Blue Tartan - 16 June 2014

Blue Tartan - 16 June 2014

Using China Glaze Bahamian Escape as the main base colour and Nanacoco White as Snow on the ring finger. Acrylic paint was used to make the tartan lines.

 Not happy with the ring finger lines, a bit wonky near the free edge.

Red Flower Decal Skittlette - 13 June 2014

13 June 2014

A skittle manicure here using water decals again from AliExpress.  Obviously filed my nails down to squoval! I wonder why I did that, so long ago I can't remember.  Anyway I liked this manicure, almost, I did not like the pointer finger. I wish I hadn't done spots on it, or maybe should have done them smaller. Oh well it turned ok'ish. 

As always I used OPI Nail envy for base coat and Seche Vite for top coat.

Born Pretty Store Prize Won on Instagram

8 June 2014

I won a prize from Born Pretty Store last June 2014.  I never got around to blog about it. I've never won anything, this was so cool.  My favourite items, nail water decals.
WARNING: PICTURE HEAVY

Matte Plum with Decals - 4 June 2014

4 June 2014

Ok, so this manicure is using the LA Girl Matte polish in Matte Plum with some nail water decals I got from AliExpress.

I love the colour combination of plum with blue.

I also used a Matte polish from **Born Pretty Store on top of the manicure to make it more mattified.

The manicure looks satin finish, but that is because of the cuticle oil (from my previous post).
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Home Made Cuticle Oil - 8 April 2014

Ok, am on catch-up here.

I have not blogged seriously since about June last year.
Life, work and family took over. I also lost the passion for blogging.  So having read so many blogger articles especially the one by The Crumpet here, I took a break.  A lonnnnng break.

But I feel like I want to log all my photos somehow, so am going to try to write very short posts and hope to post all my nails since last year.

It is going to be a lengthy process, but this post is a start.

Sooo....

Last year my daughter and I ventured into making our own cuticle oil.  The recipe is the very popular one found on the web and it turned out really well. (I don't have recipe to hand, but once I find it, will make a new post).

We have been using it all the time and it is a god send to those dry cuticles.
Once made we did the naked nail challenge.
pic. 1 day 1 without oil

pic. 2 day 1 with oil

pic. 3 day 2 with oil
The nails look slightly bruised, they were a bit painful too, not having polish on I guess they took in more water?? You can also see that they have gone slightly out of shape and appear longer? I guess again because they are naked they are prone to "soaking" in more liquid.

pic. 4 day 3 with oil
Again they felt a little painful, but the bruising seems to have gone down.  They soak up the oil so quickly, I was using it 3-4 times a day if not more.

pic. 5 day 4
Shape getting back to that of day 1 now, and not so bruised. Still soaking up the oil.

pic. 6 day 4
Change of nail shape, I decided to go slightly stiletto shape. I really like this shape.