Choi's nails

Long time no gradient! I wanted my nails to look girly with a bit of elegance to it so pink was the best choice. It's nice to be able to pick all the colours I need from one collection especially when you're spoilt for choice of pinks. Less thinking, more polishing!

All polishes used here were from Models Own's Hyper gel collection.

Long time no gradient! Or that's how it feels. I wanted this one to be colourful, bright and bold but not every design would look like what you imagined.

I gave my chevron nail vinyls another try after the first design I did using it wasn't as great as I'd wanted it to be. This time I did some pink gradient chevron using polishes all from Barry M's Gelly Hi shine collection. 

The colours range from a very light pink to a stronger raspberry pink but it seems the lighting has made the light pink camouflage into the white base. Now it just looks like gradient chevron tips.

I could keep doing gradients over and over again without getting sick of them, the same goes for nail stamping. Those are just easy ways for a good manicure.

For this one I decided to use the Barry M Gelly Hi shine polishes because there's a good choice of colours in that collection. Most of my recent nail stamping manicures were done using the Moyou plates but this one was done using my old Bundle monster plates. There's quite a few good designs on these BM plates that I don't mind reusing again and again. 

I still remember when I first started swatching the polishes from  Models Own's fruit pastel collection. They were one of the first polishes that I'd started collecting from the brand.

I really felt for a pastel gradient to match this summer season. Even though UK hasn't decided whether it wants to give us consistent summer weather I've decided this is what's going to be on my nails.

From start to finish I really didn't know how I wanted this manicure to turn out which is why it became a mix and match in the end. I wasn't sure how to title this manicure so I named it after the nail that had a bit more detail, the galaxy striping design.

It really just feels like yesterday when I last did gradients but only after looking back at my Instagram did I realise it's been a short while. I think a gradient design needs to make an appearance again.

Ooh hi there Summer manicure, even though it hasn't hit that season yet I'm totally ready for all the bright/pastel colours so I've got a summer gradient to show you guys.

For a person who doesn't wear yellow nail polish so often, my bottle of Lemon Fizz by China Glaze has been used much more than the other polishes that are a favourites of mine. I prefer using yellows for nail art rather than keeping it as a plain manicure, it's just they don't always turn out right so they don't even make it to the picture taking stage. This manicure though turned out more than right that I was excited to upload this.

Yellows are not always first on my list when I'm thinking of the next manicure in line but I do like to incorporate it into some nail art, especially when summer comes around it'll definitely be needed more often.

For this gradient manicure the basic step is starting off with base coat and two layers of a simple white. I painted a sponge with the polishes in the order I wanted them, that's China Glaze's Lemon fizz first and Essie's I Pink I can, my current favourite pink at the moment, second for the tips.

With Misa's I Will survive I stamped the image from the Bundle Monster's BM 224 plate and tada, we're done for the day.

Now that I'm currently taking my annual holidays from work I have all the time to polish my nails more often so I'm trying to catch up with my manicures and posts. 

For today's post I'm showing a turquoise/gold combination on a sea foam green. The base is Essie's Absolutely shore which I'm guilty of neglecting all this time. With it being so soft it's a very good base for designs, only that it requires about three coats for full opacity and smoothness.

I kept looking through the only Bundle Monster plates I had and though not every image had been used it felt like there wasn't enough designs to use. I eventually picked the design which represents one of the deadly sins of fashion. Shoes, shoes and some gradient shoes!

The gradient is a mix of Barry M's Green Berry and Gold foil.

I sometimes feel like the stamping colours weren't bold enough because it doesn't seem to stand out too much but the whole look is quite soft. It was pretty much soft from start to finish.

I'm going to say this before anything else, I LOVE THIS MANICURE! So do expect to see more designs using the same technique in future because it looks absolutely fun.

My Barry M collection is mainly dominated by the Gelly Hi shine collections, though I haven't been picking up more of the recent ones I find the colours that I already own are sufficient.

This manicure is filled with three colours:

 Plum - Purple, Guava - Teal and Dragon fruit - Pink

Using a sponge I painted the polishes in different parts and sponged my nails as it was until every part of the nail looked liked it had been covered. But then there's always the stamping to cover for any empty spots if there were some. The butterflies were then stamped on with a white polish and this design belonged to the BM205 plate from Bundle Monster

The last step would of course be the top coat. This is what smooths everything out and makes everything look better. 

Next, I think I can let the pictures do the talking.