Vintage Rose – Scratch Nail Wraps

Hi lovelies. Hope everyone had a great Easter!

Scratch recently sent me two sets of nail wraps from their newest Kickstarter collection where they collaborated with designers to create three new sets of nail wraps.
Today I will be showing you "Vintage Rose" from The Burkatron Collection, designed by Caroline Burke.

I have previously reviewed some Scratch nail wraps here so you know how much I love working with these wraps. They are extremely easy to work with and very pliable which is usually a problem with other nail wraps. You literally just press them onto a clean and dry nail, smoothing out as you roll the wrap from the cuticle to the tip. You can file of the excess or it will easily break off at the tip as the wraps are so soft.

Here is how I wore these wraps. I paired them up in a mix and match mani with a polish that complemented the colours of the roses. You may also notice that the wraps are sparkling, that's because I added a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust. It makes for a really pretty spring mani.

You get a total of 16 nail wraps. Enough for a full mani and for an extra mix and match or an accent nail mani.

 

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Check out these inspiring Scratch look books for each of the collections:

 

Burkatron lookbook

Dainty Squid lookbook 

Flat Vernacular lookbook

You can drop by the Scratch website for more information and you can also follow them on Twitter (@goscratchit), Facebook, and Instagram.

*The product featured  in this post was sent to me for review.

 

Last Year's Spring Flowers!

Why do my nails look so different in these pictures? Well, that's because I did this mani a year ago on this day but for some reason never posted it. I'm not sure why because I think it's quite cute. I came across the pictures when I was clearing out some folders on my laptop. Look how short my nails were!! It kind of makes me miss my nubs!

I used OPI Alpine Snow as a base and various polishes to create the small flowers. I can't remember what the green one is but it's probably Rimmel London Misty Jade. I also used Rimmel London Apricot Punch, Barry M Blueberry and Lemon Ice Cream and La Femme Angel. I also stuck a bullion bead onto the centre of each flower!

Subtle Nude & Gold

Yesterday, I was sitting in front of my helmer and didn't know what colour to go for or what kind of nail art to do. Whenever this happens I usually opt for a nude polish.
I wore OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons (Germany 2012 Collection) for a day on it's own and then decided to do some subtle stamping (using Barry M Gold Foil and Cheeky plate CH14). I love nude polish and am on a quest to own them all (haha!) but the stamping was a little too subtle for me, maybe next time I should keep to white or black stamping.

Don't Pretzel My Buttons on it's own, a very flattering nude on all skin tones I've seen. It's slightly cooler toned than in the pictures above but that's simply because it was taken on a different day with different lighting.

Aqua Flower Garden

I still have a whole load of manis I never posted throughout July and August and have been trying to crop the photos and write up the posts in a frenzy, before the weather starts to get really cold and I feel rather strange posting summer manis! Lol!

Here is a rather eccentric mani I did last month. The reason I call this mani eccentric is only because I remember a friend telling me "you've really pushed the boat out on this one", although I thought it was quite "normal" for me. My nails are the only way I get to express myself.

Anyway, here is my Aqua Flower Garden! The polish is a franken I made a very long time ago but had only ever tried it in a pedi. It turned out an unusual pearly aqua colour. I stamped with BM12 (just realised I hardly ever use the original BM plates anymore, who does?) and filled in the flowers and leaves with various polishes. What do you think? Too much?

Pastel, Gold and Daisies

I'm trying to hold onto Summer as much as I can. We've had an unusually hot weekend here which was awesome but I know temperatures will start falling very soon and it will be time to embrace Autumn!

I've felt like wearing yellow for the past couple of days and I finally got around to it. I was only planning to wear a pastel yellow on it's own but as it turns out, the formula on this polish was very streaky so I had to cover it up with some stamping.

This is 2 coats of "Yes Love" No243 I usually buy Yes Love polishes in €1 stores when I go on holiday to Portugal. They are extremely cheap and always have a really fantastic range of colours and finishes. The formulas are hit and miss but I suppose you can't expect too much of a €1 polish.

I stamped with Cheeky CH16 and randomly dotted some gold shimmer onto the daisies (Miss Sporty Gold Backstage).

Some Old Flowers...

I was clearing up some of my computer folders and came across this design dated 27th October 2011! I have no idea why I haven't posted these before. Probably because they were done in October and I was waiting for Spring to post them and then completely forgot about them!

It was quite a while ago but I'm pretty sure I used Sammy's You Tube tutorial on how to create quick and easy flowers. I've recently done another set similar to this which turned out much better so I guess my nail art skills have improved slightly in the last five months! However, I still wanted to post these because I really like how all these colours go together.

I used OPI Fiercely Fiona as a base colour and the following polishes for the flowers: Barry M Black, Miss Sporty Pop Fiction and Orly Glitz & Glamour.

Flowery Half Moon Mani

Hello everyone. It's Wednesday but I don't have something pink today...sorry! I will dip back into the pink stash soon :-) However, taking yesterdays Color Club Best Dressed list mani, I decided to create some half moons as I hadn't done this in a very long time. In fact, my first ever post in this blog was a violet and purple half moon mani!!

I swapped the colours around on the ring finger to create a bit of a change and added some blue sticker flowers because although half moon manis are awesome, it looked too "naked" without them!

                          

The LA Colors Seashell & French Tips Incident!

Right, so this mani wasn't supposed to turn out like this whatsoever! I had something completely different in mind. As the polish is called Seashell, I was going to stamp little light brown shells to keep with the beach theme. A sparkly beach! And then it all went downhill from there!

The polish applied relatively well but it was sheer so I added 1 coat of Barry M Lemon Ice Cream base colour before 2 coats of seashell. Then it all turned into a mess!

The drying time was so horrible that I found it hard to actually believe that any polish would take this long to dry, even with 2 coats of SV! The second coat of SV even made the polish lift from the nail a bit. I waited about 30 mins before using scotch tape for the tips and this created massive bubbles of air underneath! I was still trying desperately to salvage this mani, even without my little seashells.
The only thing I could think of was  nail stickers to cover up some of the mistakes. But guess what? As I added a top coat over the stickers, they started curling up at the edges (which has never happened to me before with these stickers)! That's it, I was so annoyed I gave up and this mani came straight off. And not so long ago I was raving about LA Colors, maybe I just got a bad bottle :( *sigh*

Vintage Floral Nails

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all having a wonderful Saturday.

Quite a few friends complimented me on my Chinese Cherry Blossoms nails that I decided to do something similar - summery and flowery. Cutepolish has just recently posted a video on YouTube for this design and I thought I'd give it a go.

I have to admit that I do prefer the look when the red and pink of the roses are blended together as opposed to this one where the red is outlining the pink. I'll try that next time :-)

What do you think of this look? For some reason I like the way it looks on other people's nails but not a massive fan when its on my nails. My mum said these look like a dress my grandmother had when she was younger...lol... that's the point mumsie !!

Here are the products I used:

* CND - Stickey base coat
* Essie - Mint Candy Apple
* Jessica - Samba Parade
* Sally Hansen - Racey Rouge
* MUA - shade 13 (sorry, no colour name)
* Konad - Top Coat








xoxo

Chinese Cherry Blossom Nails

Hi all

The sun is a bit shy today. In fact, we haven't had much of it lately. I just want the summer to get here...quickly !!!
I was browsing the net for "summery" type inspiration and came across a few Chinese cherry blossom nails on YouTube.
I used a minty pastel colour as a base as I'm currently obsessed with this colour, although in my opinion any pastel colour would go well with these:

Products used:

Essie - Mint Candy Apple

Barry M - Black

Jessica - Samba Parade

OPI - Alpine Snow

Bye for now
xoxo