Christmas Birds

Hey everyone! First of all, congratulations to the winners of my giveaway, April and Samara, thankyou all so much for entering. Anyway, I finallllly got around to doing some detailed nail art, which feels like the first time in forever, and I'm so proud of how they turned out. I decided that I didn't really want to do a typical christmas design this year so I was searching around for a pattern and I came across this.  I know the design doesn't exactly match but I just adapted it to match my style more. 

I decided to enter these in to China Glaze's Holiday nail art competition and I'd be thrilled if you would vote for me, this is my voting link if you do. Thankyou in advance! 

I started off with a base colour of OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and then I used white acrylic paint to paint on snowflakes, which unfortunately don't show up very much in the photos. Then I used Barry M - Mushroom for the birds, and OPI - Green-Wich Village for the leaves. The pinks are a combination of polishes mixed together and the red is Barry M - Bright Red. All topped off with a coat of Seche Vite.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments!
Also, just because I feel like I should say this at the end as well, please don't forget to vote for these nails as my entry to the China Glaze Holiday nail art competition. You can find my entry here. Thankyou :D
Alice

Beauty and the Beach 2 Competition - My Entry

Hey everyone! So for my second post today I'm bringing you my Beauty and the Beach competition entry. I'm sure most of you know what it is but for those who don't it's a beauty competition held by Travel Supermarket for a chance to win £500 or £1500! All you have to do is upload an entry inspired by the beach, you can find the rules here, but it ends tomorrow so be quick (I am the queen of last minute!). I know this is a nails blog, but of course I'd like to be in with the chance of winning the full amount, so I hope you'll excuse pictures of my face! I'll put them after the jump and the nails before for those of you who dont.

The Nails

So for the nails, I went directly with the 'beach' theme, and painted a beach on my nails. My style is definitely more cartoon-ey so I wanted to stick with what I know best. I decided to add things you can find and do on the beach.       On my thumb I did a rock pool with a crab next to it, on my pointer finger I did flip flops, on my middle finger is the edge of a picnic rug, on my ring finger is a bucket and spade and a sandcastle with a flag, and on my baby finger is a starfish. 

To do these nails I started off with a base of Butter London - Fiver, and then I sponged on Barry M - Blueberry, but I decided it didn't look very good so I used a paintbrush to make it more of a straight line. Then, on the tips of my nails I sponged Butter London - Cuppa. Then I got a tiny piece of sponge using tweezers and sponged on the white for the foam of the waves. I then mixed Barry M - Blueberry with some white to create the 'waves' with a tiny brush, and I used the same white (MASH - White nail polish) for the clouds (which unfortunately haven't shown up too well in photos). The yellow on the rug, sun and bucket is Clinique - 70 Degrees and Sunny, the red on the rug, flag and spade is Essence - Redvolution, and the crab is redvolution mixed with a tiny tiny bit of brown, the green on the flipflops is Clinique - Hula Skirt, the orange starfish is Clinique - Juiced Up, the black detailing, such as the birds, is China Glaze - Liquid Leather, and the darker brown for the stones and sandcastle is Barry M - Mushroom, either on its own or mixed with white. I did all the details with a tiny cut down brush. (Phew that was a big paragraph)

Day 3: Yellow Nails

Hey everyone! It's so late! I need to go to sleep but I forgot to post this earlier so I must do it now. We'll just pretend it's still Sunday in the UK... Anyway, these nails are super duper boring but they're something I've been wanting to try for a while. I dont actually know what it's called, Candice over at MrCandiipants called it rimming and I find that hilarious so we'll stick with that. ;) Unfortunately yellow doesn't give much as a colour scheme so this mani is super dull, also I was totally lacking in yellowspiration. THIS IS SUCH A NEGATIVE POST. I'm going to go to bed, enjoy the nails, goodnight (it's 1am)

I used Barry M white and yellow

Have a bonus picture of my Barry M prize! Some positivity at last :D thankyou all for voting, I came second in the end and won all this:

Alice

Tribal nails

Here is my final rejected design for the Barry M competition, I completely forgot to post this here last night but did post it to my Tumblr. Sorry about that! Hope you like them :)

Also, thankyou for all your votes, I now have 25 nail varnishes on their way to me because I came second :D
Alice

Triangles

Guess what? It's another failed entry into the Barry M competition (woop). I actually like this one, even though I'm not a massive fan of metallics. Simple but effective. If you havn't voted for me already will you please take a look here and decide if you will. I'm currently second and that's still great! So thankyou all for your votes so far, I just have to keep it that way by continuing to boost it up :) Anyway, on to the nails!

 I used:
Barry M - Chameleon Blue
Barry M - Silver Foil Effects

Hope you like them!
Alice

Stripes

Hello again! So this was one of my entries that didn't quite make the cut for the Barry M competition. It's very simple and a bit messy but I quite like it because I dont often do horizontal stripes and it makes a nice change. Hope you like it too!

(I'm sorry there's only one photo)

I used

• Barry M - Chameleon Blue 
• Barry M - Silver Foil Effects
• Barry M - Gold Foil Effects

Dont forget to vote for the one that did make the cut: here
Alice

A cheeky beg?

Remember I said in my last post that I'd been doing my nails for competitions? Well one of them made the cut for Barry M's 'Karma Karma Chameleon' competition. For the competition you had to use their new range of chameleon polishes and that was it, just be as inventive as you can. I posted 4 entries (you could do as many as you liked) and I'll be posting about the rest shortly. The picture in this post is the one that made the 15 finalists and I would be so so incredibly grateful if you could take a look at this Facebook link and if you like my design then like the picture? I will love you forever!

I used:

• Barry M - Chameleon Blue
• An unnamed pink
• Barry M - Spring Green
• China Glaze - For Audrey 

Thanks everyone!
Alice