BNB Colour Me Crazy - Blue

Hey!

Here are my blue nails to bring me up to date. These are inspired by @sr_nails from instagram.

I had decided ages ago that I wanted to use my new OPI Blue Chips for this mani. I just didn't know what exactly I wanted to do with it. OPI Blue Chips is a renamed version of The Flowers are Blue-ming from the Katy Perry collection. Whatever the name, its really pretty and worth the £3.99 price tag I paid for it.

My thumb, pinky and pointer are 3 coats of OPI Blue Chips. My ring and middle fingers are two coats of Models Own Hypergel White Light, striped with Kate Spade for Nails Inc - New York Noir and the flowers are freehanded with the above black, white, blue and an added lighter shade of MoYou holographic blue polish. I didn't realise how hard zebra stripes are!

What do you think?

Rachael xxx

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Hello!

I'm back again - I've had a nice little break, something I definitely needed. Life has been busy, and sadly very polish free. I have had almost a full month of no nail polish at all, which my nails have seriously thanked me for, even though they are now much shorter as they were suffering badly at work.

So I thought I would start off again with a few quick swatches of one of R&R Lacquer's new spring polishes - Hellibore.

Hellibore is a soft green based polish, with a sprinkling of tiny matte pastel yellow squares and semi sheer pink daisies. It reminds me massively of spring, and I just love this shade of green - its green, but still soft and feminine, which of course the yellow and pink compliment really well I think.

This is available at our Etsy shop for £6.50 (10ml) or you can get any 4 for £22 + P&P.

What do you think?

Rachael xxx

ER31DC - Day 14 Flowers

Hey all!

Back again with Day 14 of the Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge. Today is Flowers. As you know I love floral patterns and you'll see a lot of vintage roses, poppies and sunflowers on my nails. I decided to go a bit different today though and took inspiration from another of my favourite flowers - the Iris. Then I just went a bit abstract on my nails - they're sort of IKATish maybe?

What do you think? It looks quite nice from afar - I quite like the colour combination, but it doesnt really look anything like an iris, does it? The colours I used were Illamasqua Faux Pas for the base, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Black on Black and Lets Meet.

Don't forget to check out everyone else's floral manis!

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Flowers for Mom Nail Art Challenge - Day 5 - Poppies

Good afternoooooooooon! <3

How are we all today? The sun has been a shining here, had a lovely chilled out day.

Only a couple more days until I am back to work, so enjoying my time while I can - getting caught up with this and hopefully a few other challenges! :)

Here are my poppies for today - I quite like these. Only problem is that the base (Sally Hansen - Dorien Gray) was a total ***** to dry - took over 10 minutes and still turned out tacky in places so I tried to cheat with Seche Vite and there may be the odd smudge.. sorry!

Don't forget to check out everyone else's flower manis - I am only a few behind now and some gorgeous abstract flowers got posted yesterday / today! :)

Rachael xxx

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Flowers for Mom Nail Art Challenge - Day 4 - Sunflowers

Good evening all!

I'm here again with another installment for this challenge - Sunflowers. I love sunflowers, theyre so beautiful. I have great memories of growing these as a child with my mum, so theyre a perfect flower for me to do for this challenge. 

Also I think that the colour of sunflowers really just cheers you up - how can you feel down, sad etc when a big yellow flower is smiling back at you? :)

Colours used:

Sinful Colors - Savage

Ciate - Big Yellow Taxi

Different Dimension - My Bear

I wasn't sure about these when they were finished.. but they're definitely growing on me! No pun intended! Only one photo as well as I was too impatient to photograph and I caught one on the desk edge and took the sunflower clean off :( sad times!

Please check out everyone else's beautiful flower manis!

Rachael xxx

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 Paulina’s Passions  

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Flowers for Mom Nail Art Challenge - Day 2 - Inspired by my Mum

Good morning all! 

Today is Day 2 - Inspired by my Mum! I am very lucky to have a wonderful mum, she is so great. I decided to do something that reminds me of her, and that is actually flowers - or rather, anything to do with gardening. She has always been so green fingered and talented with growing plants etc and always comes and helps me with mine - bringing me plants etc. Every time I look outside I am reminded of her.

The mani I have done is from a memory of an old garden we had, when I was little. The garden was huge, and to get to the lawn you had to pass under a massive rustic trellis that my mum put up herself. It had beautiful red roses growing over it and as a child it always reminded me of the Secret Garden and I used to pretend I was passing into a secret place that only I knew about. Lesson learned today - you cant get away without a base coat of colour if you're  sponging - cause the edges look crapola! Won't be doing that again!

I just thought I would include a photo of my mum too, shes so beautiful, I love her so much :)

What do you think of my nails today?

Don't forget to check out everyone else's mum inspired nails today!

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 Paulina’s Passions  

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Flowers for Mom Nail Art Challenge - Day 1 - Roses

Yeeeeeeees, I've joined ANOTHER nail challenge. This one isn't massively demanding so I am looking forward to it :)

Day 1 is Roses - I've done rose manis before, but I saw a special one I loved on Instagram a few days ago, so I tried recreating it from memory. I now have some fantastic polishes that I can use for it as well, so I'm really pleased!

The polishes I used were:

Sinful Colors - Black to Black

Ellagee polish - Lime-O-Rama and Way Orange

Essie - Off the Shoulder and Mojito

L'Oréal - Opulent Pink

What do you think? Are you a neon / roses fan? Do you think they work well together?

Don't forget to check out everyone else's rose nails today!

Cubbiful  

 Dipped in Lacquer 

  Makeup and Nails, Not War 

 Paint Those Piggies!  

 Paulina’s Passions  

Polish and Repeat 

 Tes Did It Nails

Different Shades of Blue - Autism Awareness Challenge - Day 1 Flowers

Yes, I am part of ANOTHER challenge - definitely the last for awhile :) couldn't pass this one up though!

The first day's theme is flowers. I went for a simple design - hope you like it!

 

Check out everyone else's flower manis! :)

Alicia from Makeup and Nails, Not War

ChiChi from I’m Just Me... ChiChi

Cordia from Seriously Swatched

Erin from Paint Those Piggies!

Jessica from Nail Polish Anonymous

Jillian from Jilltastic Nail Design

Kelly from Peace Love Lacquer

Laura from Little Laura Loves

Lisa from Glittery Fingers & Sparkling Toes

Nicole from Dipped in Lacquer

Paulina from Paulina’s Passions

Rachael from Rachos Nail Love

Roxana from Beautylicious

Tina from Light of the Moon Nails

Flip / Flop February Challenge - Day 20 - Flowers / V Gap

I felt pretty uninspired by today's challenge - I couldn't think of anything exciting or different!

I went for flowers, using my large dotting tool to add flowers as an accent. I really love my background colour (Sally Hansen - Green Tea) and my flower centres (Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi) but I didn't pick the right shade of blue.

I love this blue (Sally Hansen - Thinking of Blue) but it just doesnt match with my other colour choices. Nevermind!

I also updated my Day 17 with my take on Delicate Print - which you can find here:

http://rachosnaillove.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/flip-flop-february-challenge-day-17.html

Today's nails in photos:

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Flip / Flop February Challenge - Day 13 - Watercolor / Sponging

Today I chose watercolour nails! I saw some lovely flower watercolour nails on Youtube so I thought I would try my own.

Colours used - LA Colors - White nail art 'pen', No 7 Stay Perfect - Spice, Barry M - Peach Melba, Sephora by OPI - Read My Palm and Fearne - Lemon Drizzle.

 

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