Black and White Filigree nails

Good evening lovelies

This is one of my favourite manicures to date... even if I do say so myself! I love the contrast of white and black together but with the addition of a super bright accent nail it was even lovelier :-).

I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed wearing this manicure...

I started with a polish that I want to love but the formula gives me trouble so I tend to shy away from picking this out of my stash too often. Other bloggers rave about the formula of this polish but I always need three coats and for me that is a bad thing :-(. The polish in question is OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls... a very subtle grey white. In all honesty a fab base for this manicure but such a pain that it needs three coats!

My accent nail is two coats of Exposed All Nighter. This polish dries to a matt finish but a top coat of Northern Lights Hologram Gold soon fixed that. I added the black star shaped rhinestones just to finish this nail off.

Using Konad Black I stamped this gorgeous filigree pattern on all nails that had a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (MBSW). I am so into this contrast and although I like to wear bright eye catching colours it did remind me how good black and white work together, and that I should wear it more often.

How do you like this finished look? Do you have polishes that everyone else loves but you struggle to work with? Thanks for reading :-)

Louise xx
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Illamasqua: Vice and Glitterati

Good evening lovelies

Can you believe it is Monday again already? Honestly, where does time go?

I have really been enjoying trying out some of my stunning new Illamasqua polishes so I thought I would continue that trend with my manicure of the day...

As you can see below I started by with two coats of Vice by Illamasqua. Vice is described as a deep cerise polish with a rubber finish. Vice leaned slightly more purple on my pictures than it actually looks in real life but the texture was fascinating... really rubbery :-)

On my ring finger I then added just one coat of Glitterati also by Illamasqua. Glitterati is a raspberry jelly base with a good mix of multi coloured hex glitters added in. I found that the colours I could see completely changed with the light, as did the base which was raspberry, burgandy or plum. Even though it was ever changing it was always very pretty.

The side scroll pattern is stamped from plate GA 33 using Barry M Gold Foil and I decided to angle it differently on each nail just to mix things up :-)

The below two pictures are taken with the forced flash on...

One final natural light picture.

I am really loving these Illamasqua polishes and am kicking myself that I didn't buy each and every colour in the January sale. At £13.50 each they are definitely out of my polish buying budget.

Louise xx
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Pretty Filigree and Mothers Day

Happy Sunday and Happy Mothers Day :-). Have you had a lovely weekend?

Today we took my Mum for lunch at Rocco's. They do a lovely Sunday roast with plenty to pick from and we all ate so much that we had to almost roll out of the door when we left :-). After lunch we went to see Craig's Mum for a cuppa and a catch up with the Cook family. All in all it has been a lovely day.

For this gorgeous manicure I started by painting all nails in Illamasqua Boosh apart from my ring finger which is two coats of the very sparkly Merlin from a-England. Merlin is described as a spectacular scintillating silver and I would have to agree. Just look at that sparkle!

Then using my Barry M Silver Foil I stamped this beautiful filigree design from plate GA 33 over all the black nails. This design  could easily become one of my favourites. It would look fantastic in just about any colour combo and I got lots of compliments (which is always a good thing).

To finish off the accent nail I added two simple black rhinestones with a nice thick coat of Seche Vite.

Here we are at our Mothers Day lunch...

Enjoy your Sunday evening lovelies

Louise xx
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