Candy Cane Nails - Happy Christmas!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!

I did these nails yesterday and they will be my Christmas mani, unless I get bored tomorrow that is!

I used 2 coats of OPI Alpine Snow for the base, then taped them up and used 2 coats of China Glaze Ruby Pumps - gotta sneak that in somewhere!!

They aren't perfect but they look great in person.

I wish you a very merry Christmas, I hope you all have a wonderful day and hopefully Santa might bring you someting sparkly.....

Have fun!

x

Catrice Dirty Berry and China Glaze Prism Gradient

Right,on to  more honeymoon nails. This one was Catrice Dirty Berry which is a dusty toned purple scattered holographic polish.

It is subtle and beautiful, maybe a bit plain for me to wear alone and I'd like to stamp over it next time.

I think I did 3 coats for this mani, the formula was fine and I wore it for a few days with no chips or tipwear. It's a keeper for me.

As beautiful as this polish is I wanted to add some bling! I love this picture - my beautiful nails and my beautiful husband relaxing in the background.

I know this isn't the best picture of my nails but we went walking with Lions in Mauritius - can you seen the beautiful white Lion in the background. What a stunner!

x

China Glaze Spin Me Round

Happy Friday!!! Let the weekend begin!

OK, so I need to start doing some more stamping and because I have nail polish freedom for the next little while and we've had some sun I thought I combine a holo and stamping.

China Glaze Spin Me Round is a beautiful subtle pale tan holographic polish from the Kaleidoscope collection which I sadly missed out on. I was lucky that my lovely birthday girl Nicole found some dusty hunting and let me buy them for cost price - how awesome is that! Thank you Nicole.

For this mani I used 2 coats of Spin Me Round and a topcoat, which didn't dull the holo effect. I then stamped over it using Konad special black polish and plate 85. I found some small black dots in my stash and then added one to each of my nails to finish it off.

I loved this mani, I hope you like it too.

You can see the holo effect quite well here, in real life it was even better, I just couldn't capture it with the camera!

Here it is plain, it's pretty isn't it!

And while I was taking my photos here was Miagi sunning himself! It was so funny, he was washing but everytime he moved he got covered in the plants above him - you can see them on his head. Bless!

China Glaze Poinsettia

Time for another untried and today was London Marathon day!

My lovely boyfriend was running the marathon so I know what effort goes into training and preparing, it's an amazing acheivement. I wanted to do a mani to support this occasion but I only thought about this the day before and we have been moving into our new house so I really haven't had a lot of time to plan it.

One of my lovely birthday girls suggested that I use the London Marathon Logo which I thought was a great idea.

I started off with China Glaze Poinsettia. I know this isn't a complete untried to me as I used it in my Cadbury's Creme Egg mani (here) but I've never used it for a full mani and I really think it deserves it.

This is a gorgeous true red creme which I think is actually quite jelly like. It is a bit more sheer than most cremes and has a beautiful squishiness and the shine typical of jellies.

This is 2 coats with NYC topcoat:

I then wanted to add some hearts. It got really late and I tried a few different plates when I settled on this one. It actually looks more like a Valentine mani than a Marathon mani but it was cute anyway. I used Konad special white polish and Red Angel plate 101. To give it a little sparkle I then topped it off with Northern Lights Silver Hologram Topcoat.

I'm only a newbie at stamping so I think that also qualifies for another untried.

I don't want to take this mani off but it's Monday and work (non-polish wearing) beckons. My boyfriend completed the marathon (yay and congrats!) so I guess it served it's purpose, next time I'll have to try and think of these things further in advance!!

Have a look at what untrieds my other birthday girls have been using:

Helen at Nail Newbie

Zoe at Obsessive Compulsive Nail Painting Disorder

Alyssa C at Polish Junkie Ninja

Ashley at One Nail To Another

Lexi at Finger Painted

Alyssa B at Fancy Phalanges

Nicole at Epitome of Superficiality

Cadbury Creme Eggs - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

So the other day I saw a blogger post her Cadbury Creme Egg mani and I fell in love with it. Given my love for Creme Eggs I just had to try it!

Now I would just like to make it clear that this was unfortunately not my idea but I found it on the Cosmetic Cupcake blog, she does some awesome swatches and if you haven't had a look at her blog you should, you can find it here: http://www.cosmeticcupcake.com/

Anyway, so I thought I'd try and change it up a tiny bit. I matted the base and put a layer of Northern Lights Gold holographic topcoat on top of the egg. I'm not great with nail art but I think it turned out pretty good, hopefully it will give me the confidence to try nail art a bit more!

These are the polishes I used for this mani:
First my usual base coat of 2 coats of Nail Envy Maintenence
China Glaze Poinsettia
GOSH Deep Purple
White Nail Art Striper
Miss Sporty Taxi
GOSH Matte Topcoat
Northern Lights Gold Holographic Topcoat

I used tape on one half of the nail to paint the red part first, waitied for it to dry completely then taped over the red to paint the purple and then filled in the join with the striper. I actually think it looks pretty cool and I had lots of compliments on it just on its own:

Happy Easter, hope you get to eat lots of Creme Eggs. Mmmmmmmmm :-)