Sparkle!

Recently I bought a sparkly Barry M Magenta number and it's such a cool colour.
I already have a red sparkly one and have also acquired a blue Topshop one which I haven't tried out yet, but here's the red and magenta.

The red had chipped off a bit before I took the picture. I painted that on top of a white base just to make it stand out more, but it doesn't make much of a difference without it to be honest.
I had to do quite a lot of coats as the glitter is tiny and it is quite runny but it turns out lovely.

Can't wait to try my blue one, the glitter is a bit bigger in that so I'm intrigued as to how that'll come out.
 

Matte nails.

I bought a matte top coat a while back and used to use it over everything I did. 
Haven't used it in a while and after doing the yellow I thought I might as well go for it.

The topcoat I have is 17 from Boots and it works really well. It works really quickly, but you need to make sure and let it dry for aaaaages, cos I did this about 10 minutes ago and as I was typing, I accidentally hit my nail off the edge of my laptop and I've made an indent on my nail, craaaap, BUT the picture was taken before that ordeal so this is it. Wow, that was a really long sentence.

As crap as it sounds, the picture doesn't really catch the mattiness of it. Don't think that's a word mind you. 
 

Purple crackle!

So I was in the mood to do another crackle yesterday after I did the yellow nails. But unfortunately my black crackle has gone weird and dry and powdery.
Then I remembered I had my purple and yellow looks awesome with it.

Reminds me of giraffe. If giraffes had purple patches.

My second water marble.

After the success of my first water marble I decided to try it again, it's just so much fun.
Only thing about water marbling is how much effort is required, but it's sooo worth it in the end.

I really liked how this turned out, proper summery colours.
The colours I used for this, were all once again Barry M, there's Cyan Blue, Yellow, Fuchsia and Coral.

 

My first crackle.

I stumbled upon the crackle nail paint by accident, was looking for new nail varnished in the Barry M section of course and it caught my eye.

It had the little tag attached to it showing what it does and I just though AYE ALRIGHT!

Decided to use it with a light bright colour, obviously. So cyan blue it was!

I really love the effect. Just a random scattering but it's so eye catching.

The sad thing is though, I went to use it the other day but it's gone all weird and dry and formed into powdery clumps. GOD DAMN.

So I'm now using my purple crackle!

 

Barry M Peach Melba

This is one of my favourite colours I have. It's just so pretty and simple.

Need to get some more nude and pastel colours because they really are just super pretty.

Once again, I apologise for the mess, I usually just pick it off after a bit but never think to clean up for photos. Which would be wise.

 

T in the Park nail art!

So this one was just a bit of fun. 
I went to T in the Park in the summer and my boyfriend suggested doing the T logo on my nails for it. 
So I gave it a go. It was kinda tricky as I don't have any nail art tools, I tried using a toothpick at first, but the just scraped off the yellow and left a thin crap line so I just ended up kinda flattening the brush against the nail to make a straight line. 

The yellow was Barry M Yellow, the red was an old one of Andrews mums, and the fact it was old made it hard to manage as it was kinda thick. I also used Barry M Spring Green for the wee bush thing and then used the toothpick to spread it out a bit.

Not the greatest attempt, especially not up close, but I got a lot of people taking pictures and commenting on them so I ain't even mad.

Yellow Barry M Nail Paint

The majority of my nail varnishes are Barry M Nail Paints. I got 3 in a deal ages ago and since then just always picked up Barry M if I was looking for anything.
The best way to describe them is cheap and cheerful, not at all expensive and they have quite a good selection of colours, only thing is they do chip after a few days, although I hardly use a topcoat so I imagine that could be counteracted if I did.

So here is my most recent, did this just tonight. It's Barry M Yellow, and this is one of the original 3 I bought years ago, in fact I have a feeling I bought this in 2007 for an Enter Shikari gig. Wow.

It's bright anyways but I decided to paint my nails white first just to make it pop. It's just so pretty and summery, brightened up today after the crazy hailstorm.

I do apologise for the messiness and uneven lengths, I can't bear to cut or file down my thumb or ring finger.

 

My first ever water marble.

So just over a year ago I stumbled across a photo of water marbled nails on Tumblr and it intrigued me. I went to google to try and find some tutorials and found pages and pages and also tons of youtube videos on how to do them, so I thought why not?

So here is my first ever attempt. I started off with the index finger, and as you can see it's pretty faint and crap looking, but after that they all turned out beautifully.

Sorry about my face, not sure why I got in the picture rather than just taking a picture of both my hands. And because it was my first attempt at nail art, the pictures aren't a great quality.

The colours I used for this were all Barry M. They were Cyan Blue, Indigo and Fuchsia.

Enjoy!

 

Hey guys.

My name is Sophie and I like to try my hand at nail art. To be quite honest, I'm a novice and it's just something I've only really started doing but it's lots of fun and I hope you guys like it.

Thanks :)