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November 17, 2014

ILNP Birefringence with Moyou Gothic 03

By Ruth

Hello! 😀

Birefringence With Moyou Gothic Stamp

Birefringence stamped with Moyou Gothic 03

I couldn’t help it, I had to do some stamping over the amazing Birefringence from ILNP!

Birefringence stamped with Moyou Gothic 03

Moyou Gothic Collection 03

Look at the Multi-chrome colour shifting goodness! Every time I look at my nails they are a different colour! 🙂

Birefringence stamped with Moyou Gothic 03

Birefringence stamped with Moyou Gothic 03

For the stamp I used an image from plate 03 from the Moyou Gothic Collection. Konad special polish in black and a final coat of Seche Vite.

Birefringence stamped with Moyou Gothic 03

Birefringence stamped with Moyou Gothic 03

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November 16, 2014

ILNP Swatches! Sirene, My Little Glacier (H), Birefringence and My Private Rainbow (L+S)

By Ruth

Hallos!

This is a pic heavy post!

I brought a few polishes from the ILNP sale! I couldn’t resist them!

It took me quite a while to decide on these four, but I had to be strong and limit myself…

I eventually decided on Sirene, My Little Glacier (H), Birefringence and My Private Rainbow (L+S) 😀

Sirene

ILNP Sirene

ILNP Sirene

This is Sirene, It’s an amazing multi-chrome! Emerald green, Teal, Purple, Pink, Gold and Lime green!

ILNP Sirene

ILNP Sirene

The colours in this polish remind me of petrol. It’s so pretty!

ILNP Sirene

ILNP Sirene

This is three coats over base coat and no top coat.

The formula for this polish is lovely, it glides over the nail like butter, the drying time was quite fast, I only waited a couple of minutes between coats.

Oh and the brush and the top are lovely too, the brushes are quite thin and flat, and the tops have a fab rubberized feel which gives so much more control over the application!

ILNP Sirene

ILNP Sirene

My Private Rainbow (L+S)

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

This is an incredible topper, it’s a combination of linear and scattered holographic sparkles.

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

This is two coats over Twilight from Filthy Gorgeous. with no extra top coat. I really like how even with two coats it doesn’t overwhelm the base colour! The drying time for is really good, I only had to wait a couple of minutes between the coats.

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

I get distracted by shiny things really easily, I must have looked at this for hours! I have to say my photographs really don’t show how stunning this is!

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

ILNP My Private Rainbow (L+S)

My little Glacier (H)

ILNP My Little Glacier

ILNP My Little Glacier

This is the holographic version of My Little Glacier,

ILNP My Little Glacier

ILNP My Little Glacier

It’s a lovely metallic silver to blue duo-chrome with stunning linear holographic shine. I have holographic polishes that much less of an impact than this one!

ILNP My Little Glacier

ILNP My Little Glacier

This was two coats over base coat, and again no topcoat for this one, the formula for this polish was lovely, fast drying with amazing coverage. With careful application this could be applied with one coat!

ILNP My Little Glacier

ILNP My Little Glacier

Birefringence

ILNP Birefringence

ILNP Birefringence

I have wanted a bottle of this for ages! Birefringence is a Blue, Purple, Pink, Gold then Green Multi-chrome!

ILNP Birefringence

ILNP Birefringence

I did find the polish to be slightly streaky on the second coat (but that could just have been me not waiting long enough between coats) but the third coat was perfect.

ILNP Birefringence

ILNP Birefringence

This is over base coat with no top coat.

The colour shift in this polish is stunning! every time I look at my nails the are a different colour!

ILNP Birefringence

ILNP Birefringence

You can find all of these polishes in their shiny new square bottles here https://www.ilnp.com/

😀

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November 12, 2014

Wild and Yellow – Pick and Mix

By Ruth

Hey 😀

Tiger Stripe Nails

Tiger Stripe

For this weeks Pick and Mix the prompts are Yellow and Wild Animals!

Blow Illamasqua and My Private Rainbow ILNP

Blow Illamasqua and My Private Rainbow ILNP

Blow from Illamasqua is a pale yellow cream, It’s been in my untried pile for one reason… It’s yellow! the polish itself is really lovely, it’s opaque in two coats and dried quickly to a really glossy finish, but it’s yellow and I just can’t get excited about it :/

My ILNP Order arrived today so I had to have a play! I added a thin coat of My Private Rainbow (l+s) over the Illamasqua polish, Oh it’s so pretty! But my camera once again (gah!) decided that it wasn’t going to show the lovely holographic sparkles!

Tiger Stripe Nails

Wild!

 

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November 9, 2014

Pick and Mix – Three Shades Of Blue

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

Night Watch, Scarab and Noble

Night Watch, Scarab and Noble

Here are my three shades of blue nails for this weeks Pick and Mix challenge!

Three Shades Of Blue Water Marble Night Watch, Scarab and Noble

Blue!

the Polishes I used are Noble from Illamasqua, this is the light blue cream and it’s been in my untried pile for far too long! Scarab is the blue shimmer, and it’s a Sally Hansen Lustre Shine. Night Watch is also from Sally Hansen and that’s the dark blue!

Three Shades Of Blue Water Marble Night Watch, Scarab and Noble

Yay! Water Marble!

I decided to go with chucking the polish into the cup and giving it a mix, rather than going with a pattern 🙂

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November 8, 2014

Black and Glitter Stripes Half Moon Mani!

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

black and glittery half moon nails

Black and Glittery Half Moon Nails

Today I wanted stripey sparkly nails! 😀

black and glittery half moon nails

Lava and Twilight

For this I used two coats of Sally Hansen Lava from the Lustre Shine collection, Filthy Gorgeous Twilight, quite a lot of striping tape and some french tip guides (I used the pointy shaped ones rather than the round ones!)

black and glittery half moon nails

so sparkly!

Even though this took a quite a while, the striping tape was not cooperating, I really like this look, and I’ll definitely have to try this with different colours! 😀

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November 7, 2014

OMG Nail Strips Review!

By Ruth

Hello!
I have some nail strips kindly sent to me for review from OMG to show you today! You can find them here! http://www.omgnailstrips.com/

OMG Nail Strips

OMG Nail Strips

I have never used nail strips before, so this was definitely a new experience for me!

OMG Nailstrips Grey Pollock

Grey Pollock

First I have the Grey Pollock design to show you, and you can find these right here http://www.omgnailstrips.com/nail-polish-strips/black-pollock-nail-strips.

The first strip I tried I managed to mess up terribly! lol so after reading the instructions and watching the Video right here  I removed it and started again.

These are really sticky, so if you mess one up, make sure to remove it with polish remover, I tried to picking the strip away and took a layer of nail off too :/ Oops!

My second try worked really well! no creases or bubbles, applying all the strips took less than 5 minutes!

OMG Nailstrips Grey Pollock

Grey Pollock

This picture was taken after two bowls of washing up (no rubber gloves) a shower and making some biscuits! And as you can see the wraps are still perfect!

I don’t know if they will last for the 10 days, but from what I put them through I think they will last a bit longer than a traditional polish mani!

OMG Nailstrips pink stars

Pink and Black Stars

Another fun thing about these polish strips is that you can cut them into what ever shape you would like!

These are the pink stars and you can find them here http://www.omgnailstrips.com/nail-polish-strips/pink-black-stars-nail-polish-strips

For the little circles I used the two largest size strips, I found they are too big for my nails and I would have to cut them to size if I wanted to use them anyway. I used my hole punch! 🙂 then peeled away the backing and applied them to my nail. Even after using the largest I still have enough left for a full mani using them!

The black polish is from Barry M and I used a layer out the door topcoat.

OMG Nailstrips pink stars

Pink And Black Stars

These nail strips currently retail at $7.99 a pack (that’s around £5 in the uk)  there is also an offer for 5 packs for $25 using the code 5pack and 10 for $45 using the code 10pack there is also free international shipping!

I have to say I really like that each strip has the width measurement in mm, it makes selecting the correct size for each nail much easier, although I did find that they are a touch on the large size, so if you have small nail beds you’ll have to do a lot of trimming!

I think these nail strips are amazing if you are not confident with doing your own nail art! 🙂

You can also find OMG Nail strips on

Instagram @omgnailstrips #omgnailstrips

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/OmgNailStrips

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