First Christmas Nails Of The Year!

Hi guys! How are you going? Can you believe it's already December (Well almost). I've already put my Christmas tree up (I am usually one to wait until December 1st, but for some reason, living here in the UK, everyone is so much more excited about Christmas, very early into the ber months ...So I gave in lol). My snow-flocked tree is from Marks & Spencer and it's super small and very cute. 

My nails matched my tree perfectly with the bauble colours. I'm wearing 2 coats of Max Factor - Burgundy Crush (my absolute favourite winter-y red shade ever) and 1 coat of Mavala - Magic Circus; a glitter mix of red, green, silver and gold glitters, followed by 1 coat of Glisten & Glow topcoat. I love this combination - it's so Christmas-y!

Negative Space Nails

Hey guys! Today I have some super easy and cute negative space nails. I used 1 coat of Biosculpture Gel #167 with tape covering the cuticle area, followed by 1 coat of G&G. I love this look, it looks so gorgeous on long nails, but also works well on short nails to make them look longer.

Orly - Flash Glam Winter Collection 2013

Hi everyone! Today I have 2 new colours to show you from Orly's new Flash Glam Winter collection! Today I will be showing you Rockets Red Glare and Atomic Splash. Check out the promo pic below for more info!

 

Rockets Red Glare* is a clear base with very small and large red glitters. Nothing complicated to it! Gorgeous and striking over black (which they recommend you layer all these colours over!) Shown here is 1 coat layered over 1 coat of OPI - Black Onyx.

Atomic Splash* is a clear base with very small and large gunmetal glitters. 1 coat layered over 1 coat of OPI - Black Onyx. 

The formula on these weren't very good to be honest. It was super runny and the glitters fell to the bottom of the bottle leaving the clear suspension at the top. Perhaps a bad batch but let me know if anyone else has this problem? Other than the formula I think they are great glitters and I love the effect it gives over a black or dark colour. Will you be purchasing any colours from this new collection? Let me know below! Thanks for reading

Artsy Wednesday - Jelly Sandwich

Hi guys!! Today's Artsy Wednesday theme is jelly sandwich! For those of you who don't know what exactly a jelly sandwich is, it is where you generally layer quite sheer jelly-like polishes with glitter and it usually ends with another layer of the jelly on top of the glitter to dull the shine, but it gives some amazing depth!

Today's theme fell coincidental with this new polish by Essie I was wearing called Leading Lady (which is part of their new winter 2012 collection). It is a really gorgeous red jelly with red glitter in it. Without being a typical jelly sandwich, it already looks like one, but without all the extra layers.. bonus!

I used 2 coats here, but it could have easily gone with 1 coat. I noticed the red jelly went darker in colour after two coats. I applied 1 coat of Wicked Fast on top.

Seriously gorgeous colour, but is a pain in the bum to remove unless you use the PVA method! Thanks for reading and don't forget to check out these lovely ladies partaking in todays theme!

Michelle - Lab Muffin

Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish

Maria - Maria's Nail Art

Tif - Polished Genius 

Catrine - Unnaked Nails

Me - Nail and Polish

Jessica - Beauty Gnome
Emily - AnAccentNail
Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished
Jean - Lacquered Lunatic