Neutral and Neon: Animal

Happy Monday

Did you all have lovely weekends? As mentioned in my previous post it was my hubby's birthday over the weekend so we celebrated in style and enjoyed lots of time with friends and loved ones. We cooked Japanese food on Saturday night which was good fun and ate lots of naughty (but nice) birthday cake.

Back to work today... here are my neutral but with a twist nails...

Pink with Zebra Accent

Good morning lovelies

What do you all have planned for this super sunny Sunday? The weather is just amazing at the moment and I love it even more that it means I can get some great natural light nail pictures! These pics are so much better than anything I can take inside in my light box.

Today I am showing you one of four recent limited edition polishes from the Barry M range. I got this one free from Superdrug when I purchased a couple of the new Gelly's.

Hologram Zebra

Happy Saturday lovelies!

Are you having a lovely weekend so far? I had a lovely evening at my sisters with our girlfriends last night. Good food, lots of laughs and of course nail polish...! Our friend Hayley is now working in the beauty industry and asked me to swatch the entire Orly Flash Glam FX collection on sample wheels. What a hardship that was... hee hee :-). Also as a reward for being such a good swatcher I got to keep Orly Go Deeper which I cannot wait to show you later in the week (thanks H).

Onto my NOTD...

How gorgeous is this? I started with two easy coats of Sally Hansen Insta Dri Uptempo Plum. I got this deep and shimmery plum in Poundland of all places! Bargain?! As with all the other Insta Dri polishes I own, this could easily be a one coater and I am sure it will be fantastic to stamp with.

For this gorgeous hologram zebra print I stamped using Layla Hologram Mercury Twilight and the pattern found on Konad M57 (the most popular stamping plate).

I had no idea this hologram polish would be so perfect to stamp with. I love it!

The below picture is a swatch of Uptempo Plum with the forced flash on my camera. It allows you to really see the pink glitter shine through the deep plum base.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekends. Tomorrow I will be posting my first Twin Post and I am very excited about it so please don't forget to check back :-)

Louise xx

A Little Bit of an Animal

When I first discovered nail stamping my absolute favourite print was zebra. I used it all the time with lots of different colour combinations and it amazes me that I have yet to debut any animal print on this blog. The more I think about it the more crazy it is!

I decided to start you off slowly with a nice simple zebra accent nail...

Barry M Block Orange



For this look I painted my nails with two coats of Barry M Block Orange and my ring finger with three coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. As I sat back and looked at the orange I decided to add some sparkle by layering Barry M Tangerine over the top. Tangerine is a gorgeous orange and gold shimmer that works perfectly for this orange layered creation.

I then used Konad Black to stamp this simple but striking zebra print from Konad plate M57. It really is the easiest pattern to stamp and one that I will get lots of comments about as people cannot help but be drawn to it.

Barry M Tangerine

On the left Tangerine and on the right Block Orange

Over the next few weeks I will go all out and introduce some full on animal manicures but for today I am glad I started small with this zebra accent. I wouldn't want to scare you all away :-).

Louise xx