Easy Halloween Nail Art

These Halloween nails are really easy to do. All you need is:

• Base Coat 
• White Nail Varnish
• Black nail art pen
• Red nail varnish
• Top coat

1. First paint your nails with a base coat.
2. Paint two coat of white nail varnish  
   
   
   
3. For the ghost paint black squiggly lines on the tip of the nail, then two dots for the eyes.
4. For the ghost mouth you can either fill it in black of just leave it as a black outline. Both ways look good.
5. For the blood drips on nails, get the red polish and paint on the edges of the nails.
6. For the Cobweb use the black nail art pen. This isn't that easy to do if you have small nails like mine.
7. Let your design dry and then paint with a top coat, to help it last longer.

Hope you have a fun Halloween! 

Nail Art Stamping - Konad Set C review

Not put a post up in so long.........
Recently I've been hearing allot about nail stamping and particularly the brand called Konad. After looking at some reviews I decided to buy Set C off Amazon which cost £7.90.

I put on two coats of Model's Own nail varnish as a base and gave this time to dry.

I used the white Konad nail polish on the bow design. Then used the scraper over the imaged. This takes a while to get used. You can see the mess I made above.! But don't worry it comes off the plates with nail varnish remover. 

Then roll the stamper over the bow. Roll the stamper on the nail. It's a simple process but takes a while to get the technique right. I found it took a little to get used to where it would appear on the nail.

Here are the results :)

Pros-Great for people who are not good at free hand nail art. You can layer up images on the nail. I found it lots of fun to do. 

Cons- Takes a bit a practice and you need to clean the plates after every use.

Eye bag Review for dry eyes

I've been having problems with my eyes being dry. The optician told me to use a hot flannel on my eyes and massage along the lash line. I did some research on line and I discovered the Eye Bag by the Eye Bag Company. This is basically a hot  Wheatie  for your eyes. Before buying this I saw that the reviews on Amazon looked quite good. So I thought it was worth a try.

The eye bag is really easy to use just put in the microwave for 30 seconds and then put on your eyes for 5mins, twice a day. Check the heat before you put it straight on your eyes.

After using this for a week I have found that my eyes do not feel as tried at the end of the day as they used to. This is good for me as I use computers all day for work.

The only bad thing about this product is that you have to balance it on your eyes, it would have been better to have a strap on it, to put around your head.

Spring hair fishtail plaits with wavy hair

Just a quick post to show my spring hair style. I wear plaits in my hair allot but this time I thought I would try out fishtail plaits. I curled the rest of my hair with straighterners. Don't forget to put a curl heat protective spray on you hair before you curl it.
Here is what it looked like

Ardell False lash review and red eye make up

I brought Ardell Fashion lash 118 from Sallys beauty wholesalers. I chose these lash for extra volume and length and they only cost £2.39.

The other lashes by Liz Martins in the picture I used on the lower lashes these are also from Sally's.

• For the make up base I used Illamasqua's Light liquid foundation in 120 with no powder to keep the dewy finish.
• On the under eyes I used Clinique Airbrush Conclealer in 04 neutral fair.
• To hightlight the cheek bones I used Illamaqua's Cream blusher in lies and used this along the nose.
• On the apples of the cheeks I used Mac's Mineralize blush in warm soul.
• All over the eyelids and up to the brow bone I used a glittery white eyeshadow.
• All over the eye lid and all around the lower lash line I used Bourjois Rose Temntation. This helps the eyes to stand out.
• I used Mac's pigment in basic red along the socket line and outercorner of the eye. Make sure you blend the edges of this eye shadow in well. Or it makes any mistakes more visible.
• I then used a liquid black liner on top lash and black eye pencil on lower lashes.
• This time I applied the up Ardell lashes before mascara, these went on with no problems. They felt light and comfortable to wear and gave a dramatic look. At the end of the night they were easy to remove. These lash are very good value for money and gave extra length and volume to my short lashes.
• I applied mascara before putting on the bottom lashes. To make lower lash more comfortable stick them on just below the lash line.
• I kept the lips simple with Glam Shine lipgloss Juicy rose glow by L'Oreal. 

Barry M Textured Nail Paint review

When I was shopping last week in Superdrug I can across Barry M' s new nail textured varnish, which costs £3.99. I brought the light pink called Kingsland road which is a candy pink.

Here is what it looks like on your nails

Its quite a strange polish to paint on, when you first paint it on your nails it looks very watery and runny. I waited for the first coat to dry before i put the next on. When it starts to dry you can see the sand like texture come through.

You definitely need a second coat with this polish.

Over all I can't decided if I like this look or not, I think it would look better used as nail art rather than on full nails. It does seem to last well on my nails through which is a plus.

L'Oreal Ombre Hair colour review

I really like all the dipped dyed hair looks I have been seeing in all the magazines, over the last few months. So when I saw that L'O'real had brought out the Ombre hair dye I thought brilliant this looks easy to use.
This isn't the cheapest product at £6.99 and comes in three colour. I chose the Ombre in shade one as my hair is medium brown.
The colour was easy to apply the bleach gave a even colour result. The only thing was it didn't lighten my hair that well. I'm not sure if this was because of my hair having so many colours on already ( been dying it for years).
At first I was a little disappointment but know I love the fact its a subtle effect and have had lots of complements and looks great when its curled.
Any way here are the photo for you to have a look at.

Candy Nails with white tips

I was feeling a bit bored of the dark long winter. So I decided to go for cheerful simple candy coloured nails.

Below are the products I used to create this nail design.

• First I used a base coat to protect my nails.
• Next I painted my nails with two coats of Model's Own Lilac Dream and Illamasqua's Caress on every other nail.
• I used the brush in the Model's Own nail art pen in white to draw the lines on the tips of the nails.
• I then finished with a top coat to help the nails to last longer.

MUA Caviar nails review

I have tried using the Ciate Cavier nails which come in lovely colours but the beads do not stay on long and are quite expensive. When shopping ion Superdrug I saw this cheaper version by MUA at only £3 a pot. I thought great a bargain and worth a try out.

I used Illamasqua's Nail polish in caress as the base and then poured the cavier beads onto the nail. the first thing I had problems with was opening the lid. When pouring the beads I used the try that came with the Ciate set to catch the beads that fell off. 

All the Cavier beads seemed to stick ok, I pressed them on as the instructions said to do so. And finished with a clear top coat.

To pour the caviar beads from the tray back into the pot I used the funnel from the Ciate set. 

This is what the nails looked like after one day.

As you can see all the beads are coming off from around the edges, which is a bit annoying as I really like the effect they gave.

The MUA beads are great for a night out or special occasion. The Ciate Caviar nails do last longer but cost £18 which does include a nail varnish. I will put a review up of the Ciate Caviar nails soon.

Dotty Toe Nails

Not been doing many blog posts recently, as I have been decorating my bedroom. Which also means any nail varnish I put on my hands comes off straight away. So this is way I decided to use me new nail dotting brush on my toes.

I got this set from Top Shop, there are quite a allot of brushes to try in this pack not bad price either at £7. First I tried out the metal dotting tool. And this is the result.

I first used a base coat, then the first two Models' Own nail varnishes(in the below picture) on every other toe.            

I then put the metal ball shaped brush into the No7 dark purple and placed the dots on the nails, being careful to leave space for the white dots.

Then repeating this for the white dots.

This tool made it allot easier to get the dots the same size and shape, the only thing to watch out for is not getting to much varnish on the tool. As this makes the dots look messy.

   

I went shopping to the Leeds at the weekend and manged to buy lots of amazing bargains in the Illamasqua sale. Below is a picture of what I bought. Each item only cost £5 each. So if you get a chance I would check it out, they have some lovely colours.

New Year make up and Christmas Nails

I hope everyone had a good Christmas eating lots and opening presents.

 Over the last month I have not been able to wear my contact lenses and have had to wear my glasses. I found it allot harder to create party make up, which I took on as a challenge  Any way here if one of my make up looks with glasses.

I wanted to keep the colour scheme of my glasses so I chose a pinky red colour for the eye shadow. I then used false eyelashes that had a strong curl. 

For my nails over Christmas I kept to a red for the base and used a gold crackle by OPI on top of the red.
I also create candy cane nails using the same red for the base and painting on white diagonal lines. i forgot to take a photo of this through.

Happy New Year!