Sunflower Nail Art

After a wonderful Christmas break it is finally back to work tomorrow, so I decided to do a bright and colourful nail design to help lift my post-Christmas mood blues. 

As a New Years promise I decided my first port of inspiration should be Ciate Advent Calendar because there are so many polishes that are still hidden away behind each little door, which seems a little sad! As my theme was bright and colourful Big Yellow Taxi, a beautiful canary yellow colour, immediately caught my eye. Firstly it reminded me of my travels to New York (I think more because of the name than anything), and then sunflowers as it is nearly spring (wishful thinking?!). I wanted a bright base, so I chose to use Revlon's Blue Lagoon, which is a sparkly baby blue colour. 

Until Next Time...

Children in Need - Pudsey Bear Nails

As it is Children in Need tomorrow (UK) I decided to do Pudsey Bear nails to mark the occasion. Children and staff will be wearing their pajamas to help raise money so I thought these would be a nice touch to my 'outfit'.

The design was relatively simple to do, I used Lemon Soda by Collection 2000 for the base of  my thumb and ring finger and Blanc by Essie for the others. Then I used a dotting tool to make red, green, blue and yellow dots.

I will be styling my nails with my oh so attractive onesie tomorrow :)

Cute Penguin Nails

On an evening where I find I have very little time but I still want to do my nails I like to opt for simple but effective designs. So last night I chose to use my new Rimmel Pro nail varnish in Stormy Skies as by base to do cute little penguins on my pointy (that must be the scientific word for it) and index fingers. For the body I used Blanc by Essie and Sunset Orange by George for the feet and nose (and a black for the eyes).

I also used Twinkle Shine by Miss Sporty as a top coat to add a little winter sparkle :)

I got a few 'awes' at work today, which is always nice but I also got a few 'is that Pacman?'.

Snowflake Nails

It may still be a little early for anything Christmas related (43 days to go to be exact), but I am definitely getting into the festive mood early this year, so I decided to try out some snowflake nails. Plus my new snowman iPhone case also arrived yesterday so I couldn't resist.

I used my new Rimmel nail polish in Fierce Cherry for the base and Essie in Blanc for the overall design. 

The holidays are coming...

Ciate Christmas Advent Calendar

I spotted this little beauty a few weeks ago on What I Heart Today's blog, so I decided to check it out on the Selfridges' website. 

I must admit I was tempted, but the £38 price tag seemed a little too expensive. However, as it always seems to be the case, after telling my mum about it (who rationalised each bottle would work out at around £1.60 - you would think she wants me to spend money) I had another look on the website and found it to be out of stock. Gahhh! I scoured the internet to see if I could find any information about when it might be back in stock, when I stumbled across a MoneySavingExpert thread discussing the different beauty advent calendars that are out this year. One poster mentioned the Ciate calendar was being sold on QVC for a discounted introductory price of £31.20 (£36.20 including P&P). You'd think this would have sealed the deal but I still ummed and ahhed over it until I saw they were being sold on Ebay for £75! So I decided to treat myself :) 

Roll on the 1st 0f December...

Movember Moustache Nails

November is here, and with lots of my male friends deciding to do Movember I thought I'd show my support by wearing moustaches on my nails. The design is pretty simple, all you need is a base coat, black nail varnish (I used Revlon Black Star), and dotting tool or toothpick.