It's Always Tea Time - Freehand

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? I hope you all had a great weekend and a good start to your week? I've been busy painting and doing housework. I feel like another huge spring clean is in order. I just love everything looking organized and tidy. The manicure I want to show you shares my fondness of tea. Ah... tea... It's not often I am not drinking tea when I sit to paint a detailed manicure. Unless it's wine time... then there will be wine! This manicure is sort of infused with the idea of Alice in Wonderland also, since the Mad Hatter loves his tea parties.

For this manicure I started with two coats of Essence's 'New York City Call' and created alternating gradients using Seventeen's 'Fury' to give it a sort of antique feel. Everything else was created with my bamboo brush and acrylic paint's.

I struggled a little with the writing, I'm just not used to writing so teeny nor planning the spacing of the letters but all in all I am really happy with this manicure and I hope you like it too! If your not a tea fan you can pretend it's coffee ;)

What do you think of my tea party nails? Do you prefer tea or coffee?

Have a great day, my friends! And cheers to the first cup of the morning!

Love

Ithi

Day 8: Metallic & N.Nail 6mm Circular Flat Laser Stud Review

This item was sent for me to review but as always will contain my full and honest opinion!  :)

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? Have you been treated to some nice weather? It's been pretty gloomy here in Holland with the promising threats of a storm coming soon. I actually really love lightening but it's not so fun for the poor dog. Last night my parents-in-law surprised me with a professional light studio so today's pictures look a little different. I am still getting the hang of using my new light set up so I hope you will think the pictures are ok. I was so surprised by them that I nearly cried and gave them a big hug each. I'm so very grateful!

Today I have Day 8 of the 31 day nail art challenge which calls for metallic nails... I sure hope these nails are metallic enough! I also included these cute Circular flat laser 6mm studs by N.Nail from KKCENTERHK Let me know what you think.

I love these beautiful round studs, they shine beautifully through the spectrum and in my opinion, who doesn't love a rainbow? I applied these by adding them on top of my top coat. My only concern with them is the size, as you see on my little finger they look pretty large but they sat perfectly flat on my thumb. I think they are great for special occasions and for a extra dash of fancy-pants to your manicure :) Don't forget you can get a 10% discount on all products from kkcenterhk when you use the discount code 'ithinitybeauty' – yay!

I began this manicure by applying two coats of Essie's 'For The Twill Of It'. I then used bubble wrap to dab on Fogan's #18 (a strong copper shade) Barry M's 'Silver Foil' and Color Clubs 'Harp On it.

I finished this off with my top coat and added the studs on top.

What do you think of this metallic manicure; Is it metallic enough? Would you wear nail studs like this?

Enjoy your evening!

Love

Ithi