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It’s nearly time to wave goodbye to 2016 and I know a lot of us will be happy to see it go. On the whole, it really does seem like 2016 was a pretty terrible year but perhaps that’s because I live in the same pop culture as everyone else on Twitter and I just got sucked into it all. Whatever your thoughts on the last 12 months, I hope everyone is rounding off the year with fun festivities and killer nails!
The Nailvengers are getting in to the festive spirit today as we tick over in to December and Christmas Mania can officially begin. I made a start on my Christmas shopping this weekend and let’s just say I’ll be doing as much as possible online from now on. Carrying giant shopping bags whilst trying to navigate through hoards of people also carrying their own hauls doesn’t make for a fun Sunday and it even resulted in a few bruises!
For this nail art I used Delush Glam Squad, the perfect festive red then added a few gold accent nails with Sally Hansen Coat of Arms and L’Oreal Platinum Chic.
For the details, I stamped on some designs from MoYou Festive Collection Stamping Plate 06 using BK Matte White.
It’s all topped with a coat of Glisten & Glow HK Girl.
When I tweeted about a certain new video game the week before last, you may have thought I was joking when I hinted that I wouldn’t be around much in the coming days. I seriously wasn’t joking! I’ve been out of commission for a while (although not just because gaming) and for that, I’m sorry. Noone wants to hear my excuses and I don’t really feel like bringing the mood down around here so let’s leave it at that. I’ll try to do better next month!
For this nail art, I’m borrowing heavily from an art design that I did over a year ago for the 31 Day Challenge 2013. I can’t believe it was that long ago! I didn’t even have to go back to the pictures or watch the tutorial to remember the pattern. I loved it so much that it’s been ingrained on my brain since the day I first pained it. I switched it up a bit this time with different patterns on all the nails and I had so much fun doing it. It’s definitely reignited my nail art spark.
In other news (still related to this nail art), I stumbled across one of those incredible odds-and-ends beauty stores in Bridgend over the weekend that seem to pop up all over the place before disappearing within a few months. I can never walk past one of these stores without going in. EVER! This one had a whole wall of neatly stacked nail polish, which I really appreciated because normally you have to dive through huge bins full of bottles to find the good ones! I restrained myself and left the building with only 5 bottles and a few make-up items. Two of them feature here today!
I used Sally Hansen Blinding Blue and Sally Hansen Coat of Arms as my base colours. For the lines, I used NYC Full Metal Jacket with a skinny brush from Winstonia. It’s all topped with a coat of Glisten & Glow HK Girl.
I think I died and went to heaven. They have all my favourites!! pic.twitter.com/J3Jcwx2kxw
— Sammy|TheNailasaurus (@TheSammersaurus) November 23, 2014
I’ve seen this look around a lot recently and I’m not sure of the proper name but it’s like a french manicure tipped 90 degrees so the curve sit down one edge of your nail instead of along the tip. We all know how much I love a simple yet sophisticated manicure so I couldn’t resist trying it out myself.
I must admit, I don’t know who did this first to make it take off this year, but I would just like to mention that I posted a ‘Side Frenchy‘ years back (and I’m even linking back to a truly cringe worthy blog post to prove it!) so I call dibs on the name! I actually think ‘Drunk French Manicure’ would be a better name for it. You know, like ‘Go home, French. You’re drunk’ – falling all over the place and sitting there all sideways like that!
You may have seen me Instagram the debut collection from Il Etait Un Vernis with the cute little tote bag it comes in over the weekend. I’m working my way through full swatches of the collection but I just had to add the gold holographic glitter to this mint mani. More info coming soon, but I can tell you now it’s a real winner!
For this nail art, I painted on the glitter – Live, Laugh, Love by Il Etait Un Vernis – using a small nail art brush over a base of Nicole by OPI I Shop Mintage.
For my my animal print nails, I’ve gone pretty simple with a true classic leopard print stamp from Konad. This is the first stamping plate I ever owned so I have deep feels for the patterns that are on it!
This gold polish from NYC is really great for nail art as it’s good and opaque with a foil finish, rather than chrome, but it is a bit of a nightmare to clean up! I think it’s because it’s sort of like a lgitter in that there are trillions of tiny particles of colour in there which get away from you. I used my DIY Peel Off Base Coat around my nails before stamping in an effort to protect from the worst of it but you can still see little bits around my cuticles that I couldn’t get rid of. I could have scrubbed with a nail brush but I didn’t want to risk scraping off the stamping, since there’s no top coat over it.
I started with a base of Barry M Espresso.
I used a coat of Rimmel Matte Finish to even out the surface as I find the Barry M mattes can sometimes look a bit streaky.
Finally, I stamped the leopard design using NYC Full Metal Jacket with Konad Plate M57.
So I’m just scrolling through Instagram one day when I’m tagged by @dilemmanails in a photo of the most perfect nail embellishments I could ever hope to see – tiny little T-Rexes! Luckily for me, the embellishments are from She Sells Seashells, a UK based nail art store and one of my favourite places to buy nail decor online. I snapped some up for myself (along with a few other items!) and set about waiting for the postman to pop the package through my door.
When they arrived early this week, I couldn’t wait to try the embellishments out. I love that they’re really tiny so they don’t take up too much space on my little nails. It’ll be fun to try out some other ways of wearing them!
PROTIP: If you have curved nail beds, bend metal decals like these gently around a pen or the handle of nail art brush to match the curve of your nails. That way you won’t get bits sticking out and catching on things, the embellishement will sit flush to your nail.
What I used
Barry M Vanilla
Barry M Espresso
Revlon Sequins
Glisten & Glow HK Girl Top Coat
