The Lonely Sail Boat

Allo polish Pals!

How you doin'? I hope you are having a good weekend is going well as and when you read this :)
I'm so out of...everything! Normally all my posts are done two weeks or so in advance, written, pictures edited but being ill completely threw me. I'm sorry that today's post is not ground breaking, I am working hard on posts and freehand designs. I've just been in a slump!

Today I have a really simple manicure to show you, this one was inspired by *this* pin on Pinterest. I just thought there was something cute about that lone paper boat... Sadly I did this before my Pro-FX top coat arrived... that super shine would have looked awesome with this manicure!

For this manicure I began this manicure by painting two coats of Barry M's 'Black' and added Paris Memories 225 on top which is a black gelly with silver glitter – cute for stars I was thinkin'! Next I began using my acrylics to paint the sea, stars, and the boat. I finished it all off with my Catrice top coat (I have come to hate this stuff, it has destroyed too many manicures and dies before half way of the bottle!!) I also added a little of Hema's 'Green Circus' to the waves for a little sparkle!

What do you think of my peaceful starry night nails? Have you had sea nails before?

Have a lovely day!

Love

Ithi

Meet My Friends at FinderThings.net & Stencil Review

*This product has been sent to me to review but as always will contain my full and honest opinion.

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? I have a special post today and there will be several of these.

I'd like to introduce you to my new friends at The Finder Things.net. The Finder Things is owned and run by husband and wife team, Karen and Jayson with additional help from their one year old little angel. I enjoyed meeting this lovely family run business, they are such sweet people!The Finder Things is an online store featuring a huge selection of unique and wonderful nail decal stickers. 

Just an example of a few of the beautiful decals from The Finder Things. They also stock a lot of great awareness decals.

I urge you to read on if you will, this post has a lot of pictures!

The Little Snow Cat

Allo polish Pals! Hows your weekend going? Tonight all the guys are off out to play darts so I'm going to be sad and rehome my nail polish collection! There's something satisfying about sorting them all out in colour order... Today I'm showing you a manicure I created last week using acrylic paints. I'm not too happy about the outcome but I love the reason why I wanted to create it. This is a tribute to my beautiful little black cat, Mars (Marshall) who I am excited to see next week when I go back to England! I've included pictures so please click 'read more' for the full post

Freehand Silvery-Star Abstract With Gradient

Allo polish Pals!

Have you had a good weekend? I had a fantastic time yesterday with my Partner visiting the local market. The weather was just perfect, Holland is beautiful! I really wish I had taken my camera ~ I'm so forgetful lol. Also I think Saturday was the first time in my life I've ever worn sunglasses. How crazy is that?! Today I have a freehand silvery star abstract manicure to show you.

I started with one coat of Rimmel's 'Black out' and Paris Memories '225' on my thumb, index and ring finger and added a gradient using Essence 'I'm The Boss!' and Nails Inc 'Regents Park' on the tips. I finished my thumb nail by applying one star gem and a few circle gems trailing off from it. On my middle and pinkie fingers I applied two coats of Nails Inc 'Regents Park' and drew a freehand abstract design with stars using Mash nail art pen in black. I am really happy with how striking this is, its not perfect but it does stand out very well! 

A few years back when I was art crazy (You can see my deviant gallery here which contains traditional, digital and nail art) I used to love doing flowy star abstracts. Sometimes in black and greys, sometimes with stupidly bright colours! So there's my inspiration.

I used to do alot of abstract! 

What do you guys think of this silvery abstract manicure? Have you sported any gorgeous silver's lately?

Hope you had a great weekend also! As always, I appreciate your comments and I like to see what you think about my creations, feel free to leave a comment :)

Love

Ithi

Paris Memories: 255 Swatch & Review ★★★★/5

Allo polish Pals,

I hope you had a great week, Did you have a busy fantastical one? I'm having a very quiet weekend which means more tidying and more nail painting! I'm also looking forward to getting stuck into a good book. I had a lovely evening seeing friends on Thursday with my partner which meant unlimited dog cuddles! Also their parrot can whistle the tune of Lykee Li's 'Follow' which is just beyond awesome!

Today's swatch and review is for Paris Memories in #255