Teal Nails: Essie - Naughty Nautical

Hey there guys!! I got this polish as part of a set in TK Maxx (a.k.a. the place to be), and well I have to show all the polish don't I? Especially the teal ones, I love teal.

Naughty Nautical is a green-toned teal with silver shimmer that flashes purple and green. Really pretty this one, I think I'd like it better if it wasn't so green. But teal is teal so of course I think this one is great.

Naughty Nautical was a part of Essie's 2013 Summer collection, I tend to love Essie summer collections. The colours are so me and 2013 was a lovely collection, but I was waiting for them to be way cheaper in TK Maxx cause they weren't essential as nice as they were. And over a year later I can get my hands on 1 of them, I saw another TK Maxx set with 2 from the collection but the teal is the one I'm after really. Well the coral was but that one wasn't there. I think Essie does really nice shades, and I'm very particular about shades.

Whilst the formula was more on the runny side it covered pretty well, I used 3 coats and my longer nails are probably a factor in that. Yeah application was smooth and maybe you wouldn't like it as much if you don't like the formula so runny but otherwise it was very good. But beware, Naughty Nautical is a stainer, I used base coat and it still stained so be wary...

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

Gimme Glitter: Barry M - Starlight (Limited Edition)

Hi there!! I'm liking the bit of time I get to sit and write up these posts, once school starts back I have to make cupcakes for my class and lol let's not even start about winter exam results but it's nice to have a few days off. It's Barry M limited edition time, I do this every year you know the drill, I pick my favourite limited editions and I show them off. There's still 1 limited edition I intend to get but from the promos I knew this one would be my favourite.

It's holographic glitter pal. The mix is so nice, there's gold and pink (hard to tell but it's a pale pink and it's really nice) hexes with silver holographic stars and small pink glitter in a clear base. It's kind of classy and would be perfect for a party ;)

You know me, you know I love Barry M, and I love those limited editions. Every season I try to get the nice ones, this winter there's 2 in Boots (Moonlight and Starlight), 2 in Superdrug (Jingle Bells and Christmas Tree) and even 1 in Tesco (Twilight). You'll hopefully be seeing one of the other ones, though here's a hint, I'm not the biggest fan of bar glitter. I love that they're glitter polishes too, you know me, you know I LOVE glitter.

Haha I was trying to show the pink glitter and the only way to do that is take a picture in the bathroom, you can see the shower head ahahahaha

You know what to expect with Barry, the glitter spread was super great and there was loads of glitter. I used 2 coats and I didn't even pack the brush with glitter. The stars stuck out a bit, but that's gonna happen when you have curved nails and it's not that bad, otherwise all the glitter stays at bay. I put this over Nails Inc Sao Paulo Streets, cause neutrals are classy, like me. I'm excited to put this over a bright colour though :P

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

Purple Galaxy Nails

Hey there guys!! Lots of purple posts going up recently, coincidental I say. But I do really like purple. I adore galaxy nails and it's been a while since my last one, I thought the purple base would make a pretty cool galaxy.

What can I really say apart from it's your standard galaxy except there are more unconventional colours? But good thing that your standard galaxy looks really sweet, I think the blending was pretty ok to good and I wanted to incorporate a bunch of cool tones in. And glitter, you know I'm all about that glitter. One slightly different thing is the use of silver, my white polish is getting gloopy (it always happens) so silver is a nice alternative, adds to the ethereal feeling (I pretend like I know what I'm talking about).

As most galaxy designs go I used a sponge and went colour by colour sponging. I attempted to create the galaxy pattern even though I don't really know what they are. I dabbed some glitter and used a toothpick for the stars, just lots of little dots.

Base: The Body Shop - A Grape Affair
White: Barry M - Matt White
Silver: w7 - Silver Mirror
Light Blue: Revlon - Dreamer
Dark Blue: Essie - Lots Of Lux
Purples: OPI - My Current Crush and OPI - Plum & Get It
Teal: Essie - Naughty Nautical
Glitter polishes: Rimmel - Disco Ball and Topshop - Razzmatazz

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

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!! :)