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)

This weeks nails and a few other designs from recently...

Hi all

So am back from my mini road trip down South to finish out a busy week of work (and packing) before moving on to a friends place. But I've still found time to do my nails, of course! Went for simplicity and wanted an image from the 2013 Bundle Monster plates - havn't had much of a chance to play around with them yet.

Picked purple for my colours - going with Barry M Chameleon for the base coat & Klean colour mini in Metallic Purple for the stamping.

I then used the cute smilies from the collection (BM-304)

And the final product:

Quite proud of myself, starting to get neater with my basecoat painting :D

Only thing was can't put on a top coat - attempted after these pics and both my clears changed the basecoat colour to dark purple and smudged the smilies. Guess thats what I get for using a polish taht changes colour in hot and cold haha.

Here's a few more pics.

Base colour before stamping (looks more silver than purple, must be because hands are warm for once!)

Other hand.

And here's a roller derby mani I did for a game the other month - got a lot of comments from my fellow BRDG league members :D

I did the following on each finger:

Pivot stripe on Ring finger (had to make my own 'stamp', used double layer of cellotape on the back of a plate to create a stripe).

Freehanded a roller skate on my middle finger.

 Lightening bolts on my pinkie, just cause they are cool :D (BM-305)

 A Jammer star on my pointer. (BM05)

And on my thumb stamped the word Derby. (m18 & m17)

And a pic at the actual bout (we were sitting in the suicide seats for the first game;)

Hope you liked them.  

Till next week.

Nikki :o)

Once Upon a Time Challenge - Day 7 Mirror Mirror, On The Wall....

Hi all

Day 7 of the Once Upon a Time challenge - Mirror Mirror, On the Wall. I decided to go for a pretty simple mani cure as Wednesdays are my busy day (as have no free time until 7pm, tonight it was 8pm, lucky me!).

I used Black and Silver for base coats (came in a £2 pack from a super store round here, completely unbranded bottles) plus Konad Special Polish in Black & White.

I then attempted to create a Frame on each nail to represent the mirror (with the idea that I would stamp a picture in each mirror). After a lot of experimenting with different stamps, I finally found a pattern and square shape that I thought would work.

But it still didn't look as good as I'd imagined so I scrapped the mirror idea and just stuck with the faces.

Thought they turned out pretty cute :)

Here's a close up of each nail.

The idea behind it is the mirror has a face - and I'm showing all it's possible faces and emotions :)

Hope you liked them - thinking I'll start my princess nails early so can plan them out & get something I'm happy with.  Also apologies for bad photography - it's almost 10pm here and I can't get good pics in the darkness!

Make sure you check out the other girls (they are doing all sorts of free handing - way harder than the stamping I stick to).

Taya

Mateja D.

Moonchild

Milena Vanchoska

Yecats 

Samantha Ann 

Fulya 

Always Polished Nails

Nikki x