Valentine Affair

Finally! My first Valentines mani of the year. 

Using; OPI - Nail Envy, Ciaté - Dangerous Affair, Essie - Quick Dry top coat and Sally Hansen - No Chip top coat. 

As I am participating in a Valentines Collaboration I decided to do the full on valentines theme. The collaboration is on Instagram with the hashtag #vdaycollab2015 - check out everyone else's designs, there are so many amazing mani's. 

I quite like these nails but think they're a bit too much for me, great for an occasion but not everyday wear. I forgot to take this mani off before going to Uni with it... Only on one hand!

Onto the polish... I actually really love this Ciaté. I'm never a huge fan of red and it wouldn't be my top choice in colour but I am really liking this shade.

You might have noticed I listed two top coats above. I used Essie quick dry for practical reasons but it looked horrible once it had dried! No shine whatsoever. I've never noticed this before but it became very clear once I used my Sally Hansen one over top giving it an amazing shine. I'm really sad about the Essie top coat because I'm a massive fan of Essie as a brand. Think I might have to try it again on a few different polish colours. 

Hopefully I'll have time to do another valentines mani this week. However, it is my birthday at the weekend so I'll be doing some nice simple birthday nails. 

I also have lots of nail goodies on the way such as; Cuter Cuticles bits, more ibd gels, Zoya polishes and a Seche Vite top coat which I have been after forever! Cannot wait to try and maybe review some of them. 

Thanks for reading this far down! Much love.

xox

Little bit of floral

Valentines mani, very late. I did these before valentines I just didn't have time to post them (my birthday is the day after). This is also why I don't have any better pictures :( I completely forgot about the horrible plaster on my finger. Now it is too late to take another because they have chipped. So this will have to do unfortunately. The polishes I used were the ones I use quite a lot (just love them) The base is OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls. OPI - Kiss Me On My Tulips. Nina Ultra Pro - Leaf Me Alone. And the black wasn't a particularly known brand. I used it because it already had a small detail brush. 

New nails up tomorrow - I got lots of new gorgeous nail polishes for my birthday! 

xox

love, love, love

My second valentines mani - definitely a different one. And much harder than I anticipated - I did most nails twice! And whilst watching Harry potter which was very tense. 

I used Essie - Fiji (one of my absolute faves!)

A random black with no name. I got it from Barcelona 

And Essie - Fifth Avenue (again) 

I like this one because it's not a typical girly valentines mani. I also couldn't resist putting the base coat picture up - it is soo nice. 

More tomorrow - if I get enough work done in time!

xox 

Queen of hearts

First valentines post of the year. I saw a similar design to this which was gorgeous so thought I would recreate. This mani doesn't look as good with square nails, so when I get bored and change nail shape I definitely want to try this one again.

I used: Essie - Millionnails base. OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls. Essie - Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue is a great colour. I never wear red nail polish because I just don't think it suits me that well - but I'm actually starting to like it. Maybe more red to come. More valentines nails to come + birthday nails. (15th!) Valentines baby.

xox