China Glaze Nautical Nails

Happy Saturday everyone! This is a scheduled post because sadly, I'm working at the moment. I am obsessed with anchors, and the colour navy. I pretty much love anything nautical, and I've been trying to work on my stripes lately so this design was perfect for that. You'll see that some of the colours are smudged, and that's because I was stupid and put my top coat on too early. Hahah

Enjoy xx

The navy that I used here is an older polish I have, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue It! I love this colour, it's the perfect navy blue and is definitely treasured in my collection. These polishes are however, quite thick so if you're going to use them, be prepared for that. 

The red that I used is part of the China Glaze Halloween 2012 collection. Roguish Red is a gorgeous colour, but it is a little bit orange. It should actually be called Roguish Orange-Red because it is definitely not fully red. In most of these pictures it does because I used several coats, and the more opaque it got, the more red it became as well.  

The white and gold are both acrylic paint, because I couldn't find a suitable white polish. Haha

The micro beads were bought off of Ebay and so were the brushes that I used to create the stripes. 

OPI Cross and Rhinestone Manicure

Hello to you all! How's your Thursday going so far? Today, I have a stamping manicure for you! Yay! Stamping! If you haven't heard of stamping then you definitely need to "jump on the band wagon". Most nail bloggers use stamping as an easy way to "amp up" their manicures. Stamping is super easy once you get the method down, and can be found anywhere on the internet. You can see the rest of my stamping posts by searching "stamping" in the search bar, or clicking "stamping" in my label cloud! 

Enjoy! xx

The green I used here is a colour that I've only used once. It has been hidden away in my stash and when reorganizing I came across it. OPI Gargantuan Green Grape is a matte laquer that I got at Winners one day. It goes on a little funky, as all matte polishes do and is a little streaky; but it is however a gorgeous colour. 

I decided that I didn't want it to be matte, and to help cover the streaks I stamped on it using Cheeky plate CH44 with Sinful Colours Black on Black then topped it off with Orly Top 2 Bottom Base and Topcoat. 

The grey/purple colour is Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Greige Gardens. It's actually an amazing colour, and is subtle yet sophisticated. I thought that it paired with the rhinestones perfectly. 

The rhinestones were bought off of Born Pretty and you can find their website here! There's a 10% off code which you can get by clicking here, but I haven't used it for a while, and don't know if it still works! The micro beads were bought off of Ebay!

Sally Hansen Prison Stripes

Hello everyone, happy Tuesday! Today I'm bring to you a mani that I've fallen in love with. I really enjoy this look, and even though it's not perfect, I hope you'll like it as well. 

Enjoy! xx

The pink that I used is actually a polish that I keep for stamping, but It was the perfect colour for this mani, so whatever! Haha, it's Sally Hansen Insta Dry Presto Pink. I haven't used it for stamping yet, sadly. But if anyone has, I'd appreciate it if you told me how well it works. 

The black and white stripes were created using acrylic paint and a striping brush bought off of Ebay in a package of three. 

The stars were bought at my local dollar store!

The top coat that I used was Orly Top 2 Bottom Base and Top Coat. 

Colour Club with Black Shatter

Hello my lovely readers! Hope your week has been as good as mine has been and that you had great night last night with your lover! Happy Friday to you all! So, today I have nails that were supposed to be for valentines day, but I ended up messing them up and made them a bit more edgy!  I apologize for the terrible state that my nails and cuticles are in. During exams I kept... biting them. :s Horrible, I know. But, I've caught myself and am on the road to recovery!

Enjoy! xx

I LOVE pink! It's so feminine and perfect when combined with black! Here I used Colour Club Poptastic, along with Sally Hansen Black Shatter. 

The hex/circular glitter was bought at my local dollarstore and the bows were bought off ebay! 

Now, I don't usually use shatter because I always feel like I'm taking the cheap way out, and not doing any work, but this time it suited the occasion, and covered up some pretty nasty smudges! Haha

12 Days of Christmas - Candy Canes!

Hi all! I know I'm so SO SO late! But here's my candy cane nail art for the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge!   These are pretty simple, but I like them!

Enjoy! xx

I used Colour Club Berry and Bright and Sally Hansen White On for the stamp! 

The stamping plate I used was Bundle Monster BM207 and the micro beads were bought off Ebay!

12 Days of Christmas - Christmas Song

I honestly had no idea what to do for this, so my boyfriend gave me the idea. It's for Carol of the Bells, different eh? Here ya go!

I used Colour Club Ho-Ho-Holly, and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep for the stamp.

The rhinestones were bought off Ebay and so were the micro beads! The Stamping plate is Bundle Monster BM223!

12 Days of Christmas - Day 1: Christmas Trees

Hi everyone! Happy December!! Before I get to the nails I have to apologize for not doing well.. any nails this week! I've been crazy busy and my hand was annoying. But! I'm back now! So, let's get started!

Kristine from Pink & Polished, and Lorene from Over Polished have a 12 Days of Christmas Challenge and everyone should definitely take part. That's what this mani is from. I'm super excited about it, so here we go!

I used Sinful Colours Snow Me White, Sally Hansen Going Green, Revlon Chocolate Truffle, OPI and Apple Pie, and red and gold acrylic paint.

Sally Hansen and Colour Club-Tape Manicure

Hi everyone! I'm supeeeerrr excited about this mani today! Okay, I decided to do a tape manicure. If you read yesterdays Tip for your Tips you saw that I discovered a way that makes the tape not stick to the base colour. If you haven't seen it, go check it out here! Anyway, so here's the first tape mani that I like enough to show you guys. I honestly love the way this turned out.
    The colours I used were an old Sally Hansen that I can't see the name of, Colour Club Glitter Wonderland and NYC Matte Top Coat(loveeee!!). So, i painted the nails Glitter Wonderland, used a matte topcoat and then did the whole "tape thing" with the navy blue. I added some micro beads last minute, and think they added a nice touch! What do you think? Do you like tape manicures?

Colour Club Ruffles with Bundle Monster Snowflakes

First winter/Christmas Design! Okay, so. Just a warning, this design is treacherous. I hate this. I actually hate everything about this. But, I said I'd show my failures as well. So, here it is. I'm sure I would've loved this, if I would have used different colours. 

     Go check out Kristine, at Pink and Polish's version here! She did an amazing job! Absolutely gorgeous. The colours I used were the new Colour Club Winter Affair collection, and for the accent nails I used Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle White. I stamped them using Bundle Monster plate BM-323 with Sally Hansen Insta Dry Co-Bolt Blue. 

Stamping with Colour Club!

Nails done on a friend! The purple is Colour Club Pucci-Licious and the pink is Sally Hansen Fuchsia Power. On top of the purple is Colour Club Snow-flakes which is a gorgeous holographic flakey. I stamped on top of the pink and purple with Sally Hansen Insta Dry Lightening next I put on the rhinestones and micro beads.