Aztec Nails

Hi Everyone,

Today I have had another go at doing a spot of nail art, this time with an Aztec theme. I love this nail trend, I think it looks really summery and perfect for festivals. As I am still a newbie to the nail art thing I have been choosing pretty simple patterns and found that this one was not too difficult to do (just a bit fiddly!) and actually I'm pretty happy with the end result.

To do this pattern I used four different colour polishes for the base, and then the gold and black to decorate. I still haven't got round to actually buying a proper nail art pen, so again I have used my Estee Lauder liquid eyeliner in Black Sands, which worked pretty well. The polishes I used for the base are (L to R): Barry M Gelly polish in Lychee, Barry M Nail Paint in Blue Moon, Barry M Gelly polish in Passion Fruit and finally the bronze colour from the Revlon Expressionist Nail Art Duo in Jackson Polish. I am really in love with the Barry M Gelly nail varnishes at the moment because the colours are so vivid and shiny, and the Lychee and Passion Fruit colours are my favourite.

To start with I did a base coat, and then painted my base colour over the top. I chose to start with the Passion Fruit shade, but any colour would work.

Once that dries, apply a stripe of another colour through the middle of the nail. The Gelly polishes are really good for this as the colour is very bold and will create a clear stripe over the bases colour in a single application.

Using the other two colours create a thin stripe down either side of the nail too.

Finally, take your nail art pens (or eyeliner in my case) to decorate the nail. I drew triangles down the centre stripe and then lines and zig zags in either corner using the black. Then with the gold I just made a line of small dots down the remaining red colour. Finally, seal with a top coat and you're done!

That's all there is to it! If you have any suggestions of other patterns that I could try then I'd love to hear them and maybe give them a go in my next nail art post.

Rosie x

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Have I nailed it?! Simple Leopard print nails

Hello fellow beauty lovers!!

I firstly just want to say a big thank you to my lovely followers on Bloglovin'- as a new blogger it is pretty nerve racking when you see just how many bloggers there are out there in the blogosphere, but everyone has been so lovely so far and I'm thrilled that my followers have reached double figures! A small victory I know, but it's been a great start to my blogging experience and I'm loving reading everyone else's blogs and picking up some tips along the way! Any new readers, please feel free to follow me on Bloglovin' and on Twitter :)

Anyway, on to today's post. Tonight I have been having a play with my new Revlon Nail Art Expressionist polish. This one is called 'Jackson Polish' and is a hot coral red and an orange-bronze. The 'base' colour in the Expressionist range (here the coral-red) comes with a normal nail polish brush, whereas the 'art' colour has a thinner, more precise brush.

I love reading blog posts about nail art and am so impressed with the creativity and artistic ability of some of my fellow bloggers! I am a bit of a newbie to the nail art world and was never particularly artistic at school, so thought I'd start off with this simple, leopard print pattern. I hope you like it!

First of all I applied a clear base coat and painted my nails with two coats of the 'base' colour from my Revlon nail art set...

I then used the thinner brush to apply splodges of the 'art' colour across my nails- at this point I started to worry that the end result may be a bit of a mess!

Then, I outlined my now dry splodges in black (very slowly, might I add!) and applied a few little dots as well to pad out some of the empty areas. The photo below is of my right hand so not my best work (I'm right handed), but I actually was really pleased with the result! I must confess I used a waterproof, liquid black eyeliner for the outline rather than a proper nail art pen, as that was what I had to hand and I thought the precision applicator would make the results less sloppy.

Finally, I used a top coat to seal the whole thing and admired my handiwork whilst waiting for it to dry!

I was really impressed with this pattern- it's pretty easy to do and I think the final result is pretty cool. I love the colours of the Revlon Jackson Polish set, although I'm not sure that the set itself is anything to write home about. Although the thinner brush is helpful to an extent, it is still too wide to be suitable for precision application, and I'm sure if I'd attempted a more challenging pattern I would have struggled.

This is just my first foray into nail art, so I am really encouraged by today's effort and will definitely keep at it! I may even invest in some of the Barry M nail art pens, as I've had my eye on one of those for a while...

I was also planning to do a quick fashion post today on my new gladiator sandals from Boohoo which arrived yesterday. Unfortunately, when trying them on I realised that the shop had sent me two left feet by mistake! So, that post is out of the window, and back to the shop they go!

Have you tried any exciting nail art recently? Let me know if there are any patterns you think I should try!

Rosie x

Insanity or the Next Big Thing??

Hi Everyone!

I am not master at putting on nail polish, and for me there is nothing more annoying than trying to tidy up my messy application with a bit of polish remover and a cotton bud, only to discover I have cotton fluff stuck to my newly painted nails!

I was a little bit intrigued, therefore, when I spotted this product nestled amongst the MUA shelves in Superdrug:

Also available in other colours...

This is a product from MUA  released earlier this year that claims to be bang on trend by offering fluffy, textured nails (below- please note these are MUA's images and not my own).



The desired effect- see Anna's blog for a real review :)

Now, I am all for an exciting nail effect. I was all over the croc effect, loved the nail studs, confetti, sequin, magnetic, bejewelled etc etc etc.... But I feel that maybe this fur effect is an effect too far and bordering on just plain wrong (plus it looks like it would be reeeeally messy!).



I read a review of these 'fluffy nails' on this blog: 

Life of A Fashion Nerd Guest Post - Kel which further confirmed my fears that it is, indeed, super messy, and I am just not sure I have the patience to carry it off. Whereas Kel claims she liked the overall effect, I think I would be constantly picking at loose fibers and I would end up with threadbare, fluff-free nails.

Unfortunately, this is one trend I think I will be giving a miss!

What do you think of the fur effect nails? Have you tried the MUA product? Let me know!

Rosie x