Anniversary Post - Pic Heavy

Hi guys,

Well, today is my first wedding anniversary :D so this is definitely a scheduled post ;)
My gorgeous husband, amongst other pressies, bought me W7 Famous Five and Color Club Holiday Collection 2011 Beyond the Mistletoe.

I will be swatching them in this post but first, my 3 year old wanted her own polish too so my hubby bought her this lovely little collection. She wanted me to put her nails 'on the computer like mummy' so, for today, Grace is showing her mani :) This is a little collection called Once Upon A Princess from TK Max. These don't have names but they are all pretty pastel shades. Below are some pictures of her own mani. She asked me to paint her nails but wouldn't sit still for long (those with 3 1/2 year olds will know what I mean!) so plenty of polish on skin :D

White, lilac, pink, coral, lemon, green and sky blue.

Look at that for a hand pose! She's a natural :D

She also painted my nails, bless her.

Here are my lovely pressies: W7 Famous Five. These are 5 of the Planets Collection.
L-R in box: Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune.

Thumb to Pinkie: Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter.

These are gorgeous! The thumb, Venus, has the most stunning duochrome effect (purple to blue) on the nail. In the bottle it has about 5 different colours including pink, orange and gold which don't seem to transfer to the nail.

Neptune (index) is a stunning teal with slight glitter shimmer/fleck through it. Gorgeous!

Saturn (middle) is a beautiful metallic greeny-gold.

Mercury (ring) has pink/orange duochrome glitters in a rose base but in the bottle has a green flash which unfortunately didn't show on the nail.

Jupiter (pinkie) has blue and pink flecks in a dark base. Hopefully the photos pick the detail up enough for you to see.

And Color Club - Beyond the Mistletoe. GLITTER GALORE!!!

Jingle Jangle, Beyond the Mistletoe, Holiday Splendor

Candy Cane, Gingerbread, Sugarplum Fairy

These are all 2 coats. 3 coats would make these completely opaque. These are all holos but Candy Cane (Index) has very little holo. Still very pretty.

Thumb-pinkie: Gingerbread, Candy Cane, Sugarplum Fairy, Jingle Jangle and Beyond the Mistletoe.

This next lot of pics are of Holiday Splendor but I think they have changed the formula, color or holo effect as it's completely different to any pic I've seen of it elsewhere. Every photo (on google images) I've seen of this polish looks more turquoise with holo but this it TOTALLY emerald. NO holo glitter, No silver glitter, NO teal/turquoise/aqua colour. Just Emerald. Think shamrock green. Any coloured glitters you can see in the next pic are remnants from the other glitters I had on before I swatched this one, you know how hard it is to remove glitter!



Bokeh Holiday Splendor

Holiday Splendor

Here are some comparison shots.

This is what I see on my monitor when I google Holiday Splendor but you can see what it's like on my nails too. I thought at first it was my monitor showing the wrong colour but if it was then MY swatch would be showing teal but it's not. For me anyway.

The Sinful Colors - Aqua is what I was expecting this to be like but as you can see its a colour 'match' for Sally Hansen - Emerald City. Is it just me? Have I gone crazy? Or am I the only one who has a different Holiday Splendor than everyone else? Weird... Anyway, THIS Holiday Splendor is gorgeous. Packed full of green glitter in a clear base. This is 2 coats.

Anyhoo, seeing it's my anniversary, I want to share some wedding pics of mine, hope you enjoy :)

 

See you next time :)

Ellie

Requested Nail Art - Xbox Nails

Hi Guys :)

This was requested by my gorgeous hubby Gary on the facebook page :)

 

He has obviously already seen them and said he loves them, so I am chuffed to bits :)

 

Here is a list of the undies used:

 

Thumb, middle and pinkie, La Femme - Ebony, 

Index finger is Franken - Graphite,

and Ring finger is, believe it or not, ridge filler! lol!

 

I don't actually own a 'tipex' white so use that instead because I don't have ridges.

 

The logo colours are:

 

Thumb, middle finger logo and some swirls on the ring and index fingers, Vollare - No 96

Swirls on the index and ring finger, Vollare, - No 99

Swirls on index, Sally Hansen - Emerald City

Pinkie, Pink Tease - Red

 



Above is a slightly blurry but less shiny photo to let you see the ring finger a bit better. I didn't get many good pics of this :( But for those of you who want to know what the doodles mean, read on...

The thumb is the simple Power symbol.
The index finger is the current Xbox woosh logo.
The middle finger has gone a bit retro with the original Xbox X logo.
The ring finger is the Xbox ring/ripple/swirl logo.
And finally the pinkie is the dreaded RROD (Red Ring Of Death)!

Also, I tried something different with this mani. My lovely reader Bug had recently tried the dry marble technique and when I came to do this mani, I was reminded of it. So, The index, middle and pinkie were painted straight on the nail but the thumb and ring finger logos were painted onto a sandwich bag. I peeled them off when they were dry and then placed them onto the nails and covered them with clear polish. I tried to do all the logos this way but they ripped as I peeled them off the bag. But, nevertheless, I'm happy with this mani. :)

Hope you like it
Ellie

Does This Look Like It's Glowing?

Hi guys :)

Today I have a simple mani. I was just messing about but I actually quite liked this so I thought I'd post it so you guys could see.

It was the purple that I had on in the Biletto post (Deep Purple Pearl by LaFemme) with Sally Hansen, Hidden Treasure on top.

 

If you click on the before pic you will see a beautiful pink shimmer in this polish that I just love! Gorgeous! I was just messing around, as you do, and lifted my HT that I haven't used in a while. I plastered a really thick coat on each nail and was gobsmacked just how stunning it was over the purple. To me, it looked like a pink fire smouldering away.

 



Here it is from the Green angle. I forgot just how lovely this polish could be, layered. I will definitely be using it more often on other colours.

Later, Nailies!
Ellie

The hard to describe colour of Antique...

Have you ever had a polish that you just can't describe?

Well, this is a polish I have in my untrieds, it's called Antique by mien for Marks And Spencer.

 

This is a gorgeous colour. It's a metallic.... ummm.... tbh, I don't really know! lol! It's a kind of plummy, bronzey, goldy, silvery, pink.... :O

 

When I asked around the family, I got, 'a coppery pink!' and 'a mauvey brown' and even 'candied aubergine'.... bless. I have no idea how to describe this but whatever it is, it's lovely.

 

And just because it's sooooooooooo gorgeous, I decided to plaster Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure over it. It's what I do. 

 

 

This actually turned out quite nice too. Above are some different angled shots of SH/HT. You can see the different colours shimmer through.

If anyone out there has Antique, how would you describe it?

Also, yes, I have changed the shape of my nails but I will explain why in another soon to come post :)

Hope you enjoyed,
Pixie~Nails

Butterflyawaywithme!

I know people have done this mani loads but I don't have the stamps (or any stamps for that matter) so I decided to try and do it free~hand.

In this mani I used, a base coat of Beauty UK - Turquoise Shimmer (which is a gorgeous creme) with a coat of Sally Hansen's HD in Spectrum over this. I then used my black nail art pen to draw the wing shapes and a butterfly on the accent nails (I painted a blue wing on top of the white (ridge filler!!) to show the wing on the accent nails). I finished of with white nail pen dots on all nails. I didn't wait long enough to finish off with a topcoat as the white was dragged into the black in some nails. Ah well... lol.





I didn't want to do wing overkill so I gave each hand a butterfly accent nail.





Blurred to show the flecks in Spectrum

Hope you liked
Til next time

Pixie~Nails x


Sally Hansen - HD - Laser

WOW! What a stunning colour!

This is Sally Hansen's laser from the HD Collection

Isn't she gorgeous!! It has the most beautiful blue/purple glass fleck thing going on!
Just look at it in the bottle:

The  next few pics show the purple duochrome effect this polish has:



This is one stunning colour and I love it! Do you own this or any of the others? I got this one and many more from cosmeticsfairy. This is a site where you can buy loads of beauty products for bargain prices! I think I got this polish for £1 or something equally ridiculous! Plus, if you spend over £10, shipping is free for UK!!

Til next time
Pixie~Nails x

Simple French Mani

Just what the title says...

Do you ever have those days were you need a break from all the colour and glitter? I do... and whats better than a gorgeous french mani?

Sally Hansen French mani in white with a white shimmer

I use Sally Hansen In The Pink for my base.

Excuse the nubs!

LaFemme clear top coat

All these pictures were taken in the same light, but with the one below, I have adjusted the contrast so you could see Vollare Colorado - 317, the gorgeous shimmery white, that I have put on the tips.

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Hope you like
Pixie~Nails x

Moonlit Ocean franken~ness

Hi everyone :)

Today, I'm going to show you another franken I made.

This one is called Moonlit Ocean. It's a gorgeous dark teal, 50/50 with Crisnail - Navy* and Sally Hansen - French Mani colour, Shell Shimmer. Shell has a beautiful duochrome/green flash to it, showing pale pink and green in the bottle so I knew this would be lovely. The pink-ness just lightened the dark navy to a lighter blue and the green-ness gave it teal sheen... scrummy!

With flash, colour accurate

With flash

In the sun

With flash

Close up

No flash, indoors

Bathroom, no flash

*This can be found in my stash link, no pic for Shell Shimmer as I've used it all and forgot to get a pic :(

Hope you like
See you soon

Pixie~nails x