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!! :)

Grey Nails: Barry M - Chai

Hello there palios!! Happy Halloween!! You probably can tell I'm too fussed about Halloween, I didn't even attempt to do any nail art. Instead here I have swatches of the 1st grey polish I have ever owned. Exciting times. This is from the Autumn Gelly collection, legitimate exciting times. "Fall" is not my season, as you may be able to tell but I'm pretty much bright all year round. However I really did like the Autumn Gelly collection this year, the colours are perfectly appropriate and genuinely nice. When I saw there was a grey and it was Barry, I knew it was time to get my first grey polish.

Chai is your straight darkish grey creme. And it's fab, not incredibly fab like some other polishes but it's just really nice grey polish. That's all Chai promises to be and it lives up to that and more. My thought is that grey is a boring colour but honestly Chai kind of changes my mind and makes me see differently. Who can deny it's a nice grey polish?

I always get excited about the Gelly collections, always look forward to them. Go look up the other polishes in this collection cause they're really nice like every other jelly polish. Ok I think I'd like Chai more if it had shimmer, but you know straight up no shimmer polishes are needed in the world too. But after looking up Chai, I haven't seen any grey tea so I don't really understand the name.

The formula is perfect. Like a standard Gelly polish, it's perfect. You could totally do 1 coat and it'd be opaque, smooth and it would apply beautifully. I did 2 coats from habit and I got to glide twice.

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

Green polka dots + gunmetal grey base nails

Hello there people!! Sometimes simplicity is the best. I was pushed for time and was tired (i was going to do a snazzier design) so I quickly blasted through this design, but I loved wearing it. It's also nice to do something different, I'm also now obsessed with polka dots and I want them in every design and this design triggered that.

You know me, you know cuticles issues :P

I like to think it as a mysterious grey base with some green polka dots. So simple, but so great. I don't know what made me want to combine those colours but I'm so glad I did. The combo is so weird, but so great again. I love weird things!!

I got my sponge and went to town, I wanted mystery with the silver but that led to glitter and flakes and I love it. The polka dots I painted with a toothpick so they're not exactly the same but that doesn't matter to me. I'm proud with how evenly spaced they are, that's very easy to mess up and I know this from experience.

Grey: Barry M - Chai

Sponged mystery: w7 - Silver Mirror, Topshop - Gypsy Night and OPI - Metallic 4 Life 

Green: Barry M - Kiwi

Thank you for reading this snappy post and I hope you have a fantastic day!! :)

Blue Nails: Models Own - Asscher Blue

Hey there guys!! I guess I've been chilling on the blog front right now (explaining the big gaps between posts) cause of business but I've had a good few (mental) weeks. I've obviously had my ups and downs and self-inflicted failures hahaha but it's nice to write and go cray about polish. This Diamond Luxe collection has seriously re-sparked my interest in polish. This one, oh this one. It's brill to say the least.

In case you didn't know I adore blue polish. This is the one. Asscher Blue is a bright kind of turquoise-y blue with lil flakes and a brilliant turquoise shimmer. The shimmer *faints* Bright blue is the best blue and I've been searching for a good one and this is it. So ahead and swoon.

Direct lighting to try and show the shimmer, it's too great

Again this is from the Diamond Luxe collection, a totally stunning collection and I'll probably hop out and get more at some point. The shimmer. It's the shimmer. After a quick google search I've found out that asscher is a type of diamond. Very appropriate, I like what they did there ;)

The formula is very good, I mentioned that Radiant Pink is quite thick but there were none of those issues with Asscher Blue. It's not as smooth as a creme, but then it's not a creme and the formula is still very good anyway. I used 2 coats for opacity, and it built very well. For long nails, the opacity was great.

Thanks for taking time out to read this, I hope you have a lovely day!! :) 

Totoro Nail Art

Hello!! I hope you're doing swell. Nail art day!! It's Totoro!! Who doesn't like Totoro? Embarrassingly I don't know much about Totoro and it's totally something I should specialise in, oh well that never stops me from doing nail art of cute cartoons.

Sorry I thought my cuticles were ok when I took the pictures but apparently not

I did a simple little Totoro design with Totoro on the accent and then a little leaf which seems to be his thing. What animal is Totoro anyway? I'm not sure. Shamefully I just wanted Melange to shine (which looks great with topcoat) but it's a great background for Totoro, it fits the woodland magic feeling :P

I did the basic shape of Totoro with the brush of the polish then did pretty much everything else with the toothpicks. The nose and the bridge of it was harder than anticipated, you know, positioning issues. The leaf was hard too, I don't know why, I still was completely happy with it in the end. 

Base: Illamasqua - Melange

Grey: Barry M - Chai

Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black

White: Barry M - Matt White

Green: Barry M - Kiwi

Light Green: Etude House - No. 86

Thank you for reading!! And I hope you have a fabulous day!! :)

Pink Nails: Models Own - Radiant Pink

Hey there!! I'm travelling along as usual, getting stuff done. I don't know if you heard but Models Own released a Diamond Luxe collection (which apparently has real diamond dust in it or whatever, that's not what I care about) and basically all the polishes have a fantastic shimmer and I'm obsessed. I got 2 but more shall enter my life :P

Gurl don't you have enough pink polish?? It's true. I do. But from browsing the collection obviously the pink is going to speak to me (can you guess what other colour I got? It's even more me colour).
Radiant Pink is a borderline neon blue-toned medium pink (but different from my other medium pinks, I can assure you!!) with (this is what makes it special) white shimmery flakes that sparkle real nice and it's really pretty. It's not a crazy sparkle, it's subtle but it goes perfectly. I have been obsessed with shimmer after realising how nicely it can be done with Illamasqua Melange so yeah all the shimmer polishes.

You can see the white flakes better here and they're SO NICE. I think Models Own has been releasing some great polish recently and it's a brand I've really liked for a long time but they seem very consistent throughout their polishes, and when they do something good. It's good.

Pologies for weird lighting, I was trying to get the polish colour accurate. That's also the problem with editing at night :/

I found the formula weird for this one, I don't know if it was me or if I need to use the polish more cause it was quite thick and difficult to control. Not enough to not use it again (come on the polish is lovely) but I could be wrong (it's happened when a polish isn't great the first time it's tried but after its fine). But 3 coats was good for opacity but as usual you could probably do 2. 

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

Geometric Gradient Line Nails

Hi there!! This nail art look is inspired by the one and only Chalkboard Nails where she did this design during the 31 Day Challenge and I thought it was sweet. But also on that note, I'm so glad I didn't do the challenge this year. There's just no way, I can barely do my nails once a week let alone everyday. Madness that challenge is, madness. Girl has homework.

This is a bad time of the year for my cuticles :/

I thought all the lines looked really funky, the gradient making is especially so. I mixed up the colours for fun and otherwise I think this looks really cool. I would just stare at the design in school cause of gradient really, gradients are great. 

I got to work with my toothpicks and initially I tried to make the lines thinner but when that didn't work it was chubby lines all the way. I first did the 3 main colours then went to the intersects and did the blending colours, worked quite well if I do say so myself. 

Pink: Models Own - Radiant Pink

Glitter (I had to add some glitter): M&S - Light Mix

Beige: Nails Inc - Sao Paulo Streets

Brown: Nails Inc - Porchester Square

Purple: Illamasqua - Jo'Mina

Light Purple: Barry M - Prickly Pear and Essie - Lilacism

Blue: Essie - Bikini So Teeny

Light Blue: The Face Shop - GR501

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