Summer Swirls

Me again! I'm trying to get back into the habit of posting frequently because I have LOADS of backlogged designs that I need to share with you all. Today, I share my current nails, as advised by some other gloriously awesome polish ladies I had a little trip to Superdrug who have 3 for 2 on all cosmetics. How could you say no??? I bought Barry M Gelly Papaya and Dragon Fruit and the new white nail art pen. Then I bought some cheap MUA polishes because I got some glitter pots for my birthday and I fancied having a play with making some DIY polishes :) I shall post those results next!

In the meantime I introduce you to Barry M Papaya Gelly - two coats and some swirls with my new pen, in white. Pretty simple design but I wanted something bright and summery.

As much as I like the almost-neatness of these, I can't say the same for the left hand. Hahaa.

And below, just the awesomeness of Barry M gellies. I need to get more of these in my life, I now only have three!! 

My purchases;

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Birthday Beauties

So it was my birthday last Sunday, 5th May, make a note for next year! In celebration of this I went out for a meal on the Saturday with Uni friends to Bodean's on Poland Street in Soho followed by drinks in Leicester Square. It was really quite a lovely evening. The following day I met some more friends for a day out at London ZOO! Such an awesome day.

Anyway, back to the nails, so my birthday nails were done to match my outfit for Saturday night. My flatmate Beth wanted to do the same so I did her nails to match her outfit too. So mine were Monochrome and Beth's were Leopard print. Have a look;

Mine's the left hand, obviously, and Beth's the right. For my monochrome I used 2 coats of Ion by Sally Hansen and block acrylic paint for the border which I painted on with a little nail art brush. I then topped it off with my Barry M top coat.

I've taken a picture with my Barry M black because I used it to fill in the tips which I accidentally chipped whilst getting ready. :)

These are Beth's gloriously manicured hands and my first attempt at leopard print nails. We used Barry M Mushroom for the base, then a gold crackle for the big splodges (why not, we didn't mind if it crackled a little bit) and then again using Barry M Black and a dotting tool to do the "brackets" as we called them.

And here we are in out glad rags before heading out. :D

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Glittered Teal

I have been super quiet and I am eternally sorry, it's been quite busy in my proper life recently but that is no excuse for neglecting. I've not been neglecting my nails quite as much but I have slowed in the frequency of adding new designs mainly because I've wanted to give my nails a break so they could breathe for a while. This is what I'm wearing at the moment and I'll gradually post the backlog up over the next couple of weeks and if I don't feel free to get on my case.

This is two coats of No.7 Teal and on my ring finger, one coat Teal and one coat of glitter from Claire's Accessories that the lovely Saz @mintnails got me for Christmas!

I was going for something quick and simple because I was going out and the design I tried before this smudged after about 10 minutes so I had to get rid :( I liked it too! Oh well I did manage pictures so I'll post that one next.

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Hexagon of the Silver Screen.

I'm back after a little tiny break and as celebration I thought I'd sit down and actually spend some time prettifying my nails. I'm very pleased with these! I don't normally go for having a different thing on every nail but I've been inspired by some of my fellow bloggers who have done something similar. You are all very talented and awesome and below is my attempt to pretend I even come a little bit close to being as talented as you are.

So I've used one of my favourite polishes as the base, it's Nail Pop Shade 11, Dove. I have this shade and Chino which is the nude version, absolutely love them, they're long lasting, really glossy, quick drying and they give a great full coverage after two coats. Next I used a nail art brush to do the stripes and covered my ring finger in full with Revlon's Silver Screen and finished them off with my Born Pretty hexagonal pieces of glitter. They're still quite subtle but I love the shine of Silver Screen and it looks awesome in all kinds of lighting! More pics to follow;

And below Nail Pop's Dove after two coats. Love it!

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Shiny and Suede

I was originally not going to post this until I had a bit more time but I have been tempted by the awesome posts of some notably talented people. Please click links at the side to see their awesome works of nailart. :)

So, today I went to an outlet shopping mall with my Mum and there was a Next! We popped in for a browse and I spotted nail varnishes! Dangerous. I didn't realise Next sold w7 but they had a huge range and a load of suede effect ones which I'd been meaning to try out (the effect mainly, not necessarily the w7 ones). Well I decided to treat myself - they were £2.50 each and I decided I liked the pink the best so I plumped for that one, but the brown and black looked gorgeous too, and the purple... ok they were all nice.

They're great after one coat but I went for two to start off with, they're great to the touch, matte but with a sort of metallic quality about them, if that's a suitable description. I wanted to do something else to it too, simple yet quite striking, and this is what I ended up with;

Below is with two coats of the w7 Pink Suede, before I used masking tape to create the top triangles. Unfortunately it's not a very forgiving polish as my nails are quite brittle at the ends at the moment and this is visible under this polish where it isn't normally with others.

The black I used for the top is Barry M, I used to two coats to fully cover the pink underneath before removing the masking tape. I'm yet to be 100% happy with any of my masking tape designs I think I may need to invest in some less dodgy tape because I always end up with sticky nails afterwards!

I like this, I love the colour of the Suede and I haven't had bright nails for a while so I'm going to see what the wear is like on this polish, hoping to get a couple of days at least.

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Lavender Glitter Clouds

This one is from a months ago and I've just got round to uploading the pictures so this is the one I'm posting next. It's three coats of Sally Hansen's Lavender Cloud and a "Chit Chat" from Poundland glitter gradient on top. I really like it, I love the glitter, it's made up of different coloured and sized pieces of glitter which stand out more on the lighter base coat.

It lasted quite a while too, was very chip resistant which I was pleased about because the glitter was only a cheap one. Would recommend definitely!

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