Manicures and Tattoos!

Hello!

I've done three manicures recently featuring some of my MoYou hand tattoos. The first one was a feathers manicure which you can find here, and the other two are in this post!

First we have what I dubbed a "Magical Manicure" ~ a glitter gradient of my Princess glitter mix from Charlies Nail Art, with some unicorn and dinosaur tattoos from my Origami tattoo pack:

Secondly we have a sparkling flower manicure - a floral pattern from Born Pretty stamping plate BP-L015, coloured in with Echarpe de Seda by Jade. The flower tattoo is from my Tropical tattoo pack:

What do you think?! I've asked for more MoYou tattoos for my birthday so, if I'm lucky, I will have more to play around with soon.

I also have two discount codes for you to buy the glitter and stamping plate I used in these manicures! Get 15% off at Charlies Nail Art using code GNAF15, and get 10% off at Born Pretty Store using code CMBQ10.

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Star Trek Uniform Manicure

Hello!

Sorry for being so quiet on my blog ~ I have lots of pictures of my nails up on Instagram but I've been too tired to keep up the full written posts. That said, I'm trying out designs on my newly short nails and wanted to show you this one!

I love Star Trek so I've done a half-moon manicure with glossy black and metallic colours representing the uniforms. My black is from Xtras and my colours are all Models Own Colour Chromes: Red, Olive, Turquoise and Grey. I used page reinforcer stationery stickers to create the curves.

I also added a MoYou Hand Tattoo for a technological finish to my mani!

I hope you like it!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Neon Manicure with Flamingos

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It's nice and sunny today in North East England, and I thought the coral neon Shades by Models Own would catch the sunlight nicely!

I always think it's funny that Shades is from the Polish For Tans collection because I am the palest girl on the planet. But luckily I'm also happy to wear any nail polish, however bright! And this one is so bright it's actually distracting me as I type...

For my manicure I took some arrow-shaped tip guides I bought from Charlies Nail Art for 25p and did a geometric half-moon design, placing the guide sticker further up my ring fingernails for an accent nail. To embellish my mani I added a couple of MoYou's flamingo hand tattoos - it seemed like they would suit the summery tropical colour of the polish perfectly!

Is anyone else going bright for Summer?

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Sparkling Wings & Flourished Manicures

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Recently I've been doing plenty of stamping - a Born Pretty review pack and MoYou order meant I've had a lot of exciting ideas to try - and so this post shows off two of my latest stamped manicures! I'm thinking of cutting my nails short again just to get a bit of variety in, but even then I've still got some stamping in mind. I hope this isn't too monotonous for my readers?

The manicure I'm wearing right now features a sparkling pink glitter, Rose Chic by Maybelline. This polish can be worn as a gorgeous textured glitter but here I've smoothed it out so I could add some stamping in the form of a floral flourish, taken from MoYou's Mother Nature 05 stamping plate. My base coat is Picture Polish Revolution in the hope that it will make the glitter easier to remove!

The manicure I had on beforehand was a butterfly manicure, using one of the many wing designs on MoYou Kitty 12. For this I started out with one coat of Essie Ballet Slippers for the nude part of the nail. Then I took three holo polishes - Holographic Hero by Gosh, Wistful by TopShop and Red Taboo by Layla - and used a sponge to mix and dab them onto my nails as colour for the wings. I stamped the design on and top coated! I also wore one of my MoYou hand tattoos, some origami butterflies, which I've shown in the photo.

As you can see I overlapped a bit with my colour sponging which I'd hoped I could cheekily pass of as stylistic, but I don't think as many people liked when I posted it on Instagram.

Depending on how I'm feeling, the next mani you see may be of short nails - and perhaps featuring something other than stamping, just to mix it up for once!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Pusheen Manicure

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OK I am SUPER happy with this new MoYou stamping plate of mine, Suki 03. It has lots of little kawaii bits and bobs - sushi, sweets, animal faces, veg, all ready to be stamped on their own, leadlit or turned into decals. Most importantly for this manicure it has Pusheen the cat!!! I adore Pusheen so she had to be the first to go on my nails.

I tried to recreate the style of Pusheen so went for a light grey base, a layer of light holographic stamping in a cute doodle pattern, then my main stamping in black. I used Sally Hansen Ion for the base, Gosh Holographic Hero and MoYou plate Princess 11 for the under-stamping, and Konad Black and Moyou Suki 03 for the main stamping. I also topped off my mani with a few tattoos from my MoYou Hipster hand tattoo pack!

I've only just finished this manicure but I was in such a rush to blog about it because it's making me really happy to look at! It's funny, I have so many stamping plates with gorgeous, intricate patterns that I love - but sometimes you just need something simple and cute to put a huge smile on your face.

Hugs,

Lisa xx

MoYou Haul!

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A couple of weeks ago I placed my first MoYou order in ages! I bought two stamping plates - Literature 01 and Fashionista 03 - along with a couple of packs of their new hand tattoos which I think are a brilliant idea, especially after I'd already been trying out regular temporary tattoos on my fingers! Here I have two manicures to show you.

Literature 01 has a Pride and Prejudice theme and is covered with lines from the book written in various fonts, along with accents of birds and silhouettes. For my base I used Clerkenwell by Nails Inc, a textured cream polish, for an antique paper feel. On top of this I stamped the text in black. For a finishing touch I applied two of the hand tattoos - a coffee mug on my finger and origami paper airplanes on my palm!

I adore the stamping plate and its quality, and those tattoos are just so fun. I want to always have a couple dotted on my hands somewhere but at the same time I want to save them!

Fashionista 03 has a stitch theme, with full-nail knit and stitching patterns, along with L O V E lettering in a sweater style. I started with a white base, Cotton by Barry M, and stamped on a cable knit pattern in blue.

I just adore the teeny tiny perfect little stitches; I can't get enough of them. Unfortunately I stamped the L O V E letters over this mani but I didn't make a good polish choice and it doesn't stand out well over the stitching (not helped by the fact that it is dark, dull and raining here in North East England!). So I definitely want to try again with this plate very soon.

As I said, it's been a while since my last MoYou order and I'd forgotten the joy of how original and fun they are to take out of their sleeves and experiment with... so after I finished my Literature mani I went straight back onto the site and placed another order. Naughty Lisa! I did find a discount code though, 15off, which naturally gives you 15% off. It only works once you've registered/logged into the site, and it seems to be one per customer so I'd use it with a new email address.

You'll be sure to see more MoYou manis from me in the near future!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Neon & Geometrics Manicure

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To add a little extra something to my manicures, I bought a couple of inexpensive transfer tattoo sheets from eBay to use on my fingers and cuticles! This mani uses some silver triangles which were meant to make up a bracelet tattoo but that I cut and used individually.

For my nail polish I chose Pukka Purple from Models Own's Ice Neon range - nice and bold and bright! I stamped a geometric triangle symbol onto the base of my nails in silver, then I applied the tattoos onto my cuticles to match it.

I like this for the very reason that it's not my usual style at all. Normally I like delicate manicures and would avoid geometric patterns. So it's good to switch it up once in a while and be bold - especially with the addition of the tattoos!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Flying Bird Manicure

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For today's manicure I decided to pair my nail design with a temporary tattoo for the first time!

The manicure itself is something I've done and enjoyed a few times before - a pale colour alongside a glittery accent nail and a stamped bird. For this I used my ever-favourite Blueberry Muffin by Models Own, and my glitter is Noel Street by Nails Inc. The bird on a branch is from MoYou's Kitty 11 plate.

For the tattoo I bought a sheet of birds from Born Pretty Store and applied one of the small ones over the glitter accent nail.

What do you think?

I really like the idea and have bought a couple more inexpensive sheets of tattoos to try ^_^

Hugs,

Lisa xx