Hey guys.

Its taken me a few days to get round to posting my halloween costume. I was so pleased with the way it turned out I really wanted to share It with you. I went as a sugar skull so my costume was mainly makeup. Please let me know what you think and your halloween costumes in the comments.

                                   

I didn't want to use face paint as I was going to a club with my flat mates and knew that it would rub of during the night so I used my normal bb cream and just created the skeletal look over that. I used an orange (petals) and turquoise eyeshadow from a palette I got from amazon for £7. I then used a gel eyeliner from sleek to do all the black lines. I contoured my face with black eyeshadow and then went over it with a pink blush from the makeover essentials palette. I used two sets of false lashes, normal and feather ones that I picked up in the poundland halloween section.

My dress I got in new look for £12.99  It's the one bellow but I got it in black but I couldn't find that one on the website. You can get the one bellow here http://www.newlook.com/shop/womens/dresses/burgundy-lattice-neck-skater-dress-_289975567?isRecent=true

I wore my Black patent dr martens and the floral crown I made myself. I also as did my nails as little sugar skulls, I even managed to do these on both my hands. 

Hope you enjoyed :P

Lauren

Hey, two posts on one day I'm on a role. I did this manicure a few weeks ago now and really loved it. It combined two of my new favourite Barry M gelly's Mango and Pasion fruit with Barry M black multi glitter over the top. This is so wearable and pretty I loved wearing this manicure.

Hope you enjoy

Lauren

Hey guys,

I've got some nail art for you today. I decided to do this sort of creepy design as I am obsessed with eyes and wanted to create a comic style design. First pics then a tutorial.

To create this design I started by painting a base colour of china glaze stone cold (part of last years hunger games collection) I like this polish as it dries matte and so creates a great contrasting finish. I next used a dotting tool to add white dots and then outlined this using a tooth pick dipped in black Barry M and then created a dot in the middle of the white and then in between the eyes.

I like this design but don't think it's one of my best

Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think and please like and subscribe.

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Hey guys,

I've been really lazy with editing pictures so I completed these at the weekend but am only posting now, sorry. I really loved these nails as they were a bit different to the usual doticures I do and use two of the polishes I talked about in my haul post. I loved how these colours complimented each other and the look of the gold which is NYC full metal jacket. This has replaced Barry M gold foil effects as my new fav gold. Pictures than a how to.

I started with a base colour of NYC full metal jacket. I love the formula of this as it literally only needed one coat. Amazing! I then created large dots with NYC manhattan the deep plum red colour which I also love. I then doted over the red in gold and as a final touch added smaller dots strategically in between the larger dots. 

Hope you enjoy, 

I have loads more glitter experiments from my haul buy to show you as well but I'll save that for tomorrow.

Lauren 

Hey guys,

Just a quick update on yesterdays purchases, I created a Pink glitter gradient. The last glitter gradient I did was not a success as I used powder glitter to create it instead of polish. I am much happier with this gradient as it is a lot more subtle all be it very girly. This would be perfect for a wedding or a prom as it is quite simple but very pretty.

Unfortunately to show the glitter I had to play around with the image and so my skin looks a bit red but the colour of the nails is right although the images are a little to contrasted. 

Hope you enjoy these nails, please comment and follow.

Lauren

 

Hey guys,

Today I decide to create another design using strips of tape as It worked really well with stripes last time, although smudged with topcoat. I suggest to recreate this design you paint your nails the chosen base colour the night before to ensure the nails are completely dry and the tape does not rip up the base colour when applied. I used a base of Barry M silvery lilac on most of my nails but silver foil effect on my ring finger. I let that dry then cut masking tape using pinking scissors and applied to the nail and then painted over using silver or silvery lilac. Now the pictures.

Hope you enjoy,

Lauren

Hey guys,
I've got a couple of posts for you today as I'm getting round to posting my latest nails.
The first is this peach and blue polka dot. I've been trying to use some of the polishes that I have but haven't worn yet, peach being one of them. Peach really isn't my colour and so I added the blue to break up the colour and create a cute design. Dots are so easy to do with a dotting tool and so Is one of my favourite things to do on my nails.

I created large dots in a zigzag down the middle of my nail and then added smaller dots in a line either side. This isn't my favourite design but I took it of soon after the pictures as I hated the way peach looked with my skin.

Hope you enjoy,

Lauren

Hey guys,
Yesterday I tried out doing a leopard print design. I've seen a lot of variations of leopard but I prefer ones which incorporate different, unnatural colours. I don't usually like leopard print as I find it a bit 'chavy' and I don't like its normal colour. I choose to instead use a base colour of Barry M cyan blue and create the leopard spots using Barry M greenberry.

I love this design as although the spots are a different colour the difference is subtle as they are a lighter colour than the base. To create the leopard print I just added the green dots put black brackets around them and then added little black 'c' shapes over the base colour. 

Hope you guys enjoy, please comment and follow! 

Lauren

Also sorry I forgot to clean my cuticles before taking pics lol

Hey guys,

Yesterday I attempted for the first time creating a stripe mani using tape. I have never done this before and so was pleased with the result until putting top coat on dragged some of the silver :( I love the colour combination and the difference between the silver foil effect and the pink varnish. Pictures first then a tutorial.

I started by painting a base colour of Barry M bright pink, I painted this the night before so that when I applied the tape the nail varnish wouldn't smudge or pull off. I then cut strips of masking tape and positioned them on  the nail creating horizontal stripes. On the ring finger I used smaller stripes of masking tape so it was slightly different than the others creating a subtle accent nail. I then applied top coat which unfortunately smudged some of the silver. 

Hope you enjoy,

Lauren :P

Hey guys,

Today I've done a very simple design based on the board game monopoly. I know there are many different monopoly variations but this is ased on the classic london one. I chose to only do the property cards as these easily fit on the nail and are very simple. Pictures first than a tutorial.

To start I painted my nails a base colour of Barry M mint green which needed two thick coats. I than painted the tips of my nails matte white and than went over this with the colour. On the thumb is mango, then blood orange, next lemon ice-cream and then spring green and indigo (all Barry M). I then used a black fine liner pen to write the name and the value of the property and to underline the colour. Add a topcoat and the design is finished. 

Hope you enjoy,

Lauren

What variations of monopoly do you own? I don't have the classic but I do have the lord of the rings edition :P

Hi guys,

Just a short post as I am so tired as I was out last night. I did these yesterday but did them just before going out and so didn't have time to post them then. I wanted to do quite a simple design as I was running late but I also didn't just want to paint my nails one colour. I realised after I did these that they match a new duvet cover I bought to bring to uni, so obvs that was the unconscious inspiration. The base colour is Guava one of the latest Barry M gellys which I'm in love with. I also have bought a proper base coat instead of just using my hard as nails Sally Hansen. I just bought the super cheap 3 in 1 Barry M base top and strengthening polish which you can't go wrong with for £2.99. To create the dots I simply stuck a dotting tool in matte white and placed three dots on each nail. So simple and quick but as I said I didn't have time for much else.

Unfortunately even though I used a fast dry top coat the thumbs smudged as I was getting dressed and I didn't realise but as I am running out of fast dry top coat it has gone really bubbly and doesn't look great. Plus I started of doing the dots fuchsia which kind of shows on the two fingers I did it on.

Not the greatest nails I've done but I still love the colour.

Hope you enjoy

Lauren 

Also I had to change the font in my watermark as my mac doesn't have that font and the free trial of photoshop ran out on my desktop. Back to good old Times Roman lol :P

Hey guys,
It seems that I am slightly obsessed with flowers and butterflies at the moment. I have done two butterfly pattern nails but I wasn't really happy with either. Today's nails though I am so happy with. I also used my new mango Barry M jelly, I bought this just to collect the new colours as oranges don't usually suit my skin tone. However I started using it the other day and it is the perfect orange tone for my skin. I am so happy with it, although mango flesh is in my opinion a lot more yellow in real life than this colour. Anyway pictures than a short tutorial.

To create this nails I started with a base colour of mango as I already mentioned. I then sponged Barry M lemon ice-cream over the middle of all the nails. Next I painted the tips of my nails black and added white dots using a small dotting tool. Then with my black nail art pen I drew the butterfly wing pattern over the orange. I finished with a coat of fast dry top coat. 

Hope you enjoy,

Lauren :D

Hey Guys,
I quickly wanted to show you swatches of my new jelly with confetti effects. I showed Passion Fruit earlier this week but I also bought mango. These pictures started of as me trying to do a orange fruit design that kind of flopped and so I added both my confetti's Liquorice and bubblegum to the nails.

To do the oranges I started by smudging black onto parts of some nails using a brush. I then put the black confetti effect over that and than blobbed on the new Limited edition Superdrug green Barry M to create a leaf. Then to do a swatch for the bubblegum confetti I added one coat of that to the other nails. I know this looks a mess but I wasn't happy with the design so used it to show a swatch instead. I may also do a separate swatch but as they say 'two birds, one stone.' 

 Don't expect you to enjoy

Lauren.

Hey guys,
My last two posts have both been swatches so I wanted to show you guys the nails I did on Thursday. I had ordered Rhinestones from ebay, and they arrived the day I did these. So I was itching to use these in a design. I know I've been doing a lot of flower designs recently and only did these as a quick experiment with rhinestones. I really loved this design but whenever I put things on my nails such as the chains in a previous post I am compelled to pick them of when bored. So with me these designs don't tend to last long :P. Next pictures then a tutorial like normal.

To start with after painting a base coat, I painted a base colour of Barry M berry ice-cream. I love this colour as it is a slightly girlie r shade than I would usually wear but also has more purple tones in it. I than used a doting tool to create slightly off centre flowers on my nails. I applied top coat and while this was wet applied a aqua rhinestone to the centre of the flowers. Next I sealed them in with a couple more coats of fast dry top coat. 

Hope you enjoy :D

Lauren 

Hey, this a follow up to the previous post with a simpler design to do on your right hand as it may be difficult to do the first design on both hands unless you are ambidextrous. Pictures then a how to.

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Hey, I decided to do another simple design today with one of my new jelly's. I mentioned in a previous post I had bought Blood orange and so wanted to try it out in one of my designs. This colour was a lot more red than I expected its sort of a post box red (sorry this is my only colour comparison but I understand only people from the UK would get the reference... just look it up you will see what I mean lol. ) I'm glad about this as colours with more orange tones don't really suit my skin colour. Enough rambling for today though, next the pictures then the tutorial.

First step: the branches.

 

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Hi, I haven't had time to post in a couple days or do anything special with my nails :( and am really sad how much I missed doing it. However I have a week until my foundation is done and then have the whole summer to do nails. It's weird this is the longest I've gone without posting which isn't that long seeing as I posted Monday but I've had major withdrawal lol. Sorry for rambling on I try and keep the opening to my posts as short as possible as not to bore but anyway... so today I've kept it simple as I'm so tiered and did a simple butterfly print nail. Photos first then the tutorial like always.

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