100 Followers - Giveaway update!

yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Thank you so much to everyone who follows me. To celebrate hitting 100 followers, and also 100 posts (a few ago) I have added another prize to my giveaway. First person drawn will get the choice of which prize they want - 2nd drawn will get the other prize as runner up :)

I have also added two more options to my giveaway - I want to share the love around a little bit - there are another 10 entries for anyone who follows my two bestest 'nail friends' - who always leave me a comment every once in awhile - Becca at Kitty's Painted Claws and Rachael at Nails and Colour. Thank you both for following me since I had only around 5 followers! :) Theres also another 5 for following me via Bloglovin too!


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Red Nose Day Nails!

Yay! Tomorrow is Red Nose Day - non-uniform at work, and the theme is 'wear something red' duh.

So seen as I wore my only red clothes today (good planning Rach!) I painted my nails :)

I realise now that my last minute decision to silver my smile lines with a striper has made them look very christmassy.. but what the heck, I still like them :)

As I came on, I saw some other Red Nose Day Manis in my reading list.. all of which are better than mine! But still happy with my first attempt.

My ring finger is the Red Nose that we've been selling at school. I didnt realise but there are actually three versions of Di-Nose-Saurs. We obviously got the cuter one! My attempt is the one on the left :)

Polishes used: KBShimmer - Berry Xmas, Zoya Purity and Raven for detail and Sparkly Nails nail art striper in silver.

 

Whatever you're doing tomorrow, I hope you have a great day and remember how fortunate we all are! xx

Flip / Flop February Challenge - Day 28 - Recreate Favourite Day

Cheated massively here and went for 'Favourite Polish' again. I couldn't choose between the two KBShimmers, so here is my other favourite - Jack! Never gets old.. one of my only indies that is close to running out! Love it so much :)

Thank you so much to Jill from Jilltastic Nail Design for creating this challenge too. Its been dead fun not only participating but seeing everyone else's manis too! :)

Flip / Flop February Challenge - Day 26 - A Theme You Missed / Favourite Polish

Couldn't pass up an opportunity to wear one of my fave polishes! Not worn it for ages but this has reminded me just how much I love it! :D

This is 2 coats of KBShimmer's Quantum Leaf and one of topcoat. Its also a rare picture of my wonky hand! :)

Check out everyone else's offerings today!

Flip / Flop February Challenge - Day 24 - Tissue Paper / Rainbow

Hi everyone!

I had such grand ideas for this one! However, being on a budget I had to make the sensible decision to utilise what I have.

So no tissue paper today - rainbow :)

I didn't want to go TOO easy, as we do have Theme Missed / Favourite Polish for Day 26. But seen as I am doing both of those (see tomorrow's post and you will understand a bit more!) I thought I would do something else. So dots it is :) again! I did think about trying sugar spun again but I was a bit more pressed for time.

So here they are!

Accent is Zoya Purity dotted with:

Barielle - Reddy to Rumble
Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi
Barry M - Papaya
Ciaté - Mojito
Sally Hansen - Thinking of Blue
Ciaté - Cabaret

All other nails are 3 coats of KBShimmer Oh Splat! (LOVE)

Hope you like them! What do you think of KBShimmer Oh Splat - am I on my own in loving it so much?

Check out everyone else's tissue paper / rainbow manis!

My very first mini giveaway!

I was going to wait until I hit 25/30 followers, but I am so grateful to all of you already following that I wanted to set up the giveaway early!

The giveaway will run until my birthday (31st March), which means plenty of extra chances to enter through shares, tweets etc. If there are enough entries, I may have a second prize to add :)

The giveaway will be open internationally. This is one of my biggest bug bears when entering contests as so many are US only.. sad panda! I know this is because of shipping costs and shipping problems to a lot of countries, but if I can ship it to your country, I will :)

Check out the widget below.. if you have any problems let me know - its the first time I have used Rafflecopter! *noob*

So the prize is... a brand new bottle of KBShimmer's Oh Splat! (One of my personal favourites!)Any questions, feel free to send me an email at rachosnl at gmail dot com :)

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Flip / Flop February Challenge - Day 12 - Drips / Matte

I went for an easy Matte today.

Not done much with my matte top coat yet, but I like these for simpleness :)

hope you like them!

I used 2 coats of OPI - Pedal Faster Suzi, 1 coat of KBShimmer Berry Patch and a top coat of Butter London Matte Topcoat.

This is how they looked pre-top coat. I like both ways.

Check out everyone else's efforts!

Datyorkloves NAC - Day 3 - Kisses

Been so busy this week so only just had chance to do these last night.

I really quite like them, although I caught one around 5 minutes after I photo'd them and it took off almost the full nail, so they came off very quickly.

Really glad I picked up KBShimmer's Berry Xmas.. its beautiful <3

I used Zoya Storm for the hugs and kisses :)

 

Don't forget to check out everyone else's beautiful Kiss nails!

Happy Friday Nails!

So it's Friday!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

It has been a SERIOUSLY long week - my first back at work for the Spring term. So I thought I would use one of my new KBShimmer polishes - Wrapper's Delight, to celebrate the end of this week on my nails :)

As you will have noticed, I'm enjoying the almost 'glitter gradient' style nails at the moment. 'Less is more' and all that :) I can also get away with them at work, although I do pretty much wear whatever I please at work, except for neon colours.

Here is my final mani - 1 coat of my go-to cheapy black polish (must get a new black polish!) and then 1 coat of KBShimmer's Wrapper's Delight on the tips and a coat of Rimmel Pro Wear top coat.

New Years Eve Mani!

Belated Merry Xmas to all, hope you had a happy and peaceful Xmas period, even if you don't celebrate!

I had a lovely Xmas day with the inlaws and a wonderful Boxing Day (26th) with my stepmum and stepsis, and then my mum and sister.

I got hardly any nail polish, well regular nail polish - i did however get 4 gorgeous Harmony Gelish shades - Elegant Wish, Up in the Blue, Fashion Week Chic and My Favourite Accessory. I also got some really cute little nail wraps that i chose from good old Primark myself :)

Anyway, back on the subject - i thought i would show you my NYE mani. Again i have used my current go-to polish - Barry M - Blackberry. Completely in love with this polish - gorgeous consistency - first coat is a bit iffy but 2nd and its gorgeous.

So anyway, Nail Envy for base, 2 coats of Barry M and topped with my new glitter - KBShimmer - Hex Appeal. This has a mix of large and medium silver hexes, medium and small royal blue hexes, small fuschia/purple hexes and very fine shreds of purple and blue bar glitter. Absolutely beautiful! What I love about KBShimmer is the formula - the consistency is just right - not thick and gloopy - nice and smooth, very little dabbing required and no fishing for certain glitters.

Do you have any KBShimmers? I have 7 in total now - Jack, Showgirl and Quantum Leaf were my first indies and QL is my absolute favourite. I picked up Hex Appeal along with Wrapper's Delight, Berry Patch and Proud Peacock from Harlow & Co's last restock. I am still hanging around for No Whine Left and Oh Splat! but if I come by any spare cash will pick up more than those two.. I will have them eventually!

What do you think of my mani? Do you like it? Would you try it? X