Girly-Girl Challenge Day 3 - Delicate Elegant

Today is the third day of the Girly-Girl Challenge hosted by Lindsey of Neverland Nail Blog. "Adorn yourself with a lovely pattern, color or technique". I was struggling with this one, none of my stamps seemed quite right and none of the techniques I know seemed to work with delicate or elegant, so I went with the "color" option.
And I only own one color that fits the bill, Clarins 220 Patient Pink. Its a very delicate shade of pink with a really nice shine and very subtle flakies, that are similar to the ones in Illamasqua's raindrops. I added some little pearls to make it more elegant :)

I suppose this would be great for a wedding manicure. The Clarins polish itself built up nicely and could be used for work or for a nice shimmery french manicure, its very pretty but subtle.

Floam!

I saw swatches of this a while back and thought it looked really unique but I couldn't find out where to get it so promptly forgot about it. Until I came across it on the blog that belongs to the lady that makes it, Nailventurous. I had to get some, there really is nothing else like it out there, I ordered it from Ninja Polish and it came really quickly. I have to admit to not knowing what "floam" actually is or was, I've googled it and I'm not really any the wiser but its the polish I like so I don't mind. Its basically like blue and green glitter in a clear base, only the glitter isn't shiny :) I used color club's new bohemian as a base, you could layer floam though as its really dense and dries quickly. This is 2 coats of new bohemian and 1 coat of floam.

I decided to add another layer of floam to make it more opaque.

And then topped it off with fast forward topcoat from china glaze

This is now one my favourite polishes, I cant wait to try it on some other bases and I think it'll be interesting to stamp over. Amy (Nailventurous) will be opening her etsy store soon but you can find her on facebook as well.

Cult Nails: Toxic Seaweed

This is my one and only Cult Nails polish and I adore it. I've worn it a lot since I bought it but not got round to blogging about it, mainly because I have trouble photographing it :) I got it directly from Cult Nails themselves, they are a great company and ship nice and fast.

I have managed to get a few pics today as I'm wearing it to go out. Its a great polish as it looks so complex without me having to do any "nail art" so it looks more interesting. It applies really easily (I wear it over a green base) and the best way to describe it is as a dark green jelly with glitter and flakies. Apparently the flakies are the same as some found in their infamous Unicorn Puke/Clairvoyant so once they've run out they wont be able to make it again, I might get a back up bottle. I found it dried a little gritty so I popped on a top coat so it looked and felt super shiny.

Girly-Girl Challenge Day 2 - Gimme That Bling

This is the 2nd mani of the Girly-Girl Challenge, todays is "diamonds are a girls best friend, so put some sparkles on those nails!". I tried out a white nail with silver glitter and diamantés across the tip but I wasn't loving it and I think my nails would need to be longer to do it justice.

And my Dior Waterlily turned up this morning so I was dying to try it out :) I teamed it up with the shiny A-England Saint George and used a needle to swirl the colours together on my nails. I added Nostalgic's Underground and some little crystals on my ring finger.

Girly-Girl Challenge Day 1 - Think Pink :)

This is the first mani for my first challenge (see previous post for details)
The idea for today is Think Pink - wear your favourite pink polish and nail art. I only own 2 pink polishes so that was an easy choice, I had to go with Illamasqua Obsess. Its a gorgeous shade of pink all on its own but I decided to glitz it up a little and added Nostalgic Nail Lacquer Magic Dance on top (I think she is restocking today, weird coincidence)

I then used Barry M Lilac Foil to stamp my ring finger

But I liked it so much I decided to do them all :)

Girly-Girl Nail Art Challenge

I'm going to be participating in my first nail art challenge :) starting tomorrow. Every Tuesday and Thursday I shall be doing the mani from this list.

The challenge is hosted by Lindsey of Neverland Nail Blog and here is a list of the other girls doing it.

Ashley of Follow The Yellow Polish Road

Stephanie of A Little Polish

Kelly of Devilish Polish

Jodi of Captivating Claws

Danielle of Polish. Glitter. Rock & Roll!

Olivia of Unprofessional Nails

Kate of This Charming Kate

Bethany of  A Plethora of Nails

Lizzy of The Do It Yourself Lady

Eugenia of Talon-ted

Johanna of Neues vom Kellerkind

Amanda of Nox Nails

Ashley of Smashley Sparkles

Sarah of See Sarah Swatch

Emily of The Lacquerologist

Jess of LuvMyLacquer

Tressa of O' Natur Nail 

ChiChi of I'm just me...ChiChi 

CR of Color Me Silly

Amanda of Berry Polished 

Robin, Erin, and Anna of Polished Cousins

I'm looking forward to having a reason to stick to a schedule for blogging and also coming up with ideas to match the days :)

Rainbow Dotting Mani

I just noticed that there is a nail art (specifically dotting) competition on one of the blogs I follow http://www.chalkboardnails.com and it ends today. I'm trying to step out of my comfort zone manicure wise and do things I'm not very good at, lol, so I figured why not give dotting another go. I actually don't own a dotting too so I had to make do with the end of a hair clip :)

This is what I started with:

Then I played about with the hair clip:

It is by no means perfect but I'm happy with it and I think will purchase some actual dotting tools so I can get different sized dots more easily :)