Gelish, Purple, Glitter & a few other polishes...

So I finally got my second lot of Gelish done by Katey at Minx Beauty - woohoo.  And this time I went for purple with a lighter shade mixed over top for a different colour :) Here's the result

 

All shiny and soon to be long.  I also played around with another of my nail plates, this time BM-209 using a fishnet type pattern.    

They’re not perfect as I was experimenting with my konad special polish in white pearl (which didn’t stamp as clear or bright as white) and also Katey was trying out full name stamps for the first time.  

                              

Konad special polishes in white and white pearl.

But as you can see below they didn’t come out too bad.

I soon got bored of that so a week later did my second lot of stamping.  This time I used another bundle monster plate, BM-223 in the zebra pattern.

I was stoked with these, they turned out so well & most people that commented couldn’t believe they were a) my real nails and b) I’d done them myself :)

And the final ‘purple’ manicure was a week later.  This time I used LA Girl Cracked in Silver.

Then stamped a heart over top in Konad special polish in black from bundle monster plate BM-202.

 It was valentines day after all (not that I deliberately did a heart but it was a great coincidence ;)

There you have it, 3 manicures using the same base colour – pretty unusual for me but had to make the gelish worth while. 

Till next blog

Nikki 

:o)

Nearly a month...

So yet again i've been a bit slack with the blog - mainly because I've finally started to organise my travel plans & work has been super busy.

To make up for it I have included shots of my ENTIRE nail polish collection after my manicure for the week.  The hardest thing was fitting all the polishes in the shot & it appears I have almost 80 polishes... that number seems to have snuck up on me ;)

Anyway my manicure this week (well technically 3 weeks ago) used one of new scented polishes by BYS.

It was pretty cheap at postie plus ($4.99) & does actually smell quite nice (even through 2 coats of top coat).  As you can see from the picture, its inventively called 'Scented Bright Red'.

For the design I used Bundle Monster Plate BM03 from their original set of plates.

I chose the fern pattern in the middle left.

 

Using Konad special polish in White.

And added some diamantes for some bling/sparkle.

The finished result.

Simiple but pretty was the look I was aiming for.

Now for my nail polishes.  Here's the shot of the entire collection:

I even colour co-ordinated them (mainly because I was trying to buy more online & needed to make sure I didn't already have that colour:)

And here are the polishes by colour.

So as you can see I have a whole heap of combinations left to choose from :)

Have a great week

Nikki :o)

Red, Green & Silver - Double Christmas Nails..

After a busy two (or more like 4 now that I'm finally finishing this post!) weeks, Christmas is over and done with.  It's been busy, busy, busy so I've missed a post or two on here but this is a double post showing off my Christmas nails from the last two weeks to show off what nails I managed to get done.

Seeing as gold isn't really my colour, I went for Silver as my base coat & Red, Green & glitter for the designs.

Here's the silver I used for the base coat.  Wet 'n' Wild.  Its the first (and only) nail polish I won from a woman's magazine once back when I was about 14.  So pretty old but still works (due to being kept in the fridge).

I then painted green & red on alternating nails, on an angle across the tips (kinda like a french tip, but angled).

I used Konad special polish in green ($8.99 from a Korean Nail/accessory shop in Hamilton (its called Sexy Catz;)

And my favourite red, Dear Face from a cheap korean shop (W4000)

For the stamping designs I used Konad Plate M12 (the christmas one!), the middle left picture.  I'll upload a picture of the plate as soon as I get a chance to take pictures of my original plates.

And the colours I used were:

Konad special polish in Wine Red & Green.

As well as Silver glitter to add some sparkles.

And here's the finished result.

And here are my nails for Christmas day.

I used the same red & green as above, but used LA Girl Cracked in Silver over the top.

Hope your christmas was good, mine involved too much food & chocolate as well as lots of time with the family :)

Nikki

:o)

Edit 16/01/12 Here's the christmas plate now that i've finally taken pics of all my plates :)