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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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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Blue Moons

So today I've got another little idea inspired by my born pretty glequins. I started with two layers of my blue Nails Inc mini from the "Flutter and Paint" gift set I got for £2 from TK Maxx. Bargain! I then used my dotting tool to place the glequins one at a time over my Barry M top coat to stick them down. I then finished off the moon shape with a line using my nail art pen from Topshop.

 

I've had it on a couple of days now and it's lasted well. I also tried out my new Sally Hansen Dry Kwik for this design and it worked a treat. It's not a thick top coat it's consistency is water like but it does the trick.

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Pretty with Pink Clingfilm

Inspired by a clingfilm tutorial I read a while back. I used Superdrug's cheap light pink MUA Natural Days and a little Marks and Spencers Bright Pink from a set I got a while back. Then topped off with a new Barry M glitter I got called Pink Sapphire Glitter. It's awesome, I'm really into my glitters that have different sized pieces of glitter in them at the moment. They're gorgeous and I have loads to try out! So here's some pics;

First is before I added the glitter;

Serious love for this, it lasted a fair few days with my Barry M top coat on and the glitter wasn't actually that stubborn to get off! I will definitely be doing this again with different colours.

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