Winter and Christmas Nail Art!

Hello everyone!

Because I've been so busy at uni recently I've deiced I'm going to start practicing some nail art on nail wheels to show you all. Hopefully this will make it easier for me to post more regularly until all my deadlines are out of the way. I've recently become really uninspired and not really wanted to do much nail art but over the weekend I thought of some really cute ideas, so here they are....

So these are my Christmas/Winter inspired nails. From left to right - Snowflakes! A ginger bread man. A Christmas wreath with berries. A festive Christmas tree an of course a beautifully wrapped present complete with tag! I have many more ideas to finish this wheel off and will keep posting my ideas as and when I complete each set :) 

Anyway, let's take a closer look at this nail art!

 

Snowflake Nails:

So first up we have the snowflake nail art! I used two coats of OPI What's With The Cattitude? for the base colour. This blue is absolutely perfect for this kind of nail art, it's a beautiful wintery blue. I then added one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust on top but you can't see it on the picture! :( I then used a small nail art brush and Barry M White to draw the snowflake in the top corner of the nail. I then added different sized dots of Barielle Platinum ring with dotting tools.

 

Ginger Bread Man Nails:

For the ginger bread man I used three coats of China Glaze I Herd That for the base, as the colours in the glitter really reminded me of gingerbread and just Christmas in general! I then used Sally Hansen Iced coffee to create the gingerbread mans body with a small nail art brush. Then using a small dotting tool, I added Barry M White and Essie Tour De Finance to create the eyes, smile and buttons.

Sorry about the blurry picture! My camera really doesn't want to co-operate with the crappy weather we're having in England at the minute! :( 

 

Wreath Nails: 

For the wreath nails I used two coats of H&M Berry Love as the base as red always reminds me of Christmas time as well. I then used OPI Don't Mess With OPI and Sally Hansen Going Green to create the leaves of the wreath with a small nail art brush. I then added a small circle to the middle with China Glaze Mahogany Magic and the berries with a small dotting tool using Barry M raspberry.

 

Christmas Tree Nails:

The Christmas Tree nail art was created by using two coast of Barry M White for the base and one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust over the top to give the illusion of glittering snow in the background. I then used OPI Don't mess with OPI and a small nail art brush to create the shape of the tree. I then added two coats of Barry M Amythest Glitter on to the top of the tree as it reminded me of twinkling Christmas lights :)

 

Christmas Present Nails:

The Christmas present was probably the easiest of the lot to create.. I used two coats of OPI Pink Friday for the base and free handed the ribbon on with Barielle Platinum Ring and the normal polish brush. I then used a small nail art brush to create the tag with Barry M White.

I hope you enjoyed my latest nail art and I hope you all don't mind I'm using my nail wheels for the next two weeks or so until my assignments are over.

Please feel free to leave me comments below, I love hearing your opinions :)

Thanks for reading :)

Blog sale!

Hello everyone!

Today I have a blog sale for you! It's not amazing but there's some great brands and great polishes on here going for super cheap so please take a look :) At this time I'm only shipping within the UK, postage will be £2.50 regardless of how many polishes you want.

if you see anything you like please either leave a comment on this post or email me at : charlottes-nails@live.co.uk with the polishes you are interested in and I'll get back to you :)

Each polish will have a letter next to it so you know it's condition, 1x - Worn once etc... BN - Brand new, never used. S - Swatched either on one nail or a nail wheel.

Hot looks polishes - Big Hair (S) £1.00 Candy Floss (2x) £0.75 Dynasty (BN) £1.50 Fruit Salad (3x) £0.50 Fruit Loop (1x) £1.00 Lemon Soda (1x) £1.00

Hot looks polishes - BMX Bandit (3x) £0.75 Button Moon (3x) £0.75 Boho (S) £1.00 Blue Hawaii (2x) £0.75 Spangles (2x) £0.75 Ninja (BN) £1.50 Shameless (1x) £1.00

Collection 2000 Green with envy (1x) £1.50 MeMeMe Alluring (S) £3.00 MeMeMe Delicate (S) £3.00 Rimmel Black Cherries (1x) £1.50 Julep Diane (S) £4.00

China Glaze Love Marilyn (4x) £2.00 China Glaze Champagne Bubbles (S) £3.50 Sinful Colors Adventure Island (S) £2.00 Models Own Purple Blue (S) £3.00 Models Own Emerald Black (1x) £3.00

Revlon Galaxy (BN) £4.00 Revlon Facets of Fuchsia (1x) £3.50 Spoiled Ants In My Pants (S) £2.00 Spoiled Shuffle The Deck (S) £2.00

Thanks for reading :)

China Glaze Deviantly Daring Swatches

Hello everyone!

Just a quick post from me today. I went on a massive nail polish haul yesterday, oops! :P I visited my local beauty supply and almost cried when I spotted the New Bohemian collection from China Glaze. I only picked up Deviantly Daring though as I'd nearly ran out of money at this point :( So here it is!

This polish is truly beautiful. It's a beautiful blue teal that flashes green in certain lights. It reminds me of Zoya Charla without the glass flecks.

I used two coats of Deviantly Daring for all these swatches, however you could definitely get away with one coat. The application was flawless, I'd liken it to spreading butter :P I think this polish really speaks for itself in the pictures, it's so gorgeous! I just can't stop staring at my nails, I'll be doing something and I'll catch a flash of green and have to have another look at them :P

I'm so glad I picked this beauty up. If you haven't already bought this, then run and do it now!! You seriously won't regret it! :)

Thanks for reading :)

My Stash

Hello everyone :)

Today I have quite a long post for you all. I thought it was about time to show you pictures of all my polish, especially since my collection has expanded rather a lot since I started blogging :P This post is picture heavy so I'll post pictures after the jump...

The Hunger Games - Girl On Fire Nails

Hello everyone! :)
I'm off to see The Hunger Games with my boyfriend tonight. So last night I sat down and thought about what to do with my nails. I wanted to recreate the Mockingjay but I knew I'd never be able to do it without it looking like a huge blobby mess so I settled on Katniss inspired flame nails instead. So here's a look at what I did...

My clean up job on these was rubbish but I needed to get the pictures on here, I was so excited! :P

I used two coats of China Glaze Smoke and Ashes as the base and then topped with my matte top coat. I then drew random flame like shapes on my nails using two coats of H&M Berry Love. I then added two coats of China Glaze Riveting on top of the red but made sure to leave some red polish showing. I then added a further two coats of China Glaze Happy Go Lucky and again left some of the underneath polish showing. This shows the layering of the colours and makes it look fire like. I then topped the flames with one coat of China Glaze Electrify, which I think makes the flames look more alive like the sparks you get coming off fire. I then added a regular topcoat over the flames and matte topcoat on the ring finger nail.

I uploaded this picture onto twitter and pinterest last night and I got the most repins I think I've ever gotten :P I think the colours in this picture really bring out the flames and I just love how it looks.

For this nail art I just used the brush included with the polish, no special tools or anything. I'm thinking about making a tutorial if anyone is interested? Let me know in the comments :)

Thanks for reading :)

Charlotte xxx

Secret Santa :)

Hello all :)

Just an update post really about the Secret Santa we've been doing over at the Polish-aholics Anonymous group on facebook. I sent out my parcel last week to the lovely Joy Cozart - http://okaynowjoy.blogspot.com/ (You can see her post on all the goodies I sent her over on her blog) I also received my parcel yesterday from Emma Hoop...

When I opened the box and saw all of these goodies I honestly couldn't contain myself. I had to literally make myself take photo's before tearing into everything :P She also included a beautiful hand written note explaining all the polishes which I thought was lovely :)

There was a $15 dollar limit and I am honestly amazed at the stuff you can get for that price in America as $15 dollars is roughly £9/10 in the UK and polish is a lot more expensive over here. I loved everything. I got Milani Gems, Milani Hi-Tech, China Glaze Skyscraper (Which was a huge lemming of mine) and a white glitter snowman :) She also threw in a Hello Kitty Xmas tree bauble which I am in love with :P I also got a cute stocking and a lovely pink nail file.

I absolutely loved taking part in this years Secret Santa and will definitely be doing it again next year :)

Charlotte xx