Pedicure Time Featuring My Mum

Hello everyone :)

Today I have a new kind of post for you all. My mum works in  factory and operates machines, I always want to paint her nails but they chip after a day and she wont let me change them that often :P So we came to a compromise a while ago that I could paint her toenails every week instead, she wears flip flops quite often so people always notice when her toes are pretty :) I thought that I'd start sharing her pedicures with you all as we decide on some quite nice nail art together. It's a great bonding experience too :) So here's this weeks nails...

Please ignore my mums gross looking feet, she's just got in from work and wouldn't let me do anything with them before taking the photos :p Anyway, my mum told me she wanted red, white and blue nails and then let me run wild with what kind of nail art I wanted to do. So I decided on a jelly sandwich with an accent on the big toe nail.

I used three coats of China Glaze Ride The Waves for the blue nails, two coats of H&M Berry Love on the red toes and two coats of OPI Alpine Snow on the white toes as the base colours. I then applied one thick coat of Milani Gems on each nail. I then layered Ride The Waves over the top of the blue nails, OPI Big Hair...Big Nails over the red nails and OPI Don't Touch My Tutu over the white nails to create the jelly sandwich. I then created the cloud accent nail using one coat of Alpine Snow and one coat of H&M Berry Love. 

I honestly love how these turned out and so does my mu, she is always amazed at the ideas I come up with and is genuinely pleased everytime I paint her toes. She likes to show them off to her friends at work and tell me about all the comments she gets :P

Do you paint the nails of your friends and family? Let me know in the comments :)

Thanks for reading,

Summer Fun Challenge - Fun In The Sun

Hello everyone! :)

Today I have my final post from the Summer Fun Challenge. I was going to post this yesterday but the nails I did were pretty rubbish. I felt really uninspired and couldn't really think of anything to do, so I put off posting it and then an idea hit me this morning! So when I think of summer, one of the first things that comes to mind for me is nautical themed things. So what better thing to put on my nails :P

 I decided to use typical red, white and blue colours for these nails. With the trademark nautical stripes and an anchor as an accent nail.

I used two coats of H&M Berry Love as the base on the red nails and three coats of China Glaze Ride The Waves on the blue nails. I wanted to use jelly polishes and do a simple jelly sandwich to go underneath the stripes. I layered one coat of Barielle Starry Sky over all nails. I then added one more coat of Ride The Waves over the blue nails and two coats of OPI Big Hair...Big Nails over the red nails. I used Barielle Platinum Ring to create the anchor and white acrylic paint for the stripes.

I'm so happy with how these turned out! I'm so glad I waited to post because these nails are so much better than yesterdays :P I love how the glitter looks buried underneath the jelly polishes, it gives the nail art some depth and it's so beautiful in real life! Unfortunatley we're still lacking any summer sun at all in England so these nails look a little bit out of place :P

Thanks for reading :)

Summer Fun Challenge - Summer Stylin'

Hello everyone :)

Sorry about the lack of posts in the last few days, I've had a pretty rough weekend and didn;t really feel up to posting. You'll probably be able to tell when you see the nails I've done for this post. This is the second to last post in the Summer Fun Challenge. The theme was Summer Stylin' and I was drawing a complete blank, I didn;t feel inspired by anything I was thinking of so I left for a few days. However it didn't get better...

I decided that I would base my nails on what I thought of when I think of summer clothes. One of my earliest memories is of a lady I saw on Holiday once. We went to a party type thing at night time and she was really dressed up in a beautiful blue dress that was covered in glitter. it was beautiful and that dress always come to mind when summer time rolls around. So I based my nails on that dress :)

For these nails I used my two most recently purchased polishes. The base on all nails is three coats of China Glaze Ride The Waves; which I have fallen in love with! It applied beautifully and I can;t wait to use this for some more jelly sandwich nails soon! :) I then layered one thick coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust on the top.

I really love how pretty and sprakly these nails are. I wish I could have come up with something more interesting for you all to read, I have something great lined up for the last Summer Fun post though, so keep an eye out for that tomorrow!

Thanks for reading :)