Peace & Love

Later tonight I am going to a 40th birthday party and the fancy dress theme is 70's. I am going dressed as a hippie so I thought I would do these nails to match :)

I applied my basecoat and then 2 coats of Barry M White. I love this white, it covers completely in 2 coats and of course it isn't too expensive.

On my thumb and ring finger I did a gradient. For this gradient I used all Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes in colours Jade Jump, Brisk Blue and Presto Pink. For gradients I use the Konad black sponges.

On the thumb and ring finger that I had done the gradient on I then used Bundle Monster plate BM07 and Konad white polish to stamp a peace symbol.

Then on my index, middle and little finger I used Pueen plate Pueen01 and the same 3 Sally Hansen Insta-Dri colours I used for my gradient to stamp this heart pattern. I applied the colours to the stamping image and scraped as normal, but doing all this as quickly as possible. I then stamped the image so that the colours were going in the opposite direction to the gradient on my thumb and ring finger.

I then applied my topcoat, a bit disappointed because I smudged the peace symbol on my thumb :( but apart from that I think they are pretty good!

I hope you like them too :)

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Crocodile nails

Finally done crocodile nails! I have been wanting to do these for a while but I didn't have the right colour that I wanted for stamping, but my lovely new KIKO polishes came last week and I think it looks really good :)

I applied my basecoat and then two coats of China Glaze Westside Warrior. I love this colour, it is a dark khaki green but not too dark so it looks good against my skin colour, I think it would look amazing against any skin tone though!

The crocodile skin was created using the left scale pattern on Pueen plate Pueen10, this pattern looks like crocodile scales and I think the top scale pattern looks more like snakeskin (which I have previously used it for in this tutorial).

I stamped this image using a mixture of KIKO 627 Lime Green, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Coco A-Go-Go and Barry M Gold Foil Effect.

To get this effect I blobbed each colour on in random places on the image and I then used a dotting tool to just mix the colours together a bit so that they weren't all in one place and this is how it turned out :)

I applied my topcoat and here is the finished mani! I am very pleased with this mani, I think all the colours go well together and the image plate is amazing as are all the other Pueen images. Love it! :)

Hope you like this mani too and if you have any questions or anything to say then please comment below!

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Matte & Mirror

It has been a while since I used my matte top coat so here is my latest mani using it :)

First I applied my basecoat, I use Barry M basecoat, topcoat and nail hardener, I also use this as my topcoat. I then applied 2 coats of Barry M black. Quite pleased with how neat I managed to do this today :)

I then applied 1 coat of China Glaze Matte Magic. This topcoat gives a matte effect to any nail polish that it is painted over. I think I very much prefer black in matte than shiny, looks so good!

Once this had completely dried I then did some stamping :)

I first used Pueen plate Pueen13 and the very top pattern. I stamped this pattern on my middle and ring finger using KIKO 625 Emerald. I ordered a few of these mirror polishes from KIKO and as you can see they stamp really well, love them! Well worth buying them if you love to stamp.

I then used Konad black to stamp the french tips from Konad plate m19, I do this to get the nice clean line. I then painted over with Barry M black very carefully as just doing the stamping did not come out bold enough.

And this is the finished mani. I have done a similar mani to this before but I just think it is such an effective look and it looks a lot more difficult to do than it actually is :)

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Hidden Treasure

So I had been looking for ages for a lovely flakie top coat and I finally found Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure at a reasonable price. It has been discontinued and is very difficult to find.

This is the first mani I have done with it and I love it!

First I applied a base coat and then 2 coats of MUA I <3 U. Very nice nude colour with a pink tone it.

I then applied one coat of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure to each nail apart from the ring finger.

I then used Barry M Gold Foil with Pueen plate Pueen15. The Pueen plates are probably my favourite collection of nails plates. All the images are really pretty and they stamp very well.

And the finished mani looks like this. I really love Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, in my previous post I did swatches over a few different colours and it looks different over every single one. And in different lights you can keep seeing different colours in the flakes.

Will definitely be using this a lot more!

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New pretties with swatches!

So these are the lovely polishes I have had in the mail today, I have already done a mani using the Sally Hansen polish but I will do a separate post for that.

So first to show the different ways it can look I did one coat of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure on 5 different colours. From left to right they are: MUA I <3 U, China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint, Sally Hansen Fairy Teal, China Glaze Spontaneous and Barry M Black.

I love how different this flakie top coat looks on each colour and I think this is definitely my new favourite polish, love it!

It is now discontinued and is very hard to find, I found this for about £12 on eBay but I bought the last one so can't post the listing.

KIKO had a sale and I loved the mirror polishes and thought they would be good for stamping! I also got one normal colour which is the first colour on the left, the colours from left to right are: 281 Mango, 617 Taupe, 627 Lime Green, 625 Emerald, 623 Blue, 621 Violet and 619 Red Peony.

These are really lovely colours and the mirror polishes were all painted on in one coat!

And now are the swatches for how they are with stamping.

On the left is 617 Taupe and the right is 627 Lime Green. As you can see they both stamp well on white and black and look completely opaque on both which is really good!

On the left is 625 Emerald and on the right is 623 Blue. Again as you can see they both stamp really opaque and of course are really pretty colours.

These last two are on the left 621 Violet and on the right 619 Red Peony. And again really opaque and really pretty.

All these colours are really nice and they are brilliant for stamping! I am so excited to use them and I am sure I will be buying some more!

I got these from the KIKO UK website www.kikocosmetics.co.uk, they currently have a sale but am not sure when this sale finishes.

Thank you for looking at my post and hope this was helpful for anyone looking for any new polishes to buy :)