China Glaze - Turned Up Turquoise swatches and Hex Nail Jewelry

Hi, I'm back haha forever now :)

Whilst I'm waiting for my Flossgloss order to arrive (c'mon c'mooooooooon) I continued my neon phase with Turned up Turquoise, I wasn't sure initially whether it was a neon or not as it didn't say it was but it looked pretty bright so I googled it ;) turns out it is but I couldn't be bothered to put white on so I just went straight into the turquoise goodness.

If you follow me on instagram you'd have seen that I got my order from Hex nail jewelry a couple of weeks ago, they make super cute, re-useable, gold plated nail charms for $1.75 each which is good value seeing as you can keep reusing them until the gold wears off. I'll be placing another order with them again soon! You'll be seeing more charms in the next couple of posts :). I added their large bow charms to my middle fingers.

I had to colour adjust the photos as the colour was hard to capture, it's a lot brighter and more blue then these photos show, but the lovely velvety texture and glow is the same. I used four coats but only to fill my ridges but it didn't work :P.

Gorgeous colour, right? Love the charms too, so cute and sturdy lol!

I'm getting back into reading other people's blogs slowly but surely! I'm looking for new beauty blogs esp. British and nail art blogs to follow so if you know of any hit me up :)

Seeyou in a couple :)

Hattie Stewart inspired nails

I'm back! Hopefully :P I have been super busy and weighed down with uni work; making a website, printing portfolio, doing a boring blog (not this one heheheh) a research review and two photographic projects! Gah so I hope you'll still have me! ;). I have so little time that I literally painted my nails once since my last post!! I still haven't filed my nails since :0 and I still have this nail art on bearing in mind I did it 8 days ago! Wow I have been busy! Yeah next week is my last week of second year :( can't believe it's come round so fast! Okay so many exclamation marks, need to slow down bahahahaha.

Onto the nails...I recently discovered, via Company magazine, an amazing British illustrator Hattie Stewart, you need to check out her website www.hattiestewart.com :) I like to think of some of her work as slightly feminist which is NOT a bad thing!! Her illustrations are cute and creepy and just cooooool. So I took a look at most of her work and chose some bits to copy onto my nails but in neon, I'm on a total neon kick at the moment! Hah.
They took a couple of hours to do, I spread them out over two nights as I had other stuff to do, so I was rocking one hand done and the other was just white :P.

You can see the neon in the second photo, the middle and ring fingers are based off a drawing she posted on instagram @hattiestewart :) it's an orange hahahaa. I was happy to find that I could still use my left hand to draw/paint reasonably well.  
The orange - China Glaze Orange Knockout
The Green - China Glaze I'm with the Lifeguard (Thanks Lizzy! Still loving it as much as when you sent it me <3)
The Pink - Sparitual Dreamsicle

I got two more China Glaze's the other day from Sally Salon Services when I went home to shoot last weekend, Flying Dragon and Turned up Turquoise hehehehhehehe also I am trying very hard to resist the new Chanel's and Dior's Birds of Paradise! Argh

You know the other day I said I wanted some flossgloss? Weeeeeell I might have caved and bought 3 despite the $25 shipping! They're worth it (I hope) I can't wait for them to get here, I'll leave you in suspense as to which colours I got...

Seeyou soooooon

These nails be Tipsy!

Hi!
So following on from yesterday's post about the nails I have created for the second issue of Tipsy Zine :) I finished them today so I thought I'd show you!
First the boring normal shots

L-R clockwise: Mermaid Camo with black stud, Ripped fishnet tights over blue and purple saran wrap, black tape over blue and purple saran wrap, bundled chain with brushstrokes and in the middle my favourite tartan with chain. 
I couldn't just leave them there before posting them to America so I bluetacked them to my nails and gave them the abbienail photographic treatment ;)



I love me some dangling chain ;)



I hope these make it into the magazine as I really love them now! I wasn't so sure about the index aka fishnet at first but even if you can't tell that that's what it is it can kind of pass as a scaley look :)
I'm excited to see what the talented nail artists have produced, I still can't believe that they ask me to contribute, MPnails, Astrowifey, ClaraH, Amvinails, Haus of Lacquer, Britney Tokyo and more all are featured and to see my name/ work alongside those is amazing!

I hope you like them!!

Tipsy nails in progress

Tipsy in both name and nature ;). I got asked to contribute again and so I am making some nails for the theme of Seapunk! It's an exciting theme I think and is bang on trend as usual, I drew inspiration from this Christopher Kane SS13 dress, it's the perfect mix of feminine with a punk twist. It appeared in UK Elle and I loe everything about this image...studs, mesh boots!! lace, leather gaaaaah perfection.

Image Source Photographer Benny Horne



So I have gone for classic punk patterns in mermaid colours, these nails are a work in progress but I thought you might like to how I'm getting on, a little sneak peak ;).

The green is a lot softer in real life! But the tartan is my favourite followed by the tape nail :) embellishments are still to come and I need to paint the last two nails.

So what do you think?

Chanel Frenzy - I'm just not that into you

HI!
I am currently wearing Chanel Frenzy and I'm so disappointed with it...I fell for the photos of it that came from Fashion Week, I ignored online swatches from countless bloggers who, like me, fell for those photos, they all said it looks nothing like the photos but I thought...it might change colour on me! Pah. Soooooo wrong and it makes me sad :(.
Here's the photo in question

How beautiful, a grey with lilac jelly goodness...
 

(I found the image on google, I don't know the original source, if anyone does let me know)

In real life it looks more like a stone wash...

Anyone else seeing the same polish here??

I dunno I just felt so in love with it from the picture and even in the bottle but when it's on it just falls flat for me :( it needs a hint of lilac and more grey and I'd love it! It's too nude for me, I guess it looks quite polished and chic but it's not what I was expecting!

The formula was perf though, I did 3 coats to fill my canyons but 2 would have been sufficient for those of you who haven't got ridge related impairments.

In other news, I am creating some nails for the second issue of Tipsyzine! Yay :) I'm really happy that they asked me to contribute again, especially with the calibre of nail artists that they feature! I'll show you them when I've finished of course :).
Also I am literally dying to get my hands on some Flossgloss...namely Con Limon (who doesn't want that neon perfection!) Neon Nacho, Perf and Fastlane :D my problem is I probably can't afford them and shipping is dodgey with regards to nail polish now, but that might only be with Royal Mail. Hmmm I'll get saving I guess!  

Now on Bloglovin :)

In an effort to be more organised and to make sure I don't miss any blog posts and so that you can follow my blog easily I have joined bloglovin, so just click the button on the left to follow my blog :)

Okay why have I only just found out about this?? It makes reading blogs so easy! I love it lol! I know what I'm doing tonight ;) peeeeheeee

I have also downloaded the bloglovin Iphone app and I recommend it, it's free and makes reading all your favourite blogs extremely easy, especially if those blogs usually have a lot of comments as reading the blogs in the app means that you don't see the comments, you have the option to then open the post in safari.
You can then push the post upwards and then you will be reading the next post on your reading list. You can like posts too which means they are then saved so you can easily find them at a later date! You can search for blogs in the same way as you would on the website. The app is just a really good and useful!

These nails got a mind of their own...

Hey,
Two weeks since my last post??! I don't even know what I've been doing....I only just did my nails, I've been going naked for a couple of days :O. I've been in a rut I guess, too much inspiration but I can't decide what I want to do on my nails so I end up doing nothing. I'm turning into the worst blogger ever but I just like to wear my nailart out and about :P. I have big respect for other bloggers who can post everyday!
I'm surprised I haven't lost any followers yet so thank you for sticking with me :).

On to todays nails, I tried some saran wrap nails but I didn't have any saran wrap...don't even know what that is...and I didn't have any clingfilm either so I used a plastic bag that you put your veg in at the supermarket...I used Essie Navigate her then a purple Kiko and then Models Own Lilac Dream but all you can see is a purple colour :P.
I wanted to use these silver gems that shine different colours(?) but I always thought that a topcoat would dull them but I was brave and used them and top-coated and they weren't dulled yay! So then I just kind of went from there and went a little bit cray...okay a lot cray. I knew I wanted a hanging chain but it had to be practical, as practical as it could be ;) so I got some other studs and pearls out and got sticking.

 

 

 

 

Err so there you go ;). People just keep asking me how do I wash my hair etc...I say same as usual lol! The chain doesn't get in the way that much and I like it, it's a little bit trashy but a lot fun like a holographic bag.....which I really want! Hahahahah but yeah I'm not sure how long I'll keep these as seche vite is doing that thing again where it turns white at the edges and asks me to piggle it off. It's really addictive when you get to peel chains off too heheh.

 

I feel my nails are gonna get even more impractical as time goes on ;).

 

I bought Chanel Frenzy yesterday so I imagine I'll wear that next, a sophisticated break from all chains and studs. Talking of Chanel I cannot wait for their summer polishes to be released...have you seen that blue?? Love!

 

Hope to see you soon!