Purple Grey and Grace Green Mix ‘n’ Match

For this design I used the Models Own Purple Grey and Grace Green from my previous post. I thought these colours would look great together and I was right, they look gorgeous!  I painted the base of these nails before I went to sleep to make sure they where completely dry before I painted the tips, as I was worried the nail guides would peel off my nail varnish if it wasn’t dry all over.

                                      

When I got up this morning I stuck the nail guide stickers on and painted the tips the opposite colour to the base.   I peeled the stickers off after painting every 2-3 tips and I didn’t get any chips!  The coverage of these polishes is excellent so when doing the tips you only need 1 coat to completely cover the base colours.  I used Models Own 3 in 1 Basecoat, Topcoat and Gloss to finish off my nails.

This design was easy to do and because of the mix ‘n’ match effect it makes this design look interesting but sleek.  These colours are perfect for this wintery weather we are having and is easy to create yourself.

Models Own Gooodies :D

The fabulous people at Models Own have kindly sent me some goodies to try out so I’m going to do a review on each of these products (and the new nails pens that I bought last week) within the next week or two! I asked for some more autumn/wintery shades as all of my nail varnishes seem to be bright or glittery and so they sent me these beauties:

I’ve done some swatches of each of the colours (from left to right-Nude Beige, Vintage Pink, Pray, Purple Grey, Prussian Blue and Grace Green).

I have been struggling to decide on my favourite for over a day now and I still can’t decide so maybe I’ll know after a few nail designs using these colours. I think the Purple Grey and the Grace Green are going to look fab together so I think I’ll do a design using those too first! The surprise out of these 6 was defiantly the Prussian Blue. This was the 1 colour out of these that I must admit I didn’t have on my Christmas list but I really love it! The best way I could describe it is as a midnight blue, which is more matte than the rest of shades, but it really compliments the colour and I think it could be the new black. From what I’ve seen online Grace Green and Nude Beige seem to be the most popular shades but I think Vintage pink should be up there too. My Models Own collection is growing much more quickly than I thought it would and I've put a couple of things to one side for a giveaway in the future so watch this space!

***The World’s Most Expensive Nail Varnish***

Models Own have just released their newest nail varnish, which will set you back a jaw dropping £83,000! This nail varnish is called Gold Rush and when painted onto nails it looks like gold leaf, which sparkles and glimmers like tiny diamonds but feels smooth. The amazing lid is hand made from a solid ingot of yellow gold with 1,118 diamonds! So if there are any generous millionaires out there who want to get me a Christmas present you can buy this beauty from Frost of London…I’ll keep my fingers crossed but in the mean time Models Own will be releasing Gold Rush Ready to Wear on their website from mid December at an affordable £5!

Matte About You!

For this design I used Models Own Black Magic and Models Own Misty Grey for the base colours. I then used Essie Matte About You Finisher on top of that to create the matte effect. Matte finishers are great value for money as you can double your nail varnish collection as it can turn all of your shiny nail varnish matte in seconds! Rimmel also have a matte finisher that is a bit cheaper (about £4.50 compared to Essie around £7) and I’m sure it will be just as good. I used black and silver nail pens to do the designs on the top.

I really love the way the designs on the top stand out from the matte base coats but I don’t think these will last very long because there isn’t a topcoat to seal all of the nails but time will tell I guess. The photos don’t do these nails justice as my camera has broke so I’ve had to use my old one!

♥ Barbie Nails ♥

This is another WAH Nails inspired design. I used Models Own Sophie’s Pink, a white nail pen and Models Own 3 in 1 Base Coat, Top Coat and Gloss for this design. This pink is a really bright girly pink but it does need 2 coats which is unusual for Models Own nail varnish but I’m not complaining because I love the colour!

I would strongly recommend practicing drawing the hearts and writing ‘Barbie’ using a nail pen with both hands before doing this on your nails and as you can see by the photo the writing on my right hand isn’t as good as the left so clearly I should have had more practice!

POW Nails!

'Pow' is my favourite WAH Nails design so I thought id give it a go and as you can see I made a bit of a mess of it but I’m determined to practice until I get them right. I used some of my new Models Own polishes for this design (jade stone, Lilac Dream, Lemon Meringue, Pastel Pink and Feeling Blue).

How to paint these:

1. Paint all nails with different colours

2. Using a white nail pen paint the speech bubbles on

3. Paint the white dots on

4. Paint around the speech marks with a black nail pen

5. Write the words in the speech marks

6. Finish with a topcoat

I think the main reason these didn’t work as well as I hoped was because I put too much nail varnish on and I didn’t have time to tidy up around the nails. A whole nail of nail varnish peeled off in one go within a day and the nail varnish on the rest of my nails are peeling off too so Seche Vite topcoat is in my bad books at the moment!

Leopard print nails 1 week later…

As you can see two of nails lost quite a lot of the varnish but the rest lasted really well! I’ve noticed the Seche vite topcoat its very good for drying all layers of your nail varnish quickly but after a few days the nails varnish can peel off in big pieces which is annoying. I think if another topcoat was put on every 2-3 days there’s no reason why your nail designs can’t last for well over a week!