Color Club NOTD

So just another quick NOTD. This time featuring Color Clubs High Society.

This is a lovely colour along the same lines as Metro Chic and Call Your Mother, but slightly lighter.
The formula is OK, slightly on the thin side and needs three coats for it to be nice and opaque. It is not streaky though which is great.
It is also lovely and cheap, I think they are about $2 or so from trans design. I feel like they are the American equivalent of Barry M polishes, cheap and cheerful, but with a wider colour selection and are even cheaper!

China Glaze NOTD

Just a quick NOTD post. This is China Glaze, Starboard from the Anchors Away collection.
The formula on this is lovely, nice and thick and great after two coats, although I still did three. I also love the colour of this. I'm not normally one for green nails as they don't really suit me but I love this colour!

First attempt at water marbling

So after watching a few tutorials on YouTube on water marbling, I decided to give it a go. I used Essie Angora Cardi, Color Club High Society and China Glaze Below Deck. Here is how it turned out:

First off, oh my gosh I knew my hands where dry but I never realised my cuticle/nail bed where that disgusting!
That aside I am pretty happy with how this turned out. I like my ring finger the best, but I think my pinkie is quite quite too.
My middle finger has a huge dent in it where I got a water bubble and didn't fix it properly.
I also like the colour selection, but I think I chose colours too similar so next time I try it I will use more contrasting colours.

The process itself was really easy, but it was very messy to clean up. I put tape underneath the nail around my finger to make cleaning up a bit easier, but I still got a lot of polish around my fingers, and when trying to remove it I ended up with bruised looking fingers! Will definitely be trying this again!

I'm going home! And NOTD

It is very early on a Saturday morning as I start work at 8am today. None of that matters though because I get to go visit my parents for 9 days!

Me and my mum will be getting our hair done and going to Covent Garden and I will get to see my old work friends on my way home after work tonight and lets not forget about all the parcels waiting for me! Hopefully a Trans Design order, some Sugarpill and some ebay purchases!

So a very excited and happy me today!

To keep this beauty related, here is a NOTD, because I am a bit too obsessed with them at the moment.

So from left to right starting with the thumb we have:
Barry M - Berry Ice Cream
Models Own - Dove Grey
China Glaze - Something Sweet
Essie - Mint Candy Apple
Models Own - Utopia
And the polka dots where done using my Models Own nail art pen. Have a great weekend!

Love/Hate Nails

So here we have my second attempt at nail art (please excuse the very messy cuticles) :

Despite how messy and wonky they are, I still love them! It's so nice to have something a little bit different at work where I am only allowed to wear black.
For the base I used Models Own Utopia, I had to do 3 coats because it went a tiny bit streaky. For the writing and the black heart I used my Models Own/Wah nail art pen and for the red heart I used my OPI Off With Her Red.
It's stupid how excited about nail art I am at the minute, I'm thinking about my valentines day manicure already!

My first attempt at nail art

So here is my first attempt at nail art. I used O.P.I's Off With Her Red for the red, and for the polka dots I used the Models Own nail art pens.

The black splodges are meant to be bows, inspired by Minnie Mouse, nice and tacky.

I also have lots of nice nail varnish all over my skin, how sexy.

Despite all the spolodgyness of this manicure, I still really like it and I'm proud of myself. Its a little different and it is a really nice talking point.

I am quite impressed with the models own nail art pens, they are a lot easier to use then a lot of other nail art type stuff I have tried.
Hopefully I will get better at this whole nail art shebang and have some better pictures to show you soon. I will also give the Models Own pens more of a whirl and hopefully have a review up soon!

But what do you think about nail art, tacky or creative?

Candy Nails

So its miserable and wet outside, to cheer myself up I thought I would paint my nails in Spring/Summer pastels. I also thought I would do something a bit different and go for a accent nail, its sickeningly sweet, but I love it.

My nails are pretty short at the moment because I got stressed and bit them all off (bad habit of mine) and that put me off painting them for a while, but I'm glad to be back on the wagon!
I used China Glaze Something Sweet for the pink, and the blue is China Glaze For Audrey.

Tacky NOTD

So I love a bit of tackyness, and you can't get much tackier than pink and purple nails, so here is what I came up with.

I'm quite impressed with how neat the tips are considering I never do French manicure style nails. The pink is China Glaze Sugar High and the purple tips are Sephora by OPI Domestic Goddess. I used two coats of the pink and one for the tips. It didn't last long however, by the end of the day I had major chips.

NOTD - Essie Angora Cardi

So here is a sloppy picture of Essies Angora Cardi. I love this colour, I think its perfect for this type of weather as well.
The formula on this is amazing, its lovely and opaque, and not streaky. I normally do three coats of whatever polish I wear, but this is only after two coats, so you can see how opaque it is.
I'm not quite sure why, but I always lust after Essie polishes, despite the fact that I know most the time the formula is pretty poor. But when they get it right, they get it really right!

Interview nails and face of the day

So today's nails and face are very boring because I was applying for a job in a office. I'm hoping for the job because it sounds amazing so fingers crossed eh.

Anyway, the nails are Models Own in Nude Beige. This is the perfect office nude colour and I rely on it a lot for the interviews. Its just a lovely taupe nude colour, and as you can see from the picture it is very glossy. I don't even have a topcoat on in that picture and it has that amount of shine, great for giving that groomed hands effect.

My face is just my normal foundation and concealer, the eyes are very matte. The products I used are all from MAC, as a highlight colour I used blanc type, brulee all over the lid, wedge in the crease and sketch to deepen the crease. I also used a gel eyeliner to do a very thin layer of eyeliner and lots of mascara.

Lips are lined with sublime lip pencil with hug me lipstick on top and I also have oh so fair beauty powder on as a blush. So very plain and simple, doesn't look like I am wearing much in the picture but just makes everything pretty.

Grey NOTD

Have a nice blurry picture! At least it shows the colour properly for once... So this is Models Own in Misty Grey, it grey outside so it's only fitting that my nails should be grey.

The formula on this is lovely, it only needs two coats but I always do three coats. I think Models Own nail polishes are over taking Barry M as my cheap and cheerful nail varnish. Barry M may only be £3, but if you buy 5 models own nail varnishes at once they work out to £3.60 each, for a considerably more amount of product then Barry M polishes.

Models Own often have really good discount codes as well. I'm waiting for the next 50% off one to do another haul, but I know if you like their facebook page you can get 10% off which isn't bad either.