Nails - Chain Link

I received a new nail art book for Christmas. I already own both of the WAH ones, which I absolutely love. Upon receiving this book, I did wonder if it would have the same old designs, but there are actually some I haven't tried before. And I've done a lot of nail art!

This is the first one I've tried - the chain link design. In the book it is shown being done with a gold pen, but I used my trusty barry m silver nail art pen over 17 Lasting Fix in Midnight Sapphire, which is such a pretty shade. This is such an simple design to create, and I love the fact you can customise it by doing bigger chains/different shaped links and using different colours. You could even add little gems!? What do you think?

Nails - WAH Inspired 'Earthquake'

I really love these 'Earthquake' nails. I follow wah nails on instagram, and have seen this design come up on my feed quite a few times. So I thought I'd try my hand at it! The colours I went for are Models Own Jade Stone and Sinful Colors Nail Junkie. Nail Junkie is one of my favourites;it's the perfect mermaid glitter!
I started with a coat of Jade Stone and then applied Nail Junkie to half of the nail. Then I used my black wah nail art pen to do the messy little squiggly bit (great description there) in the middle.

What do you think of this design? Are you a fan of WAH?

Nails - AA Violet Panache

This is my first American Apparel nail polish. I rarely venture into the store/browse the online store as I find it so overpriced. But my friend dragged me in there whilst in Covent Garden on Saturday. I naturally found myself at the nail polishes and decided I needed this lovely, vibrant colour in my ever-growing nail polish stash!




I only needed to apply two coats, although it did take a while to dry. But the colour makes up for it! I very rarely have nails without some sort of nail art/pattern, so drew on a 'woven' design using my silver barry m nail art pen - such an easy design, found in the new WAH book! My copy arrived last week and I love it as much as the first one.

I hope everyone has had a nice bank holiday weekend. My hightlight was going to see Les Misérables on Saturday evening. AMAZING. What's been your highlight of the weekend?

Nails - Rudolph

I had my Christmas meal with my friends last night so I obviously had to have some sort of festive nails for it! This time, I went for a little Rudolph face on my ring finger and a glitter gradient on the rest of my nails.



I love the colour I used for the base, and it was only a cheapie! It's a 2true one in shade 8. I just love this wine red colour, it's gorgeous. I used a similar technique I used for my Easter bunny nails for the little Rudolph. For the face I used Boots 17 Tigers Eye and I drew the eyes and antlers on using my Models Own WAH nail art pen. I finished off with the nose using the 2true polish again.
I used barry m Yellow Topaz glitter for the gradient - love this glitter! I love how it looks with the wine red too.

Are you all organised for Christmas? I'm pretty much ready! Until I've realised I've forgotten something else, that is. It keeps happening.

Nails - feline festive

I couldn't resist a play on words for this post...I am definitely feeling festive, and had to paint my nails a little bit Christmassy this weekend!

I posted these cat nail stickers from Janchristie a couple of months ago and when I saw these Santa hat ones on the website I just had to order some.



I used essie Absolutely Shore as a base and applied these to my thumb nails and did a Christmas lights design on my finger nails, using my Models Own WAH nail art pen and Models Own Raspberry Crush and Topshop Green Room for the lights. Last Christmas I did a gift wrapped design on my nails so I want to try a couple of different things this year and Christmas lights was one of them. And I just LOVE the Christmas cats! Obviously!




With only a couple of weeks until Christmas I am feeling pretty organised. I only have a few more gifts to buy and have started my wrapping! I am planning to do some Christmas baking soon, ahhh I just love this time of year!

Nails - Roses

I love my florals, and this is my most favourite nail art I've done for a while.



Colours used are essie Absolutely Shore for the base and Models Own Raspberry Crush and Pastel Pink for the roses. The outlines were done using Models Own Wah nail art pen.




I hated taking this off last night! I love painting my nails on a Friday night, but hate the fact I only have them painted a couple of days and then have to take it all off because of work and their stupid rules.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend anyway! Wasn't the weather beautiful? I was spoilt to two BBQs - ate far too much!

Hope you all have a great week. Lots going on at work for me [so much stress] but I am looking forward to a nandos and seeing Ted at the cinema on Wednesday. Anyone seen the film? Been looking forward to seeing it for a while.