Manis for MJ

You may or may not be aware that this past Thursday would have been Michael Jackson's 55th Birthday, and to mark the occasion a member of the Instagram nail community (@tiffstastefultalons) thought up the hashtag #manisformj.

The idea was to create a nail design inspired by the King of Pop to be shared on Instagram on his birthday, and every mani had to have a silver glitter bomb on 1 nail.

My Hubs rarely has any input with my nails but we're both huge Michael Jackson fans so I told him about this idea and asked him what he though was MJ's most iconic look as I wanted to do a nail design based on it. He said for him it was the black and white outfit with the sparkly white glove. I thought it was a great idea and we came up with this design together.

For this mani I used Sinful Colors Black on Black, Barry M Matte White and Collection in Razzle Dazzle. I added a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust and top coat.

I enjoyed the collab with my hubby on this one and it was super fun to wear.

Sky Blues Inspired - Dark & Geometric

The new football season started again a few weeks ago here in the UK and I'm a season ticket holder and avid supporter of Coventry City Football Club, also known as the Sky Blues.

We'll be going to lots of games so I thought it would be fun to do a series of match day nails that somehow feature the colour Sky Blue. And here is the first...

I started off with a base of Maybelline Color Show in Shocking Seas on my pointer and ring fingers and then added a coat of Sinful Colors in Hottie. I then created a triangle on the pointer and a "V" on the ring finger using striping tape. I then added 2 coats of Barry M Navy to all fingers and removed the tape. I added some small black rhinestones (purchased from Born Pretty Store) to the accent nails and topped with a coat of Essie Good to Go.

Shocking Seas leans to the chalky side but is fairly easy to work with. Hottie is a gorgeous light blue jelly with small hex pink and blue glitters and fine sparkles. It's so lovely. Barry M Navy is my go-to deep blue. Super easy to work with and such a stunning shade.

I loved this mani, it was so fun to do and I got so many compliments on it.

I'm really looking forward to coming up with ideas for this series, although I won't be posting any for a few weeks as we're off on holiday soon (woohoo!!!!).

Two-tone Textured

Hi all,

Apologies for the lack of posts, we've had so much going on recently but I'll be doing a couple of posts today to catch up.

So, as you all know I loved the Barry M textured mint mani I did a few weeks ago so I bought the pink one from the range too. In all honesty, I didn't love the the pink as much as the mint and I knew as soon as I'd painted my first nail. So I decided to introduce the mint and made the mani two-tone.

For the accent nails I did a diagonal stripe of silver glitter, topped with Essie Good to Go to smooth it out, taped over it and then painted the pink and mint on either side, then removed the tape.

Here's a closer look at an accent nail.

I didn't love this mani but it was cute for a couple of days.