Saturday's Stamping ft Poptastic Holo Floral NOTD

Currently watching: Singin' in the Rain

Good morning girls!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend planned ahead of you.  To start mine, I'd like to show you a floral manicure I recently wore which started as two coats of Barry M Matt White.

 Unfortunately I didn't take photos at every step of this manicure but the next step was to sponge Kleancolor Holo Pink on to my tips.

 I then stamped a floral design using MUA Shade 2 and Bundle Monster plate BM 205.  I had a lot of trouble stamping this design and I made it even worse by smudging the black polish when I applied my topcoat.  Grr.

 To finish, I used my dotting tool to apply Holo Pink to the centre of each flower.

I felt this was a fun and cute manicure which I absolutely loved.  The smudging did annoy me but nobody who admired my nails picked up on it ;-)

What do you think of this manicure girls?

Bye for now,

Laura

Tuesday's Talons ft Pink Butterfly Gradient NOTD

Currently listening to: Almost Everything by Wakey Wakey

Hello lovely ladies,

This morning I have a pink butterfly gradient to show you, as the title of this post suggests.

My first step was to create a gradient using Essence Enchanted Fairy, Lm 21 and Barry M Fuchsia:

I then stamped black butterflies using MUA Shade 2 and Konad plate m36.

 Next, I sponged Barry M Pink Iridescent glitter on my nails.  This polish is full of tiny particles of glitter which shimmer in a rainbow of blue, purple, gold, pink and silver.

 My final step was to sponge a heavier glitter, Saffron London Shade 9, on to the tips of my nails.

 The Saffron polish consists of magenta and silver glitter.

Here are the polishes I used:

I was really happy with this manicure although on reflection it might have looked better with grey butterflies so the gradient was more obvious.  Maybe next time!

What do you think girls?

Bye for now,
Laura

Sunday's Stamping

Currently watching: One Tree Hill 

Good morning girls!

Today I'd like to show you what will probably be the last manicure featuring my false nails.  My own nails are still tiny but I'm starting to paint them again.  Besides, it's actually really hard to do nail art on falsies ;-)

For this design, I started with two coats of Barry M Pure Turquoise.

 I then stamped using Barry M Gold Foil and plate BM 209.  My stamping wasn't very successful here as often the gold polish wouldn't stick to the nail.  That happens to me sometimes and I never know why.

To finish it off, I sponged Essence Glorious Aquarius on the tips.

What do you think girls?

Bye for now,

Laura

New Year's Eve Nails

Currently watching: Absolutely Fabulous

Hello girls!

I've been seeing lots of pictures of your New Year's Eve manicures so I thought it was about time to show you mine even though I know in some countries 2012 has already arrived.

Lacking inspiration, I asked my dad to choose my base colour for me. He selected a royal blue (shade 51) by Yesensy.

I then sponged on some Miss Sporty silver. The idea was to sponge it in three diagonal lines but my sponging was neither neat nor precise so on some nails I have more silver polish than blue polish.

I then placed three blue jewels along the middle *stripe* of each nail to lift my manicure.

What do you think?

As this will be my last post of 2011 I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of my readers, new and old, for supporting me this year and encouraging me to continue blogging. The experience would not be the same without you and I'm really looking forward to sharing 2012 with you all.

Happy New Year!

Bye for now,
Laura

Tuesday's Talons

Currently watching: Everybody Loves Raymond

Good morning girls! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that Santa was good to you ;-)

Today I'd like to show you my first gradient manicure:

My first step was to use two coats of E.L.F Pearl as my base.

I then sponged on a lilac Wibo shade.

Next I sponged on 332 by Kiko and finally a dark purple Miss Sporty shade. It was supposed to be a purple gradient but the lilac looked pink and the dark purple looked navy...

In an attempt to rescue the manicure, I used a glitter topcoat with silver moons and stars in it.

This wasn't a total success but I think it's a fair attempt for my first gradient manicure. What do you think? And did you get any nice polishes from Santa?

Bye for now,
Laura

Monday's Manicure

Currently watching: Inception

Good morning girls!

I am very excited as this is my last week of work before I finish for Christmas :-)

With that in mind, I decided to spruce up yesterday's swatch with some winter stamping:

My first step was to stamp a snowflake using Konad Special Polish in white and Red Angel plate RA119.

I then sponged on some Miss Sporty silver glitter. It was my first time using this sponging technique. I will definitely be using it again.

To finish off, I applied a layer of Miss Sporty Sparkle Touch glitter.

I really liked this, despite the silver sponging leaving a bit of a mess around my cuticles! What do you think of this manicure girls? Are you a fan of sponging?

Bye for now,
Laura