Hello there!
Before I show you today's mani, I will show the result of yesterday's nail breakage (it did hit me that I made a whole blog post over a broken nail... oh dear!). Here is a photo of my naked nails before...
... and after:
My poor nails feel decapitated!! Sob sob.
At least I've decided to use my short nails to try out some cute manis; today I went for sky blue with sheer polka dots. Here are the polishes I used:
Here we have Save The Nail's Eau So Hydrated base coat - I found this in Boots and it sounded just like what I was looking for to help out my overpolished nails. You can see that it has been extremely well used! Towards the end of the bottle the consistency has turned a little gloopy, so I've moved onto Sally Hansen's Double Duty (far right), but after I cut my nails yesterday I painted them with Eau So Hydrated and went round my boyfriend's with my Boots roll-on Nail & Cuticle Oil.
Anyway, next we have the blue from Claire's Accessories' mini pastel set (got this for my birthday 2 months ago, the set cost £7), then a silver-white nail art pen from Rio's pastel nail art set (bought from Argos, also for my birthday).
Here is the pastel blue on its own, 3 coats to even out the colour:
And with little polka dots painted on top with the nail art pen, finished off with a coat of Double Duty...
Natural light:
Taken with flash:
^_^
I painted my nails a tad too thickly so I don't think it's going to be long-wearing... but I'll just use the opportunity to experiment with other designs!
See you soon,
Lisa xx
