The finally finished cream and black mani!

So I finally got around to finishing the manicure I started the other day. Unfortunately it didn't come out as well as i'd hoped after all. The dots didn't come out as nice as they did last time, the black was abit gloopy so there's little strands over the cream. There's also smudges on the dots on my index finger as I've put the gloss over and they've dragged :( not good nail times! They look good at an arms length but when you're looking at them close up, not cool!
And of course, matching toes...

Definitely coming off tonight and doing some blue instead i think! Cat xox

NOTD black and cream half finished!

So yesterday I started up removing and re-doing my nails. Finished that and sat down to paint them, I decided on black and cream, and wanted to do dots on three fingers on each hand and then diamonds and pearls on the others, similar to my birthday manicure but in a more classy colour scheme. This plan failed. I painted my toes black and cream as well to match, sat down to paint my nails and smudged my toenails so had to go back and fix them, finally after AGES, finished painting my nails and they'd got bits of lint and fluff and I'd smudged them as well =(. As all this had taken me so long and I was due at the pub I decided to fix the smudges as best as I could and decided the dots could wait til another day so unfortunately, this is my nails of the day...

See how much of a mess they are? There are smudges and cuticle floods and everything =( Going to do them again this evening and hopefully manage to paint them in a decent way and add the decoration! 

The cream by the way is Maybelline and called Ivory Rose, and I think it's more peachy cream than pink, but it does take 2 or 3 coats to become opaque. The black is Rimmel 60 Seconds in Black Out, and has already gone very gloopy and thick =(. So it won't be fun redoing the black nails but nevermind!

These are the polishes I used, sorry about the poor picture and the fact I managed to get blue leaked all over the Maybelline. 

Til then, Cat xox 

Pink Birthday Nails and Toes!

So I decided I wanted something a little more interesting for my birthday. I tried out loads of things, too many to tell you about and eventually settled on pink, but not just pink, that would have been far too dull. They didn't take too long, and once I'd got started it didn't seem to take long at all. So here's the finished design, plus toes obviously because I thought they should match. The colours of the nails are about right but my skin is not that orange! (It's a little bit orange I admit haha)

This is after a day or so wear, I had a lot of clean-up to do after I'd finished doing all the dots, as you can see here;

I've used Barry M Matt White for the dots and the end of a tiny paintbrush for the dots (still waiting on my dotting tools), Models Own in Sophie's Pink, for my index finger and the nails with dots, Rimmel Professional Finish in Urban Princess for my middle finger, Max Factor Disco Pink for my thumb nail. I also used small and large rhinestones, and tiny half pearls. I then used Sally Hansen Insta-Dri over all my nails to smooth it out and to dry it quickly. So that was my birthday manicure! Until next time, Cat xox

Barry M Black Crackle over Bling Diamonds and Pearls

So this is my first crackle nail polish, I feel a bit behind the times as it came out a long time ago but it's been sold out in Boots in Manchester and Boots in Burnley for very long time. But I finally got hold of it and here it is...

I don't really like how it looks here, but I did quite like it on, you have to work VERY quickly, and the thicker you apply the polish the bigger the crackle. This has quite a small crackle as I applied it quite thinly. I'll definitely have to try this again over more colours!

Cat xox

A little bit about me;

My name's Cat, I'm turning 19 in... 9 days =) and I've been messing about with nail polish for a good few years and have gradually got more and more obsessed. I paint my nails at least every three days if not every day depending on how much time I have. I'm just finishing my first year at University and being in the city has given me access to a lot more nail polish! I'm from England so some of the brands of nail polish used by others are very difficult to get hold of but I try my best!

I love all things sparkly and can't stand my nails being a mess, I don't do much nail art, as in painting images on my nails but I do still try and do interesting designs.

So that's all about me I'd best show you my nails;

This colour is called Downtown by New York Color, it's not the best pinky/red colour I've ever used but it's nice enough, think it could do with a bit of jazzing up though, I'll have to do something more interesting with them when I get the time later, 

Love Cat xox