Glequin Gradient

I tried something new on my nails last week with some various Glequins, stripe tape blah blah blah.

My favourite nail of this experiment has become my favourite pattern of all time

Glequin Gradient dark to light

These are my sisters lovely fingertips =]

The camera doesn't do the dark pink justice at all or the light pink for that matter.

Purpley Goodness =]

I Love Purple (if yellow wasn't my favourite colour purple definitely would be. But yellow is definitely NOT an easy colour to wear so purple is definitely my go to in all situations - I have more purple going out dresses than I do anything else)

So obviously my new purple varnishes seen here and here are my go to colours this month 

Discovering my Rimmel Salon Pro is ok for stamping was a GOD SEND!

My Thumb I waited till the next day to stamp and it basically had a fingerprint on it before stamping so it didn't stamp too evenly, but I thought it was quite nice being more distressed.

My index and ring fingers I did an ombre effect and I didn't wait long enough for the polish to dry before gel top coating so it went a little bobbly, to be honest I thought it added to the ombre effect (aren't textured nail varnishes in at the minute???)

My middle finger might be my favourite nail. nice and easy to do and looks great. 5 simple stripes of nail tape and a little purple gem to hide the join =]

CAVIAR NAILS - problem getting it to stick??? I don't think so ... problem with colour leeching???  Learn from me... DON'T APPLY A TOP COAT.

I've got many many many micro beads in varying colours. For this I used black and purple and light purple and pink, in a reverse ombre to the nails. These looked FAB until I painted the dreaded top coat. As you can see the colour ran hilariously. The sad part is a top coat was defiantly not needed.

If you're wondering I am writing this 2 days later and the balls are still ALLLL stuck. How you ask??

GEL!!! I know there are a lot of swarovski crystal YouTube tutorials suggesting they stick better with UV gel, so why shouldnt this work with caviar?? YOU'RE RIGHT it works perfectly.*

*if you don't have a UV lamp please don't go to boots and spend £70+ on a UV lamp kit you can get them on eBay soooooo much cheaper.

last but not least

my iddy biddy finger

After doing my sisters Butterfly nails I liked the butterfly (previously this finger was just plain purple) so stampy stamp stamp

 

Colour Changing Polish

Clicking about on ebay the other day to find some new gel colours and I came across some colour changing polish... Surely not I thought to myself so I read some reviews and it seemed perfectly legit. So my first port of call is to tell my sister about them, so we can discuss which of the colours we should try, the next thing I know I am at her front door collecting not 1 but 2 bottles from the postman. She has a bigger ebay problem than me (I am almost sure after trying these colours she has ordered some more)

SO Review time.

I painted these on my sisters nails first for 3 reasons
1. she bought the polish I thought it was only fair I manicure her nails first
2. she doesn't have acrylic nails on - I still do
3. even with out fake nails my hands are often in a constant state of icy cold so I was unsure how it would work on me!!

Painting on her hot hot hands was hard because the polish went almost clear when applied 3 coats and cures later I realised that this was just how it would look because her hands where warm from the lamps. To be honest I quite liked the creamy white that the hot pink polish gave.

I then made her run her hands under cold water when we where finished and like magic the colour changed. It was amazing to watch if you're as nerdy as I am. The black was super shiny and the pink super vibrant. although not chosen to go together they two complimented each other perfectly.

After letting them settle a minute or two the beds warmed up and gave the french look ebay promised. These polishes are not only super fun they are as shiny and hard wearing as I have come to expect from gels. The do change colour through out the day (especially if you hold a cup of tea or icy water and press your nails into your cup or glass to watch them change colour as I have been doing.)

Of course I wanted to try it on my nails after the success of my sisters, now there is a joke in my house that I am clinically dead but no one has pronounced it. So applying this polish on my icy cold hands was much easier because it went on coloured. not content I grabbed a black and pink polish and stamped a simple zebra print up my nails. (I was going out that night and I knew my hands would probably get hot hot hot in the club. After about half an hour warming my hands on a cuppa and in the sun they finally warmed up enough to change the polish colour.

I am super happy with this and cant wait to try more

Products:

Stamps: Barry M Black and Rimmel salon Pro Kate (I'll hopefully get round to publlishing the review of that in a few days)

The gel polish was from a brand called Bluesky