Sally Hansen - 450 Fairy Teal

 

I found this little beaut in Dealz for the bargain price of €1.49. I do love a good bargain :) I have had it for a while now and kept saying "I must try that soon" And I've finally gotten around to it :)

This was worth the wait I think. I've never had any probelms with Sally Hansen  and this complete salon manicure is great, the brush is nice and long, making the application easy peasey. In these photo's I'm wearing two coats with a top coat over (NYC 202 Grand Central Station,)
The dry time was pretty quick also.

This colour is lovely, it tends to change colour depending on the light... It was green on application, but at dinner that night my bf commented on my Blue nail polish!! lol.  So I tried to take some photos to catch the "blue" but it still looks green to me! What do you think? Maybe I should take him to specsavers!!

I was happy with this colour and for the price of it, twas well worth it :) I've been stalking my local Dealz shop since but they haven't gotten any back in!!
Are you a fan of Sally Hansen? I'm not usually a green fan, but I really like this, I've got a few idea on how to jazz it up coming soon also.....

NEON NAILS

Anyone that follows me on twitter will have seen these nails last Thursday night when I posted a photo.
But I decided to take a few more photos and make a post of it :)

I had bought 3 of the Models Own Neon Polish's in Boots (3 for 2) and I couldn't decide which one to try first! First world problems I know, but hey, I'm a first world girl ;)  I was watching Xpose that evening on Tv3 and they were showing off the new Sally Hansen collection (its really cute) and the manicurist done a side manicure of sorts and so I decided that I would try similar to showcase all of my new colours at the same time, genius of me eh....

So here you go.. I'll let the photo's do the talking, just look at the pretty colours.

LEFT HAND 

                         RIGHT HAND 

As you can see the thumb on my right hand went horribly wrong and so I attempted to cover it up in the photos! I just couldn't get the diagonal correct and it just got messy!

With regards the rest, the lines could have been sharper, but that's my critical opinion. I liked this tho, the colours were lovely and bright and very eye catching.

Base Coat NYC 202 Grand Central Station
Nails Inc -Elizabeth Street
Blue - Catrice - 400 Blue Cara Ciao
Pink - Models Own - Bubblegum
Purple - Models Own - Purple Pukka
Orange - Models Own - Punch Pink
Yellow - Catrice - 700 Birdy Reloaded
Top Coat NYC 202 Grand Central Station

NOTD - BARRY M Gelly Hi Shine- GRAPEFRUIT

I've been meaning to try this colour for a while, its so bright and lovely in the bottle. I think it'll be a lovely summer colour.

On application, the brush is good but the polish itself I found to be a little gloopy, so ensure that you wipe the excess off the brush before you paint your nails with it! I learned this through trial and error. Some of my nails looked like they had more than 2 coats of this on the nail!

40 minutes I sat and waited for this to dry, after 30 minutes it still wasn't dry so I decided to add a top coat, even tho this doesn't particularly need one. But I had things to do and so this was a quick fix.

So I applied NYC 202 Grand Central Station as a top coat.

Something told me that these were going to smudge on me! you know when you just get that feeling???

So I took the photo's before I put on my shoes and socks to go out, and thank god I did!  See the lovely photos above :) awww

Because when I checked on my nails again they were smudged, check out these pics :(

I was in a hurry at this stage and decided that I would do a patch job when I got home! 

HOWEVER, when I sat into my car and looked at my nails again, they were in an awful state! 

I was so mad I took some pics as proof! grrrr

Needless to saw I was not a happy camper after this happened! I was annoyed with the dry time, the thick application and then it went and smudged in less than an hour!! 

I came home and removed it all, I just didn't have it in me to go through this whole ordeal again!! 

I may try it again in time when I have 4 hours spare to sit and wait for it to dry! I'm not sure if I was just unlucky with this colour or not!! 

Have you tried any of these Barry M polish's? I'd luv to hear how you got on? 

Half Mooon Mani using Zoya PixieDust - Chyna

Hey Guys,

As you know I was gushing a few weeks back when I showed you this lovely Zoya PixieDust - Chyna polish. I bought 2 of the polish's at the same time. I never managed to take photos of the other lil beauty that I bought. This is my third time wearing Zoya PixieDust - Chyna (red), but the first time that I've remember to take snaps before the tip wear kicks in. 

Zoya PixieDust - Chyna

I really like the look of the colour of this varnish in the bottle, its all glittery and shiney and fabulous. It reminds me of Dorothy's ruby red slippers in the Wizard of Oz.

The instructions say do not apply a base or top coat before using this polish, and it will take two to three coats. 

You really need to let each coat dry before applying another. I used two in these photos and for this colour it was enough.

The application is easy, the brush is good to use and the polish is nice and even to apply.

It doesn't feel like a textured polish to me (well the bf said it doesn't feel like sand like the others) and he was right, this polish is pretty in a glitter polish kinda way but not as eye catching as I would have liked on the nail and I love it in the bottle, I really wanted this to be my new favourite polish, I've given it a few chances. Its nice and I like it, but I don't love it!

HALF MOON MANI

For this application I decided that I would try out a half moon mani, First up I painted my nail with a regular red NYC 226 - Madison Avenue, I put top coat NYC 202 Grand Central Station over it for a quick dry. 

Once this was dry I used a ring enforcer on each ringer (tip, cut each one before u stick it, it makes it easier to pull off.) I put all 10 stickers on my fingers before I started to paint. 

I found it easier for me. I then painted on 2 coats of Zoya PixieDust - Chyna. 

When it was almost dry I pulled the stickers off and the lines were clean enough. 

Here's the result

I decided tho that the two reds together were too samey and it needed something else, I sent the pic to a friend and she agreed with me (thanks Dee :)) So I added a semi circle using my black nail art pen (Penney's finest) and I think it makes the glitter red "pop" 

This mani was cute under the lights and kinda eye catching, but I think if I were to do it again i would use a total contrasting colour under my pixie dust, but it was a nice finish and I got 3 full days before the tip wear started. (Possibly because you can't use top coat over the Pixie dust) 

If you want to get your hands of some of the fab colour from Zoya in Ireland, check out www.supernails.com

St Patrick's Day Nail Art #3

Happy St Patrick's Day

Hey Guys, 

Happy St Patrick's Day :) I decided to do another nail art design for today.

Yesterday I managed to smudge two sets of green nails and smash a bottle of green polish on my mothers tiles!! it wasn't pretty!! 

So I had to walk away from the polish and come back a few hours later when I was calmer and ready to sit until my nails were 100% dry with no chance of smudging!! 

LEFT HAND 

So as you can see, I decided to use my dotting tool and make vertical tri colours on my fingers :) I then did a stripey version on my thumb and chanced doing a shamrock on my accent finger

RIGHT HAND

I decided to stick to vertical tri colours for all my fingers on my right/ bad hand, and I was happy with the results in the end.

What do you think? Have you gone green for today??

Here's what I used

NYC 298 High Line Green,
W7 Green,
OPI Alpine White,
Essie Orange, its Obvious,
NYC 202 Grand Central Station,
Tin Foil + Dotter