Matte Top coats and Flakies

Today I have a post using a matte top coat. I've seen these around and been dying to try one but never got around to getting one. I got a matte top coat by NYC in my Halloween swap. This is the first time of trying it out. I used Barry M Retro blue, it is truly a magnificent blue and added my Nail Pop Sequin Effect. 

Barry M Retro Blue is opaque in one good coat and application is a breeze. 

Nail Pop Sequin Effect I added two coats. 

I absolutly loved the effect of the flakie once I applied the matte top coat, it's beautiful.

Enjoy! x

Water Marbling

Today i'm going to show my own attempts at water marbling. The idea for this is to have a bowl of room temperature water (I've heard filtered is better) and allow the polish to drip into the water, just a drop. This will spread and you can keep adding until your happy. Use a tooth pick to create your pattern and dip. Sellotape around the skin helps to minimise the mess.

My first attemp was a Barry M Indigo, Barry M Rasberry and NYC Pinstrip White marble effect, it came out in different patterns for each nail. I quite liked it.

The second time I tried this I used only 2 colours, Barry M Vivid Purple and Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream, I liked this pattern alot. Apologies this picture was taken using my phone.

I'll definately try out more colour combinations, a nice rainbow pattern would be nice =3

Enjoy! x

Fizzy Cherries

This manicure reminds me of one of my favourite sweets- fizzy cherries! For this I used NYC white although personally I find it chips pretty fast. I used Barry M retro red for the cherries a limited edition nail polish you can still get on their site while stocks last. It is a beautiful vibrant red, i'll swatch that soon. I used my largest dotting tool and dotted sets of 2 dots around my nails, once dry I used a green 2 way nail art pen and drew the stalks in different directions using the fine tip end. I used my white 2 way pen to dot little circles in each cherry and layered a coat of Barry M Pink Iredescent glitter over the top to give them a sugary look. Yum Yum!

It's a cute and summer look, not perfect I was just getting around to using my pens but I like how it turned out. :)

Enjoy! x