Double Triangle Nail Art

Hi guys! Today I have some simple nail art to share with you. I felt like doing something geometric for the weekend so I landed on this design! Super simple and easy but looks really cool too! I used 2 coats of Chanel - 623 Mirabella and then freehanded the triangles using Model Co - Oh My Goodness Greycious, followed by 1 coat of Glisten & Glow HK Topcoat. I hope you have a great weekend and enjoy the warmer weather (finally!).

 

Barry M Gelly Hi Shine - Chai

Hi guys! I hope you have all been well! Are you looking forward to the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring? Someone told me that when Daffodils start blooming in London it's a sign that Spring is almost upon us - and I can't wait (and a pleasant surprise to see so many daffodils blooming all over London as they're my favourite flowers!). Today I have a simple swatch of a colour that caught my eye in Superdrug by Barry M called Chai; a beautiful mid toned grey with blue undertones. I applied 2 easy coats with a fast drying topcoat (HK Girl Glisten & Glow). A perfect match for today's dreary grey sky. What are you all up to this weekend?

L'Oreal - Dark Side of Grey Collection

Hey everyone! I hope you are having a fabulous week and ready to have a great weekend! Today I will be showing you the L'Oreal Dark Sides of Grey collection. It seems grey is having a big comeback with nail polish which is great for me as my collection of greys were quite small! This collection includes 6 polishes; 2 mattes, 1 liquid sand and 2 textured glitters. I used 2 coats for each swatch shown below and had no difficulty with the formula or application. L'Oreal polishes retail for $7.95 from Priceline. Let's take a look at the collection!

 Aux Chandelles - A beautiful light grey cement creme. My favourite from the collection!

Do Not Disturb - A gunmetal shimmery metallic. This sparkles so beautifully!

Mademoiselle Grey - This is a darker blue/grey. My photos make it look a bit too dark.

Secret Wish - A gunmetal iron metallic. When I applied this polish I thought it was a bad batch because suddenly all these bubbles appear. It wasn't until I looked online at other swatches that I realised that was the intended effect. This is a big no go for me!

Totally D'Accord  - A dark navy base with gunmetal/blue glitters in it.

Which one is your favourite? Mine are Do Not Disturb and Aux Chandelles! Thanks for reading!

Artsy Wednesday - Inspired by Current Season

Okay. . . so today's nails aren't entirely "Spring-like", but nonetheless, they are pretty and they do look super cute with a spring outfit . . close enough?
For this look I started with 2 coats of Zoya - Caitlin (a simple yet sweet lilac toned grey) and then dotted on Zoya - Layla (pink satin...amazing!) on each nail but for the thumb I just changed the colours around. (Swatches and full descriptions of these colours can be found here

 Make sure you check out these lovely ladies and their design for today's theme right here:

Michelle - Lab Muffin

Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish

Maria - Maria's Nail Art

Tif - Polished Genius 

Catrine - Unnaked Nails

Jessica - Beauty Gnome
Emily - AnAccentNail
Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished  

 

I always seem to come back and use these 2 colours together, they look so perfect together! :) Also, I am holding a giveaway! If you want to win a $30AUD Beautybay.com gift voucher then enter here!

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OPI - 007 James Bond Swatches

Hi guys!! Today I have a few colours from the 007 James Bond collection to show you, and so far, I am very impressed and blown away!

First up, On Her Majesty's Secret Service; the most interesting mix of shimmers and micro glitters ever! It has a deep navy/purple base with a combination of red,silver, green, gold, blue micro shimmers. It is such an intense and interesting colour. It does best in 2 coats.

Secondly, The Living Daylights; a clear base jam packed full of silver, blue and apricot coloured hex glitters. Very densely packed. I used 1 coat here to show what it looks like, but this would look amazing in a jelly sandwich or over black.

2 coats of OPI - Black Onyx with 1 coat of The Living Daylights

Thirdly, and finally Golden Eye; an amazinggggggggggg gold fleck. Simple as that, but super dense and super amazingly bright when on your nails! This is 2 coats.

I hope you've liked these swatches and hopefully other colour swatches appear soon for your viewing!! Have a nice day and thanks for reading :)

 

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Artsy Wednesday - Dotting Tools Only

It's Artsy Wednesday again and I am super excited for today's theme! Dotting tools ONLY! (excluding painting on a base colour) This manicure was inspired by Katy @ Nailed It! Check out this tutorial here. The colours I used are:

OPI - Black Onyx (base colour)
OPI - Fiercely Fiona (off pastel yellow)
OPI - What's With The Cattitude (pastel blue)
Zoya - Caitlin (purple/grey creme)
Zoya - Layla (pink satin)

I alternated the colours on each nail. If you check out the above link for the tutorial I used you'll see how easy it is to do! I'm going to wear this mani for a good solid couple of days! Or until I get a more exciting idea in my head lol.

Here are the pics!

Don't forget to check out the other lovely ladies who are doing today's theme!

Michelle - Lab Muffin

Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish

Holly - Hooked!

Maria - Maria's Nail Art

Tif - Polished Genius

Lyndsey - Nails by Ms. Lizard
KaKa - KAKA Beauty Blog 

Catrine - Unnaked Nails

Jessica - Beauty Gnome

 

Thanks for reading and have a great day/night!

 

 

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Zoya - Caitlin & Layla

Hey guys! Today I have for you two amazing colours by Zoya! Caitlin is a stunning purple based medium grey creme and the formula is so good! I only previously owned 1 Zoya before I received these two. . and they are such good formulas!!! I can't wait to try more! Layla is a hot magenta pink creme that dries to a lovely satin-matte finish. This colour is so gorgeous! I used 2 coats for each of these and they dried really quickly!

Check these out!

Do you own any of these colours? I love them both! Can't wait to use both in a mani and try some contrasting dotting! Watch this space!

Thanks for reading! Have a lovely weekend!

 

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Artsy Wednesday - Greyscale

Hi all!! Today's Artsy Wednesday theme was really really tough..GREYSCALE! I only have 2 nail polishes that are slightly grey which is a surprise (i'll fix that soon) so I found trouble for my inspiration! I tried the best I could and hopefully you all approve that this mani has enough "grey" in it lol.. Anyways! What I used was 3 thin coats of OPI's It's totally fort worth it followed by A-England's Ascalon followed by SV. I tried doing a V-gap but the colour spread out too much and made it look like 1 colour lol!

Anyway, here are some photos!

This challenge was definitely out of my comfort zone but i'm super excited for next week's challenge. . . CANDY! YAY :D Thanks for reading!!