Dior Riviera gradient and ice lolly nail art

Hellooo, hope everyone's well! It's been so hot and to be honest doing my nails has not been on my mind, I've just been out and about enjoying the weather, I went to Alton Towers yesterday and went on the new ride: The Smiler, it was really fun but seriously shakey like the same kind of pain that you experienced when riding the Corkscrew! But other than the headache it was so good! The queue wasn't even that long (well it didn't feel long :P) so I definitely recommend it!

I recently painted my mums nails with Dior Riviera and it looked so summery and juicy that I had to use it on mine the other day, the best thing about it is that I only used ONE coat to get this coverage annnnnd look at my barely there ridges after one coat! Gah that's why I love Dior ;)

A juicy red based orange...ok so my ridges look a lot worse in the photo than in real life...awkward ;)

It's really easy to be inspired by a colour like this, I wanted to do a gradient, so I used Illamasqua Stance and a pink Barry M as the middle mixer colour. I haven't done a gradient in so long, I don't know why they're so gorgeous and easy!

So once I'd got that I had the idea to do something seasonally appropriate; ice lollies!

I'm not sure that they look like ice lollies but I know that they're meant to be and they still kinda look cute? Hehe well I didn't like them enough to do them on my other hand though....
I added the bee charm from Hex for a little humour, I find it a bit funny anyway :P

I bought a new nude polish a couple of days ago which I'm hoping is a closer match to my skintone than my others, I have quite a few nudes now so I might do a little comparison this week if anyone is interested in that?

Enjoy the weekend! See you soon!

Neon camo print + my weekend!

Hey!
I've got a mix of "real" photos from my camera and some from my phone for you today as me and my nails have been out and about ;).

You know that I love neons so much, I had to use them again...I know, I need to give love to some other polishes but this weather is just so amazing! Hahaha. I also love camo print so it was a no brainer really ;).
Camo is good to do as it requires little effort for good payoff, saying that I did get a bit obsessive with it, I had to redo a couple as they weren't quite right pah.

I used China Glaze - Knockout Orange, Flying Dragon and I'm with the Lifeguard and Models Own - Luis lemon and my nail art brush and then added the chains. I ventured outside to take the pictures cos well why not! I love Knockout Orange so much, it's the brightest neon I own, it's amazing!

I wore these nails for about a week and I had no chips or signs of wear!! I only took them off last night cos I started to piggle the chains off and then one thing lead to another and I'd pealed half the polish off....naughty I know but it's addictive :P. So Seche Vite is in my good books again, I was hating on it the other day because I had reached the point where it gets gloopy, ie half way through...it's so much waste! :(.

Due to the weather we went to a BBQ at a family friends which was fun and then we went to the beach and missed the hottest day so far which I'm happy about :P I've also started reading for my dissertation, which I will be doing as I found out my grades for second year today, I got a 2.1- so I passed yay!


Nomming on homemade brownies...they're motivational ;)

Nomming on piri piri chicken at the BBQ, there's a theme here ;) thanks to my sis' boyfriend for the photo ;)

Enjoyed a few of these, nails still lookin' fly ;)

I hope you all have had good weekends too! With plenty of suncream involved, I'm on the factor 50 ;) heheh I've got a very colourful mani lined up for you next :)

Junk Food nail art

Hi, so I've been mia for a while as, quite frankly, life has been in the way of blogging...you know how time just runs away with you and before you know it it's been two weeks already! My blogging has slowed down again because I just haven't been doing my nails! I've been thinking about my blog compared to others and I realise that I don't have to keep apologising for not blogging all the time, that's not what my blog is about, it's about sharing the nail art that I do with like minded people who don't care how often I post :) my blog is a platform for people to read about what the thoughts were behind the nails and to see more pictures than I give on instagram. So I am finally happy in my blogging skin, as it were ;).

Now I've got over the deep ish let's get on with the happy nail art :D
What do you do when you don't know what to put on your nails? You look around for inspiration, wallpaper, clothing, the internet or in this case your fridge ;) ok so my fridge doesn't actually contain any of the following :( but my head is full of it :p. Of course I'm on about good ol junk food. I figured it was a while since I had done any cartoon style work (if ever) so no time like the present ;).
These nails turned out the way I had in my head which is always a good thing and also a rarity ha!
My base colour is the beautiful Illamasqua Nomad, then I painted the food stuffs on with my little paint brush using various nail polishes, once they had dried I went around the edges with a black nail art pen and then to finish I went and put the all important white highlights on with the white nail pen, that white highlight turns the images from flat to living cartoony foods hahaha.

I didn't do my left hand as I smudged the polish on basically every finger and I really couldn't be bothered to fix it and then do nail art lol
My pinky is chips/fries with ketchup, then nachos with cheese, chocolate cake with caramel sauce and pepperoni pizza mmmmmm my thumb says I love junk food (I'm not sure why it's out of focus, sorry!)

Freakily my mum came home from work and said that it was world food week at the school she works at so obviously I had to do her nails according to the menu ;)

 She has from pinky inwards, pizza, fish and chips, curry (really hard to think of how to portray that ha) burger and on the thumbs a taco and a fajita.

   

She said that everyone at work loved them, especially the chips, they're my fav too, and that they thought they were transfers :p I am quite proud of them hehe.

I'm going to play catch up and comment now on all the blogs I've been neglecting! Hope you're enjoying the beautiful weather (if it's sunny where you are!) see you all soon :)

Chanel Bel-Argus swatches

Hey, at first I thought I'd be coming here and typing a bad review of this gorgeous polish, when I applied it, it was lumpy and streaky however I had only done one coat and I was in a bad mood so I was blaming the polish lol!! I did the second layer today and everything was perfect :).
As I was applying it I thought that it looked similar to Opi Swimsuit but Chanel is darker and with a purple duochrome but they are in the same blue sparkly pretty family, cousins I'd say ;). The duochrome didn't come across in the photos at all, in real life it is evident but only slightly and in certain lights but it's so pretty just as a blue!

So shiny and reflective, I haven't edited these photos, it's that multidimensional all on it's own babbbbby ;).

As lovely as it is you know I can't leave it alone, I'm currently doing some nail art with it whilst watching Sherlock (the tv series with Cumberbatch...mmmmmm) I don't know what I'll watch when I've finished that, I've just gone though all 6 series of doctor who, then both series of Luther...which returns like next week wooohoooo. Heheheh.

See you soon! Let me know what you think of this: worth the pricetag??

Green jungle / tropical nail art

Hi y'all!

Tropical prints are obviously in fashion at the moment, even Beth on Corro was rocking a tropical ensemble ;) but yeah I can see the attraction; if you can't go to the rainforest/beach bring it to you and it sure makes you feel a lot happier (espesh when the weather is soooo shocking).

I used Illamasqua Radium (swatches here) as the base for this as it's nice and vibrant! I'm going to go ahead and say it; I am in the love with these nails!! Heheheh

If you have an aversion to knees then you might not like a couple of my pictures...

See it wasn't that bad :P hahahha

Polishes used for this mani, R-L: China Glaze I'm with the lifeguard, Dior Amazonia, Dior Waterlily (I still haven't worn this!!) Essie Going Incognito

Another knee shot coming up but it's a closeup of the nails

That is a little banana on my middle finger :P I liked doing these as it's about layering to make a scene which is something I've never really done before. I just used my little paintbrush to do everything. A trick I have picked up when doing little details such as the pointed ends of the skinny leaves is to try and get it as small as you can and then use the background colour to go over the line and make it thinner from the outside, it is so much easier to do it like that!

I'm not sure how long I'll keep these on, despite my love for them, as my nails grow super quick so manis look scruffy on me pretty quickly due to growth! :( but I got my second HEX order yesterday, so much cutenesssss! I can't wait to use them and show you :)

Have a good weekend!

Flossgloss Neon nacho negative space nail art

Hello, I hope everyone is well on this lovely day!

I have the final flossgloss polish today :( boo but hopefully I might get some more for my birthday ;).
So Neon nacho is the most appropriate name I ever saw, this seriously looks like that weird nacho cheese that comes out of nozzle in America! I had the displeasure of trying some when I was in New York....I wasn't impressed, it just tasted of warm runny stuff lol but anyway this polish is shamazing!

I chose to do a negative space mani for two reasons, 1. They look awesome and 2. The dry time is a lot quicker when you are only painting two bits :p.

 

 

Tom said upon seeing these: "you going to a rave??!" lol but he did actually like them hahaha I think it's because they're very bright :p. I'm not sure who was the first to do the negative space mani but i thank them for the good idea :D.

 

I think I experienced the infamous side effect of seche Vite whilst doing this main though, it shrunk the edges of my moons and the base of the tip line :( so I had to re do the edges boooo.

 

Looking at these does make me hungry for some cheese mmmmmmmm stringy cheese.

They were easy to do, I just used a white nail art pen to outline my natural curves ;) and then filled them in with the brush from a the white polish that I used. Then I just used the brush from nacho to go over the top!

 

I'm currently doing some summery nail art so I'll be posting Fri/sat  

Chanel Azure swatches

Hey, sorry I didn't manage to get this post out this weekend like I wanted to but I just couldn't get the photos to look right!

Butttt I've given my blog a makeover again...I like it more however there is one thing; instead of saying "continue reading" it says "continue lendo" lol I don't know how to change it but I imagine everyone knows what it means :P.
Also I'm now on tumblr, I like the way you view all images together so feel free to follow me on there using the button on the right. :)

Azure is as beautiful as it looks in the bottle but it sticks to my ridges like no other! I didn't have the patience to do more than two coats so I kinda just got over it, but it kind of detracts from the beauty of the  polish. No complaints about the formula or brushstrokes. It gives a lovely metallic finish in soft lighting or the shade, whilst in direct sunlight it sparkles.  

In this photograph you can see the colour change, more blue on the left and greeny on the right

At other times it looks an even deeper blue, it's just gorgeous!

I was planning on doing some nail art over the top of this but my nail pen was dead so I couldn't but I now have a new one and I've just made another order with HEX nail jewelry so when that arrives I might have to put this on again and so my intended nail art :).

I did have other photos but the duochrome makes my nails look seriously wonky and deformed hhahahahah so these will have to do for now. Pam over at Polish police has gorgeous swatches of Azure and Bel-Argus that I would recommend viewing for some real eyegasms ;).