Glitter Gradienting

Hey everyone, sorry I've not posted since Wednesday. I'm doing The Challenge and was in the middle of the countryside until this morning. I wont really be home for the next three weeks so if anyone would like to do a guest post for me, feel free to type it up and send the HTML to ddshah96@googlemail.com. :)

Anyways, back to the mani:

This is a mani I did a while ago but never got round to posting, so here it is. Glitter gradients are one of my favourite nail art techniques because they are just so easy to do once you get the hang of them and the colour combinations and possibilities are quite literally endless!

For this mani I used China Glaze Traffic Jam, a gorgeous raspberry pink, as my base. I then used Color Club Jingle Jange, a mix of blue, purple and holographic glitters, for the gradient. I topped it all off with a thin coat of W.I.P Midnight, a clear polish with large purple glitter and smaller blue and purple glitter, to tie it all together.

I really like this combo of the icy glitter against summery pink!

Anyway, thanks for reading! x

Revlon Girly

It seems like the mainstream beauty brands have noticed the popularity of indie brands and so are following suit. Enter Revlon Girly.

Now this is a polish that you will either love or hate.

Its a sheer pale milky pink base full of purple, blue and rose gold coloured hex glitter and lilac and peach micro almost-holographic glitter.

The glitter is pretty dense so I found that one coat was sufficient and I didn't need to really place the glitter either which was good.

This is one coat (two on my ring finger) of Revlon Girly over Color Club Blushing Rose, which was the colour closest to the actual base of Girly.

Its a total Barbie-esqe polish and one that will probably look pretty tacky to most people.

I don't really like it much truthfully BUT after putting a matte top-coat over I think it looks sooo much better!

 So much so that I might even consider wearing it as a full mani!

I guess you could layer this up to opaque but it would probably take like 5/6 coats to do so.

I tried it out with one coat on naked nails and I did actually like it, but it showed some very obvious nail line so I don't think I would leave it at that.

What do you think? Would you wear it or is it just a bit too childish?

31 Days of Nail Art Challenge - Day 19 - Galaxies

Galaxies.

Something I had never thought of creating on my nails.

But now that I have, I love them!

They were really straightforward as well!

What I did was first paint my nails with A England Tristam, then using the corner of a makeup sponge, dab on on A England St George and Color Club Eternal Beauty and Harp On It. Then once that was dry I very lightly sponged over it all with Color Club Beyond and topped it all off with Barry M Diamond Glitter. Then sealed it all in with some topcoat.

I love the fact that all the colours merge together but can all still be seen and the holographicness from the polishes and glitter topper just ties it all together.

So easy and so cool!

Color Club Angel Kiss

Oh My God!

These Color Club Halo Hues are so insanely holographic!

I just could not wait to get these onto my nails! Problem is, after destroying my thumb nail (which I told you about here) I can't really paint my nails... So, what to do?

Get my mum to do it! Haha. And because I've had to be in hospital today instead of school, I could wear it all day!

So, this is Color Club Angel Kiss from the Halo Hues collection.

 

t is a pale blue toned teal with a bucket load of holo! Application was dreamy, it applied smoothly and leveled itself out with no patchy areas. No special basecoat was needed and even though my nails are super smooth, the holo was unaffected! :D

At one coat it is basically opaque and to be honest you only need a second coat if you have ocd's about only wearing one coat... Like I do :/

And despite the gloomy British weather, the holo was so STRONG!

This picture is of my nails at 6.30am:

 And this one at 8.30pm:

And this is what the holo looked like in a photo I took on my phone:

I just could not stop staring at my nails! Perfect distraction for when your waiting in a hospital waiting room, haha.

Professional Beauty London 2013!

Yes I went to Professional Beauty this year!!! It was my first year going and believe me it was faaaar better than my expectations!

(For those of you who don't know what Professional Beauty is, it's basically a huge show where major beauty brands exhibit their products with awesome 'show-only' discounts. They say: "It is THE event where the new wave of trends are announced, and where you’ll see the top names in the beauty industry launching new products and offering substantial ‘show only’ incentives.")

I arrived at 9:45 yesterday morning and oh my the que was long! But as soon as they opened the shutters at 10am it moved very quickly and I was in by 10:10. I went straight to the middle section (aka the nails part) and I was so overwhelmed! After I regained my composure I headed straight for the Color Club stall, bought some Halo Hues (which is basically the reason i wanted to go, haha) then went for a browse...

Essie: Didn't buy any but there were some I was considering...

O.P.I: Okay, this was crazy busy! The second pic shows a small glimpse of how packed it was..

Jessica: People getting their nails done..

China Glaze: I'm quite surprised I didn't get anything from here, but after seeing the Hologlams in real life.. I don't know, I was a bit disapointed I guess..

Nubar: Only bought some because they were 3 for £11 and I'd never tried the brand before.. How could I refuse? Haha...

A stall with O.P.I for only £3 and £4!!

 Color Club: As soon as I saw the stand I made a beeline for the Halo Hues! Ahh, I'm in love...

LA Colours: Never used them before but they were 10 for £10...

 Cuccio: Never heard of them and only saw this after I ran out of money....

 Mollon: Again, never heard of the brand and only saw this after I ran out of money...

 Jacava: I could never justify spending £14+ on a creme polish...

 Bit surprised to see sunbeds...

 Random half-naked tanned guy...

 Floor plan...

And obviously me being me, I can't browse without buying! So this is what I got:

Color Club Halo Hues. OMG these are SO holographic!!! I regret not buying them all now! :'(

O.P.I Designer Series. How I managed to squeeze myself into that crowd I still wonder! But yaaaay I finally own some O.P.I DS Polish!

Nubar polishes. My first ones :)

Clearance O.P.I.

Free polish. The guy asked me what I do and I said I was a blogger. He immediately started being extra sweet and 'selling' the brand. Then he gave me this! Aww :)

Free Berber Oil. Came in the canvas bag.

A quick swatch of all the polishes:

Ahhh I looooooved it! Even though I blew nearly £70! :0

It was like heaven on earth! Haha.

If I can go next year, believe me I will!

Oh and by the way, Happy Birthday (for yesterday) Mum! <3