Come and have your nails done!

On Saturday 14th December I will be doing nails at Pastille in Leeds, Yorkshire, and I'd love to see some of you there! It's only a 3 minute walk from the train station and you can get christmas nails, what more could you want? Although, if you don't want christmas nails, I'll be doing other designs too, just specify which design you'd like when you call. I will be offering a simple file and polish, using Essie and OPI polishes. 

If you'd like to book an appointment then you can call 0113246070 or email info@pastille.uk.com and specify that you'd like Alice/One Nail To Rule Them All to do your nails on the 14th

I hope to see you there!

Alice

Tutorial Tuesday: Christmas Pudding

Hey everyone! Today's Tutorial Tuesday happens to be on a Wednesday, as you may notice. I was working on a super exciting project last night (which you shall see in January) and completely forgot to write the post, I'm sorry! Nevertheless, you shall still get a tutorial, and this weeks tutorial is for these Christmas puddings. Many of you requested that I start doing Christmas tutorials, and now it's finally December I don't feel like I'm betraying my scrooge-ness too much by doing so. I have quite a few Christmas tutorials for you this year, so I might start posting more than one a week, would that be okay? Anyway, the rest of the post, including the steps, will be after the jump.

QVC Spring/Summer 2014 Press Event

Hey everyone! The other day I went to London, to work on something awesome for Clothes Show Live TV, and I thought whilst I was there I may as well pop along to the QVC Spring/Summer 2014 Press Event, and I'm so glad I did. There was so many beautiful things, and I got a gorgeous hand massage from Gatineau. I also got to eat some amazing cakes, and I may have had a few sneaky Thorntons fudges. I definitely feel that it would have been worth going even if I hadn't already been in London for the day. Unfortunately I completely forgot to bring my camera, so all the photos I have are from my phone, hopefully it wont be too noticeable! 

Tutorial Tuesday: Saran Wrap Nails

Hey everyone! Super quick post, it's late and I have to be up early to go to London tomorrow. I'm off to do something exciting, which you shall see very soon. Today's tutorial isn't a very original one, in fact I think the idea originated from Nailed It, but hopefully you will appreciate it nonetheless. I have a load of christmas tutorials coming your way, but they wont start until December, I'm a strict scrooge!

Step 1: Paint your nails with a base colour, I used Barry M – Dragon Fruit

Step 2: Once your base layer is dry paint a layer of a contrasting colour over the top, (I used Barry M - Blueberry Ice-Cream) do your nails one at a time with this and the next step - and be quick

Step 3: Roll up some cling film in to a ball and dab it onto the wet blue nail varnish

Step 4: Finish off with a topcoat (I use Seche Vite) to seal in your design, and you're done!

What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

Alice

P.S Have you entered my giveaway yet?

Scratch Nail Wraps GIVEAWAY!

Hey everyone! Today I have a really exciting giveaway to share with you, I'm going to be giving away all 3 of the nail wraps I designed for Scratch. There will be two prizes, one winner will receive all 3 wraps, and the runner up will be able to choose one wrap from the 3. You can enter using the Rafflecopter widget below, terms and conditions are listed at the bottom of the widget but for those of you who can't be bothered to read them, here they are:

1. The giveaway will be open for 2 weeks, any entries after that will not be counted. 
2. The giveaway is sponsored by Scratch, and will be open internationally. 
3. The prizes are non-negotiable, you will receive the three nail wraps I designed for Scratch as first prize, and the runner up prize will get a choice out of the 3. 
4. Please do not lie about your entries, I will be checking and any false entries will be disqualified. 
5. And finally, good luck! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

If you can't wait to see the end of the giveaway, my nail wraps are still available here.

Alice

Butter LONDON Polka Dots

Hey everyone! Today I have some very bright polka dot nails for you. I know polka dots have been done a million times, but I always like to come back to them now and again because there's something about them that just entices me. These nails were inspired entirely by these wellies* - or 'rain boots'/'galoshes' (definitely didn't google that) from Shop On My Go Go. I got mine in the post a few weeks ago and I absolutely love how warm and comfy they are. Also, now it's starting to snow (yay!) I can finally wear them without looking like a fool. As you can probably see, the nails don't exactly match the colouring of the wellies, but I wasn't at home and the only colours I had to hand were the Butter LONDON Colour Clash collection, I'm sure you don't mind too much?

The base for these nails was Butter LONDON - Cake Hole, and then I used striping tape for the accent nails, along with Butter LONDON - Cotton Buds and a dotting tool, which I also used on the alternate nails.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

Alice

*some of the products in this post were provided to me for review but all opinions are entirely my own and were not influenced in any way. Please see my disclosure policy

Tutorial Tuesday: Bows

Hey everyone! It's 1am here in the UK, and I just got in to bed and turned out the light, only to remember that I'd completely forgotten to do a tutorial tuesday! So the light is back on and I'm going to be super quick in writing this so I can go to sleep, second time around. This week's tutorial is for these glitter bow nails, which you might remember from here. This time I used a base of the gorgeous Shimmer Polish - Kim*, which you can see swatches of below. I'm going to include the rest of the post after the jump otherwise it might be too long!