African print inspired nail art

I know that I am the worst blogger at the moment, and I'm going to blame that on my boyfriend, we only have one broadband cable in the flat and he's on it all day playing online games :( also my iphone is refusing to charge up so it's kind of dead :(.
But I'm here now! I might do a few swatches today so I have stuff to post whilst I'm wearing nail art. Which is what I have to show you today, I should have posted the other day but I wasn't happy with the photos I took, I'm still not but hey ho.

I was inspired by african prints on clothing and fabric as they are such gorgeous patterns and make perfect nail art. I started with a base of Sinful Colors Unicorn which is a soft yellow which took FOREVER to dry and made my nail art life hell :P. Then with a black striper I made crossing lines then I made semi circles with two kikos using a small nail art brush. once it had all dried I did the black detailing with a nail art pen.

 Right hand - index and ring are my favourites

Left hand- I'm not sure about any of these

Woah look at that thumb nail! Lethal lol. I like the original pattern waaaay better than my interpretation of it, I did the crossing lines too close so the semi circles were too close and look like snakes or something instead of the fan like shapes that they are meant to look like. I guess they're okay no one else knows what they're meant to look like :P. I wanted to try making a different shape other than square with the brush, it went okay I think. Everyone at uni liked them so I guess that's good but I just can't like them, saying that I've had them since tuesday maybe! Wow that's a long time :O.

 

I don't know what to change them to........any ideas? Something cool obvs ;)

Graphic Lines nail art

Hi, I feel like I haven't blogged in ages and that's because I, like many others around the world have been making the most of this glorious weather! But I promise I am back now, I have a couple more posts lined up after this so that should tide me over until I change my nails :). 

You know how the best designs are the ones you didn't want to create initially? Well that is what happened today. I set myself an ambitious 5 different pattern design but it went completely wrong and then I got a new idea from the wreckage and I love it! I love instagram as there are so great nail artists showcased on there and my absolute favourite is astrowifey (type that into instagram to find her) she does amazing work and I urge you to check her out if you want to see some serious mini artworks! Anyway this mani is inspired by her :)

As usual I freehanded the lines with my nail art pen (you can probably tell on my pinkie!). The pink is one of the unknown color clubs, green is Kiko 345 Jade Green and yellow is Unicorn by Sinful Colors (from the wonderful Katee) I really like this yellow it's nice and soft and only takes two coats to reach opacity :). All three colours took two coats for opacity. 

Like I said earlier I really like these designs, they're quite simple and it's something different for me too and I think they look good ;). My favourites are the middle and index fingers. 

I should be getting some nail mail tomorrow :D only small but good! 

Seeyou all tomorrow! 

Nail Mail x3!

Hey today was my final critque of this year and it went really well :) my tutors really liked my photographs so I'm happy and to top it all off I had 3 packages waiting for me when I got back to halls wooo! 


First up is my precious Dior Waterlily from ebay....it didn't come in its box though :( that made me really sad lol 

Second is my swap with the lovely Anna! Look how amazingly she wrapped everything! Gah so much effort :) 

 Love this paper so much! 

Back row, L-R: Sinful Colors Hazard, China Glaze Riveting, Zoya Gemma & Danii, Claire's Candy Shop
Front Row, L-R: Orly Oui, Ma Cherie, Androgynie
I can't believe I got Gemma! It's like she read my mind :D and Danni looks amaze too, I just love Zoya! 


Finally I received my order from Kiko cosmetics 

Back Row L-R: 254 Wine Red Microglitter, 364 Dark Crimson, 358 Peach Rose, 356 Melon, 355 Canary Yellow.

Front Row, L-R: 345 Jade Green, 346 Olive Drab, 338 Light Lavander, 332 Dark Violet, 202 Violet Transparent 

These were £2.50 each and you have to spend £25 minimum to order so these were bargains! I have quickly dabbed these onto paper and they all appear to be heavily pigmented and have a big brush which I was not expecting for the price! I can't wait to swatch them and then wear them as full manis, I have a few ideas in mind :) I think Melon looks great for summer! 

all of the above = awesome Nail Mail!! 

Thanks again Anna your package was soooo good! I can't wait to swap with you again :D I have saved that lovely paper, it's currently on my inspiration board :) 


What do you guys think to these polishes? Which are you looking forward to seeing? 

Giveaway winner & Continued mani!

My giveaway has now ended and the winner is: 

Ariana Cheng! 

I have emailed her and she has 24 hours to reply otherwise a new winner will be announced

I layered Cinderella over Bluebell this morning and here are the results: 

Because Cinderella has a milky blue base it tainted Bluebell slightly but you could still see the original colour underneath. The shimmery flakies in Cinders looked really light and pretty over the top of Bluebell, definitely nice and springy. The only problem I had with it was the fact that it ended up looking really thick on my nails and I really can't stand that, you know what I mean when the gap between the polish and your cuticle isn't very big and it makes it look like you have a mountain of polish on, cos it's like shadowy in the gap....I know what I mean ;). 


Hopefully tomorrow I'll have a tasty haul post for y'all :D

Nail mail!!

Today has been a very good day! 1. Handed in my final project so I can relax for a bit now (without feeling guilty :P) 2. I got two packages 3. I got two Dior polishes :D. 


One package was my Paul and Joe polish, soo pretty! The other was one of my swap packages :D it was from Katee off of A girl and her polish and she totally surprised me with a bunch of 'non- nail related goodies' as she said :), it felt like my birthday when I opened it, sooo much stuff! 

Sorry about all the mess, I was too excited to arrange it nicely lol but yes you are seeing 10 polishes, two lip glosses, one body wash, one body lotion, one card and one bag of sweetiess!

Orly - Fowl Play and Androgynie 

Funky fingers - Power Chord, Tinsel Town and Sand and Stilettos. 

Sinful Colors - Cinderella, Unicorn, Amethyst and Rise and Shine

China Glaze - Fast Track

How awesome! I can't wait to wear the Orlys, I might wait for autumn though, they are so perfect for that season. Fast track looks so coool and cinderella is so cute! Basically this is a lovely package from a lovely lady! I am sure all of you follow her anyway but if you don't you should! 

I had £15 on my Debenhams beauty card somehow (I'm not complaining though!) so I got one of the Dior polishes Lucky :D I am seriously considering going back and getting the matching lipstick, I really like the thought of matching lips and nails. So Lucky cost me £3 wooo, a couple of months ago I would never have bought this shade but now I can realise how unique and pretty it is. Here it is with the Paul and Joe 

Love the bottle! So cute 

Alsoooooooooo I have finally won Dior Waterlily!!! After weeks of bidding I finally won one for £14 so not exactly a bargain but I don't care, all I knew is that Forget me not needed the partner! Ha  

So I have had an awesome day! I got a really nice jumper from H&M too but that's a whole other story ;)

Leopard halves mani

Mornin' 

I know I haven't posted for a few days for a couple of reasons the main being I didn't want to take my owls off :P and I've been super busy with uni, one day we were in from 9-5 with no break cos we  had a lecture and then straight into trying to recreate the lighting in other peoples photographs....man it took forever! Also we have this awful fire alarm here in halls and last night someone broke it so it went on from 2.40AM - 3.40AM!!! I was so frikin' tired this morning, couldn't get up but we had to cos the bf's parents are here for the weekend with the dogs yaya :). 

Okay, now what we are all here for, I had to use one of my untrieds and it's a small selection now only 8, I decided to get one of the pinks out of the way in a design that I had painted some fake nails with and sent to my sister (because I am the best sis eva ;)). 

I started with the white base using the only white I own a Sally Hansen french manicure (for tips only) kind of white, there's no denying it, it was awful, I used three coats and it was still patchy but I knew I was going to be filling in bits and leoparding the rest it didn't matter. The pink is Cabana by Sinful Colors, which is a nice thick formula and was nearly opaque in one swoop but I did two as it wasn't fully :P. The gold splodges are 25 Carat Gold by Models Own and I freehanded the lines with my models own nail art pen. I got the idea for this design from Wah nails, I really like it, it's a twist on a classic leopard manicure :) here are the fake nails I painted for my darling sibling  ;) 

She loved them :P I hope you enjoyed them too! 

EDIT: I am entering this design in Rebecca likes Nails nail art contest yay :)

Sinful Colors Cupcake nails

Hello! This evening I have a new look using two Sinful Colours, I bought these two the other day for like £1.99 each and as it felt a bit warm and like spring today I figured it would be a good time to use these colours. I started with Ciel which is a pale blue creme which was darn awful to apply, this is three coats..

I think this colour is really cute I just know that IRL it doesn't suit me but I still like it :P however it took forever to dry :| I could probably still smudge it now even with SH ID on top! Anyway after it was partly dry (I got bored of waiting) I added Mauve in a french manicure styley over the top, it reminds me of the Zoya 'funky french' 

I like Mauve a lot more than Ciel, I think it would suit me more, it's a more substantial colour if that makes sense. It's a pale lilac which again looks a bit grey, I guess that's why they named it Mauve ;). I couldn't stop there I had to add one extra step...

This is one and a bit coats of Accessorize Crystal Shimmer I like it because it's not over the top glitter it's quite subtle it just adds a shimmer and sparkle to the mani which I feel would be flat without it. I put SH Insta-Dri over the top to smooth the glitter and that's it. The Sinful Colors are nice colours and the formula is never going to be amazing for how cheap they are really so I don't mind paying two squid for pretty polishes, I bought a pink as well Cabana which I am excited to try but I'm not scheduled to wear it for a couple of weeks yet ;). 

Yes, you read that right, I have a schedule of which polish I will be wearing for the next six weeks....it's the only way to make sure that I wear all of my untrieds otherwise I'll never do it! I'm going bare over the weekend to give my nails a break then I'm diving straight back in with A-England! Yay about time :D. 

See you soooon.