Smidget Nailed It

Okay so I have been a little bit... not around on this blog for a while (again) thanks to finally adopting my cat! His name is Billy and he's an absolute sweetheart when he's not throwing the cat litter everywhere except the litter tray. As you would expect a lot of my time has been taken up dealing with him, and as such I've just been too tired to do my nails and write about it. Anyway, today I wanted to share with you a nail art challenge on Instagram I recently took part it. It's called the Glam Nails Challenge and is a series of prompts that you follow each month. Its feature account is  @glamnailschallenge , which is run by the lovely Bianka at  @nbnailart  (definitely check her out; her work is awesome!). The challenge uses the hashtag #glamnailschallenge followed by whatever month it is e.g. March was #glamnailschallengemarch. March was the first month I took part (my first ever challenge actually) and I absolutely loved it! Below is the list of prompts for e...

I'm a little later than I wanted to be in getting this out but I've been dealing with some life things over the past few weeks and I have been going through the process of adopting a cat! I've also felt a little unmotivated and just plain low over the past couple of weeks which hasn't helped. Nevertheless, on to the main point of this post: Barry M's Under The Sea nail paints! You can get these direct from  Barry M  or from your local Superdrug. They're £3.99 each (pretty standard for Barry M polishes), although I snagged mine in a 2 for £7 deal at Superdrug. As is suggested by the name, these shades are inspired by sea creatures, particularly mermaids. The bottle caps all have cute little fish decals which makes them stand out from the standard bottles. The collection has four duochrome shades: Angelfish, Butterflyfish, Jellyfish and Pinktail. Angelfish First up we have Angelfish. This is a gorgeous pale pink with a white shift, and the most sub...

Another day, another manicure! It's now March, which should be the start of spring, but the UK is covered in snow, so have some autumnal coloured nails! To created this look I used the reverse stamping/DIY decal technique and the Born Pretty BP-L046 stamping plate. This plate has gorgeous flowery designs that are perfect for reverse stamping; I suspect this will be how I use this plate most. The polishes I used for this design are: Seventeen Gel Colour in Black Cat Primark PS... Polish in Rogue W7 polish in Chestnut Barry M Speedy polish in Freestyle Rimmel 60 Seconds in Sun Downer I started by making the decals. This is pretty simple; I just used a sandwich bag from IKEA and painted a layer of topcoat. When this was dry I stamped the design over it and coloured it in using a dotting tool. Then I prepped my nails with a basecoat. I decided to do a gradient on my index and ring fingers, so I put down one layer of Rogue and then sponged the gradient on top u...