This is an incredibly subtle stamping. Perhaps too subtle. I was going to use Barry M Plum, but did a swerve at the last minute and picked up Eternal Beauty, the purple holographic Color Club polish from this year’s new collection. You can’t really see the holographicness (is that a word?) in the photo, but […] Read more
This is my first (successful) full manicure water marble. Before I started blogging, I attempted a water marble manicure on all ten nails, but it was pretty rubbish because there wasn’t enough contrast in the colours I used, and I quickly removed it. I’ve also done one accent nail water marble, which I loved and […] Read more
Stamping is a great way to use my untried polishes. This time I’ve stamped with Essie Nothing Else Metals, which I bought from a local branch of The Original Factory Shop for just £1. Bargain, eh? Especially as I knew that it – like the rest of the Essie Mirror Metallics collection – was supposed […] Read more
This isn’t my best effort at stamping, but I like the colour combinations and the plate. I’ve used Konad plate M73 and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid Ruby to stamp over my Nails Inc You’re A Peach manicure. I bought a number of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes after reading that they stamp well, but I this […] Read more
I had some pretty bad tip wear on my nails and wanted to cover it up rather than do a whole new manicure, so I thought I’d do a glitter gradient. I’ve used a gold glitter from Claire’s. Now Claire’s don’t put the names of their polishes on their bottles – which really bugs me. […] Read more
I was going to be conventional (read boring) and was trying to find a matching light blue to go with L’Oreal Sky Fits Heaven, which I was already wearing. I had an idea to do outline nails because I’ve not tried them before. So I was looking through my swatch wheels trying to find a […] Read more
I had seen a lovely manicure on Pinterest using colours similar to this and done as a cloud manicure. I was going to recreate it exactly, but changed a couple of things. Firstly, the original creator had used Essie Mint Candy Apple. I’ve overdone the mint a bit recently and wanted to try it with […] Read more
I bought three of the Barry M nail art pens last week – in white, silver and black. I have been itching to try them out, so I added to my W7 Sunset Island manicure with some tiger stripes. I’m really not the best freehand artist there is – and these still aren’t that great […] Read more
Until today I had lost my stamping mojo a bit. Every time I’ve tried stamping recently, it was a complete disaster. So I had been put off it. Today though, I received my first ever bottle of proper stamping polish. I can’t believe I’ve waited this long to buy it. It works far better than […] Read more
This is my first splatter manicure. And I can confirm that it was a lot of fun to create. I used Barry M Matte White and Essie Orange, It’s Obvious over the top of my previous Ciate Power Dressing manicure. After laying down lots of newspaper and taping up my nails, I dipped a straw […] Read more