Snowflake Nails featuring Cirque Colors 'Halcyon'

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Today I have one of the most beautiful polishes I own to date to show you. As many of you will know I have a big weakness for rose gold. So when I first laid eyes on Cirque Colors 'Halcyon' I knew I had to have it. It's a beautiful rose gold foil with perfect formula and coverage. For my accent nails I used just two coats. As it's winter (and during this time I become obsessed with snowflake manis!) I decided to test out it's stamping abilities as well with some snowflake stamping designs. It's such a perfect polish for Christmas time!

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For my white base I used Fancy Gloss 'Snow Queen'. This was two coats. It was my first time using it and although it was super good for coverage for a white creme it was a little on the thick side so I may add some thinner in the future. I'm not super neat when it comes to doing my nails so much cleaning was required as the formula was a bit tricky! Still a fantastic white creme for a base though as the opacity is excellent.

Daylight

Indoor Lighting with Flash

For the stamping I used a mixture of designs from MoYou London 'Festive 03' which is a plate dedicated to snowflakes (LOVE!) and Hehe Stamping Plate 'Fairytale 003' from their latest fairytale collection. The Hehe snowflake designs are so beautiful and elegant on this plate. I used my Fab Ur Nails Stamper and 'Halcyon' to stamp with. It stamped very well considering it's a foil.

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Indoor Lighting with Flash

I also topped the whole design off with ILNP 'My Private Rainbow (X)' from their latest Winter collection. I can see myself using it for every mani I do now! It's so pretty and adds a beautiful subtle sparkle that really topped the mani off. I also topped it all off with HK Girl Top Coat.

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I love love love these nails. The Snowflakes were super hard to photograph but take my word for it that they were super pretty!

Indoor Lighting with Flash

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I got my Cirque Colors 'Halcyon' from Rainbow Connection UK. It's Limited Edition so be speedy if you want to get this gorgeous polish. I may have to get a back up bottle!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Epic Nail Mail Monday!

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So today I have something a little different for you. I've been thinking for a while about how I can show you guys more of the beautiful polishes I have without quitting my job to just paint my nails all day! Those that follow me on Instagram may have noticed I've been a busy swatch sticking bee lately. I don't know why it's something I haven't done sooner but I'm making up for it now! I'm working through my helmers at the moment but thought this would be a good way to show off all the new polishes I get.

Seen as on Black Friday some accidental on purpose purchasing occurred I thought now would be a good time to start this blog feature as I have lots of pretties on the way!

My first parcel to arrive was from the nail polish heaven that is Rainbow Connection UK.

From Left to Right is Cirque Colors 'Halcyon', Cirque Colors 'Reflektor', Fancy Gloss 'Midnight Moon', and Colors by llarowe 'Shroom with a View'.

All my swatch sticks are 3 coats plus top coat. Really none of these would need 3 costs for full coverage. 2 at most! I think 'Halcyon' is my favourite but I'm a sucker for rose gold.

The next of my many parcels to arrive was from ILNP! I pre-ordered these and have been so impatient for them to get here since the first swatches started surfacing.

I love the tissue paper these come in.

Still in their boxes. I love the little heart windows these have! I got the Holiday Collection and my picks from the Winter Collection.

From Left to Right ILNP Holiday Collection - Ferris Wheel, Cherry Luxe, Empire, Limelight, Lucky One, Time in a Bottle and XO.

From Left to Right ILNP - Juliette, Sweater Weather, Ski Lodge and My Private Rainbow (X).

The ILNP Precious Metals are one of my favourite nail polish finishes ever! Love love love!

Soon after these I got some Stamping bits from She Sells SeaShells.

I love the North Pole Air Mail Sticker and the Candy Cane, such nice touches! I got the Uber Chic Christmas 01 plate and a cute Qgirl plate mainly for the super cute rubber ducks design!

And last but not least my Models Own parcel arrived. 50% off so I couldn't say no! 

First up is the new Chromes. These are perfect for stamping!

That Pearl bottle is beautiful!

Left to Right Models Own - Chrome Turquoise, Chrome Copper, Chrome Red, Chrome Pearl and Chrome Grey.

I also got the Twilight Hypergel Collection. Models own is definitely my go to mainstream brand for cremes.

Left to Right Models Own Hypergel - Jet Black, Loganberry, Cashmere Rose, Heather, Sweet Sherry, Hot Chocolate, Grey Storm, Everyday Grey, Lunar Grey, Teal, Deep Sea, Robin Red and Marsala.

I love all my new polishes! I hope you guys liked this post. Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Autumnal Nails with Colors by LLarowe 'Mocha Grande' & 'Cabaret' & Fancy Gloss ' A Penny For Your Thoughts'

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Today I've got some very Autumnal Nails to show you! I was heavily influenced by Jackie who owns the wonderful Fancy Gloss Indie Polish Brand. Check out her social media to look at her gorgeous original mani!

Indoor Lighting 

For this mani I used Colors by Llarowe 'Mocha Grande' as my base for the stamping and Colors by Llarowe 'Cabaret' for my glitter accents. I used Fancy Gloss 'A Penny For Your Thoughts' to Stamp with.

Indoor Lighting 

Colors by Llarowe 'Mocha Grande' is a gorgeous rich dark brown holo. This was two super easy coats! It really does have a perfect formula!

Indoor Lighting - With Flash

Colors by Llarowe 'Cabaret' is a beautiful glitter. It's really hard to describe but it has gold and silver metallic flakies with a copper brown reddish shimmer. It really reminds me of the ILNP Precious Metals but like a brown version?! This was three thin easy coats and it dries nice and quick!

Indoors but in Direct Sunlight - Macro of 'Cabaret', I really think this shows off that red shimmer!

For my stamping I used Born Pretty Store stamping plate BP-19. I love this leaf design! I used Fancy Gloss 'A Penny For Your Thoughts' which is a gorgeous one coat copper holo that stamps like a dream!! I also used my new Fab Ur Nails Stamper for the first time that I brought recently which was so perfect. After a few more uses I'll put a review up but first impressions are very good! I topped it all off with HK Girl top coat.

Indoor Lighting

I really love these nails. I've had them on all week and will be sad to take them off.

I brought my Colors by Llarowe & my Fab Ur Nails Stamper from Rainbow Connection UK.

You can get Fancy Gloss 'A Penny for your thoughts' straight from the website. There's a big restock coming in December!

I'm so ready for winter & Christmas manis now!! How about you?

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Fancy Gloss 'Feeling Vampy'

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Today I have Fancy Gloss 'Feeling Vampy' to show you. Fancy Gloss is a US indie polish created by the lovely Jackie. She creates the most beautiful thermals and one coat holos.

All the pictures are indoor lighting with flash.

'Feeling Vampy' In Transition State

'Feeling Vampy' is a dark grey to maroon red thermal with holo. I love this colour combo so much. I used three easy coats and added HK Girl top coat for added gloss.

'Feeling Vampy' In Cold State

I paired it with Femme Fatale 'Ouija' on my accent nail. This was two coats. So sparkly!

'Feeling Vampy' In Warm State

I really enjoy thermals. They always look different and this is a gorgeous colour combo for the transitions, the grey/maroon colour mix you get is so pretty.

'Feeling Vampy' In Transition State

You can find Fancy Gloss here. There's a big restock coming in December so look out for that!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx