31 Days of Nail Art Challenge - Day 23 - Inspired by a Movie

Movies.

I love watching films but I can never find the time to watch them anymore :(

So for this theme I decided to base it on a film character from my childhood.

And that is... Minnie Mouse!

Instead of actually drawing her, I used bits of her 'look' (basically her dress and hairbow) to recreate.

For the base I started with Revlon Mon Cherry, which is one of their scented polishes. It smells pretty nice, but not of cherry unfortunately. Then I added the white dots using Models Own Snow White and a dotting tool. For the bow I added a coat of China Glaze Ruby Pumps before adding the dots, and then drew on the bow.

I love how it is such and iconic look that even people on the bus commented saying it looked like Minnie Mouse nails!

31 Days of Nail Art Challenge - Day 22 - Inspired by a Song

Music.

Not much to say about it... I like listening to music as much as the next person.

So for this theme I chose the song LaserLight by Jessie J.

No reason in particular, it just so happened to be playing while I was thinking about what to do for this theme.

I did a laser mani using striping tape. It was actually pretty easy to do.

"You make me feel good, You make me feel safe, You make me feel like I could live another day" - Jessie J LaserLight

And here's a video of the song:

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?

Revlon Sequins

Hey, hope you all had a good new years!

This is the mani I was wearing on new years eve:

Its a base of Sally Hansen Crinoline, which I found in poundland! It was a bit too pink so I put a layer of Sally Hansen Sheer Me Now ontop which is basically a very sheer peach toned neutral,  that I also picked up in poundland! Im glad I did because it made the colour look nicer against my skin tone.

To jazz it up a bit I added one coat of Revlon Sequins, which is a gorgeous mix of gold hex glitter and gold micro glitter, that was free! It looked lovely as it was but if there's one thing I love more than glitter toppers, its matte glitter toppers!

So once it dried I added a matte topcoat and oh my, I loooove this!! Its so soft and delicate but the glitter still shines through!

I think this was so much more suitable than a full on blingy mani because theres only one thing I want from 2013 and that is for it to be more gentler than 2012 and yet still have some sparkly moments in it!

Revlon Scandalous - Swatch and Review

Hey there

I went to one of my best friends surprise birthday party on Thursday and yesterday I went to Thorpe Park with school so I didn't get to post this until today.

To both of those things I was wearing Revlon Scandalous. Turns out it is just a newer bottle of the old and limited edition Facets of Fuschia!

It is basically small fuschia glitter with larger hexagonal fuschia pieces in a blackened jelly base.

Here I'm wearing two coats over a standard black polish but you could probably get away with three if you didn't have the black underneath. The formula was good and the glitter distributed evenly but it did take a while to dry.

Excuse the shortness of my nails, school is finally taking its toll on them and so I had to cut them :(

Purple and black, one of my favourite colour combinations!

So basically here's the final word: This is a gorgeous polish BUT it is a pain in the butt to remove!

Oh and here's what I wore to the party:

Dress - Red Herring

Shoes - Debenhams

Cardigan - Matalan

Bye x