Shark Week!!

Hey guys, 

I decided I should do some shark week nail art being a marine science student and all. Sharks are some of my favs right now along with Turtles and Jellyfish of course. I am very excited to show these to ye, I'm so unashamedly proud of them. 

Ooh look at that. I'm a proud momma. Just a warning from here on it may get picture heavy :P . I got my inspiration for these nails from a Blackmilk lemming of mine, This amazing swimsuit. I took a couple of pics of the gradient before all the art as I thought it was stunning on its own.  

Gradient with sketches 

Really love this too, very clean. The polishes I used for the gradient are OPI My boyfriend scales walls, Barry m Blueberry Icecream and OPI Dating a royal.

Sharkie with my BM mermaid leggings

I don't really know what else to say but I hope ye love these as much as I do. They took an age but were so worth it. 

Emily x

Dot you just love it

Hey Guys,

Some nail art for ye, finally. Just a simple dotticure as they are super easy and quick and to be honest I've never done one before.

The bottle pictured is My vampire is buff

The Polishes I used were all OPI,
The off white being My vampire is buff, the orange My paprika is hotter than yours, the pink Koala Bear-y (tee hee), the blue Eurso euro and the green Don't talk bach to me. My vampire is buff is on the slightly thin side as I needed three coats for it which is a shame, its the perfect base colour for nail art.

I tried to do a type of gradient and an accent nail of all dots but I kind wish I had left it all gradient. They would just look better that way I think anyway.

This was a super cute mani, so cute in fact my mam asked me to do it on her nails. Which is a big deal as she always just goes for a plain colour, so I was super proud of that. I think I will be picking up the dotting tool again for some nail art in the future. It'll be nice to get to know it better :P.

 Emily x

A Mermaids Wedding

Hey Guys, 

Just a plain old nails of the day post featuring Lime Crime Once in a blue mousse, OPI Solitaire and I Love Nail Polish Little mermaid.

Solitaire: ring finger, Little Mermaid: glitter topper,
 Once in a blue mousse: blue base colour

The ILNP polish was the inspiration for this posts name obvs, it is the cutest topper and you get a lot out in just one coat with no need to jig glitters around. Its got a mixture of small blue,pink and silver glitter along with some holographic bars just stunning. 

I'm not really one for textured polishes but the Liquid sand is another story, its subtle and more flat ( if that makes sense) and Solitaire would be the most perfect choice for a wedding. 

As for Once in a blue mousse well, look at it, I'm not disappointed although the application was a bit on the thick side but with the colour of it I couldn't really care

I loved wearing this while we had the sun as Little mermaid just sparkled and sparkled.

How do ye feel about textured polishes? Yay or nay?

Emily x  

Supermassivecolectivespendyallmymoney Haul Part 2

Hey guys,

I have the rest of my huge haul which features products from both Salon services and Harlow & Co . Thankfully my amazing cousin has a salon services card that I could use because the polishes are such good value there,like I mean €5.00 for a bottle of OPI! I know madness considering they are around €13.00 in some pharmacies. 

First up is my Harlow & Co order in which I finally finally got the Lime Crime polishes and my first Cirque polishes. You actually have no idea how long I have waited for the Lime Crime to come back in stock, its just ridic. Anyway they are here and every bit as juicy as I expected these pastel neons to be. The colours would just not come out as amazing as they are in real life especially pastelchio it is much more neon then in the pictures.

The cute boxes the Lime Crime came in.

The total stash from Harlow&Co.

L:R - Peaches&Cream, Lavendairy, Pastelchio

L:R- Milky Ways, Parfait Day, Once in a blue mousse, Crema de Limón

The two cirques: Vesuvius and Lonesome George

Close up of Vesuvius and its stunning holo

Now for Salon services, this is a big one. Okay so I bought a hair mask well because my hair is bleached and I'm trying to grow it out as its all sorts of nasty dry flakiness, lovely. I also got a huge bottle of seche vite (118ml) and seche restore as I love the stuff even the smell ugh the smell yep anyway I also got the original OPI nail envy which also came with the matt version free. I'm  hoping this will help with my nails breaking all  the time because of work, fingers crossed.Along with all that I purchased the OPI cuticle oil for the same reason.

L:R- hair mask, seche restore, seche vite, OPI nail evny pack, OPI cuticle oil

L:R- seche restore, mahwhosive seche vite bottle and normal sized bottle

Hair mask

OPI nail envy pack and cuticle oil

Now for the nail polishes...

Collective pic

L:R- tree hugger, sexy in the city, infra-red (holo), heli-yum

L:R- My paprika is hotter than yours, OPI eurso euro, Polka.com, My vampire is buff

L:R- Don't talk bach to me, koala bear-y, vesper, solitaire

I just decided to put some swatches in for ye just for a better goo at them. I hate when people don't swatch polishes on their nails but mine are in horrific condition at the mo so bear with me until they are back in shape. 

Top: Koala bear-y Bottom: My paprika is hotter than yours

Clockwise from top: My paprika is hotter than yours, Don't talk Bach to me,
 My vampire is buff, OPI eurso euro, Polka.com

Top to Bottom: Polka.com, Solitaire, Vesper

L-R: Vesuvius, Lonesome George

L:R- Lavendairy, Parfait Day, Milky-ways, Peaches & Cream

L:R- Peaches&Cream, Crema de Limón, Pastelchio, Once in a Blue Mousse

L:R- Heli-yum, Infrared, Creative fantasy, hanging in the balance

L:R- Infra-red, Creative fantasy,Hanging in the balance, Def defying, Tree hugger

L:R- Tree hugger, For Audrey, Sexy in the city, Pizazz

L:R- Pixie Dust, Amanda Hugginkiss, Blue steel,1st and 15th

L:R- Little mermaid, Berry sweet, A Golden orchid,Bad Mogwai, Emerald dew drops

L:R- A golden orchid, Bad Mogwai, Emerald dew drops, Grape taffy

That's it guys, all over in two big posts. Hope ye enjoyed it and I will have real swatches up soon and possibly some nail art too!

Thanks for reading ye lot,

Emily x

OPI liquid sand - Tiffany case - Swatch

Hey guys,

Today I have some swatches to show you of the amazing OPI liquid sand in Tiffany case. I have been lusting after some liquid sand polishes since they came out but seeing as OPI are so expensive here, around €13 a bottle, I never got the chance to buy one. That is until my sister came home to visit this week and got me a bottle in Duty Free! Eek how unreal was she? Totally amazing!

Ok, so if you don't know what liquid is basically it is a textured polish which contains different types of glitter. In other words the coolest most sparkly amazeballs nail polish. 

2 coats, no top coat

Tiffany Case is one of the polishes in the OPI Bond girls collection (and personally the best). If you wanna checkout the rest of the collection visit Chalkboard Nails , she always has impeccable swatches.

2 coats, no top coat

Tiffany case is a gorgeous icy blue with fine blue glitter and medium silver glitter. Below is a close up so you can see the different glitters and also the texture.

Close up.

I decided to see what it would be like to put a top coat on, and well there's not much difference other then it lasting longer. The top coat I used was Essence better than gel nails fast dry topcoat. It seemed to just settle into the polish rather than smooth it out. However it made it look more like a foil effect polish. 

2 coats with top coat

Seriously though, this is now one of favourite polishes it is just so cool and after waiting so long I am definitely not disappointed.

Emily x

Golden Oldies... part three

Hey guys,

Today I have the final part of  the "golden oldies". I did have another one to show you but it was just too messy. Anyways this is just a simple accent nail mani. For these I just wanted to do an easy girly sort of nail art.

So  I just did a simple striped nail on my middle finger an a glitter accent nail on my ring finger. I used a Striping brush to do the lines and I clearly need to practise them!

The polishes I used were,

OPI I'm all ears on the pointer, pinky, thumb and the darker pink lines
OPI alpine snow as the base of the stripes and A-england Iseult was the lighter pink lines and finally A-england Merlin glitter accent on the ring finger 

I thought this was pretty fun and cute, what do you guys think?

Emily x

Golden Oldies...

Hey guys, 


So I decided to show you some of my "golden oldies" i.e nail art I did last year! In other words not that old. I have a couple I wanna show you. I'll do separate posts but, pretty much in quick succession of each other.

Ok, first up are these galaxy nails. I think these where my first real try at any nail art and they were so popular around then, they still are really. Galaxy nails are my all time favourite nail art to do with them being so easy and looking absolutely fierce.

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Along with the galaxy print I tried to do a jelly sandwich accent nail. If you don't know what that is its when you layer a glitter polish over a jelly polish and top it with the jelly polish again,so its jelly glitter jelly. God what a terrible description! That's something to go on my must get better at list.
Anyway this method makes the glitter look like it is suspended in the polish, pretty niffy. 

Here's a list of the polishes I used for the galaxy nails,

A-England Camelot (bottle in picture) as base colour
Barry m Shocking pink, pure turquoise and the unknown blue mentioned in my collection
OPI Alpine snow for the stars and base of galaxy print

And the polishes for the jelly sandwich,

I used Essence Cotton candy as the jelly base and topper
NYC Lights-camera-glitter and Gramercy glitz were the glitters in the jelly sammich

Thanks for reading guys, hope I did ok for my first real blog post.

Emily x