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

Layla Holograms

Good evening lovelies.

Tonight I am going to show you three stunning hologram polishes by Layla. These were another Christmas gift and I am so pleased with them - Thanks Faye H :-)

I am not sure I can do them justice with my pictures as the spectrum of colours I can see in real life is amazing but I will do my best...

In order to show you all these beauties at the same time I decided to try out a hologram skittle style manicure. On my little finger and thumb I used Flash Black. Absolutley my favourite out of the three :-)

For my ring and middle fingers I used Mercury Twilight. This is the one is that did not photograph so well but trust me when I say it is beautiful in real life. Every colour under the sun is hiding in this polish and it shimmers perfectly from whatever angle you catch it at.

Finally on my index finger I used Coral Glam which is a beautiful pale pink shade with a subtle silver hologram effect.

I could not bring myself to stsamp over these polishes so instead I added just one flower shaped rhinestone to each nail. These pretty little sparkles were one of many presents in a gift bag from my friend Carole - see I told you I had been spoilt rotten :-)



I hope you enjoyed this hologram goodness as much as I did - I am sure I will be purchasing more polishes from this collection in the very near future - Emerald Divine is calling my name.

Louise xx

Christmas Nails: Snowflakes

Good evening lovelies!

Tonight I thought I would finally take the plunge and feature some festive nails! I am starting with these pretty snowflake inspired nails. Completely appropriate as we saw our first (very small) flutter of snow right here in Norfolk yesterday :-)

I started with two thin coats of No 7 Sing the Blues. It has a really nice almost metallic edge to the finish.

I then stamped this snowflake design from BM 323 using Konad White. For a little something special I then added a silver holo sequin to the centre of each large snowflake.

Lastly I added a layer of my new hologram top Northern Lights in Silver. It has only just arrived in the post and was perfect for this manicure. I couldn't be happier with it. I also bought it in Gold so I look forward to trying that out soon.

Just look at all that hologram shimmery goodness :-)

This isnt the most original manicure but I love it and my sister has asked me to create a version of this for her Christmas Day manicure.

Hope you enjoyed my first festive manicure. I am sure there will be many more over the next few weeks!

Louise xx