Choi's nails

I miss polishing my nails. It has indeed been awhile. I had some posts which were long overdue and thought I'd upload them whilst I try to find the time and effort to get back into everything. 

This one is China Glaze's Fresh Prince-ss, a lovely sweet pink.

The formula of this one is like most other pastel pale pink you'd find out there. Streaky at one or two coats and the third just about covers everything. The top coat smooths everything out.

Perrrrrfect!

But not quite yet. I've always liked the whole pink, white, gold and black combination. So I used all of those colours to add some freehand hearts and dots. Clearly still need a bit of work on the freehand stuff but I'm feeling the end look.

I've got here an ombre nail vinyl design to show in this post. Many times I've attempted to create designs with the nail vinyls I had but the majority didn't come out quite right. This one? Just about makes the cut and on top of that, hello holo glitter base!

Hey everybody, has it been too long or has it been too long? I know, I know. but I'm getting that blogging mojo back and even updated my instagram! 

UK weather was giving me all the false hope that summer had arrived with some heat and sun showing up on random days so thats when I pulled out these pastels. Suns out, pastels out.

These Models Own pastels really do have a good place in my collection. It feels nice to wear them once in awhile and It's hard to neglect them when the polishes I own from the Hyper gel collection are such good solid colours. Good on its on and good as a design base.

The base of this mani is Models Own's Hyper gel Lilac sheen. Some of you may not know but I do tweak my photo lighting to prettify things a little. My camera really likes to dull things down against this shade so I'd say this polish is looking a shade lighter after the editing.

Hopefully my new camera doesn't give me this problem anymore and I'm looking to show you more macro shots.

Felt a little nostalgic this day so I went for one of my older polishes from the very little selection of OPIs in my collection. 

Here is OPI's Ski Teal we drop, a dark teal blue. Anyone remember this polish? This is one of the polish more frequently used than my other OPI's because it has great formula, besides darker shades like these are always easier to add a design to in my opinion.

For this manicure I wanted to add something simple but also trying to save time for some extra sleep hence why only my ring finger nail had been the only one decorated :D

From the moment I'd finished this design, I've been dying to share this on my Instagram. My first reverse stamping attempt and it is a success! The choice of colours were very simple yet they just matched so well, so bravo Choi, bravo! (Pats on the back)

Glitter always adds such a kick to a plain manicure, it's like a party at the tip of your fingers. But it's the trouble of making the glitters look less clumped up on some parts of the nail that steers me away from doing this design more often. Sometimes over sponging can be a bit of a problem for me too. Despite that, my glitter tips attempt has given me a look I'd think was okay to show on the internet. I do think it looked better in person than in photos though.

We don't always have to write a whole story to accompany the pictures in the post do we? 

So..

Enjoy! :)

I own very few polishes that belong to the orange family and out of those few China Glaze's Sunset sail is one I do use most often. It's actually more of a peach with some subtle silver shimmer and I mean very subtle that we'll need those macro lens to picture them. 

For this manicure I wanted it layered with some stamping images preferably with some shimmer or holographics but I gave up looking for one after not being to find one that I felt matched with this base. 

I love purple! It's still my favourite even after all the other different shades I've come across through polishing. A dark purple especially.

My base is Barry M's Plum from their Gelly Hi shine collection. This was one of those with a slightly thick consistency and only took about one coat to be opaque. It's always two for me though, just in case.

I wanted to give my base a dark edge to it so the tips were sponged with Misa's I will survive, a basic black. It didn't work out so well with the base being that dark it's hardly noticeable in person.

This next manicure was one of those I was eager to share. It feels christmas-sy to me and I bet that's because the polishes mainly came from the Autumn/Winter collections. Just the base itself I find looks gorgeous and I'm not usually a green lover. It also makes my skin colour look just the way I like it.

I've been loving the blue-purple combination these days so I decided to use those colours for this cloud mani.

Anyone remember when fish braid nails took instagram by storm at one point? I do. After trying it once or twice I never gave it another chance because I had a hard time picking which colours I should use for the fish braids. 

The colours chosen for this design all come from China Glaze and I do find they match quite well with each other. But this design makes me think of Autumn. Am I a bit too early?