Nail Polish Advent Calender - Avon Golden Vision - Dec 1st

Everyone should but themselves a gift a Christmas,  and this is (one of) mine to me!

I saw a fabby Nail Varnish Calendar in the Avon mag, with 12 polishes in and today is Day 1 - Golden Vision!

It is a bright metallic which I love and is great for showing off other bright colours, read on to see two coats & my Christmas Nail Art...

Nail Art: Teal & Gold Leaf (Quick, Easy & Simple)

As per I have not been blogging but hoping to get a few posts and reviews lined up.

Thought I would treat you all to a lovely piece of arty farty I did a month or so ago...

Base colour is a dark turquoise from Topshop, then I have stamped over the top in white,  and filled in the gold detail by hand!

Do you like this effect?

Peace & Love, Z

Shany Stamping - Doillies and Glitter

I saw one of my bezzies last night who got me the Shany Cosmetics stamping plates for my birthday so I took them over to do her nails!

We both love the doillies and glitter!
What do you think? X

Spring Nails - Barry M, Shany Cosmetics and Rio

I am in love with this mani and totally inspired which makes me want to take it off and do other cool manis... but I'm enjoying it so much!

What do you think?

Peace and love,

Pink_PrincessZ

Birthday Mani - Shany Cosmetics Stamping - SH52, SH07

 

So this was a super quick mani I did for my Birthday last Wednesday... It was my 21st if you couldn't tell!

So this was using a Barry M Polish Berry IceCream I got from the girls at work and a Shany Stamping Set from one of my bezzies...

 

I really love the Geometric Design, it's from a brand called Shany, plate SH25 and the numbers come from SH07. Not too sure how I feel about the Numbers as they remind me of an American Football Jersey? But I did really like this mani.

I think that the Geometric shapes would look at lot Better on a Neon Colour so I will be retrying this out at some point, I really like that pattern though! I will do a post about my Birthday goodies soon!  

Peace and Love, Z .\/..

Birthday Mini Haul: Barry M & Shany Stamping

So here is what I got for my 21st Birthday which was last week, I have a quick mani that I am posting on Thursday as well...

From left to right:

Barry M - Mint Green/ Strawberry I/C /Berry I/C

Shany Stamping Nail Art kit SH Image Plates-02

Looking forward to reviewing the Shany Stamping Kit as there's loads of different Patterns, very Impressed with it so far!

And loving my Pastel Barry M's always great for Spring, will be interesting to see how the Strawberry I/c applies as I always find baby pinks a bit flakey so will let you know very soon...

I will post pictures of the Shany Collection over the next couple of weeks x

Peace and Love, Z .\/..

Barry M Silk - Mist Review & Shany Cosmetics SH01 Plate

So my blogger has been playing me up, so the next few posts will be out of sequence.

Anyway this is the Barry M Silk - Mist.

I really like blue's and as far this goes it is beautiful and rich? in a weird sort of way, I'm not sure how a baby blue can be rich, but it is it's Elegant...

 

Essentially it is a Matte Metallic, I don't have many (if any) metallic in my collection so haven't played around using a Matte top coat, but I think this is Worth a Purchase on colour alone.

My only problems with it would be Application, this is the second time painting it, and if I was going out out I would probably have waited to put a third coat on top as it is still a bit patchy in places...

and below is a picture of some me having a quick mess around with Shany cosmetics SH01 plate...

Loving Nails - Stamping with Bundle Monster BM11♡

Going out for my mums Birthday dinner I wanted something fairly sophisticated but cutsie so...

For the sophisticated touch I opted for a Red from No.7 and then choose this really cute design out of my Bundle Monster pack Plate BM11 for 2 accent nails. I then did a Barry M Red Glitter topcoat on the other nails...

I think I have finally got better at stamping Although one or two nails might be a bit dodgey... but I think I was actually pressing the stamping rubber down to hard on the plate so it was squishing the polish out rather than picking it up!

I've been a bit busier recently with various projects non nail related but I am hoping to do more short but sweet posts like this, showing you stamping plates and giving you ideas.

Hope you're well.

Peace and Love Z .\/..

Flying rats ♡

I know I've mentioned my lack of inspiration recently, but I got some this morning from the lovely pigeons!

The detail is a little off but I think you can get the jist.

I used grey miss sporty gloss, Barry M grey, born pretty holo and rio pro detail pen.

How's it look?

Peace and love the Pink_PrincessZ xxx

I fell off the horse...

Not a Real Horse the Blogging Horse, between working,  living and partying (with not so polished pinkies) I have just not had the time,  the dedication or motivation.

To be honest it's been so long no one's probably going to read this post.

Anyway one of my techniques to get back on the horse is to come up with a design for each nail art gem I have. And tonight was Pearls, Matthew!

So pretty simple design, not sure whether it would of looked better in a straight line down the middle,  probably, oh heignseight!

The gems were from a topshop gem wheel and I used Barry M Cosmo Berry as the base and a clear top coat.

What do you guys do with these pearls?  Post me links to your manis or inspire me!

Lots of love && peace ♡

The Pink_PrincessZ  xxx

What's New Pussy Cat

So part of my Christmas haul was cool bits of 3d art so today I thought I'd use the putty tat, one oc my other bits was a Rio professional kit which I have used for the detail.
My right hand is fairly attrocious!
What do you think?
Peace and love xx

Tiger Time

Just a quick bit of nail art.
I think if I blended the the white and the silver witgh a sponge it would look better.
I need to get a new white but can't wait to try this with other colour combos.

Have you done any tiger stripe manis? Comment below!

Peace and love x

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

Just because I haven't posted for ages I thought I'd let you konow what I got for Christmas/what you can expect to see appearing on the blog! (When I get back into it).

I didn't get as much varnish as I was expecting but I still got a pretty good haul! Here's the list:
From my Bro and his Gf I got:
 x2 Top Shop Varnish,
x2 Nail art packs with glitter and gems and stick-ons
x2 No7 Varnishes.

5 Designs for Under a Fiver!

 I love nail art.

And good nail art doesn't have to be complicated or tricky - it can be Messy but that's Half the Fun.

 

 

So I wanted to do 5 Designs that Any Student Could Afford.

The most expensive design out of the 5 costs £3; £2 for 2 varnish colours (I used MUA available at superdrug or Poundland sale nail varnishes), £1 for a stamping plate from Poundland.

 

 

For a Gradient you need a kitchen sponge...

Moon Sugar Decals: Cute designs, Easy Application!

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Moon Sugar Decals over in America to try out some of their goodies.

 

They specialise in  water decals  and have a loads of different topics on the website - they can even do Custom Designs!

 

 

Me being me of course I ordered the Christmas Goodies...

 

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Stamping: A Quick How To Guide

Alot of people ask me how stamping works when they haven't done it before or haven't used a MoYou plate.

You should have a stamping plate, stamper, special polish, scrapper, nail varnish remover, cotton ball and cotton bud with nail varnish remover on; then follow this sequence:

Stamping Plate Review: MoYou Suki Colletion 01 Nom... Nom... Nom...

The amount of people commenting on my nails this week says it all.

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This is the MoYou Suki Collection 01 Plate.

 

 

After every mani this week I have tried to stamp different bits of the plate - some more successfully than others due to the cack-handiness of my left hand (don't worry I only did this once!).

 

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The Awesome Christmas Clutch!

Go Go Go Ladies & Gents!

You now have till the 29th of November to enter the raffle for this Awesome Christmas Clutch:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

It includes:

1x MoYou Festive Plate

1x Stamping Rubber and Scraper (With 2 sizes)

1x Essie Blanc

1x Essie Liquorice

1x Essie Mojito

1x Essie Russian Roulette

1x Essie Good as Gold

This is a UK giveaway sorry to anyone overseas and best of luck to anyone who enters!

Love and Peace .\/..

Halloween Ideas...

I was really un inspired the other day so I thought if I did some Halloween Nails it might kick start me in the right direction. I really like Bewitched and Pumpkin Patch - Will probably be doing bewitched as I am a sucker for Navy and Gold combos...

 

 

The idea is to have the Witches Silhouette (Bundle Monster Stamp) Against the Moon - all other nails should look like the Night's Sky ;) awww...

(I used an MUA midnight blue and Barry M - Yellow Topaz)

 

This Weeks Mani: Barry M Princess & Roses...

On first sight You Might Not Think They're Roses... think of this as abstract art... Anyway this is the Mani I'm "Reppin'" this week!