Fugly Green with Abstract Dots

Good evening loves

Tonight I am showing you what I would call a marmite polish. You will either love it or hate it. I paired it with my abstract dotted nails from a few weeks ago to try and break the haters in gently :))

Abstract Dots with Barry M Mattes

Happy Wednesday!

I feel like I am on a real roll with Matte polishes at the moment. I absolutely love this Barry M collection and am keen to see which colours they will add to it for the Autumn Winter. In the meantime I will carry on using the beautiful neutrals and brights from the current range.

Neon Interlocking Dots: A Bit of a Puzzle

Good evening loves

I was supposed to be on holiday today but at the last minute I decided to go into work and save my last day off for in a few weeks time when my sister and her hubby are also off work. We are thinking we might get a boat out and potter around the Norfolk Broads for the day. To cheer me up about being at work I decided to paint a little neon happy on my nails...

Dots and Dots and Dots: Festival Nails

Hey lovelies

Total blog neglect has happened recently as I have had time off work and a change in routine has meant that I just not got around to painting my nails! To ease me back in gently I am pulling these pics from the archives. They are only a few weeks old and I wore them to a one day festival. I did my toes to match but I will spare you those pictures!

Dream Combo: Turquoise and Peach

Happy Monday

I had such a lovely weekend that I didnt want it to be over so I am very glad that Monday has flown by and I am back home in my comfies doing what I love... NAILS!! This colour combination happened totally by accident when I was recently re-organising my stash and these lovelies ended up next to each other on the shelf. I hope you like them too...

Easter Bunny Nails

Happy Easter Monday loves

I have had another lovely day and am glad I have been able to really make the most of this four day weekend. Today started with breakfast with the girls. As the weather is much better than forecast we managed to get a lovely table outside overlooking the grounds of a local leisure club, each of us ordered the full works and happily gossiped a few hours away :-). After that I went on a lovely dog walk with my sister and her fox reds and then spent the later part of the afternoon cuddled up on the sofa with two very sleepy staffys.

Dotticure with Flower Accent

Happy Friday!

Another week flies by... Tonight I am planning a date night with Mr LiPP. I am going to cook us a nice three course meal (to be fair I will likely cheat and buy the dessert) and treat us to a bottle of something bubbly to get the weekend underway. We have some decorating that needs to be finished and as we are busy for the next four weekends its a bit of a now or never situation. It will be worth it in the end :-)

Who can resist Dots and Bows: Accent nails

Good evening lovelies

This is a scheduled post as I am at... V Festival!! Right now our tent will be up (hopefully), our first drinks of the evening will be long finished and we will have had a walk around to suss out the best food vans for our morning cup of tea and bacon rolls :-). Its going to be a great weekend.

Cute nails alert...

Freehand Roses and Pastel Polka Dots

Good evening lovelies

How has your weekend been? Lovely, I hope!

We had a lovely lunch out on Saturday and then spent the afternoon visiting family. We then celebrated with my Dad as he finally told us about his new business venture two years after he started planning and creating! Good Luck :-).

I have seen lots of beautiful pictures of freehand roses all over the blogosphere so decided I would try this pretty little look for myself...

I love these mini MUA polishes. The bottles have been completely redesigned and now look like miniature Essie's! At only £1 each you can afford to buy the whole collection :-). For my base colours I used Lush Lilac which actually dried quite pink and Pistachio Ice Cream (mint green).

I added nice simple white polka dots to each of the Lush Lilac nails using a large dotting tool.

On the Pistachio Ice Cream nails I firstly added a large blob of Strawberry Crush (bottle in the below picture). I didn't worry about being too neat for this step as I didn't want each rose to be perfectly round.

Then using a small amount of Fever Red on a the thin end of a dotting tool I started to add some definition to each rose in a similar way as I would for creating a leopard print design. Again I wasn't too neat but really must master how to use small nail art brushes rather than dotting tools for a sharper finish.

Lastly I added a few highlight lines using Lush Lilac and some small green leaves using Barry M Bright Green (bottle not shown).

These remind me of a real Cath Kidston look :-). I was really pleased with how they turned out and will certainly try free hand roses again in a different colour combination.

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Easter Nails: Eggs

Happy Easter

I wasn't really planning on doing anymore Easter related nails but as I sat staring at my pretty pastel polishes I just couldn't resist this quick but effective manicure based on everyone's favourite seasonal goodies... Easter Eggs!!

Any excuse to use these beautiful pastels is ok by me...

To create this sweet Easter treat I used the following polishes, all Barry M's:

Little finger - Blueberry Icecream

Index finger - Strawberry Icecream

Middle finger - Berry Icecream

Index finger - Peach Melba

Thumb - Mint Green

Once the pretty pastels were dry I added a quick coat of Northern Lights Silver Hologram top coat and then stamped the bow using Konad White and the design found on plate M56.

Finally using Barry M White I added lots of small randomly placed dots.

Super cute Easter manicure, done! :-)

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Contrasting nails with a Cherry Accent

Good afternoon lovelies

How has your weekend been? Ours has been really lovely. Due to some really bad weather today didn't go quite to plan as my sister in law got snowed in so couldn't make the journey to Norwich to cook for us all today. However we made the most of having the day unexpectedly to ourselves and spent some quality time relaxing, catching up on tv and of course I found time to squeeze in a little nail art :-).

This super bright mani features two more polishes from the new Color Club Fiesta Spring collection. This time I chose Mamba (bright red) and Sunrise Canyon (yellow/green). Both polishes have a fantastic formula and good drying time. Mamba is so pigmented that it could be a one coater.

On my little finger I added just one coat of Leighton Denny Ruby Slippers (over one coat of Mamba). I have been dying to test this polish out since Christmas and am pleased I finally did. It is so perfect for this bright manicure as it contains red and green glitter particles.

As you can see I added contrasting dots to my index and middle fingers using the opposite colour to my base, on my ring finger I used a dotting tool to create these fun little cherries. The green stalks are drawn on using Wild Cactus which is the super bright green also from the Color Club Fiesta collection.

Sunrise Canyon is a strange but still beautiful colour... it changes from dark yellow to lime green depending on how you look at it. I don't think I have anything else like this in my collection so its a welcome addition :-).

How do you like the bright contrast of red and yellow/green? I am glad I was feeling bold enough to try it out as its a winner for me.

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Skittlette and my first nail polish jewellery

Good evening lovelies

I am so excited about my post tonight... Not only am I using gorgeous colours from a new Spring 2013 collection but I have made my first pieces of nail polish jewellery and included them in some of the below pictures for you to see!

Firstly the polishes...

I started with two easy coats of Color Club Flamingo (bright pink).  Flamingo is part of the Fiesta collection released for Spring this year. I was lucky enough to snap up the full collection in TK Maxx last weekend :-).

On my ring finger I used just one coat of Color Club Wild Cactus (stunning green). I then topped this with two coast of Orly Go Deeper, from the Glam FX collection. I love this green glitter!

For my thumb I used two coats of Wild Cactus, once that was dry I dotted on Flamingo using both ends of my Orly dotting tool.

Here we go... first picture to include jewellery... :-)

As you can see this ring is made using Go Deeper polish with the glass bead set into an ornate silver ring blank.

A picture with the flash on... check out the beautiful shimmery colours in Go Deeper.

To tie the pink and green together I added some tiny green star shaped rhinestones and of course a few more dots :-)

Matching earrings...

I am so pleased with my first few pieces of jewellery. What do you think? I have ordered myself a small selection of glass beads and ring blanks so I can experiment some more :-). If you have any suggestions or recommendations for polishes I should use then please leave me a comment - I would love to hear from you.

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Peach and Nude Spotty nails

Good evening lovelies

Tonight sees the return of my wonderful new Barry M Gelly polishes. The recently released polishes are named after exotic fruits and are just perfect spring into summer shades. I still need to buy the fourth polish which is a pink one called Dragon Fruit so tonight I am showing you Papaya and Lychee.

I started by painting my index and little fingers with two coats of Papaya, and my middle and ring fingers with two coats of Lychee. Papaya is a beautiful peach to coral shade and applied perfectly. Lychee as I have shown you before is the perfect beige nude.

Using Illamasqua Boosh (black) and my Orly dotting tool I added three rows of alternating dot sizes to each nail. Once Boosh was dry I took Papaya and added a small dot to the centre of each large black one.

As Papaya is such a beautiful shade I decided to leave it alone on this occasion and not add glitter or stamping! Unusual for me, right?

I cannot wait to see what other shades Barry M bring out in this gorgeous Gelly range - I am guessing the summer collection will be stunning :-)

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

I Heart Greenberry and Lychee

Happy Friday lovelies!

What a week it is been for little sis and I... I am glad it is Friday and hope I can now have a nice weekend with friends and loved ones :-).

Tonight I am going to show you this stunning green polish from the latest Barry M Gelly releases... I give you Greenberry...

It's aqua... It's jade... It's green and gorgeous!

Due to the absolute gorgeousness (is that a word?!) of this green polish I decided to keep my nail art simple and just go for a nicely coordinated accent nail. I used two perfect coats of Greenberry on all nails except my ring finger which is two perfect coats of Lychee (from the same Barry M collection).

Then using my trusty Orly dotting tool I started adding random sized dots until I had a shape that looked like a heart :-). This is the first time I have made an actual shape with dots and I am pleased my first attempt looks more or less as I intended it too.

I am so pleased with the three shades I purchased from the latest Gelly collection and I will no doubt treat myself to the fourth one next time I am in the city.

Have a fantastic weekend :-)

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

I Heart You

Evening all :-)

I hope you are doing well? Thank you for your nice words of support about our recent bathroom crisis. We are still travelling to my sister's to use her shower but we are closer to having our own bathroom back together. I picked this particular stamp as a little dedication to my hard working hubby...

I started with two nice easy coats of Bourjois So Laque in Bleu Asphalte. Its a very dark grey polish with lovely application and could be a careful one coater if you were in a rush. I applied two anyway as it improves the richness of the overall colour.

I then stamped this pretty little heart and dots pattern from Konad M78. The genuine Konad plates are very expensive so I dont own too many of them - I was fortunate enough to receive this one in error (I ordered M77) and the seller let me keep it as an apology for the inconvenience :-)

I painted the one little pink heart on my ring finger nail to show my eternal love for my husband. He is working such long shifts already but still coming home every night and working extra hard on rebuilding our bathroom and kitchen.

Mr LiPP - My Hubby - My Hero

Have a Great Evening

Louise xx

Dotty for the weekend

Happy Friday!

This weekend could not come soon enough for me! I have been counting down since 9.05 on Monday morning! How bad is that?

Sitting at work during the week I was talking to Faye about colours you shouldn't 'like' together. For example I like pink and red but Faye hates it. We talked about blue and orange together, my instinct was to say no but Faye said yes. I thought give it a try...

 I decided to keep it nice and simple but I was pleased with the results. I used Barry M Blueberry Icecream and No 7 Tangy for the base colours and the dots.

Very simple, yet very effective :-)

To be honest I like colours that clash. I am struggling to think of a combination I wouldn't wear. How about you, do you have colours that are simply a no no?

Have a fantastic weekend

Louise xx