Hello!
I've done some Halloween nails - I know it's not Halloween yet but there's been spooky nails all over Instagram for the past few weeks and I was desperate to do some myself - I love Halloween!
I had a lot of different designs in mind, hopefully I will get the chance to do one or two more, work permitting. For this one, I decided to start off with a base of Minty Madness by Polish Me Silly. I bought this gorgeous thermal polish a few months ago, and it's so pretty - perfect for Halloween I think. It goes green when cold and white when warm. In this mani I've used two coats of white, then two coats of Minty Madness.
Once this was all dry I used the Barry M nail art pen to freehand these bats over the top - I practiced the shape on paper a couple of times first so I knew what I was drawing! They're not all perfectly even but I like the overall effect. And I can't stop looking at my nails to see what colour they are!
Here's a few more pics of them in varying stages of warmth - the pictures tended to bring out the white, although they are more usually green as my hands are usually cold!
Hello!
Today I've got lots of pics of my other Polish Me Silly purchase. This is Minty Madness, a mint-to-white thermal and I've been after it for ages!!! It doesn't disappoint, it's stunning and I couldn't stop looking at it all day.
In these photos I'm wearing two coats of Minty Madness over two coats of white.
It's green when cold and white when warm. A lot of the time it was a beautiful gradient! I wore this yesterday when I went to see Wicked - the colour was quite suitable for the occasion! Heres loads of pics from various points in the day...
Today I've got a really pretty polish to show off. This is Secret Admirer by F.U.N Lacquer. I actually borrowed it from Naileymabob, who purchased it from Rainbow Connection. She was so generous to lend it to me as she'd only just got it, and was wearing it on the day we met up - but as soon as I said how much I liked it she let me borrow it - yaaay!
This polish is sparkly and thermal. It's red when cold, and white when hot. I think I applied two coats for this - it was a few weeks ago when I actually wore it, and the weather was so cold that it hardly ever went white!
I think if I wore it again, I'd wear it over a base coat of white polish, as when it got warm, the white colour it changed to was quite see through and you could see my nails underneath! It's still a stunner though, I loved the massive difference between hot/cold and how quickly it changed.
You can see Naileymabob's post about this polish here.
Here's a variety of pics from both my camera and my phone - I've put them in order of cold (red), pics of it transitioning, and pics of it hot (white) - achieved by putting my nails under the tap!
Hello! I've got a beautiful polish to show off today. I've actually being wearing this since Friday night and it's still absolutely perfect. This is Fairy Lights, a thermal polish by UK indie maker Nails Inspire. A thermal polish is one that changes colour with heat. This one is white when warm and pink when cold.
I decided to wear it this weekend because me and my awesome friends have been to London for a day out, so I thought the colour change would work well as we'd constantly be inside and outside. The polish seems to stay white if I am indoors (shop, cafe etc) and it's reasonably warm (although as I'm typing now nails are mostly pink cos the heating hasn't kicked in yet - brr!) ... and pink when outside. What I loved most was the beautiful gradients created by a change in temperature!
I decided to layer this polish over white. I did this to try and maximise colour change, and it did work! My nails were pure white when warm, and bright pink when cold. However, layering it over white meant that whilst when my nails were white/warm, they looked flawless, when they were pink/cold, there were tiny bits around my nail that I'd missed with the thermal polish that would still be white! That's my fault for not applying it carefully enough, but as it was white when I was applying it, it was difficult to see any missed spots.
I also added a topcoat of Sally Hansen's Insta-dri to give a smoother finish as the glitter left the polish a little gritty (which is usual for glitters)!
The glitter in this polish is beautiful, and plentiful! It's a gorgeous mix of pink and blue in different sizes. It's such a fab idea to have glitter in with the thermal, it really makes the polish individual, and really pretty to wear even without the colour-change aspect!
I also love it because pink, white and glittery are my absolute favourite colours for my nails at the moment, so there is no point where I'm wearing this polish and I'm not keen on the look of my nails. My only other experience of thermal polishes was a purple/blue one from born pretty. That one didn't work nearly as well, and the two colours weren't really my type of colour polish. It also peeled off so quickly. I've not had any similar problems with this one.
Pics! This is yesterday morning before I set off, warm at the base and cold at the tips. A lovely gradient, they ended up like this a lot throughout the day!
Another shot of them warm - I adore the glitter over the white! It looks so wintery!
I took this yesterday night when I was walking in London - it was very cold and my nails reflected this - fully pink! They were like this most of the time I was outside but I was too chilly to take lots of pics!
My thumb with a pretty gradient!
This is like a reverse gradient - I was freezing so had my hand clenched with the tips of my nails dug into my palms - which meant the tips got warm and they ended up like this!!
Luckily, Kim of Nails Inspire is restocking her Etsy page at some point tonight, if you want to get your hands on one of these xmas thermals. As well as this pink one, there's a really pretty, wintery blue/white, and definitely a few others.
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