Models Own Ibiza Mix Candy Mani

Well, it's a little under 2 weeks to my wedding and I've had to pull out something old to show you today because I've spent the whole weekend food tasting, pretzel dipping and table planning and now it's Sunday night, time to go to bed and I don't have the will to edit the photos of my awesome weekend mani.... I will show you this week I promise.

These photos were taken a few months ago and my nails just don't really look like this anymore but this is so pretty I thought you might like to see. I did a candy mani with the OPI Ballet collection 'You Callin' Me A Lyre?' and Models Own Ibiza Miz HedKandi glitter. And I mattified it which really made the glitter pop.

I absolutely love the OPI Ballet collection, the shades are all so versitile and absolutely perfect for candy mani's. Here I used to coats of 'You Callin' Me A Lyre?' as a base, 2 coats of Ibiza Mix, which initially I wasn't going to buy but I'm so glad I did, and then another coat of 'You Callin' Me A Lyre?'. The glitters in Ibiza mix are really sparkly and lay really flat so you get a nice smooth mani.

I think this would have been pretty with any of the shades from the Ballet collection. What do you think?

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 :-)