Nails from the last few weeks....

Hi again,

It's been a while - been busy organsining my next job and sleeping in :)

Here's my nails from the last few weeks.

I found this silver polish the other day, after being sick of having to paint on 3 plus coats of my silver glitter and having it chip after a day.  Then to make it ever better, I discovered that it stamps perfectly - yay for another stamping colour.  It's Posh Polish by beauty UK, Olympic Silver no. 2.

I then decided to paint each nail a different colour and stamp it with silver.

I used essence Miami Roller Girl in Four Wheel Drive pink, green from the faceshop (in Korea), La Femme Beauty in blue & Hot Looks in Hip Hop orange.

I used BM-322 from Bundle Monsters 2012 collection.

Orange on my thumb, Green on my middle finger.

Blue on my pointer & ring finger and Pink on my little finger.

Next up it was time for Easter nails, I used some of the same colours.

The Faceshop green, Miami Roller Girl in Pink, Miss Sporty in Yellow and Konad Special Polish in Black.

I used the Faceshop green as the base coat, Konad special polish in Black for stamping and dotted with the yellow & pink.

I used the bunny outline stamp for most nails and dotted ontop.

For my accent nails (on my ring fingers), I used the bunny and egg stamp with dots around the outside.

I used BM-302 plate.

The most recent set of nails I've done is for my leaving party, I went for sparkly and simple.

I used Nails inc. special effects in marylebone as the base coat and Konad Special Polish in Black for stamping.

 I used BM-313 for the stamp - it came out looking like dinosaur eggs, which I thought looked kinda cool :)

Hope you liked them all, 

till next manicure

Nikki :o)

St Patrick's Day 2013.....

Hi all

Time for another blog post - this time it's St Patrick Day nails, a great excuse to try out some of the 2012 Bundle Monster plates that I've been neglecting.

I didn't really have a particular pattern/colour scheme for this mani - just green and to include a 4 leaf clover somewhere.

I ended up using a few greens, white and even a silver (I know gold is more traditionally associated with St Paddy's Day but I'm a silver person!).

I used Cosmiss in White (doubles as my stand in white stamping polish, got it cheap from a subway station in Budapest), La Femme Beauty in emerald (from kraudvat), Nails Inc in Burton Mews (from Debhams, not a cheap polish!), unbranded silver glitter (from a cheap, discount store as a 3 pack) & Konad Special Polish in White.

Here's the final result.

I used a different base polish on every nail apart from my little finger and middle finger.

For my pointer finger I used the lighter green as a base coat then stamped a mini clover looking pattern over top, using the Nail's Inc as a stamping polish (worked pretty well). Plate: BM-214.

For the middle finger I used the Nail's Inc polish for the base coat and Konad special polish in White.  Plate: BM-316.

For my ring finger I used the unbranded silver glitter polish for the basecoat and stamped with the Nail's Inc green polish again (came out 2 different colours on each hand, think I managed to get more polish on the second time I stamped). Plate: BM03.

For my thumbs, used the Cosmiss white for the basecoat and a Celtic looking pattern stamped in the Nail's Inc polish yet again. Plate: BM-222

For my Pinkie, I used some nail jewels from Holland. I have a set of 8 tiny bottles and chose the 'cloverish' looking green ones. I made a simple line down each nail, as they are quite large and tend to catch on everything!

And how it looked.

And my mani from another angle:

Hope you like it - I had fun doing it.  Can't wait for Easter!

Till next mani,

Nikki :o)

Once Upon a Time Challenge - Day 4 Favourite Male Character in Once Upon A Time....

So it's challenge time once again - this time my favourite male character in Once Upon a Time.  I struggled with this one - even watched the two episodes I was behind and finally decided upon Rumpelstiltskin.

It didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted - think what I had in my head was waaay too complicated and was a bit busy for the nails but the end result wasn't too bad.

I used La Femme Beauty in Emerald (Kruidvat), Konad Special Polish in Black, Barry M in Chameleon Lilac (Boots) & Klean Colour in Metallic Gold (Postie Plus, NZ).

After a day of painting ceilings my brain was a bit scrambled so I forgot to take pics along the way - sorry guys :( But I painted the Chameleon Lilac first then the emerald on top over half the nail.  I then added a snake skin pattern to the lilac side and the world 'Gold' to the emerald side. I was happy with this but unfortunately the Metallic yellow was running low and while adding nail polish remover to thin it out a little, I accidentally dumped in a whole lot - waah! So I had to change the idea slightly and the rest of the nails have a gold speckled look (added with a cotton bud) with the word 'Gold' stamped on top in Konad Special Polish in Black. 

Anyway here's the result:

This is the first nail I did, with the stamped word Gold.

And the right hand - showed up pretty well in the pic:)

Left hand.

And close up.

The idea I was going for was the two identities Rumpelstiltskin has - the dark one, hence the snake skin and shiny purple he has in the Fairy Tale world and the Gold over green with the letters gold for Mr Gold, his identity in Storybrooke.

Hope you liked them and make sure you head over to the other blogs doing the challenge.

Taya

Mateja D.

Moonchild

Milena Vanchoska

Yecats 

Samantha Ann 

Fulya 

Always Polished Nails

Till next post (valentines day & true loves kiss - can't wait!)

Nikki x

Once Upon a Time Challenge - Day 2 Favourite Villan in Once Upon A Time....

Hi all

So today is day 2 of the Once Upon A Time Nail Art Challenge (created by the lovely Taya http://tatjanag.blogspot.co.uk).

The challenge was your Favourite Villan from the series.  Mine has to be hook - 3 main reasons:

1. He's kinda cute (not your normal villan requirement)

2. He's a pirate (there's just something about them)

3. He wears eyeliner just like Captian Jack Sparrow (another favourite Pirate of mine haha).

Anyway back to the nail stuff. I went with a lovely sea green to represent the sea and stamped with Konad special polish in black. I havn't had a lot of time today - in between catching trains, waiting in sub zero temperatures and applying for British tax related stuff - so went for something fairly simple.

Here are the polishes I used:

And here's the finished product:

Here is the idea behind each nail....

The crocodile (aka Rumplestiltskin) {OMG Nails Salon Pro Kit 4}

Scull and cross bones for the pirate. {B51, knock off plate}

The necklace Hook always seems to be wearing (some sort of cross). {BM13}

A kind of smudged attempt at a Hook and his name. {M17 & M18}

Hooks ship being sucked into the vortex as they travel to Storybrook (one of the last episodes I've watched, think there are a few to catch up on). {OMG nails salon Pro kit 4}

Hope you like them.

Till the next challenge,

Nikki x

2 celebrations - a Wedding & Saint Patricks day..

The weekend of the 17th of March was a busy one for me and my family.  Not only was it Saint Patrick's Day it was also my Brother's wedding and my cousin's 5th Birthday.  I was supposed to have a roller derby game on that weekend as well but luckily (although disappointingly me for) it was canceled due to lack of people turning up to training.

Anyway I digress.  Basically that busy weekend meant two sets of nails in one weekend :)

Here are the first ones, for my brothers wedding.  I went with a simple red for the base coat (to match my dress).  Unfortunately it didn't cover the purple Gelish particularly well, if you looked closely you could see the re-growth (but no-one really did apart from me).

The red was a gifted polish from my Aunty, a borghese lacquer in Venetian Red F and I used Konad Special Polish in White on the M65 Plate.

It turned out pretty nicely but just a tad boring for my tastes.  Good for a wedding though:)

Then a day later it was Saint Patrick's Day, one of my favourite days after living in Korea (because like most things American, in Korea they're crazy about it and an Irish drinking day was no different).  So I pulled out my greens and decided on a fairly simple manicure with a wee bit of sparkle.  

The Revlon Wind Fall Top Speed (NZ$8) covered up the gelish perfectly & the glitter (and occasional stars, from The Face Shop, NZ$4) helped make it pretty.  Sadly as good as my nails looked I didn't actually make it out for a drink as I was too tired and a wee bit hung over from the reception the night before.  But hey at least my nails looked fab :)

Till next week.
Nikki :o)