Nails: Stamping advent!

This year instead of a traditional advent calender, me and the boyfriend decided to get one that you can fill with your own presents. He has been filling my with stamping plates, and I thought I would show you a design off of each of the first 3 days.

Beauty items..









Lightening bolts..

Some little penguin I stamped then I added the snow and trees.








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Nails: Christmas

Hello! Today I thought I would share with you some nails I did to enter an E.L.F competition.
I did these little designs on each finger, they seem to go down well, and I even won. <3

nails:gradient with glitter.

This is a super simple and cute aqua to pink gradient with a glitter top coat.
I love these two colours together. I think it works great on it's own or would make a pretty background for some nail art.

Nails: Acrylics

Hello! today is non art related, this is some of the Liquid and powder ( Acrylic ) nails that I have been working on. The top set is a before and after. 

This set is a natural looking extensions that I have done. The first picture is without polish, and the second is polished. These are fab if you need something a litter longer, but don't want your nails to look very "fake". 

Nails:orange and yellow

Here is a sort of before and after of my nails.
This is nina pro like butta (yellow) base, with essie's orange it's obvious sponged on top. I the decided to add some gold glitter, and a little konad lighting bolt.

Simple but cute - do you agree? What have you been wearing on your fingers recently?

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Nails: Water marbling weekend..

I wanted to try some more water marbling ideas I had been thinking about. I also wanted to try my new W7 glitter polishes that I picked up last weekend. Firstly I wanted to say how much I love the W7 glitter polishes, good coverage, and very sparkly.

Here are some photos:

<<< This is the purple glitter over, a colorclub grey- purple base, from the back to boho collection.
I just used one coat over the base colour, there are a few spots that are a little lacking in glitter, but as I knew I would be added my design over the top I decided against having yet another coat of nail polish on, as this is already three coats.

What is your favorite type of manicure?    <3

Nails: nude and pink

This is another quick and simple manicure today. Nude and pink. I showed you this nude here in September, but this time I added this shinny pink striping tape down the length of the nails slightly to one side.

I've been playing with tape a lot recently, so there will be plenty more nails using it to come.

Have you tried striping tape? What do you think?

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Nails: Natural french manicure.

This is a very natural french manicure, with the idea being to just make the nails look clean and natural and not to "in you face" white.
I used Essie- ballet slippers for the tips, just one coat lightly applied, followed by a pearly pink from color club. I topped it all off with a good coat of seche vite.

Do you like your french manicure to be natural or to be bright white and "fake" looking?

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Nails: Ideas from pinterest - tried and tested

I am a huge lover of pinterest, I spend a lot of time looking through all different sections on there, but my faveourite is the hair a beauty, and the food sections. I thought I would share with you some of the things I have tried and how they turned out..

First up are these funky nails, I had seen some bright nails that had beautiful colour gradients with animal print over, so I decided to recreate them with my own slight twist. I got a lot of complement the day I wore these..

This is something that looks so cute in real life I wouldn't stop looking at them. This is water marbling over top of holographic nail polish. I wasn't sure how this would turn out, and if the holo would show through, but it does, and gives a slight holo/metallic look to the nails, even though the colours a used to marble were just plain creme

Have you tried pinterest yet?
What ideas have you tried, and how did they turn out?

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Make up: My daily look

This is my first make-up post. As you can probably tell I am far more comfortable show nails than I am make-up, even though I do my make up every day, and don't often leave home with out it, I am less exciting with my face than with my hands.





<<< As you can see I normally keep my makeup quite simple in the day, especially for work. I find that keeping my make-up neutral in the day is good for two reason, I know what I am doing in the morning when I am in a hurry and super sleepy, and if I am going out after work, I don't have to take everything off to re do it, I can just touch it up, and add some colour to match my outfit if I need to.
It surprisingly takes me quite a few items to make me look natural, around 10.

Here is what I use:

Primer: bodyshop - Matte it
Foundation: Vichy dermablend corrective stick - opal.(12)
powder: bodyshop loose face powder - 3
Bronzer: E.L.F - contouring blush and bronzing powder ( I just use the bronzing side.)
Blush: bodyshop - petal (01)
Brows: Hd brows - foxy (I also use this as eye shadow.)
Eye shadow primer: E.L.F - sheer.
Eyeliner: bodyshop - eye definer in black.
Mascara: Technic sk-eye high lashes - black.

Nails: A few more Halloween ideas.

 Hello guys and gals. This is a quick post with some more Halloween nails - now I know Halloween was yesterday, but I thought I'd show you what I was rocking for the (lack of) festivities.

This are the nails I wore for the 31st. I just used some pink glitter nail polish from colorclub then just added some cute little Halloween nail stickers over it.

These nails are some more toned down nails that I did with little spiders webs on. I love the frosted pink in the left image, but I am less sure if I like it when covered with glitter. I just drew the web on free hand with a white nail polish and a small brush.

Show me your Halloween nails in the comments section below.

Don't forget you can keep up to date on what nails are happening on our facebook page.

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nails: princess pink.

When I did these nails, I wanted something simple, and cute whilst keeping my nails girly and interesting. I call them my princess nails.

This is a beautiful pink from color club, that I picked up in a box set - it has no name on it, and I can't work out what it is. It is very similar to O.P.I pink-ing of you // Pink Friday; and I love both of them too.All I did after that was add some little crystals around the cuticle line between 4 and 7 on each finger.

Hope you enjoy them. -Jebbie <3

Nails: blue/yellow fade.

Today's nails aren't on my hands, these fingers belong to my best friend. She asked for "something cool and interesting for the weekend"

We eventually decided to go for a fade from blue to yellow, then add some Zebra stripes on top. She really loved one of my new blue nail polish, and wanted something that included the colour in the design, although it does look a little more green the blended over the yellow. Nicky was very happy with the finished design - lets hope they last her all weekend!




Here are the swatches of the yellow and blue I used. Both are by Nina ultra pro I picked these up at salonservices  for 67p. The yellow needed three coats, but other than that nothing wrong with it.

Nails: Animal print (Neon)

Thursdays nails were neon pink and blue/green with both leopard and zebra print. I topped them off with some sliver glitter where the two colours meet.

I am in love with these nails! I was a little sad to take them off, but I wanted to get more designs done.

Nails: Halloween..

Hey guys, long time no blog eh? I have been really busy with nails recently - I have just finished my course, and have now qualified as a nail technician, which is awesome. Other than that, I have been doing lots of designs and setting my facebook page. 

Here are some Halloween nails that I have been working on. I have done eight different designs, cause I love a bit of mix and match on my nails!

What is your favorite design for Halloween nails?
If you have some nail art you have done, why not leave me a link in the box below, so I can check it out.



I also have a great collection on bright colours to show you that I picked up recently, so keep your eyes peeled for that one!

Take care - Jebbie <3

Nails: He came home.

Another short post again today, as I have been a wee bit unwell..

This is nomadic nude, from color club's back to boho collection, which I think was released last autumn. I picked this up in a set with 5 other colours (and a top coat) for £7.99 from my local TK Maxx.

I like to have nudes to wear during the week, when I am having "no polish" days, but I find a lot are too see through for my liking, but this one is nice and solid. This is two coats, and then two coats of seche vite.


What do you think of nudes? Are the a staple in your collection? Have you picked up any polish bargains in TK Maxx?

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nails: red and gold with leopard print.

I couldn't decided how to do my nails this weekend, and after doing them about four times, this is what I came up with... 

I am not really sure how I feel about these nails, there is something I don't like, but I can't decided what it is. 

I used my new dotting tool set to do the leopard print, instead of my nail art pens. I think doing it this way is a bit better because the design is less raised than when I have done it with pens. It also means that all of my polishes can be drawn with, giving a much wider range of colours.

Nails: Sunset in Africa.

I am a huge Pinterest fan (follow me) and I spend lots of time on there. I have seen lots of gradient nails, and lots of different ways to do them. So I decided to give them ago here is the results:

<<< I was looking for a way to wear yellow nail polish, and as the sun has come back out, I thought it might be one of the last weekends to wear a summer manicure before next year.

So this is my first attempt... I decided not to mix the colours first, and to just layer them over one another.  I was rather impressed at how quick this was to do, I took me less than 10mins to put the gradient on - which I thought was pretty good.  I wore this for a day, then decided that being me, I couldn't do with some art on them...

>>> So I added some of my favorite, quick to do, zebra stripes, to funk them up some more and TA-DA this is how they turned out. I like this look, it is bold and bright, but the black in the animal print tones down the loudness of whole look and for me makes it more wearable.

I really enjoyed doing this manicure, it looks far harder than it is, which means that your friends will think you have some bad-ass nail art skills, and all you'll need is a make up sponge! I will be doing some more of these in the future.

Have you ever tried a gradient manicure? What are your thoughts?

Nails: Water marble experimentation

Here is yet another manicure I have done using GOSH holographic hero. This time I used water marbling, I did this over an old manicure of plain holo, so I had already had my 24hour wear from it.

So on to the pictures:

<<< Gosh holographic hero (under bright lights.)
Everyone know what this looks like, but it's so pretty I wanted to post another picture. <<<

>>>I wanted to show you what the holo looked like when it was under "normal" lighting inside. Not super exciting or impressive, but I still like it! >>>

<<< This is what my hands looked like after I had dipped them in the water with the nail polish in. This is of course before I cleaned them up. I am would rather had a big clean up then fuss with tape, but that is my personal preference.<<<

>>>This is this finished nails after I cleaned them up!

I loved these nails, and was quite sad to take them off. >>>








I also thought I would show you some water marble nails that didn't go to plan:

<<< After the holo water marble looked so fab, I thought I'd try an autumn theme marble.

I don't like the way this one came out, it's just not how I imagined it. <<<

What you think? Have you tried water marbling, how did it go?

 

Skincare: keeping it Simple

 <<< I, unfortunately am very limited in what skincare products I can use due to an allergy to salicylic acid, so I have to check the labels before I buy anything skincare/make-up/shampoo etc. so I thought that it might be useful for me to share with you what I use, and what is good for me.
        Anyway, onto my point. I found that my skin gets on really well with the simple skincare range. I have used the wipes for a while, and every time I stop using them a swap to a different (read cheaper) facial wipe, my skin becomes very sore, red, and blotchy - not a good look for anyone!

So after my success using the facial wipes, I decided to give the toner, and moisturiser a go. - Until recently, I have never had a good skincare routine. I will be sadly admit until around 2years ago, I didn't even take my make-up off before bed *shock horror*, but I now do it religiously. No matter how sleepy I am.
 I don't use the toner every day, I did for about the first two weeks, and now I use it every other day or so, and it keeps my skin looking much better than it did before.
>>> The moisturiser is a very thick white cream. I don't use a lot of it, and found that the last pot lasted me 2-3 months. If you use too much it can feel a little like a film is sitting on top of my skin, and it doesn't sink in very well.

Picked both of these up in Sainsbury's on a two for £4 deal, which works out cheaper than buying the cream alone!

What is your favorite skincare range?

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