Lazy Days Of Summer Challenge - Summer Ombre

Hello everyone :)

Today I have the second post for the Lazy Days Of Summer Challenge! The theme for this post was Summer Ombre. I've done several ombre manicures before so I wanted to do something a bit different this time. I was thinking of different colour schemes I could use and then it hit me. I wanted to do an ombre with different types of polish, glitter, shimmer etc.. rather than just cremes. Up until recently I hated ombre's that weren't all creme polishes but now I'm loving them! So here's what I did...

I decided to do a green to blue/teal ombre as these colours always remind me of summer and the sea :) So I picked these colours based on that theme. I think they're rather fitting :) I also decided that I wanted to just sponge the polish onto the tips of my nails and fade to the bottom to give a different effect.

From top to bottom the polishes I used were Color Club Perfect Mol-Ten, Color Club Holiday Splendor, Essence Twins Bella and Zoya Charla. I wish I'd used a base colour on my nails as in these pictures there is some nail line visible. This wasn't the case in real life however :)

I really like how these came out, I've fallen in love with using different types of polish in ombres and will definitely be doing more of this in the upcoming months. 

Do you like ombres using just cremes? or different types of polish? Let me know in the comments :)

Thanks for reading :)

Essence Twins Bella & China Glaze Ray-diant

Hello everyone :)
I thought I'd post about my nails from last week before I put this weeks challenge nails up. My boyfriend bought me some new China Glaze polishes last weekend, two of the magnetics and one of the prismatics and I couldn't wait to try them out. I wanted to layer Ray-diant as I prefer how the prismatics look layered compared to on their own. So here's what I used...

I used two coats of Essence Twins Bella for the base on all nails and then layered one thick coat of China Glaze Ray-diant on top. I really love how this turned out. Me and my mum describe these nails as looking like a Sari because of the colour and the multi coloured glitter scattered through Ray-diant. It looked beautiful. I can't wait to try this polish with different coloured bases, I think that the multi coloured glitter will pop with other colours.

Do you own any of the prismatics from China Glaze? If so how do you wear them and with what colours? Let me know in the comments :)

Thanks for reading :)
Charlotte xxx