Liquid Sky Lacquer - Blue Daiquiri Swatches

Hello lovelies. How are you all? It's my birthday today, I'm no longer a teenager. I'm not sure I like it, I feel like I should act like a proper adult now (although I'm not sure that will ever happen!).

Recently I was browsing Rainbow Connection (which is a very dangerous pass time for my bank account) and whilst I was drooling over lots and lots of polishes, I managed to restrain myself and just buy one. Since its so pretty, I decided to share it with you today.

The polish in question is Liquid Sky Lacquer - Blue Daiquiri. 

Blue Daiquiri is a thermal polish. Above it is in it's cold state which is quite a light shimmery blue. This is what it looked like on me most of the time.

In its warm state it is a soft minty green colour. I did have to run my hands under warm water for quite a while to get it this colour. 

This is it transitioning, you can just about see it at the tips. I did find that I didn't get much of a transition, it would get to this point and then just go straight back to the cold colour.

I did really like this polish, it is really pretty. However I can't help but be a bit disappointed that it took so much effort to make it change colour! I have looked up reviews from other people, and no one else seemed to have this problem. So I think it may just be the fact that I always seem to have consistently cold hands (people do quite often tell me that). Besides all this, it really was a great quality polish so I would definitely purchase more from Liquid Sky Lacquer.

Have you tried anything from this brand? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for looking.

Waterfall Half Moons

Hello everyone. This is my final scheduled post, by this time I will be nearing the end of my holiday and I will be coming home tomorrow.

Today I have a twist on the Nailasaurus' waterfall nail art. I really love her original design but I thought I would try it out with a half moon thrown in the mix too.

The base I used was Models Own - Apple Pie, the formula isn't great on that polish, it doesn't self level at all and is really hard to get even. But it is a pretty colour.

To make the half moon shape I used some of them hole reinforcer things.

Then using a striping brush I added the lines. I did this nail by nail so the polish wouldn't dry too much over the hole reinforcers and make them hard to remove. The colours I used were Rimmel - Green With Envy, Revlon - Blue Slate, Barry M - Greenberry, Cirque - Erda and an unnamed turquoise colour from Colour Club.

That was all there was to it, easy right? I really liked these nails, a lot of people complimented me whilst I was wearing them.

Have you tried waterfall nails yet?

Thanks for looking.

Nail Lacquer UK Swatches

Hello lovelies. I hope we all had a good weekend. I am off to Cyprus tomorrow for a week of sun and a much needed break from work. But I have been painting my nails like crazy for the past few weeks so I still have some posts scheduled to show you. I have never scheduled a post before though so I hope it works lol, I guess we shall find out :).

Anyway, today I have some swatches to show you. I am not much of a swatchy person, I much prefer to post nail art as I think it more interesting. However I loved these polishes so much I just had to share them! I had been eyeing up Nail Lacquer UK's etsy store for a little while and I finally caved and bought a few to try out. 

This post is quite picture heavy so click the jump for all the swatches.

Bright Floral Nails

Hello everyone. How are we all? I am having a nice lazy day off today since I am working the weekend.

Today I have a manicure to show you that @hannvjk did on instagram. I believe the design was initially by @mrcandiipants but I loved the colour scheme that hannvjk used. Here is a link to the actual post. Isn't it soo pretty?! I just had to recreate it.

I must admit I wasn't very pleased with how these came out, I think my lines were kind of messy. But I thought I would share my attempt anyway, even if they were a big fat fail haha!

I started with a base of Models Own - Pink Sorbet on all my nails except my ring finger which is Barry M - Key Lime.

I then freehanded the shapes with a white creme and a nail art brush.

I added the colours to the middle of the flowers, using the opposite colour that I had for the base colour. Once this was dry I added the white dots on top.

Finally I freehanded the black details, added a topcoat and I was done.

Like I said before, I wasn't very pleased with these. I was trying out a new brush for this, but I think I will stick to my old one, it is much easier to work with. But it is all good practice I guess!

Have you had any nail fails lately?

Thanks for looking!

Swirly Floral Nails

Hello lovelies. I hope everyone is doing well.

I wasn't really sure what to call this design, hence the title. I was feeling a bit uninspired when I was doing these so I just sat down and painted and this is how it turned out.

I started with a base of Sally Hansen - Without A Stitch.

I added the swirl down the middle using China Glaze - Goldie But Goodie and a nail art brush.

I then added the flowers and other dots using OPI - Live and Let Die and China Glaze - Goldie But Goodie again with dotting tools.

It was as simple as that, so easy to do. But I still was happy with how these came out. I think they are quite appropriate for autumn, as summer is well and truly gone now.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angled French Manicure.

Hello lovelies. I hope we all had nice weekends, I'm not loving the fact that it is Monday again!

Today I have a nice simple design to show you. I felt like wearing something simple but couldn't face being completely normal! Lol.

For these nails I started with a base of OPI - I Theodora You. 

I then added the silver stripe at different angles on each nail, using the brush from the polish. I used an unnamed W7 silver.

I then added the colours to the tips, again using the brushes from the bottle. The green is Essie - Naughty Nautical and the purple is MAC - Heroine.

I added a topcoat and I was done.

I got a lot of compliments whilst wearing this. Plus it was nice to do a design only using the polish brushes, less tidying up for me!

How do you do your nails when you are feeling something simple?

Thanks for looking.

Splatter Nails.

Today I have some splatter nails to show you. I have seen this technique done quite a lot but I have never tried it before myself, so I was quite pleased with how they turned out. It also gave me a chance to use my new China Glaze polishes that I purchased a few weeks ago :).

Hello and welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog.

I think I may be talking into a black hole at the moment, but I figured I may as well introduce myself anyway :).

My name is Vicky and I am a 19 year old girl from Essex, UK and I am obsessed with nails and nail art! I currently work in a call centre but one day hope to do nails for a living. I first got into nail art about 6 months ago when I came across a few blogs on the internet. Since then I have spent countless hours trying different designs on my nails, so I thought I would start a blog to share some of my creations.

Anyway.. onto the nails! 

I thought I would start out with something simple, a nice dotting mani. I often find that simple turns out the best.

For this mani I used a white pearly base from W7 (I have no idea what this polished is called, there is no name on the bottle, sorry!) and I used Barry M Gelly - Dragonfruit and Greenberry for the dots. For the dots I used a few different sized dotting tools and just scattered them in a diagonal pattern across my nail. All topped off with Seche Vite. 

Thanks for looking.