Mini Birthday Haul

I have been on a mini haul for some new nail stuff for my upcoming birthday. Didn't buy much, just a few things.

I have restocked on Lemony Flutter from Lush, and a new pot of Burt's Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream.
My local Boots has gotten a Sinful Colors rack and I picked up these four beauties.

Kissy, Courtney Orange, Pink Forever, Exotic Green.

I have been wanting studs for a while, and I found some at my local Claire's. 

They had a wheel with some black, silver and golden studs. I can't wait to try these out! 

Finally I get myself some studs.

I feel like getting a Grunge-outfit and get all dressed up.

I wandered in a Bodycare shop and found this wheel with different heart fimos. There where also some bows in there. Happy me! I want to get hold of more bows for nailart. if you got a tips on where to buy them, etc on Ebay, send me a link down below.

I also found some nail art stack pots at New Look, they where £1.99 (2.50 euro). 

I'm looking forward to my birthday. I'm gonna be a quarter of a century soon. Eek! It's a bit scary, but I'll get over it. From now on, I'm definitely no longer a child.  The big 25. Wish me luck.

70's print makes me blue

TGIF!
Have a great weekend girls!!

Today I have Cheeky plate CH48 for you ladies. To create this manicure I used 3 nail polishes, and a dotting tool. I'm sorry for the scratches on my hands, I have been doing extensive gardening, and this manicure has held like a rocket through digging in the dirt, to sawing trees.

I feel like a 50's "You Can Do It" -poster girl here.

But lets drag us back to the 70's with this manicure. I hope you liked it, and remember for more 70's style, check out Mishkas take on this plate over at Lacquer of Leave Her!

Basecolor was Fnug - Bandana, I stamped using Essie - Bobbing for baubles, and dotted the center using Makeup Mekka - Remember '79.

Eeek! I look so pale!

Cartoon Nails

I was thinking long and hard about this challenge. It was time for the next plate in our Cheeky Girl Challenge. Plate CH47.  And then I was sent a link to some cartoon nails. I know I had to try, and felt like this would look good together. 

In my head it did. 

I have no idea why it didn't look as good on my nails as it did in my head.

I think I got the cartoon nails - alright. 

As for the plate... The image wouldn't go on crisp. It was a failed rescue attempt. 

China Glaze - Marry a Millionaire

China Glaze - Marry a Millionaire.

It was about time I wore this polish. Oh my oh my. I am blinded by the sparkles.  It has a mix of small, round, light lavender glitter plus fine stringy/bar glitter in a gold/green/blue multichrome color, and some dark purple glitter I think ... 

My blogging has been really random lately, but I am trying to pull myself back into it. 

As they say in Britain, [watch this space]. 

Happy polishing!

Splosh Splash

For the next Cheeky Girl Challenge, we got CH46. This cosmic plate got a twist on it this time.
I had a fantastic idea, I'm not so sure about the execution of it, but ... All is fair in love and nail art?

I wanted a dark background and so a gradient stamping, using a white and a yellow, letting the stamp on each nail, get more and more towards the yellow.
Sadly, the yellow didn't stamp well.

I used: Miss Sporty - 453
So if you ever wondered .. well ... here is the result.

Head over here, to see what Mishka from Lacquer or Leave Her! did with the design.

Field Marigolds

This is a belated twinpost with Mishka. It's from the Cheeky (Summer Collection) CH44 plate.
The image we choose looks like marigolds to me, so I had to go for something yellow.

This is not like me at all, I don't have that many yellows, and I hardly use them. It must be the Easter-feel coming over me. Funny enough. So did Mishka. So this twinpost will be featuring the same stamping plate, and both are using yellow. How cool is that?!

For this manicure I used Miss Sporty - 453. A pastel-y yellow.
I used 3 coats, as the first 2 coats went on a bit streaky.

I have decided to go back to keeping my nails short. As I am mountain hiking and climbing 1-2 times a week, they then to get in the way of a good grip, and breaking them while on the top of a mountain, is just not the way to go. 

I was trying to find some pretty yellow flowers for this post while hiking over Craven Arms, and I came over these.

But you didn't come here to look at flowers. Let's have a look at the manicure. I used Kicks MakeUp Nail Polish - Metro Gray. Here it is! To see what Mishka did with the image, you can find here manicure by clicking here. 

Space Invaders Twinpost

I am a huge fan of Arcade games. Space Invaders was one of the first games I played, on console.
Nintendo.
I even have a Nintendo keychain. Nerdy? 'Ell yeah!

When the time came around to do Cheeky plate CH45, I knew what to do. Girl, have I been waiting for this plate. Feel the 8-bit love!!

I used Wet N Wild -Black Creme as background, and stamped using Sinful Color - Snow Me White.
For ring- and little finger I used Two Way Striper- and Nail Art Pens in red and white.  To create the "A" and "B" buttons on the controller for Nintendo.
In he-insight I should have made the red dots bigger...

To see what Mishka did the same plate, head over here.