NOTD - My First Attempts at Nail Stamping

I have always want to try out Konad and nail stamping but I have never had the extra money to splash out and buy the stuff that you need to do it. That is until I was in my local Poundland and spotted this nifty little kit for.... you guessed it £1! At that price it was too good a bargain to pass up!!

 

I decided to give it a go today and see how I got on and I have to say it was really easy to do. Well that is once I remembered to take the film off the plate (bit of a blonde moment!) I think I need a little bit more practice at it so I can get the design where I want it but for a first attempt I think they look not bad!

 

I used O.P.I's Pink Friday and No. 7 Hot Pink

NOTD - OPI Pedal Faster, Suzi

Pedal Faster, Suzi is from OPI's Holland collection and is a gorgeous pink with tiny specks of silver glitter through it. 

Before applying this I thought I would be there for a while as it seemed quite a thin consistency. I was pleasantly surprised though when it only took 2 coats to get it to look like this. It could probably have done with another coat but I applied this in a hurry as I was going out and I thought it looked fine like this. 

It was lovely having this on my nails as it made me feel nice and summery!

OPI Nicki Minaj Minis Collection

My OPI range seems to be growing over the past few weeks! I recently showed you some swatches of OPI's Save Me and Metallic 4 Life which you can see here!

  Today I want to show you one of their latest mini collections, a collaboration with Nicki Minaj

I personally think that these mini collections are great, I don't know about you but I have never finished a bottle of nail polish so maybe with these I might actually get through one!

There are 4 colours included in the mini collection and are inspired by Nicki Minaj's love of colour.

From top to bottom 

Pink Friday -  a gorgeous bubblegum pink

Did It On Em - a creamy lime green

Fly - a stunning blue

Metallic 4 Life - a black base with micro and hexagonal glitter

The only one in the collection that I am a little unsure about is Did It On Em as it is such an unusual colour. I think I might get some use out of it in the summer though. 

You can also get a lovely purple shatter top coat called Super Bass, which compliments all the colours in the collection!

Have you tried any of the Nicki Minaj collection?

OPI Save Me & Metallic 4 Life and Buyapowa

Look what the postman brought!! 

Recently BuyaPowa had Save Me and Metallic 4 Life from OPI's new Nicki Minaj collection on their site for as little as £12 + £1.50. 

I have been wanting to try more OPI polishes so when I saw this deal I snapped it up!  

My favourite out of the two is Save Me as I love the holographic bar glitter that is in it. It was a lot more opaque than I thought it would be. The pictures above are two coats of each polish. I think I would need 3 coats to make Save Me completely opaque but I think that is pretty impressive for a glitter polish as most can be quite watery. These both needed a top coat over them as the glitter in them is very grainy and makes my nails feel really rough.

These arrived really quickly, only taking a day to arrive after they had been dispatched and were extremely well packaged. One thing I did notice was that the postage mark on the box stated that the postage had actually been more than the £1.50 I had paid!

I have seen quite a lot of bloggers who have been using  Buyapowa recently and I am really impressed with the site. 

What with the great items, cheap postage and fast delivery, I will definitely be using them again!  

NOTD - No7 Poolside Blue and OPI Last Friday Night

On my nails this week I have been wear No7's Poolside Blue and OPI's Last Friday Night (from the Katy Perry collection) on my ring finger.

Poolside Blue is so opaque, I only need one coat of the polish and it dries really quickly. Last Friday Night just gives it that little extra sparkle!