Caring for your Claws

Here at NailsatNoon we're very conscious about keeping yourself in as tiptop condition as possible, so here are some handy tips for caring for your claws!

• Diet and what you are putting into your bodies can really affect the quality of your nails and hair! Iron and calcium rich foods can help make nails strong and healthy. For those of you that get white dots on your nails that can be a sign of a lack of calcium in your diet so having cereal for your brekky or adding a little cheese or yoghurt into your diet could really make a difference. For those of you who find that your nails break easily or are very weak so you struggle to grow them long. Add some iron into your diet, lots of pulses and beans are packed full of iron, so by adding some kidney beans to your chilli one night or having spinach in your side salad could really help. It'll also do wonders for you hair and can help add shine to your locks!

• Great hand moisturizer can do wonders, especially for those of you who find your hands in and out of washing up bowls all day long! I would highly reccommend CND hand cream, it is the company that supplies stock to nail bars and salons. It also is great in that it doesn't leave your hands feeling greasy and oily afterwards you hands just feel soft without that grimy slippery consistency left behind. You also need hardly anything to make an impact. Also staying away from ebrasive surfaces can make a difference. So using gloves to wash up so you aren't always holding that scowerer will make a huge difference to those dry and cracked hands.

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• Cutical care is massive for me, if you are prone to your cuticals splitting and you getting them standing on end around the edge of your nail, you need some cutical gel in your life. Just rub it into your cuticals it'll make them soft and will help any dead cutical come off which will stop them from breaking and ripping.

• When filing your nails its really important if you have weaker nails to file in the same direction i.e left to right, to stop excess breakage and snags. You'll get a cleaner line and you'll help to keep those nails long for longer!

If you're not too keen on nail polish every day and want your nails to look healthy naked. Simply get yourself a buffing block and buff those nails. Then finish with the side to shine your nails and you'll be amazed at the results! Buffing is a great thing to do prior to applying your base coat too as it creates some friction for the polish to stick to and I find it helps to keep my polish on for longer!
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Become A Nail Art Artist

By no means do I consider myself a nail art artist, just simply someone who enjoys painting nails and experimenting with nail art. Its all about having fun with me. Its never been so easily accessible and affordable to be experimenting yourself.

Ebay is crammed full of super cheap options for you to get your hands on. Nail Art wheels are a must for anyone, as it allows you to practice design on a wheel of false nails, that way you save your nails from a lot of unnecessary potential damage from applying nail polish on and off again. Wheels allow you to display all your best designs in one place so when impressing friends with what you've learnt, you can show them options before painting their nails! Its a cost effective way of designing too, as it saves you all those cotton pads and nail polish remover. You can get hundreds for a couple of quid. They do often come from Hong Kong though so you will have to be patient in waiting for your delivery. But for all the pennies you save, it really is worth while.

For any budding nail art artist, dotting tools are the way forward. They are easy to use and allows you to do many simple but impressive looking designs. You can pick them up from eBay or do as I did and go to your local arts and crafts shop, and pick up some embossing tools. You can pick them up relatively cheaply and you will probably get better quality than the cheapest found online. Basically just a wooden handled tool with a metal ball on the end, allows you to dot the polish onto the nail to create design. Either leave the dots alone, and let them stand by themselves or use multiple dots connected together to create lines and designs. Its a good place to start and nothing looks cuter than perfectly executed than a spotted mani!

Design made with dotting tools! 

Nail art pens are the next step if you're feeling adventurous. Again pick them up from eBay for pennies each. I would reccommend to save money if you already have a relatively varied collection of colours in your nail polish collection, start off with just a black and white nail art pen. You wont be spending alot and also they go with every colour in your collection so you know any design you do will go with the base colour! Go for a pen that has a striper brush - basically a very narrow long brush that allows for thin stripe like strokes, and also a metal nibbed needle point pen, it will be like writing with a needle point pen but with polish! You can't go wrong with these pens, but just be wary to wipe down the edge of the bottle when using the brush as I have found that you can get dried polish there that makes it near impossible to then open your bottle, not what you want when in the middle of a mani!

For those of you who are daring and excited by sparkles. You can accessorize any mani with little gems and crystals to accentuate your design. Find bags and tubs full of various pearls, crystals, and acrylic shapes on eBay to add to your nail art design. From butterflies to pieces of fruit, you can find any 3D shape you desire to brighten up your look. Some are harder to apply. For simple flat backed crystals and pearls a quick bit of clear polish on the back will seal the gem onto the nail, but for acrylic shapes of fruit for example you'll need some nail glue. You can pick up some decent stuff cheaply from Body Care and other beauty outlets. Make sure you have some pretty heavy duty nail polish remover as if you want to remove the gems at all you'll need to fill the lid of your nail polish remover bottle with liquid and dunk your nail in, let it soak for about 20 seconds and you can peel off the gem. Make sure you wash your hands well after removing all the desired polish as you don't want all that alcohol and chemicals to sit upon your skin.

So there you have a few tips to getting started. Have fun shopping, make sure if you're buying any glue or polish remover that you are purchasing it from a store you recognise, I wouldnt reccommend getting brands you've never heard of from eBay as its going on your skin and nails you want it to be from somewhere you trust.

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Nail Polish to Save Your Life

I knew nail polish was pretty savvy stuff. And I knew it had a way to make you feel nice an' all but this is just incredible.

4 College students at North Carolina State University have possibly invented the most incredible nail polish yet! They all are studying Material Sciences and Engineering, and between them have engineered a nail polish that can detect date rape drugs. Something which could save so many women  (and men) from traumas that getting your drink spiked could lead to.

Undercover Color will detect drugs such as GHB, Rohphynol and Xanax. All you'd have to do is simply pop on your special polish whilst getting ready for your night out, and each time you order a drink before consuming it, lower your finger into the drink and stir it around, if you nail polish changes colour don't drink it.

My mind boggles at the amount of incidents that could be saved from this polish. I just hope that it takes off!

"Our goal is to invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves from this heinous and quietly pervasive crime."

*All info paraphrased and quotes from http://aplus.com/a/these-4-college-students-have-invented-nail-polish-that-detects-date-rape-drugs

* Images taken from the above address also. 

Yankee Candle-Doo

Okay so aside from my obsession with nail polish and makeup in general, I have a mild obsession over Yankee Candles.

Their glass packaging, their presentation, the range in colours, the scents, Oh the scents, and their great value for money! (they actually burn for the suggested time and much longer!)

Clintons are currently offering 50% off certain scents ranges. Like Beach Flowers and Fluffy Towels, ranges include tea lights, small, medium, and large glass candles and sample sizes that will fit into candle holders offering you a taste of that scent. They also are currently offering in Clintons buy one get 50% off 2nd for other scents. Perfect for getting in some early Christmas Present shopping!
I have since last Christmas treated myself to a quite a few, and still have two large Candles that I still am burning from then!

** Since writing this post, the offer at Clintons has since ended. Sorry mistake on my part due to writing the post days before uploading**

Scents that I have been enjoying are: Pink Sands - a gorgeous fresh scent that reminds me of walking into Lush, Baby Powder - clean soft baby like smell, Clean Cotton - fresh, airy and light scent, Fluffy Towels - reminds me of fresh hotel laundry, and towel robes you get at hotel spas, Black Cherry - a full somewhat heavier scent that reminds me of cherry drops, Cranberry Ice - a strong scent of cranberries with a fresh note to it, Pink Dragon Fruit  - now I have no idea what it smells like but its fresh, flowery, fruity, and just my favourite!

The only downside to Yankee Candles I find - for the larger candles that is - is the cost, they are slightly pricey for a candle but if you catch them on offer it makes all the difference. Also you have to be careful of 'tunnelling' your candles. You know when you burn a candle but blow it out before its burned through an entire layer of wax? Well you can wax that you've missed from burning around the edge and you cause a tunnel - which means you waste money as you could have burnt it. Especially as you've spent what might be considered 'pricey' amount on a Yankee you dont want to then waste some. So make sure you burn them for long enough - even if it takes hours, so you can get your monies worth!

As always happy shopping and enjoy your products. Where fire is concerned please practice safe fire use, making sure you keep open flames away from soft furnishings and children. Until next time....

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Poundland Prizes

People are always shocked when I say I bought beauty items from Poundland. It doesn't exactly scream beauty delight now does it? But there is lots to be said for looking where others may not think to look.

Poundland often near the face wipes and other beauty related items, have in little zip lock baggies got makeup and cosmetics from brands we recognise in Boots and Superdrug hanging up in various collections for £1 each. Yes seriously, a £1!

I have in the past bought lots of beautiful items from here and been very happy with my purchases. However don't be alarmed if the label is slightly wonky or is written in a foreign language such as french. I think the reason Poundland is allowed to sell such items is due to the fact that to me they look like factory seconds. Meaning something is slightly off i.e the label being wonky, a plastic bottle instead of glass, the label being in french. Any minor infractions that would make the companies not deem them suitable for purchase in their normal outlets. But to me, I see nothing wrong with the products themselves just their packaging, and as our mothers taught us 'dont judge a book by its cover'.

I have happily purchased many forms of eyeshadow before, but my latest purchase was of L'Oreal Paris Infalliable eyeshadow. I have already got one of these that I bought from boots, but wanted to see how Poundland compared. The packaging is in a much lighter container and the labels were in french. But the consistency and quality of the eyeshadow inside I found to be much of a muchness.
I know that some people will naturally refrain from thinking of buying their beauty items in a discount store like Poundland, but its definitely worth a look from time to time as you never know what bargains you may stumble across. I once got 3 bottles of Collection 2000 Air Whipped Foundation for £1! So keep an eye out for ways to save those pennies.

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Magnetic Force

Okay so these polishes have been around for a while but I've only just discovered them - I say discovered a beautiful friend of mine treated me to a bottle and I've been enjoying playing with it this evening.

Barry M the beautiful company that it is, has a range of Magnetic Polishes. The basic science is that magnetic pigments within the polish react to a handy Magnetic on your lid, that when hovered above the polish as it dries, draws those pigments into a pattern for your amusement.

I found it worked best and easiest with a thick quick one coat, and immediately popping the magnet over it, using the handy little curve to rest against my finger just behind my cuticle. It worked so well and dried quickly. Pop on a top coat to seal it all in and wow your friends with this cool mani!

My polish pictured here is Magnetic Burgundy.

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Maybelline Baby Lips - Electro!

So as some of you may know I was obsessed with the Maybelline Baby Lips as they hit America and the wait for them to come to the UK was agonising for me. My sister kindly informed me the other week of a new range of Baby Lips much to my amazement (I didn't believe her at first) there they were Baby Lips Electro just sat in my Superdrug. A lack of funds lately has meant even browsing Superdrug and Boots has been banned from my life.

I've been very bad at keeping up with my trends and beauty items lately so was completely unaware of this new range, so for all I know they are BRAND new but they may well have been in stores for a while now, especially as when I discovered them I purchased some of the last stock they had in store.
These new colours are beautiful and definitely pack a little more punch than the last range. They are still balmy and super moisturising to your lips with a sheer coat of colour to make your lips look lively and luscious. However I have found the formula to feel more buttery than the last range. The original Baby Lips had very much the consistency of lip balm, just your bog standard smooth feeling lip balm, the Electro range feels more buttery along the lines of Revlon Lip Butters but much more light weight. It slips and slides on the lips and frankly feels delish! They are less kiss proof than the original range - so expect sticky lip stains on your drinking glasses, but perhaps this is down to the different consistency? But the feel whilst you wear it, to me is much more luxurious.

All I know is that I'm in love, and with them currently on Buy One get 2nd Half Price in Superdrug I would use that as a good excuse to get trying some. The colours are fab too, great for living out these last days of summer, and bringing you into Autumn.

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