52 Week Pick & Mix Challenge - Wild Animals/Yellow

Hello lovelies. How have your Tuesday's been? I'm still unwell, I went into work for a few hours but had to come home early.. fingers crossed I can make a whole day tomorrow.

I have this week's prompt for the 52 week challenge for you today - I don't believe we're on week 7 already! This weeks themes are wild animals and yellow. I actually didn't find combining these themes too hard at all - I see yellow as quite a wild colour anyway! 

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Copycat Saturday: Monochrome Leopard Print Gradient.

Hello lovely ladies. How are you all today? It's a lovely sunny day where I am today which has put me in a good mood :).

Saturday on the blog means Copycat Saturday. This week I went with a design by one of my favourite nail artists on instagram Lieve91. If you don't already follow her you neeeed to go and check her nails out now, they are seriously amazing! The design I went with was this monochrome leopard print gradient manicure. 

For more details on this manicure read on below.

Pick A Polish: Barry M - 2013 Limited Edition A

Hi loves. I hope you are all okay. I am really really tired today, roll on Saturday so I can have a lie in!

Sadly it is only Monday so my lie in is quite far away, but it does mean that it's time for Pick A Polish. This week it is featuring Barry M - Limited Edition A which was one of Barry M's 2013 summer limited edition polishes, with a very exciting name!

For swatches and some nail art read on after the jump.

February Tri Polish Challenge: Brown, Pink and Grey.

Hello lovelies. How are you all? Another morning post from me today, it feels strange that I'm being a bit organised!

I'm back with the first instalment of the Tri Polish Challenge for February, this month the three colours are brown, pink and grey. When I first saw these I wondered whether I would be able to make them work together, they sounded like an odd combination.. but so far I think I have done okay.

The three colours I chose today are China Glaze - Ingrid, Barielle - U-Concrete-Me and OPI - Suzi's Hungary Again.

To see what I did this week click below.

Copycat Saturday: Nude Leopard Print

Hi loves. It's the weekend! I hope you all have nice plans. I am feeling ill (again!) so I think I will be resting, I keep getting ill lately.

I am back today with this weeks Copycat Saturday post. I was inspired by this pin.. unfortunately the pin doesn't link back to the original creator and the picture doesn't have a watermark. But if anyone does know who originally did these nails please let me know so I can credit them properly.

For full details on this manicure read on after the jump.

Pick A Polish: W7 - Green Dazzle

Hi everyone. I have just got home and am about ready to pass out, is it the weekend yet? lol.

It's Monday so that means it's Pick A Polish time, this week W7 - Green Dazzle was picked from my stash. I picked this up last Christmas time, thinking it would be a good Christmas glitter but I never got round to using it. So this is the first time it has been used, I have so many untried polishes, its unreal!

Green Dazzle is a green leaning teal glitter in a clear base. The photo above shows 4 coats with no undies, I think you could just about get away with wearing it like this but you can still see a bit of nail. I did find that the base is slightly tinted so it did makes my nails look very yellow in the gaps. It was also getting quite thick at this point and was quite slow drying.

For these reasons, I much prefer this layered over another colour. This photo shows one coat over China Glaze - Keep Calm, Paint On. Glitter pay off is good and I found it applied very evenly and smoothly.

Onto the nail art...

The base colour again is China Glaze - Keep Calm, Paint On.

I added the animal stripes on using a striping brush and W7 - Green Dazzle.

I really liked how this nail art came out, sometimes keeping it simple can be more effective. I am also glad I finally tried this glitter out as I do love it layered.

What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for looking.

Red Zebra Nails

Hello everyone :). How was everyone's Monday? I have one more week at work then I go on holiday, very excited!

I felt like doing some animal print the other day, which is something I don't often do. I didn't want to do just plain animal print though so I tried to mix it up a bit. I was quite pleased with these and I got quite a lot of compliments whilst I was wearing them also. 

The base I used was OPI - My Paprika Is Hotter Than Yours. I love how bright this shade is.

I freehanded the white using my Colour Club white and a detail brush. I was going to tape it, but I was feeling too lazy to cover myself in striping tape, I don't think they came out too uneven.

For the black zebra stripes I used my Barry M nail art pen. This was really fiddly and looks a bit messy close up, but didn't look so bad from further away.

Then as always, I added my topcoat and I was done.

What's your favourite type of animal print?

Thanks for stopping by.