Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Mercer Street!

Hey Beauty Lovers! Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Mercer Street is a royal blue with cream finish. With the flash it came out much brighter than it is in reality. Mercer Street is super opaque and looks perfect with two coats. Mercer Street launched in January this year as part of the SS14 Collection and it will be available permanently!

 

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Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Kensington Passage!

Hey Beauty Lovers! Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Kensington Passage is a new addition to the core collection, which is available in March 2014! Kensington Passage is a super bright almost neon coral with a cream finish. It's that classic type of shade I'd love to wear to the beach on a hot summer's day or with lots of fake-tan and a basic white T, blue jeans, an effortless top-knot and Ray-Bans... You get the drift, Kensington Passage is a fun shade!

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On-Trend: Super Chic 70s Inspired Hair Updo!

 Nails: Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Soho Place

[available in March 2014]

Hey Beauty Lovers! This updo is a modern version of the classic 60s beehive and a more softer but still voluminous 70s updo. It's great for medium long hair and doesn't involve any back-combing whatsoever, back-combing makes me cringe as it tends to break hair and create frizz afterwards... To create volume I used Kerastase K Lift Vertigo, which is a root-uplifting gel with medium hold. I have done a full review on this product previously so check it out by clicking here! You just need to massage one pump of this gel into the roots of still damp hair and then blow-dry with a round brush to achieve that voluminous lift. To create this hairstyle all you need to do is hold the hair at the ends and then just push it up and secure it with a hair clamp and bobby pins, making sure you have a nice lifted shape! For extra hold you can finish with hairspray. E voilà!

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Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Soho Place!

Hey Beauty Lovers! How super cool is this nailpolish?!! So happy to bring in some colour and start wearing bright tips just in time for spring. Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Soho Place is a vibrant teal with a cream finish, which makes your hands look super pretty and tanned. Soho Place is part of the Spring 2014 Collection and will be available in March! The formula of this range is amazing and looks super beautiful and shiny with two coats.

Update: The only downside to Soho Place is that it really stains the skin. It just wouldn't come off with the nailpolish remover, the only thing that helped was a long soak in the bath.

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On-Trend: Nude Lips & Neon Jewellery!

 Unfortunately Accessorize doesn't put the name of the jewellery pieces on the labels 

so I have no idea what these neon chandelier earrings are actually called, 

and they also don't seem to be available on the website...

 L to R: MAC Lipstick in Creme D' Nude [Cremesheen] + Hue [Glaze]

Nails: Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Downtown

Hey Beauty Lovers! I've been looking for neon chandelier earrings for ages and finally found a pair that I really love, these are super pretty and also affordable [only 16 quid at Accessorize]! The good news is that we are almost done with winter and I'm ready to embrace spring with some colour. I find neon jewellery can look super chic when offset with neutral make-up and a nude lip. Currently I went back to my good old MAC nude lipsticks, and these two make a particularly flattering nude lip combo. First I apply the MAC Creme D' Nude, which is too pale on me and then I top it up with MAC Hue, which is a pretty nude pink. Them two together give you a super luscious nude lip!

 

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Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Downtown!

Hey Beauty Lovers! First of all I had to go short because unfortunately one of the nails snapped right at the base, and honestly I prefer wearing long nails to short, so in a couple of week I should be back on track. But more importantly I am absolutely loving this Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish! Downtown is one of the newer shades I believe, it's a beautiful cool-toned juicy pink with a cream finish. Although it's a hot pink it's not obnoxious, it looks chic and can totally be worn during a/w as well. I'd say it's one of those super flattering bright shades that looks amazing throughout the entire year! And of course I love [x3] this formula, it's super pigmented, super smooth, and super shiny!

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On-Trend: Nail Studs + Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Mayfair Lane!

Hey Beauty Lovers! This is literally the prettiest nude pink in my extensive nailpolish collection! As you know I love the Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish range, the consistency, the opacity, the shine, the longevity! Mayfair Lane is a gorgeous cream pastel pink perfect for the coming spring! It's one of the new shades that were just launched in January [2014]. To create this on-trend nail studs look I have applied two coats of Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Mayfair Lane and then applying a glue of your choice at the bottom of the studs I placed them on the nails. I find PVA glue, as strange as it may sound work the best. The studs that I used are Cheeky square gold studs, which I ordered on Amazon. 

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On-Trend: Purple Nails with Metallic Stars Nail Art!

 Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Bond Street

For the metal stars nail art I used [L to R]:

Essie Licorice; Essie Luxeffects in Set In Stones; Topshop Nails in Glimmer

Hey Beauty Lovers! As you probably have noticed I have had a bit of a nail art overload recently... I really got into it, and even made an order on Amazon, so I'm waiting for a few fun nail art things to be delivered in the next week or so, so take it as a warning... more nail art looks are to come!! Purple is going to be one of the biggest colour trends this year. As a base colour I'm wearing two coats of Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Bond Street, which is a very winter-appropriate cream deep purple. I have been absolutely obsessed with this nail range, as you may have noticed. 

For the metallic nail art I randomly painted small stars on the two accent nails. Starting with Topshop Nails in Glimmer, which is a beautiful antique gold, I applied one coat with a fine artists brush. For more definition I then took an even finer artists brush and placed thin lines in the centre of the stars using Essie Licorice, it's a super opaque cream black. And to finish off the look I applied big glitters from Essie Set In Stones in the middle of the stars and then the fine remaining glitters all around the stars to create that sparkly effect. And that's it!

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The Classic Combo: Red Lips & Red Tips!

 Shade: St James

Hey Beauty Lovers! Sometimes when I'm not sure what beauty look I want to wear or which colour I should choose to paint my nails I opt for red lips and red tips. You can't go wrong with that! On the nails I'm wearing two coats of Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in St James, the formula is just a-mazing! This is seriously the most beautiful hot red I have ever encountered. If you love your nailpolishes please make me a favour and check out this colour, I'm totally convinced that you will fall in love with this red. 

It will be that 'love at first sight' moment, a moment that I don't think exists when it comes to men, but it surely does when it comes to nailpolish... or lipstick... or blush... St James is not a flat red, it has the most stunning dimension to it, although at first it looks like a cream finish, but when you look closer you will discover there's a super pretty sheen to it, with very fine red and gold shimmer. To pair it up with a red lip I chose the closest match of red I could find in my collection, which is the Rimmel Kate Lipstick in 111 Kiss Of Life!

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NYE Glam Glitter Nail Art with Nails Inc. and Kiko!

Kiko Digital Nail Lacquer in 32

Nails Inc. Gel Effect in Kensington High Street

Hey Beauty Lovers! This is a rather glam nail look which is very simple to create and it's perfect for nye! To begin with I applied two coats of Nails Inc. Gel Effect in Kensington High Street, it's a gorgeous burgundy shade, I'd highly recommend it! The formula of these Gel Effect nailpolish is amazing, currently obsessed with them! Then taking a thin artists brush I applied thin stripes lengthwise in the middle of the nail plate, using Kiko Digital Nail Lacquer in 32, which is a fuchsia and silver small glitter particles nailpolish with sheer fuchsia base. You can do just one stripe on all nails, or if you want to add an accent you can also apply more stripes, I did three on my ring and middle fingers. It's a great way of bringing a little bit of a sparkle to the New Years Eve party without going over-the-board!

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Festive Nails: Nails Inc. in Porchester Square + Essie Set In Stones!

L to R: Essie Luxeffects in Set In Stones + Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish in Porchester Square

Hey Beauty Lovers! Here is another festive nail look. Essie Luxeffects glitter topcoats look great over other nailpolishes. I quite like this festive yet chic combo of greys and silvers. Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish has now joined my favourite nailpolishes, including Essie and Zoya. It's super pigmented, very glossy and lasts beautifully, so it's a great nailpolish to go for during the holidays as you won't need to worry about your nails the day after you paint them. I'm wearing two coats of Nails Inc. Gel Effect in Porchester Square and just one coat of Essie Luxeffects in Set In Stones on the accent nails.

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SS13 Nail Trend: Ombre Nails - Graduated Colour Effect!

 From L to R - the order in which I am wearing the nailpolishes:

Essie Mint Candy Apple; Nails Inc. Royal Botanical Gardens; Essie Where's My Chauffeur?;

Zoya Wednesday; Nails Inc. Queen Victoria Street

 Essie Candy Mint Apple 

 Nails Inc. Royal Botanical Gardens

 Essie Where's My Chauffeur?

 

 Zoya Wednesday

Nails Inc. Queen Victoria Street

Hey beauties, hope you are having a lovely weekend! I had a super busy week as well as daddy was in town visiting, so all the free time I had I spent with my fam and ended up not having any time for blogging at all... But I have lots of great beauty products to share with you so I probably will be writing two blogposts a day until the end of the month!

So lets kick off of a fun spring/summer nail-look I've been wearing for five days straight! I usually paint my nails every other day, but because I have been so busy I was very happy that this nail-look remained looking perfect and chip-free for the entire five days. I suspect that the OPI Nail Envy has something to do with it, as no matter how hard I usually try nailpolish tends to chip on me Day 3 - I do lots with my hands that makes it impossible for a nailpolish to last beyond Day 2. But I will be reviewing the OPI Nail Envy in full very soon!

Ombre nails have been an obsession of mine this year, I had a whole phase of glitter ombre. Ombre nail-look can be a little tricky if you are sort of new to the whole nail painting business... This graduated colour ombre is super easy to create, you just need five similar shades of nailpolish and paint each nail separately either starting from the lightest going darker or from the darkest going lighter. 

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