OPI Catch me in your net.

I borrowed this off a friend while we were away at the weekend, although it's a pretty colour I don't think i would purchase it myself as I have several similar in my collection already.  It's a pretty shimmery blue green colour with blue flakies through it.

Here I'm wearing it over a couple of coats of a Kiko polish in a similar shade.

You can see in this picture I am starting to get tip wear but considering it was taken on Thursday and the polish was applied om Sunday night I don't think that's too bad!

Rainbow Nails!

I decided to have another go at sponging a gradient manicure, this time I thought I'd go all out colour wise and try to create a rainbow look, here are the results, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Ombre Stamps

This manicure didn't exactly turn out as I meant it to.  After the glitter gradient disaster of the weekend I decided to try an ombre / gradient style manicure over the purple I was wearing, sadly that didn't go too well so I thought a stamp, or two, over the top would disguise it.  I'm not particularly happy with how it turned out but from a distance my nails look pretty good so I decided to keep it on for the day.

There are two Kiko polishes and a No7 for the gradient / ombre part, China Glaze Cheers to you for the animal print stamp and then Island Girl colour change neon pink for the lips and sunbursts.  I was initially going to do lips on all of the nails but they weren't showing up too well so I swapped to sunbursts for the second hand, sadly these didn't show up too well either... 

Despite the fact I'm not 100% happy with them they are my most commented on nails for some time so I guess they look better to other people from a distance than they do to me up close, which is no bad thing!

Weekend Nails

A quick round up post of my weekend nails.  I had a night out on Saturday so I went with the suitable sparkle Emerald City by Models Own.

On Sunday I decided to try and do a glitter gradient manicure but it went more than a little wrong...

So I did a quick cream manicure with Kiko 378.

I love how glitter manicure look when they are on but they aren't half hard to get off!

And finally, a current picture of the staining on my nails, maybe it's time I tried some denture tablets!

Kiko 379 & stamping

These are supposed to be feathers...

Kiko 372 & Stamping

With added stamping in Barry M white using a Bundle Monster plate.

These pictures have highlighted the horrendous state of my cuticles, I think I'll be getting some intensive therapy done on them this evening to try and sort them out!

My Kiko Obsession (& a little haul)

I discovered Kiko a few years back while visiting my parents house in Spain.  We found a Kiko store by accident as it was across from Sephora which we'd gone to visit at my insistence.  At the time the polish was on offer at €1,50 so I picked a few up to try them, along with some bits and bobs of make up.

It's now become a little ritual when I go to visit my parents that we always go to Kiko, I LOVE their polishes, in fact I would go so far as to say they are my favourite brand for nail colour.  At first we used to do a 2 hour round trip to a big shopping centre to satisfy my Kiko craving but more recently my dad has discovered a store just 20 minutes away from their house so it's not quite such an expedition.

Why do I love Kiko, and in particular their nail polishes, so much?  They have a fantastic formula and an amazing range of colours and the price is excellent for the quality.  When I initially started buying from Kiko the brand wasn't available in the UK and the prices were a good bit lower than they are now, despite the price hike I still love their polishes, especially when there is a new collection or special offer on. 

I always buy mine in Spain, although there is now a UK website which delivers and two stores in London, the main reason being I like to see the colours in person before buying and the price is the same in Euros as it is in Pounds, making it around 20% cheaper to buy in Spain.

This visit there was another offer on, each polish (including the new magnetic and crackle finishes) were just €2,50 so of course I had to stock up on the new summer collection colours and try out some of the crackles, here's what I got:

Kiko's cream finish polishes are my very favourite things, they apply so beautifully and have great colour pay off so I obviously had to make sure I chose a good few of them.  I also picked up 4 of the new crackle finishes which are excellent, far better than the China Glaze ones I have.  A random blue from the LE summer collection and a back up of the now discontinued glitter top coat.

The only downside?  I was travelling with just hand luggage so a lot of these beauties are still with my mum in Spain until I go back out in September.  I'll be posting pictures of the ones in I did bring back in future NOTD posts.  I also hope to post pictures of my whole Kiko army some time in the near future, I think I have around 75 now so it should make for a colourful post.

If you want to get your hands on some of these fantastic polishes then they are available on the Kiko website, not only are they on offer at £2.50, they are also on promotion 5 for the price of 4 at the moment so for just over the price of what two varnishes would cost you normally you can have 5!  I definitely recommend trying them out.

Belated Jubilee Nails

I wanted to add a few more, better quality, pictures of the nails I did for my mum and I the other week for the Jubilee celebrations.  While I was on holiday in Spain to visit them we went to a Jubilee celebration in The Park of Nations near where my parents live.  Mum and I decided we needed something a bit patriotic to set off our outfits and this was the result.

My accent nail.

Some slightly messy toes, I find it so hard to do any sort of nail art on my toes, althe blood rushes to my head and I get dizzy!

Mum's accent nails

Definitely a diamond Jubilee!

Holiday NOTD catch up.

I've been away in Spain visiting my parents for the last week or so, here are my nails while I was there.  All Kiko polishes.

I also have a post on my haul from Kiko, my very favourite nail varnish brand, and some more pictures of the Jubilee nails I did which took me forever so I feel like they deserve their own post.

Jubilee Nails!

A quick mobile post of mum's Jubilee nails for our picnic in the park later.