Pink, Pink and More Pink!

Hey everyone, welcome to today's post. Now my current obsession at the moment is pink! I recently purchased BarryM's 'shocking pink' which is an amazing bright pink colour, and I just can't stop looking at it! 

And to add to the amazingness of the 'shocking pink' I then purchased Superdrug's special birthday addition BarryM polish, which I am also in love with! 

The birthday addition is a really lovely pink polish, with added glitter. I've literally just used it on its own on my accent nail in the pictures, and I love that there's no need to have any sort of base colour to get the polish to stand out. 

I've also added some pictures of my own birthday nails from last week, using the shocking pink as the base colour. I then added some glitter to my middle nail and stripes using another new pink purchase from BarryM 'rose hip'. 'Rose Hip' is a gorgeous baby pink Gelly polish which is really pretty and girly. 

So to sum up...I love pink! And it's pretty clear to see that BarryM do a gorgeous selection of pink polishes and I love them all! 

Nicole x 
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Rose French Manicure

Hi everyone, welcome to todays post. Today I've got a lovely little rose mani for you to see. Now I know what your thinking... ('Not another one!') but I just love doing rose designs and they are just so pretty. Plus I want to show you how different each one can look, even though the elements of the mani are the same.

For my base colour I have used MUA's Pistachio Ice Cream, which I love so much! (And its only £1!!) and then I've used BarryM colours for the roses. 

I created the little white and pink blobs using my BarryM nail art pens. I then used a small nail art brush and BarryM's Key Lime for the leaves. You can see my rose print tutorial time here.

Now to make this mani different from the others I've created a french manicure style design by just adding the roses to the tips of my nails. I then created an accent nail by covering my ring finger nail with the roses.

So I hope you like todays mani. Return soon to see more!

Nicole x

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Tutorial time!!

Hi everyone! I'm back! I'm really sorry for the huge gap between post, but I was having a little break from blogging :) but I'm back now and I've got loads to show you and lots of exciting things in the pipeline too! 

Today's post is a little tutorial time, inspired by my last post 'purple and lilac'. Which is a nice simple little mani, which I like to call obvious ombré. Instead of a graduated ombré design, this is created by sectioning off the nail into three pieces and painting each piece a different shade.

For this mani I've used three turquoise shades, the darkest is BarryM's 'watermelon'. The middle colour used is Nails Inc 'belsize grove' and the lightest colour is MUA's 'pistachio ice cream' 

Start the mani off by choosing one of the colours as your base, it doesn't really matter which one you choose, but the easiest one to go with is probably your choice if middle colour, so in this case 'Belsize grove' 

Once this base colour is completely dry (leave as long as poss!!) you'll need some form of tape. I've used masking tape for my mani. Decide how thick you want your three sections of colour, remembering that for the best results the thickness will have to get smaller for each finger (your thumb being the biggest). 

The easiest way to do this is to cut strips off your tape and have them all ready and stuck on your nails before you actually start painting. Once you are prepared you can add your colours. Paint the small bottom section in your darkest chosen colour, and the lightest on the top section of nail. 

Remove the tape as soon as you finished each nail so the paint is still wet and you should be left with three coloured sections! 

I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial time, have fun with this mani and use any collection of colours you want to! They don't even have to be ombré, just go with random colours if you want! 

Thank you all for sticking with me through my 'dry spell' on the blog, but don't worry I'm back to regular blogging now! :)

Nicole x 

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Purple and Lilac

Hi everyone, welcome to today's post. Sorry about my few days absence! But I'm back now with a lovely little purple design. 

For this mani I've used BarryM's 'Plum' as the base colour, which is a lovely dark purple. And for the second layer I've used BarryM's 'Berry', which is a pretty lilac shade. 

I was going to do this post as a tutorial, but it's not really necessary as it's so simple to do! Literally just wait for your chosen base colour to be dry. Wait as long as you can for this! Then use tape to section half of your nail off, in any direction you fancy. Make sure the tape is completely stuck down and flat on your nail and then paint the exposed nail in a lighter colour. 

Peel back the tape and you should be left with a nice crisp line separating your two colours. 

So I wanted an accent nail (as usual!) but couldn't decide what to do, so I decided to go with some gems. I tried a few different patterns but in the end I covered my whole nail in them! Ha! 

To add the gems just add some top coat to your nail and use a cuticle stick to gently stick the gems into the wet top coat . Once you've finished just add some top coat on top to seal them down. And that's it! I hope you like today's design and make sure you come back soon to see more of my manis!  

Nicole x

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