Hello! 🙂
I was really in the mood for teal nails, but I really couldn’t decide between gradient or stripes, so I went with both! 🙂
The four polishes I used are from Illamasqua,
I also used striping tape, a cosmetic sponge, the little triangle studs and of course Seche Vite top coat.
Ooh some fun news I have a shiny new camera! Yay! It’s a Sony a 5000! So please don’t be to horrified by my dreadful photography while I work out the best camera settings 😀
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Today I have four polishes from the Darling Diva Hug My Face collection to show you! 😀
Bad Ass, In Space No One Can Hear You Scream, Long Live The Queen, and Xenomorph.
Bad Ass
Bad Ass is black with a very slight purple tone, scattered holographic polish.
Look at that holo flare! In the bottle this polish really didn’t look too exciting… This really is a case of not judging a book by it’s cover! But when it’s on the nails this polish is lovely! but then I may be a little bias, seeing as my favorite polishes are black/purple and holographic lol
I found Bad Ass has an average drying time, it dried slightly matte, and it two coats to be opaque. The formula is creamy and self leveling and the application was a breeze!
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream is packed with Micro holographic shards iridescent hex glitter and holographic glitter all wrapped in a black jelly polish!
This is a really complex glitter polish, it has so many different types of glitter in every drop!
On the nail it doesn’t look that OTT! The Iridescent hex glitters add a lot of depth!
This is three coats and it has a slightly longer drying time, it was dry in less than five minutes.
This is a thicker polish so the application was a little bit more tricky, but by no means difficult.
I have found that some shard glitter polishes can be scratchy with the little bits of glitter poking out all over the place, but that’s not the case with this one, it dried completely smooth!
Long Live The Queen
Long live the queen is a dark teal holographic polish packed with multi chrome flakies and glitter.
The base colour of this polish is a really pretty blackened teal, and it really is packed with holographic glitter, unfortunately when it’s applied I couldn’t really see much of the multi coloured flakie glitter.
This is three coats and it has a similar drying time to In Space.
This is a thicker polish so the application was a little bit more tricky. it was slightly patchy on the first couple of coat but the subsequent coats evened everything out.
This polish is so pretty I didn’t want to take it off!
Xenomorph
Xenomorph is a dark teal/green polish filled with both multi chrome flakie and regular glitters, holographic micro glitter, and iridescent glitter.
This really is a stunning polish, it’s so squishy and sparkly! some the multi-chrome glitters shift through red to blue while others are blue to red, unfortunately my pictures only show the green and blue, there is so much colour changing goodness going on in this polish!
the first coat was a little patchy but Xenomorph builds really nicely.
These polishes are available here at Darling Diva 🙂
I really have to get the rest of this collection, no, I need the rest of this collection in my life right now!
In all these pictures I have used my usual base coat and top coat.
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Hello! 🙂
Sorry about the lack of posts last week, I managed to cut my finger 
don’t worry, it’s on my dominant hand so there won’t be any gory pictures! And I’ve also have a cold (ugh, stoopid germs).
But now that I have dragged myself out of my sofa cocoon and polish remover isn’t really painful to use. I can share with you a two part post starting with these Monster Eyes! 🙂
For my monster eye nails I used
Thinking about it I didn’t really think through the steps for making the eyes. So I think they do look a little messy round the edges.
The gradient is Poke and Blue Streak with a coat of Crystal Glaze over the top, then with a thin brush I added the eye shape using Stiletto.
In hindsight I should have used tape or something to mask off the eyes, It would have made the edges of the matte topcoat look a lot cleaner.
A quick question… Have you seen a nail polish that looks like the picture above? If you have please let me know, as I want something like this on my nails right now 🙂
As I’m sure you can tell the photograph isn’t nail polish, its wax! Which brings me on to the second part of my post!
I want to show you some wax melts from a really lovely little company here in the UK. It’s not often that I come across wax melts that I’m really impressed with, but these honestly are amazing! Before I carry on I should let you know that I purchased these myself!
I have pet rats, at the moment I have 8 of the whiskery critters in my living room, and like any pets they can get really rather stinky, so I do end up looking for lovely room fragrances quite often.
These wax melts are so loaded with fragrance that one quarter of a pot is enough to scent the whole of my apartment all day!
If my nostrils could sing with happiness they would be, and not in a creepy old man nose whistle way!
The Candlewick Greens Shop is right here if you would like to have a look 🙂  http://www.candlewick-greens.appspot.com/index.html
Autumn Wreath is the melt I have in my warmer right now, it’s so nice, slightly spiced apples and crunchy leaves!
There is a facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/740123009371304/?fref=ts
it’s the best place to fins out about the restocks and upcoming new scents 😀
Gingerbread Latte smells just like the drink, I have found that some coffee/creamy scented candles and melts (from a well known brand that happens to start with the letter Y) have this nasty chemical plastic smell. But not these, they smell heavenly!
Another wonderful thing about these wax melts is that most of them are covered in glitter and shimmers! Yay for glitter 😀
The best way to order these lovely melts is through the ready to ship page. http://www.candlewick-greens.appspot.com/readytoship.html
Sticky Toffee Pumpkin Waffle smells so amazing I want to eat it! But I’m sure it wouldn’t taste nearly as good lol!
Out of all the different scent collections on offer at candlewick Greens I have to say my favorite is the Mystical ones!
But I have found one little problem with the bakery scents… Being surrounded by wonderful cake smells makes me really hungry! 😀
Oh if you do make an order for some of this lovely wax (you really won’t be disappointed) if you could leave a note with your order about finding out about them here that would be amazing! 😀
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Born Pretty Decal
Today I have some lovely water slide decals from Born Pretty to show you!
The Born Pretty name for these is “Mini Bow knot Cross Lacy Design Print Nail Art Water Decals” (quite a mouthful lol) and the item number is DS-107.
They are available right here Mini Cross Bow Decal
This is how I apply water slide decals
The polishes I used for this look are
As well as loads of striping tape, french tip guides and a couple of coats of Seche Vite. 😀
Pink Purple And Teal
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Metallic stripey roses
Today I have another 52 week pick and mix (catch up) mani to show you, the prompts for that week (beginning 2nd March) are Metallic and Ikat…
I’m really not a fan of Ikat nails so for this post I’m just using the metallic prompt.
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The two Metallic polishes I used are Artemis (purple) and Aglaia (teal) from the 2true Metallica Collection.
I started off with a coat of Aglaia, then when it was dry I applied the striping tape to my nails (and my desk and the floor and even my keyboard :/)Â and added a coat of Artemis.
Removed the tape and applied a coat of Seche Vite.
Artemis and Aglaia from 2true Metallica Collection
The stamping plate is Moyou Pro XL 07 and I used Konad Black Stamping Polish.
The roses are my favorite images on this plate! 🙂
Moyou Pro XL 07
Here is the 52 Week Pick and Mix Pinterest Board for more amazing nail art! 🙂
Hello 🙂
Today I have three new (I think) Barry M nail polishes from the Silk range to show you. I found these while polish hunting in Boots, and they are on a 3 for 2 offer. Bargain! 😀
Poppy Â
Barry M Silk Poppy
Poppy is a really pretty pinky red with a gold and silver shimmer
It is a dream to apply, opaque in two coats, no visible brush strokes and dried within a couple of minutes. I applied this over my usual base coat.
Barry M Silk Poppy
Forest
Barry M Silk Forest
I really love this dark teal colour! Along with the shimmer it also has a subtle green to purple duo-chrome colour shift.
Again the polish formula was really nice, fast drying with no visible brush strokes.
Barry M Silk Forest
Orchid
Barry M Silk Orchid
Orchid is a very pretty intense magenta toned purple with silvery shimmer.
I found there was less sparkle in this polish, but the silver shimmer gives this an almost but not quite metallic quality which I think is very pretty.
Like the other two polishes the formula for this polish is lovely, opaque in two coats and dried really quickly!
Barry M Silk Orchid
I really like the finish of these silk polishes, but I love matte polish so there’s not much of a surprise there lol 😀 I have to say I much prefer these bright colours to the pastel shades from the rest of the collection.
I really hope more bright and dark colours are going to be released in this range!
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