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

Stunning: a-England Dragon

Good evening my lovelies! Happy Friday!!

As the weekend is finally here I decided it called for something a little extra special on my nails... in steps the simply stunning Dragon by a-England. I cannot wait for you to see how gorgeous this polish is!

I have no major plans for this weekend which makes it perfect for a little bit of shopping, a lot of eating and plenty of time relaxing! What could be better I hear you ask... absolutely nothing as it is just what I need :-).

Right I won't keep you any longer as I know you cannot wait to see this polish up close...

See... I am right, only word will do for a polish this gorgeous... Stunning!

With flash for the stunning holo effect to show through...

Without flash so you can see how gorgeous the green is and how much gold shows through under natural light...

As you can see I could not bring myself to do anything too fancy over this polish so I used Barry M Gold Foil to add this simple leaf strip up the side of each nail. The leaf design can be found on plate BM 11.

Once the gold stamping was dry I added one very thin top coat of Northern Lights Hologram in Gold.

I cannot wait for my next order of a-England polishes to arrive (fingers crossed it could be this weekend).

I hope you all have wonderful weekends - do you have much planned?

Louise xx

@L_i_P_P

Autumn Leaf nails

Happy Saturday!

We had a lovely walk with the dogs this morning, the sun is shining brighter than it has all summer but there is a real nip in the air that alerts us to the change in seasons. As we were walking across the field I noticed lots of lovely coloured leaves on the ground and nail inspiration was born...

I started with an Essie base, I'm afraid I don't know the name as it wasn't labelled in TK Maxx, but it's a really nice neutral colour. I then selected a nice mixture of autumnal colours to use for the stamping.

Using a design on plate BM 04 I then used Konad Red, Barry M Block Orange and Barry M Yellow to create these pretty three toned leaves. I wanted each nail to be a little different so I used different colour combinations for each print and also laid the pattern down at different angles, just to keep it interesting :-).

I'm really pleased with the results and using this many colours for stamping was not as hard as I had expected.  The Konad Red is such a fantastic colour and just goes to show that the investment in proper stamping polishes is worth it. Maybe the Konad Orange and Yellow polishes will find their way into my shopping basket soon.

We will shortly be off to a dinner party at our friends house so I hope you have enjoyed my post today and hope you all have fabulous Saturday evenings.

Louise xx