NOTD blue daisys

My dotting tools finally came! =) No sign just yet of my little nail beans, but they're estimated between now and the 10th so hopefully they'll be early! Here are my dotting tools;

Sorry it's not a very good picture, but I was away all weekend and so didn't manage to take decent pictures. I think they cost about £3.50 including delivery from Ebay. So not too bad, and it's much better than using the end of a paintbrush! I decided to do something different than just dots, but I only had two shades of blue and a topcoat with me over the weekend, and my wheel of rhinestones. This is what I came up with...

I used Barry M in Blueberry Ice Cream which is a gorgeous colour, and Nails Inc polish from the Diet Coke promotion in Delicious Denim. Then I put yellowy/orangey rhinestones in the middles of the daisies and sealed it all with Insta-Dry. I actually really liked the design, I only intended to do one or two flowers but then I liked it so much I ended up doing daisies on all of them. 

Cat xox

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

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