Showing posts with label ferns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ferns. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Ferns & Flowers Inspired by Wondrously Polished Using the Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is Collection!

Hello my lovelies! Today I have a tropical look using seven of the Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is collection polishes, inspired by a design by Lindsey of Wondrously Polished!

I am still very busy with volunteering and tutoring, and yesterday I found out I have an iron deficiency. That could explain why I'm so lazy and exhausted all of the time! :P Hopefully the super nasty liquid iron I've started taking will really help with my energy levels! Maybe then I'll be able to find the time to blog more often than once a week!

Anyways, onto the nails!

Ferns & Flowers Inspired by Wondrously Polished Using the Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is Collection

I started off with one super opaque coat of American Apparel Hassid. I really love AA polishes and so many of them are one coaters which is always amazing!

Ferns & Flowers Inspired by Wondrously Polished Using the Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is Collection

Next, I went in with seven of the ten cremes/crellies of the Hoop! There It Is collection. For the ferns I used Hooperchondriac (medium green) and then It's Hoop To Be Square (pale green) on top. For the flowers I used Hoop! There It Is (coral), Don't Paddle Break A Nail (pink, the one shown in the bottle shot), and Get Indie Flow (blue-toned purple) for the petals and then Thump Your Melons (orange) and These Hips Don't Lie (yellow) for the dots.

Ferns & Flowers Inspired by Wondrously Polished Using the Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is Collection

As always I did both hands, but this time I forgot to take pictures of my right hand until there was too much tip wear for pictures.

Ferns & Flowers Inspired by Wondrously Polished Using the Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is Collection

What do you guys think of this design? I like the sheer look of the flowers with the opaque fern fronds behind!

Ferns & Flowers Inspired by Wondrously Polished Using the Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is Collection

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I'll try to start posting more than once a week on here, maybe once the iron kicks in I'll have enough energy to do so! I'll be back with some neon half moon floral nails as well as swatches of half of the Girly Bits HTII collection soon! Happy Wednesday! =)

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Multicoloured Fern Fronds For Nail Crazy In April!

Hey everyone, tonight I have some ferny nails to share!

I'm going to make this a short post because I'm officially starting my volunteer work tomorrow! Also, last week I didn't get my blog post in the InLinkz thing in time and I don't want that to happen again! I decided to loosely follow the prompt and do some earthy nails this time around as I missed the actual holiday by a week (and therefore didn't want to wear some clearly Earth Day inspired nails).

Anyways, onto the nails!

Multicoloured Fern Fronds For Nail Crazy In April Featuring American Apparel Polishes

To start, I applied two coats of China Glaze Red-y To Rave. It had a super lovely and opaque formula! I think it is brighter and lighter in real life, it's definitely neon!

Multicoloured Fern Fronds For Nail Crazy In April Featuring American Apparel Polishes

Next, I went in with a Winstonia striping brush and American Apparel The Valley (aqua/light blue), AA Dynasty (purple) and AA Malibu Green (green/teal).

Multicoloured Fern Fronds For Nail Crazy In April Featuring American Apparel Polishes

These were inspired by the lovely MrCandiipants as per usual!

Multicoloured Fern Fronds For Nail Crazy In April Featuring American Apparel Polishes

I'm not totally sold on the colour palette just yet but it always takes me a bit of time to form an opinion on any new nail art I do. So we'll see!

Multicoloured Fern Fronds For Nail Crazy In April Featuring American Apparel Polishes

I tried out other poses (with my purple triangle nails that you'll be seeing soon) and this is really is the best looking one this hand can do! :P

Multicoloured Fern Fronds For Nail Crazy In April Featuring American Apparel Polishes

Check out the other ladies' Earth Day manis down below!


Thanks so much for taking a look guys! Let me know what you think of these nails in the comments if you like! Happy Wednesday! =)

Thursday, 13 March 2014

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard Swatch & Review plus a Mrcandiipants Fern Design!

Hey everyone! Today I have a lovely teal scattered holographic polish and some fern/leaf nail art to share!

The end of the semester is really sneaking up on me so I think on the nights I don't have homework (like tonight) I really have to get my butt in gear and work on all of my genetics write-ups! I'm feeling very excited for the semester to end because school has been really overwhelming lately. Anyways, let's get on to the lovely polish to take my mind off things!

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard is a turquoise blue/light tealish blue crelly polish with a scattered holographic effect. This is polish is one of my favourite colours so I absolutely love the look of it! There is also a perfect amount of holo pigment that it doesn't look super silver indoors, meaning it looks awesome inside or outside!

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

The formula on this polish was an absolute breeze to work with, slightly thick allowing for lots of control and no cuticle-flooding! It appeared to not self level right after I applied it, but rest assured it does while it dries! This polish really impressed me and I'm really excited to try the other polishes I received in the same giveaway!

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

You can see how this polish self-leveled perfectly here because I didn't use any top coat for these photos! What you see here is three easy coats and no top coat. This polish also dried really fast and it's 3-free! Love it!

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

I also included some pictures in natural light with the flash on to show off the holographic sparkle! You can also see how freaking shiny this polish dries on its own here! This baby is just too pretty guys.

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

B Squared Lacquer All Aboard

Mrcandiipants Inspired Fern/Leaf Nail Art

And now we have the nail art! I used an Orly Instant Artist striper polish in the colour Sky Blue for the ferns! This nail art is a MrCandiipants original design and you can watch her Youtube tutorial for these here! The striper uses water-based paint (which I assume means acrylic paint) so it doesn't dry up on the brush or anything lame like that. It was super easy to work with and I love the colour of it next to All Aboard!

Mrcandiipants Inspired Fern/Leaf Nail Art

After the nail art dried I applied one quick coat of the only top coat I ever use, Essie Good to Go! This mani looks super awesome (to me at least) and it hardly took any time at all! It reminds me of tacky tourist shirts so naturally I love it!

Mrcandiipants Inspired Fern/Leaf Nail Art

What do you guys think of All Aboard or this nail art? I'd love to hear in the comments!

Mrcandiipants Inspired Fern/Leaf Nail Art

Thank you so much for reading everyone! I've finally caught up in posting so I can't tell you what I'll be posting next because I have no idea! Anyways, happy Thursday and I'll talk to you soon! =)