illamasqua paranormal quad

Hi guys, Mondays are tough aren't they? Anyway thankfully it's over and so now I can show you some nails :) 

For these nails I used OPI San Tan Tonio as a nude base and then with striping tape and Illamasqua Omen and Seance (from the Paranormal collection) and made these quad nails. 

They aren't perfect but I quite like them, I love these Illamasqua polishes, they're so gorgeous but Seance is not as pink as it appears in the picture. 

 

Not my best ever work but still I quite liked the simplicity of it! Do you like quad nails?

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BARRY M GELLY PLUM & KINK TIPS

Hope your all having a good weekend, today I have some simple nail art which I did recently. 

I started off with 2 coats of Barry M Gelly in Plum (btw this is a pretty much dead on dupe for OPI Vant To Bite My Neck?) I left this on for a day and didn't apply topcoat, unfortunately when I woke up the next morning I was left with some sheet marks (which you can see in the pictures) 

I then used some tape and painted on Illamasqua Kink on to the tips.  

I really like this colour combination and the overall look, what do you think?

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OPI BLUE TAPE MANI

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, it was a busy day yesterday which is why I didn't get to post for International Nail Art Day. We went on a day trip to Hampton Court Palace which is a 4 hour drive from us, we had a lovely day but ended up home really tired ! What did you guys get up to?

For these nails I did 2 coats of OPI Can't Find My Czechbook and when that was dry I used striping tape and created the following design by painting on OPI Swimsuit Nailed It.

So that's it, have a lovely week guys :)

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OPI DON'T TALK BACH TO ME & TEXTURED TAPED TIPS

So I actually did these nails when I got back from my holiday to the south coast! I picked up both OPI The mini Oz collection and OPI Don't Talk Bach To Me (which was on sale) on the ferry to France. 

 I didn't paint my nails on holiday because to be honest our cottage was horrible, like the worst cottage we've ever stayed in (and we've stayed in plenty), and it was small so I didn't want to stink the place out with  nail polish, also we went exploring every day and ended up getting back quite late every night and after that we'd all be cream crackered! 

Anywho so when I got back home I sat and stared at my new polishes and waited for inspiration to strike and well I ended up with this ! 

This is 2 coats of OPI Don't Talk Bach To Me, I then used striping tape at the tips and OPI What Wizardry is This? I was too impatient to let me contrast between the textured polish and the regular polish show through so I applied a nice thick layer of topcoat. 

As you can see I was maybe a little too impatient and knocked my pinky! 

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CRISS CROSS GRADIENT TAPE NAILS

I hope you guys all enjoyed your weekend, these past 4 days for me have been crazy ! 

Anyway quite a few months ago I saw a gorgeous mani on Instagram by Nailing Around, where over a nude colour she used tape to make a criss cross effect with striping tape and sponged over a blue, purple and green gradient, which is exactly what I did here ! 

Mine didn't turn out anywhere as amazing as hers did but it still looks ok !

I used China Glaze Sydney Sand as my nude colour and then used 3 Color Club polishes for the gradient. 

I'm still very much a novice when it comes to tape manis so don't judge too harshly! 

I hope you all have a nice start to the week tomorrow :) 

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MONEY SMART NAIL ART

Hi guys, so this is my entry for the Money Smart Nail Art competition! I am cutting it fine (again)! Anyways I  was excited to do this post because it's one I've been wanting to do for a while! So I've just included a few different techniques you can try out at home, all the tools included in this post you'll probably already have in your home, and if you don't they're really cheap and easily available ! 

For those who may be familiar with these techniques, see if you can guess which household item I used to create each look then let me know if you got them all right in the comments !

This post is really picture heavy as I've included a tutorial for each look (which will all be added on the tutorial page) so I'll insert a jump after these first set of photos!

I won't be doing much talking here, I'll leave that to the tonne of photos I've included

The looks you can create:

 

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30 DAY CHALLENGE, DAY 30 - INSPIRED BY A TUTORIAL

easy peasy lemon squeezy who's tutorial i was going to use , this is all thanks to nailside's tutorial : ) 
i'd have loved to do the explosion mani and tried twice and failed so badly, i went with this !

pointer finger and accent are no7 poolside blue and the middle and pinky are misa throw me something purple ! 

grey is avon wet cement, which is a matte and dries before you've put the brush back in the bottle, which may be the reason my lines aren't very good and the tiny bit of green is revlon emerald city matte 

lines are no where near as crisp as hers or neat loll, i am clearly a novice when it comes to tape mani's loll, but practise makes perfect! 

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