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 :)

Superheros Challenge!

Hello everyone!
Today I have the first post of the new Superhero Challenge! I'll be posting twice a week for this challenge, there will be a villains post on Tuesdays and a Hero's post on Thursdays :) This challenge was created by Jo from Northern Nails and she kindly invited me to take part. This challenge is right up my street and I was so excited to be asked to be a part of it :) So here's what the challenge posts will be...

 

So for today's post I have a Marvel Villain!

It took me a while to choose as I didn't realize just how many characters there are :P Finally I settled on one I liked the look of and knew I could create something unique from it on my nails.

I chose Dormammu! here's the pictures I used for inspiration...

 He's one scary guy to look at! Which is one of the reasons I chose him. Look at his fire face! Anyway, onto the nails...

First I'll explain the inspiration for each nail.

My thumb was inspired by the blue ball of light you can see on one of the pictures in Dormammu's hand.

My index finger was inspired by the cloud rising from Dormammu's head in one picture.

My middle finger was inspired by his fire face.

My ring finger was inspired by his clothing

My little finger was inspired by the fire that is always present around him.

 Here's a clearer picture (I forgot the new watermark on this picture! :( ) and a list of the polishes I used.

thumb: OPI Alpine Snow, OPI What's With The Cattitude? and Models Own Indian Ocean

Index finger: Color Club Almost Famous, OPI In My Back Pocket and Revlon Lunar

Middle finger: Color Club Almost Famous and Revlon Lunar

Ring finger: H&M Berry Love, Revlon Lunar and Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black

Little finger: H&M Berry Love, OPI In My Back Pocket and Color Club Almost Famous.

Wow, that's a lot of polish!!

Overall, I'm very pleased with how this turned out! I thought it was going to be a disaster because the characters are so in depth and have so much detail but I had a lot of fun trying to translate the essence of Dormammu onto my nails :P

I can't wait for the Hero post on Thursday now!

Also, check out the other girls who are taking part in this challenge along with me to create the Super Six!

Sammy at The Nailasaurus

Debbie at The Crumpet

Sarah at Spellbinding Nails

Jo at Northern Nails

Kerrie at PishPosh and Polish

Have you ever done nail art based on a character? if so who? Let me know in the comments :)

Thanks for reading :)

My Stash & January Haul

Hello everyone :)
Sorry for posting so late in the week, classes at Uni have really killed me this week :p Anyway, a lot of you who entered my giveaway said you'd like to see my stash and more haul posts so I thought I'd combine the two this week.
So my stash is still rather small at the minute I have roughly 150 polishes, I need to count soon :p I just keep them in my bed side table at the minute for storage purposes. So here's a look at my stash...

In my top drawer I keep my OPI's, as I have more of them than any other brand of polish. I also keep my China Glaze, Models Own, Nails Inc, Revlons, NOPI's, some Barry M, Essies and base/top coats in this drawer. 

In the second draw are my nail polish collections such as Color Club and China Glaze. Also my less used polishes such as collection 2000, Hot Looks, Wet N Wild, W7 and some Barry M Crackles. Also my finger paints flakies are in here as they don't fit in the first drawer :P

Also in the second drawer I keep this box. It contains brushes, files, cuticle remover/oil, nail glue, stamping plates and tools, nail art pens, gems etc... This just keeps all the smaller things together so I know exactly where they are when I need them.

Here's my haul this month so far. Looking at it it seems a lot of polish to me, I think my addiction is getting worse :P So here we have, OPI nail envy and rapidry duo, Finger Paints Special Effects Collection, OPI Nicki Minaj Collection, 10 new OPI's from lena White sale, Random China Glaze from Ebay, Technic holographic polish, Berry Love polish from H&M, 2 Essie Polishes (1 from Ebay, 1 from my boyfriend) and a China Glaze collection. I'm quite impressed with this haul to be honest :P I got alot of polishes I've been dying to get my hands on, I cant wait to try them all out, maybe I'll do some more swatches, as many of you wanted to see more on my blog, let me know in the comments :)

Also, I got another new camera :P This ones a DSLR so let me know what you think tot the quality of my pictures etc in the comments as I want to know what others think of the quality, colour etc..

Thanks for reading :)
Charlotte xxx

Snowmen

Hello everyone,
Today I have my snowman mani to show you. I really enjoyed doing this nail art, it took me a while to get it right but when I did I really loved it. Many people who saw this mani thought they were stickers and were amazed when I told them I did them, hopefully that means I'm getting better at my nail art :P Anyway, on with the pictures..

To create this look I used two coats of OPI Ski teal we drop as the base colour. I was really surprised y this colour I could have gotten away with using one coat but I wanted to make sure it fully covered everywhere on my nail so I did two. This colour is such a beautiful dark blue/green mix, reminds me of the night sky which is exactly why I picked it for this mani. I then layered the white glitter snowman polish over the top to give the illusion of snow falling :) It looks beautiful when the light hits the glitter and really does look like the glittering snow.

I did an accent on my thumb nails for once and I'm really pleased with how well my snowman turned out. So here he is :) I used OPI Alpine Snow for the snowman's body, I was surprised at how well this covered the dark base colour as all the whites I've used in the past have basically been rubbish but this one is perfect. I then used Revlon Lunar for the eyes, mouth and buttons using a dotting tool. For the nose I used chopsticking to my story with a small nail art brush. I finally used OPI Come To Poppy for the scarf. Overall I feel this was quite a simple way to do Christmas nails without having to spend a long period of time on them.

I've also been playing about with my camera in the last couple of days, I'm still getting used to it but hopefully my pictures will be improving as I learn more things :) Also, please excuse the state of my cuticles, being old in the cold and the wind for hours everyday really do not help me and I can't seem to get my cuticles to be hydrated and lovely looking :( Any suggestions can be left in the comments section as always :)
Thanks for reading :)
Charlotte xxx