25 days of christmas challenge.... condensed into a few!!

Helloo Readers!!!

First on the agenda: apologies for being so rubbish at this challenge. It's almost as though as soon as I started it, I got ridiculously busy at work and had no time to be nailing about!

Second on the agenda: I've realised I will have to concede to defeat with this challenge, as I really don't think I'll be able to get it all done!!

Sooo as a peace offering to the Christmas nail elves, I have made a little selection of the Christmas days (basically all the ones I can actually do!!)

Day 5: Christmas gradient
Using Rimmel Riviera Red and Colorclub gingerbread

Day 7 Christmas glitter nails
Using Colorclub sugarplum fairy

Day 3 red and green nails (fashioned into a Christmas tree of course!)
Using Rimmel Riviera Red, Barry M Mint Green and Nails Inc St Moritz

Day 17 Present Nails
Using Barry M Mint Green and Rimmel Riviera Red

Day 6 Christmas Stripes (reminiscent of candy canes)
Using Rimmel Riviera Red and Pamela Grant Manicure Fancesa

Day 8 Christmas Dotting
Using Colorclub Gingerbread, Rimmel Riviera Red (oh but of course!),
 Barry M Mint Green, Barry M NP150 and Colorclub Holiday Splendor

And so there are my Christmas offerings for this year! Not quite finished the challenge but at least I tried :)

What do you all think?

Wig Wam xx

Poached Eggies

Hello Readers!


So this week I tried out the strawberry Barry M and I have to say I wasn't very impressed... It really didn't suit my skin tone so I decided to 'fix it' with a bit of a tape mani with a lovely glittery varnish that has no name (I used it in my tape mani in my second ever post!) It still came out pretty rubbish so before showing you lot how they came out, I'll show you my amazing breakfast I made this morning so the mani won't look as bad!!!!

Today's breakfast: Poached eggs on toast with Brittany butter infused with rock salt crystals

Worst nails I've done in a while!! Apologies.

I took a day off work so that my cold germs stay at home rather than infect my co-workers, so I decided to have a yummilicious breakfast that I usually wouldn't be bothered or have time to make. Cue in mine and my dad's breakfast that we eat together and BAM! Poached eggies on toast. Yuuumm! Buttery and salty yey! And I'm not even gonna talk about the disaster nails. Not even a last ditch attempt of layering China Glaze Matte Magic helped them. Methinks one of my 'get better' activities today will be to re-do my nails.

Bon appetit!

Wig Wam xx

Barry M nail varnish

Hello!


For anyone out there who isn't from the UK, we have a high street pharmacy here called Superdrug and  right now they have a brilliant 3 for 2 on all cosmetics. Sooo of course I jumped on the chance to purchase some nail polishes I had wanted to try out for ages. I ended up getting 3 Barry M polishes:

Barry M: mint green, strawberry and gold foil.

I was really excited to try them... but I have to say they were actually really drippy and thin. Maybe I'm too used to other brands and formulas, but they weren't easy to work with as they sometimes dripped off my nails! I used mint green and foil together with nails inc st johns wood below.

Nails Inc: st johns wood.

Inspired by lovely Jane at Nailside's vintage cloud idea, this is what I came up with:

They're not the best nails I've ever done but I have a terrible habit of painting them in semi-darkness. When will I ever learn??

Wig Wam xxx

Sparkly hearts

Hello Readers!

On my voyages around nail blogland, I've been seeing a lot of heart designs like Sandra's and Gwen's and thought I would give it a go! It was actually pretty simple and all you have to  do is use a dotting tool (or even just a polish brush) and make a V shape. The v shape just ends up looking like a heart and VOILA! Hearts! I used Barry M red nail glitter polish which when it's not a bit dry (like this one) is amazing over all kinds of red and pink hues of polish. Really christmassy too! 

What do you think? 

Wig Wam xx