Models Own.

A while ago I mentioned about the half price sale Models Own were having on their website.
As I love a bargain and love Models Own nail varnish I decided to snap a few up.
Here's a picture of what I bought.

L-R: Green Grass, Aciiied, Beth's Blue, Pink Fizz, Smash Up Orange.

I've only used Aciiied and Green Grass. Aciiied was a lovely colour and lovely finish. I'm in two minds about Green Grass. I has to shake it for AGES as it seems to be so watery and thin. It took my about 6 coats. I painted it about 3 coats in one day then kept adding a coat for the next couple of days.
I did end up with a lovely finish (in the end!) and it did last for about 4-5 days without any chips - though that's probably because I kept topping it up.
Here's the end result (I didn't take a photo of Aciiied, ooops).

What do you think? Did you get anything from the Models Own sale?
:)

Nail Art 2: Galaxy Nails.

Hello,

Yesterday I decided to try out Galaxy nails after seeing this  tutorial on YouTube.

First of all I started with two coats of  black nail varnish (I used Barry M).


After letting each coat to dry I took a make up sponge (like the video says) and ripped off a small piece. I covered the small piece in white nail varnish and used tweezers to pick up the sponge and sponge on the varnish to start off my nebula.

To be honest I found it a lot easier to hold the sponge with my fingers as using the tweezers didn't give me enough control, but try it if you want.


Next I sponged on yellow. I used Barry M's pale yellow. I did the next few steps downstairs while watching a film so the lighting in the photos isn't great. I think it'd probably be a lot easy to do this design at your desk.

Next I added a bit of a pinky colour. I used Barry M's Fuchsia.

In the video she adds blue/navy to her nails next. I did that on my thumb but the navy I used was too dark so you couldn't really tell I'd used it so I just added some more yellow over the pink to tone it down a bit.

The next step was white dots with a toothpick. I don't have a white nail pen but if I did I would have used it as the toothpick wasn't very good. It was probably more down to the fact that my white varnish is a bit old so is a little gloopy. Anyway, I didn't do many white dots (or stars).

The next step was to paint over my nails with a glitter polish. I used Model's Own Juicy Jules polish to do this.

I'm not sure if its too glittery though?

I then added a top coat and that's it!

These are the varnishes I used (minus the black, which was also Barry M).


Hope you enjoyed this post. I can't decide if I like my nails or not, maybe they are too glittery or the nebula is too big but I think I prefer how the girl in the video's nails turned out.
Next time I think I'll definitely add a blue.
x

Nail Art.

Well as I mentioned in my last post I've decided to give nail art a try.
There are so many nail art designs all over the internet and I'm by no means an expert. I saw a leopard print nail art feature in a copy of Look magazine a while ago and always wanted to give it a go.

I started off with "Parma Violet" nail varnish from Topshop as my base colour.

After two coats and waiting for them both to dry I used "Peeping Tom", also from Topshop to place random dots on my nails.

Once they were dry I used my Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique Dog & Flick nail art pen in black. It has a nib and a seperate thin brush. Typically I could only unscrew the lid to expose the brush and have only now just been able to pull off the cap to expose the nib (which would have made the nail art so much easier, but never mind!) Anyway, I drew random lines around the pink dots.

They're not perfect, but considering its the first nail art I've ever tried (unless we're counting Barry M nail effects haha) I'm pretty pleased with my results!
Now I know how to open the nib on the nail art pen I'll be doing more designs and hopefully buy some nail art pens in different colours.
The leopard print design can be done in any colours you wish (obviously) and I didn't follow any pattern or picture I just places the dots and lines where I wanted. I did practice a bit on paper first, but that was really just to get myself used to the nail art brush as its so long and thin!


Speaking of nail varnish, Models Own are currently offering a 50% discount at their online shop. You just enter FIFTYFIFTY in the discount code box at the checkout when you're buying £20s worth of products (or more) to get 50% off. If you spend over £25 (after the discount has been applied) you get free postage too! Its a really good deal, especially as their nail varnishes are so good! Its to celebrate them reaching 50,000 fans on Facebook. You probably already know this of course, but just incase you don't, you should check it out :)