NOTD Jan 25/13 - funky abstract

This idea was sort of floating in my head for months, but I never got around to doing it. The idea for the pattern on my thumb and ring finger popped into my head and I thought it would look pretty cool, and when I finally decided to make it happen, the perfect colours jumped out at me too!

Now that I look at the pattern in reality, it really kind of reminds me of tire tracks, especially when I was first drawing it on and started it in the middle of my nails. The black rhinestones I added on as a last minute addition to make it a little more balanced and add a bit of pizazz to the plain nails.

The green is an awesome shade I recently picked up, Essence in L.O.L., such a gorgeous chartreuse shade, LOVE! The lavender is Revlon Top Speed in Lily, and the peach is Illamasqua Purity. I painted the designs with black acrylic paint, and the black rhinestones are from Born Pretty Store!

NOTD Dec 12/12 - Viridian snowflakes

I love snowflakes for a holiday nail design (if you hadn't already noticed) but I wanted something with a slightly less traditional colour this time.

I chose Illamasqua's Viridian, a gorgeous shimmery deep blue-green shade! See a swatch of it alone here. Then I added white snowflakes with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On, and topped it with a holographic silver shimmer (NYX Advanced Salon Formula in Disco Inferno). Simple but pretty!

NOTD Oct 30/12 - black and red glitter gradient

Just a quick one today! I wore these nails to pair with my Halloween costume this past weekend, which was a black devil costume - just a simple horns headband and a tail and I wore all black. Cute and simple and these nails gave it a little bit of colour! Not the best picture but it was cloudy and early and I was in a rush!

I used a few colours in this - basic black obviously, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Black Out. Then for the reds I used Illamasqua Scarab, Revlon Cherry Crush, and LA Girl Glitter Addict in Animate.

first Illamasqua polishes/I have an awesome boyfriend

Ever since Sephora got its beautiful new nail polish display, I've been eyeing up Illamasqua's polishes, wanting them... I may have mentioned it offhand at some point to my boyfriend, but honestly I talk so much about nail polish I'm sure most of it goes in one ear and out the other.

So imagine my surprise (and delight!) when I came home from work today, and found this sitting on top of my Helmers:

  

I daintily peeked inside tore the tissue out of the bag and inside were these lovelies!

TWO Illamasqua polishes plus a top coat!! Is my boyfriend amazing or is he amazing? He just popped out to Sephora (and he hates the mall, he wasn't just there to chill out) and bought me a random gift! Of nail polish! Really nice, great quality nail polish! Hell, I'd be happy if I came home to find a couple Wet n' Wilds waiting for me, but this was just beyond!

I knew I had to swatch them immediately, if not sooner, so here they are. The red colour is called Scarab and the green is called Viridian. Both were topped with the Sephora top coat!

Both gorgeous! The formula on these was lovely and easy to work with, these were each two coats. Thank you to my honey for the amazing present!