I'm Swatching You: St. Geroge by a-england

Guys, I'm in love. Not with someone tall, dark and handsome (as welcome as that would be) but with this St. George. I'd seen swatches around the blogosphere and so I went to the a-england website and by lucky happenstance it coincided with when they were having their sale. Usually I don't like paying more than a fiver but for this polish I decided I'd take the plunge and get it. On sale for £6 (down from £9) with free shipping I thought this was a pretty sweet deal.

St George is an intensely pigmented teal that has a real depth to it, and a subtle holographic shimmer.

LET THE PICSPAM COMMENCE

Ughhhhh so beautiful.

The amazing thing is it's not too in your face. It's classy; in most dim lights it's a dark forest-y green but then you hit bright sunlight or bright artificial light and BAM wowowow there's that holo shimmer the deep, gorgeous teal. Eyegasm.

Have a wicked day x

Fantasy Fire how I love thee

Urgh I have so many feels for this colour. It's like as purple sheer base with gold and purple and duochrome green-gold flecks in and it is basically the bees fucking knees. Just look at it! So pretty. I chose to layer it over 'misstique' by missguided to try and bring out the bluey green side of the duochrome and really it looked bloody amazing. In bright and natural lights I just couldn't stop gazing at my nails they were so beautiful

More pics down there >>>

I'm Swatching You: Maybelline MNY Shimmery purple

This was on sale for only £2 in Asda so I grabbed the colour I liked best. 'Shimmery Purple' is a sort of fuschia-pink tinted purple with a purple shimmer. The formula was really great, this is two coats which went on easily (the bad clean-up is my fault haha)

Then because I am never satisfied with anything I used Rimmel 239 Your Majesty to make leopard nails with my Bundle Monster stamp. I thought it was really pretty :)

Have a wicked day x

Cracked mirror effect nails! Konadicure #2

Hellooooo! I'm currently in the middle of trying to pull an all-nighter because I have a particularly unwanted psychology exam tomorrow morning (today technically I suppose) which I am not prepared for. To try and keep myself awake here's a picture-heavy post of a mani I did the other day.

It's two coats of modelsown Sterling Silver as a base (love this silver foil) then stamped with a Bundle Monster plate (208) to produce this cracked-mirror effect. I adore it! It looks so cool and interesting :')

More pictures after the jump

Rainbow nails! ((fun with acrylics))

Hi my lovely lacqueristas (and...I wonder what the masculine is? lacqueristo? you too my friend!) I want to show you some of my herp-derping around with my new acrylic paints. I bought them a couple of weeks ago and have only really used them once or twice and today I was feeling pretty adventurous.

So I thought whoo let's do this! Time for some full on nail 'art' :p

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Iridescent flakies! Modelsown Snowflakes over Maybelline Onyx

I was really desperate to try out Snowflakes because I love iridescent things. You remember that crackly craft plastic that was all iridescent and gorgeous? The one you can buy from Hobbycraft? No :( Aww, well I do. And also look how pretty it is in the bottle!

Arghh so gorgeous! 

More after the jump

Glitter gradient! Models own Dancing Queen and Missguided Misstique

Hiya! Hope you're having a lovely relaxing weekend. I had two exams (General Studies which was pretty hilarious and a bit of a doss, and Biology) on Friday so what better way to celebrate than with a bit of retail therapy!

I picked up five Models Own polishes because I happened to be passing by a Boots store. (From left to right) I chose Dancing Queen, Snowflakes, Aqua Violet, Sterling Silver and Goldrush

Frst attempt at gradient nails!

Success? Dubious.

I basically was attempting to avoid doing any real revision for my exams tomorrow and so turned to the joyous experience of painting my nails.

I found this really messy to do but it was still quite fun. Unfortunately the sponges I were using were quite cheap so little bits kept coming off on my nail! Also apologies for the bad quality of the picture and the annoying filter. My digital camera refused to pick up the colours at all and it's better seen with a filter.

Rimmel Green With Envy avec a rhinestone chevron

Sadly, my awesome Hobbit nailart began to peel off this afternoon which incidentally coincided with me discovering a stash of nail polishes that I'd forgotten I even had! Score ;) Among them was a wonderful teal-y shade 'Green with Envy' from the 60 seconds collection.

It's a wonderful glittery metallic teal and depending on the lighting can lean far more towards green, and othertimes look far more blue.

I finished off the look with a little chevron of green rhinestones on both index fingers. Weirdly though they must reflect off the polish because in most lights they look teal on the nail.

The Hobbit inspired nails!

I'm in love with the works of Tolkien and so what better way for one recently obsessed with nail-art to show it! I used the same primark dark blue as in my Konadicure, a max factor mini nail polish in gold, and konad special polish red.

I'm super happy with how these came out...although don't ask to see pics of the right hand they're horrific! I really need to work on my ambidextrous skills ;)

Konadicure!

This was a really fun one as I'm still so entranced by the intricate designs you can achieve with the konad stamping kit!
I used a primark dark blue polish (I don't think it has a name!) for the base on all the nails and then covered my thumb and accent nail in a coat of  "Hedys Manishma Holographic Nail Polish Space Silver"

Then on all my other nails I used bundle monster plate 203 and stamped with Konad special polish in silver

Then I finished it all with a layer of topcoat and voila. An easy and quick design that is super fun!

Introductory Post

Hi! I'm Lauren, I'm 18 and I'm a nail art enthusiast! 

I'm not very good yet and I don't have the biggest collection but I love trying fun and creative things, even if they turn out a bit shit the first time ;)

 

As a quick example here's some manis I've done in the past few weeks! Enjoy!