Weekly Nail #5 - Pink, Purple and Peach

This weeks nails lasted like half a day. I used a really old polish for the purple, which just did not want to stay attached to my fingernails! Ach well.

Work's been pretty stressful the last week or so - we have a big event on next week an most thing about it are my responsibility! Work stress inevitably leads to me picking at my nail varnish and generally just loosing my positive mental attitude, so I'm very glad it's the weekend and I'm looking forward to being on holiday as of next Friday. I'm not leaving the country or anything, I'm just really looking forward to having nearly two whole weeks of to chill and celebrate some birthdays with friends and make some awesome cakes and see a lot of my parents. And hopefully I'll find a minute or two to clean my house and do some blogging too! I've bought some awesome new things recently which I'm looking forward to showing you. I've also being using some new products which to review and recommend.

Love and hugs

Weekly Nail #4 - Lavender Frost

This week I haven't done any nail art, but I did paint literally the neatest nails I have ever painted. Part of that was just bothering to be careful to leave a gap at the edge of my nail, thereby avoiding pooling (this is what happens when polish touches the skin and breaks the surface tension). The other part was that I saw this tutorial for cleaning up your nail painting efforts, and realised it was genius, and that my life is now a little closer to being fulfilled. Woo! I got myself some small make up brushes (you only need one but I figured it was better value to get 6 small ones which would last years, rather than one bigger one for the same price which would have to be replaced in the end) from Boots, and I used my usual polish remover rather than pure acetone, which worked perfectly.

The polish is the purple side of H&M's nail duo in lilac frosting. Unfortunately you can't buy their polish duos anymore, which is a shame, as I really like the shape of them in my hand whilst I'm painting.

I'm starting to get into this new-fangled pinterest thingumy - at the moment I'm loving looking for inspiration for my nails, as well as loads of craft projects for the house. I'm also enjoying the inspiration for greetings cards, as I have a super exciting secret project in the offing. Do not fret dear reader, all shall be revealed in the next couple of weeks :D In the mean time, please have a browse of my pinterest boards and follow me if you like :)

Weekly Nail #3 - Daisy Do

This weeks nails are very simple and they were really easy to do! After applying a base coat, I painted them with two coats of No7 Stay Perfect Nail Colour in Stand Back and waited til it was hard and dry. Then I used my Andrea Fullerton Dot and Flick in Black to make a few black dots on a few nails (I did the thumb and pinky of my right hand as well as my left ring finger). I then took a bent hair pin and used it to make dots with No7 Stay Perfect Nail Colour in Snowflake - four white dots around each black dot. I then went over the black dots again so that the centres were neat and round. After waiting until the black dots were very dry, so that they wouldn't smudge, I sealed everything with coat of Alessandro International Pro White in French, which is a clear polish with a slight blue/UV hue. It's meant for using on bare or French-ed nails but I had run out of my usual No7 clear polish and this just arrived in my Glossybox.

Weekly Nail #2 - The Batmanicure

I went to see the Dark Knight Rises this week, and totally loved it :D I decided to do a wee tribute with my nails this week using Barry M polishes - the yellow and the black shatter -  and my Andrew Fulerton Dot and Flick in black. Crackle is one of my favourite manis, because it's just really hard to get wrong!

Weekly Nail #1 - Tiny Explosions!

So obviously this isn't the first time I've posted my nails for you, but I've decided to make it a weekly thing, rather than just random.

This week I've used Missguided Splash in "MissTaken", which is an awesome shade of orange. It's been on my toes for a couple of weeks already, since I got one free with Cosmo. I also used my Andrea Fulterton Dot and Flick in black to do some flicks for an accent nail, and they're so cute! They look like tiny explosions!