The Holidays Are Coming...

It has been a hectic weekend filled with festive fun and frivolities, so I am a little behind on my posts. Yesterday I went to Birmingham with a friend to see the Coca Cola lorry, which is currently touring the UK. I also aimed to get the last of my Christmas shopping done but I ended up buying more for myself than for anyone else (opps!).

Birmingham's Bulldeer

Always Coca Cola!

The rest of my weekend has been spent wrapping presents (felt like an elf Santa's workshop!), thankfully today I had Michael Buble to keep me company.

Until next time...

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge - Day 7

Today's nail art challenge was centered around Christmas fairy lights or the song Christmas Lights by Coldplay. 

It was my first time using a sponge to create a gradient effect but I'm not sure about it. I think the design would look better on longer nails as I struggled to fit the lights on. 

I used Revlon's Blue Lagoon as the base, it is a beautiful baby blue colour with a white/silver sparkle (I brought it last week from Poundworld - bargain!). I used Essie's Blanc and a make up sponge to try to create the snowy gradient effect. I then used a black striper to create the wire and a small brush to create green, blue, red and yellow fairy lights.

I feel my motivation has been lacking a little today, not entirely sure why (maybe it is because I'm half way through my challenge - phew)! Holly and the Ivy next...I'm hoping to muster up an easy-ish design as I struggled to do the holly on my Christmas pud nails. 

Until next time...

Ciate Advent Calendar - Day 12

So the gold theme continues! Behind door number 12 there was Twilight - a black with a gold glitter sparkle. 

 Ciate Mini (5ml) - Twilight

Until next time...

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge - Day 6

For today's nail art challenge I wanted to do a Christmas food related design hence choosing The Christmas Song for my theme ("chestnuts roasting on an open fire..."). I toyed with the idea of doing candy canes or gingerbread men but I decided to do little festive Christmas puddings.

The ivy was particularly difficult to do, I ended up using a toothpick to create the outline of the ivy and then filling each in with a small paintbrush.

Until next time...

12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge - Day 5

My fifth nail art challenge was based around the relatively unknown song 'The Happy Elf'.

I was originally going to do a typical red and green elf design but after watching the movie Elf, with Will Ferrell, on Sunday night I decided to use the film as my inspiration. 

Buddy = The Happy Elf!

 Until next time...

Ciate Advent Calendar - Day 10 & 11

Gold seems to be Ciate's colour theme at the moment. Yesterday, day number 10, I received a shimmering gold polish called Ladylike Luxe.

                                                 

 Ciate Mini (5ml) - Ladylike Luxe

Today, day number 11, I received another caviar bottle of beads called Bumble Bee - a mixture of gold and black pearls.

                                                   Ciate Caviar Pearls (10g) - Bumble Bee

Until next time...

Introducing... I Heart Nail Art

After much deliberation I have decided to change my blog/domain name. I know this is potentially blog suicide but I felt I had to do it. I started this blog with the intention of covering all things fashion and beauty, but I feel I have been a little biased in my posts since I have focused primarily on nails and nail art.

Keep Calm and Paint Your Nails is the way I like to think about nail art. Painting my nails is my form of relaxation, the time in my day I get to dedicate to myself and my passion. I also enjoy wowing people, I have never been particularly musical or creative in any other way, so I like the fact I can say I've found something I am good at and like to do. 

I hope you will pop back for more nail related posts in the future :)

Love,