NOTD: Monochrome Butterflies

Hey lovely Beauty Addicts. As always I hope your week has been superb. I haven't been up to anything particularly special. I visited my Mum yesterday which is always good. We made pancakes as she will be on her own pancake day and I didn't want her to miss out. Today I have a NOTD post for you so here it is :)

Left: White Shade from the StarGazer Diablo Manicure Set which I was sent for free as a PR sample. Reviewed here.

Right: Claire's Nail Stickers £3.00 for 1 sheet

I applied one coat of my Rimmel base coat followed by two coats of this white shade. I really wanted a plain background so that the butterflies would stand out and as the monochrome trend is here to stay for a while I thought I would embrace it. Once the nail polish had dried I used tweezers to carefully place stickers on alternate nails, pressing down carefully. I sealed the manicure with one coat of the clear top coat that comes with the StarGazer Diablo Manicure Set shown in the link above.

So here is the finished look. I think it's really pretty and simple. It has a kind of innocence about it. I think this would be a nice look for Valentine's Day. I really like the Valentine manicures that you always see about at this time of year with red, pink and/or purple shades, but I think this is still suitable for the day and something a bit different. It can of course be worn any time of the year though.

Do you like using nail stickers as nail art? Any tips for newbies that haven't used them before. Let me know if you have created any Valentine nails in the comments below.

Love to you all

NOTD: Something Peachy

Hello Petals. I hope you are all having a lovely weekend. We went for an Indian meal last night which was really nice. I think we are having Chinese later as it's my other half's Mum's birthday today. 

Now that Xmas is over I wanted to go for something on my nails with a fresher vibe. This is quite a nice look I think for spring/summer, but I just do whatever I feel like no matter the time of year ;)

Firstly I applied my usual Rimmel base coat. Then I applied 2 coats of Barry M Nail Paint Peach Melba (318). This nail paint covers well with 2 coats, but can be quite thick. I find that with all the Barry M nail paints, but they do give good coverage. Once this had dried I applied the same flower nail stickers to my ring fingers using tweezers. The stickers are from naildelights.com.

I applied my Seche Vite top coat after taking these photos as I wanted to show you the true colour of the Peach Melba and I think the Seche Vite can sometimes dull the colour a little, but it is great for sealing nail polish and nail art such as stickers. Here is a link to this product, Link :)

Have you tried any nail art recently? Let me know in the comments below.

Love to you all