Illamasqua Nomad with nail art x2!

I'm back again and I won't be dissapearing again for a while :) I haven't had the chance to read all the blogs I missed yet but I will!

So to make up for my bad blogging I have two manis to show you woohoo. The first is a very lazy mani, basically I had Stance on both hands and I wanted to try Nomad out so I simply painted it over the top of Stance! I know it's very naughty and lazy but I didn't have time to do a whole paint job ;). I only did this on my left hand though as I really like the colours together. I painted both ring fingers white over the top of stance too, in order to do a quick nail art accent :P.

Here is a weird hand pose as I wanted to show both hands without being boring and whilst on self timer....it's seriously hard!
Nomad is a two coater with lovely formula and is a gorgeous colour, quite accurate in my photos I'd say.
Before I went on holiday I took this off and then repainted all my nails with Nomad again because I really love this colour!

 The index finger is inspired by the amazing nail art by Deco nails for the Insa x nailporn competition, her nails were incredible!! My attempt has gone wrong again :P it's okay I guess but a bit crap in comparison :P. The ring finger was a spine and ribs with a heart but the topcoat killed it :( it smudged all my little bone details :(.

The thumb is by far my favourite :D as you all should know I am obsessed with the crazy talent that is Astrowifey so I decided to pay tribute to her by putting her slogany thing on my thumb 'Go hard in the nail paint' as it should be all of our mottos ;) She actually saw this on instagram and commented on it!! How cool :D.
Everything was done with nail art pens and brushes (which are super hard to use with nail polish! Argh I'm hoping I'll get better with practise)

Bonus picture is of my boyfriend's dog Molly who is kind of my dog too as they got her a couple of months after we got together and we are kind of in love! She's a pedigree and she is the most beautiful doggie ever! But she's super naughty hahahah

 Those eyes! She gets me every time :) and the best part is that I don't have to poop scoop as my nails are too long ;) hahahaha.

Have a good day! I'm off to buy the most amazing studded boots you'll ever see :D and maybe a certain Nails Inc shade.....

Illamasqua Stance swatches

Hey so I found some time to do my nails and I chose the gorgeous Stance! Oooh it's a beauty! However it is the worst to photograph, honestly it's such a rich and vibrant colour in real life but on camera it appears duller and less juicy but at least it looks purple hahah

This picture leans too blue, the actual colour is a lot warmer, I would have shopped it buuut I don't have photoshop :( I know I know I'm studying photography and I don't own photoshop! It's just too expensive.
I love this colour so much!  It's a very me colour ;). I was a little worried as it's a jelly and so I thought there'd be horrible VNL especilly with the length of my nails but there isn't any! How can this be? I'm so glad obviously but I don't know how they made a juicy polish with no VNL.

Two coats were enough, the first coat was streaky and patchy so I thought I'd have to do three but no just two :D. The formula was lovely, at first I had a few cuticle floods but once I got used to the polish I had no more problems. I love this as well as it doesn't cling to my ridges wooohoo.

I'm hoping to do some nail art on top with my new brushes but that depends if I get inspired or not ;)

Have a good weekend everyone!

Birthday polish

Firstly, I am sorry that I've been so patchy lately it just seems that I have no time for myself: tuesday was my birthday, Wednesday I saw my best friend who I seldomly get to see anymore and then yesterday we took my nana to the Deep (underwater aquarium) for her birthday and today I'm seeing Tom but I NEED to do my nails so bad! So I'm going to make time this morning.

Until I get to do them I'll show you what I got for my birthday

 Illamasqua Stance and Nomad from my mum and Dior Amazonia from my sis

Urban Outfitters Medusa and ?(name came off) from my bfffff

I'm very happy with those :) I'm going to get Nails Inc Baker Street as a present to myself ;) as it's too prettttty not to own it.

Thanks for the happy birthdays :) I had a very nice day!

Birthday mani - Illamasqua Monogamous and The Hungry Asian Vote for Purple

Hi, today I have my first Illamasqua to show you, weeheee it's Monogamous a gorgeous rubbery finished fleshy nude...on everyone else, on me it pulls quite yellowy but not as yellow as the photos show though. It had a good formula and a decent brush and despite the finish it was no trouble to apply.

This is two coats, it was almost a one coater but there were some bald patches. This is the only photo I can use as my canyons are back :( and all the others are weird colours haha. To make it special for my birthday I added Vote for Purple by The Hungry Asian which is a gorgeous mix of purple and silver different sized and shaped glitter. It's special for me as I don't often wear glitter but I love purple and this is pretty and delicate but still sparkly :). I used one thin coat as I wanted it kind of sparse (which is hard with such a jam packed glitter)

I had to include the macaroon picture as they are my favourite treat but they are super hard to find in the UK outside of London but now a new bakery has opened up in Nottingham which makes them!! Wooo, they aren't as good as the ones from Paris but they'll do, the chocolate ones are to die for though! I only wanted to try macaroons because Blair from Gossip Girl used to order Pistachio flavour ones direct from Paris ;).

I know I'm getting at least two polishes for my birthday so I'll post them tomorrow or the next day :) have a good day/night!