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

Black Glitter and Squares

Good evening lovelies!

Are you still enjoying your Christmas break? How many people have taken all the decorations down and are looking for a little normality :-). Not me, I love Christmas and I love all the chaos that goes with it.

The little sis and I have been sale shopping again today! Seriously we have had so much success that we just cannot stop. Laura thinks its her favourite part of Christmas now :-). Bargains galore!

For todays manicure I decided to 'bling it up' and also try out a new stamping design. I need to use more of the images that I am not instantly drawn to as I usually find the end result turns out better than expected.

I started with one coat of Barry M Black Multi Glitter. Easily one of the polishes with the best formula in my collection and you absolutely cannot go wrong with a sparkly one coater.

Next I stamped this geometric design from Cheeky plate CH 33. I always leave the angled designs until last but on this occasion I decided not to and I am really pleased.

To add even more sparkle I then added Northern Lights Hologram Top Coat in Silver to all nails.

While the top coat was wet I could not resist adding these brightly coloured square rhinestones to compliment the square stamped design.

In the end I was loving the design and will now be brave enough to try more of my geometric designs!

New Years Eve is almost upon us... I hope you all have lots of fantastic plans?

Louise xx

Clothes Show Nails and Haul Pics

Good evening lovelies.

We had such a fantastic time at the Clothes Show yesterday. Neither of us can remember why we didnt go last year as we loved every second of it this year and vowed to buy tickets for next year as soon as they go on sale. The event is split out into various different sections with the main ones being: Clothes, Beauty, Make Up and Accessories.

We headed straight to Beauty and I couldn't resist buying my first goody bag of the day from Models Own. After that we were on a roll and purchased so many lovely things... make up, vintage style necklaces, an owl print dres, not to mention the W7 stall which was a huge success for me! Before I realised it I had 15 items in my basket!

These are the nails I wore for the event. Designed to match my outfit of the day... Navy patterned skinnies, burgandy oversize shirt with lace panel along the shoulders and my new grey boots.

I started by painting three nails with two coats of No 7 Damson Dream. A gorgeous polish that is a combination between burgandy and purple. I painted the other two nails with Barry M Navy.

I added one thin coat of Northern Lights top coat in Silver to add some hologram dimension (swatch below) and then I stamped with Barry M Silver Foil. The design is from my new collection of plates by Cheeky - this one is CH33.

Loving this hologram top coat!

Now for just a few sneaky pics of my Clothes Show Haul...

Look at all those lovely W7 glitters and the gorgeous grey and pink Nica handbag... what a lucky girl! :-)

Louise xx