Christmas Gift Guide

Hello my lovelies,

I am pretty excited to show you my picks for Christmas this year. How did I choose these goodies?? Well I decided to pick some of my favorites from this year and some that I am dying to try out. This is a gift guide designed for nail art fanatics so please share with your specials to make sure they know what to get you.

1. Sweet Almond Oil Nail Polish Remover – R 110.00 at The Body Shop
2. Colour Crush Nail Polish in “Green” – R 65.00 at The Body Shop
3. Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter – R 105.00 at LUSH 
4. Tiny Hands Massage Bar – R 85.00 at LUSH 
5. Merry Xmas Tree Jewels – R 25.00 at Nail Candi
6. China Glaze “Chillin’ With My Snow-mies” – 😦 Not available in SA yet but you can query its arrival with Nail Candi &/or Maskscara (Or if you can’t wait, try ebay)
7. Morgan Taylor “Rare as Rubies” – R 109.95 at RubyBox
8. Morgan Taylor “Glitter & Gold” – R 109.95 at RubyBox
9. Handy Gurugu Hand Cream – R 120.00 at LUSH
10. TOY by Maaji “Burgundy Waves”– R 99.00 at TOY Style (ppst… See polish swatch here)
11. TOY Dark Colors Remover Pot – R 99.00 at TOY Style

Which of these are on your list?

Remember to share this list if you want any of these beauties.

{Review} Born Pretty Store Goodies

Good Morning all you lovelies,

I was sent some awesome goodies to test & try from Born Pretty Store and boy were they goodies!

I am part of the affiliate program and I was emailed by my rep who gave me a budget and I got to choose what I wanted to review. I chose 4 items but today I am only going to show you 2 of them.

I have been brain storming the heck out of these 2 items to see what I could come up with. I am so excited to show you what I did because a massive amount of time and effort went in it.

So I used the following items for my Mani:

The water decal SH02 & the 3D Nail Jewel.

I went for a full on vintage look.

I spent a great deal of time cutting out all the little flowers and putting them on my nails but I also added a full nail to show you what it would look like.

It was really easy to apply the decals, I just submerged them in a bit of water for a minute & then placed them on my nails using a tweezers.

In terms of the 3D jewel I used Seche Vite to attach it to my nail (Although nail glue would make it stick longer). But if you lost a jewel that would be ok because you get 5 if you order them.

I painted a Matte topcoat over everything to seal it off and tah-dah a super easy vintage mani.

What do you think?

The Born Pretty Store is having a Massive sale at the moment as it is their anniversary and each day they are announcing something new and exciting. If you would like to browse the website you can check them out here. Or you can follow them on any of their social media platforms: Facebook//Twitter//Instagram.

Also if you would like a super awesome discount on your order you can used PTB10K31 to get 10% off.

**Disclosure: There are Affiliate links on this post.

31DC2014: Day 31-Recreation of Nail art by: Paulina’s Passions

Hello again 🙂

So here is the final post from the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge.

Cannot believe I made it to the end (We will just pretend I am not a few days late hehe)

I was seriously questioning my sanity the last few days.

The challenge is tough, it really tests your creativity and skill.

Ok so we were supposed to honor nails we loved. I was inspired by Paulina’s Passions, this was actually the Nail Art she did for day 12 of the challenge.

I used a few pretties:

• Essence “A Piece of Forever” from the Twilight Breaking Dawn Trend Edition.
• Catrice “Gold Leaf” Top Coat
• TOY Maaji “Maaji’s Ocean”
• TOY Maaji “Candy Bay”
• SinfulColors “Snow Me White”

I also used Studs that I bought from Maskscara (A nail Supply store in Cape Town) and my striping tape from ebay.

So I really had fun doing this.

I really like it 😀 but need to practice painting anchors.

Yipeee its over hehe, will do it all again next year for sure! Great test of skill & creativity.

31DC2014: Day 30-Inspired by “a tutorial”

Good evening lovelies,

So wow this week was crazy,it swallowed me whole.

I have the last 2 posts for the challenge tonight. I did them today.

I was inspired by a Youtube Tutorial from cutepolish (see here)

I did have exactly the same colours as her so I used the closest ones in my neon collection that I could.

 

I used the following polishes:

• TOY Maaji “Candy Bay”
• Bourjois “Cerise Noire”
• OPI “Steady As She Rose”
• Catrice “For Bright Guys”
• TOY Maaji “Maaji’s Ocean”

Its just a basic dotticure but I thought the colours looked so pretty together I just had to try it.

What do you think?

 

 

 

31DC2014: Day 29-Inspired by “the supernatural”

Are you ready to feel the spook?

I wasn’t sure at first what I was going to do but then I decided on an idea that is rather spooky.

 

 

Being so close to October & Halloween I wanted to get practicing and so I decided to do a Haunted Graveyard Mani.

I tried to stick to a halloweeny colour palette.

I used:

• Essence Colour & Go “Grey-T To Be Here”
• Catrice “For Bright Guys”
• Essence Breaking Dawn Part 2 “Edwards Love”
• Essence Colour & Go “Black is Back”

I painted the light grey base & then did a gradient using “Edwards Love” then I painted on the haunted details. Right down to the dark moon and looming mists.

What do you say? Are you ready for Halloween? I know I am, Im busy hunting down a new challenge to do (See last years on here)

 

 

31DC2014: Day 28-Inspired by “a flag”

Hello my dears,

The finish line is so close, I cannot wait for this to be over. I have really enjoyed it but wow its a push creatively.

Today is day 28 & I had to be inspired by a flag… Well its a bit of a random prompt but I did it.

I was originally going to do a Game of Thrones flag but upon googling it I realised that would require more skill then I had on hand. So my boyfriend suggested Harry Potter instead. He said I should do the house flags pfft… like I would waste my time on the other houses. Im team gryffindor all the way!

I know this is their crest, but the flag sort of looks the same. So I used this as my inspiration for my flag inspired nails.

The colour selection is very basic, I used:

• Essence Colour & Go “Little Miss Sunshine”
• L.A. Colors Art Deco Liner in “Red”

So there you have it, Gryffindor flag nails 😀

They were easy to create thanks to the red liner. I painted the base colour yellow and then used the liner to draw and fill in the checks.

Which team are you?

 

 

 

 

31DC2014: Day 27-Inspired by “artwork”

Happy Saturday my lovelies,

Today is day 27, so 4 days to go. Its madness I tell you, time flies too quickly.

 

I saw this piece on Pinterest a little while back and fell in love with it.

This is just such a pretty painting.

Its by Sharon Cummings and you can see more of her work here https://www.etsy.com/shop/BuyArtSharonCummings.

I used:

• Essence Colour & Go “Black is Back”
• Tip Top “In The Navy”
• Essence Colour & Go “The Boy Next Door”
• Essence Colour & Go “Absolutely Blue”
• SinfulColors “Snow Me White”

I started with the black as my base colour, I then dotted big blotches of white and left it to dry. Once that was done I painted on the blues from lightest to darkest.

This feels like dinosaur skin hehe but the effect is great and very similar to the painting.

What do you think?