Orly It's up to Blue + China Glaze Atlantis Tips

Just a quick post for today.

This is my manicure from a couple of days ago. I loved it.


Orly It's up to blue (see here for a post on this) with China Glaze Atlantis tips. I had to do a couple of layers of top coat to even and smooth it out a bit. Atlantis is one of my favourite polishes. Also anyone who has Atlantis knows that it sparkles a rainbow in real life - I just couldn't capture it on camera this time.

Lots of Love
Lisa

PS. Farmers has buy 2 get one free on Orly polishes at the moment :)

P.P.S. saw a blog with same back ground and colours as mine and got freaked out so had to change mine again - sorry if it catches you off guard :) Hopefully ill find a look I like that I can keep for awhile

OPI La Paz-itively Hot + My first ever French Manicure

Following on from yesterday's post of OPI La Paz-itively Hot Matte, I have the original OPI La Paz-itively Hot.

OPI La Paz-itively Hot - Sunshine

This pink is lighter than the matte version and the shimmer is more subtle. Its almost a bright colour. this was 3 coats, but 2 would have been fine. As per usual the application was great and required no cleaning up afterwards.

I used this colour to create my first ever french manicure. I had brought some of those little french tip sticker guides and used those to do this. The first time I tried it, it didn't work so well, once the stickers were pulled up they had left sticky residue behind on top of the polish. I tried googleing this but google didn't really like searching for "how to stop sticky residue being left behind when using french tip sticker guides". Most of the links I found had french manicures being done on unpolished nails.

This time it seemed to work ok with La Paz-itively Hot as the base colour. I then added a coat of CND (Creative nail design) Glow (#423) to flatten out the black tips.


So in the end I was really pleased with how this turned out.

If you have any tips for doing french manicures over a colour base please let me know. I tried a second one over OPI Dominant jeans (to come in a later post) and when I took the sticker guides off, all the nail polish underneath came off too :(

Its Saturday here, and pouring with rain. I love staying at home in the weekends in my pjamas and not doing anything. Its nice to relax once in a while.

Lots of Love
Lisa