Cheeky Owl Manicure!

Hello!

I'm continuing to come up with new designs to make the most of my short nails, and today I've gone cheeky! A winking baby owl paired with little polka dots ^_^

For my base colour I chose a teal, Misstique by Missguided, to match the wings of my owl! He's one of many cute owl water decals I have from YRNails. I stamped polka dots over the teal and left my ring fingers white for my decals. Here we have it...

I love my owls so much!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Egg Dye Manicure

Hello, and a very Good Friday to you!

Today's manicure comes thanks to Kelli of thenailpolishchallenge on Instagram. She posted an amazing tutorial showing how to achieve a watercolour marble effect using acetone - thank you so much Kelli!

For my own attempt I painted a white base and chose a turquoise shade, Misstique by Missguided, for my marbling. By happy chance the result reminds me of dyed Easter eggs - how perfect for today!

Because I chose a richer colour, my manicure isn't as pretty and delicate as in thenailpolishchallenge's tutorial - but I am incredibly pleased with the result and will definitely be trying it again.

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Halloween Pumpkin Manicure

Hello!

Since it's getting so close to Halloween I decided to try a full-on spooky manicure today, going bright with carved pumpkin faces!

The orange is MissMatch by MissGuided, and I drew on the scary faces using Barry M's black nail art pen. Woooooooooooo...

I am definitely in the Halloween spirit with these on my nails, they're hard to ignore! What manicure ideas have you all come up with for the 31st?

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Polish-aholics Anonymous Monday Nail Art Challenge!

Hello!

This is my first ever Challenge, and after seeing the nail art coming through in the Polish-aholics Anonymous Facebook group I realise that I seriously need to up my game next week!

The theme is TV-, book- or movie-inspired nails.  My first thought was to think of something to represent House, as that is one of my favourite programs ever... but then I remembered the Glee slushie and had to have a go at that!!

The inspiring image is a colourful slushie popping over an equally colourful contrasting background.  Here we go...!

Polishes used: Missguided's Teal Splash, Miss Sporty's Hip Pop, Claire's' pink glitter and Bourjois' 1 Seconde pink glitter. 

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Glitter Gradient pt.2!

You know I mentioned I have Can't-Leave-It-Alone Syndrome?  Well, after trying and loving the purple glitter gradient, I decided to experiment with the couple of other glitters I have in my collection.

Firstly, as I said I would, I tried it with my INM Northern Lights silver holo glitter - but that was too fine, as opposed to W7's larger gritty stuff, and didn't do the glitter justice.

Then I tried with Bourjois' 1 Seconde pink glitter (showcased here) and that worked a bit better!  More subtle than the purple glitter but still very pretty.  I tried it out over five different colours, here we are:



Frosting!!  Here are close-ups of the individual nails:


Rimmel's Black Cab


Missguided's MissTique Teal Nail splash (I got this free with a magazine this Summer and it is BRILLIANT.  Beautiful colour, one-coat, formula smooth as a dream.)


Xtras' Lavender (seriously isn't a lavender, it's a baby pink :-/ )


Andrea Fulerton's Bright White, part of French Manicure set

17's Caribbean Coral

My personal favourites are over black and baby pink!

As an afterthought, I tried Andrea Fulerton's Gemstone Overcoat over Rimmel's Black Cab... and it looked pretty great!  Here it is:



Tomorrow is Polish-aholics Anonymous' Monday nail art challenge - something movie/book/television inspired.  It'll be my first challenge and not feeling too confident, but I'll have a go!

Lisa xx