Accessorize Coraliscious with gold glitter Accent nail

Ahhhhhhhh, an oldie but a goody; strong colour with a glittery accent nail:)

IRL the Coraliscious is much more eye-catching - almost neon! The accent nail was a couple of coats of Models Own Ibiza Mix, a mix of blue/green and gold glitter, topped with Barry M Yellow Topaz Glitter, my newest rediscovery:)

P.s - still on my hols peeps, this is scheduled x

Geometric nails with nudey bits!

So yesterday was AWESOME! Got up as usual, cursing my alarm clock, got showered and dressed, staggered to work and then.................our heating had gone so we had to go home! Just like a dream:) 

So I headed home (devastated, of course, by the idea of being able to nap and eat cheese all day - heh heh heh) and decided to try something new with my nails. My recent history has mainly involved glitter/tape/glitter and tape so after a bit of Pinteresting (my new thing!) I found a colour combination I loved - coral, baby blue, white and gold and decided to have a go at something a bit geometric.

The original design I found was a bit more abstract than this, but regular followers will know that I struggle with abstract and like order!

I've always been shy of showing any of my naked nail, but after several attempts at this manicure with nude/pink colours at the base, and it looking a bit weird, it seemed I would have to bite the bullet. And surprisingly  it didn't make me want to cry. In fact, I kind of liked it!  

I used Matt White, Gold Foil Effect and Blueberry Ice Cream by Barry M, and Coraliscious by Accessorize. I used very skinny striping tape to outline the blue and coral areas, as I don't have proper brushes for that sort of thing. The gold, glitter and black stripes were free hand (and amazingly, both hands were okish, despite the freehanding!). I'm pretty chuffed with these and also pleased that my naked nail base didn't seem to scare anyone too much!

Hope you guys enjoy the rest of the week - make sure you wear sunnies next time you log on here, the Models Own glitters are being swatched as we speak, and boy do they shine! 

Dots and stripes!

Greetings peeps. Hope you've had a good Monday (if such things exist!). I had a manic, but fun, day, especially after getting several compliments for my new nails. I got inspiration for this from Prima Creative, which features some amazing designs. After a breif fling with various other nail polishes, I have returned to my favoured Barry M cherubs for this design. I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the base coat (a bit salmony looking and too chalky) but with these colours it stands out:)

Presenting tape and dots mani - the first of many I think:)

Shiny glitter gradient!

Howdy peeps. Hope you're all having a lovely weekend. I had a lovely family daytrip to Bath yesterday, and spent a very long time in fancy shops that made me wish I could quickly flog a kidney and afford some nice things! Anyway, I did go to Waterstones and bought far too many books and also an insane amount of stickers from the world's greatest shop, Paperchase. I love somewhere where I can buy pointless but cute stickers, adorable pencils etc. I don't think I'll ever get over my love of stationary! Anyway, back to nails....

I've been rocking this manicure for several days now, and I love it! I knew that Coralicious and Molten Copper (from my Accessorize haul)  were born to be together. I haven't tried a glitter gradient before, so I decided this was it. And....I kind of love it. It certainly wasn't perfect, as it was done late at night, but I feel it worked. It sort of reminds me of fire, which then got me thinking about Game of Thrones and missing it.....but that's my other geekiness coming through. Anyway, what d'ya reckon? 

Geometric nails

Ok, this is weird; because I am so crazy busy, I know that I won't have time to post the nails I've just done soon, so I've scheduled this post; so it feels kind of like I'm talking to the future as I type this. Hello future mes and future yous! Lol:) Anyway, first things first, new polishes. I went to Superdrug yesterday and noticed that they stock the Accessorize nail polishes and that they were 2 for £5! Good work Superdrug. I've only bought one Accessorize in the past and loved the colour and application, so I was very excited. As I was with my bf I was very restrained and only bought 4. Bf thought 4 was too much, I thought I'd been very good. Anyway, behold! 

L to R; Molten Copper, Dream, Aztec, Coralicious

I'm very excited about using these. I'm dying to use Dream, it's got a really dense small blue glitter with larger pieces of purple glitter in as well:) Glitter heaven! Anyway, I was already wearing my new fave polish (Pray by Models Own) so  decided to incorporate the Coralicious into a geometric design. I love tape manis, I always find they work really well for me:) And the straight organised lines work well for my OCDness. 

Ha ha - hand butterfly:)

My lovely bf helped me by taking the photos, hence both my hands are featured! I really love this colour combo, unusual for me as I usually prefer softer pastel shades. Maybe I'm changing like the seasons.....but that's a deep question and I need to go to bed. Let's hope this scheduling malarky works:) Toodle pip!