Hello and an OPI Teal The Cows Come Home Konadicure!

Hello Everyone!!

I have been off line for nearly 2 weeks now! I didn't mean to be but I just didn't have a spare moment over Christmas and New Year.

I had such a lovely time. We made it to my hometown after all and I got to meet my newest nephew for the first time. He is absolutely gorgeous. I wanted to steal him.

I am very glum that it's all over :( but it's snowing really heavily here now so that's cheered me up a bit! Everywhere looks so much prettier with snow :)

I have had the same manicure on for about 10 days now and it still hasn't chipped! The photos below of it were taken about 2 days ago and the only way you can tell it's been on for so long is the nail growth at the base. I am very impressed :)

Here it is -

I used OPI's Teal the Cows Come Home as the main colour with Barry M's Silver sponged at the base of the nail, Sinful Color's Queen of Beauty at the tips and konad's white special polish for the stamp (M12). I topped it off with Konad's top coat.

This is another one that didn't quite turn out as expected, next time I'd put the snowman on first and put the glitter round it! I got lots of compliments about it though :)

Anyway, I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and Happy New Year!

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!

Christmas Decorations!

Hey!

This is another quick post and completely non polish related!

I thought I'd show you my Christmas Tree and other decorations :)

There is more stuff around the room but impossible to get a good shot!

I should maybe have turned the tv off :)

I'm sooooo excited for Christmas!