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Today, myself and Naileymabob (click for her matching post!) are showing off our London Fashion Week freebie! We got these in our goodie bags provided by LFW/Vodaphone (Naileymabob won the tickets through vodaphone). We were very happy to get a free nail polish, being nail art bloggers!!
So this is Vodaphone Red, by Nails Inc.
This polish, despite being bright red, is still quite jelly-like and see-through on the nail. Despite three coats, you can still see my "nail line" through it, and I think to get it how I'd like, I'd have to layer it over white.
I immediately decided to add some glitter (the fab I Will Rainbow On You by Nail Laquer UK) to try and hide the fact it was see through, which improved it!
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Gorgeous polish to show you tonight. I picked this one up after much deliberation at the Models Own bottleshop at the weekend. I'd been planning to pick up one or two from the Velvet Goth collection, but me and Naileymabob decided to take advantage of a 6 for £20 offer (three each) so I needed to pick something else. I settled with one of the Beetlejuice collection, called "Pinky Brown", which is exactly what it is!
This is two coats with a topcoat.
This polish is beauuuutiful! Look how it shimmers! I can't stop looking at my nails, and moving them about to see the different colours. (ignore the bits of blue in some of the pics, that's a reflection from my TV that I just noticed, haha)
While I was painting these, resting on the lid of my laptop on the arm of the sofa (as usual) I managed to drop the brush, getting a big gloop all down the arm of the sofa. The cream sofa. Ooooops.... acetone did a fab job of getting rid of it!
Anyway, fab shiny two-tone nails. Loooooooove.
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I've just come back from a really fab weekend (and have to go to work soon, boo!). My lovely friend Bob (Naileymabob) won two tickets to see a catwalk show at London Fashion Week, and invited me to go along! We were both intrigued to see what it was like, and although we didn't know the designer we were seeing, it was a fab experience in general!
We arrived and were taken to a V.I.P lounge (set up by Vodaphone, who ran the competition Bob won) and were given champagne and nibbles. Here's our nails for the occasion, we both used our neon studs from Born Pretty, but in different ways! We both received a goodie bag, and I joked it better have nail varnish inside. AND IT DID! We both got a special edition Nails Inc polish called Vodaphone Red. Myself and Bob will be showing it off on our blogs during the coming week so keep a look-out for that.
Then there was the show, quite short, but there was some really nice dresses. They were very monochrome, which will inspire some future nails! All the models had either black, white or blue nails. Here's a snap from the catwalk, quite a few of my pics blurred but this one didn't. They all had awesome hair too!
Walking round Somerset House (the venue) was great, everyone was dressed really awesomely, and we saw some sights! After the show we headed over to Westfield Stratford for some shopping & food. We excitedly visited the Models Own bottleshop - here's a piccie:
And we treated ourselves using the 6 for £20 offer, getting three each. We spent ages choosing, but in the end we both picked two of the Velvet Goth collection (the blue and green each) and some others. You can see Ibiza Mix in the pic below but in the end I went and swapped it (the lady was very nice and understanding!!) for another Velvet Goth like Bob.
Lastly, here's the nails I had for LFW. I freehanded the leopard print, and the studs (pointy and neon, from Born Pretty) were each applied by hand. None fell off with a good few coats of topcoat (apart from one spike on the train home). Sorry for the pic quality, all of these in this post were taken on my phone!
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My stud/goth nails are no more, as two of the studs pinged off while I was out today! Also, I find that matte nails tend to show up marks/dents more obviously, so they were starting to irritate me that they were no longer flawless! Plus I needed something a bit less gothic ready to go back to work tomorrow.
So this is my new purchase - Cinderella by Sinful Colors. It's my first one of this make and I picked it up last week - not sure what drew me to it, but I do remember seeing Sammy of the Nailasaurus use it a while back and I loved it. At only £1.99 it was a total bargain, and it applies beautifully. And I love the name!
This is a pale blue polish with a lovely shimmer in it. I first just went ahead with three coats over bare nails, but didn't like that it was still semi-see-through:
So I took it all off started again, this time over a base of white. I then added two coats of Cinderella. To liven it up a bit I took the opportunity to play with my neon studs again (from born pretty). Wanting it to remain subtle, I just added one blue stud to each nail.
Here's some pics with/without flash as it was hard to capture the exact colour and the shimmer!
Didn't have much time to do these nails, which is why they're quite simple! Decided to go for gothic because hopefully going to Whitby tomorrow, and that has lots of gothic/dracula connections! I also wanted to try out my new matte black BK polish!
So this is two coats, with Born Pretty silver studs :-)
And here it is shiny, because I had to add a coat of clear to stick the studs on! Added another coat of matte in the end though.
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Tomorrow I am going to London, and my very lovely boyfriend told me he'd gone online and bought two tickets for my all-time favourite musical, Wicked. Very excited as I've not seen it since the beginning of the year, so there'll be new cast members in all the main roles - looking forward to seeing what they are like, and just re-living the magic again. Such a fab show, amazing songs, but also beautiful costumes and sets and lighting, which inspired these nails.
I decided to create some Wicked-themed nails for the show tomorrow, and also because my boyfriend asked if I was going to (he knows me well).
As I've said before I'm not great at actually drawing things, so I didn't want to try and recreate the logo or try and draw a witches hat or anything, because I knew I wouldn't be satisfied with the outcome. As I mentioned, the costumes on-stage are great, so sparkly and so much attention to detail & I wanted my nails to reflect this.
Here are all the things I used:
From L-R;
Insta-Dri - Sally Hansen
Hot Stuff - Models Own
Dancing Queen - Models Own
Silver Holo - Seventeen
Grapefruit - Barry M
Grass Slipper - Sally Hansen
Glitterball - no7
& at the bottom;
2x pots of pink glequins - born pretty
dotting tool with blue-tac for picking up rhinestones!
rhinestone wheel - poundland
The
main two characters for anyone who's not seen the show are The Wicked
Witch of the West (Elphaba) and the Good Witch (Glinda) - see above! All of
Elphaba's costumes are dark, and her skin is green! My first two fingers
keep this in mind with the combination of green and sparkle. Glinda loves pink and glitter, and all of her costumes are SO sparkly. I used these in my ring and little finger. My thumb has a mixture of green and pink glitter.
My favourite nail is the little finger with all the glequins - it's so sparkly when I move my fingers about! You can't really tell in the pics because of how the light catches them, but I used a random mixture of dark and light pink glequins. Here's lots more pics because I couldn't decide which ones were best! X
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Today's manicure is inspired by the pattern on this dress that I saw recently in New Look! I love different tribal-style patterns and the effect they create, so this was another one I wanted to recreate on my nails. To make it a bit different from my previous tribal designs, I decided to do only half of each nail.
I used:
Pretty In Peach (Seventeen)
Spearmint (w7)
To match in with the pale green and pale peach in the dress.
After painting my nails alternate colours and letting them completely dry, I used the black and white Barry M nail art pens <3 to divide each nail down the middle then doodle on different parts of the pattern.
