99 Followers Give-Away :-) UK only

I was going to do a giveaway at 100, but I got there and one person disappeared haha, so I thought why not celebrate 99 followers instead, 99 is just as good :-)I would have loved to have done this for international followers as well but sending polish through the post is a no-no at the moment. I may do a give-away with just nail art/glitters stuff like that in future Thanks everyone for supporting the blog and good luck :-)

a Rafflecopter giveaway
(The prizes: China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise, Illamasqua Muse, Models Own Aqua Violet Beetle Juice, Max Factor Fantasy Fire, Color Club wing fling (that's a guess to be honest, I'm unsure, its pink glass flecked, Pure Ice Oh baby!, OPI Just Spotted the Lizard, Barry M Pink Iridescent, 2 tubs of green glitter, a cuticle pusher and a dotting tool)

And now for something completely different

Ahhh, it's been so long since I made a post. Since I started college I haven't been painting my nails nearly as much as I used too but that's no excuse. I recently trained with CND to use Shellac so when I do get the chance to do my own nails that's what I'm using and as its a "professional" use only product I didn't think it worth posting but I don't like my blog sitting idle. So I have decided to keep track of my course progress by posting pictures here, it'll be mainly mani/pedi's, shellac or liquid & powder (extensions). Hopefully this will encourage me to post more regularly :-) If not...I give up.

This was just practising a dark polish on one of the girls in my class, I couldn't resist adding fantasy fire (max factor) on top of the plain purple polish.

This was on my "client" (and best friend) I used 2 of my favourite polishes, Barry M Indigo and Barry M Prickly Pear. Prickly Pear is one of their Gelly range and is super shiny.

These are 5 of my nails for a calender shoot, I used mostly Bettina polishes as they are easy to work with.

I will put together a post with a few of my shellac manicures as I'm really loving doing them, especially with holographic glitter. 

Girly Girl Challenge -Day 7: Sugar,Spice and Everything Nice

I can't believe this is the second to last mani in the Girly Girl Challenge. I've really enjoyed doing it and its kept me a bit more "regular" blog-wise, lol.
Today was Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice - That's what little girls are made of! Show off your sweet (or spicy) inspired nails. So I wanted to do something sweet inspired but do something I hadn't tried before. I also wanted to use my newly acquired BeYu Brilliant Shiraz 209. And then something on my blogger dashboard caught my eye, a "caviar" mani. I absolutely love this, I've started to really like textured nails since I bought Floam. This particular black base with black microbeads reminds me of a particular sweet I loved when I was in school and I would have loved to have recreated this, but I don't have any black microbeads :( so I was going to do it red, as there were blackcurrent and raspberry versions of the sweets. In the end I went with a red/green version as it was a bit more sparkly but if I can get hold of a picture of those sweets I liked, I will definitely just do a red version.

I used 2 coats of Barry M Dusky Mauve, 1 coat of BeYu Brilliant Shiraz 209 and 1 coat of Pure Ice Heartbreaker. I then mixed red and green microbeads and tipped them on to my nail, pressing them down to make them stick into the wet coat of heartbreaker on my ring finger. I added a topcoat to help them stay stuck down :)

Girly Girl Challenge - Day 5: Gotta Love Chick Flicks

I know a lot of girls struggled with this one, either because they couldn't pick a film (not really liking the genre) or had problems choosing the inspiration from it. I had the opposite problem, at first I thought Oh I dont really like chick flicks, this is going to be an issue. As it turns out I love a lot of them, lol. I actually did my nails so many times with so many different designs but I couldn't pick just one. I did a really girly mani for Legally Blonde and then a really not girly one for Whip It but I've decided to post my really simple one for 50 First Dates. I'm an absolute sucker for Adam Sandler films and I adore Drew Barrymore (I did do an 80's inspired one to go with The Wedding Singer but I hated it).

I'll be honest its been awhile since I saw the film and I didn't have time to watch it again but I remembered there being lots of water in it :) so I wanted to create something similar to the ocean, something nice and simple. I did want to add some art to it but its just so pretty on its own.

I used 2 layers of Barry M Indigo, which has been sat in a box since before I was interested in nail varnish and 1 coat of Pure Ice Heartbreaker. Indigo is the most beautiful colour and will be great for layering, I will have to use this more often. Barry M polishes are really cheap, decent quality and they have an amazing array of colours.

And here's a cute picture from the film :)

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 :)

Valentine Mani!

Well it had to be done, didn't it? :)

I used Barry M Matt white and China Glaze Velvet Bow. The Glitter on the ring finger is China Glaze Ring in the Red.