Leopard nails

Hi, today's manicure was inspired by a post on beauty junctions site. I've always loved leopard nails but never had a go as I never thought I'd be able to do it. It was much easier than I thought!

First I did my base coat and base colour in mint green from Rimmel. I've used thus lots in posts. I love the colour and think its great for spring.

Once this was dry I used my Barry m glitter varnish in silver and put dots on my nails. Again wait for this to dry and I used my black nail art pen to go around the edges to create the leopard style effect. Once this is all dry then I used my good top coat from Sally Hansen - double duty.

I realise this may take a while but I did this on a Sunday night in my slanket (blanket with sleeves) whilst watching TOWIE in front of the fire because my boilers broken. I love using nights in to do my nails. I figure if I'm sat on the sofa doing nothing anyway I might as well have nice nails.

Fingers crossed my boiler gets fixed soon though!! Let me know if you try this out and post any links. Check out the link that I got this idea from too. Maria x

Snow day manicure - Rimmel Long Lasting Azure

As I'm sat here keeping warm on 2013 snow day I decided to of course sort out my chipped nails (as mentioned in Snow and Work). Today I bought Rimmels Lasting Finish nail varnish in 198 azure. It was on sale in Boots so thought I'd give it a go. I like the colour as it's quite shiny and has very small bits of glitter in it but not too glittery (not that I believe you can get too glittery). In short, it is subtle shimmery bright blue.

As usual I used my Sally Hansen Double Duty base and top coat but I decided it looked a bit plain on its own for the weekend. A while ago I purchased some nail stickers on eBay (love eBay for a bargain), and got 50 sheets in black, white and colour, in an assortment of designs for around £2.50. Brilliant in my book! I love nail stickers. They are such an easy way to create designs without needing nail art pens and a steady hand. Also a lot cheaper than heading to a nail salon! Win win all round. However, they probably don't last as long but I don't mind as I usually change my nails at least twice a week anyway.

I also have purchased a new lipstick/gloss from Rimmels Facebook Shop. I have had an email and seen it advertised from them for a new product called Apocalips. The pictures look good. It seems like a bright punchy gloss colour so I hope to do a review and swatches when it arrives!

xxx

Glitter at my fingertips!

Spent last night in relaxing. I really needed it after a busy and tiring week at work followed by the return of my mild insomnia! Of course to relax it meant I had to do my nails, they had also been chipped for two days and this was making me very sad! In order to decide what to do I laid out all of my nail varnish collection. 35 is my current number, probably why I find it so difficult to choose my designs. I also have a large collection of nail stickers which I found on eBay.

35 nail varnishes - Rimmel, Sally Hansen, Nails Inc, Barry M, Nail Art Pens, Collection 2000.

In the end I decided to go for a simple but pretty design. I used a Nails Inc light/neutral pink as the base coat once I had cut and shaped by nails, and of course applied a base coat. My nails have been getting chipped and split this week so I have cut them short so they can all grow to the same length. I'm hoping to get nice shaped stiletto style nails soon, just not too sharp or pointy as I think they look a little odd personally. After they had dried I added a gorgeous glitter varnish over half of my nail adding slightly more to the tops for a subtle gradient effect. 

Here is the final varnish. I took the picture in different lights as it was difficult to take the picture without natural light last night. I like this one as I think it's quite pretty and should go with any outfit I wear this weekend. 

I'm hoping to have a very positive weekend. Parties to go to and planning for a busy and very exciting year. Hoping to involve some moving around in various areas of my life. I have wanted a change for a while but have always been more talk than action, finally I'm am taking action and not being too scared about change!

Glittery fingers crossed 2013 is not an unlucky number and year for me!

xxx

Glitter nails

Just used my rimmel pro nail varnish in urban purple. Looks great with glitter on the ring finger nails. Lots of shine from Sally Hansen double duty top coat. More of a pinky red than purple though. Hope you like it.

New Year's Eve! 2012

New Year's Eve afternoon. The end of a strange but interesting year!

Been preparing at home today and done my nails. I'm probably wearing a blue, cream and silver strapless dress from little mistress boutique so I went for blue glitter nails. Using Sally Hansen double duty, rimmel 60 seconds blue varnish and Barry m blue glitter.

For my eyes I've been 'you tubing' silver eyeshadow ideas so hopefully I can sort something out for later before I have too much wine!!

Happy new year!