Leafy Green

Happy Saturday lovelies

Hope your weekend is going well? Last night I had some girls round for a nail party with my new Orly Gel FX polishes. Gel FX is a gel polish that needs to be cured under an LED lamp but then lasts for approx two weeks with no chips. My sister wore hers for 16 days before she had a few minor chips! I took a training course a few weeks ago and am now proudly displaying the qualification certificate in my nail room.

Onto my nail of the day... When looking through my new Cheeky nail plates I loved this simple leaf design, I just couldn't resist trying it out... and I love green :-)

I started with two coats of Orly Jealous, Much? Which is a gorgeous and creamy mint green. I topped that off with one thin layer of W7 Mojito. As you can see from the picture below it leaves quite a subtle shimmer of green/gold on the nail.

For the stamping I used Revlon Ocean. I am loving my polishes from Revlon. Ocean is a frosted teal one coater and could not be more perfect for stamping.

I only wore this for a day but I love the combination of the three greens together and I will definitely re-visit this pretty stamp now that Spring weather should be on the way!

How do you like these greens together?

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Zig Zag Tips

Happy Friday loves!

Hope you are all doing well and looking forward to fun filled weekends?

I have been dying to use these gorgeous Orly polishes since I treated myself to them a few weeks back. Today I decided to steer away from stamping and used my new zig zag tip guides to create something pretty instead.

These pretty colours are from the Orly Cool Romance collection. The mint green is called Jealous, Much? and the charcoal grey is called Steele Your Heart. Both have really great formulas and dry to a fantastic finish. I looked the Cool Romance collection up online and realised that there are 6 polishes in all, I jumped on ebay to see if I could purchase the others and found them selling for £20 each. Bit too steep for me so I will just stick to these for now :-).

These pre cut zig zag tips were super easy to use, I started by painting all nails with two easy coats of Jealous, Much? I then taped off the tips on each nail and using Steele Your Heart I painted the tips on each nail apart from my traditional ring finger accent nail. For this nail I decided to paint the lower section and leave the tip mint green.

For added cuteness I applied some flat back mint green pearls with the use of my orange stick and top coat. I love these little pearls and cant wait to use them in more manicures.

I am really pleased with how thes turned out and I love these two colours together.

We are now off to Nando's for tea with friends - what do you all have planned for this weekend?

Take care

Louise xx