Matching jumper and nails!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope you've all had a wonderful festive season! I took a little time out from blogging to spend time with my family and friends and generally chill out during my time off from uni. It's been great but I've definitely missed blogging. For christmas I got a kind-of-christmas jumper off my boyfriend. I love matching my nails to my outfits so this is exactly that.

I used Barry M - Blue Plum, Nails Inc - St James and Essie - Ballet Slipper for this look. I created the zig zag with a striper brush and finished with a coat of Seche Vite.

Grey ombre stripes!

I've been M.I.A for a while and I am sorry. It's the last couple of weeks of a uni project and things are abit hectic at the minute. I cannot wait to break up for christmas!

First I did two coats of W7 - Black and waited until it was completely dry. The I sectioned off a section of the nail with striping tape and painted on Essie - Power Clutch. Again, I waited for that to be completely dry and sections off another section and painted on Sally Hansen - Dorien Grey. I finally finished with two coats of Seche Vite.

I do love stripe mani's but this just absolutely ages to do. I suppose using Seche Vite between coats would have sped up the process but at £9 a bottle I'm reluctant to use it for anything but a topcoat!

I wanna see your Peacock!

I love the peacock nails that have been trending in the nail blogging world for a while. They're colourful, fun and you can use just about any colour combination. I stuck with the classic peacock feather colours for this mani.

I used Essie Feed Me base coat, I bought this to try to combat my peelies. I then used a base of Rimmel 60 Seconds At Ease on some fingers and Wild Couture Nailed It Black on the others. For the feathers I used a combination of Rimmel 60 Seconds Green With Envy, A-England St George, Barry M Magnetic Blue, Barry M Gold Foil, W7 Purple Paradise and finished with two coats of NYC In A New York Minute.

I love how this turned out, shame about my terrible cuticles! MUST.MOISTURISE.MORE!!