ANMonday: Pets

Hi there! Hope you all had a nice and relaxing or fun weekend, depending on what you like to get up to haha. :)
Today's ANMonday theme is Pets! :) I have only had one pet in my life, a cat named Sooty, so I decided to do a cat mani! :D (More about my cat later in the post for those interested!)

The base colour I have used is OPI's Can't Find My Czechbook. A really pretty blue creme from OPI's Spring '13 collection. I used 2 coats but it was a little streaky, not sure if it's visible in my photos at all. I think that may have had to do with the brush from the mini bottle, however.
For the nail art I used black & white polish, as well as OPI's Red Lights Ahead, Where? for the heart, and OPI's Pink Friday for the kitty noses. For the grey part on the kitty's ears I mixed some black and white polish.

I'm actually quite proud of this nail art! Although it's quite simple, it was all free-hand and I'm not very good at freehand nail art haha.

I don't often share much personal stuff on my blog but I thought it would be nice to show you a few photos of my kitty, Sooty. :) I have had him for almost 12 years now! He was a teeny little scared kitten when I got him, and he didn't really like me or my family for a while LOL. Only in the last two years or so has he actually let me pat him! And now he likes to sit next to me while I'm on the computer and have his head scratched. If I stop scratching his head, he'll put his front paws up on my chair or leg and then jump up on the desk so I'll scratch his head some more, LOL. ♥ :)

Here is Sooty up on my desk. :D

^ This one's an older photo but eep his face. So cute. ^_^

Hope you enjoyed those bonus kitty photos haha. :) I love my Sooty. I also love dogs, though, so someday I want one too! I only like smaller dogs, though. I've always been scared of big dogs haha.

Do you have any pets?! :) Please tell me about them! I think it's so fun to discuss everyone's pets! :D

Thanks for visiting as usual! ♥

Studded Pink & Gold Leopard

This manicure I'm showing you today is definitely a bit out of my comfort zone, but I've been wearing a lot of manis like that lately! I usually do not wear anything this 'out there' and blingy. Haha. But I really enjoyed it nonetheless. :)

For this manicure I used OPI's Mod About You, one of my favourite baby pinks. This one has a bit more of a purple undertone than other pinks I own, though. I used Alanna Renee's Golden Snitch for the leopard spots and for the base on the accent nail. On the accent nail over Golden Snitch I used Femme Fatale Cosmetics Eventide. I also used a black nail art pen for the leopard print.

On my middle finger, I made a line down the middle of the nail with some gold studs that I purchased from Born Pretty Store. At first I had applied top coat to my nail, and then stuck the studs on while it was still wet. About an hour later I had lost 2 studs and was about to go to bed (and knew the rest would fall off during the night) so I pulled them off and re-stuck them on with some nail glue. That was much more effective and they were actually hard to remove haha.

I've seen a lot of manicures all over the internet featuring studs and leopard print (mostly with nude colours instead of pink, though) so that's what inspired me to do this manicure. :) I don't use studs often - or any other 3D accessories for that matter - so I thought I should pull them out.

Thanks for visiting! Hope you like this mani ♥

I'm on LabMuffin!

Hey guys! :) I hope you're all having a great week! Just wanted to let you know that today I'm guest posting for Michelle from LabMuffin!

I'm super excited about this because Michelle was one of the first nail/beauty bloggers I started following! :D So it's really awesome for me to be able to guest post for her today.

So please head on over to her blog to check out my post! And if you aren't already following her (you're crazy if you aren't! ;)) then do it! :D

For my post I did some leopard (or is it cheetah..? Idk!) print inspired by my new pyjamas, using all off OPI polishes! :D

Hope you enjoy the post! And make sure you do follow Michelle's blog! She's awesome. :)

Winter Leopard Print

Hello there lovelies. :)

Today's post is inspired by these nails by @_baileyjade on Instagram! You should definitely check out her Instagram. I always adore her nails! And our boyfriends have the same name. :P

I was feeling like wearing a darker mani so I used two colours from the OPI Skyfall collection. The base is Casino Royale, a gorgeous berry purple creme. I used 2 coats. In really bright lighting, it looks a little streaky but most of the time it looks perfectly opaque. :) It looks different in all different lightings too, lol. Sometimes it looks very purple, and sometimes it looks very red!

For the leopard print I used Goldeneye, which is pretty much my favourite gold ever. I also used a black nail art pen which I got from Sportsgirl. I'm not sure if they still sell them but I think they have the same sort of thing on eBay.

A photo I took on my phone to show how purple it can look sometimes haha.

Hope you have a lovely day/night. :)

#bestietwinnails with Marie!

Hey guys!

Marie from Marie's Manicure Madhouse (or @m1ssmar1e on Instagram, and she's also the mind behind Loony Lacquer) and I decided to do a #bestietwinnails mani! :D This was my first time doing a bestie twin mani! I'd wanted to do one for a while but didn't have anyone to do it with, haha. I believe this 'tag' sort of thing, was created by MrsLochness on Instagram and her friend. :)

We decided our mani would be a skittlette, and feature pink and brown with animal print stamping.
Today we revealed our manis to each other and it was so funny because they looked almost exactly the same. LOL!

So here's what went into creating my mani...

I started doing mine and then realised that it was so similar to a mani I saw a while back by, you guessed it, Marta from ChitChat Nails! Here's that mani. :) So I decided to just go all out and do mine almost totally inspired by her. :P

The pink creme (it actually has a subtle shimmer) I used is Ulta3's Pale Dahlia from the pastel collection from 2012.

I stamped over that using Ulta3's Cocoa with plate W101 from Winstonia. I also filled in some of the leopard spots with OPI's Goldeneye. :)

On the ring finger I used Essence Sneezy from the Snow White collection. It's a super nice chocolate brown with a little bit of silver microglitter in it. Before I stamped on the mani, this totally reminded me of strawberry & chocolate ice cream! Haha!

And lastly on the pinky I used 3 coats of OPI Goldeneye, my favourite gold of all time. :)

On my thumb I also stamped a little kitty over Ulta3 Pale Dahlia from plate W115 also from Winstonia, with Ulta3 Cocoa (pictured right).

It was really fun doing these twin nails with Marie! :) Make sure you check out her blog & follow her on Instagram! :D

I will definitely be doing more twin nails, it was awesome! :)

Hope you have a great weekend, everyone! ♥

Happy Easter!

Hi guys! I hope you're all having a great long weekend and Easter (if it's a long weekend where you live... It only just occurred to me that maybe all countries don't have holidays over Easter).

I wanted to show you my mani for Easter Sunday!
This is definitely the most polishes I have used for one manicure in a long time to bear with me...

On my pointer I used a base of OPI "Mod About You" which I'm so excited to finally own, by the way. I've wanted it forever! It's lighter than OPI's "Pink Friday" but darker than Essie's "Fiji".
For the baby chick I used Face Of Australia "Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy", Essence "Sneezy", Sinful Colors "Black On Black" and a mix of Face Of Australia "Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy" and Essence "Doc" + a dotting tool & striper brush.

I'm digging into this Kinder bunny while I type this post... Hehe. ;)

My middle finger is Ulta3 "Lilac Bloom" as the base. For the Easter egg design I used Essie "Borrowed & Blue", OPI "Do You Lilac It", OPI "Kiss Me On My Tulips", Orly "Lemonade" and Essie "Mint Candy Apple".
Ring finger is Essie "Borrowed & Blue". For the bunny I used Sinful Colors "Snow Me White", Sinful Colors "Black On Black" and OPI "Pink Friday". He got a bit smudged from my top coat :(

My pinky is Orly "Lemonade". For the egg design I used OPI "Kiss Me On My Tulips", Essence "Doc", Essie "Mint Candy Apple", OPI "Pink Friday" and OPI "Do You Lilac It".

I'm a Christian, so Easter obviously means more to me than chocolate and hot cross buns (though they are delicious). So, on my thumb I've used OPI "My Boyfriend Scales Walls" as my base, and used a no-name stamping plate which I bought from MyOnlineShop. I HAD to have it when I saw it. ♥

The bunny and chick in this manicure were inspired by these nails which are by Mini Nail Blog.

I hope you all are having a great weekend no matter what you're doing! This year I'll be with my family for the first time on Easter since I was 14! Haha. I can't even remember what my family actually does for Easter LOL.
Let me know what's on your nails right now even if it's not Easter / spring related! I would love to know. :)

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