Mixing Spots and Stripes

Good evening lovelies.

How are you? I am so glad today is over with... Tuesday is my least favourite day of the week. I have a strange little logic to explain this so here goes... Monday is my busiest day at work so usually goes pretty quick, Wednesday is the middle of the week, Thursday is almost the weekend and Friday is the weekend. Tuesday is a nothing day! Too far away from the weekend to be exciting and not as busy as a Monday so doesnt quickly enough.

Anyway enough of my odd logic and onto my NOTD...

I started with two beautiful rich coats of Barry M Indigo. This is the perfect shade of Blurple for me and makes a nice change to my trusty Barry M Navy.

My stamping polish is Barry M Silver Foil. I do not own another polish in my whole collection that is as good at stamping as Silver Foil.

I picked the perfect pinstripes and cute little dots from Cheeky plate CH 6. I am so pleased to finally have stripes and spots in my collections that are wide enough for my full nail. Bundle Monster do have similar patterns but they are from the very first plate collection and the designs are teeny weeny.

How do you like the mixture of spots and stripes all in one manicure? Would you rather all nails match?

Take care

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Mirrorball: Hot Stuff

Good evening lovelies

I am finally catching up on swatching some beautiful polishes that I have had for a little while. Tonight I am going to show you another 'frosting' from the Models Own Mirrorball collection. There are 5 gorgeous glitter toppers in this set, I have shown you three so far Disco Inferno, Boogie Nights and Dancing Queen so tonight I am showing you Hot Stuff.

This one was my favourite of the collection in the bottle but now its on the nail I am not as sure. What do you think?

As you can see Hot Stuff contains a real mixture of glitters and is quite top heavy on 'large shards' of glitter which look chunky but do sit flat on nail. This polish is a mix of pinks and golds with a slight holo twist.

As with the other shades from this collection I layered Hot stuff over both black and white so you could really see the difference. This one definitely looks best over black in my opinion.

Some of the larger but paler glitters look lost over the white base so the overall effect is quite subtle compared to how it looks layered over black.

Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin'
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'
Gotta have some hot stuff

Overall I am really pleased to have these glitter frostings in my collection - the bottles look beautiful on my shelf :-)

Louise xx

I Heart Pomegranate

Good evening my lovelies. How are you all? Did you have a fantastic weekend?

As I mentioned in my previous posts I was in London this weekend with my sister and two of our besties - Samantha and Amanda. We were celebrating Samanthas birthday and had a fantastic time. We stayed in an amazing hotel, went to see Wicked at the Apollo theatre, went to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park and had a meal and drinks in Canary Wharf. We were very busy and had a fantastic time :-). We missed Jamie, the fifth member of our girly group, but she stayed home for a very good reason... Jamie gave birth to the very adorable baby Mason on 29th December so understandably stayed home to enjoy being mummy.

These are the nails I painted when we got back from London, they represent how much I loved our weekend, how much I love and missed Mr LiPP and pups and how happy we all are for Jamie and her family on the arrival of little Mason

I used this gorgeous polish a few days ago as the dotted centres in my Fussy Flowers post and just knew that I had to feature it as the main polish for my next post. Barry M Pomegranate is part of the Gelly Hi-Shine range and is the most gorgeous rich and creamy dark pink in my whole collection.

As you can see I painted my index and little fingers using Barry M Matt White as a base and I painted my middle and ring finger using Barry M Pomegranate. Pomegranate applied like a dream and could be a one coater with careful application.

For the stamping these pretty little hearts I used the reverse colours - Pomegranate and Konad White and the heart pattern from Cheeky plate CH 3.

Finally I stuck one little heart shaped rhinestone on my ring finger. You can't really see it on these pictures but I like to know its there :-).

This is a quick snap of us girls toasting Samanthas birthday with a little Bucks Fizz :-)

And finally here is the beautiful reason that Jamie could not come to London with us... meet Mason

Thanks for reading lovelies

Louise xx

Special Edition Glitter from Barry M

Good evening

I did magic up a little extra time to schedule a post for while I am awaythis weekend. As this goes live I will be in London with the girls having spent the day in Hyde Park at Winter Wonderland. We will then be pulling out the party frocks to go for a nice meal and maybe a cocktail or two ;-)

Happy Birthday Samantha (I am being a lady and not revealing your age!)

This sparkly little number is a limited edition release at Superdrug for Christmas. I just have to own each and every polish that Barry M release so I went and stocked up on a 'back up' Navy and a 'back up' Silver Foil so I could get this little beauty free!

As you can see I layered this multi glitter over my all time favourite grey - Revlon Hazy. Seriously the formula on Hazy is a dream and it dries in a flash.

I love the lids on these special edition polishes. I am actually really sad that I missed out on one more limited edition from Superdrug. Both stores we have in our city have been out of stock since the week before Christmas. Typically it was a green/blue foil polish so I was bound to love it!

I love the combination of these colours: Pink, Green and Blue. You wouldn't necessarily put these colours together in a manicure but this glitter polish really works :-)

I hope you are enjoying your weekends? Have you been very busy or are you enjoying the chance to relax?

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Nails Inc Splat!

Yay I just have time to squeeze in one more Christmas nail polish manicure :-). This time in the shape of Nails Inc. Three different shades all in one cute little skittlette manicure.

Here is the finished look. I added some stamping and a little glitter :-)

The bottle in the below picture is Nails Inc The Thames. I used this on my little finger and thumb, its a rich grey creme and needed two coats for opactiy.

The bottle in the below picture is Nails Inc Elizabeth Street. I used it on my ring and middle finger nails and found it a very frustrating colour and formula. It is a nude creme but after three coats it was still patchy and definitely needed to be stamped over to hide the imperfections.

The bottle in the picture below is Nails Inc Jermyn Street. This colour is described as a classic taupe and is one of Nail Incs bestselling polishes. It looked like milk chocolate to me ;-)

This grey creme is my favourite of the three.

Using Barry M Pink Foil I stamped this cute splat design from Cheeky plate CH 46. This will be a fun design to use with a mixture of neon colours on a white base.

Finally I added a tiny amount of Barry M pink Silver Glitter to either the tip or base of my remaining nails to add a little spice to the Nails Inc colours.

How do you like the finished manicure? Isn't the splat design cute? I love the grey polish and pink glitter combo :-)

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Fussy Flowers and moving with the times!

Good evening my lovelies

Are you all as sad as me to be back at work? My goodness it has been a struggle although I really shouldn't complain as it is such a short week! Especially as I have Friday off on holiday :-). We girlies are off to London for the weekend in celebration of our friend Samatha's birthday. We have a theatre trip planned, a day at Winter Wonderland and then a meal in Canary Wharf which will no doubt include a few drinks.

I don't have any posts lined up so unless I magic up some time between now and then I am afraid it will be a quiet weekend on the blog. However I do have one little bit of exciting news to share with you... I finally moved into the 21st Century (kicking and screaming) and opened a Twitter account! I know I am so old skool! I am gradually getting used to it and will only tweet a few times a day for now but if you would like to follow me I can be found at... @L_i_P_P

Onto my nails of the day...

I started with two super easy coats of NYC Water Street Blue. I got this in a 3 for 2 deal on Boxing day and I love it. I know I have lots of blue in my collection but honestly in my opinion you cannot have too many! ;-)

Using Konad White I then stamped this quite fussy floral design from Cheeky plate CH 44

Absolutely loving this blue...

I wish all my nail bottles were this Konad shape as I always love how these pictures turn out - its such a great nail angle.

I added some very small dots to the centre of the flowers using Barry M Gelly in Pomegranate. Below is a quick bottle shot - I cannot wait to show you a full mani using this gorgeous colour.

Thanks for reading

Louise xx
@L_i_P_P

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year lovelies!

Welcome to my first post of 2013. Did you all have a wonderful New Years Eve? Mr LiPP and I decided to stay in and I am pretty glad we did - many of our neighbours had fireworks displays and our little Lily is terrified of the loud noises. We spent most of the evening making sure she was ok and trying to keep her calm.

I wanted my first manicure of 2013 to feature a special polish so there was no doubt in my mind that I would turn to Orly Miss Conduct.

I started with two coats of Orly Miss Conduct from the Naughty or Nice collection. Miss Conduct is a raspberry pink base packed with sparkly holo shimmers. The formula is amazing and this is easily going to become a firm favourite for me. Check out the beautiful swatches below.

For my finished manicure I swapped my index finger to W7 Black for a little contrast. I then added star shaped rhinestones and tiny silver studs to my index and little fingers as you can see below.

Using Barry M Silver Foil I stamped this pretty star image from Cheeky plate CH 52.

I loved the final results but in all honesty I would have worn Miss Conduct on its own with no stamping or accents and still have been 100% happy :-).

I thought I would also share with you the manicures I painted for Mr LiPP's Mum and Little Sister on New Years Eve...

Check out the matching blingy accent nails :-).

I hope you enjoyed my first post of 2013.

Wishing you all lots of love, luck and happiness

Louise xx