Purple Nails with Silver Butterflies

Happy Friday

I cannot tell you how quickly this week went by. I was busy at work and busy in the evenings and all of a sudden it is Friday evening. Last night I went to see Rizzle Kicks with my little sister - they were so good! Such a great atmosphere and they had so much energy considering they had hosted the late party at the Brits the previous night.

Onto my nails of the day...

Two in One: Green and Blue Nails

Happy Hump Day lovelies

Regular followers may feel a little de ja vu looking at this mani but I assure you its all new and created especially for this post. I have in fact shown you these colours and prints in the past but this is the first time I put them together and I love how it looks...

Textured Polish Challenge: Navy and Butterflies

Happy Friday!

Challenge complete! I made it through the full week with the same textured polish on all nails except my middle and ring fingers. It was the perfect week to do this challenge as my personal nail painting time was limited to less than ten minutes a night! I've done 5 sets of gel polish nails, 2 sets of gel pedicures and been out for a lovely meal to Ask Italian. Busy!

My grande finale nails...

Gorgeous Saint George

Good evening lovelies

Happy Friday! It's the weekend at last... it has been a tough week at work but all that can be forgotten now that its time to eat, drink and be merry :-). Tonight we are having a girly takeaway food and wine evening at my sister's, tomorrow hubs and I are popping into the city and on Sunday I am going to a baby shower. Busy but good fun... How about you?

For this gorgeous manicure I started with two perfect coats of a-England Saint George. Quite simply the most stunning green polish in my collection and one that I will turn to time and time again.

For this beautiful butterfly print I used the design found on bundle monster plate BM 307 and my much used Barry M Silver Foil.

Here is a picture with the flash on so you can see some of the gorgeous holo glitters dancing around in the bottle :-)

I loved this manicure so much that I kept it on for three days... unheard of in my world!

I hope you all have wonderful weekends, let me know what plans you have :-)

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Inspired by...Skittlette

Skittlette... isnt that a fantastic word?

It belongs to the very talented Marta at ChitChatNails who runs one of my most favourite nail blogs and is a very talented, not to mention busy lady. I honestly dont know how she has time to post so many fantastic manicures but I am thankful that she does :-).

Marta quite often posts manicures with a mixture of two or three accent nails and has dubbed this pretty look the Skittlette. Not quite a Skittle mani as that would need all five nails to be different but actaully I think a Skittlette is better as it is easy to tie two or three different accents into one cohesive manicure.

My index and middle fingers are two coats of W7 Black with the addition of some simple small round silver studs from Born Pretty Store.

My ring finger is two sparkly coats of NV Anthem stamped with my favourite butterfly design from plate BM 307 using W7 Black

For my pinky and thumb nails I started with one coat of Barry M Silver Foil and then layered over one coat of the new Barry M Ruby Glitter. This is unique in my current collection as it is the only glitter polish I have with black glitter particles in it. I'm pleased with how it looks in this mani but in all truth it looks better in the bottle.

So how do you like my Skittlette post? I think this is a great look and will mean I get through a fair few of my untrieds and still create a beautiful manicure that is worth wearing and sharing with you.

Louise xx

Pretty Purple Nails and Filigree

Good evening lovelies

This is just a quick post to show you the nails I am wearing to go away with work for two days :(. This is traumatic for many reasons... I hate being away from Mr LiPP overnight, I will miss our puppies and of course I will have no access to nail related products! On the plus side, I get to wear these pretty nails for two days and also I will be with my little sister as we work for the same company. Road trip anyone ;) ?!

I started with a base of two coats of Barry M Indigo, which is a really rich blurple and alternates between navy and purple depending on the light source. I then added one coat of my new Color Club Total Mystery. Its a stunning blue colour containing glass flecks in pink and purple. The sparkle was a little camera shy but I will post some swatches of this next time the sun shines as it really is pretty.

For the stamping I reached for two of my all time favourites - Filigree from plate BM 201 and Butterflies from plate 307 using sparkly Barry M Silver Foil. Top coat Seche Vite as always.

By the time you read this post we will be on our Sisters Road Trip. No doubt eating as many almod croissants as we can, not to mention munching family bag size packets of crisps and listening to the new Pink album on repeat - we have tickets to see Pink next year and are so excited!!

I will be so glad to get home to Mr LiPP and the puppies.

Louise xx

Summery Butterflies

Happy Bank Holiday lovelies.

Hubby and I have had such a lovely day. We had a lazy and chilled out morning at home with our two dogs and then went out for lunch with my Mum and Sister to Yo Sushi. This has become an all time favourite restaurant of ours. Its amazing how many people are put off by the name but we only eat one thing from the sushi menu - its the hot, cooked to order section of the menu we head straight for. Yummy chicken, salmon and prawn dishes all cooked to perfection. We would recommend Yo Sushi to everyone.

Enough about food... onto my nails of the day...

I designed these summery nails to match my pretty new top, a close up of the material can be seen below.

The base colours used for this manicure are Barry M Flamingo Pink and Barry M Lemon Icecream. I then stamped my much loved butterfly design from BM 307 using Barry M Gold Foil and Barielle Coalest Day of the Year.

Sneaky right hand pic for you

If I had to pick a favourite nail polish then I am fairly sure it would be Barry M Flamingo Pink. I hope I never have to pick just one but if I did then this would be a serious contender. The colour bridges the gap between the pink and the coral colour families and is easy to apply in two effortless coats.

These are the pretty beads I accessorised with today :-).

It is a shame we didnt have great summery weather to go with my new outfit today but we still made the most of it and had a lovely day. This is my favourite bank holiday of the year as this is the weekend that hubby and I first met five years ago!

Take care

Louise xx

Will it be... a Boy or a Girl?

We are soon to become Auntie and Uncle for the 4th time as Craig's sister Vicky only has two weeks left until her due date. Vic and Kei decided to not find out the sex of the baby before the birth so this manicure is dedicated to our excitement of finding out when junior finally arrives! Of course we are 100% happy either way but this manicure is just a little bit of fun inspired by the bottle print on new plate BM 307.

Firstly the girl nail art. Many colours and plates were used so I will provide a quick summary and if you would like anymore detail then just drop me a note in the comment facility below.

Index - Barry M Bright Pink, stamped using Konad White with flower print on BM 224
Middle - Barry M Stawberry Icecream, stamped using Color Club Hot Like Lava with the bottle and heart print on BM 307
Ring - Barry M Pink Flamingo, stamped using Konad White with the heart design on BM 317
Little - Barry M Shocking Pink, stamped using Konad White with the teddy bear design on BM 312

Thumb - Essie Marshmallow, stamped with Color Club Hot Like Lava using the flower corner on BM 316

I love all these pretty pinks together and would definately wear a skittle mani with them as base colours again in the future. What do you think?

Now onto the boy nail art. Again this is heavily centred around my love for Barry M nail polishes. I have so many blues that I had a hard job just picking 5!

Index - Barry M Cyan Blue, stamped with Konad White using the bottle and hearts design on BM 307
Middle - Barry M Turquoise, stamped with W7 Black using the smiley faces design on BM 304
Ring - Barry M Cobalt Blue, stamped with Konad White using the hearts design on BM 317
Little - Barry M Blue Moon, stamped with Color Club Cold Metal using the star design on BM 21
Thumb - Essie (the unknown beige), stamped with Barry M Denim using the square design on BM 320

These blues look super cool together and again make a great base for a skittle mani. Look out for it in the future as I am dying to call it the Barry Blues!

Not long until baby arrives and then I will design a manicure to honour his or her name.

Good Luck Vic and Kei - cant wait for the call to tell us 'its time'!!

Louise xx

What's Not to Like?

Today I decided to trial another colour from the Barry M pastel collection - this one is called Lemon Icecream. I will admit now that I have a real dislike for the colour yellow, unless it is in the form of a sunny day, so this was a hard polish for me to want to work with. However work with it I did and this is what I came up with.

In order to make myself love this manicure I decided to add two things close to my heart - bags and shoes! Whats not to love? My nails are the colour of sunshine and not only can I see bags and shoes all day long - but they are stunning pink!


Konad Psyche Pink

This gorgeous pink is from the Konad range of special nail polishes and can only be used for stamping due to the polish being much thicker than a standard nail colour. You can purchase these polishes for around £5 each and I have to say the investment is worth it if you are a serious stamper!

Shoe design - BM 213
Handbag design - BM 307

I hope you agree that I have redeemed myself after yesterdays Blue & Silver pictures - it was honestly a great mani I just couldnt reflect it in the pictures. These yellow and pink nails could almost make me change my mind about the colour yellow - maybe its not just for the sun after all!

I have also included a little bottle shot below of the two polishes used to create this pretty mani - let me know if you think I should continue to include bottle shots or you would prefer to see only the finished manicure pictures.

Bottle shot

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Louise xx

Beautifully Black

Welcome to my little corner of the internet. This new blog will allow me to indulge even further into my ever growing collection of nail polish, nail glitter, stamping plates and sparkly rhinestones. I am new to both nail art and the blogging world but I hope over future posts I will become better at both and you will enjoy following me enough to visit regularly, tell your friends about my blog and of course leave comments and ideas.

Without further delay I would like to present the nail art I wore last night for drinks with a few of my nearest and dearest friends. This base colour is two coats of Beautifully Black from the Boots No 7 collection. This is my go to black when I am looking for a slightly more subtle shade of black, the polish contains lots of tiny but beautiful silver sparkles and needs two medium coats for good coverage.

For my ring finger and thumb nails I stamped using a very pretty butterfly design from the 2012 Bundle Monster collection - plate BM 307. The detail on the butterflies is gorgeous so I just knew this was the first design I would use from the collection when it arrived on Friday. On my other nails I used small hexagonal silver sequins (purchased on ebay) in the 'framed nail' design made famous by Sammy at Nailasaurus.

I was really pleased with these nails and will definately re-create them with a new colour scheme in the near future. Below is a close up shot of the bottle so you can see just how much lovely silver sparkle is hidden in this polish. The Boots No 7 polishes retail for £7 each but I only purchase them when Boots are running their £5 off No 7 promotion, which reminds me I have 2 vouchers currently burning a hole in my purse - off to Boots for me!

Thank you for reading my very first post - I hope you enjoyed looking at it as much as I enjoyed writing it
Louise xx