Save Me, Hanover Square | Scrapbook Nails

I love the Save Me polish from OPI's Nicki Minaj collection, but, for me, it's too busy to have on my nails as full coverage. I opted for glitter tips, and one accent nail. It's quite a unique glitter - there are blue bars, mixed with a fine holographic glitter.

I used:
Base coat - No7, So Smooth
Base Colour - Nails Inc, Hanover Square
Glitter Tips & Accent Nail -  OPI, Save Me (Nicki Minaj collection)
Top coat - China Glaze, Fast Forward Top Coat
Matte top coat (added day 2) - Topshop Nails, Matte Top Coat

Gold & Blue Striped Nails | Scrapbook Nails

Waassapppnin?!

I did say to look out for more of these manicures... bet you didn't think you'd see one so soon haha!

This time, I used a blue & gold combo, which I think worked quite well. With this technique, it's important to use an opaque top colour as you can only apply one coat - you have to take the stickers off before the polish dries, otherwise you'll pull up the dried polish with the sticker and your lines wont be as neat.

I used:
Base coat - No7, So Smooth

Blue Base Colour - Nails Inc, Albert Place
Gold Top Colour - Barry M, Foil - 320
Top coat - China Glaze, Fast Forward Top Coat

Flicked Golden Peach | Scrapbook Nails

Golden Peach is the perfect description of this Model's Own polish. It's a lovely peachy orange, with a gorgeous warm gold shimmer to it. It looked nice on it's own, but I added in some black and white flicks with my nail art pens to jazz it up.

I used:
Base coat - No7, So Smooth

Orange Base Colour-  Models Own, Golden Peach
Black flicks - Kiss Nail Art Paint, Black

White flicks - Stargazer Nil Art Pen, White

Top coat - China Glaze, Fast Forward Top Coat

Black & Blue Stripe Nails | Scrapbook Nails

I love stripes. Probably more then I love polka dots.
I had some long, thin, strips of stickers laying about from a craft kit, so I cut them up, placed them over my dried blue nails, then painted black over the top. While the black was still wet, I removed the stickers, and was left with this amazingly neat & tidy nail art. Love it, it's one of my favourite manicures to date. Be prepared to see a lot more of these... I've already placed an order for some stripping tape!

I used:
Base coat - No7, So Smooth

Blue Base Colour-  Miss Sporty, Clubbing Colours
Black Top Colour - Orly (mini), Black Out

Top coat - China Glaze, Fast Forward Top Coat

Mushroom Flower | Scrapbook Nails

Only recently, after going through my polish collection multiple times, did I realise that I don't own a brown! So naturally, the next day I paid a visit to Superdrug & I picked up Barry M's Mushroom. It's a light brown and I love it, but I will be on the hunt for a nice chocolate colour & a darker brown too.

Last month I bought some dotting tools, and this is the end result of my first go at using them. Not too shabby! Obviously, I need to have a play around with the different sizes of the dots, and practice a bit more at making them join up, but I had a lot of fun & it really didn't take long at all.

I used:
Base coat - No7, So Smooth

Brown Base Colour-  Barry M, Mushroom (310)

Yellow middles - Barry M, Yellow (134)

Pink petals - OPI, Pink Friday

Blue petals - Barry M, Blue Moon (317)

Top coat - China Glaze, Fast Forward Top Coat

Fresh Frog of Bel Air | Scrapbook Nails

No nail art today. This polish from OPI's Muppets Collection is just b-e-a-uuutiful on it's own. It's made up of fine green glitter, and larger hexagon shaped silver glitter.

I did 4 coats of this polish, but only thin layers as I wanted it to dry quickly. The build up is pretty good, I could have got away with 3 coats. I just fancied really bold coverage.

One layer of top coat was enough for this, the glitter isn't as hungry as you'd expect!

It's love ♥.

I used:
Base coat - No7, So Smooth

Base colour-  OPI, Fresh Frog of Bel Air (Muppets Collection)
Top coat - China Glaze, Fast Forward Top Coat

Black & Gold Foil Nails | Scrapbook Nails

A pretty funky but simple look today. I did a base coat of black polish, put a layer of glue on each nail, and then quickly dabbed gold foil on top once the glue was partly dry, but still tacky.
The shape on each nail is unique, sometimes I doubble-dabbed(!) to make a different shape/ to give more coverage.
I love this, it's different but very easy to do. The only slight annoyance is that even after two layers of top coat, using two different polishes, the glue still gets tacky and all sorts of fluff gets stuck to the nails!

I will be trying this look out using different foils.

I used:

Base coat - No7, So Smooth

Base colour-  Miss Sporty, Black (no name)
Glue - Rio, Adhesive (part of kit)Foil - Rio, Gold (part of kit)
Top coat 1 - Rio, 2 in 1 (part of kit)
Top coat 2 - China Glaze, Fast Forward Top Coat