Soft and Full of Sparkle

It's just one of those days! I changed my polish three times today and just wasn't happy with anything I put on! So when I got home from running some errands, I decided on a very soft colour with a glitter gradient after seeing so many beautiful ones on Instagram.

I used 2 coats of Kiko 209 as a base colour and then painted some New York Summer Vegas Silver which is silver micro glitter and holo bar glitter, onto half the nails. I wanted some larger pieces of glitter in there too so I added a few strokes of Essence Blair. I really like how soft and sparkly it looks. I may do quite a few glitter gradients like this in the near future.

I really, really, really like you Kiko 336

You know when you just really, really, really want to wear a certain colour? Well, today I really felt like wearing an electric blue like this. I spent a lot of time on YouTube this week looking at videos of my favourite make-up and fashion gurus and a lot of them were wearing blue on their nails! I went to my helmer and immediately grabbed this Kiko 336 which was sitting in my untrieds!

I know that every girl on the other side of the Channel probably owns this polish but because Kiko isn't as easily available in the UK, it makes me love their polishes even more! This blue gets me all excited, i cant stop starring at it. It's so fashionable as well! It also reminds me of Nails Inc Baker Street which I get a lot of compliments on when I'm wearing it. I could easily wear this type of blue all year around!

What do you guys think of this blue? Do you like it?

Thanks for reading and commenting :)

Two Tone Purple Chevrons

I really fell in love with this two-tone chevron design when I saw one of my favourite Instagramers, Rachell, doing it in blue and pink! When I'm not doing nail art on all 10 nails, I'm a one-colour-with-ring-finger-accent kind of person, so it's novelty to wear two accent nails and alternative colours on all other nails! I love it.

I used scotch tape for the not so neat chevrons. I had a little trouble with the scotch tape this time, it kept pulling off my base polish so in the end I just gave up and my chevrons ended up being different sizes. Ugghh!! A not so good nail day overall!

The polishes I used to create this look were Kiko 332 and OPI Lincoln Park After Dark, one of my favourite winter polishes. The glitter base on the accent nails is Accessorize Crystal Shimmer.  

When In Doubt, Wear A Pink Gradient!

As the title suggests, recently when I've been running out of ideas and lacking inspiration, I turn to gradients. Whatever colours you choose to go with, they always look pretty and neat.

So here is a pink french tip gradient mani. Polishes used were Yes Love Y17 and a no-name hot pink I picked up in Primark for £1. I topped the gradient with Kiko Sparkle Touch 228 to give it that extra bit of sparkle.

Silver Glitter French Mani & Born Pretty M71 Plate Review

Today I have a review for you. The lovely ladies from the Born Pretty store offered me the chance to review their M71 stamping plate, which is most popular for the Hello Kitty image. However, for this reason I wanted to give one of the other images a go first and decided on one of the flowers and a simple french.

I used Kiko 209 for the nude pink'ish base, China Glaze Polarized for the slanted french tips and Barry M Silver Foil to stamp with.

Other than the plate, they sent me a stamper and scraper as well which can all be bought HERE for $3.49 (free shipping). The M71 plate has 9 small images consisting of various flowers/ plants, fruit, cat, dolphin, butterflies and the famous Hello Kitty.

As you can see in the picture below, the stamper is shorter than my Konad one but the diameter is only the slightest bit smaller, which shouldn't cause any issues when stamping.
The silicone bit is somewhat firmer than Konad which meant I had to apply a lot more pressure on it. I used it on a couple of nails but had to switch back to my Konad stamper because of this. I had no problems at all picking up the image, the firmness of the silicone just made it difficult to transfer onto the nail.

The scraper is also slightly smaller than the Konad one but the blades are the same. They both do damage to the plate which is the reason I often use a old credit card. 

Born Pretty plates in general, are a very good alternative to Konad as they are of good quality and at a fraction of the price.The store has an array of different plates to chose from and a whole lot of other nail art equipment and decorations. You can get 7% off if you use the discount code on my sidebar - VA7J61.