FairyTales Nails

Welcome back lovelies, this week seems to have dragged quite a bit. I think that is mostly because for half of it I've had hardly any sleep, thank you Lexi. Although she has been helping me design my mani's recently and I must say she has really good idea's even though she mostly wants princesses and cute animals. So for today's post I have a review of the new Uber Chic Fairytale 02 plate, all of these designs are a Lexi original ;) 

*Press Sample* Hello, my lovely readers; I hope you have had a good week with minimal nail breaks. My week hasn't been hugely eventful, I have however broken a nail (major sad face). Not to worry it was not on my swatch hand, thankfully. But now my poor cindie hand is down to nubs again, so much length gone thanks to a very mean car door. Today's post is a rare one for me, I used nail vinyls! I was recently sent some Ejiubas nail vinyls to review so I sat down and gave it my best shot, let's jump in.

*Press Sample* Hello my lovely readers! I hope you are all having a fab day, the sun is shining bright here and there is a lovely breeze in the air so all around a perfect day. Today's post is a combination of nail art and some swatches of some of the newly released Opulent Essences polishes. For some time now I have been wanting to try a Galaxy mani, so when I received these beautiful polishes from Sharon and Zoe I knew these would be the perfect polishes to use. I am quite pleased with how my first attempt turned out, there are a few things I would change in the future put these polishes were definitely perfect for this manicure.  For my base I used this stunning cobalt blue creme with silver shimmer called Neptune, this is fully opaque in 2 coats and applies really smoothly to the nail. I felt this was the perfect colour to start with for a galaxy mani. Once that was top coated and dry I used one coat of Opulence this is a silver holographic, I will b...

Hello my lovely readers! I can not believe that Spring has arrived so quickly and that Easter is literally only a few days away. It seems very strange to me to have it so close to St Paddy's day, in my family we celebrate both days so that equals twice the fun. We normally go to my amazing Nan's for Sunday roast dinner anyway so Easter just means a roast with the added addition of chocolate. Today's post is another awesome blogger link-up with all the lovely ladies from the Hobby Polish Blogger's Facebook page. This is an awesome group of people who have helped me so much with the progress of my blog. This time the link-up theme is Spring, so for this mani I decided to use that gorgeous pink polish from Tux Polish called Pretty Christmas Sweater , this polish screams Spring to me. I paired this beautiful pink creme with gold shimmer with my white born pretty store stamping polish. As you can probably tell I did not create this water marble myself, I am hoping to...

Hello my lovely readers! I hope you have all been having a fabulous weekend, mine has been very relaxing as I haven't been feeling 100%. Today's post is featuring that beautiful Tux Polish Sea Turtle in some nail art. The minute I read the name of this polish I knew what I wanted to do, I even purchased a Moyou London plate specifically for this particular manicure. I really hope you like it and i'm so excited to show you my Sea Turtle mani. Yay! I managed to use this beautiful polish and create in my opinion a very cute Sea Turtle manicure. I completely fell in love with this polish as soon as I saw the bottle, and I knew I had to try and take it to the next level but not ruin that beautiful green colour and it's gorgeous blue shimmer.  To begin I stamped this lovely Turtle/Tortoise shell pattern onto all of my nails using True Brit London Park Lane which I received in a previous Nailbox. This stamps lovely and was just the colour I was looking for. The tu...

Hello my lovely readers! Happy St Patrick's day to all, with my family being mostly Irish I knew I wanted to do something special for today's manicure. So when I saw Pretty Serious releasing a limited addition polish called Liquid Leprechaun I knew I had to pick it up. This post is for all of my Irish family and all you lovely people out there that are celebrating this awesome day. I love how this turned out it screams St Paddy's day and that accent nail of Liquid Leprechaun really makes this mani pop. I am sure this will get the seal of approval from my family over seas and at home.  For my accent nail I used the stunning limited edition Pretty Serious Liquid Leprechaun, this is available at Rainbow Connection right now for £6.50.  I think there are only a few bottle's left so hurry on over now to grab yours. Liquid Leprechaun is a jam packed Irish Glitter fest, it has gold and green glitters in many different sizes that all lie in a bright green jelly bas...

Hello my lovely readers, as you can probably tell from the title of this post it is that time again. Today's post is all about the latest When Colours Collide theme, if you haven't read one of these posts before When Colours Collide is a Facebook page that invites nail enthusiasts to come up with manicure ideas based off of the theme, they post different colour combinations every two weeks and you then make a manicure combing those colours. This time the theme was red and black, many different thoughts went through my mind for this colour combo but in the end I had to go with my heart. Here they are my blingy ladybirds or as I like to call them ladybugs, when I read that it would be red and black I couldn't resist having these cute little insects crawling across my nails. To start this manicure off I chose this gorgeous OPI called Innie Minnie Mightie Bow this is a beautiful deep red with a subtle gold shimmer, this gorgeous polish is from the Couture de Minnie collec...

Hello my lovely readers! I hope you are all having a great week so far, even though this weather is miserable and I am seriously starting to second guess the fact that we are actually in Spring my week has been great. Plenty of nail mail that will be featured on the blog and the best part is Lexi has began to take more than a few steps and is beginning to walk. I never thought I would be so proud and happy of another human being moving their two feet, but I am so ecstatic to see all the little things my baby can do now. Now that I have sung my babies praises lets get into why we are all here, just a few weeks ago I saw that Ard as Nails who are a part of the Soap Dodger company have come out with a new collection. This brand new collection is called The Bookouture Girls, this consists of 5 holographic polishes in some gorgeous colours. definitely polishes that will cheer you up on these cold and dreary spring days.  This is White Cliff Bay it is a stunning turquoise pol...

Hello my lovely readers! Today's post is a quick one to show you one of my recent manicure, this has to be in my top 10 favourite mani's just because this Essie polish is gorgeous. I was browsing Facebook recently and came across a post stating that you could buy any Essie polish in Boots for £5.99. This offer included the newer retro revival collection, I like many others have been wanting to get my hands on the very popular and highly talked about Essie Starry Starry Night. So let me show you what I created with this gorgeous polish and an amazing stamping image. Like I said this polish is amazing it may not be a complete dupe for the original Essie Starry Starry night which apparently had smaller glitters and more of them but the revival version is still stunning. First I used two coats of Essie Starry Starry Night, this is a dark blue jelly polish with silver glitters. I didn't have any problems applying the polish and it did reach full opacity in 2 coats f...

Hello my lovely readers! I hope all of you had a great weekend, I am happy to say that on Friday night I finally watched the new Deadpool movie. You may not know this about me but I am a huge Marvel comic book fan, so I was thrilled to see they were finally making a Deadpool movie. The movie did not disappoint at all it lived up to all my expectations, and Ryan Reynolds is the perfect actor for the roll. If you have not gone to see this movie yet I would highly recommend it, even if your not into comic books it is still a fabulous movie. I was laughing pretty much the whole time I was in the cinema, it is a great mixture of action, comedy, romance and just pure Deadpool madness. Before me and my boyfriend went off to the Cinema I wanted to make sure my nails looked the part, so I created this mani. These Deadpool nails were really easy to create; all that was needed is a red base colour, a black polish for the half moon nails and his mask along with some paper reinforcement stick...

Hello my lovely readers! I hope everyone has had a great week, I had some amazing nail mail today from the lovely Becca who writes A Certain Becca Nails . We have been organising a swap between ourselves for months and today was the day we finally got our packages. I will probably try and get a post up next week showing all you lovely people the amazing nail goodies I received. However today's post is another HPB link-up this months theme is 1st Indie Brand, for this link-up all of us blogger's have to create a manicure using the first Indie Brand we ever owned. this can be the exact polish we purchased or just our favourite polish from that Indie maker. We can do either a simple mani or create nail art using the polish from that 1st Indie brand we owned. So let me show you the manicure I decided to create for this theme. The first ever Indie polish that I owed was this beautiful True Brit London called Taxi Cab, this is a black creme polish opaque in 2 coats. It has a ...

Hello my lovely readers, I hope everyone is having a good week so far. Mine has been quite uneventful, I did get some awesome nail mail at the weekend so that helped me feel better about this whole no buy I am on at the moment. 9 days down and only 20 to go! The nail mail I received was from the Born Pretty store and I am over the moon that I now own every stamping polish colour they have brought out so far, I will have swatches of all these over black and white up on the blog soon, and hopefully this will mean my stamping manicures will now have a lot more colour to them. Enough of my rambling lets get into what you are all here for the nails, today's post is really special to me as it is the first time I have done a twinsie manicure with another blogger. The amazing Becca from A Certain Becca Nails and me decided to do a Valentines pond manicure. I have mentioned Becca in a few previous posts, we met through Facebook on the Nail polish sale page. She has become an amazing fr...