard is the way forward.
Pink: Color Club - Wing Fling
Blue: Color Club - Sky High
Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Color Club Wing Fling and Sky High are glass-fleck polishes from last year's Take Wing collection and I have to say. THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. I told myself I could keep 2 from the set and it was tough, but I've been looking for a more fuchsia pink and I'm a sucker for blue.
Sky High is AMAZING, I surprisingly don't have a blue that shade. Glass fleck polishes are so pretty and sparkly and Sky High has the most beautiful purple duochrome going on. I have mentioned I am not a fan of duochrome polishes, but this one is in a league of it's own (didn't show up in photos though).
I really really liked all the colours I picked up (by the way after some calculating I got the Color Club's for £1.14 each :O Love ya TK Maxx), but Prickly Pear and Sky High were automatically added to my favourites.

Thank you for reading and I wish you a fantastic day!! :)

Chubby Bunnies

Oh hey there guys!! How are you this fine Sunday evening? I don't actually know, I'm not dreading school (though I should be) but it's not like I'm aching to get there (but what child ever is??). Since I'm liking the animal nail art right now, I chose to paint some bunnies. They ended up chubby through no fault of their own.

At first I was disappointed with my bunnies, but I grew to think they're cute (and that is the most important thing). A question you may be asking is "Why are those carrots white and black?", no crazy answer just because I wanted them to work with the colour scheme.
If I ever got a bunny (which I won't because my mother despises animals) I would name it "Milk" (because I can) or "Fluffernutter" (HIMYM reference), aw man I'd have to buy 2 cause I wouldn't be able to pick. My friend named her fish "Lorenzo Vonmatterhorn" (the other one "Fish" because she had used all her naming powers), how legendary right? ;)
Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear (What a cute name :3)
Pink: Color Club - Wing Fling
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Light Pink: Professional Nail Care French Manicure - French Pink
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
I got new polishes, the Barry M was on my wishlist but I took it off cause I told myself I didn't "need" it (then I decided I did "need" it). OH MY GOODNESS IT'S GORGEOUS, purple is not my colour. BUT THIS CHANGES MY MIND IT'S SO PRETTY. It's a perfect lavender and I just love the colour, it's amazing.
The pink is one of my first Color Clubs, TK Maxx (love) are selling them in sets and I picked up the "Take Wing" collection. Not all for me (but some for me, oh man I am loving brackets today), and it's so pretty, but I will writing about it more next post.

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

Imitation One Stroke Floral Nail Art

Oh hey there guys!! The long week is once again over, I had a weirdly good day. I hope you did too :) I have mentioned before something I'm not so hot at is floral nail art, but I had a good feeling about this design. Hopefully we have all seen Lucy's Stash's GORGEOUS one stroke floral nails, it's something I would love to try but I don't own any nail art brushes (which I'm definitely ok with, I don't need brushes). I didn't have that in mind when doing these nails but at one stage I was reminded and rolled with it. I'm proud of this one.

This might be the best floral design I've ever done (very likely as my floral nail art is not so good), this is the kind of flower I draw and it's about time I translated it nail style. I think it's quite pretty, I've got a lot of lovely comments from lovely people when they've seen these nails. Also I just want to reiterate that I LOVE flowers, they are beautiful and it reflects in my blog name too. I really like the colours too and I'm just pleased :)
Blue: The Face Shop - BL601
Silver Glitter (used for gradient): Barry M - Silver Glitter and Nails Inc - Abbey Road
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Pink: Barry M - Fuchsia
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
I'm thinking of doing a tutorial for this (for the banter :P), it's not too hard and maybe a good alternative for the one stroke flowers (but way less pretty). But I think it's a nice floral design in it's own right. I want to do more tutorials (when I have time :/), and yes I have done a tutorial and it's on leopard print (surprise surprise). I have to say all the polishes used have great formulas and are generally fantastic polishes.

I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you very much for reading!!! :D

Pink + Blue Ikat Nails

Oh hi there!! Hope you all are well, after this post I am being greeted with a ton of schoolwork. Yay!! -_- I wanted to do a simple manicure and ikat nails fit the bill and they look really cool.

Unfortunately I picked the wrong colour combination, Japanese Rose Garden is such a disappointing colour. It's got a fantastic formula but the colour just doesn't hit the spot, also the glitter was a bad idea (maybe the only time I will ever say that). But in pictures the manicure looks nicer. Otherwise I like it, but I should've used a more vibrant pink but too late now.
Pink: OPI - Japanese Rose Garden
Gold Glitter: Nails Inc - Glamour Glitter
Blue: Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
White: Model Own - Snow White (Lovely Me:Ex - White for touching up)
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Formula wise all these polishes are great, I feel bad about bashing Japanese Rose Garden, it's not a bad polish just not my colour, it's awesome for water marbling if that makes things better.

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

Rilakkuma (Relax Bear) Nail Art

Oh hey there!!! How are you? I'm feeling ok-ish, I was meant to post yesterday but I got out of hand revising (I am one party). But really I started writing notes at 5pm and by 11pm I still hadn't finished. My maximum break could've been 2 hours so that was some intense writing. Unfortunately the test was today and I'm not so sure if I did great.
Whatever moving forward, I wanted bear nails and automatically an image of a bear appeared in my head. I could not for the life of me figure what bear it was, and that annoyed me. Of course I proceeded to ask the internet (the internet knows everything), where I typed in "cartoon bear" which did not work. Then I typed in "korean bear" which also was not so helpful but there was an image with the bear I was looking for. Turns out the bear is Japanese and called Rilakkuma (translated to relax bear). I am positive I've seen this bear before but I can't remember where (it's going to annoy me), but he is ADORABLE.

Ok forever I love him and I need him more in my life. I didn't copy the cartoon exactly I added some elements that I tend to do with everything I paint. I was put off animal nail art for a bit (I. Do. Not. Know. Why), but I am definitely back on cause ANIMALS ARE ADORABLE.
Yes I am a fan of this design cause bears are adorable, I think I love bears now. Obviously not the grizzly scary kind but the cute bear cubs etc. I melt (in a good way). The chick on my pinky is another character in the show. Oh man, SO CUTE.
Base: Revlon - Blue Lagoon, Models Own - Indian Ocean and OPI - Last Friday Night
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White (for details) and Models Own - Snow White (for base)
Brown: Nails Inc - Porchester Square
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Yellow: Rimmel - Sunshine
Orange: Essie - Fear Or Desire
Porchester Square is beast for nail art cause it's so opaque, and in general it's a nice colour (just not my thing). I want to like Sunshine more, but once I had it on my nail (singular I don't know what I was doing, probably some kind of nail art thing) and it stained. I was not happy about this. Otherwise it's still a decent yellow, but you know yellows, they have many coat formulas.

Picture spam!!! Cause it's cute ^_^

I now want a ton of Rilakkuma paraphernalia, just because that bear is so stinking cute and he can just chill with me :P

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day!!! :D 

I'm a little butterfly

Hi there guys!! I hope you all are enjoying the weekend, the weather has been kind of crazy but I've been inside the whole time so not like that matters :P You probably don't get the reference in the title, I think we have established I am a big kid. So yes the reference is from the show "Austin and Ally" which is a kids show and I adore it. It's unbelievably cheesy but that makes me love it, I NEED to watch the next episode. I will not fangirl over a kids programme right now (but trust me, I have fangirled many a time in the past over this show) but the next episode will be particularly exciting. Oh yeah I have butterfly nail art :P

I did some butterfly wing nail art in my 31 day challenge (beware of lack of clean-up), those were quite nice. But I really like it this time, I was surprised with how much I liked the design. I couldn't stop staring, which is rare for me. Once again the white dots really make everything.

I started with 2 coats of OPI - Charged Up Cherry, you could totally get away with 1 coat if you have shorter nails. Now I'm kind of wishing I used a different shade of pink but whatever doesn't matter. Then I added some random blobs of Barry M - Pink Foil (Boots Xmas LE 2012 B) and OPI - Excuse Moi!. Finally to "seal" everything I used 1 coat of OPI - I Lily Love You. It wasn't completely dry when I began to draw with my black pen (Lovely Me:Ex - Black) but it didn't affect anything. It's all about making your segments even, and of course the white dots (Lovely Me:Ex - White).

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

Combo: Indian lagoon on a Friday

Hi there guys!! The long week is over, kind of. I have to revise, hopefully I'm not the only one. But every time I say "I'm definitely going to revise today", it never happens and it repeats for the next couple of days until it gets to the point of "Gurl, you actually have to sit down and do some work". Anyway, today I have a combo, I like combining my blue polishes (blue is my favourite colour) and often they work really well together. So unsurprisingly this combination worked.

It's subtle but pretty, I got a few compliments on it and I was surprised as it was so simple, but sometimes simple is the way forward.
I started with 3 coats of Revlon - Blue Lagoon. A pale blue with a silver/blue/purple shimmer which is pretty but never shows up on camera. It has a weird finish, not shiny, not matte, not really satin matte, kind of matte-shiny but more matteish? Ok I topped my worst description ever, but basically it's not your standard creme.
I added one coat of Models Own - Indian Ocean, I like it more as I use it more. It's a shimmery blue/purple duochrome, it makes blues pretty (unless they're dark, then a weird shade of purple shimmer turns up and it's not as nice).
Finally I used 3 coats of OPI - Last Friday Night, a sheer blue base with iridescent glitter and a blue micro-shimmer thing which is gorgeous. Looks awesome over light purple too, it's a lovely subtle glitter to complete the combination. I love me some blue nails anyway.

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