Sunday, 17 November 2013

Deborah Lippmann 'Lady Sings The Blues'

Hello all!

This is a quick post to show you a swatch of Deborah Lippmann's 'Lady sings the blues'. Which was one of the polishes I mentioned in my last Haul post.




















I absolutely loove this polish! It brushed on smoothly and it was opaque in only two coats. Plenty of the glitter transferred over too so I didn't need to dig around in the bottle. I think this is a great polish to accompany a little black dress for the party approaching season!

Jess x

Saturday, 2 November 2013

This Months Bargin Polish Haul

Hello all, Its been a while! But that hasn't stopped me buying polish!

I was pretty pleased with what I found this month. A while back I had my eye one some revlon polishes that were on sale on the website fragrance direct and I completely forgot to order them so they sold out. :( boo!

However I found them in good old poundland














The colours left to right are: Classy, Popular and Minted

Then randomly popping into Tk Maxx I found all these Deborah Lippmann polishes reduced to £8!

Colours left to right are: No More Drama, Stairway To Heaven and Lady Sings The Blues

Also in Tk Maxx I picked up my first Ciate polish in a pastel yellow called 'Loop the Loop' that was reduced to only £2!















Ill be swatching these polishes soon!
Have you found any good stores to buy polish?


Jess x

Sunday, 6 October 2013

Models Own 'Snowflake'

Hello all!

This is a quick manicure I did last night which I finally got to use a Models own 'snowflake'. I bought the polish last winter and had a complete mind blank on how I could use it. Since its autumn now I can use darker polishes so I teamed it up with Opi's 'Honk if you love opi'.






















The polish goes on a bit thick but plenty of the flakes came off so I only needed to do one coat. Which to be honest if I did do another coat it would have been way too lumpy. I love the colours the flakes produce and I will definitely be using this polish more in the winter months.

I hope you enjoyed this post and what are your favourite Models Own polishes?

Jess x

Monday, 30 September 2013

Hello all!

Again its been a while, I'm gunna try and post once a week and get back up and running with painting my nails and blog posts.

This is another manicure I did a few weeks ago. I had never used striping tape before and I waited pretty much all summer for it to arrive from its long journey from hong kong, but I was pretty impressed when i got it.

So I decided to do a slightly different manicure to a chevron design and to be honest I think it was slightly easier, the polish layers where alot thinner as I used a sponge rather than painting on a layer.





















Its supposed to be gradient, the lighter purple doesn't really show but overall it turned out great!


Let me know what you think and whats your favourite tape mani designs?

Jess x

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Floral Nail Art

Summer has been and gone quick! How depressing, my winter coat is in full use now.
I haven't been able to blog in a while again which is annoying. Getting back into routines at work which then ended up ruining my cuticles so I haven't even painted my nails much!

This post is a manicure I did during the summer and its one of those designs ill probably do again. When I'm having a nail art block I tend to always do a floral design, but I really like the colours I used used for the roses. Once again the base colour I used was Essie's Neo Whimsical. I just cant get over how much a love this colour!






















It was such a lovely day I figured why not take some pictures outside for once and found flowers that matched my nails!

Hope you enjoyed this post, more nails will be up soon!
x

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

This months bargain polish finds!

So every month or so I pop into my local poundland to see if there is any decent polishes. I have to say every time I go in there I leave with at least one bottle of polish. Ive found some pretty decent brands there and this months selection was pretty impressive. I have gone to other stores in the past to see if they have any different polishes but they seem to be the same in every store. They tend to change their stock maybe every month? not too sure!

The colours you find are obviously not new season however at £1 each I have no complaints! So here are the polishes I found this month. Most of the time it tends to be the same brands but this month they had OPI shatter polishes! And I think going by the name the second pink/purple glitter shatter is from the Nicki Minaj collection which is what about a year or so old?

Opi's 'Shatter The Scales'

Opi's 'Super Bass Shatter' 

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Ware in '460 Wet Cement'

Revlon Top Speed '330 Emerald'
Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Ware 400 Virtual Violet














































































So there are the polishes! If you have a local poundland defo check it out! Have you found any good polishes in there yourself? 

If you know of any other places to get polish cheap please leave a comment! As much as I love nail polish I gotta buy mine on a budget! 

Hope you all enjoyed this post and hopefully if I find any gems in there again and you guys want to see what I got I will write another post next month!

Also again I'm hosting a small giveaway on instagram Click here to go to my profile and enter!

Jess x

Sunday, 25 August 2013

South Park Nail Art

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, been feeling under the weather this week and only painted my nails once!

This is the last of the character based nail art I have done and it is of one of my favourite shows, South Park! Again this was with a white base and painted with acrylic paints. These characters were alot easier to paint compared to the Ed, Edd n Eddy ones however I found the easier characters to paint e.g Kenny harder and managed to mess up! Go figure

So heres the Manicure. I chose my favourite characters in rather than just paint the four boys. By far the best character is Randy Marsh (Stan's dad) which is on the middle nail. Butters on my index, Cute little Ike (Kyle's Brother) and Kenny on my baby nail. I'm pretty disappointed with how he turned out. 























Overall I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out! Randy defo has to be my fave! 

I hope you enjoyed this post. Hopefully my next posts will have more of the step by step pictures on them. I always forget to take photos while I'm doing my nails. Get too into the zone!

Also be sure to follow me on instagram! @jessjane07 Click here to go to my profile
I am hosting a little giveaway to celebrate the opening of my etsy shop! 

Jess x