#52weeknailchallenge: autumn

This week's prompt is autumn and I was stuck on what to do. I had no ideas whatsoever. I eventually kinda settled on this as I went through my stamping plates in the hopes for inspiration.

I started with two coats of Tip Top army vibes on my thumb, middle finger and pinky. The other two has two coats of a HD polish with no name. I then stamped a leafy image from BP 19 on my index and ring finger with Tip Top lazy lizard. On my thumb and pinky I stamped with Essie leggy legend.

I made a stamping decal for my middle finger. The image is from BP 30. Stamped with Sorbet chic me baby. The leaves are coloured in with leggy legend, the HD polish and Hean City Fashion 167.

I'm not a big fan of this, but apparently everyone else liked it.

So does this represent autumn? What do you think?

Thanks for reading guys!!

#52weeknailchallenge: Ocean

We up to week two of the 52 week nail art challenge. This week the theme is ocean. Mine may not quite be ocean but it's ocean adjacent...

I started with two coats of Sinful Colors snow me white on my index, middle and ring finger. On my thumb is one coat of Hean City Fashion 166 and on my pinky is two coats of Essence play with my mint.

I did a gradient over snow me white with play with my mint and city fashion 166. Once that was dry I stamped the bubble effect from plate HeHe 066 with Essence stampy polish in white.

The starfish is Essence a hint of love and the pearl is Essence I still believe in santa claus. I used vinyls from becauseishop.

What do you think of my ocean adjacent mani? Think it passes for the challenge?

Thanks for reading guys!!

Rosey-ish

I've been staring at this minty colour polish from the I love Hean Pastel collection and I was itching to use it. And when I did I was slightly disappointed, as it required 3 coats to be opaque, but this is only my laziness showing. It's a beautiful colour though.

So I started with the three coats. While that was going I used my Simply Neat mat to make the decals. I used my white Essence stampy polish and BP-73. I then randomly coloured in the roses with I love Hean 877, 874, 876 and 871, all from the Pastel Collection.

Peeled off the decal, stuck it on my nail and then, because I felt like it, dotted two flowers on my index finger.

The roses didn't quite come out the way I wanted, but it was easy and cute. What do you think?

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Hean nail polish: City Fashion 10t (Black)

I decided to give scribbled nails another go... And I much prefer my previous try. I had a very sheer metallic looking pink that I thought would look rather cool over black. But alas, not as cool as I thought.

This is two coats of City Fashion 10t (the opposite of 0t)(and really, call it black already).

There isn't much to say about blacks are there? It's black, what more do you need?

I used City Fashion 24 for the scribbled detail. I waited for the decals to dry, stuck them on while my base was slightly tacky and top coated. Sometimes if my base is too dry, I then just add a couple of dry brush strokes with a clear polish. Just so there's something for the decal to stick to.

I decided to mattify it and I can't decide which one I like better. It kinda looks like granite... What do you think? Shine or matte?

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Neon gradient

I really need to start doing my posts a little earlier or maybe I need to be a little more organised. I wanted to do this last night, but BF was playing online and I didn't want to interfere with his internet connection. Anyway, this is the last of my neon mani's.

I started with a white base and for that I used City Fashion white. I then attempted to do a circular gradient using I love Hean neon 893 in the middle, 895 and then 892 at the outside edge. It didn't quite work the way I wanted, maybe my colours were too similar, but you can see it a little on my middle finger.

I think I need to try these again a some time. Maybe with a different selection of colours. What do you think? So if you wanted any of these neons, I'm sure you can pre-order them from Glamore Cosmetics, as they ran out of stock very quickly when they got these the last time.

When it was all dry I wanted to add a little something to it, since I felt it missed something. So I decided on these cute little swirls from Becauseishop and some holo. Holo makes everything better right?? I used Nubar Brilliant, it is a pink holo but so so sheer. It might as well be a holo topcoat.

I just painted one coat over the swirly vinyl on my index and ring finger and one coat on my middle finger. Barely there, but it looks amazing in the sun. So what do you think of my end result? It would have been better of with some stamping, right Joyce? ;)

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Hean nail polish: City Fashion 166 (and a peek at the Neon collection)

I hope everyone else is enjoying this cold weather as much as I am. We got a new couch about 2 weeks ago and it's much bigger than the old one, so its nice to be able to properly snuggle up with a warm body next to you.

So sometimes a nail polish comes your way that just surprises you. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. This is one that surprised me in a good way. This is one (yes, one) coat of City Fashion 166. If you interested just click on the Glamore Cosmetics banner or the link to go directly to their shop.

I'm not a huge fan of nude polishes, but I do occasionally like wearing it. And this is already a favourite.

This is a bit of a busy mani. I think I tried too many things at the same time. But oh well. It was fun and apparently looks like a party under a UV light.

There is a mix of I love Hean 890, 891, 892 and 893 all from the Neon collection. On I middle finger I tried a needle drag, there's random dots and the stripes were a bit of a smoosh using the polishes. So it here it is looking like a party!

My colleagues thought it looked so cool under the UV light that they made me make it my WhatsApp profile pic.

What do you think? These neons are quite neon. And I love that they are UV light activated. It kinda makes them seem rather dull otherwise.

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Hean nail polish: City Fashion 200

Who else is enjoying this cold weather? I'm loving it, but it's not that fun when I'm at work. Anyway, I tried another watermarble for this but it didn't quite work the way I wanted it to. But the end result of it is very cool.

This is two coats of City Fashion 200. Finally got a green. This is one of those colours that kinda grow on you.

I wanted to pair white with this and I thought a marble would look amazing, but then that didn't work. I eventually just swirled the two colours together in annoyance and left it to dry. The white I used was City Fashion 0t.

I love the end result. The swirls look so cool. On my index finger I used a wonky square vinyl, which in hindsight I think I shouldn't have used. I added a gold star shaped stud on my middle finger.

What do you think? Think I should have left the vinyl out?

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Hean nail polish: City Fashion 194

I hope everyone enjoyed their Youth Day (for my RSA readers) yesterday while I was at work... I wanted to sleep late, but unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. I have another stunning City Fashion for you today. There were loads of shades of red and I'm starting to wonder where my greens are at!

Anyway, this is two coats of 194. It really is a stunning polish.

I had a couple of the previous City Fashion's that I swatched on my table and while they were in arms reach I thought I'd do some flowers...

And look at that I can actually do five dot flowers! I've never tried it before, mostly because I wasn't too sure how it would turn out (read I was afraid to try it) and I didn't want to do it over and over until I got it to look the way I wanted it to look.

Rambling... So I used City Fashion 190, 178 and 169 for the flowers with a dot of 171 in the centre. I think it looks good, what do you think? I do have more City fashion swatches lined up, but then I got two stunning new collections from Glamore Cosmetics. The I Love Hean Neon collection and the Pastel collection. So I think I'll probably end up posting those before the rest of the City's.

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Sunset nails revisited

Who else just looks at some polishes together and have a bit of a light bulb moment? The polishes that I still need to swatch is all standing on my table, neatly in a row, and four of them just caught my eye. I knew I had to do sunset nails again. I showed you this mani in one of my previous posts. I started with a white base. This is two coats of City Fashion 0t. (Like really? Just call it white already.)

It's not bad as far as whites go. Dries very quickly, so I would suggest working quickly, otherwise you'll end up with bald spots. I do actually like this white, I normally use SC Snow me White, but this one isn't as stark. So I'll probably be reaching for this one more often.

I painted some simply peel around my nails and then I got my sponge ready and used City Fashion 197 at my cuticle, 190, 178 and 171 at the tip. Dab Dab Dabbed a couple of times. And voila. I love love how this turned out. Almost seems moody, but fun at the same time.

I added my palm trees and made sure to float my top coat as these decals are quite flimsy and it's almost like they melt if you brush over them too often.

What do you think of my revisited Sunset nails? You can find my first one here. Which one do you prefer? And to get any of these polishes just click on the Glamore Cosmetics banner.

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Watermarble!

Yes you read that correctly, I have a watermarble today. I was playing with some of the City Fashion's and two of them looked amazing together and I wanted to do a needle drag, but I decided to try a watermarble. Since I mostly seem to screw up the dipping part, I decided to try it in the "create and contain" circles that is on the miracle mat. So I used a syringe to spread water in the circle and started dropping my polishes on the water.

The two polishes I used is City Fashion 171 & 176. The swatches for them you can find here in my previous post. They spread like a dream. I had no trouble at all. Once I made my design I carefully used a paper towel to draw up the water. The decals were dry in no time. I think if I had to leave the water it would have taken longer.

I used a white base before I added the decals, but I don't think it was necessary. And does anyone else also find that there are days that they just can't paint their nails? Get polish everywhere?

I was super chuffed with how these came out. Like I said normally I just screw it up, but these look pretty good. I actually want to try it again, soon.

What do you think? Gael from Glamore Cosmetics (where you can find these polishes) asked for a video to show how I did it... That is quite a scary prospect.

Thanks for reading!