Twin Post with Jamie of Polish, Please!

Good evening lovelies!

Tonight it is time for the twin post I mentioned on Friday night. I am super excited to be teaming up with the lovely Jamie of Polish, Please!. Jamie has been following and commenting on my blog for a while now so I was honoured when she contacted me over the Christmas break and asked me to work with her on a twin post.

If you have not visited Jamie's blog before then you must go and do so by clicking here. Jamie posts some lovely swatches of polishes that make me very jealous like the pretty Zoya Blaze the Color Club Halo Hues series (massive lemmings for me). Jamie also dabbles in nail art, stamping and accent nails. All the things I love!

For our twin post we decided on an Ombre style manicure. Each nail needs to be a different shade of the same colour. I reached for my beautiful Barry M blues...

Little finger: Barry M Blue Moon

Ring finger: Barry M Blueberry Icecream

Middle finger: Barry M Cyan Blue

Index finger: Barry M Cobalt Blue

Thumb: Barry M Navy

This bottle is Blue Moon

This bottle is Cobalt Blue

So how do you like my first Ombre manicure?

Thank you to Jamie for asking me to take part in this twin post. I loved it :-)

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

A Blue Mani for A Cloudy Day

The title of this post makes it sounds like doom and gloom but actually this blue on blue manicure is quite the opposite.

You will be pleased to hear we have hot running water again! We encountered a few other problems along the way but we are finally getting the bathroom back together and can at least take a shower in our own house.

Tonight I have a very quick and easy manicure for you but the results were surprisingly pretty.

For the base colour I started with three coats of Barry M Blue Moon. This is a very pale and thin colour so does require a little patience whilst you build layers but the overall result is subtle and pretty.

I then stamped this windy clouds design from plate BM 312 using Color Club Cold Metal. Cold Metal is a stunning blue, sparkly in the right lights and a good one coater which makes it ideal for stamping!

The irony as I sit and type this post is that the sun is shining, I have the back door wide open and the dogs are running around making the most of this amazing spring like weather!

Rain Rain Go Away - it already has (well... for now anyway).

Louise xx

Happy Birthday Hubby

Today is my husbands birthday and my present to him this year is a 3 night city break to Prague. I booked it about 2 months ago and have struggled every day since then to not tell him all about it. I am so glad I managed to keep it a surprise as this is exactly the kind of grand gesture he deserves :-).

If I have got my schedule spot on you should be reading this post on Thursday whilst we are in Prague walking around Wenceslas Square, listening to buskers and browsing market stalls on the Charles Bridge and of course indulging in the local cuisine of pork and dumplings.

I created this cute balloon manicure by using Barry M Blue Moon as a base. In all honesty this colour is a bit of a pain and would take 4 coats for full opacity if you wanted to wear it alone. Luckily for me I always add nail art of some kind but this look still required 3 coats. I then free handed the balloons on with Barry M Cobalt Blue and topped them off with Barry M Blue Glitter. The balloon strings are created with Barry M Silver Foil.

On my thumb I painted the Czech Republic flag in honour of our trip to Prague. For this I used OPI MBSW as the base and then free handed the triangle with Barry M Denim and the red section with Barry M Bright Red.

Czech Republic flag

We will be back on Sunday so I hope to tell you a little more about our trip and maybe include a couple of pictures.

Happy Birthday Craig (aka Mr LiPP, formerly known as Mr Lou is Perfectly Polished) :-)

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