It's still Olympic fever here in the UK and I was lucky enough to get tickets to see the quarter finals of the basketball. I thought I'd do a mani using Team GB colours and I've been seeing some awesome braid mani's so I thought I'd try one out! I used an awesome tutorial from Lucy's Stash which you can find here.
For this mani I used a base coat of OPI Into the Night. This is from the Spiderman collection, I really hadn't been too excited about this colour to be honest but when I put it on it is actually beautiful. The polish is almost lit from within if that makes sense. I might do another post about it later because it really is special. I then used OPI DS Radiance and A-England Percival for the braids. The OPI prowide brush was a little fat for this so when I do another one of these I think I'll use a different brand.
Anyway, I loved this mani so I hope you like it too.
Of course I thought you'd like to see some pictures at the basketball too so here you go!
Look how HUGE these guys are!!
We were lucky to get great seats and the French womens' basketball team came to watch their male counterparts - I guess in fact my mani ended up supporting France as GB weren't playing but look at the ladies nails - I was sneekily trying to take pictures.....
It was a great day and we even ended up on the Kiss Cam at half time! I'm going to be sad when it's all over although there's the paralympics to look forward to yet..... and we've got opening tickets!!
I saw these awesome Sally Hansen Limited Edition polishes featured on a blog called Nouveau Cheap which you can find here a while back, and in case you didn't know (I'm sure everyone does by now!) I'm getting married on the 5th October..... so of course I had to have them as they are all wedding themed names! I am doing polishes with wedding names for my favours for the ladies but as soon as I saw these I knew they wouldn't make it to the tables....
My lovely stateside friend was good enough to get some of them for me and I believe White Veil wasn't easy to find so thank you very much El!
It seems they may have been released in March 2012 and were sold in Ulta amongst other places. The two I have to show you are Infinity Band, which is the pretty gold foil 'base coat' and White Veil which is the 'jewel overcoat'. White Veil is quite unique having small white hex giltters and larger gold hex glitters. These are both absolutely gorgeous. I also have Duchesse Lace and Garter Toss from this collection - I wish I had the rest.
Application was great for these polishes - I used 2 coats of Infinity Band and one coat of White Veil. It did dry a bit gritty as you can probably see but I should have used a coat of Gelous.
All in all, LOVE! I think I need to track down the rest before they become impossible to find.
So, I hope you are all enjoying the Olympics, it's been a crazy weekend for the Brits hasn't it! I was at a 18th birthday party on Saturday night and it was just amazing to watch Jesica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford win their gold medals, I was almost in tears! The best day for British Olympics for 104 years apparently. Go Team GB!
Anyway, I've got a beautiful polish that I'm sure you've seen before to show you, Nails Inc Baker Street. Now, it is beautiful but I think part of the reason it got to be so well known was that Beyonce wore it on her first evening out after she had her baby. Good choice I say!
Anyway, Baker Street is a bright blue creme, it is quite a unique colour. Formula and application are great and I have to say in my opinion this is one of the few Nails Inc polishes that are worth their £11 price tag (although I do admit that I'm really liking some of their new collections, I may have just bought the Sprinkles and a few others...).
For this mani I used 2 coats of Baker Street. This is the second time I've worn this polish so that must say something. Enjoy!
This is my first ever Pretty & Polished polish and I have been so excited to finally have one! Now that Llarowe is stocking them I've managed to snag a few more which I will treat you with later.
Candy Coated is a milky candy pink base with tiny pink and purple glitters along with purple, pink and holographic hex glitters. It really is a pretty polish and I like the candy mani finish it gives.
I used 2 coats for this mani, these pictures were taken a few days after I did it so you can see this polish wears pretty well.
I love this polish in the bottle and I love it on other peoples nails but on myself, I'm not so sure. I think maybe my skin is just too light to show it off well. Anyway, keep or swap I don;' know, I'm still trying to decide. What do you think?
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!
