NOTD featuring Revlon Gold Coin and OPI Extravagence

Hi All!

Today I am back in the land of the living and not feeling so zombiefied with my new routine, I won't go into it too much here but basically I wake at 5.30 leave house at 6.30 train is at 7.30 get there at 8.30 work 9-5, train at 5.15 back in Edinburgh 6.15 and back in house after a bus journey at 7pm so yeah fun times! I am moving to Glasgow soon though so this is only temporary thankfully!!!

Anyway...here is my back to work mani, every single person I met complimented my nails that includes the 9 boys in my class!!!

I used my OPI Extravagence with my new Revlon Gold Coin on thumb and ring, and added freehand leopard print onto the gold! I love it have had it on since Sunday and don't want to take it off lol! I may try to get a 3rd day out of it or I might redo something tonight not sure yet, will see how I feel after dinner!!!

Until next time...

Loves and Hugs

Shel xx

NOTD featuring Barry M Blue Moon

Hiya!


This was a forerunner for my Back to Work mani but I decided it was too plain and I needed something with a bit more pizazz :D 



Barry M Blue Moon, this is 3 coats and its still a little sheer, I think formula wise this is very thin compared to other Barry M's I have



Then of course because I couldn't leave well enough alone here it is stamped...









I used Barry M Navy for the stamping


What I used

• Barry M Blue Moon
• Barry M Navy 
• Bundle Monster BM208

Thats it lovelies, very plain and simple :D Hope you like it! I will show what I chose for my back to work mani soon!

Until next time...


Loves and Hugs
Shel xx

Final Part of Nail Art Series plus Special Announcement!!!

Hi EVERYONE! 

Here is the final installment of my Nail Art Series inspired by Blogging friends. Every single girl I have done this for has been so so gracious and really got a kick out of it and that makes me all warm and gooey inside!

This one kinda decided it wanted to be a fail mani but I still think it turned out cute :D

This one was inspired by Jennifer over at TheExoticLacquer who is such a sweetie, go check her out if you haven't already!

I decided to use feathers and peacocks for this one and silver and purple polish to give the exotic feeling to it! The purple Jen may recognise as she gave it to me in a swap!

I used 

• Sinful Colors Fiji
• Poundland Silver (thee best silver I have ever tried!)
• Konad White
• Konad Black
• BM15

NOW....

Onto the mega second super duper part (well I think it is anyway...)

I am close approaching 300 followers and didnt want to do another giveaway for that, I wanted something my readers could properly participate in, this series just gave me the proper idea for it.

I am going to hold a contest now following on from this, a NAIL ART contest and the theme is my blog name...yes a little gratitous but hey ho I may as well saying as I had so much fun getting inspired by other blog names lol!

There will be a prize for this including 

• Revlon Facets of Fuchsia (Deborah Lippman Bad Romance Dupe)
• Colleen Green Eyeshadow Palette (a NEW one, I have showed a look done with this quad before)
• Mini Benefit Benetint
• Assortment of Sweeties
• And maybe more depending on funds

The rules are as follows

• Open INTERNATIONALLY
• Closes 30th September so just over 4weeks to get your entry in
• Must be your theme inspiration to my blog name, quite a broad range that you could do really ;) 
• Stamping/Freehand etc is allowed
• Entries must be emailed to me with your blogname, full name and pictures of the mani, can be one handed or two I don't mind. EMAIL address at Contact tab at top!
• You must have a valid email address for me to respond to so I can confirm you are in the contest and that I have received your pictures ok
• On the 30th when the contest closes, I will make a post with all the entries and open it to public voting for 1 week. I will add a poll so everyone can vote anonymously for their faves!

That's it guys I really hope you all enter and have fun doing so! I know I did when doing this series!

Loves and Hugs

Shel xx

New Nailart Series - Inspired by Bloggers! Pt4

Hiya!

Today as promised I am showing you all Part 4 of my series, this one again may not be guessed straight away but I had a lot of fun doing it. 2 years ago I don't think I could have imagined I would be wearing spiders,witches and webs on my nails lol!

Anyone got it? This is inspired by my good friend Sarah over at 

Spellbinding Nails! 

Obviously my inspiration came from the Spell part and I automatically think of Haloween when I think of her blog name :D

For this mani I used 

• Seche Clear basecoat
• China Glaze Life Perserver
• Konad Black
• Bundle Monster Plate BM13
• Stargazer topcoat

Thats all for today folks, tomorrow's post will be a makeup post

Loves and Hugs

Shel xx

New Nailart Series - Inspired by Bloggers! Pt3

Hiya! Here is part 3 of this weeks Nailart Series! I really enjoyed doing this one as I got to play with my new Bundle Monster plates hehe!

This one might be a bit harder to guess but when I see her blog this is more what I think of lol!

Any guesses?

This one is inspired by Neeka over at IntheLifeofaMILF!

Might not be obvious to all but this is my interpretation of a milf hehe, Princess crowns, killer heels, diamonds, kisses and bling!!!

For this look I used China Glaze Limbo Bimbo, stamped with Bundle Monster plates in Konad Black and White and for the pinky I used SallyGirl Silver Glitter

If you all want to know what plate numbers these are just leave a comment below and I will let you know :)

I have 2 more of these to do and I am loving every minute of doing them! When I show the last one I will be announcing something special so keep your eyes peeled for that ;) 

Loves and Hugs

Shel xx

New Nailart Series - Inspired by Bloggers! Pt 2

Hi girlies! 

I got an awesome response to the 1st part of this series yesterday I was so happy! I was really excited to start my second inspired mani so I got cracking straight away this morning hehe!!!

Ok this one should be fairly easy to guess! 

Got it yet?

Its inspired by good friend Megans blog! Painting Rainbows!!! I hope you like it Megan!!!

Heres another quick look at this mani, on the thumb I painted a brush with some paint dots, please excuse the brush I am poop at freehand lol! On my fingers I painted my base then used 2/3 blobs of each colour paint and a toothpick to flick out the edges of the blobs...yes highly technical here in my wee blog ;)

For this mani I used the following 

• Barry M Matt White
• Barry M Mushroom
• Art Club Striper in Black for the bristles and brush stripes
• LA Girl Flare
• Collection 2000 Hip Hop
• Collection 2000 Sherbet Lemons
• Collection 2000 Ninja
• Dr Remedy Baby Blue
• Sinful Colors Fiji

I hope you all like it especially Megan!

Loves and Hugs

Shel xx

New Nailart Series - Inspired by Bloggers! Pt1

Hi all!

I had an idea this morning while painting swatch wheels about a new mini nail art series I wanted to do!!! I am super excited about this as it includes some of my awesome blogging friends :D

The idea I had was to do a nailart series based on blognames! I have picked 5 bloggers who have names which I can easily make nailart designs for and right now you can see the first one!!!

Let's see if any of you can guess who it is ;)

Hmm let's see...a nice midnight blue colour, stars and galaxies...hmmmm

Anyone got it yet???

This design has been inspired by none other than Midnightmanicures!

Everyone please go and check Jeanie out, she is awesome and one of the sweetest people I have "met" in the blogging world <3

I used Barry M Navy, SallyGirl Silver Glitter, random silver glitter striper for the shooting star tail and little iridescent stars.

I have 4 more posts like this coming up and everyone is going to be a surprise! I really hope you enjoy them and please comment and let me know what you think :D

Loves and Hugs 

Shel xx

NOTD featuring 17 Fairy Cake

Hi all! 

Today I have another NOTD to show you all including some basic nail art, I hope you enjoy it!

Base polish is 17 Lasting Fix in "Fairy Cake" I love the name!

Then I added gradient effect dots using a dotty tool and white,grey and black polishes to my ring fingers and thumbs.

Another shot of the dots

Heres what I used - 

• Seche Vite base coat
• 17 in Fairy Cake
• Rimmel in Black Taxi
• Collection 2000 in Wham
• Barry M in Matt White
• Beauty UK topcoat
• Dotty Tool

 Hope you liked it :D

Loves and Hugs

Shel xx

NOTD

Hi my lovies! Today I bring another NOTD to you, this time using Avon Speed Dry+ in Rose Amour

Compared to my last Avon NOTD, I actually really like this one, the first pic isn't true to colour but the 2nd and 3rd are more like it. Its still not as bright as my usual style but definitely not bland :D

Close Up

This is 3 coats and you can still see somewhat of VNL but its not in your face obvious only when you look real close!

Cute pearls added on my ring fingers as accents. This polish had a shimmery underton of gold so its really very pretty in the light, unfortunately we are under a severe weather warning again here so no sunshiney pictures for me today!

Loves and Hugs 

Shel xx

Cookies!!!

Hi all

Last night I was bored and tried to do a Cookie Monster inspired free hand mani! I love how its turned out see below for pics, all fingers are cookies and the thumbs were the Cookie Monster :D

This was inspired by Cutepolish on YT don't want anything thinking I ripped them off!

Please be nice I am still getting used to painting free hand and with using small brushes :)

Shel xx

NOTD

Hi girlies!

Todays post isn't really a NOTD but an addition to the last one i had up, I tried free hand roses on my accent nail just to see if I could do them :)

I am not sure if they came out ok or not?

Shel xx

Another Question Answered (how I got into Nail Polish)...and NOTD featuring Instyle Candy

Ok so last week when I asked if anyone had any questions they would like me to answer, Susie requested that I talk about my love for nailpolish and how I got into it?

Well Susie here is your answer my dear :)

When I was little I was the biggest and I mean biggest tomboy but I didnt like getting dirty or anything like that haha but I always had my nails painted for some strange reason lol!
My mum wasn't the type that wore makeup everyday (only on special occasions) and she never wore nail polish (even to this day if you paint her nails she will pick if off straight away!)

I always had nail polish though cos I had one aunty who I seen regurlarly and always had her nails painted so I can only assume that is where my nail polish obsession came from lol!

I always used to watch her and want to copy her, my actual need for my own polish and stuff i reckon came around the time I started high school and seen everyone else having all their own stuff so thats where it really took off I reckon.

I was never really a collector as such I just grabbed whatever nail polish I liked the look of and once I got fed up with it, I gave it away or threw it away.
Before I moved over here to Edinburgh all my nail stuff was given to my sister, so I came to edinburgh with a french manicure set of polishes and that was it! Now I am starting afresh and learning so many new things I am loving it, it feels like a new beginning and I am happy with that...

I want to get to learn how to freehand nail art and do more Konad, I am currently compiling a mental wishlist of which brands I wanna try and such aswell :)

Well I think that is my nail polish history all up to date, I hope you enjoyed reading!

Shel xo

ps - I thought I would put todays manicure picture in here aswell saying as we are on the topic of nail polish :)

NOTD featuring Collection 2000

Heres my tiger print konad attempt, using collection 2000 nail polishes.
I done this straight after my entry to the spring nail contest as I dont think that design was too wearable for work tomorrow lol!

Shel xo

I have entered

I have entered my first nail art contest over here
I am not able to show my entry until the voting is open for the contest so I will show you a pic of my inspiration and then once voting is open you can all see then :)

Shel xo

Having a play part 2

Heres my first time trying with my finger nails, definately not perfect but all the fun is in the practicing I like it all the even if the flowers are crooked in every nail apart from my thumbs haha!

Shel xo

Feet of the week featuring Fauxnad

Heres my first Konad attempt! Love it...ps ignore the toes just look at the nails haha!

Shel xo

NOTD featuring Avon

Heres todays MOTD! I really dont like the way it has lasted, I only painted this last night and even used the top coat over the tip of the nail and as you can see its still chipped off :(

If anyone wants to know the white is again from my Avon Manicure set, the blue is Collection 2000 Showoff and and the black colour is Collection 2000 Intense, its actually glittery and more blue/grey.

I want to say again that I am grateful for all the followers I am getting everyday I have at least 1 or 2 newbies to my follow list I love it :)

I am planning a giveaway at 50+ followers so stay tuned :)

This week I have been getting loads of inspiration from other blogs, and the famous Google Images and definately plan some more posts soon...organisation...hauls...stashes...more reviews...OOTD...makeup...etc LOL! please stay with me :)

Shel xo

NOTD featuring Collection 2000 Sherbet Lemons

So here is today's fresh mani! I love it! Again this was a really simple design to do and the trusty hair grip came back into playlol :)

I used Collection 2000 Sherbert Lemon all over the nail then added a blog (technical word!) of Collection 2000 Big Hair to the corner of the nail and used the hair grip to drag out from the blob!

As you can I didnt do both hands the exact same, on the left i put the blob at the bottom right of the nail and on the right i put the blob on the top right just to have it a bit different looking :)

Any questions feel free to ask :)

Ps - Can I just say thankyou to everyone that has commented and followed my blog, since saturday I have gotten 15 followers! Its very much appreciated :)

Be Back Soon with some reviews I think

Shel xo

NOTD featuring Collection 2000 Hoola Hoop

Todays manicure - Watermelons (reminds me of summer and the weather outside is gorgeous!)

The polishes i used were -
Collection 2000 - Hula Hoop (pink), Ninja (green), Avon - French manicure colour (white) and Rimmel - Black Cab (black)

How I got the look -
First I done 2 coats of Hula Hoop over all my nails, then on the thumb nails I striped Ninja over the top part just where you would when doing a french manicure :)
Next step ater that was dry was a take a tool to stripe on the white underneath the green, disclaimer at present I dont have any brushes or special tools so I used an unbent hair grip to do this!
Once this was dry I then took the Black cab and using the other end of the hair grip I placed random black dots underneath the white on the main part of the nail.
Tadaa done!
Once total design dried I finished with a top coat from the Miss Sporty range and that was it!

What do you think? I know its not perfect but its a start and was really easy to do so I am happy :)

Thats all for now, tomarrow I will maybe do another review and some other posts

Shel xo