Day 13: Perfect Winter Lip and Nail Combo

I have officially found my perfect winter/Christmas lip and nail combo!

It consists of Maybelline Color Show Downtown Red Nail Polish and Mua Lipstick in Shade 1. They match perfectly with each other and are such perfect Christmassy shades not too berry toned and autumnal and not too orange toned and summery.

What would your perfect winter lip and nail combo be, I really wanna know!

Day 12: A Chistmas DIY

Say Hi to Ruddy!

Today I have decided that my Christmas DIY is going to be a nail art tutorial-more specifically a Rudolph the Reindeer accent nail.

 

First I painted my nails in Maybelline Colour Show Downtown Red except for my accent nail which I painted with Sally Hansen Cappuccino Creme. 

 Then I used the red again to dot the nose on and Barry M White to make two dots for the eyes.

Finally I put two smaller black dots in the white ones, a curved white line on the nose to make it look shiny and used a pencil to draw on little black antlers with my Barry m black polish.
To finish it off I painted all my nails with a clear top coat and then sat and admired them rather than doing my maths homework :)

Tweet me pictures @KatieCorbett98 if you have a go!

Big Blogmas Project Day 1: Sparkly Nail Art

Now I obviously wanted to kick this off with a pretty good post so I went with a quick and easy nail DIY perfect for all those Christmas parties! All you need are two dark wintry shades, I chose maroon and black, some sellotape and a glitter polish because what's Christmas without a little sparkle?

It's really quite simple, all you have to do is paint a base coat then lay little strips of sellotape diagonally over the nail. Then paint the top half one colour and the bottom half another and peel of the tape before it dries. To finish it off paint the glitter in the middle strip, let dry and seal with a top coat.

Hope you enjoyed day one!

My Fall Essentials

Rather than doing a September favourites post I decided to do a fall favourites/essentials type post because Fall is quite possibly my favourite season, but I kinda say that about every season except Spring to be honest.

Except for my obvious essentials like big cosy sweaters, mug fulls of hot chocolate/coffee and new boots, three very important things to me during Fall are of course candles, dark lipsticks and even darker nails.

My darkest lipstick (Is it a lipstick? I'm never sure.) is my Apocalips in Eclipse which I adore and wear sooo often in the autumn/winter months. The Bourjois Colour Boost is a rather new addition to my collection but one that I am again loving! Its a strong, long lasting, glossy formula needing minimal touch ups.

Apocalips in left and Colour boost on the right

And two of my favourite autumn candles (the Sugar and Spice one from Tesco's is actually my favourite candle ever, even beating my yankee candles.) help make my bedroom smell like Autumn even if it isnt. The left one is from Tesco and smells delicious and the right one is a Glade Vanilla one which smells just like vanilla fudge and I loveeeeeee it.

And finally the two nail colours I have been swapping between over the last 3 weeks are Barry M Matte nail paint in Crush and a grey BeautyUK one that doesn't seem to have a name. Being the rebellious child that I am I have taken to painting my nails in my free periods at school :0 which inevitably means I end up with at least three dreadfully smudged. 

So there we go, a round up of a few of my autumn favourites, tell me yours so I can have a look...

Melting Ice Cream Nails

I got the idea here after seeing it on Shay Mitchell's Instagram (I'm obsessed with Pretty Little Liars) but I just made a couple of changes because I didn't think I'd have steady enough hands to paint them all with ice creams! So after my English exam I went home and rather than revising for my next exam, I did my nails. Good choice Katie.

The base colour I used was Essie Crewed Interest and the others were nail pens and random nail varnishes, I only wish I had  a lighter brown as the one I used was a bit too dark.

Send me a picture or link me to a post if any of you try this out, I'd love to see it!

Sally Hansen Sugar Coat Nail Polish

A quick post today,I found this is poundland for just a pound (obviously) after seeing it come up on  Hot UK Deals a couple of times. I had been wanting to try the Barry M textured polishes for quite a while, specifically the colour Ridley Road, the minty blue green but they were £3.99 and I wasn't really sure If I'd like it so I didn't take the plunge. But when I saw these in poundland I knew I had to try. They had the pale yellow that I brought, white and black but since I don't have any yellow polishes I thought I'd give this a go.

The only problem I have found with this is it does chip quite easily. Granted I was washing up but this was literally 24 hours after I'd put it on. I'm still not entirely whether I like it though anyway so I'm glad I only spent a pound on it. I like the colour of it and I think the texture is interesting but I'm not quite sure they go together. Perhaps I should have opted for the white?

And to any of you who noticed that I used a Divergent advert as the background, top marks to you,I was actually on my way to see the movie when I brought this!

Christmassy Santa Nails and Primark Nail Art Brushes

After I got home from the German Market on Friday I decided to  paint my nails all christmassy :)

On my thumb I did Santa's face, on my middle finger I did his jacket and on my little finger I did his hat, then the rest were plain red. 

I used some new nail art brushes that I picked up in Primark whilst I was out, there were 10 in a pack for £3.

As you can see I have already managed to get nail varnish all up the 2 on the right doing my Santa nails. 

The set comes with 1 fan brush, 4 long thin ones in varying lengths and then 5 normal brushes in varying widths and lengths. Plus each brush comes with a protective cover.

Have you got anything christmassy on your nails?

Rose Print Nails DIY

As I mentioned in my earlier Ombre Nails post I painted my nails LOADS over the summer and this was one of my many designs. They didn't go too well but  I was quite happy with them. 

I used Essie Crewed Interest, Essie Butler Please, Barry M Gelly Blueberry and Barry M Gelly Greenberry in this design...

I used a combination of the two tutorials below-

If you have a go leave a comment below

Avengers Nails

I am a total marvel geek, I just love the movies! And what's better than having tiny little superheros on your nails? I used a cheap set of nail art pens that I got on ebay from China a while back so they really aren't great quality but they get the job done. Just about. Anyway this is how they turned out, I'm quite happy with the result considering how bad I usually am at painting my nails...

I just started off with a base coat-

Then I added some more details

And there they are finished-

This was the photo I was using as inspiration, mine weren't half as good though :( 

Ombre Nails DIY

I just love painting my nails, its like having little works of art on your finger nails :) unfortunately though I am not allowed to have them painted for school :( so during the summer I made the most of my chance to paint them. In all 6 weeks they were only unpainted for 1 day! Anyway this was one of the little experiments I did on my nails. I also did rose print and avengers nails so I'll probably post them later too .

I was quite happy with how these turned out to be honest and it was a lot simpler than I thought it would be too.

Ideally you need four shades of the same colour but you could probably make do with three. I used Essie Crewed Interest as the base, then Essie camera, then Revlon sweet tart (it was a special edition in a gift set and it is an absolutely gorgeous colour!) And then I used Essie she's pampered for the last colour.

All you have to do is paint one base coat of your lightest colour, let it dry then use a sponge to sponge on the next lightest colour 3/4 of the way up. Then you let that dry and sponge the next colour half way up and then finally sponge on the final colour just on the tips.

I only have the one photo of them because the lighting was quite bad but hopefully you'll be able to see the effect.

Barry M Gelly Nails Review

Okay, go easy on me, this is my first ever beauty product review. 
In one word this nail varnish is amazing! After seeing a couple of YouTube videos saying how amazing they were, I just had to try them. All the nail varnish in superdrug was on 3 for 2 so I brought 2 gelly nail varnishes- Blueberry and Greenberry and a clear because I dropped mine in the kitchen and it smashed and went all over the floor-my dad was not happy! 

They cost £3.99 each and offer quite a wide range of colours which were hard to choose from. I also noticed that they are on 2 for £6 in superdrug yesterday. They offer incredible shine too but the most amazing thing is that they last for ages without chipping. I wore a base coat of Barry M 'Top coat, Base coat and Nail Hardener',  two coats of blueberry and another Barry M clear and it lasted 8 days with very minimal chipping as you can see in the photos below.

Just after painting-

8 days later-

Overall I would recommend these nail varnishes to absolutely anyone!