FairyTales Nails

Hello my lovely readers! I was so happy to finally get this months Meebox yesterday, I was clicking on the tracking link for what seemed like every hour of the day. I always love the themes that Meebox choose to go with, this months theme fit really well as we are in award season. So when we were told it was going to be a Red Carpet theme my mind immediately went to reds and golds. There was also an opportunity for five lucky people to receive a special Classic Chanel polish, I was not one of the winners but my amazing friend Becca was. Huge congratulations to her! So let's open up this months box and see what we have. As usual when I opened my box the first thing I saw was the card telling us about this months theme and what brands where inside the box. I placed that to one side and rummaged around in the paper worms that were keeping my little award winning polishes safe. The first polish I picked out was this large circular bottle made by Smith & Cult, I have ne...

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, it is that time of the month again. Nailbox! I always dread and love the end of the month I dread it because it is when all of the bills go out and my bank balance looks like it wants to cry. But I also love it because we get amazing nail mail, this months Nailbox is retro themed. When I opened my box I immediately thought of hippies and old time discos. So let's see the goodies inside the box. This month the lovely people at Nailbox treated us to four different polishes and a set of 3D nail wraps. I love how bright and funky these colours are, and the nail wraps look really unique and different.  The first polish is this gorgeous cobalt blue shimmer full of blue and silver micro glitters, this applies well but does take at least 3 coats to become opaque. It has a very sheer formula and with longer nails you may even have to apply a fourth coat to not have any visible nail line. You can buy this Nicole by OPI from Amazon for £8. I was rea...

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 had a lovely Valentines day, today's post is another Colours Collide Challenge I took part in. About two weeks ago I posted a green and purple mani for the last challenge, this time the colours were pink, purple and orange. I could not resist doing a Valentines theme manicure for this one and using my amazing Born Pretty Store stamping polishes . For those who have not read my last post Colours Collide is a group on Facebook that post bi-weekly challenges for nail addicts to take part in. So let's get into what you all came for the nails. For this theme I knew I wanted to use my new Born Pretty stamping polishes so I chose this beautiful dark purple, a dark pink and the pumpkin orange. I wanted to try and do some gradient stamping and I must admit I love how it came out.  First I put down my white base using Cassella Limitless, I do love this polish it applies really easily and is opaque in 2 coats. Once that was dry and ...

Hello my lovely readers I hope you all have a great weekend and a lovey dovey Valentines day. Me and my boyfriend never really celebrate Valentine's day he always says that we show our love every day of the year so no need to spend loads of money on one specific day. Our 7 year anniversary is coming up soon so we are saving up to treat each other, I see a Rainbow Connection Haul in my future. This is part 3 of my review and swatches for the Born Pretty Store stamping polishes, this one has 10 polishes as they added 3 new polishes to their collection recently. As always all swatches are done over black and white and I used Uber chic collection 3 plate 3 for the swatches, if you can't already tell I love this plate.   This beautiful fuchsia stamping polish is beautiful over both black and white very opaque and doesn't lose much colour when stamped over dark colours. As a huge pink lover I am extremely happy to have this for when I want some awesome pinky purple to...

Hello my lovely readers, I hope you are all having a lovely weekend I don't have much planned this weekend as Lexi is suffering from a bad cold at the moment. So the plan is to stay inside and keep her warm, I have been having a few bad night sleep as she can't breath through her nose very well so I have made sure I have plenty of tea bags and sugar to keep me going through out the day. In my last post I showed you the first 6 gorgeous stamping polishes from the Born Pretty Store, today I have polishes 7 to 13 to share with you. All swatches are over black and white using the Uber Chic collection 3 plate 3 for the images, I love that Born Pretty have brought out so many colours in there stamping line.  This gorgeous deep blue is absolutely stunning, it is opaque over black and white and considering it is quite a dark blue is very vivid over the black. I am so happy this stamps over the black as I do not have another blue stamping polish that will show up over da...