Vampy Flakies

Nail polish fanatics have a huge array of the most amazing top coats to choose from. Crackle polishes, glitters, mattes and one flakies. 

Flakie top coats, in my opinion, are one of the best ways to instantly jazz up any nail polish. I find they tend to work best on a darker base colour.

Even on shorter nails like mine, dark colours and and a flakie top coat look lovely. 

I used two coats of Hanover Square from Nails Inc which was a freebie in Glamour magazine. 

The flakie top coat is called Rainbow by Gosh. I absolutely love it, it flashes between gold, copper, green and yellow. 

What do you think of flakies? Have you come across this one by Gosh?

Giveaway - Estee Lauder, Benefit, Gosh, Leighton Denny

For my second blog post of 2014 I thought I would host a little giveaway. 

Here is what is up for grabs!

Nail polish: Nail Pop in Pearl Effect, Leighton Denny in Your Planet or Mine and Gosh Holographic. 

Maybelline Baby Lips in Cherry Velvet, Estee Lauder lipstick in Tiger Eye, Estee Lauder mascara in Extreme Black, Gosh lip balm in Sweetheart, Benefit Badgal Lash mascara and Estee Lauder lipgloss in Impulsive Coral.

Collection 2000 simmer and shade in Just Peachy, Estee Lauder black eyeliner, Estee Lauder eyeshadow ombre palette, Almay eyeshadow in Ivory and Elizabeth Arden gel eyeliner in Teal.

All you have to do to enter is follow a few simple steps:

Comment on this post about what you are looking forward to in 2014:

Be a follower of my blog via GFC and Bloglovin: Please tell me your follower name below:

Please leave your email so I can contact you if you win!

Closing date for the competition is January 18. 
Open worldwide.

An Oldie But a Goodie

When there is the slightest hint of sunshine out pops the holographic nail polishes. Holographic  by Gosh is an oldie but a goodie. I had bought this polish years ago, it was one of the originals.

Gosh re-released the holographic polish calling it a party varnish for one night. This was a good call, I am not the only one who didn't get on with the original formula. It was hard to apply, went on with bald patches and chipped almost instantly, even with a top coat.

At least with the newer bottles, people don't expect it to last more than a few hours.

As horrible as it is to work with, there is no denying just how beautiful it is.

Taste The Rainbow

Bouncing back from the let down that was Take A Trek from China Glaze's Hologlam collection I dug out an old favorite.

Gosh Rainbow - a gorgeous flakie polish:

Two coats of a plain black polish and one coat of Rainbow Simple but eye catching.

Jolly Holly Rainbow

With all the bright polishes around at the moment I was craving a darker vampy colour, two coats of China Glaze Jolly Holly with one coat of Rainbow by Gosh.

The flakies became copper in colour over the dark green, I tend to prefer this Gosh polish over darker colours, I find the effect is more obvious.

I am still on the look out for Finger Paint flakies, I keep checking ebay....

A Purple Blue Rainbow

Just a quick manicure before the end of the year, here we have Models Own Purple Blue from their Beetlejuice collection with a layer of Rainbow by Gosh. 

I do love me a flakie polish and I definitely think flakies look their most obvious over a darker colour. The different colours catch the light so well over a dark base. Over MO Purple Blue the flakies shift between red, green, orange and brown. 

I think I paid about £5 for this from Superdrug at the beginning of 2011 just when I started getting into blogging. I believe it is slightly harder to find now, but just keep your eyes peeled because if you do happen to come across this I highly recommend grabbing it. 

The next time I blog it will be 2012, how fast has this year gone? Crazily so. I hope everyone has a good New Year's eve and day celebrations.

Autumn feeling

I have never used or even owned a brown nail polish before, I stumbled across a Ruby and Millie sale in a Boots near Birmingham a while back, I think I snapped this one up for around £3 ish (I think it was a 75% off sale) This highly imaginative name for this polish is 'Brown'. This is two coats with Gosh Rainbow.

I love the way this combination looks, the flakies remind me of Autumn leaves on a woodland floor....

A glittery holographic mess!

I was going through my nail polish collection and I thought I really need to try out some polishes I have had for a while but either never wear, or haven't even tried. This is is mind this is what I came up with:

Base is two coats of a Frontcover polish which I have never used, but it is gorgeous, a shimmery red-ish pink. In the pictures it does sway more towards red and it looks more metallic here too.

The polish itself applies smoothly and dries quickly, the pain with it though is the brush, it is so small! It makes it easier to control but at the same time it makes it harder to see what you are doing. The cap is all brush and no arm.

After waiting for this to dry I applied a quick layer of Gosh Holographic from about a 1/4 of the way down to the tip of the nail. Then I applied a layer of China Glaze Fairy Dust to the whole nail. Next I applied a few dots in China Glaze Jolly Holly using a dotting tool to the area where the red base meets the holographic overlay. 

A little bit messy but actually I quite like the way this looks with the glitter and holographic together. I am not holding out much hope for this manicure lasting more than a day because of the Gosh Holographic, I know it will start to chip soon. 

Beth's peacock rainbow

I hadn't used my Gosh Rainbow flakie polish in a while so I dusted that off and used it over a sponge manicure of Models Own in Beth's Blue and Models Own in Peacock.

Beth's Blue is a light blue-ish lilac whilst Peacock is a shimmery green but has hints of purple and lighter green running through it. Rainbow by Gosh is just an amazing flakie, much larger pieces that Nubar's 2010 top coat.

Just a few more pictures :-) 

Raver Rainbow

My best friend is getting married in June and her hen do is in April, a small group of us are going down to Newquay in Cornwall for a weekend. Newquay is only about a hour and half from us in Devon, so not too far to travel.

For the Saturday night out she wants to have a raver theme as it should be easy for everyone to find bright and funky  clothing, face paints, leg warmers etc. I can't wait. I thought the Sleek Acid palette I got recently would be ideal to create a bright and colourful look for the evening. I wanted to have a trial run. I stumbled across a video on utube from xsparkage. She did some awesome rainbow eyes, so I wanted to create something similar using the colours from my Seek palette. This is the look:

For this look I used pink/red on the inner corner, then orange, yellow, green on the outer corner. To finish I used blue and purple eye liners from Gosh on the lower lash line and applied black mascara to the upper and lower lashes.

I love the way this turned out, so bright and perfect for a raver night out and will definitely use this look for the hen do. Hope you like this, would you ever dare to wear these colours?