FairyTales Nails

Hello my lovely readers! After yesterday's January Nailbox unboxing and review I was dying to try out those two pink polishes we received. So for today's quick Sunday afternoon mani I give to you my Valentines Day mani that screams nothing but love. As you all know by now I am a huge lover of all things pink, so when I found out this gorgeous Seche polish called Rendezvous stamps I was over the moon. For the stamping I used one of my favourite stamping brands Uber Chic. This image is from collection 6 using plate 1, I have been meaning to try out this inverted heart image for quite a while and I think it works really well with these two polish colours. Sinful PROshine's Babydoll is such a lovely baby pink creme, I did however need to use three coats to get this fully opaque and if you use to thick a coat it can get quite gloopy. It isn't the best baby pink I have tried but is not the worst either, as long as you do thin coats it will build up well. I left it...

Hello my lovely readers, as we are now finishing up January it is time to start thinking about that lovey dovey day in February. That's right Valentines is just around the corner, and the great girls at Nailbox decided to make sure our nails would be prepared for the occasion. January's Nailbox theme was Valentines day, when I read this my mind immediately went to one paticular colour PINK! I am a huge lover of all things pink, I have pink hoodies, jumpers and trainers. So when I opened this months box I was very happy to see that beautiful colour among my packing peanuts. This month we were treated to another nail treatment, two polishes, one glitter topper and some very handy dandy orange sticks. My little pack of love hearts almost didn't even make it to this picture as my boyfriend loves them and wanted to eat them before I had even finished gazing at the beautiful pink polishes.  Lets dive right in with this gorgeous glitter topper from Nails Inc called ...

Hello my lovely readers, I hope everyone is well and having a fabulous week. Mine hasn't been fantastic have lost my voice and have a really bad head cold. This time of year all I seem to do is pick up bugs and spend lots of time in my PJ's curled up with Lexi on the sofa. As you all probably know I recently received January's Meebox and in it were some gorgeous goodies, I knew straight away that I would be try the 'Ard As Nails polish called Little legs. I have wanted to try out this indie brand for quite some time now and was super thrilled to see that little bottle sitting among the paper worms when I opened my Meebox. So today's post is all about my boozy mani using 'Ard As Nails little legs and the lovely cocktail glass stencil from She Sells Seashells. First I did 2 coats of 'Ard As Nails Little legs and then top coated with HK Girl and left it to dry, once that had fully dried I placed the stencil onto my ring finger nail and used my Born Pre...

Hello my lovely readers; it is that time of the month again I must admit I love the end of the month because there is plenty of nail mail coming through my door. Today's blog post is going to be a swatch and review of this months Meebox, the theme for this month was Blackberry Margarita. When I heard of the theme I honestly could not imagine what they were going to send us. But I am over the moon with the goodies we received from Meebox this month, there are two brands this month I have never tried but have been on my wish list for a very long time. So lets get into this fabulous boozy box. The colour combination this month is fantastic there is literally every colour of the ingredients that you would put inside a blackberry margarita. I was so happy to see the UK indie brand 'Ard as nails in this months box as I have been meaning to try them for a very long time. I was also very excited to see an A England polish and love the dark plum colour of this polish.  The ...

Hello my lovely readers! Today's post includes an InLinkz link up with the lovely people from Hobby Polish Bloggers , this is a Facebook page I recently joined for nail polish bloggers. There are some lovely ladies on there and they are always willing to give out helpful hints and tricks to help you improve your blog. Each month they come up with a theme for a link-up that anyone in the group can participate in, for January the theme is gradients. Luckily there was a gradient manicure I had been meaning to do for some time, so lets get into my Watermelon Gradient mani. I was inspired by Kelli Marissa from Youtube, she was previously called The Nail polish Challenge and creates fantastic nail art tutorials that are easy to follow and super cute. For this manicure I chose to use Cassella Limitless as my white base, I received this white creme in my first ever Meebox last September. This is opaque in 2 coats and has a great formula, it creates the perfect base for any gradien...

Hello my lovely readers, well I hope you are all having a good week so far. Mine hasn't been the best as I've been suffering from more migraines. According to the doctors they are called visual migraines which is why I keep getting the black splodge in front of my eyes. Not much I can do really just keep taking strong painkillers and wait for them to pass, but I did not let that stop me from making today's gradient manicure. I recently picked up the China Glaze Electric Nights mini baby beats collection from my local TKMaxx, all 6 had been reduced to £10 for the set, Bargain! Whilst I was there I also picked up some of the Nails-Inc gel effect polishes, swatches and some some nail art will be posted soon. To create this manicure the first thing I did was apply a white base coat so that the Electric Nights gradient would be a neon as possible. After that had dried I used a make-up sponge from Poundland and applied 4 colours from the set. From cuticle to tip I u...

Hello my lovely readers, I hope you all had a great weekend. After posting my Essence polish post  I had a few people ask me to do a review on the Born Pretty Store Shimmer stamping polishes. So today I have a full review and swatches on both black and white for all 6 of the colours they have available. All 6 polishes come in 15ml bottles so you get a lot of polish and a little goes a very long way, there is a bit of a smell when you are using the Born pretty polish. The best way I could describe it would be the smell of a Kleancolor polish, it isn't off putting for me but might be for others so keep that in mind. For all of these swatches I used Uber Chic collection 6 plate 2, there are some gorgeous images on this plate and all the polishes picked them up really well. The first polish I have is this dark blue, it stamps really well over black and white. I wasn't expecting this to show up as well as it does on the black being quite a dark colour. This gorgeou...

Hello my lovely readers, I hope everyone has been having a fabulous week. Me and Lexi went to baby bounce yesterday and I am absolutely shattered today. So I am sat here on my sofa with a cup of tea in hand writing this post for you, and I do not plan to move position any time soon. For today's post I have a new brand that I have recently began to try, Essence polish . I have always glanced over at the Essence cosmetics stand when I go into Wilko but never actually purchased any until now. They are a brand that can only be brought from certain Wilko stores and they sell a wide range of different cosmetics, as I am not into make-up my eyes drifted straight towards their polish collection. The company prides themselves on selling high quality items and none of their products are tested on animals. They have a wide range of colours and finishes available in their nail polish line. Each bottle of the gel nail polishes are £1.60 in store and you can also pick up the ones that are...

Hello my lovely readers, today as promised I have some Inside Out nail art to go with the gorgeous custom polishes that I purchased from Echoes polish. For this nail art I wanted to try and make each character from the movie come to life on my nails. To do this I first painted each nail with the holographic polish from the collection, I then used my dotting tool and some white polish to make eyes for each of the characters. For Joy I made her eyes oval, then for Sadness and Fear I made them circular. Then for Angers eyes I made them more on the square side, then disgust was more of a cats eye. Once the eyes had completely dried I drew on their features with my nail art pens.  Because the holographic didn't show up very well in my other swatches I wanted to take this picture to show you just how gorgeous they are in the sunlight. I am so happy with these polishes and quite proud of this nail art, I know they are not perfect but hopefully the more practise I have the bet...

Hello my lovely readers, I am so sorry for the massive gap between posts I have been suffering from a week long migraine and have not been able to look at a computer screen for more than a few minutes. I hope today's very special post will make up for my absence. A few months ago I contacted the ladies from Echoes polish to make me some special custom crelly's for my daughters birthday. If you haven't seen the Minnie Mouse and Sophia the First polishes they made for me please feel free to click on the link. Just before Christmas I contacted Echoes polish again through there Etsy site and spoke with them about ordering 6 more custom polishes. This time I wanted to get an entire collection so I asked them if they could make 6 holographic polishes based off of the Inside Out movie. The whole collection was better than I could have even imagined. The first polish is for the character Joy, the holographic on this one is very subtle but this is an amazing sunshin...

Hello my lovely readers I hope you are all having a great week so far, I received some very special nail mail yesterday of some custom polishes that the lovely ladies at Echoes Polish made for me. There will be a full swatch and review coming up of those very shortly. but for today I thought I would do a quick post and share my latest manicure with you. For this manicure I used the beautiful Morgan Taylor Best Ball Gown Ever, I received this in  Decembers Nailbox . This is a gorgeous periwinkle frosty blue with a golden shimmer, I loved how clean and crisp this colour made my nails look. This polish is opaque in 3 coats and is quite a sheer formula but builds up well.  This is the polish on its own it really is a gorgeous shade of blue, for the final look I wanted to just stamp on something extra but try not take away from the beauty of the polish.  For the stamping I turned to my Ejiubas Christmas plate and found this gorgeous delicate image of hearts...