NOTD | Barry M Combo

I have realised that despite constantly painting my nails and purchasing nail polishes, I never seem to blog about them. I thought that another idea for my blog would be to occasionally do these nails of the day/week posts where I just show you what I'm sporting on my nails that particular week.. so here is the first!

For this look I have gone for a Barry M combo as they are one of my favourite nail polish brands and make up about a third of my collection. The base shade is Barry M's Gelly hi-shine paint in Lychee which is a recent addition to my nail polish collection and is the perfect nude shade! I love this colour but thought it looked a little plain on the nails, so I decided to spice up the look by adding a top coat of glitter. For this I used another nail polish by Barry M in Amethyst Glitter and painted a fairly thin layer of the glitter onto the base colour to create this look. 

I think this is quite a classic nail look. I have found it goes well with almost any outfit and would look great for any occasion too! This is definitely a combo I will be wearing again.

What colour are you sporting on your nails this week?

Emily x

How To: Newspaper Print Nail Art

Good afternoon, how are you all?

I love nail art but I have to admit I am awful at it.. so when I saw this technique in one of Kate (DollyBowBow)'s videos, I just had to give it a go.

Before I go on, I must apologize for how messy they are in the pictures! Far too messy to be uploading to the blogging scene amongst people who are so amazing at make up and nails.. but i was in a rush and unfortunately I'm not one of those people :(

Anyway, I shall go on and explain how to do them.

You will need:

Base colour 

Top coat

10 x newspaper strips

Rubbing alcohol or a spirit, such as vodka

nail varnish remover

cotton buds/Q-tips

How to:

1. Firstly, you need to paint your nails in your chosen base colour. I would suggest going for white or a pale colour. I went for Revlon's Lilac Pastelle.

2. After ensuring the nails are completely dry, take one strip of newspaper and dip into the alcohol - Kate's video says to dip the nail in the alcohol instead, but this is the way I chose to do it. So either way is fine. 

3. Press the alcohol soaked newspaper strip (or dry strip if you've dipped the nail in the alcohol) onto the nails and hold down. You can hold the strip down whatever length of time you require, depending on how clear you want the print to be. I held mine for about 20-30 seconds.

4. Repeat on each nail, then seal each nail with a top coat.

5. Once dry, use a cotton bud or Q-Tip, whatever you want to call them, and nail varnish remover to clean the ink and any spilt base colour from the rest of your finger and around the nail - which I obviously didn't do very well as you can see haha!

That's it, its as simple as that.

I love this nail art. It looks great but is such a simple technique!

Why not give it a go? I'm sure you could all do a much better job that me!

Emily x

Kate's Video : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOO5Z_u1k2M&list=UUu1mddIGKJPd8K-gJn5iFBw&index=1