Twinsie Nails With Very Emily

Twinsie Nails With Very Emily

Barry M China Glaze floral flowers mani swap marimekko flowers MASH Models Own Nail Art Nails Pink Red twinsie nails very emily

Hey everyone! Today I've got a post that I've been super excited to share with you: Twinsie nails with my good friend Emily of Very Emily. Emily was one of my first blogging friends, if not the first, so it was about time we did something like this. We've been talking about doing it for a while, but as we've both had a lot on we only got around to finishing our designs last week. We decided to use marimekko flowers as inspiration for our design, specifically these nails. We found that it was really hard to coordinate on colours, as we seemed to have none of the same polishes, so we just went with what was closest to the original design. My shades are a bit lighter than Emily's but I like that it gives it an individual twist. Emily also created this gorgeous collage of our two designs together which I absolutely love. Don't you think the flowers down the side look great next to our designs? You can see Emily's design on her blog.

For my nails I used Barry M - Cotton for the white and the red is China Glaze - With Love . Then I used Models Own - Boat Party* (from the recent Polish For Tans collection) for the pink, and Barry M - Full Throttle for the orange centre. The black is MASH - black nail polish. Finished with a coat of Seche Vite.

Here's a close up of the flowers, I really liked how these came out. It's not my usual style of floral so I was afraid to get it wrong and my perfectionist side probably came out a bit too much! 

What do you think? Let me know in the comments. Don't forget to check our Emily's post here. 

Alice 

Paint All The Nails Presents Neon

Paint All The Nails Presents Neon

hearts Models Own Nail Art Nails negative space Neon Orange paint all the nails Pink polish for tans Purple

Hey everyone! It's nearing the end of the month again, and that means it's time for another Paint All The Nails link up, and this month the theme is 'neon'. I wasn't actually going to join in this month because I don't own many neons at all and I didn't think I could create anything worthwhile. Just as I'd given up on the idea of participating, the new Models Own - Polish For Tans* collection dropped through my letterbox. I haven't received anything from Models Own for at least a year, if not two, so it was a nice surprise and also a strange coincidence. I felt like I had to create something using them for the prompt as it felt like fate, and so here I am! I used all 5 polishes from the collection for this nail art, and I'm still wearing them now. I'm not used to wearing something so bright so they keep catching me by surprise, but I ended up really liking them. 

I used Models Own - Barrier Reef* for the base, then I used Boat Party*, Island Hop*, Surfs Up* and Beach Fire* along with a stamper to smush the colours together. Then I used acetone and a flat brush to create the negative space. Finally I finished with a coat of Seche Vite, and then a coat of Barry M - Matte Topcoat.

Also the neons were apparently too bright for my camera because the photo above looks super strange, but the one below is a bit more accurate.

The collection is available now online, and from all Models Own UK Bottleshops for £4.99 each.

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

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Autumnal Shades Manicure

Autumnal Shades Manicure

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Hi NaiLovelies!

With Thanksgiving fast approaching for my lovely friends in the USA, I thought now would be a great opportunity to create an autumnal manicure to celebrate the festivities.

I chose the gorgeous burnt orange shade from OPI GelColor called It's A Piazza Cake.  This is such an unusual shade of orange and as soon as I started to apply it I couldn't get over how much it looks like Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup!  The GelColor formula of It's A Piazza Cake applies perfectly and reaches opacity in just two super easy coats.

For the feature nails I used another favorite of mine from OPI GelColor called My Vampire Is Buff which is a delicious cream toned polish which has an almost crelly finish and takes 3 coats to reach opacity.  You can see my full review of this colour by clicking on the link above.

I made a video tutorial to show how I created this manicure.









On top of  My Vampire Is Buff, I applied a single coat of IBD Glam Ave. which is from the new Urban Edge Collection.  I think this makes the cream polish look like something an Indie polish brand would create.

I will be swatching the Urban Edge collection shortly, I need to get the Hideaway Haven photos uploaded first on my blog schedule.






I wanted gold stamping over It's A Piazza Cake so I used Models Own Chrome Gold and an image from Uber Chic 1-02 stamping plate.

I love how well these three gel polishes work together with the stamping.  It came out just as I had imagined and didn't take long at all which is always a good thing.

Ciao 4 Now

Matte Neon Flowers

Matte Neon Flowers

Blue flowers Matte Models Own Nail Art Nails Neon Pink Review

Hey everyone! I've had a nice relaxing weekend of doing pretty much nothing. I spent saturday doing a tonne of nail art designs, it felt like so long since I just sat down and spent a day doing nails and it was great. I got quite a few designs done which I'm sure you'll see soon but for tonight I just wanted to show you one of the simpler designs I did. I got a selection of Models Own polishes to review and they've been sitting around waiting for me to do something with, and I decided that it was time to do some nail art with them. I'll probably do some more at some point as there's a great selection but this is what I came up with on a short timescale.

The base for these is 3 coats of Models Own - Powder Blue* from the Hypergel collection. I could have probably got away with 2 coats but just to even out a couple of nails I used three. The flowers are done using Models Own - Pink Wellies* from the recent Festival collection. This is a lot more neon than the pictures show it to be and it really popped when mattified, I love how these turned out. I also used Barry M - Cotton for the centre of the flowers and Jacava Matte Topcoat for the finish.

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

Alice