On the third day of pinktober, polish fairies gave to me...

This is quicky as it has been dog training night, and it is late. Oh, and I also have to watch the Jimmy Saville documentary, as if I don't I won't be able to join in chatting about it at work. For anyone reading this outside the UK he was a tv star when I was a slip of a lass, and always a bit creepy. Now, he has been outed as a bit of a charlie chester ( Child Molester) Personally I think Louie Theroux got to the bottom of this years ago, but hey, I wanna see.

Todays Colour is a foil from Color Club called Hot like Lava. It goes on like a dream and looks lovely. Hope you all like it :)

Its Pinktober

Its here! I love pink, its amazing, its wonderful and if at all possible I would wear it all the time forever.  This coupled with Breast Cancer having an effect on my family I couldn't resist joining in with pinktober.

The plan is to bring Breast Cancer to the forefront of peoples minds, get them to check their breasts and bring awareness to the forefront. So in an effort to support this my nails will be pink for October.

My first effort includes one of my favourite new polishes. Rose Quartz from the Barry M Jewels collection. I have used it on top of Color Club Sweet Hydrangea. Must amdit I have looked at these all day and admired my fingers, they are just so beautiful. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

Rainbow Nails

I was supposed to post these blogs weeks ago for the MSE - now NPAA challenge. But, unfortunately life got ahead of me and I had to focus on other things. But these darlings deserve an airing.

It is a water marble I did onto plastic again, and used lots of different brands. I think it looks adorable.

If you want to see what the other ladies have created, have a look here at our forum.

http://npaa.forumotion.co.uk/t12-rainbow-week

BFF Challenge - City

I have approached this one a little differently. I wanted to do a skyline, but, time ran away with me and to do it well I couldn't do it in the time. So, Instead I used my Color Club Raspberry Scented Neon along with Barry M Silver Hexagons.

I brought the Color Club polish in NYC when I was there last, and the Silver Hexagons remind me of all the lights at night sparking away. I think the effect is good and it smelt delicious, even though a coat of Seche Vite. 

Here are the others taking part in this challenge


Here are the other ladies taking part in the challenge

Thiamere of On Beauty Stuff & What Else's

Pram of My Nail Polish Addiction

Bec of Lacquer Dreams

Kerrie of PishPosh and Polish

Caitlin of Caitlin's Creative Corner

Emma of Manicurity

Alyssa of Fancy Phalanges

Sally Of Nail Pron

31 Days Nail Art Challenge #24 Inspired by a Book

Yesterday was a rubbish day, and even though I had planned my post I never had chance to make it. I apologise to the other challengers, it was never my intention to be late.

Anyway, enough grovelling lets get onto the nails.

I based my manicure on a book which touched the heart of someone I care alot about. It is called A Million Little Peices by James Frey. It is written as a memoir, although he has since admitted that it is partially fiction. The cover looks like this.

As I don't have a glitter which fits the bill properly I decided to mix my own and used a bit of Sinful Colors Opal Glitter, W7 Cosmic Green and Color Clubs Candy Cane and placed them over a base of Color Club French Tip. Here are the results

Here are the others who are taking part in the challenge.

31 Day Challenge #10 Gradient - Fail?

I think this is going to show me up a little. I am not very good with a sponge!

I have never attempted a gradient manicure before because I am not very good at gentle things. Give me a stamp or a sequin, glitter or some crystals and away, but the use of the sponge always eludes me. But I am not ashamed of making myself look a little foolish as we can't all be good at everything. So here is my crap gradient manicure.

If anyone reading knows where I am going wrong, please let me know. I have followed tutorials, and well, It just always looks rabbish.

Here are links to the blogs of other ladies who are following this challenge ( and can gradient manicure much better than me)

MSE Challenge Week 6 & 31 Day Challenge Day 6 - Black and White

Yesterday was a lucky day. Firstly my friend came back to work. This was an advantage in so many ways. Firstly, she does the same job as me so my workload got a little easier, Secondly she brought my nail mail home with her. Woo Woo! Thirdly, I don't like talking to people about 'stuff' and will tend to just keep it inside, so with everything that has been happening at the moment it is great being able to talk to someone who understands and trusts.

But no one wants to hear about that, so lets hit the nails. I am a lucky lass that these two collided as I was knackered yesterday. I was so knackered that I didn't realise they collided until I came to take the first one off to prepare to do black and white again. What a tard!

Anyway, I went for a bit of a retro pattern from a BBM stamp, and used

Color Club - French Tip White
Konad - Special Polish - Black

I really really loved this, although it doesn't come out as good in the pictures as it looked in real life.

The other people taking part in this challenge can be found at the following web address for the MSE'ers

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3779621

and are the following people for the 31 day challenge.




Now onto the exciting stuff.

Nail mail, woo hoo. I am lucky enough that my friend's parents live in Torremelinos, so I could have some Essence and Catrice delivered to them which where stupid expensive to post to me in the UK. I am forever grateful to them for accepting the parcels ( Although I have heard they were bemused about the whole thing)

So here are the pics, and the names of the polishes

Essence Twins
Romeo and Julia
Bella and Edward
Chuck and Blair
Gabriella and Troy

Catrice
Absolutely Chinchilly
Greys Kelly
Londons Weather Forecast
Aretha's R-E-S-Pink
Raspberry Fields Forever
Sold Out Forever
Khaki Perry

Catrice

Rusty But Sexy

Salmon and Garfunkel

Essence Color and Go

Time for Romance

Make it Golden

Essence Snow White

Evil Queen

Prince Charming ( I think this is a dupe for a NYC polish)

The Huntsman

Catrice Million Styles

Million Dollar Baby

If anyone has any more of the twins they don't want, please let me know as I would love the full set!

Neon Lights are Shining Bright - BFF Challenge

I love neon nail varnish. Infact the first varnish I brought last year after years on the waggon was a toma which was such a florescent pink it almost looked a little blue. Unfortunately that one died in a tragic accident on holiday in Fuerteventura where it was left in the sun and turned into more of a sticky lump than varnish.

My love for Neon's is so great that it took me ages to get this one right as I just wanted it to be amazing. In the end I settled with a skittle look using 5 different polishes and to make it stand out even more I put a stamp across the top using my DRK-A plate.

The polishes I have used are

Thumb - Absolute! Purple
Index - China Glaze - Turned Up Turquoise
Middle - Color Club - Raspberry Scented
Ring - Nina Ultra Pro - Blu Blaze
Little - China Glaze - Flip Flop Fantasy.

Without blowing my own trumped I LOVE how this has turned out.

If you can, please have a look at what the other ladies have come up with on the same theme.

Thiamere of On Beauty Stuff & What Else's

Pram of My Nail Polish Addiction

Bec of Lacquer Dreams

Kerrie of PishPosh and Polish

Caitlin of Caitlin's Creative Corner

Emma of Manicurity

Alyssa of Fancy Phalanges

Sally Of Nail Pron

31 Day Challenge - Day 3 - Yellow ( and awesome nail mail)

So it is day 3 and we are already on Yellow. Now for people who have read parts of my blog before it isn't my favourite colour by a long shot, but hey. I thought I would once again do my own interpretation of it. So I have gone for Yellow Gold :) See what I did there.

So, I have used two coats of Miss Sporty Gold Backstage and slipped over the top of it a couple of coats of Color Club Gingerbread. I think it looks quite nice. Although I could have done better as I painted my friends nails and work and used a coat of Barry M Gold Foil nail paint, a konad stamp of leopard print and then picked uot some of the spots using Gingerbread. It looked amazing, I just didn't have the camera with me to take pictures!

But now shall we get onto the exciting stuff? Woot Woot

Firstly are my first tip toes back into the world of Nails Inc. Must admit I loved Nails Inc in the past when I was a slip of a lass. But I liked it for the name and the formula was actually not something that suited me. But, I saw these babies and couldn't resist. I only got the two colours incase in didn't suit me anymore but the Pink Diamond was only £6.50 and the Emerald £8.50 with free delivery from www.Asos.com.

Now onto the next pretties. I have heard loads of good things about Kiko polish, but the only way to purchase it was to have a delivery more than £25. It took a few days to get my head around this because it meant buying a shed loads of polish. But hey, I have the room to store them and they were a fantastic price, so let me introduce you to...

278 Violet  Orchid Micro Glitter
255 Violet Micro Glitter
263 Dark Violet
320 Beige Mauve
381 Purple Grey
397 Kiko Duochrome Aureus Pomegranete
228 Sparkle Transparent Microglitter
388 Carribean Green

 and....

260 Metallic Pink Microglitter
277 Blueberry Glitter
361 Raspberry Pink
383 Oil Blue
300 Pearly Malachite Green
339 Cornflower
267 Sky Blue

For anyone interested I ordered them from http://www.kikocosmetics.com.

Please take a look at the other people taking part in this challenge.

31 Day Challenge, Day 2 - Orange

Day two was here so quickly! But I am prepared and already had ideas in my mind ( and it still isn't water marbling day, where my fingers will look like a toddler has been let loose with soppy crayons on me)

So, I decided to go for a pretty orange, and to Jazz it up a bit. So, out came the stamping kit. I am a bit of a sucker for stamping and it was how I originally got suckered into this dark world of being a polish aholic.

Last October I went on holiday and at the time I had about 9 pink nail varnishes. When I came back my Hubby's Auntie suggested dotting tools and since then the obsession has flown. On last count I had 278 polishes ( not including the 16 on the way from Kiko, 23 from my friend in Spain and the 14 Hits I am yet to add to the list)

But, onto the challenge. The polishes I have used are...

Collection 2000 - Fruit Salad. This is a creme coral/pale orange colour. Infact the first orange I ever wore as up until this point I swore I would NEVER wear orange nail varnish.
Konad Special Nail Paint in White for the stamp
Colour Club - Sugarplum Fairy for accent dots around the stamp.

Here are some others who are doing the challenge with me.