Rainbows and Stars

Hi guys! I've not posted for a few days, the weather has been glorious here so I have been making the most of that time with the family, picnics, swimming and out in the fresh air.  Soaking up that lovely vitamin D and enjoying the sunshine.  I or the kids have run my little socks off so believe me I have earned my place in bed rather than just going at the appropriate time.

Anyways, back to nails!  In my last two posts I talked about my nail art collection and crackle nail polish.  Looking back at this and reflecting on the sunshine I decided to do a combination of both these with lots of colour.  So not only will the sunshine dazzle, hopefully so will my nails!!

I used OPI Nail Envy as a base coat.

Little Finger: China Glaze Lemon Fizz plus Yellow Crackle

Ring Finger : China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint plus Light Green Crackle
Middle Finger: China Glaze Electric Beat plus Sky Crackle
Index Finger: China Glaze Sweet Hook plus Purple Crackle
Thumb: China Glaze Dance Baby plus Rose Crackle
Mia Secrets Crackle


You could just leave it there or add the extra dots and spangled stars if you want to.

I'm sorry there is no clean up on my nail pictures my youngest is a bit unsettled tonight and so I have squeezed this in while he has had a quiet moment. Hope I am forgiven!

The spangles really do dazzle and shine and all the colours are just fun and they are so vibrant. Perfect for any summer day.  

I hope you like these nails and I would love to see your version of them or your Summer Nails.

Ok, Bye for now!

Michele x

Wow So Cool My Plates Came!

Hi guys!  The rest of my Konad plates have now arrived so my Konad quest is finally complete yay, go me!!! 2 years I have been trying to get this collection together. I have lost count of how much it has cost me but it makes me happy just having something just for me.  I thought I would feel sad now that I have them all.  Not sad that I have them because it makes me happy to have this collection. But just a little sad that the hunt is over until I realised that there is a whole world of nail stamping that I didn't know about.  I'm not in a rush to buy all the new plates that I have discovered just glad that my quest isn't over.

I still haven't used all the plates that I have which is something I want to explore with this blog.  I got all this from Wowsocool.com.

M46, M47, M48, M49, M52, M58,

M84, M85, M86, M87 and M88

I also got some new Special Polish

Gold, Violet Purple, Royal Purple,

New Vivid Pink, Moss Green and Light Bronze

The bottom 3 have a shimmer and glitter about them so can't wait 

to try these out.

I love getting little nail packages through the door it makes my day!!

Are you on a quest?  If so, what is it for polish or plates or something else?!  I would love to hear of your adventures!!

Ok, Bye for now!

Michele x

Nail Art Collection

Hi!  Last year, I became terribly addicted to Ebay.  More specifically, buying nail art products from there.  I have way more than I think I'll ever need but they are so shiny, sparkly and colourful that I couldn't resist.  Here are some pictures for you if you are interested to see.

Dots

Glitter Flecks and Foil Pieces

Beads and Stone Pieces

Dots and Glitter

Hearts

Flowers

Stars

Butterflys, Gold and Silver Assorted

The Fimo I have managed to cut up

The Fimo Canes I have left to cut up

Flowers, Bows and Fimo

Pink, Silver and Blue Multi-sized Rhinestones

Coloured, Black and Cream Pearls

Beads and Multi-Coloured  and sized Pearls

Hearts and Leafs

Stars, Squares and assorted

Coloured Rhinestones

Coloured Rhinestones

Stickers

More Stickers

Striping Tape and Decals

Foil Kit and spare Foils

I don't honestly know how I will get through this lot on just my nails!  I started out just getting some rhinestones, then some spangled hearts and then before knew it I had all this collection.  And honestly this was me being frugal only allowing myself to buy one thing a week.  I so wanted to go crazy but bills and responsibilities come first.  I do still see lots of stickers, stencils, water decals, etc, that I would love to own but will not allow myself anymore as this is quite enough.  (for now at any rate, ha, ha!)

There may be bigger collections out there but this is as far as I am going to take it for the moment. They do look so pretty on my nails and in my cabinet.  I wanted to include this on my blog as a reminder to myself of what I have and to deter me from adding to this collection.  I try not to look on ebay too much for nail art products now as I know I don't need anymore but its so hard to resist the latest things on there.  I am so weak, ha, ha!!!

Ok, bye for now!

Michele x

Crackle Collection

Hi guys!  I have been really curious about the new Glitter Crackle form China Glaze. I ordered the set a couple of weeks ago and forgot all about them.  Today they arrived and it  really made my day.  I was really unsure about this, I mean how can Glitter crackle or shatter, and will it show up on your nails good enough to tell what it is you have done.  But as you can tell they do shatter and they are really sparkly.  Glam-More is like a Deep Magenta Pink and it really stands out against the Black.

I just thought I would use all 4 for the thumb

Looks cute enough to do a full mani this way

Here I used it ombre style 

Luminous Lavender

Glam-More

Jade-D

Gleam Me Up

I love stamping and painting on my nails but my issue being a Mum of three is the waiting time to dry in between coats.  Sometimes I just want to paint and go.  This is where crackle/shatter polishes come in handy.  They are really easy to do they usually dry matt and quite quick.  So you can leave bear or a fast drying top coat and your good to go.

On that note, I thought I would show you my other Crackle/Shatter polishes.

Mia Secrets

Yellow, Orange, Red, Rose, Purple, Blue

Sky, Pastel Blue, Dark Green, White,

Brown and Black .

China Glaze Metallic Crackle

Latticed Lilac, Haute Metal, Platinum Pieces,

Oxidized Aqua, Cracked Medallion, Tarnished Gold

OPI  

Black Shatter and Silver Shatter

Random

Pink, W7 Gold and Silver

So this is my collection.  I would love to know what crackle or special effects polishes you are using.  If you would like to see any of these polishes up close just let me know.  For the most part these polishes were purchased from Amazon or Ebay.

Ok, that's it. Bye for now!

Michele x

Cheeky Plates

Hi!  My cheeky plates have finally arrived!  I have wanted these for so long just could not get hold of them.  I know I'm probably behind the times in that a lot of you will already have these or have seen them else where, but I thought I would include a picture any way.

So, here goes

I purchased these from Amazon UK

I will try to use these as soon as I can and I would love to see any pictures you have or hear your ideas on using them.

I thought you might like to see some preview pictures of the new cheeky plates out in June.  I got these pictures from Facebook.

I wonder what else will be revealed on the new plates?

Ok, bye for now!

Michele x