Nail Swatch - China Glaze - Frostbite

China Glazes' Frostbite is by no means a recent addition to my growling collection but one of my favourite out of all of them. I recently went to an Indian wedding and this colour perfectly matched what I was wearing so I decided to do a quick swatch and review of it!

This polish is a beautiful bright blue that is just absolutely gorgeous! It applies very smoothly, however the first coat is very patchy and honestly would look dreadful without another coat. The above picture is shown with two thin coats of the polish topped with Seche Vite.

As China Glaze polishes go this one isn't the best formula wise, their most recent collections have been much better, but I feel like the colour of this overrides all of that.
As said above I recently wore this to a wedding and you will see from the pictures how beautiful the polish looked.

The rings in the above picture are from Primark and the bangles are from an indian store in Southall.

Reading Festival

Unfortunately this year I wasn't able to go to Reading Festival, so instead I decided to paint it onto my nails! 

I had a lot of fun doing this design as it was something different to everything else that I've done before. I originally was going to have some chairs around the campfire but it proved to be too difficult to paint onto such a small surface. Even so, I'm really happy with how this turned out!

As usual, I used OPI -Nail Envy as my base coat and Seche Vite as my topcoat. On my index and pinky finger I painted two thin coats of China Glaze - With Love. On my middle finger I painted the tip with China Glaze - Brownstone and the rest with Collection 2000 - . Finally on my ring finger I first painted two thin coats of OPI - Alpine Snow followed by two thin coats on Barry M - Bright Yellow.

To those who ask what brushes I use, it's normally these two that i tend to reach for. They are Cheeky Nail Art Brushes that I bought in a pack of 15 that I had trimmed down so that they are the size and thinness that I want.

All of the detailing is done with slightly watered down acrylic paint and these brushes.

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Black Dotted Gradient

So I was looking through my nail polishes trying to find one of them that I haven't used before and I came across China Glaze - Flip Flop Fantasy. This is a beautiful neon peachy colour that is just absolutely perfect for the Summer and I just had to use it in some way. 

To start off, I first painted one coat of base coat onto my nails. The one I am currently using is OPI Nail Envy. I then painted two thin coats of Flip Flop Fantasy onto my nails.

In the end I decided on a simple dot gradient that I made using China Glaze - Liquid Leather and some dotting tools. This design was really simple to do and definitely one that I will be doing again but in different colours.

Aladdin Nail Art

After I heard about the passing of Robin Williams I decided to do Aladdin nail art. Aladdin is one of my favourite Disney movies and my favourite character that Robin Williams portrayed during his career.

For this design I decided to have a sunset in the background, the palace on one nail, and Aladdin, Genie and the magic lamp on the others.

To create the base I first painted two thin coats of OPI - Alpine Snow onto my nails. This helps when sponging on lighter colours as it makes the colours appear more vibrant. I then sponged on Barry M - Yellow, Barry M - Block Orange, and China Glaze - With Love onto my nails. This created the sunset in the background.

Finally I painted the designs on using acrylic paint and my cheeky nail art brushes. Overall I'm happy with how these turned out, although if I'm honest with you I did give up a bit towards the end so Aladdin and the lamp aren't exactly how I planned for them to turn out.

Blue Chevron

So whenever I paint my nails I normally plan out the design before hand or have a rough idea what I'm going to do, but not with this one! I just sat down with a bunch of polishes and I ended up with this! I knew I wanted to something blue and in the end I did chevron nails. 

The rings in the above picture are from Primark, I got a pack of 6 rings that were a mixture of midi and normal for £2.50. All of the rings are so cute and it was a total bargin.

To do this very easy design I first painted my nails two thin coats of Essie's - In the Cab-Ana. Then I dipped a Cheeky nail art brush into Essie's - Mezmerised, painted a triangle onto the tips of my nails and then filled them in. I dipped a dotting tool into some random silver glitter polish and placed one dot at the tip of the triangle. Finally, I topped the whole thing off with a coat of Seche Vite.

As you can see from the above pictures I ended up mattifying it by using Essie's - Matte about You, but I don't particularly like this design matte. I feel you can see my mistakes more and I dont feel like it compliments the chevron.

Blue Roses On A Striped Base

Today's mani is slightly inspired by the colours used in Jack Wills. As you can see I stuck with the pink, but instead of having dark blue stripes I decided to turn the blue into roses. I feel this gives it a unique twist to the classic pink and blue that Jack Wills is known for.

To create this design I started out with a base of China Glaze - Feel the Breeze, which by the way is the perfect pink polish anyone could own. It's formulation is perfect and is fully opaque in one coat. Then, with a striping brush I used China Glaze - Snow to add the stripes and topped with a coat of Seche Vite.  Finally, I used acrylic paint and Cheeky Nail Art brushes to paint on the blue roses.

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Nail Swatch - OPI - Barefoot in Barcelona

What you're about to see is the best neutral nail polish I have ever seen. This polish is the perfect nude and will suit practically ever skin tone. The consistency is brilliant, the colour was fully opaque in two thin coats and wasn't streaky at all! I would say this is a must buy for anyone looking for a nude polish and will be a vital part of your collection.