Thank You Ciate!

God bless Ciate and Marie Claire.

For with this months Issue of Marie Claire, you can get your hands on a mini Nail Art set from Ciate!

A mini bottle of polish and a mini bottle of nail caviar, to get all creative and nail-art-y with. There are 6 colour palettes to choose from and for £2.25 for the magazine it is a STEAL. I don't ordinarily buy in Marie Claire, but saw the Ciate polish and ripped that magazine so fast off of the shelf that muscles were pulled!

The 6 variations ordinarily would set you back a 60 squid. So its a super bargain! Ciate have been growing in popularity lately for their beautifully chic packaging and elegant choices in colours. Plus their nail caviar has become somewhat famous!

So why are you still reading this post? You should be out getting your hands on a Marie Claire and your mittens on that polish!

I try to keep an eye out for bargains such as these, so enjoy buying multiple copies of the same magazine! I say keep the polish for yourself and give a friend the magazine to read.

Image pulled from Google Images.

NAIL POLISH GIVEAWAY - Facebook

Sooo...

Instead of bombarding my Facebook friends with all my nail related updates, I thought it would make sense to start a Facebook page for NailsatNoon that way all you lovely readers have somewhere to follow when new posts are coming. And have somewhere to discuss things easily.

Also I plan to hopefully get some tutorials going on Youtube so you can learn how to re-create some of my looks.

In the spirit of giving back to you wonderful people, I thought I would do a giveaway - a chance for you to win all the Polishes used in my MOST viewed post - 'Purple Passion'. Its £18 worth of polishes. And you could WIN THEM ALL!

How exciting.

So all you have to do is head over to my Facebook page, LIKE the page, and comment on the giveaway Status. Once I reach 100 likes then I will announce a winner! :)

Goodluck and get Liking!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/NailsatNoon/577277732386439

Summer Shades

With the current influx of sunshine and heat we've been having, I thought I would do a post about the best shades to rock this Summer. Whether its neons for poolside, or pretty pastels. I'll cover it all here in this post. So keep reading for some colour infused inspiration.

You might want to tighten the purse strings because if you're anything like me, you'll want to head straight out and get them... ALL.

I thought to make it fun and easy I would group them into colour groups. So if you're looking for the perfect summer *insert colour* you can see a range from various different brands and price brackets to suit your summer polish needs. 

First up GREENS: 

From Left to Right: 

Essie - Mojito Madness (beautiful apply green - £8.00)

Maybelline Colour Show - Green With Envy (minty blue green -  £2.99)

L'Oreal Paris Colour Riche - Pistachio Drage (super pastel mint green - £4.99)

BarryM Gelly Hi-Shine - Greenberry (beautiful teal shade - £3.99)

E.L.F - Mint Cream (perfect mint choc chip ice-cream shade £2.50)

Secondly BLUES:

From Left to Right:

17 Lasting Fix - Mint Choc Chip (blue toned mint - £2.99)

Perfect Hollographic - Blue ( imagine holographic with a blue tone to it)

BarryM Nail Paint - Pure Turquoise (pefect teal/turquoise colour - £2.99)

BarryM Gelly Hi-Shine - Blueberry (sky blue but super shiny - £3.99)

Thirdly YELLOWS: 

From Left to Right: 

17 Lasting Fix - Sherbert Lemon (pastel lemon - £2.99)

Sinful Colours - This Is It (super small gold glitter - £1.99)

Maybelline Colour Show - Electric Yellow (yolky yellow - £2.99)

Next ORANGES: 

From Left to Right 

Essie - Orange Its Obvious (bright orange without being neon - £8.00)

BarryM Gelly Hi-Shine - Mango (mid tone orange - £3.99)

China Glaze - Orange Knockout (SUPER neon orange matte finish - £4.38)

Next PINKS: 

From Left to Right: 

BarryM Nail Paint - Bright Pink (Barbie pink shade - £2.99)

BarryM Nail Paint - Fuchsia (mid pink with red undertones - £2.99)

Sinful Colours - 24/7 (NEON matte finish Barbie pink - £1.99)

Lush Laquer - Haywire (pastel pink with chunky neon glitter - $6.00)

Essie - Tour de Finance (iridescent mid pink - £8.00)

Next CORALS: 

From Left to Right: 

Maybelline Colour Show - Urban Coral (red toned pink coral - £2.99)

L'Oreal Paris Resist and Shine - 455 (Iridescent pink coral - discontinued I believe)

E.L.F - Mango Madness (Orange toned peach coral - £2.50)

Natural Collection - Antique Coral (perfect iridescent coral £1.99)

Next PURPLES/LILACS: 

From Left to Right: 

17 Lasting Fix - Parma Violet (pink toned violet - £2.99)

L'Oreal Paris Colour Riche - Nouvelle Vague (SUPER pastel lilac - £4.99) 

BarryM Gelly Hi-Shine - Prickly Pear (glossy lilac - £3.99)

So, there you have it, a colour wheel of summer shades, hope this post is useful and gives you some polish inspiration for the summer, and what colours and shades you can access on the hughstreet. Most of these polishes I bought whilst on offers or for the more higher-end brands such as China Glaze which is imported and Essie I bought off eBay but the prices listed are the prices you would find in store. 

Feel Like A Mermaid!

So Barry M (my all time fav highstreet Nail Polish) has brought out a beautiful, Aquarium collection. With two tone polishes, and perfect glitter polish!

The tones of teals, blues, golds, pinks are just to perfect for words. If you're looking for a cool alternative this Spring for your nails, check out the Aquarium collection.

I treated myself to two polishes from the collection, as I couldn't resist the 3 for 2 offer currently on Barry M cosmetics in Superdrug. (slaps wrist) I just cannot resist a good bargain.

The little fish-like scale design on the neck of the bottle adds a cute little detail to the collection. I picked these two colours, a two tone teal/silver Nail Paint and a similar coloured Glitter polish. 

Layer these two on top of each other, and start feeling like a Mermaid. 

Colours from left to right :

Aquarium - Pacific, Aquarium - Mermaid. 

To shop the Aquarium collection online follow the link below: 

http://www.barrym.com/products/latest-products/aquarium-nail-effects.html

Purple Passion

So purple and I have had a long standing love affair. Its so beautiful and its been my favourite colour since I can remember!

So as and ode to this love, I decided to pull out my Purple Polishes and play around.

Using a mixture of Barry M and L'Oreal shades, I layered Purples, Fushcias and Blues to create this look.

Here's how :

Simply grab the darkest shade, here I use Barry M Nail Paint in Indigo, apply two coats as your base. Wait till completely dry. For the design on the top you'll need a scrap piece of paper to hand. Grab the next lightest tone - we're working from dark to light with our colours. Take out the brush, brush off the majority of the polish onto the scrap piece of paper, and then brush what little is left onto the nail, being artistic in your placement.

Continue this process until you have used all the colours you wish, and apply a protective top coat to seal it all in.

The colours I used are:
Barry M Nail Paint in - Indigo 312, Fuchsia 302, Pure Turquoise 295, and Gelly Hi Shine in Prickly Pear 311
L'Oreal in Nouvelle / Vague 851

This design would look awesome in O.P.I's new Brazilian collection which is perfect for Summer!

Hope you have fun re-creating this look, and re-creating it in different colour schemes.

Kelly Brook - Nail Polish Review

So I learnt something new this week - Kelly Brook has started a makeup range for New Look, which includes my fav thing; nail polish! They are super affordable at £2.99 a bottle which is the same price bracket as the likes of Barry M and some of Rimmel's range. They have some super bold brilliant colours. I incidentally had to buy one to try them out... of course!

I chose this cherry red colour which has a subtle shimmer to it, its lovely, and I mostly bought it to try as it was on sale for £1.50! A steal if you ask me.

Not expecting a lot from till side purchases I was expecting it to be an average polish, but actually it is pretty decent. The formula is average thickness I would ballpark it similar to Barry M Nail Paint. You could get away with the one coat, but for a flawless even coverage you have to do the second coat. The brush is nice and flat similar to L'Oreal polishes so you can apply easily and tidily up to the cuticle line. The best part of this polish is that it smells every so slightly of strawberries, which blew my mind. If you sniff directly into the bottle - which I do not recommend then you can't smell it, but painting away you get a subtle whiff of strawberries. Which makes inhaling all those chemically smells that much worth it when painting your nails.

The packaging is super cute, I particularly enjoy the polka dot design on the lid, as it makes it easy to find in my bag of hundred odd polishes. Thats one thing that annoys me, most polish has a simple black or white lid, making finding the exact bottle you want near enough impossible when sifting through a bag with 100+ polishes in. Whereas you would not have that trouble with Kelly Brook's Nail Polish as she cleverly popped polka dots on there.

If you are looking for bulking out your collection with some polish of bold colours perfect for slapping on to go with outfits then this is a collection for you. The colours speak so much by themselves theres no need for the little extras of Nail Art.

Safe to say I'm impressed with Kelly, I would deffo buy more, and am looking forward to hopefully seeing the collection expand into more colours! :) So I would recommend you pop down to your local New Look and grab yourself a cheeky bottle to try. For 10ml at £2.99 or £1.50 for sale price, you can't really go wrong, and there is a large enough range of colours that you are guaranteed to find something you'll like!

Below I did a swatch of Kelly Brook Nail Polish in 'Cabernet'.

Glitterati

Looking at all my glitter polishes I thought about what you could do. Diamonds came to mind so had a play with design.

Using glitter top coats, to cover colour or a polish with shimmer built in, or simply just using a glitter top coat like the Opal Top Coat from Avon as a polish.

Have fun playing with polish and colour.

Haunted Halloween

Halloween is right around the corner, and parties are being planned, outfits bough and candy stocked up. I was bored the other night and played around with basic designs that could easily be worn and re-created for Halloween.

So Happy Halloween and have fun re-creating these simple designs.

Experimeting with pattern.

Playing around with some emboss pens to create design, it took me forever but hope you like it! The index finger looked weak compared to the rest which is why it does not make an appearance.

I used a lot of polishes so won't list them.

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