Nail Parade!

This shade is "Gradient Nails" and to celebrate the unusually warm, sunny Summer weather we've been getting here in England, I went with an orange-yellow theme. Aww, cute! As you can see, you can  do a highlight nail while keeping your ombre-gradients! All you've got to do is switch which way the gradient is going, so just flip over your sponge! :)

And back to the Shades posts! Today the feature is Plaited nails, glad you could join me :D So, for plaited nails, it's a bit hard to explain on how to do it, but I'll give it a go!  The basic idea is that you have to criss-cross your different coloured nail paint stripes so they create a plaited effect and it's pretty easy to do!

Eeeee look at me posting two days in a row! What is this crazy world? Anyway, french manicure time! As I said for nude coloured nails, I'm not a fan of the bland-stuff, so I have a colourful mani design for you! For this design I have used: * Boot's 17 "Luau" * Revlon's Watermelon Fizz  (Scented!) * Maybelline Super Stay Gel Colour in Berry Stain * Manicure Tip Guides

Hello little paraders! :) Here is the post I've promised you a few times already (I'm not too good at keeping track of when I said things) and in this post guess what we've returned to? That's right, the amazing blue  and Barry M  (the 2 B's of the blog!)

So even though this shade is "nude" I really cannot stand bland nails, personally so I spiced it up with some glitter! In other terms, a lot  of glitter! Here's the colour without the glitter :) I do believe it is Nails Inc's Chalk Farm Road  which was a free gift  from Nails Inc (online or in-store), if you spent £35 or more :)  [Note that this will most likely end when stock runs out, which is probably in July or August 2013]

So, I didn't want to repeat the Ridley Road textured polish I used for the pastels post , so I went and celebrated my un-birthday by buying a new polish! I do believe I purchased Barry M Diamond Glitter  and (more importantly for this shade challenge post) Barry M Textured Polish "Kingsland Road"  which is a pastelly pink this time! :) There's still the sandy texture though, of course! And because I was dying to use that new glitter, it features here too! Yay for sparkles! Oh no! Not short nails! :O *dies*

Oh no... the World's going crazy... I have pink nails... again. o.O (Dun dun duuun) I do also have blue on though... so it's kinda contradictory (I hope!) Anyway, I wanted to see what would happen to Barry M Denim Polish  with a matte coat, so that is what I did! :) And it's very pretty! :D The polish itself dries quite matte-effect anyway, but the little glitter pieces still shimmer through quite a bit. Adding a matte-coat on top makes it even more like jean-denim!

This shade ended up being rather unusual for me, simply for the reason that my nails look really super girly! Pink *and* sparkles, what's going on? :O Before the sparkles!

For polka dots, I'd normally pick a dotting tool and just dot randomly, like many others do I guess. This time, I wanted to try out a new polish! It's  Maybelline Colour Show Polka Dot  in  Rainforest Canopy

I wanted to capture the rare Summer-feeling we've been getting here in England recently (I know, Summer, in England? What's going on?) so I've returned to using Barry M Gelly Colours! In pretty, Summery shades, if I do say so myself... The colours, from left to right, that I've used are.. Blueberry, Greenberry, Guava (Summer 2013) and Papaya.

I wanted to do something a little bit different for this prompt. Most people do rainbow gradients, draw rainbows or use different colours of the rainbow for 'rainbow' tasks. My plan was originally to do little mini rainbows on each nail, but I couldn't find a small enough paintbrush! :( Instead, this is what I came up with...

The other Friday was totally definitely  Glitter Day ! It can't be replaced! I'm pretty certain that there was some glitter sprinkled nearly everywhere around school! There's definitely gonna be some found in the music room, and in one of the sixth form classrooms, and probably a bit around my bedroom off whatever was left on my clothes!

I've returned to good ole Barry M for this shade, using colours "Teal" and "Foil Effects Gold" They're both super pretty colours, except the gold does go a little streaky when you look up close, but it's totally fine! I'd actually originally planned to use my Ciate Foil kit, but looks like I'm saving that for some other time since I completely forgot (I'm so forgetful!) Anyway I shall leave you with some cute little images of my nails!

For monochrome nails, I wanted to do something a little different than I've seen other bloggers do in the past. So, in short, no zebra print, stripes, polka dots, etc. Instead, I decided to some cool fire nails! :D They're really super easy to do, and I shall explain below, and include the video tutorial that I used :)

Today's nails are bright and happy and ready to part-ay! :D Wahoo! So today I have used: OPI Nail Laquer in Alpine Snow as an under-neon coat just to brighten up the colours ^^ Barry M's Summer Limited Edition in A (neon pink) Barry M's Summer Limited Edition in B (neon green) Rimmel London's Lasting Finish in Sunshine (yellow)

For today's topic of pastel  I have used yet another two Barry M polishes, that are both fairly recent-ish. The main one used here is the Textured Nail Paint in "Ridley Road" which is a pale blue-mint colour. It's a really super pretty colour, and the texture is pretty interesting! It's one of those polishes that's been in my drawer for a little while and I'm like, hmm, should I use it, should I not and it's just been pushed back!

Hey everyone, So, my birthstone is peridot and I hate it so much! It's just such an ew-y colour! :( Besides that, I actually have a colour that matches it!  Barry M Gelly in Key Lime  (wow I'm loving the Gelly colours right now, aren't I?). It's a bit of a strange colour so I wanted to spruce it up a bit, so I did with a few peridot-coloured gems.

Hey guys! So at the moment I'm doing a little blog series that I've titled "Shades" where I follow some random prompts for nail art and choosing colours. The first of this series is Favourite Polish Colour ! I hope you like it...