NOTD: Blue glitter

Yesterday I was very happy as my Nicki Minaj for O.P.I. nail varnishes came (via buyapowa), however I couldn't use them as I had already painted my nails for my friends 21st birthday party.

Today I started to sort out/tidy my room (still not done btw) and came across my nail varnishes that my very dear friend Sophie got me for Christmas from South Korea. 

I immediately stopped tidying and started to paint my nails.

I have no idea what the brand name is, and it took about 2-3 coats to achieve an opaque streak free finish, but I love it.

Its sort of light blue and sort of mint green, imagine a cross between Barry M's 'Blue Moon' and 'Mint Green' and that's what it is. It's also a matte varnish. I like it, however something was missing;

Sparkles! I put on a coat of OPI's 'Save Me'. Its made my nails a unique blue glitter shade :D

What do you think?

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Pre-School.

Today I started a Level 3 Diploma in the Children and Young People's Workforce at the Pre-School Learning Alliance in Gateshead. I'm so excited by it! I can't wait to get my placement sorted and started. I'm hopefully going to try and get into a special educational needs school so fingers crossed!
This week I'm also going back to Boot camp (Tuesday and Thursdays at 6pm) and on Wednesday I'm starting a Level 1 course in British Sign Language. Yesssssss.


As I was starting a new course I felt like giving myself pretty nails. What better than a bit of a rainbow pre-school style.

L-R: Barry M Peach Melba, BM Blue Moon, Topshop Parma Violet, BM Mint Green*, BM Pale Yellow.

The necklace that I wore today was this cute little rabbit from LLROK - but I actually bought it from ebay.

*Hello to Charlotte - can't wear mint green without thinking of her ;)

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.
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