Contest Entry

This is a VERY quick post to show you my entry to the China Glaze and Seche Vite contest!

You can vote for your favourite here. I'm not asking you to vote for me, vote for whichever one you like best!! Not even I have voted for my own :)

Here's my entry -

The contest was to do a manicure using only China Glaze and Seche Vite products. I have to admit I very nearly didn't enter because without konad I am truly bad at nail art but in the end I thought 'give it a go'!

I used China Glaze's Coconut Kiss for the base and the circles were done using a brush protector and CG's Emerald Sparkle, Ruby Pumps 2Nite and Sexy in the City. There's also a bit of Fairy Dust on there too! Top coat was of course Seche Vite :)

So get voting people! There are some really fabulous entries so good luck deciding who to vote for!!

Here's the link again - Nail Contest

Valentine's Nails - C2000 Vixen

Hey,

It's the weekend! Yay! Not only is it the weekend, it's Valentine's weekend! I know lots of people are very anti Valentine's Day but I can't help it, I love it!

I have done my nails for the occasion but they're not at all what I had planned. I was going to do a konadicure but I just haven't had the time so they are just very basic and simple!

I used Collection 2000's Vixen (very appropriate name I felt!) topped with a coat of China Glaze's Fairy Dust and then a coat of Sally Hansen's Strobe Light.

I have to say that it was IMPOSSIBLE to capture the true colour of this polish. I got very frustrated trying because it's such a gorgeous bright fuschia. It looks far more red in some of the pictures than it actually is.

The last picture shows the true colour as best I could get it!

So, I love it, even if it is a bit uninspired :)

I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow, it's all a surprise but I'm very excited!

I hope everyone has a good weekend and for those celebrating it - a fab Valentine's Day!

Yes, it's another Emerald Sparkle Manicure!

Hello!

I have redone my nails again after ruining the last manicure by cleaning the bathroom!

I did consider using something else other than China Glaze's Emerald Sparkle but only for about 10 seconds :) It's just such a perfect Christmas colour that I just can't not have it on for Christmas day.

This time I put a coat of Sinful Color's All About You over the top and then a coat of China Glaze's Fairy Dust over the top of that. So basically the same as the manicure I did about 3 posts back but this time with Emerald Sparkle instead of Watermelon Rind and plus I added some rhinestones!

Here's how it looks -

My cuticles are messier than usual because I haven't tidied them up properly yet! Had to take pictures and do this post now though as I won't have time later.

This will be my last post until after Christmas and possibly the New Year as I may be going back to my hometown next week.

So Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Holidays to those of you who don't celebrate Christmas! I hope everyone has a great time and gets to relax, eat lots and most importantly - laugh! xx

China Glaze's Emerald Sparkle and a couple of dodgy manicures!

Hey!

Today I thought I'd show you a couple of manicures I've done this week that didn't really turn out as I expected.

Both times they were meant to be festive manicures but both times they didn't really turn out quite as I had imagined in my head!

The first one was a french manicure using China Glaze's Emerald Sparkle (thank you Judy!), Sinful Colors All About You, CG Fairy Dust and CG Ruby Pumps for the Konad Stamp.
 

This didn't stay on long because it just didn't look quite right to me... I think I need to get a better red for konading!

Next I tried a manicure using pretty much the same polishes again apart from Fairy Dust -

(China Glaze Emerald Sparkle and Ruby Pumps with Sinful Colors All About You)

Again, this just didn't quite work for me! Rather than look festive I think it looks more like a flag of some sort!

So not much success for me there! Before I did either of those though I did try out Emerald Sparkle on it's own -

SUCH a gorgeous green! Absolutely love it.

The snow here is so bad at the moment! I wished for snow so much but it's a classic case of be careful what you wish for! It'd be ok if we didn't need to go out but we don't have the turkey yet!!! I hope it slows down enough for us to go get it tomorrow.

Lastly here are a couple of really short videos for you. The first one is my 2 cats, Bobo and Barnaby, doing their favourite thing - wrestling!

About 2 seconds after I stopped filming Bobo fell off the bed and they both dashed off on a mad gallivant around the house!

Lastly, I saw this video of someone else's cat and it's so cute and funny!!

A Christmassy Manicure!

Hi!

I was inspired by this post here on Beautopia's blog to do a Christmas tree inspired manicure.

I did this manicure last night and I used China Glaze's Watermelon Rind as I didn't have Emerald Sparkle but then guess what arrived in the post this morning?? My swap package from Beauty Judy containing Emerald Sparkle!! More about that package in a later post. I so wish I'd waited because Emerald Sparkle is so much more a Christmassy green!

Anyway I used CG's Watermelon Rind with a layer of Sinful Color's All About You over the top and then, because I didn't feel it was quite sparkly enough, I added a layer of CG's Fairy Dust as well.

Here's the result -

I couldn't really get a good shot of how sparkly and festive it actually looks! Silly dark and gloomy weather!! You will have to trust me when I say that in person the gold comes through a lot more and it looks very Christmassy! Maz made more ooohhs and ahhhs over it than he has anything in a while....*cough, cough* ahem, when it comes to nail polish that is.

Also since I last posted I've become an Aunty again! My brother and his wife had a baby boy who they've called Benjamin. He is absolutely gorgeous and I have already spent far too much time looking at baby clothes/things! I can't wait to meet him but in the meantime my brother is keeping me up to date with lots of pictures.

Here he is -

Isn't he absolutely gorgeous!

I will be posting again later to show you my fantastic swap package from Beauty Judy!

It's nearly Christmas!!! Wahoo!