Black and white

I decided I wanted to do a bit of nail art yesterday but was in a bit of a hurry so had to go with some thing simple. I decided to use the technique I tried in the girly-girl challenge in march. I went with a black and white colour scheme.

This is really easy to do, you just paint half your nail with one colour, using a lot of polish and then paint the other half with the other colour, again using a lot of polish. Then use a pin or small dotting tool to mix the two shades together. I used A-England Camelot and Bettina Marshmallow, both really nice opaque polishes.

Color Club All About Color Set with Neons!

I picked up this and a few other sets in my local TK Maxx shop for a whole £9.99 for 7 polishes. 4 of them glow nicely under UV light.

I tried them all out, all of them needed 2 coats and dried fairly quickly. For the neons I used a white base coat as this seems to be better than trying to get them to be opaque on their own and it makes the colour nice and bright.

Here is the orange under a UV light:

The pink is slight darker and more neon in real life.

I, for some reason, only did one coat of the purple, which is a shame. Its a really nice purple and looks less blue tinged in real life, I think it'd make a nice gradient mani with one of the neon pinks.

I really liked this green, its minty and it still glows a little under the UV light.

This is slightly more purple and slightly darker in real life

Nerd Lacquer: Dont Panic!...And I'm Back :-)

I can't believe how long its been since I last posted. I went on holiday and then I got the flu, so I haven't painted my nails much. I have got lots of untried though so hopefully I'll get back in to the swing of things and post regularly again. I need to sort of my comments and stuff as it looks like I've been nominated for a few awards - thanks guys x

I wanted to wear Nerd Lacquer: Don't Panic on its own but It just looked a little too thick with more than one coat so I used Zoya Meg as underwear. Zoya Meg is such a great shade of green, its a foil so it dried quickly and applied easily, I didn't think it looked streaky at all but I forgot to take a picture of it on its own. I used one coat of Meg and one coat of Don't Panic.

Normally I'd link to Nerd Lacquers etsy shop or Harlowe and Co. The etsy shop appears to be closed and Harlowe and Co have stopped selling Amanda's polishes for now but I'll update this if they become available again.

I think it looks like a green version of Deborah Lippmanns Mermaid's Dream, what do you think?

A very late St Paddy's Day Mani

I completely forgot to put these pictures up. This is what I wore for St.Patrick's Day.

My dad changed the lens on the camera and I didn't want to ruin my nails changing it back to my usual one so the pictures are a little strange :)

It was a fun mani to do and pretty quick, other than having to let the varnish dry between coats :)

I used two coats of Illamasqua radium as a base and made these shapes in the corner with Bettina Mojito and an old unnamed yellow polish I had lying around. I used Bettina Disco on my ring finger to glitz it up and popped some dots on there for good measure.

MariMoon Chameleon

I decided today to do some stamping today because I haven't done it a while. I wanted to use one of my marimoon polishes as they have so many different colours/shades. I picked out Chameleon as I wanted to try out a sort of mermaid tail/dragon scale mani.

I used A-Englands Saint George for the stamping. I put some flakies on under the stamp to add more depth on my little finger, I wish I'd done it on all of them but I couldn't see much difference under the lamp in my room :) 

Illamasqua Jo'Mina

This colour is beautiful! Its also almost impossible for me to photograph and get the colour to look like it does on the nail.

It went on really smoothly and evenly, I used 2 coats and no topcoat as it has a really nice shine by itself. Its less dusty and more bright than it appears in my pictures. I added a bit of bling to it.

These pictures are from an old camera so I might be able to get a closer colour match with my new camera which I'll try and do at some point.

Nfu Oh 64 Pink Holographic

This is one of my many Nfu Oh's. I love the bottles and the colours more than I love the actual nail polish, to be honest, I tend to find application tricky and they can be so expensive. I used the aqua base with this and still had problems with it but its just so pretty. It applies very strangely, it doesn't look holographic until it is dry.

I'll have to get this out again when we've got some sun as I imagine it'll look amazing under direct sunlight.