Is it Spring yet? Really I’ve had enough of grey skies and cold weather and I’m sure anyone else in the UK will agree with me. Now yellow nail polish isn’t something I wear a lot of but I really liked the idea of it with gold and low and behold I had some gold glitter in my nail polish box!
Sinful Colors ‘All About You’ was purchased in my native US at Rite Aid and I love it! Dries quickly and goes on smoothly too. Barry M ‘Yellow Ice Cream’ was part of my Barry M craze last summer and I’ve not used it since I bought it oops!
This is two coats of Barry M and unfortunately this has serious cuticle drag so you probably need about three coats if you want total opaqueness. I also put on two coats of Sinful Colors, it didn’t need it but I was feeling greedy.
So what do you think of my gold fingers? What nail polishes are you wearing now?
Today’s post comes from one of my favourite nail bloggers The Nail Buff. We are both cuckoo for the colour green and I think this look that she’s created is flippin’ amazing – so over to you my delightful Scandinavian blogger!
Hello lovely skin scrubbers, and thank you Miss A for letting me write a post for your gorgeous blog (while James is finally making a respectable woman out of you). Skins scrubs was one of the very first blogs I started following, and is still one of my firm favourites 
Annabella and I share a passion for green, so today I have a green design to show you.
For this design I started with two coats of China Glaze Tree Hugger, and when that was reasonably dry I sponged the tips with China Glaze Jolly Holly (one of the prettiest polishes ever made. Fact). I sealed this in with a quick drying top coat – I used China Glaze Fast Forward, but any quick drying top coat will do of course.
I let this dry properly, and stamped the leopard design from BM221 in black. After this was dry (which doesn’t take long with stamping usually) I hand painted in the gold blobbies with Barry M Gold and a small hobby brush. You want to let it dry properly before sealing the whole thing with top coat – smeared spots do not make a leopard happy.
Done!
I think I may have finally cracked it (or cracked up) but I think this leopard mani is gosh darn improvement on my American Apparel leopard mani from attempt a few weeks ago. The key is the use of a nail art pen to make the squiggly lines.
I used from left to right: China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise for the base, Barry M Aqua Green and Mint Green for the spots and accents, and Model’s Own nail art pen for the black lines. I’m really happy with the way it turned out so expect other leopard NOTD’s in the future. This kind of manis don’t actually take as long as they look either, it’s really down to the fast drying time of the polishes I use.
Hope you likey ladies – thanks for stopping by!
