Quick Tip

Just a quick tip tonight! If you are trying to remove glitter nail varnish and it won't come off, because it never does, then apply some nail varnish remover to some cotton wool as normal. Wrap the cotton wool around your nail the wrap the cotton wool in some tin foil. Leave it for a couple of minutes while the nail varnish remover lifts the glitter off!

Yay! Glitter nail varnish be gone!

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NOTD to brighten up a Monday

Just a quick post to brighten up the dreaded back to work Monday! And I mean how can you not have a smile on your face with the models own Southern Lights!

I think I would have to rate this as my favourite glittery nail polish to date! I just applied 2 coats on to my nail which I had primed with Sally Hansen base coat then 2 coats of the models own Southern Lights and I finished it off with 2 coats of my Seche Vite top coat!

My boyfriend bought me this nail varnish for Christmas and he did a good job!

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Nude Nails with Christmasy Black Sparkly Tips

So today I have decided to do a sort of step by step how I did my nails like this guide! 

So as you can see my natural nails are very stained because I wear nail varnish pretty much 100% of the time! Nearly all of the time I use base coat but on this one occasion I didn't and my nails got stained! So always wear base coat! So I started by shaping my nails with a very fine nail file as they only needed a touch up they didn't need to much re shaping or re sizing.

Next I gave my nails a gentle buff with a buffer block I got really cheap from superdrug and then applied my base coat. My most recent base coat is Sally Hansen miracle nail thickener, I don't think it does what it says it does but it is strong and if your just wearing the base cost it's nice and shiny, I would probably buy it again but not to thicken my nails! It's the one with the purple bottle and gold lid!

Next I applied one quite tick coat of miss sporty in a nude shade. It is number 24 it's one I have blogged about before, I really like it and 100% recommend it if you on a budget!

Once that had dried I followed the shape of my nails edge and painted it black, this was actually a massive pain in the arse as both of my black nail varnishes I've had for ages and ages and ages and they were both really thick and hard to work with but I'm sure if you had a thinner nail varnish that you would find the task of following the shape of your nails very easy! Before you do this you could tape up the sides of your nails as it gets very messy escically when you paint your hand your not so good at. I think taping up your nails is a complete waste of time and once your nails are 100% dry just soak them in some warm water for 5 minuets and give them a gentle brush with a nail brush or at the end of a bath or shower and all the varnish on your fingers will be gone!

Once the black was dry you could just stop there as they look really nice. I applied one layer of top coat before I went on to the next stage, as I wanted something a bit more glittery and special! So I used the BarryM special effects limited addition glitter that I got a couple of years ago in a sale, it's still going strong, and applied that to the very edge of my nails!

So once the glitter had dryed, I put on two coats, I applied another layer of top coat. Seche Vite is my favourite glossy top coat I have ever come across in my whole life, no exaggeration! It makes any nail varnish I apply stay on for a week plus and I'm convinced it's the only reason my nails are so long. As you can see it's really messy around the edge of my nails where I've been a bit heavy handed.

So as I said earlier I just waited till all my nail varnish was dry, Seche Vite makes it touch dry really fast but it's not really 100% dry on the lower coats so I waited a couple of hours then soaked my nails for a couple of minuets rubbed them with the nail brush and here is the final result! 

 

I hope you have enjoyed this, if you try it out then you should send me a picture! Don't forget to follow my blog. I'll have lots of Christmas sparkly nail designs coming up and some product reviews on my current skin care and just lots of other bits and bobs really! 

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Prom Look No.2 Purple and Silver with Glitter

So here is the second of my prom nail designs! Its a silver and purple design with small and large glitter chunks! I saw a design a bit like this on another blog, I can't remember what one, and made a variation of it!

The finished look

So to get this design I started with a lilac nail polish I had already had on my nails for a couple of days which had stared to chip around the edges.  I used a silver nail varnish and painted them with 3 separate strokes starting at different points on the nail.to achieve this 'cloud' type of effect. I think you could just stop here and maybe put an outline colour on as I think it would make it look a bit more finished.

Painting the 'Clouds'

Next I used a hair pin to dot a 'blob' of nail varnish above the cloud type effect and then dragged the 'blob' of nail varnish down to the rest of the silver nail varnish so it is all joined together. If you can make the line thinner it looks better but it is quite difficult to do this with the hair pin. If I had a small detail brush or a nail art pen this would have been much easier and cleaner! Although this was not to had to do, the lines are just a bit uneven which I don't mind but some people do!

Joining the Dots

Once I had done this I painted glitter on the bottom half of the silver chunk of nail, this doesn't need to be steady or neat you can just do it quite roughly. I have used a fine glitter to do this as I want it to shimmer on the edge of my nail and not to be to noticeable.

Adding the Fine Glitter

Finally I used a chunky glitter and put it on the dots. you could also use rhinestones or you could leave them blank. the larger chunks of glitter are shown in the top picture. This look was easy and quick to do. I think it looks much more skilled than it actually is and would be a perfect look for a lilac/purple prom look!

Also as a bit of extra news I am currently on a 'healthy living plan' = DIET!!! Its really hard work, iv been eating healthy and cutting back and exercising. I might start doing some posts about that, ill see how it goes! 

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New Topshop Nail Polish

So here is my latest addition to my Topshop Nail Polish collection! This on is called Gypsy Night, I got it for Christmas from my boyfriend. Iv worn it a couple of times before I decided to do this blog as I wanted to test out the quality. I really like this one and I wore it for 3 days before there were any chips in it (which i think is really good, specially with a dark colour) What I really love about it though is that the glitter in it is multicoloured! I think it shows up really well in the picture but in real life it is very subtle. the only bad thing about this nail varnish is that is is quite translucent, Iv had to apply 3 or 4 thick coats to achieve this coverage. 

Top tip!!! Paint your nails before you are having a shower or bath (make sure you leave plenty of drying time) at the end of your shower gently rub your nails with a nail brush and all the paint you have applied on your skin (like mine) will just rub off with ease! 

I don't like to use a cotton bud in nail varnish remover as i always manage to mess them up by applying the remover onto part of the nail which I want the varnish on. 

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Finished result in Gypsy Night 

Glitter nails

So I painted my nails with this Rimmel nail varnish I got for Christmas in Azure... It is a long lasting one and it did last quite a while! I think I had it on for 4 days before any chipped, the chip I did get was a huge one on my middle finger. I then painted my ring finger in clear nail polish and sprinkled some of my Topshop multi purpose glitter onto my nail with a cotton bud. When it had dried I then re coated it with clear nail polish to keep the glitter in place!

I hope you are all having a great new year and have kept your new years resolutions! Mine are to drink less and eat more healthy... I am failing miserably!

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