Effie Trinket inspired nails.

As you guys can probably tell, i've been absent from blogging for a long time. I won't go into detail but I've had a few family troubles, but it's all evening out now and while I've been gone i've actually built up a big bank of nail art pictures to share with you!

The first, as you can tell by the title, are my Effie Trinket inpired nails. I'm still on a Hunger Games kick and ever since I saw the film i've been wanting to re-create the nails she wore during the reaping in District Twelve - so here we go! :D

The base colour is a bright pink that's actually so cheap it doesn't have a name.
The gradient colour is Designer De Better from the OPI Muppets collection

I've also been thinking about starting my own Youtube channel to do nail and make-up videos - would any of you watch/subscribe if I did? :)

OPI Nicki Minaj Collection 'Super Bass' shatter review and swatches.

So, I will be the first to admit that I wasn't really keen on any of the colours in this collection apart from this shatter. I picked this colour up at Duty Free in Birmingham airport on Wednesday before I headed to Poland for the day and I was super excited to be able to get my hands on it!

The shatter itself is a deep purple colour which is something i've never seen before and is one of the more rarer shatters that I own. I really like the colour of it and the quality of shatter is lovely. I honestly think forking out the £10 for this is worth it - yes you may be able to get a similar colour shatter/crackle from Barry M or elsewhere, but honestly, I loved the finish of this crackle - it wasn't matte at all and it had just the right amount of shimmer in it.

Such a lovely colour and well worth the money! Also, if you were wondering, the base colour is Rimmel London 'Your Majesty' :)

The Hunger Games 'Girl on Fire' Katniss Everdeen inspired nails!

I recently took one of the big steps to becoming a beauty blogger by purchasing my first entire nail polish collection. The collection of choice? The new China Glaze 'Capitol Colours' collection, inspired by The Hunger Games!

I've been completely obsessed with The Hunger Games for about a year now. I read all three books in just over a week and I'm really excited for the film! (I'm going to an advanced screening with a friend which is hella exciting!)

For this look I decided to take inspiration from the book and create my own 'Girl on Fire' nails, inspired by the nail art that Katniss wears for her tribute interview before the Games. I managed to create this look with three polish's all from the 'Capitol Colours' collection - I used 'Smoke and Ashes' for the entire nail base coat, then I mapped out the shape of the flames with 'Riveting' then I added a bit of sparkle using 'Electrify'.

I love this nail art look, it's one of my favourites!

Modern Arabic Eyes!

My first make-up look on this blog goes to a recent creation of a modern day arabic eye! Unfortunately I didn't wear this out so I can'r report on what other people thought, but I really loved it :)

The products I used were;
Face; 
E.L.F Mineral infused face primer.
L'oreal Infallible lasting perfection foundation in Porcelain.
Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer in Fair.
Rimmel London Stay Matte pressed powder in Transparent.
Pink blusher from Primark's happy couple bronzer and blusher duo.
Virgin and Sin from the Urban Decay Naked Palette as highlight.

Eyes;
Urban Decay Primer Potion in Original.
An unnamed shimmery silver colour over the lid.
Urban Decay Gunmetal eyeshadow on the outer third of the lid.
M.A.C Carbon in the outer corner and into the crease.
Maybeline 24 hour lasting gel eyeliner.
An unnamed white eyeshadow between both eyeliner flicks.
Blink + Go long lasting black mascara.

Lips;
A baby pink eyeshadow from a 98 Ebay eyeshadow palette.
Avon tinted lipbalm in Pink. 

I think I need to start practicing more for make-up photographing! I need to learn my angles!

What do you guys think of this look? Would you rock it?

Galaxy Nails!

My second attempt at the famous galaxy nails and I think I may have been successful this time! I'm really happy with how they came out and these nails got a ton of compliments from people at college!

To get this look I used a base of American Aparrel 'Hassid' then sponged on two Nails Inc. colours, a mint green and bright pink, (I'll admit that I can't find the bottles so I don't know the names of them), and then finished off with two coats of a multi-sized glitter and then Seche Vite top coat!

What's your verdict on Galaxy nail? Love it or leave it?

Animal Print stamping experiment!

Okay, first of all, i'd like to apologise for the really horrible quality of these photo's! My camera was being a huge pain in my neck whilst trying to take these photo's and these were the best I could get!

That being said, I love this manicure! My uncle got me a Konad stamping set for Christmas and i've played around with it a few times, most being really unsuccessful, but this actually turned out really well! I'm not usually a fan of animal print on anything if I'm going to be honest, but this is an exception!

What do you guys think? Are you fans of a good bit of animal print or not?

Nails of the Day - Sophisticated red glitter manicure.

So yesterday I rewarded a long week with a fresh new manicure. Since Christmas is coming up I thought it would get me into the holiday spirit if I used some festive colours, so I chose red! The base colour is Ciate's Dangerous Affair, I applied four coats of that just to make it really opaque. Then I used a cheap glitter polish with a red base that my friend got for me for my birthday and used it to make glitter tips, I used three coats of this!

Really happy with how this manicure turned out! Now all I've got to do is figure out the next Christmas thememed one! :)

New Blog!

Hello and welcome to my new blog! I'm super new to the whole beauty blogging thing, but I hope that I can do it justice and get it right! Some things that this blog will include are my own nail-art and make-up designs, reviews and swatch posts! I really hope you'll enjoy this blog as much as I feel that I might!